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Looked offside tbf but didn't see a foul from the replay..

VAR proving itself pointless yet again. Get rid of it and sack the numpties that couldn't find a way to make it work. How can they not send the ref to look at the monitor and decide for himself? There was an age of time for him to go and do it too.

Maybe concerned about dealing with Brighton's pace? It is a bit baffling though... Lets see how it goes

This would be a dream for me, just for the continuous pace of the game, and knowing more or less on the spot whether I can celebrate a goal and just..enjoy football.

Certainly not the same thing as stripping the club of assets, from that perspective it is a total non-story. The assets stay within the company. All large businesses are made up of a holding company and a bunch of different companies the parent company owns. We're selling assets between them at fair market value, keeping them within the group. The real risk here is whether or not this behaviour is against financial fair play in the premier league where the rules state that: "For the avoidance of doubt, a Club will be in breach of its duty under Rule B.15 if it presents an Associated Party Transaction to the League (pursuant to Rules E.55 – E.77): (i) as a product of a genuine commercial negotiation where, in their reasonable and honest belief, no such genuine commercial negotiations took place; and/or (ii) as having a genuine commercial rationale to the counterparty when they do not hold a reasonable and honest belief that such a genuine commercial rationale exists." Of course, we don't even know that the club has actually done this deal, what we have here is a twitter thread from an obsessive, known Chelsea hater (obsessed with us and been screaming we're getting banned for years...wrongly, over and over), what we've got here is some loser on twitter speculating about other people's speculation built on top of other people's speculation. I would just ignore it all and trust the club. So far they've been very responsible and even self reported themselves before.

As MoroccanBlue has posted, there was no fee for Broja, because no one would pay one. And us putting some random price tag on him means nothing also, we have tried this with lots of players and got no where near it, it is just a negotiation tactic. Clubs will be interested if he is cheap enough, but none of these clubs are going to spend more than £20m on him up until he actually does something to deserve it. He's done nothing to earn it. You mentioned his stint at Southampton in the PL where as a striker he scored 6 goals. Lets get real. He needs to start scoring goals again if he is going to even fetch £20m. If he does and hit a little run of form going into some transfer window or another maybe we can get £30m/£35m in the future, but certainly not now.

£20m would be a miracle, unless he actually finally does something in his career. He is 22 and turns 23 in summer. He will probably end up playing in the Championship and have a reasonable career there and maybe get a few years in the PL later in his career, by which time maybe he has developed enough to get 10-ish goals a season.

Wonder if we can afford Florian Wirtz?

I imagine the Mount + Lewis Hall money is both counted in that time period, which is like £90m of pure profit? I think we'll be fine. That is a lot.

First of all, Nicolas Jackson is outscoring Lukaku in the league over the last couple of seasons, and is already 10x the footballer with the ball at his feet. And he's like 10 years younger. He makes better runs and plays more intelligently. This would be a horrendous downgrade, of the worst kind, and the exact kind of signing that old-Chelsea was famous for. All of this is irrelevant given that he is toxic and would break the dressing room, and make interviews speaking out against the club, the manager, his fellow players, and whoever else he feels like. All while pining for a return to Inter, or a move to Juventus, or perhaps he will announce that actually he has unfinished business at Manchester United. I cannot imagine a worse signing for the summer transfer window than Romelu Lukaku, and by the same thought process the fact that he currently is on our books makes no difference: the priority remains to get rid of him, and he is only still HERE because no one wants him ffs.

For me his main weakness is concentration. I can't comprehend the talk about his passing. He is not Enzo but he is certainly very capable, to put it lightly, although he did play it a bit too safe for a while when he was at rock bottom for confidence. With experience and good coaching he will assert himself as one of the world's top midfielders again. Shouldn't have paid £100m for him but we shouldn't have paid that for Enzo either frankly.

They hate us though, maybe more than any other team as they are a nothing club and their interactions with us are the most interesting thing to happen to them in their collective history. They will probably come with max intensity.

Absolutely not, I cannot believe you have posted this. Lukaku can never play for Chelsea again. He is a disgrace, a toxic disgrace who will try his hardest to ruin everything we've got going on. I wouldn't even let him train with the other players, or be in the same building as them, if it can be at all avoided.

Just seen the final goal. Where's that guy that keeps banging on about Caicedo's passing?

Had to miss most of the game to go pick up the misses from the airport. Sounds like I missed a miniature heart attack game.

Europa League if City win FA Cup. Well worth giving it our best shot. Being back in at least Europa was surely the minimum level set for Poch to keep his job, can't believe they're going to keep him if we don't weasel our way in.

Try searching twitter for Chelsea stream links, has been my preferred method for a while - high quality, sometimes they drop but thousands more appear and you can just switch to another

He was only 2 metres onside, surprised VAR didn't check it

De Zerbi means doing business with Brighton again which is a hard no from me

That does not mean we are a top 4 team. We have picked up results recently vs teams that got something against us earlier in the season, when they played with more passion and had something to play for. It is easier to get results later in the season vs teams with nothing left to play for. We have no evidence that this side can put in a top 4 run over a whole season until we actually see it. My feeling though is with less injuries this squad could probably get a top 4 finish with proper management without making any signings at all. Poch should be able to do it next season if we are not absolutely cursed with injuries, or the directors make some signings to replace constantly injured players.

I think it is obvious Poch is not a top manager anymore, if he ever was. He's not terrible either. Tactically he has not moved with the times until recently, where finally he's deployed the kind of 3-2-5 attacking setup that most of the top teams of the last few years have been using. Graham Potter in all honestly probably would have done a better job this year. But, at this point I can see the merit in keeping him on. Let the players have continuity under him for one more season. Another year to develop and assess this squad we've built. Start to fix our reputation for sacking managers too soon and not giving them a fair shot. Then bring in a top manager and go after a couple of players to hopefully finish off the puzzle of a side that can compete for titles under one of the world's elite managers, who inherits a squad of players who are close to entering their prime instead of being a little undercooked.

I am not sure "experience" matters so much as calmness and leadership qualities. Cole Palmer good example of that. I do feel like we are very weak on leadership on the field without Thiago. Experience matters there mostly in so much as de facto someone like Thiago commands respect because of the CV he had behind him.

I think we will basically always try for players if they are being rated as potential generational talents if they are somewhat affordable, even if we had City's XI we still would, some % of them will turn out to actually be that good and if it turned out you got 25% of them right it would still work out at pretty amazing business given the wages + transfer fee you'd then have one of the best players in the world on. Just don't get opportunities like that without getting them young. I doubt any signing like this is intended for our lineup for this or even next season, question really is can we even develop this many players simultaneously? Doesn't the loan limits make it hard these days? They will almost definitely not turn into generational talents if their future is getting a few chances a season to do 3 minute cameos like David Washington.

Man has something like 4 goals and 2 assists over 2 years. £55m and £300k a week Man Utd are you having a laugh lmao