Fernando

After Infinite Crap and that Dubai property whatever once again a company noone has ever heard of and don't provide product/service for regular people.. Looks boring aswell, hope at least financially benefitial..
Glad I got my kits blank.

The new "multi‑year global partnership" will see IFS move off the front of the shirt in the summer, but the wider agreement will run until 2028. Chelsea are seeking around £65m per season from their next long‑term front‑of‑shirt partner.

I agree that it is NOT acceptable (and the kit logo looks hideous, ffs), but IFS (formerly known as Indurstial and Financial Systems) is not some random AI firm, it is a 43 year old company, is industrial AI enterprise software-oriented (it is one of the biggest industrial AI independent firms on the planet, (ie not tied to one of the big 7 tech firms: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Tesla), and is, since 2015, majority owned by the 2nd biggest atm private equity company on the planet, EQT.
EQT (majority owned by Investor AB, ie the Swedish ultra powerful and famous Wallenberg family) is headquarted here in Stockholm, and and trails only KKR (Kohlberg Kravis Roberts) in the US as to who is the biggest private equity firm globally in terms of funds raised the last 5 years:
Top 5 Private Equity Firms by Global Capital Raised the past 5 years: 

KKR (KKR & Co. Inc.)
EQT AB
Blackstone
Thoma Bravo
Carlyle Group
also,
Hg (a huge London-based private-equity group, formerly known as Mercury, with the 10th biggest PE holdings on the planet) also holds a minority stake of IFS.
 
IFS (again, originally Industrial and Financial Systems) is a Swedish enterprise software company headquartered in Linköping. The company develops cloud-based business software focused on asset- and service-intensive industries, including enterprise resource planning (ERP), enterprise asset management (EAM), and field service management (FSM).
History
Founding and early years
IFS was founded in 1983 in Sweden and launched its first software product IFS Maintenance in 1985. Five years later the complete product suite known as IFS Applications was launched. In the next several years saw IFS expanding its presence in the Scandinavian region with the establishment of offices in Norway, Finland, Denmark and then expanding outside Scandinavia into Poland. 1993, saw IFS introduced its first graphical user interface and expanded to Malaysia. In 1995, it expanded to North America.

That is a HIDEOUS shirt sponsor and it’s also once again just another short term bandaid deal. Of course it had to be some random AI slop company.
For the life of me, of all the strange and questionable things that have happened under BlueCo, them apparently being complete.y unable to secure us a long term, super high profile/prestigious shirt sponsor is the weirdest and most puzzling thing. These guys are supposed to be business and finance geniuses and we’ve scrounged around for FOUR YEARS looking for a sponsor only to end up here?

Well with Jackson coming back next season from his 'amazing' Bayern loan and riding the bench, we don't really need Delap.  
Everton makes sense, he'd probably do well for them, just like KDH

Everton have made Chelsea striker Liam Delap their top summer target. The 23-year-old Englishman only arrived at Stamford Bridge last summer from Ipswich Town. (Football Insider), external
i'm getting more and more excited

Quenda for sure, 99.9 per cent he will be a senior team player with Chels 
Emegha very likely, 90 per cent
Satpaev will probably go out on loan, maybe to Strasbourg

🔥🔵🗯BREAKING: A verdict is nearing on Chelsea’s 74 Charges.
Mail Confidential has been assured that supporters can anticipate NON-SPORTING sanctions as an outcome.
That would mean a FINE rather than, say, a transfer ban or points deduction.
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You can tell that he is incredibly talented with the ball at his feet for a CB. Some of that great ball carrying was on display yesterday. But as you would expect for a teenager his positional discipline and reading of the game is still super raw.
I agree with others that I’d 100% prefer to see him getting these minutes than Tosin or Badiashile but I think Josh would benefit massively from a season’s loan at a really solid midtable PL team. He could absolutely follow the Colwill path and come back here a top class CB.
He’s not really going to get the consistency and reps if he’s in and out of the team constantly here. Something to consider in the summer.

Yes he really struggled. But I would rather give him the minutes than Tosin, Badiashile etc. They are established players and not near the required level, Josh is still young & moments like that second goal will make him learn. 
For the second goal? Are we watching different goals 🤣? Disagree completely. Being incredibly harsh on Gusto who is in a bad situation regardless because of the other defenders actions. 
Trevor & Josh do poorly, poor communication between them initially. Then Josh doesn’t deal with it not once but twice. Then the GK is stitched up rather hopelessly. Not really sure what Gusto’s meant to do differently really because he’s gone in to try help, if he's not there the player who makes contact & puts him over gets the shot unopposed & you’d probably be asking why he’s covering the other man then 😵‍💫 
I mean, lets be honest, what else is he meant to do? What would James have done differently? Jesus what would anyone have done differently? The damage is done directly from Trev & Josh’s initial mix up then Josh’s actions twice. Then the GK is reacting trying to deal with something that shouldn’t happen. Then Galo is reacting to the aftermath of that.
I get Josh is a kid and still learning but he had 3 bad moments in that goal. No point passing the buck.

He has played a lot of football. Far too much this last 2 and a half seasons in all reality. For club & country. But we miss a lot with him out the side.
Kante should be an example of how over reliance and playing more or less every game season after season can lead to problems later down the line. He went from being an ever present to needing to be managed for a 12-18 month period due to repeatedly picking up injuries/breaking down. Then that was ultimately used as an excuse to discard him. 
If ClownLake’s medical team are all over things with the likes of Reece, Wes, Lavia then why aren’t they trying to make some sort of plan for managing Caicedo? Or Enzo? Or any of the other guys playing every game without fail? 
The data is there and suggests he’s played a lot of games since coming here… would be incompetence to not try to implement something. I suppose their track record signing injured players/players with bad injury histories has shoot them in the foot with Lavia & Essugo who both arrived injured IIRC. 

All analysis today overlooking the fact that we have run him into the ground
Caicedo was part of a FIFA players union study which talked about his insane schedule, the lack of a summer break and coming back to play almost every game again this season. 

He isn't hurting us. Players make mistakes and he certainly doesn't need to change the way he plays otherwise we get worse. He is one of our least accident prone players. 

Rosenior not letting the players have a siesta in the first half is the difference with Maresca

Wes Fofana has benefitted too. Reece will be deemed more fragile though given his reputation & thats why he’s only gotten 3 consecutive starts in a row once this season. Think he’s only done it a few times since 2023. Will see if it continues. Needs to be longer term. 
Lavia is needing something though, he’s a waste of a squad place if he can’t stay fit. He’s played so little in the past 2 & a half seasons (club were keen to offload him to United in the Garnacho deal) so if they cannot get him fit, would imagine he’s got a lot of convincing to do to not be offloaded. And rightfully so. We need an identical/similar/alternative option to Caicedo to reduce his workload, no use if the guy who’s supposed to offer that is constantly unfit.
 

With Fofana also this season. 

Seems to be working with Reece tbf 

Joe shields and his lust for all ex city players. 
Really that guy is highly dissapointing me. It's like he become a rock star with Palmer and after that he just repeat the same play. Buy City players because I might get another Palmer....

I think there is a player in Delap. Just needs some consistency of play and confidence. Your run in football often is about luck and timing as much as anything - eg Cole Palmer or Vitinha. 
Even last night against the Wolves - did some really great stuff but just didn't follow through with it due to confidence and game time. Turned his man several times, made a great run, and then just butchered the pass or overhit it. One being to Garnacho... who wouldn't have done anything and really is a lost cause. 

But for the defence conceding from set pieces, he'd have two more clean sheets vs Palace and Wolves. 

First time seen him smile in a while 
I guess since we are playing more forward passes he is enjoying that? 

First time seen him smile in a while 
I guess since we are playing more forward passes he is enjoying that? 

Arsenal fans have grown tired of Madueke. 

Well that's something I have to acknowledge as of now we look more attacking playing more forward passes then with maresca sideways game. 
Granted this can be dangerous if you don't have good passers. 

A bit premature imo, the new manager has barely been in the door for 5 minutes and Delap may end up important under him. I am not making my mind up on him until at least the end of the season...
If Cucurella and Rob Sanchez can turn it around when used right / given time, I am willing to give Delap a chance as well. He may yet have a useful squad role. He is a different profile to anything else we have had in years.