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I’m not worried about Spuds since they’re world class bottlers. So I want to keep United as far from us as possible. They can theoretically go on a CR7 and improved Sancho inspired winning run to end the season and since we still have to play them, they could make us sweat if we lose form. Had both of these dropped points today I think we could’ve safely stopped thinking about them. Now we still have to continue monitoring United’s results for a bit longer.

Was hoping for a draw here. Really staggering to think where United would be this season without CR7. He destroys their general play and makes them a terrible watch to neutrals but he seemingly scores ALL of their vital goals. They’d be languishing in midtable without him. They’re awful.

It’s not like we have a sex predator or a club-wide scandal that would damage the reputation of the shirt sponsor by mere association. There’s no right minded person in the world who sees the Hyundai logo on a Chelsea players’ sleeve and thinks “I’m not buying a Hyundai because they support Chelsea!” It’s just performative bullshit.

It seems so shortsighted and plain dumb for companies to “suspend” their sponsorships when the process of finding a new owner will maybe take a couple of weeks. What’s the point? Chelsea FC, the actual football club, haven’t done anything to bring these companies’ reputation down. So other than a phony publicity stunt I don’t see what it accomplishes. Any and all sponsors that jump ship during this period should never be allowed to come groveling back once things are sorted.

Would be pretty hilarious from a narrative POV if after all the doom and gloom about us being liquidated or entering administration a Saudi group that’s even wealthier than Roman swoops in and buys us. But the government can’t suddenly say no to this group mere months after approving of Newcastle, surely?

Rüdiger, too. 😂

Saw this on Twitter 😂😂😂

Trying to destroy an entire football club due to the mere association of the owner to Putin. An owner who was ALREADY IN THE PROCESS OF SELLING THE CLUB. Completely ridiculous. You would think that it would be in the governments best interest as well to have a swift sale to a new owner and they can get a nice PR win by donating the funds to Ukraine.

Ownership needs to be settled like NOW or we could be in serious jeopardy after the Newcastle match.

They’re going to look mighty stupid if in just a few days we have a new owner. If I’m the new guy I’m terminating that deal and telling them to fuck off. Once the Abramovich “cloud” subsides I’m sure we’ll have no issue finding a main shirt sponsor just as lucrative as Three were.

With a decent new owner in place I think the only massive change may be that the era of buying £80m-£100m players is over. We won’t be competing for the ready made superstar transfers any longer. That’s sad, but so long as we have a world class manager like Tuchel who can improve and extract the best out of talent it won’t be fatal. We’re just going to have to get creative and smart. Spending mega money on individuals doesn’t automatically mean you’ll win. We can take an approach like Liverpool have which is carefully scouting players with very specific characteristics that fit the managers style. They are often players that aren’t highly sought after by other big clubs and only cost £30-40m. Liverpool have been great at signing players from lesser PL clubs or from medium sized clubs in Europe. Even if our new ownership isn’t as wealthy and willing to pump huge sums as Roman was we should still be right there in the mix for the foreseeable future. Our core will still be here long term and that core is still comfortably better than everyone other than the top 2. Broja back, Connor back, couple of smart buys in, couple of busts currently in the ranks out. I fully expect we’ll be a top 4 club next season assuming this ownership deal gets sorted soon.

I know nothing about Nick but as someone who’s into real estate I know about his brother who developed probably the most expensive condo building in central London amongst other developments. He doesn’t seem to be that rich, though. So he’d have to be a part of a large consortium and I doubt he’d be the main decision maker if his group took over. Honestly, the best case for us at this point seems to be the Boehly/Wyss group. At least Boehly has plenty of experience in elite sport and will know about building teams. Getting an amateur who knows fuck all about football in a time of chaos and crisis like this doesn’t sound like a good idea. We need a calming, steady handover.

Really hope something can be sorted within the next week and that Newcastle is the last game we have to play with this all swirling around the club. Really not fair on everyone employed at the club to have this hanging over their heads long term. I would think Roman wants this to be as painless as he can do. So it’s probably all going to come down to how smoothly this bent government can allow things to go forward. Getting a new owner or ownership group in next week would lift the mood in a major way.

If one of Reece or Azpi are missing this weekend Newcastle will rip us to shreds on the counter. And they’ll really fancy themselves either way.

Kante, Kante, Kante. My word, what a player. Killed the game dead when he came in.

Chalobah is an absolute liability defensively just like Sarr. He’s so rash and brainless at times. Come the fuck on, man. He’s going to lose the points for us if he keeps this up.

Bottom side in the league bossing the game… 🙄

We’ve completely stopped playing just as I feared before half time. We assumed the game was over and Norwich would just give up. This is some Lampard era play in the second half. Weak mentality. City or Liverpool would have gone for the jugular and score 5-6 by now.

Fuck sake, man. We need to wake up. That’s a clear pen. We’ve done this to ourselves. Everything great we did in the first half we’ve totally stopped in the second half.

Norwich gaining confidence now. Need a 3rd to kill the game.

Azpi now inured? ANOTHER fullback injury, ffs.

We’re 2-0 up and in cruise control, but 1 fluke corner or break and they’re right back into it with belief that they can get something. Half time talk needs to be that we are aggressive out of the blocks again and score a 3rd. Can’t just think this is over because we’ve dominated so far. Norwich can’t be worse after Smith lays into them.

Get the fuck in there. Havertz has been spectacular once again here.

Would be an upgrade to the 3 logo tbh

Not a whole lot of pace to pull a Norwich side around that struggle desperately against that.