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The UEFA squad rules are fucking absurd. We’ll have apparently made ~£250m in players sales once this Veiga deal goes through and that won’t do anything for us under these rules. What kind of bullshit is that? We will have balanced the books better than any club in Europe and yet are in a bind and forced to sell before buying because we didn’t balance the books in one specific way that UEFA wants it done. It’s ridiculous.

Couldn’t really care less about Fofana, tbh. He may as well not even exist he’s injured so often.

I do wonder if Lavia has something that slows healing like diabetes or something worse. He misses so much time for seemingly minor ailments,injuries etc...

MOTM

I liked how we looked with 2 strikers and two wide attackers. Something we should deploy often this season.

Manchester United have reportedly given Tottenham the ‘green light’ to come back into the frame for Alejandro Garnacho Rockin good news

And this against West Ham:

16m is nothing. if we can make a profit off of him then its a good buy. i dont expect him to play for us.

Boooommm Breaking: RB Leipzig step up talks to sign Christopher Nkunku. (@David_Ornstein)

It his hilarous how many pundits, commentators alike do still not know how to spell his name properly. It is SIMONS ffs lol.

Villa again without a goal. They should be desperate for Jackson now.

New talks between Borussia Dortmund and Chelsea for Carney Chukwuemeka AND Aaron Anselmino took place. Things are progressing. BVB bosses Kehl and Ricken traveled to the UK for negotiations, now back in Germany for today’s match. - Package: around €25m with sell-on % for #CFC - Chukwuemeka permanent - Anselmino on straight loan (NO buy option) (@Berger_pj)

I think Bowen could be, he’s a great player stuck at a shit club

Sharpen up at the back! Even if the game is done it’s about practicing good habits. Still way too shaky at the back.

Enzo needed that, too. Needs his confidence up.

Why not get a loan with obligation to buy for next season to bypass the rules.

Hilarious the SportingID have to tell the club how to better place the CWC badge. Looks better than leaving it bang in the middle between the Nike and club logos.

here are the only players left we can sell who count towards balancing our UEFA books Tyrique George does NOT count towards balancing the ledger, nor do any others not listed strikethroughs are already sold, sent back (Sancho), or in one case, cannot be sold due to a ban (Muddy Thee Doper) bold red are the two left we want to sell Lucas Bergstrom Filip Jorgensen Robert Sanchez Tosin Adarabioyo Benoit Badiashile..... cannot sell, grrrr, as he is injured atm, and also the fucking board somehow still rates him, grrrrrrrrrr Trevoh Chalobah Marc Cucurella Malo Gusto Reece James Mathis Amougou Moises Caicedo Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall Enzo Fernandez Marc Guiu Nicolas Jackson Noni Madueke Mykhailo Mudryk massive ratfuck with the pronger getting dope-banned, grrrrrrrr Christopher Nkunku Cole Palmer Pedro Neto Jadon Sancho hopefully this shows why I am so worried atm

Have a feeling this guy will be a top player.

Also was MOTM few seasons ago when Brighton beat us 2-1 at the Bridge and he scored that rocket goal. He was brilliant that game.

Fofana made a fuss about Argentina and Enzo celebration on Copa. Now didn't like what Enzo said... He is so fragile and not only in his knees...

This only knockout phase counts is pure dross invented by them, makes no sense.

Sad, wish he would've fucked off already.

I would like to remove him from EVER being in the Chelsea timeline Same for that POS Sterling Two of the worst Chels buys ever

Hes got a point

madness if we sell him for £25-27m or so I truly want an answer as to why, when we are in desperate need of a left-footed CB, do we not use the lad, who looked really sold at Juve last season

Much like we are running it down to near the deadline to try to get Garnacho for cheap, other clubs around Europe are likely doing to us knowing we’ll be desperate to move the likes of Nkunku, Chilly, Sterling, Disasi etc.

Also, even if Pedro was marked out for most of the game, I wish we had kept him on, by moving him to the wing and let Delap come on for one of the other wingers. Just to get more goal threat up front.

Mr Hazard gracing Stamford Bridge today 💙

I hate dealing with German clubs, man. Cheap as fuck when trying to sign players but dig their heels in like a stubborn ox when anyone wants their players. Even the biggest and wealthiest German clubs act like penny pinchers. This “we MUST sell before we can bring anyone else in” shit is rage inducing. We’ve got players who have apparently been desperate and waiting to join only us for weeks and weeks and yet we’re keeping them in limbo because we need to sell first. Both Xavi & Garnacho (despite what I think of him) have reportedly been turning down massive clubs because they want Chelsea. And yet there doesn’t seem to be any urgency from our end.

There is a reason these guys beat City and Liverpool.

Pleased to see Maresca has faith in Acheampong. Him starting should put an end to all rumours about a potential departure as well.

The Veiga situation is so weird. We still don’t have any clue why he isn’t even being considered. Did he forever lose Maresca’s respect for demanding to leave in order to play CB? It’s basically a Chelsea tradition at this point that if you’re a young player who has a successful loan you’re at least given a chance to make it here. Mount, Gallagher, Andrey Santos, Reece, Colwill etc. Yet Veiga was apparently really solid at Juve and isn’t even being considered. If he’s good enough that the likes of Atleti were seriously considering him why isn’t he given a chance I wonder?

Chelsea have rejected a £45m bid from West Ham for Andrey Santos. [@venecasagrande]

Wasn't even a free kick to begin with anyway.

Giveaway from Josh started that whole move. VAR to the rescue

As I said several times, its a chance of a life to acheampong to settle in our main eleven

Just thought that with Jackson being younger and being a PL proven goal scorer he’d have multiple bery interested suitors bidding for him. Whereas with Nunku’s injury history + having not played much for us in the PL I thought we’d have an extremely tough time selling.

Yh you bought 100s of duds you fucking imbeciles.

If Josh looks really solid in these first couple of games before the window closes then we surely won’t buy any CB.

Today's game shows that Newcastle and Villa need new striker. Desperately.

Getting the Bridge ready for tomorrow! 🤩🔵

Buying disasi and badiashile was a disaster