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They have always been POOR at talent judging and buys. The initial 3 years of giant spends were partially directed by Mou, at least the last 2 of the 3. Dont forget thr two biggest buys of Romans first year were Veron and Crespo! BUST and super costly ones. It didnt take a genius to buy an Ashley Cole or a Drogba or a Makélélé. Lampard and Terry were already there. But look at all the other HUGE busts they had back then. Shawn-Wright Phillips, Shevchenko, Torres later on! Boswinga cost over 30m quid in todays money! Yuri Zhirkov the same. They got lucky with Eden. But then more busts. Cuadrado, Malouda, Baba Rahman, Felipe Luis, Bakayoko, Drinkwater, Bats, Morata, etc etc. And the idiotic sales! OMG. Robben, De Bruyne, Salah, etc etc. Overall they have had huge wastes of money, and as players get more expensive, their errors are compounded. So many donkeys over last 15 years, some massively costly. Dont even get me started on the botched transfers. A billion quid clown car. No other remotely team has nearly as much deadwood as we do. It is madness that it has gotten to this point.

leg whip-over 4 times, then.... SHOOT there, sorted

LOLOL My wife watches that guy all the time, she has so many puzzles, some of them she had before he did. She goes CRAY when they are giving her a hard time. She tries to get me to do them, so I just brought in a box with a 65 THOUSAND page OTC derivative contract and tell her when she can short THAT out, then I will try a damn puzzle.

Chelsea: Fifa allegedly recommends Blues handed two-year transfer ban after signing of minors https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46218627

https://news.sky.com/story/chelsea-being-investigated-by-fifa-over-youth-transfer-policy-11044833 The West London club were banned from signing players for two transfer windows in 2009, a penalty they had overturned on appeal in 2010, over Gael Kakuta's 2007 move from Lens to Stamford Bridge. They were also investigated over the transfer of Bertrand Traore, the Burkina Faso international who was signed after his 18th birthday but had appeared in an under-18 match in 2011 while still 16. The penalty was overturned, not the finding of guilty.

If Marina and Roman would have just taken all the actual real, legit official offers that were presented we would have had almost 2/3rds of a BILLION QUID to play with this summer and January. I went through it all massively in depth in two posts in The Board forum. What a mis-run club we are!

Do you trust his knees? I do like that he can also play RW and would finally sit POS Willian down on the bench (hopefully, you never know with Sarri). Huge problem, Lyon will not let him go till summer, and we may be transfer banned by then.

I just do not see that happening, they have De Bruyne, and the two Silva's plus Brahim Diaz at AMF already. They need another CB, LB and especially a DH DMF to replace Fernandinho (who will be 34). Eventually another CF too. I ran thru their targets here

We are repeat offenders and 2 years is the punishment being pushed hard.

Here are the replacements we could have had (we are on £270m net PLUS with those sales above and Mbappe replacing Hazard and Icardi as CF already) CB de Ligt Ajax would have taken £90m or £80 for Milan Skriniar CB/RB combo Thilo Kehrer (PSG paid ,£33m) CB/RB combo Benjamin Pavard Stuttgart would have taken £55m we could then sell Zappacosta for £20 as we have 2 RB's LB/LW combo Junior Firpo (£45m release clause) RW Malcom (Barca paid £37m for him) AMF Kai Havertz (Bayer would have taken £70m) total there £310m (with de Ligt) £300m with Skriniar so a net spend (FOR ALL THOSE) of £30 to 40m yielding a team of GK Kepa GK Caballero GK Green CB de Light (or Skriniar) CB Rudiger CB AC (who could be sold too due to combo players below, thus leaving us another £40m or so (plus 10m extra spend) to go after Tonali and a true back-up striker to Icardi, say Callum Wilson) CB Amapdu LB Junior Firpo (can play LW too) LB Emerson RB Thilo Kehrer (where he starts at time for BOTH PSG and the German national team) RB Benjamin Pavard, who is ALSO a CB and starts at RB for France National team DH DMF Jorginho DH DMF Sandro Tonali Box to Box MF N'Golo Kanté CMF Mateo Kovačić AMF Kai Havertz (can play RW as well) AMF RLC AMF Ross Barkley LW Kylian Mbappe LW Callum Hudson-Odoi (Pedro and Firpo can both play LW too) RW Malcom RW Pedro (Havertz can play RW too) CF Mauro Icardi CF Callum Wilson CF Olivier Giroud all that for £$40m or so net spend that's NOT some FM bullshit ALL SALE OFFERS were 100% REAL, Marina and Roman turned them down and my BUY offers would ALL be taken as they are massive or are simple release clause matches or are what bigger teams than us (PSG and Barca) paid after we told them to go fuck off on Willian and Luiz THAT team is SO much stronger (and younger AND DEEPER) than what we have now EVERY position would have been upgraded (sorry folks but Mbappe IS an upgrade to Hazard) most of them MASSIVELY upgraded

For a bin-dipper, reading ISN'T fundamental. Lol

£620m Thats what the board collectively turned down this summer Only 5 (counting the part-time rotter Willian, but not the benched Morata) are starters. We could have bought MBAPPE and Icardi for £350m and still had close to THREE HUNDRED MILLION QUID left over to replace the other 4 (Willian, Luiz, and both FB's) and upgrade the squad. Let THAT sink in for awhile Willian £65m from Barca turned down Alonso £45m from Real Madrid turned down, he is shit and yet board renews him! Luiz £30m from PSG turned down (he will now leave on a free) Cesc £25m we turned down from AC Milan (we MIGHT get £10m this January for him, or he leaves on a free in summer) Morata £55m from AC Milan turned down, value has plummeted like US stock market since Eden Hazard £175m turned down from Real Madrid (we said £200m or no deal) (tricky as he has carried us, BUT we will get only £100m MAX in summer, or he will leave on a free in 2020. We will have to eat the free if we have transfer bans, as we cannot replace him in summer. If we still sell, we are destroying the club literally a year early. Way to go Marina!) Drinkwater we turned down £20m from both West Ham and CP, They only offered that little because his £120K per week contract is outrageous. Moses we turned down £20m from Everton and West Ham (had high value cuz of really good WC) Azpi we turned down £45m from Barca Cahill we turned down £20m from Aston Villa, now he may leave on a free or for much less Bats £40m from Borussia Dortmund turned down Zouma, we turned down £25m from Everton, loaned instead Marco van Ginkel £10m from PSV turned down, now he blew his knee out Kenedy we turned down £15m from Newcastle (that would have doubled out money on him, btw) Bakayoko we trurned down £30m from Milan for him, loaned instead

Yep, he is not remotely good enough. The board looks moronic (there is a shock! NOT) for renewing him and Sarri looks a fool for saying he is close to being the best LB in Europe!!

Azpi will probably have to rotate at CB (with Ampadu and AC, if AC stays) if we don't buy a new one in January and the bans come, as Luiz is going to leave on a free in the summer.

roflmaooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo Kenedy is from Santa Rita do Sapucai in Brasil. They use prisoners on bicycles to power some of their streetlights!! Brazilian inmates reduce sentences by hitting the bike, books https://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/14/world/americas/brazil-alternative-sentence-reduction

Kante when at regular DMF is best in world at the position Hazard is only the 5th best winger (6th if you count CR7 at his age) Mbappe, Messi, Neymar, Salah (as long as he keeps up his pace of last 10ish games) are all better. And, in theory, Dembele and Sane and maybe Sancho will pass him up in 2 to 3 years too, as he ages.

Mourinho, to keep him company and be his caddie on the golf course.

Gareth Bale freekick jinxed by Tal Ben Haim witchcraft https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/babb/11848304/Gareth-Bale-freekick-jinxed-by-Tal-Ben-Haim-witchcraft.html

Only downside to him is he is out for a bit with blown knee

If Wilian was 28 Marina would renew him! We turned down 65 MILLION QUID for his POS arse. I have zero faith we upgrade. Roman is on lock-down spend as he KNOWS his nutsack is in a global vice over Putin ties.

Cold hard look at the squad 18 (maybe more) need to go and be upgraded from (including some ones out on loan) We absolutely need new starters at SIX positions (5 right now) and soon 7 (when Eden leaves, probably on a free in 2020, as I really think we will be banned before summer for 2 years, so obvioulsy cant sell him and will just have to eat the £100m (most we will get this summer) as we will not be able to do a swap deal or buy replacement. I think CHO is insane, as he very likely could be our starting LW as soon as next year (if we DID sell Hazard even with a trans ban) Fuck Sarri cock-blocking CHO, New starters needed ASAP at One CB (after Luiz leaves on free in 6 months, and actually even if he stays) RB, LB, AMF (as Kante is struggling in other side and Sarri will never change formation and RLC is not good enough to make up for Jorginho/Kante weakness) RW CF many will be gone this summer anyway due to contract/loans expiring (Luiz, Cahill,, Cesc, Kovacic, Caballero, Green, Giroud) Only one on here that is borderline (due to potential bans) is Barkley The rest need to GO GO GO It is so so fucking sad that only TWO players out of the main squad (Kepa and Rudiger) get the simple Keep, great player, without some caveat attached!!!!! We keep the deadweight and bad players and keep playing them (some dont play now) we are going mid-table, especial if bans kick in for 2 years and we have not bought upgrades (and Eden and CHO walk or are sold at gunpoint) I urge all to bookmark this to ridicule me IF I am wrong on these None of you will be ridiculing me. NEED TO GO IN BOLD RED 1 Spain GK Kepa Arrizabalaga Keep, great starter 13 Argentina GK Willy Caballero Replace him with a HG of better quality, like Angus Gunn, this is hardly a crucial thing, unless the HG element comes in 31 England GK Robert Green who cares, lolol, Bulka needs to be 3rd or even backup 2 Germany CB Antonio Rüdiger Keep, great starter 30 Brazil CB David Luiz He is leaving on a free in 6 months, so WE HAVE to replace him NOW, before possible bans hit 24 England CB Gary Cahill SELL 44 Wales CB Ethan Ampadu Keep, he will be starter when Luiz leaves, if we do not buy a CB to replace Luiz 27 Denmark CB Andreas Christensen Keep IF we do not buy more CB's and ban comes in, otherwise, sell if we get a good price 3 Spain LB Marcos Alonso SELL, he simply is SHIT, if Sarri keeps trotting him out there, Sarri will be sacked within a year, what a blunder to renew him! Fuck Marina! Unreal we turned down £45m for him from Real!!! 33 Italy LB Emerson Keep for now, as he simply has to start over Alonso, he can be reserve once we buy a legit LB 28 Spain RB César Azpilicueta Keep, but needs to a reserve RB and CB, not up to being our RB, he is far too limited in offence, he is also starting to show age and wear and tear, sorry but it is the brutal truth 21 Italy RB Davide Zappacosta SELL, he hates it here, he isn't good enough, Reece James and Ola Aina are better than him anyway 5 Italy DH DMF Jorginho Keep, good, not great, but needed in Sarriball 4 Spain DH DMF Cesc Fàbregas SELL, he is a spent force for us, he can still play in Serie A 17 Croatia CMF Mateo Kovačić (on loan from Real Madrid) He will leave in summer, I cannot see us buying him for the price they will demand, especially if we are transfer banned, then obviously he is gone 6 England CMF Danny Drinkwater Sell (eat some of his bloated wages, just get him the hell out, freeloader, and the board is twice, no 10 times the cunt he is for buying him in first place!) 34 Brazil MF Lucas Piazon SELL, no clue why Sarri said keep him, worthless 7 France Box to Box MF N'Golo Kanté Keep, as he will go back to regular DMF slot when Sarri is cashiered, but he is nowhere good enough in his current role 12 England AMF Ruben Loftus-Cheek Keep, I still think he comes good, BUT we need another AMF who is better 8 England AMF Ross Barkley Sell, sorry, he just is never going to be the player we all thought he would be years ago, only keep if we are transfer banned 10 Belgium LW Eden Hazard Keep, BUT, he isnt renewing, so either sell him in the summer OR (if bans come) we are going to have to just let him go on a free in 17 months 20 England LW Callum Hudson-Odoi KEEP, but we will lose him due to Sarri non playing, and when that happens, I hope Sarri is sacked, unless we sell and get a buy-back 22 Brazil RW Willian SELL along with Alonso, these 2 CUNTS need to be shipped the fuck out, if Sarri keeps playing them , I hope he IS sacked, as he deserves it, FUCK out board for not taking that £65m from Barca!!! along with De Bruyne and Salah sales the 3 biggest fuck-ups in last 15 years 11 Spain RW Pedro Keep, as a reserve, not good enough to be starter, ageing quickly 15 Nigeria RW Victor Moses SELL, useless 29 Spain CF Álvaro Morata SELL this donkey NOW, cannot believe we turned down £55m for him from AC Milan and told them £70m or no deal! Fuck Marina! 18 France CF Olivier Giroud OUT (contract expire) worthless at thsi point, all those who say he is great with Hazard are just delusional, maybe keep as 3rd CF for emergency out on loan big players France CB Kurt Zouma (to Everton until 30 June 2019) SELL, he is perma wrecked after knee injury England CB Fikayo Tomori (to Derby County until 30 June 2019) back-up CB next year or the year after Ghana LB Baba Rahman (to Schalke 04 until 30 June 2019) sell, complete waste of money Nigeria RB Ola Aina (to Torino until 30 June 2019) Zappacosta replacement, once Reece is starter. Ola shut CR7 down like a bitch in the Turn Derby. England RB Reece James (to Wigan Athletic until 30 June 2019) needs to start next year part-time, and take over from Azpi full time in 2020 France DMF Tiémoué Bakayoko (to Milan until 30 June 2019) SELL he is shit Brazil AMF Kenedy (to Newcastle United until 30 June 2019) SELL, as he clearly isn't going to ever be a starter for us England AMF Mason Mount (to Derby County until 30 June 2019) Keep, work into rotation next year, replacing Barkley Belgium AMF Charly Musonda Jr. (to Vitesse until 30 June 2019) SELL, never was good enough England CF Tammy Abraham (to Aston Villa until 30 June 2019) Keep, maybe can be 3rd CF, if he isnt even capable of that, then sell Belgium CF Michy Batshuayi (to Valencia until 30 June 2019) SELL he is not going to work out

Pulisic? I am not sold on him, and we just turned down a swap plus cash offer of CHO plus quid for him. Nicolas Pepe just had £72m price put on him by Lille, so that's a non-starter. GRRRRRRRRR Higuain cant be given multi-year contract, so he will not come. Same for Cavani. I see zero or at least very little links to targets we SHOULD be going after, like Icardi (if we are truly serious about winning league and CL in future, he and his level HAVE to be looked at) Jovic, Haller, Memphis Depay, Martial (super hard now) Federico Chiesa, Thorgan Hazard, Alassane Plea, Mikel Oyarzabal, Steven Bergwijn, David Neres, Suso, Rodrigo de Paul, Federico Bernardeschi, Iñaki Williams, Jean-Kévin Augustin, Hirving Lozano, Matheus Cunha, Myziane Maolida, Domenico Berardi, Malcom, Ismaïla Sarr, Maximiliano Gómez, etc

Lille just listed price for Nicolas Pepe, £72m, so he is off the table for us