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We have some horrible fixtures coming up, hopefully Maresca stops tinkering so much. Everton/Newcastle/Villa/Bournemouth with City in early Jan...

Per Matt Law, NONE of the following sales would, if we sell any of them, help us to balance the UEFA books so we can play in Europe next season: Sterling Disasi Nico Jackson Aarón Anselmino Kendry Páez David Datro Fofana Deivid Washington Caleb Wiley Omari Kellyman Leo Castledine Ted Curd Teddy Sharman-Lowe Mudryk the Drugryk And none of the CL List B count either: Josh Acheampong Tyrique George Romeo Lavia The only sales that count are players on the CL List A. So any incoming buys, if we are not transfer banned, will mean we have to sell core players (Tosin needs to go go go, but we are going to get fuckall for him, and we cannot sell Badi if we are transfered banned, as he is literally, with Colwill out, our only left-footed CB). IF Penders comes this summer, the we can sell Filip Jörgensen. Guiu also needs to go. That's about it IF we are transfered banned, and even if NOT, we will will be damn lucky to get a total of £40-50m or so max for Tosin, Jörgo, and Guiu. Good luck shopping on that total budget. It is insane that UEFA limits the sales that count to only the CL List A. We still have to pay all the players listed who are not on it, unless a club loaning them pays them, AND we ourselves DID ALSO pay transfer fees for most of them. It seems borderline illegal to not count any and all sales towards UEFA book balancing.

Said it time and time again, go with your strongest 11 or near as damn it, then either make pro active changes based on the score at the time. It's nigh on impossible to second guess his line ups game after game

Youth madness part #4672 Now we are looking to buy a 15yo DMF Jadiel Pereira da Gama from PEC Zwolle youngest Eredivisie player ever

I was ok and happy Maresca seemed to be coming right but he only flatters to deceive and it quite seemingly appears thats not going to change which is unacceptable for Chelsea as a club and a team and the huge fan base world wide. Therefore as much as I wanted Maresca to succeed being half Italian myself it's time to go or the alternative is a mid table finish or even lower as the points separating all the clubs is very minute, I mean even United for one team who are having a bad season according to their fans have the same points as us and will probably finish ahead of us. NOW is the time to sort this mess out or face a very disappointing season.

They prefer slave trade players despite their good salaries

This club getting a transfer ban wouldn’t be the worst thing. Save us signing utter dross for a period.

He actually looked a bit happier then - enjoyment of your football is vastly overlooked these days

He is undoubtedly a problem. SDs poor decision making shouldn’t mask that Maresca is a bang average manager.

BlueCo does not care they are in it for the business, not the sporting aspect

Yeah insane prices, but people will still buy it. The phrase I get is this: "It's the World Cup, once in a lifetime"

Supporters hoping to attend next year's World Cup final face paying vast prices, with tickets starting at £3,119. Fuck that. Get ready for camera shots of 'the crowd' so called 'models' (whores), rich cunts, Trumps feral family looking bored, and rows of empty seats...

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Trump's 'vocabulary has reduced dramatically' as his mind fades away: DC insider https://www.rawstory.com/trump-decline-2674389017/ President Donald Trump's cognitive decline was on full display this week, longtime Beltway reporter John Heilemann told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House" — and it's obvious when you compare his demeanor to a few years ago. "You know, look, they asked him the other day on the airplane, on Air Force One, why he took an MRI, and he said he didn't know," said Heilemann. "If getting the camera-person-TV thing right is acing it, not knowing why you took an MRI is flunking it. I'm not sure what to make of any of those things, but it's totally clear and has been for some time." "This is not the first time I've said this, but if you look over the course of the last 10 years, we've had Donald Trump in our lives, you can measure the decline in his mental acuity," said Heilemann. "You can measure it by looking at the interviews he gave in 2015 and 2016, looking at them in 2020. Look at them now. His vocabulary has reduced dramatically. The complexity of the words that he uses. He rarely uses multisyllabic words anymore. He says the same words over and over and over again. This is — you know, these are people who do linguistic analysis and go and look at those things. If you go back and look at Trump's interviews from 2016, he was never a genius, but he could conduct or have a real conversation with the Wall Street Journal editorial board about trade policy that didn't seem the way he sounds." "I think that the weird combination of his hubris, his arrogance, his insecurity and need to boast about things that he's always been called, you know, people have always put him down for his intelligence, so he has to boast about it," Heilemann continued. "Now, combined with the various diminishments that are taking place with him. And again, I'm not diagnosing the guy, I'm just saying his complexity of thought has been dramatically reduced in the last decade. In a way, it is for, frankly, a lot of people who get to be his age." "And the last thing I'll say is [Trump strategist] Susie Wiles saying that, man, he's going to be out there like he was in 2024, go around to members of Congress today and not just people in, in battleground districts, in frontline districts, but across the board and put them all on sodium pentothol and say, what do you think about that? He's going to be out there. He's going to be in your district," said Heilemann. "Shrieks from anybody who watched that speech last night. They've all been like, please, please admit that affordability is a problem. We're going to get crushed if you keep doing what you're doing." "For him to go out there and give that speech at that level of incoherence and political, politically suicidal impulses, there's not a Republican in the country who's going to be like, yeah, I want President Trump in my district during this midterm year," he added. "He's going to be nothing but toxic for all of them."

The scary thing is we are actually pretty easy to beat, and Everton will know that right now You don't need data or some scientific tactics, it's much more simpler https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/the-scary-thing-is-we-are-actually I call it as I see it. And I see this current Chelsea team as being able to beat literally any other team in the world right now. And I’ve said over the last few weeks that I am actually more confident these days going into a game against a Barcelona, Arsenal, PSG, or a Liverpool for example. We get ourselves up for these games. We play better with less pressure and as the underdogs. But the moment we go up against a team we are expected to beat, we hide, fold, and show the lack of maturity amongst this squad. And when I say squad, I mean the coaches as well. Because it’s just a fact that they are all inexperienced as well as the players. I’ve been out here praising our good performances, and there has been many of them lately. How good did it feel to thrash Barcelona? That was literally just weeks ago. That’s what this team is capable of, it’s important for us all to remember that. But when we come up against a low block, or a team who simply want it more than us, we fade away. That is our big issue right now and that is what we need to work on and transition from. We need to be able to create ways to be better against the lesser teams and not just the best sides. There is many things we can do to help this, but for this article at least, I have other more pressing fears and concerns. Starting this weekend against Everton. I think this Chelsea team is vulnerable, particularly after not winning in four games, and that scares me ahead of facing Everton, a team full of confidence and in some fine form. For me, Chelsea are actually pretty easy to beat. Dissecting recent games, it’s simple to see. As an opponent to Chelsea, you need to just want it more, have more energy, pace, intensity, and a strong mentality. If you do that, win the second balls, give Chelsea no time on the ball, out-muscle them, and then have two or three players of quality in attack and a stubborn defence, you have a very good chance of at least getting a point against this Chelsea side. That scares me. Everton have those players of individual quality, players who can hurt us. Namely a familiar face in Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall who will have plenty of points to prove this weekend. And then the criminally under rated Jack Grealish, who was held back and almost destroyed by Pep Guardiola’s tactics at Manchester City. Flair maverick players need to freedom to be those mavericks. Everton have won four of their last five games and could leap frog us in the table. That will truly motivate this side who are playing with belief and strong mentalities right now. They’ve also got a goalkeeper who I think is also criminally under rated and disrespected by too many, a solid defence, and players who can hurt us in midfield and attack. Can Chelsea win this? Of course they can. Why not? But it’s down to Enzo Maresca now to make the right calls, to motivate his players. He’s the head coach after all, that is his job, to lead his players. Then it’s down to the players to dust themselves off from this rough run of form, pretend they are up against PSG and not Everton, and just go out there with zero excuses, every ounce of energy they have, and the belief to go and win it. They will need to be tough, get the tackles in, and run all game. They have to match Everton in physical attributes as well as quality. But of course we can win it, that isn’t what I am saying with this article. All I am saying is that I have some genuine fears back and I actually think that if I am a coach playing against Chelsea, no matter who my team is that I am coaching, I would really fancy it right now and I wouldn’t need data or any clever tactics to beat them. Just go old school and eat them alive.

BlueCo need to be taken and sat in a dark room and made to watch the heritage of the club and most notably the seasons 04/05, the spine, the leaders, the fighters we had as they have no clue what so ever about what the club and fans are all about....saying that, the players have no clue to understand what past history we have with Leeds and what a massive game Spurs is home and away every season. Caicedo, Palmer, Estevao are the future, but they will be gone before reaching those heights of being classed as legends

as long as Maresca is here I see Palmer, Caicedo, CuCu, and Estevao eventually wanting to leave BlueCo is sprinting into ruin-the-club territory they are just looking to strip-mine the wealth as much as possible until they can flip the club in a few years for massive profit I think they have no intention of building a new stadium either we are just a commodity to them

I think we get a transfer ban maybe even a points deduction and I think Citeh get fuckall in terms of substantial punishment a slap on the wrist

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You can already see Estevao growing impatient, Maresca will kill everything inside this kid

Don't worry, the club is planning for the LONG TERM The Premier League won't be ready for Chelsea's all-star Football Manager lineup in 2030 when all the youngsters are 23 years old and ready to take the league by storm! 😆

Cucurella was 24 when we signed him from Brighton... If we were that keen on Semenyo, we could have got him in the summer. Somehow we don't get Kudus (the player was keen but West Ham weren't keen on KDH as part of the deal) or Semenyo and we end up with the GG brothers. United get part of their Mount fee back.

That source has changed a lot, from utter bollocks to pretty reliable. Rumour is some true insider bought the original poster out.

Won’t compete or win trophies penny pinching though - been saying it for seasons now. Everyone at the club seems to think that we’re going to find top quality players we need aged 23 & under on moderately low wages. Guaranteed that’ll never happen. Would paying his salary & bonus demands really have been that bad either? He’s reportedly on 250k per week, that isn’t outrageous for a player of his quality in this day & age. Given his pedigree on top of the fact he has been earning £10m+ a year for the best part of nearly 10 seasons since his Milan days - would anyone really have expected him to be asking for a small contract? Previous regime would’ve paid it no questions asked. Regardless, even if we had offered, no player who has the chance to pick from us or City, is coming here at the moment - but we should’ve been pushing a deal given his availability, quality and playing position ticked all the boxes. Or a competent sporting department would’ve been. Look how immense he was for PSG last season & plenty of big moments for City so far. Not to mention big international performances over the years. Would’ve been worth every penny & more.