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This forum is embarrassing most match days.

Enzo's wife just had a baby so that explains his absence , no idea where Misha is though 

Twitter is a very harsh read these days.

People are obsessed with how much signings are in thsi forum lol 
Who gives a fuck.
Let them spend. 
You would all soon be moaning if he we weren't spending.
 

Are you ever happy? 😂

Chelsea's summer summed up in one picture -if you know , you know .
 

A 17 year old keeper who won’t see the pitch at Real Madrid and wouldn’t have seen the pitch here. Not really a “blow”

Can’t believe real have won another cl with that shit team 
they have been the inferior side in all Knock-out games

Sorry but absolute bollox was the UCL win lucky in anyway shape or form.
We absolutely battered both Madrid sides, were comfortable against Porto and if anything should have won the final by even more than 1. We equalled the UCL goals allowed record and were behind for a grand total of five minutes for the entire tournament, four in a dead rubber group game and one in a second leg match we were winning comfortably overall.
It's bad enough this nonsense comes from rival fans.

Rice for £100m is simply unnecessary when the likes of Kamara and Tchouameni would be available for less. 

At worst the CPO would register a new club under Chelsea Football Club to play at Stamford Bridge, probably in line with the Supporters Trust as a fan owned club. What has acted as a bit of a burden in recent years with sorting out the stadium actually holds critical importance to the future now. The CPO wasn't bullied or squeezed by Roman, there is no way developers will get their hands on the site. It's what the CPO was set up originally for anyway.
The CPO owes the club I believe circa £8m on a loan for the leasehold. I don't see this being an issue in terms of them being able to raise the finance to pay this in a scenario where the club went into administration or liquidation.
We'd have to start in the lower echelons of English football but I don't see a situation where there wouldn't be a Chelsea Football Club in the future and if we were playing 9 or 10 divisions down the pyramid, I will still be supporting the club.
 

oh HELL no
that collar is bloody DIRE
it looks like a 1970's kitchen apron cloth pattern
🤢

That's exactly the problem with conspiracy theories: they usually ignore the other interests and parties involved.
In that particular case, the insurance companies. A quick search shows the above ad as highly misleading by being extremely suggestive.
quick facts:
he wasn't the sole owner: he led a consortium of investors and lenders (which included yet other groups) he was obliged to have insurance there upon signing that lease at the time "terrorism insurance coverage" wasn't a thing and was included in most if not all policies by default Conspiracy theories are one of the many cancers in society today.

Talk about nitpicking 😂
I mean firstly who cares, he’s still homegrown and still counts as an academy player… regardless of if he was here since age 8 or age 15.
I mean we picked JT up from West Ham when he was 14 or 15 so does that mean there is also a difference for him? Or anyone else? 

That transfer income figure is not even close to being true, which makes it all the more impressive. I've seen the wrong figures reported on pretty much every media out there, which is just lazy from the journalists. 
I believe they're checking the numbers from Transfermarkt, but for some reason that site has listed notable sales like Guehi, Livramento, Ugbo under Chelsea U23 and not Chelsea FC.
Abraham €40M Zouma €35M Tomori €29.2M Guehi €23.3M Zappacosta €9M Livramento €5.9M Moses €5M Bate €1.75M Simeu €1.75M Peart-Harris €1.5M Ekwah €1.4M Giroud €1M All that adds up to €155M which in pounds is around £133M. Only incomings were Lukaku at £97.5M and Saul for a £4M loan fee, so overall it's more than £30M in profit for the window, which is a huge difference to the figures listed on most media outlets. And that's only for permanent transfer and not including any loan fees received by the club, which surely amount to millions of pounds as well (Bakayoko alone was around 2M).

The obsession of physicality and height over technique is what caused us to have a few years of 'transition' in the first place.

you also wanted us to sell kante two years ago because he was injured and he is declining physically..

Imagine being a Chelsea fan and being such a negative drain after winning 6 nil. Jesus lol

Yes I'm sure the only reason we signed Chilwell was because Mount asked Lampard to sign him as it would make him happy.
Nothing to do with him being England's first choice left back who's earned that by playing well for Leicester and then in an England shirt? Young, pacey, athletic, capable of getting up and down the flank, still room to grow and develop, homegrown,premier league experience and we managed to get him for around half the price of what was originally being quoted a few months ago?
Easily one of the most pathetic posts I've ever seen on this forum in my time here.

You never felt comfortable with Carlo? Can't believe I'm reading this. Was great for us

Look at those eyes -shes got that religious fervour, like in the movie Carrie, her mental mother
 

Who cares? He can make it iconic just like Zola 25 and Terry 26

The dominoes can fall very quickly': Frank Lampard admits expectations at Chelsea will be sky high after £200m spree on the likes of Kai Havertz and Timo Werner as Blues boss says he is preparing for a 'messy patch' 
That 'messy patch' is when Henrique appears....

https://theathletic.com/2044050/2020/09/05/havertz-transfer-mclachlan-marina-phone-call-lampard-real-madrid/
Some inside info from The Athletic on our pursuit-purchase of Havertz...
- Club started making transfer plans over a year ago when the transfer ban became a reality.
- Havertz had already been watched on several occasions. Scott McLachlan, the head of international scouting, championed Havertz to the board from a very early stage.
- Club have followed Havertz for several years. Same case with Werner but more extensive with Havertz.
- Bayern, Real Madrid, Barcelona, Liverpool, Man United all reached to Havertz's representatives over the last 18 months to gauge whether they could be at the front of the queue to sign him
- Contact with Havertz's representatives were initiated around late April/early May 2019. Club had wanted to spend big and Havertz was very much in the forefront of that.
- Bayern never made any offer. Man United gave a noteworthy presentation of their own last year but didn't go any further.
- It's believed Real Madrid were Havertz's preferred destination because of their glamour and one of his idols Toni Kroos is playing for them. Even when Chelsea began stepping up the efforts earlier this year, there was suspicion he was waiting for Real to make a move.
- Chelsea benefited from the COVID-19 pandemic because it impacted Real's and Bayern's finances. They had hoped Havertz would stay another year at Leverkusen before making a move next year.
- But Havertz had decided to leave Leverkusen this summer because he felt he had outgrown the team, they didn't qualify for the Champions League and he needed a new challenge. Leverkusen also weren't willing to wait and risk decreasing his value.
- Wrong to suggest Havertz merely settled for Chelsea because it was the only option. Chelsea went from being just an option to something very desirable to Havertz.
- Club sent a message to Havertz with the signings of Werner, Ziyech etc to highlight their ambition.
- Lampard reached out to Havertz at the end of the Bundesliga season and laid out his vision of attacking football with young players at the fore. Lampard explained how he was building a new team and Havertz was going to be one of the key players. There was a feeling of freshness and momentum and Havertz wanted to be part of it.
- In contrast to the ageing squads and disarray of Real Madrid and Barcelona, Chelsea came across the more enticing adventure at this stage of Havertz's career.
- Havertz was reportedly impressed with Marina, the way Chelsea stepped on the gas and went for the deal. Stature of the Premier League helped and the challenge of winning with Chelsea is seen as a bigger thing because it's harder to do.
- Chelsea have made their intentions clear to sign Havertz before Lampard took charge.
- Havertz made up his mind to join Chelsea at the end of July.
- Agreement with Leverkusen was only finalized earlier this week. The Athletic were told on one hand, Chelsea will pay an initial figure of 62 million pounds but on the other hand, Leverkusen are confident they will receive the full asking price in time.
- Inevitably, there are questions of what his arrival will mean for some of the younger players in the squad, who fear they may be sidelined. While that is a factor, there's a lot of positive talk in the camp about Havertz and the other signings. There is acceptance that Chelsea will always make signings and signing players like Havertz will help the others raise their game and win trophies.

We also must take into account that our women's team did sign one of the brightest superstar in the game today, Pernille Harder!
Would have been hugely disrespectful announcing Havertz the same day since that huge signing would have faded into obscurity.