Norfolkblue1961

I hope we stuff the scouse vermin

That display was utter dogshit..............a complete shambles. Maresca is starting to give me Graham Potter vibes.....clueless, and as for our recruitment aaaaaarghhhh, everyone could see we needed a proper centre forward and goalie and we got neither

Didnt he score at Bournemouth ?

Someone has to clean out the toilets at Cobham

Martin Samuels hates CFC and he is wrong .... 2 of these keepers played for us last season, and If I recall correctly we did finish in the top 6

The PGMOL say that VAR is not there to re-referee games, yet that is exactly what it is doing. In the Villa game the Ref was looking straight at the incident when Badiashille challenged the Villa defender and saw nothing wrong with it......there are challenges like that 100s of times in every game that are not deemed fouls....yet VAR flags this one up.... and once that twat goes to look at the monitor you know we are f**ked. We have had far worse challenges on our players not given as penalties....Gallagher @ Anfield....as they are deemed not to meet the threshold for a foul. It is time we followed the Swedes and binned VAR

Up until extra time it was...then we just stopped playing, handed them the initiative and paid the price for continually not marking VVD properly at set pieces. We had a let off earlier in the game for the disallowed goal, and did not learn from it. The performance in extra time was dismal, timid, lacking in belief, and asking to be punished...and it was

What a twat

Pretty drab viewing, especially the 1st half until we came alive in that 15 minute spell during the 2nd. I had the misfortune to watch it on BBC Red Button, and had to endure the God-awful commentary of Jonathan Pearce. I swear that bloke has dementia, drifting off into monologues about the 1960s, it reminded me of "Ron Manager" from the Fast Show

That was fu*king pitiful..........hideously painful to watch...laborious in attack, constantly misplacing passes, selecting the wrong ball, 1st touch non-existent, and mistake after mistake at the back gifting goals away

Ignorant northern Divs

God knows.....I did watch the game, and wished I hadn't...apart from the first 20 minutes or so, with the exception of Cole Palmer it was utter dogs*it

No chance

We are a difficult watch at the moment......this is pretty dire stuff 🫣

No ................that would be lukaku..........he is a close 2nd mind

It is shite.....no matter what you call it

He can have it framed and stick it on his Living room wall 😁

Trouble is he has never been in shape and properly motivated since leaving Inter

Sanchez was not at fault for any of their goals

Arsenal bought Havertz 🤣

I read that it was loan with an obligation to buy for £28 M

Absolutely not

Not mine....but posted on CFCnet Shamelessly stolen from Reddit , I found this very interesting and hope you do. A lot has been said in recent days about FFP and that Chelsea Football Club is breaching the rules or at least in danger of falling into noncompliance. Plenty of our own fans are worried and uneasy about the situation (as well as the salt coming from other clubs' fans (*cough* Liverpool *cough*)) so I decided to write a couple of things about why it is unlikely to be a problem. Financial Fair Play is a set of regulations that has been brought in to stop clubs from spending virtually unlimited amounts of money. Is it successful? Partially, yes. The Saudis cannot take over Newcastle and pump in a billion quid a year just because they want to. On the other hand, it failed to stop big clubs from spending big money. Then again, the idea was never for City and Burnley to have the same 'transfer cap', but to stop clubs being so overstretched financially that they might collapse with a couple of bad decisions. From this year on, the FFP rules have changed. Previously, we were operating on the assumption of maximum allowable loss over any three year period. Now that has changed to a cap on transfers and wages equivalent to a percentage of club revenue. This year it's 90%, next year it will be 80% and from 25/26 in it will be at 70% revenue. What does it mean for Chelsea Football Club? According to Deloitte Football Money League, our revenue has totalled €568.000.000,00 last year. This means that no more than €511 million can be spent on transfer amortisation and wages this season. Next year will be much more problematic. Looking at revenues of clubs that miss out on playing in the Champions League, the revenue drop is consistent at around 10-15%. For my very simple calculations I have assumed a 20% fall. That would mean that our maximum transfer and wage spend for 2024/25 will be around €360 million. So... what is the actual spend? Well, we've all already learnt that spending €100 million on a player doesn't mean that the club accounts are charged with that amount. The transfer fee is divided by contract length, which has been restricted to a maximum of 5 years starting this summer. (It's very important to note that this restriction applies only in UEFA. The Premier League imposed no such regulations.) What does the numbers look like? Not counting in Caicedo as it remains unconfirmed, we spent a total of around €750.000.000,00. It's an astronomical amount, sure, but the yearly financial outlay comes in at slightly above €120.000.000,00. This is the number we're looking at against the max allowable spend. There is also an outstanding €40.000.000,00 from the transfers of Romelu Lukaku (€22.5 pa), Kepa (€11.50 pa) and Chilwell (€6m pa). The total comes in at €160.000.000,00 per annum spent on transfers. At the same time we have drastically reduced our wage bill. In the season 2022/23, we spent €265 million on wages. This year it will come in at around €175 million. Slightly higher than Liverpool, €20 million lower than Arsenal and a whopping €65 million lower than City and United. This means that our total financial outlay on transfers and wages comes in at around €340 million. €150 million below what we can spend this season, but only slightly below what will be available for 2024/25. The biggest problem is Lukaku, which costs us €40 million every single year. Finding a transfer away here is an absolute priority. This however, is before we take any note of the outgoings. We have sold players for a total of €314 million and made a profit of €200.50 million on those transfers. As I have said many times before, selling one or two players per window makes absolutely no sense from an accounting perspective. UEFA rules stipulate that for accounting purposes transfer income is calculated as the highest profit made in the past three seasons. This means that those sales, or the €200.50 million to be exact, will add value to our books for the next *three years*. Another sign of just how well thought out the strategy of Boehly and Eghbali actually is. The new FFP regulations are actually very beneficial for us. Clubs like Newcastle have a simple problem. They have a wealthy owner, but they had very limited revenues in the past few years which means that they can actually spend relatively little. Chelsea on the other hand has been one of the biggest clubs in the world for the past two decades and we have the revenues to prove it. AND this is even with just how badly mismanaged the commercial side was under Abramovich. (For comparison, the sponsorship income of CFC last year was €210 million. This is Spurs/Juventus/Dortmund region. United brought in €310m, Liverpool €275m and City €373m.) Why then, do we negotiate for two months to sign a player for £80 million instead of 100 and end up paying £115m. There are two simple reasons here. Just because we are safe doesn't mean that we should be paying anything and everything. Being safe today doesn't mean being safe tomorrow and it's prudent to be careful. The second, and much worse, is cash in hand. No club in the world (and a handful of companies in general) can generate enough cashflow to spend €750.000.000,00 in cash. We could go to third parties (like we did with Enzo since Benfica wanted cash up front), but that adds extra costs. TLDR - The FFP problems that Chelsea might be facing are way overblown by people who have no clue what the numbers and regulations actually are. At this point there is no real risk of falling into noncompliance with FFP rules. EDIT. As suggested by one of you lovely people below, the sources... Deloitte Football Money League (Revenues) - https://www2.deloitte.com/uk/en/pages/sports-business-group/articles/deloitte-football-money-league.html Capology (Wage bills) - https://www.capology.com/ TransferMarkt (Transfer spend) - https://www.transfermarkt.com/fc-Chelsea/transfers/verein/631

Me too.............I hate Liverpool and I always get wound up when we play them and my blood pressure rockets