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This is exactly why the club is in the state it’s in. Decisions were made without clear expertise, structure was dismantled, and massive spending was reactive rather than strategic. The result is a destabilized squad, inconsistent management, and a lack of coherent long-term planning. Until a solid footballing framework is rebuilt, there are few prospects for meaningful success in the near future.

I think the other buys came from tuchel. Which I often highlighted as a great manager but not good for building a team. Similar to Conte.

I respect the honesty but Todd Boehly summers make a lot of sense now. Cucurella was perhaps the only signing that worked out from that period

💥🔵Chelsea have secured a short-term front-of-shirt sponsor in a deal worth £15m. The club's total assets are valued at £104.5m a year, compared to Arsenal's £164m. The club is still seeking long-term sponsors (FOS+sleeve) to replace tech giants from Sweden (IFS AI) & Vietnam (FPT). The club also needs to find an alternative training kit sponsor as their £12m-a-year deal with BingX expires in June.

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Good thing Winstanley couldn't wait until the summer with Emegha.

I really hope we don't sell Penders. He's got top level potential like Cech/Courtois

Chelsea prepared to agree on new deals with Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo. (TEAMtalk) Chelsea are looking to sign the PSG midfielder Senny Mayulu, and he could cost around €60 million. (CaughtOffside)

Yeah, you feel as though (the CBs), its how many goals will they leak. We'll just have to score more.

Hope he starts either Hato or James at LB. No experiments with Gusto out of position against Arsenal. As for CB. Hoping for a miracle in terms of performance there. Whoever he picks to start.

Rosenior say Estavao and Cucu not fit

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So will they be on training kits/shirt sleeves after this season? Whats the nature of the next 2 years? £15m for front of shirt to end of the season is not bad but then £3.5m after for each of the next 2 seasons is a shite deal given how it has taken them 3 seasons to get something on the front of the shirt that they weren’t affiliated with. Been all quiet on that front too, not like theres much noise about other sponsors offering decent coin coming to the table. Even worse now when you look at betting sponsorships coming to an end for next season, be more competition. If we end up sponsored by red bull are we going to become RB Chelsea 😂😂😂😂

We do have glaring holes in the squad, maybe not in quantity but in quality 100%. Barring a handful of players, the majority are average. Particularly the signings the last 2/3 seasons. It would be a real mistake if we went another season relying on Sanchez, despite his improvement this season, because he is an accident waiting to happen which has been proven at Brighton & here. Welcoming Jackson back to the fold would also be another mistake given how petulant his attitude and discipline is. Not to mention the whole scenario to push through his move to Bayern - where they’ve basically used him sparingly to not have to sign him. The transfers of Gittens, Garnacho & Delap also poor signings last summer (not an improvement on any of the players we already had in those positions). Would replace all 3 within a heartbeat. Perhaps even Hato too. Given the noise around Gittens, Delap & even Garnacho, I would imagine there is scope for them to leave already. A supposed club with elite ambitions cannot rely on those guys every season. We probably need at 4 good signings to go into the first 11. GK, CB, LW & CF has to happen sooner than later on we risk making no progress at all. Well continue making no progress. Maybe a CM not as desperate for the starting 11 but Lavia wouldn’t be someone we should be counting on either based on his lack of appearances in the past 2 and a half seasons. Again, most clubs would be looking at moving him on based on that (sick of hearing about his “talent” no good if he is crocked 90% of the time). Going into next season with Fernandez (who has played further forward more with Maresca & now Rosenoir), Caicedo, Santos & Essugo (if not loaned?) as our only fit/reliable options would really leave us short. If Caicedo ever got a long term injury we’d be fucked.

We will almost 100% not be getting a new GK so we can put that to bed. I’d be stunned if we get another CF either with Emegha and maybe even Jackson returning. I maintain that we don’t need much. Or perhaps to better put it, we don’t have THAT many glaring holes in the squad. It’s just that the few we do have are costing us big time. For me we badly need a dominant CB, a top class LW, and another high quality body in CM if Lavia gets injured once again. We don’t need a total rebuild or major surgery like we did a couple of years ago.

With 11 games left im sure we can manage it! Wonder if we'll set a new record as well! Oo so the current record is 9 so only 4 more! Weve also had as many red cards as league home wins 🤣

Chelsea beat Middlesbrough 2-0 at Wembley to win the FA Cup in 1997

🔵🗯IFS will pay Chelsea £15m until the end of the season as part of a front-of-shirt sponsorship, according to analysts Global Data. The Swedish giant will contribute around £3.5m annually to the club as a global partner for the next two seasons.

Own a Match-Worn and Signed Chelsea Shirt from our Game Against Arsenal https://mws.com/category/Chelsea?tab=live

Forget Pio Esposito Inter Milan just officially said they would not sell him, even for €100m:

Newcastle have made initial contact over a potential transfer deal for Chelsea’s young Belgian goalkeeper Mike Penders. (Jeunes Footeux) The likes of Anthony Gordon, Bruno Guimaraes, and Sandro Tonali could all have asking prices of around £100m this summer. (Telegraph)

We're dooomed our two best players out injured Cucu and Estevao, even worse is Deflop is fit.

Not too much at all. Just a GK, CB, CM, LW & CF. We need more than just 2 or 3 and they have to be quality signings because everyone else around us will strengthen again. The likes of Arsenal, Liverpool, Man City & Man United will not scrimp on wages if it means getting quality in the door. Be a few pawns sacrificed in the summer too, as usual, to rejig the squad/comply with PSR or FFP/realise we’ve made some more bad signings no doubt. Plus the double signing of Garnacho & Gittens on top of the Sancho loan & Mudryk has really set us back on the left wing. Like thats at least £150m of wasted cash on players that are equally as bad as each other/what we had before. Thankfully we pulled the plug and didn’t sign Sancho despite our best efforts to nearly fuck that up. If Man United wasn’t Man United, Mbuemo & Cunha probably go elsewhere but they are always going to have that pulling power because of the stature of the club. Mentioning PL best & seeing some names up there - United also firmly in driving seat for van der Ven by sounds of it (again, with or without CL, they’ll have that pulling power). Plus Liverpool will be desperate for another CB when Konate goes despite signing Jacquet. Van Dijk cant go on forever.

A few months before he died I walked into the Shakespeare pub early evening, I did a double take, Ossie sat in the corner on the red wine, just me and him in the pub talking for couple of hours. He was pre loading before giving an after dinner speech to Bristol City players in a hotel. Told me loads of stories about Best, Sexton, and him and Hutch running the pub in Windsor at a loss, because they drunk all the booze. 🤪 They say you shouldnt meet your heroes, but definitely an exception in this case