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How do you guys have any enthusiasm towards this topic is beyond me. What’s the point in even thinking this club will do the right thing in any transfer market going forward? Zero chance.

I think the opposite and don’t think the fan base realise quite how much trouble we could be in this season if we approach games like we did against Sunderland. Keep turning up with a half assed attitude to games and we could be in the bottom half of the table pretty soon. Spurs better not take the piss out of us.

we would have to be mad as ass to sign the 34yo-in-April, massively injured the past 3 seasons Marc-André ter Stegen, especially given his insane salary Contract expires: 30/06/2028

Chelsea finally ready to agree £45 million deal, far less than what has been floated for years https://theprideoflondon.com/Chelsea-finally-ready-to-agree-45-million-deal snip As reported by Football Insider, Chelsea’s front-of-shirt sponsorship is likely to be worth around £45 million. Talks are “very advanced” and a decision is expected in the “near term”. Well, that is significantly lower than the £60 million figure that had been doing the rounds of the media for so long. In fact, it is not much higher than the £40 million-per-year deal that the club had agreed with Yokohama Tyres back in 2015, more than a decade ago. While other clubs have been successful in agreeing significantly bigger deals since then, Chelsea seem stuck in one spot. And that means falling behind the rest of the pack. Also, one has to question whether extending this sponsorship deal search for so long was even worth it if the best deal the Blues could get was in the region they were always expected to be in the first place. btw That £40m per annum deal cut in 2015 is close to £57m per annum in late 2025 pounds pounds sterling when adjusted for inflation

Dayot Upamecano turns 28yo in exactly 1 year and is demanding a minimum of around £270K PW for 5 years (around £70m in toto) plus a huge signing fee that is a MASSIVE NO for me I do not rate him all that much, let alone at what might be £90-100m in just salary and signing bonus plus the only Big 5 league he has played in will be the pinball Bundesliga (for 9 and a half years come next summer) danger danger

around £210-230m (fees only ffs, and depending on how much in add-ons we have to pay for Muddy) or so on 4 likely shit (or proven shit) LWers Mudryk Sterling Gittens Garnacho grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 🤬

Could have saved the wages of both Fofana and Tosin for the wages of one good, non-injury prone CB. Idiots in the management team won't realize the benefit in doing that.

Painful to say it, but their recruitment team prioritized heavily on upping the quality of their defensive resources, while ours sat back and brought in injury prone CBs as well as freebies like Tosin. Oh and wasted a 100m on average wingers.

and, for the 3rd consecutive time that I have watched a full Strasbourg game, they have blown a lead and lost in injury time ffs they could have went clear 2nd in the table

Lyon's Malick Fofana (a main target for LW for us) has perhaps been knocked out for the season by one of BlueCo Strasbourg's CB's, Ismaël Doukouré, via a straight red horror tackle just now

To be taken with a grain of salt, but if true, apparently we are finally going to accept a sponsorship bid in the range of 40-45m. So does that mean all the 3 years of holding out for a 60m bid were wasted?

Tbf we wouldn’t be so open in midfield if Enzo Fernandez would actually run back and tackle also. World Cup Winning midfielder yet an absolute passenger when teams take the ball of us. But yes experience would help everyone for sure. But when Kante and Jorginho were here folk were desperate to get rid of them, apparently Kante wasn’t ever going to be fit enough to play to justify a wage & Jorginho wasn’t good enough (yet went to a title competitor and ended up playing as a #6 instead of £100m Declan Rice, who was initially signed and used by Arteta as a 6). If we go into January/next summer and don’t prioritise some experience in key positions, will be same again and again. And the usuals will keep buying what these charlatans are selling because they’ll buy 3 or 4 up and coming attackers instead of hitting the nail on the head and solving problems that have been ongoing for 3 plus seasons now. I mean if people are thinking these owners and sporting directors have real ambition to win the biggest titles, after the past 4 windows, they are delusional. It has been noted that we have needed a top GK, a top CB, a top CF/attacker for fuck knows how long. Even the manager said about a CB in the summer… the manager. Yet what did they do, £100m on 2 wide players…. Donnarumma & Guehi would of cost less than that.

correct so many here, for ages, seem to not undertstand the difference between right wingers and left wingers

Where is this we're not gonna qualify for CL coming from? Not worried about that. Do you see 5 teams in the league better than us? We also changed team completely so we did start from zero. Whatever happened before it's irrelevant. And that also needed to be done either way. How many players from 2021 or 2022 squad would you like still to be here? Maybe Rudiger and Pulisic at best. In first season we tried with experienced players like Koulibaly, Auba, Sterling and how that ended? At that point they didn't know what they were doing but now there's is a plan and excitement for the future. Also, do people need to be reminded that we were nowhere near fighting for PL title last 5 seasons under Roman? Madueke has nothing to do with Gittens who is a replacement for Sancho. And lastly, we are fucking World Champions!

Peter Schmeichel "massive regrets" on leaving Man Utd after 1999 season 🔴 | Kickin' It | CBS Sports a really good interview well worth the time

yes I already accept our faith. We will become a top8 team and no one will care about us. I think we will need to wait several years to challenge again for the title and Idk if in our time lives we will see Chelsea champion again

Cool. And in your fairy tale, do our rivals stand still?

We have to be realistic and differentiate between the current custodians, people who administer Chelsea FC as just another asset that they can make personal profit from, and the previous custodian who made winning silverware and titles as the No 1 priority. Thats the reality and we need to accept it

absolutely buzzing that West Sham and Wolves are likely the clear favourites atm to be 2 of the 3 relegated teams here's hoping dirty Leeds joins them and look at number 1 (Lamps is CRUSHING it) and number 3 (PLEASE let Milwall make it back here into the EPL so we get to have a go at them twice at least) in the Championship

Arsenal winning league fine it will happen eventually...but to beat our record no thank you! When saw the article the other day bit ooo thats a bit early to say theyre on track to do so but...who knows maybe it isnt 😭

That’s all nonsense. Chelsea had already finished 3rd when the new owner took over. It’s completely different from the situations Klopp and Arteta found at Liverpool and Arsenal. This is just throwing sand in the fans’ eyes. This is going to be the owner’s fourth season, and we’ll most likely miss out on the top four again. So far we’ve had 12th place, 6th place, 4th place, and now probably another failed top-four finish. How can anyone believe this is going to be a success? We didn’t need to wait this long after already finishing 3rd under Tuchel and spending that much money. The mediocrity of the board is obvious: Madueke was sold and replaced by Gittens, who cost about the same but is clearly a worse player! How does that make any sense?

basically a quarter of the way through the season and who would have ever had this as the top 4!!?????! also, our insane EPL goals conceded record (only 15 all season, in 2004/05) is in danger from Arse

It's 19 players listed. There are many others like Essugo. Remove those 6 doesn't change anything. Literally just Penders, Acheampong, Hato, Santos and Estevao reaching expected world class level we are in tremendous position.

Man says dominate English football for years and lists Enzo, Garnacho, Gittens, Neto m, Gusto and Fofana

We are at completely different stages. Arteta is 6 years at Arsenal and is possibly about to win first title. Klopp also waited around 5 years. So there are a lot of similarities actually but our fans want it all and want it now. Think about Chelsea in 3 years. Penders 23 Sarr 23 Acheampong 22 Colwill 25 Hato 22 Fofana 27 Cucurella 30 James 28 Gusto 25 Enzo 27 Caicedo 26 Lavia 24 Santos 24 Palmer 26 Estevao 21 Pedro 27 Neto 28 Garnacho 24 Gittens 24 So that team will have perfect mix of experience and majority players being at their prime. Plus add a couple of great players we could add there just like Arsenal did when they reached that level. Or later in 5 or 7 years? We have great base that can dominate English football for years.