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fuck we are so not going to get top 8

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what th hwll pedro, no need to go bicycle there

great defence by Reece

at least we have one of the best refs in the world for this game

bad defence at the back, we are letting them stroll into the box wide open

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

woot its a pen

that has to be a pen

“We love him, but pure profit, isn’t it?” These are words said from someone running the club’s daily operations about an academy player who has/will be sold in the last/next 12 months https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/we-love-him-but-pure-profit-isnt Unfortunately, this article is from a very good academy source and a good friend of mine, so it’s absolutely worth picking up on and not ignoring. I know that everything Parth has written in this deep dive article for The Chelsea Spot will be fully legit and true. Read the full article after this of course, it’s a long one but worth your time. The opening lines and paragraphs will be enough to concern many invested in our academy, and it will concern many. ‘These are words said from someone running the club’s daily operations about an academy player who has/will be sold in the last/next 12 months (unnamed to protect the staff member and player). It’s sadly the state the sport is in at the moment, and especially at Chelsea too. It’s brainwashed fanbases, club directors, and even head coaches, with Enzo Maresca justifying Conor Gallagher’s sale in the summer of 2024 (after the club threatened him to the bomb squad alongside Trevoh Chalobah) with some ridiculously incorrect comments: ‘Ignoring the last part of the report above, which is complete nonsense, a lot of change has happened – this is kinda what private equity firms do. They come in, find things they don’t like, find things they like, and change it up to suit their philosophy. Van Der Kraan and Joe Shields joined Chelsea from Manchester City and said Chelsea were doing things the old and wrong way. They argued Cobham’s old-fashioned culture was the reason we hadn’t won the FA Youth Cup or UEFA Youth League in a while, why we lost the likes of Rio Ngumoha and Ryan Mcaidoo, and why we were falling behind other academies in recruitment. It’s why Jim Fraser was pushed out of the club, a move pretty inevitable to anyone in the academy building who knew about Joe and Jim’s previous relationship, and why Neil Bath’s departure swiftly followed. It’s why there has been a huge staff turnover in the last 6 months, from coaches to local scouts to groundsmen, and by the sounds of it it’s only going to continue. ‘There will be plenty of the old-guard too who will happily tell me that a slight change and a new shock was needed and very much welcome at Cobham – I’m not doubting that either. One of the new moves under the new academy leadership team has seen the ‘best’ talents been pushed very quickly (to the right extent where they’re not skipping instrumental parts of development, maybe apart from Josh Acheampong) and getting such valuable experience at a young age, and I’m a fan. We started to see it when Kiano Dyer was featuring for the U21s regularly as a first-year scholar, but in previous years, there’s a strong argument to be had that someone like Ryan Kavuma-McQueen or Reggie Walsh would not have been getting such U21s and first team exposure with multiple older players available in their positions. ‘With change, comes impact. The new leadership team will be very much aware, and perhaps using to their advantage, that a persistent and lasting impact on academy football and culture can take multiple years to process in terms of credibility, sustainability, success and pathway – at the end of the day pretty much all of the elite U21s and U18s players you’re watching at the moment have been at Chelsea for over 5 years before any (serious) change was made. The previous work done to produce the players you’re seeing dominate the U18 Premier League and the UEFA Youth League must not be diminished in the slightest. ‘Matt Law, from The Telegraph, recently released an article discussing Chelsea’s factory at Cobham and how the academy has produced almost £1bn worth of young players who are now owned by a club in a top European league. I mean that is just ridiculous. Just have a read of some quotes from an agent with clients at the club, and Michael Emenalo (former sporting director and father of academy player Landon Emenalo): ‘The reality is, that if things go well in the next few years in the academy, the new leadership will take all the credit (whether it’s deserved or whether it was inevitable success is the burning question), and if things go badly, they’ll be blamed (while trying to put the blame on the old-guard). It is just how things are going to be.’ Please go ahead now and read the rest of the article, linked above. It’s important to state that a lot of this is of course just the opinion of one man, but remember that this one man is super well-informed with all things academy, gets info from THE best sources there, and is around the daily happenings there. But yes, it is just one mans opinion, other than the info he’s also shared. All in all, some worrying snippets in this, and I know that some of this has been picked up by members of our community on this site as well in recent weeks and months. So it’s important that we don’t ignore it and read things like this, to keep us informed at the very least. The general fan opinion and feeling on Joe Shields I have noticed changing over recent months. It’s interesting.

Sources: Sarr recall on the cards? It's looking likely now https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-sarr-recall-on-the-cards Nothing is done at the time of writing this. The only thing that is done is Aaron Anselmino has been recalled from his loan at Dortmund. As revealed over the weekend, the thinking is that Chelsea are now likely to recall Mamadou Sarr from his loan at Strasbourg to be the new centre back in the doors at the club this window, after a failed attempt to sign Jeremy Jacquet from Rennes. Chelsea are still looking to do a deal to sign Jacquet for the summer, but he will stay with Rennes until then. We are unsure yet if that is close or what type of deal they are looking to do, but they’re working on that now. So, Chelsea still want to give Liam Rosenior a new centre back, and due to the fact that he knows and rates Sarr so well, having had him at Strasbourg, they have decided that bringing him in now would be a good move. Rosenior is happy for this to happen and obviously knows Sarr is more than capable of playing his brand of football. Chelsea as a club also rate Sarr very highly and see him as the future of our defence in a pinnacle role. He already wears the captains armband at Strasbourg at the age of 20, so there is a lot of belief in this player within BlueCo. What we have heard, again, as already reported over the weekend, is that Anselmino will then join Strasbourg on loan for the rest of the season to cover the Sarr departure. So these are all the dominoes that need to fall in place. But we expect to hear more on this going into Monday. As I’ve said, nothing is done yet and all options are still being looked at, including other potential centre back targets. But the fact that Anselmino has been recalled, suggests to me that they are now pushing on with bringing Sarr in. Let’s see what today brings.

Here are all (or most) of the CMFs and DMFs valued at €25m or more that we have been linked with since the summer 2025 window: Most have been made-up wild rumours, some for year after year... Pedri Federico Valverde João Neves Vitinha Bruno Guimarães Martín Zubimendi Aurélien Tchouaméni Sandro Tonali Aleksandar Pavlovic Carlos Baleba Pablo Barrios Adam Wharton Elliot Anderson Nicolò Barella Warren Zaïre-Emery Eduardo Camavinga Manu Koné Morten Hjulmand Felix Nmecha Frenkie de Jong Amadou Onana Ayyoub Bouaddi Hugo Larsson Senny Mayulu Kobbie Mainoo Gavi Éderson Khéphren Thuram Curtis Jones Boubacar Kamara Joshua Kimmich Archie Gray Jacob Ramsey Alan Varela Johan Manzambi Victor Froholdt Alex Scott Yasin Ayari Javi Guerra Jobe Bellingham Marc Casadó Douglas Luiz Quinten Timber Yegor Yarmolyuk Tyler Adams Rúben Neves Kees Smit Example:

not making the top 8 not only forces us into the brutal playoffs, but it will cost us around £9m in lost prize money as well

he is Fichajes' bitch he has morphed into a 2 bit rumour/lie merchant

Besiktas pay £11m for Tammy Abraham - to sell him to Villa https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c301ry162d4o Besiktas have paid £11.2m to Roma for Tammy Abraham - as the Turkish club prepare to sell him to Aston Villa. The striker had a medical on Saturday having travelled to the UK on Friday after Villa agreed an £18m deal with the Super Lig side. Besiktas had an obligation to buy in the loan deal which took Abraham from Roma last summer and did not want to sell him, but are reluctantly allowing Abraham to return to England. Abraham, who has 11 England caps, scored 12 goals in 24 games for Besiktas. "The conditions in the transfer contract of Kevin Oghenetega Tamaraebi Bakumo-Abraham have been fulfilled and the provision for the permanent transfer of the player has come into effect," said Besiktas. "In this context, a transfer fee of 13m euros will be paid to AS Roma." The 28-year-old joined Roma from Chelsea for £34m in 2021 and scored 39 goals in 120 games for the Serie A club, winning the Europa Conference League in 2022. He also spent 2024-25 on loan at AC Milan, scoring 10 times in 44 appearances.

Jacquet is more of a RCB or middle CB in a back 5 the player you are describing is literally Senesi od head, but not too old, and a lefty who is great on the ball also Alessandro Buongiorno, but he will be very expensive and a HARD pull (especially with poison dwarf's Napoli plus he is Italian in a major big Italian club) and as always Bastoni lurks out there, the best CB on the planet atm for me, and also a lefty

but remember Murillo? The club said they did not want to buy that high (price and level) of a CB who would be a nailed-on starter so BlueCo is (quelle surprise) all over the bullshit board

I wish I had your confidence all 3 teams most likely to fuck us out of CL footie are bogey teams for us Manure NUFC Pool

roflmaoooooo hyper British food!

remember Malang Sarr? it took AGES to get him gone (and he was on an insane £125K PW!) and of course, he now has dramaically improved with Lens

this is not going to be popular here, but wow, bad karma is likely coming for us as we assfucked Dortmund and did not even leave them a

Imagine being excited as a fan because West Ham, your club, are bringing in Adama Traore!!!!! 🤪

Sources: Cole Palmer's future? So, what's been happening here and what is the player thinking? https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-cole-palmers-future Many of you have been asking me to write on the future of Cole Palmer from what our sources know. So now, I’ve complied a sourced report on the future of our attacking midfielder. The noise around Manchester United does have some substance to it. Palmer is a Manchester lad and has all his friends and family around there. So of course he is going to miss elements around it. There is also a personal situation that Palmer is facing that I would prefer not to speak about, that will make him more inclined to be around that area again and perhaps miss home a little bit more. He’s back and forth form Manchester to London quite a bit, or at least he has been recently. So the ‘homesick’ noise does actually have a little bit about it. On the player side, Palmer is not unhappy at Chelsea. He’s more than content being a Chelsea player. He didn’t really enjoy playing under Enzo Maresca though, as reported at the time; he didn’t feel as though he was able to play with the freedom that he had been playing with when he first arrived at Chelsea. But as a Chelsea player, Palmer has not been described to me as unhappy, he just got frustrated under Maresca and the homesick thing is certainly a thing, but for more reasons than the public know about. Palmer is also frustrated with his reoccurring injury and also, with his own form. He wants to be doing more for the team and wants to get back to where he was. So he is annoyed at himself as well, hence the body language on the pitch that fans have been noticing. Right now, I have not heard that Palmer is planning to ask to leave or is looking to leave, but as I have said, it’s not something that would surprise me if I did hear it, based on everything I’ve said above. If Palmer was to leave, I’d be less surprised to see him head to Manchester United rather than back to Manchester City. United is more where his roots are and he was a boyhood fan of the club. On Palmer’s future, a lot will depend on how the rest of this season goes for him in a Chelsea shirt, and how things go at a potential suitor such as United. But look, there’s nothing from sources at this moment to say that Palmer wants out or is going to ask to leave - so that’s the main takeaway for now at this point in the season. On the club side, of course they are not going to entertain any offers for Palmer. He is one of five players the club see as indispensable in this moment, alongside the likes of Reece James and Moises Caicedo. They are concentrating on getting the best version of Palmer back, and he is not for sale. However, IF Palmer went to them and asked to leave the club because he was unhappy, then I’d be surprised if Chelsea didn’t then entertain it. I personally do not believe they would want to keep an unhappy player in the squad, whoever that was, and nor should they to be honest - that is where problems start with disgruntled players. Not saying Palmer will become a problem if this did happen, but I’m just saying that I’d be surprised if the club kept any player who put in a transfer request. Again, I’m not saying this is what Palmer is going to do, I’m just going over the possible scenarios. And this bit here is really just my opinion as the club state not for sale. To sum it up, I’ve not heard that Palmer is unhappy right now as a Chelsea player, the club will not entertain selling him, but there is certainly an element of ‘home sickness’ but due to deeper reasons that it would not be right for me to talk on, but would be understandable to everyone if they knew what it was about. Palmer also likes to play with freedom to be able to feel confident and comfortable on the pitch - so I’m not sure whether he gets that with Liam Rosenior more or not, maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t. Time will tell.

Sources: Chelsea weighing up options around centre backs but still working on Jeremy Jacquet The latest... https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-Chelsea-weighing-up-options It’s been a bit of an up and down last week or so on the transfer front. Chelsea have plans for this window now in terms of incomings, as we reported. But there has been some obstacles in the way that has put doubts around some of these proposed incoming deals the club are trying to pull off. The main one of course is centre back Jeremy Jacquet from Rennes. So what is the latest on that? Do Chelsea have a backup plan? And are they already working on another idea? Yes, they are. More below… Chelsea’s sporting directors left France on Monday after holding what SPTC Sources described as positive talks with Rennes regarding a move to sign Jacquet. There was still some things to sort out in the deal, but everything on the player side was positive and all but done. On the club side, things were not done. Chelsea have continued a dialogue with Rennes this week but no longer face to face, and it is true that the idea of loaning the player back for the rest of the season was mentioned as a possible option to convince Rennes to let the player go now. But since then, although talks have continued at a tentative level, nothing has been agreed at the time of writing this. Chelsea do have other centre backs on their shortlist, but they really rate Jacquet and he is the guy they want. So no other moves for any other centre backs have been made as of yet. One other option that SPTC Sources have been told about is around Mamadou Sarr and bringing him in this month. The centre back is on loan at Strasbourg, but Chelsea have been pondering bringing him back, especially if Jacquet is signed and then loaned back to Rennes until the summer. The only issue Chelsea have with doing this is that they will need to cover Sarr’s absence at Strasbourg. So there are some ideas they are looking into there as well, and one possible idea mentioned by sources is sending Aaron Anselmino to Strasbourg to cover that.