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Gonna temper the optimism, too many false dawns lately But...Sp*rs would never get a sniff of a CL Final in 100 years - yet they did it with him - on that basis think what he can do with Super Chels

He said Make Chelsea Great Again. He could have at least did an impression of Trump when he said it. MCGA hats in the megastore.

Hope so. He was mega frustrating at times. If Sterling keeps being erratic, hopefully Poch would have the balls to drop him, or any player.

GoFund me set up by far right politician, for police officer who shot Nahel raises more than €700,000 That will ensure more rioting tonight then.....

Chelsea are in the final stages of negotiations with Brighton over the signing of Moises Caicedo according to Rudy Galetti. The 21-year-old is expected to leave Brighton this summer and has a massive valuation of over £100million ($124m) but it is said a cheeky offer of closer to £75million ($95.3m) has been made. The clubs are now reportedly discussing add-ons to the deal. Chelsea have moved into the clear to sign Caicedo after Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and Manchester City all appear to have found their midfield answers already this window. football.london

Its on my feed - bing news

One accolade re Poch - he was the one Ferguson wanted at Yernited above everyone else

Caicedo talks in final stage according so some media ✔️

Leicester v Chels on Sky now don't know if theyre rubbing our noses in it- whole play dominated by Kova, (goal) Havertz (goal) and Loftus Cheek 🤔

Spanish publication Nacional claims that Chelsea have made an offer in an attempt to lure Mbappe to Stamford Bridge this summer. The Blues have apparently offered €120m (£103m) and a selection of four players in order to get a deal over the line with Chelsea ‘willing to do anything’ to get the transfer done. It is understood that new Chelsea boss Mauricio Pochettino ‘wants to meet again with his former pupil’, after managing him at PSG, and ‘intends to take advantage’ of his contract situation. Raheem Sterling, Marc Cucurella, Cesar Azpilicueta and Romelu Lukaku are the four players included as part of negotiations in the hope that Chelsea can get some money knocked off PSG’s huge €150-€200m asking price for Mbappe. The report adds that Sterling – who only joined from Manchester City a year ago – ‘could take Mbappe’s place at PSG’ after being ‘unable to live up to expectations’. Cucurella and Azpilicueta ‘could also be part of the deal’ while Pochettino ‘would also allow Romelu Lukaku to leave for PSG if Mbappé can arrive that way’.

Well the 350m a week going to the NHS Johnson promised is now just over 112 billion. Maybe its going to towards the 40 new hospitals.....and not tory donors, but somehow I doubt it

Court has ruled it unlawful to send refugees from UK to Rwanda Apart from the 500m to Macron and 200 million to Rwanda it is also costing us taxpayers 9m a day for the hotels. Three large Conservative run firms have contracts to run the hotels. Serco, Mears, and Calder. All are tory donors and have seen their profits trebled with their CEOs pay increase from 250 000 to 2.5 million each. Just another way the tories steal public money. No wonder they have no incentive to solve the 'crisis'.

Yup there's a reason Citeh and liverpool ditched him -on his day, outstanding, but regular headless chicken brain fart moments - giving the ball away, and fucking up when its easier to score

When the new owners came in part of the employment culling was the scouting set up. Some of our best scouts ended up at Liverpool and Man City - with Clownlake deciding to rely more on data driven info for players.

Leeches out

Prigozhin has now ordered the tanks to stop going on to Moscow ''to avoid bloodshed''. If you employ mercenaries, by their very nature they have no loyalty.

Civil War in Russia ? Wagner group tanks attack Moscow, all Muscovites told to stay indoors by Mayor. Even if it fails, Putins authority is surely undermined.

The groups of multiple owners will eventually be stronger than the controlling bodies. Breakaway league attempts and fan protests looming.

Yeah results can be rigged in a roundabout way that benefit the MCO (multiple club owners) investment. Figures from around two years ago showed around 200 clubs had multiple owners. Can see so many problems with this. It creates different tiers of clubs: the parent and a feeder club. If you are a fan of a parent club then you are lucky, but not if you are a fan of a feeder club. It could also be the end of transfers as we know it as there could only be transfers between the groups clubs. As a player you can start off with a feeder club and move up to a parent club, but this promotes inequality and poisons the competitiveness of the market. If you have this group of clubs that trade between themselves and shift players back and forth it is cheaper and puts them at a competitive advantage. Larger groups will appear and pose a threat to the game’s governing bodies. Alex Phillips, reckons there is a solution. He is former head of governance at UEFA, and says that the increase in MCOs does not have to be bad if regulated differently. “You have to ask what the purpose of an MCO is,” says Phillips. “If it’s to evade taxes and launder money then it’s obviously bad but if it is investment then it doesn’t have to be. From a financial perspective, it can make a lot of sense. But regulators should regulate from a transfer perspective and regulate the number of contracts each club can offer. If you limit contracts, clubs need to rely on their academies.” This, he argues, would stop clubs stockpiling players and instead of alienating fans could create a greater bond. MCOs are unlikely to go away any time soon and how the game’s administrators deal with regulating challenge will affect the relationship between fans, players and clubs in the years ahead. At the moment it seems the governing bodies dont want to rock the boat - I reckon thats because of the billions invested, the TV rights, the hospitality and bribes (i'm guessing here) and where do they fucking start - the tiger is in the room. It's a growing trend, not just multiple club ownership, but player ownership as well. There was some posts back in another thread about players having no loyalty to a particular club, those days are long gone. UEFA now have 6500 players from 195 clubs – that are employed by 27 multi-club investment groups, a third of which are based in the US. Makes all the furore years back about Tevez 3rd party ownership seem cute now.

Really is an appalling official

Remember when Gallas went to the Arse -there was fucking uproar, now its just, meh, so what

So true. To be fair I think a lot of it is driven by the Mr 15% agents. Parasites, but you know what really galls me, is when there's a crunch match, a derby, cup game against one of your rivals -and this applies to all teams. A game that means life or death to the fans - yet you see the players joking and laughing with each other in the tunnel and after the match. Something JT, Drogs, Lampard etc would never have done.

Mogg has spent years dotting the i's and crossing the t's of Parliamentary procedure annunciating how the technicalities are sacrosanct. Now his schoolchum has at last been confirmed as a lying bastard, he says Parliament takes itsef too seriously. What a duplicitous twat.

That's the spirit.

The 25-year-old is one of several high-quality attacking players to have come out of France in the past few years. He joined Leipzig in 2019 from Paris St-Germain after he realised he could not progress while in the shadow of Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and others. Leipzig offered Nkunku regular playing time - he has averaged 42 competitive games per season over the past four years - and the chance to refine his game. At first, the Paris native played as a winger under manager Julian Nagelsmann while occasionally being employed in the number 10 role. Domenico Tedesco was the first coach who regularly fielded Nkunku as a striker and Marco Rose continued that tactic after replacing the now-Belgium manager last September. While Nkunku was able to showcase his dribbling skills and agility in tight spaces when playing as a winger, he turned into a ruthless goalscorer in the central striker role. He scored 35 goals in all competitions during the 2021-22 campaign and was named Bundesliga Player of the Season. What Chelsea have acquired is a tactically versatile and technically highly proficient player who combines creativity with a drive towards goal. Nkunku may make numerous stepovers and all kinds of dummies, but he is usually focused on getting the ball into the penalty area. According to the analytics site FBref.com, Nkunku has been among the best 10 per cent of forwards in Europe's top-five leagues in several key statistics during the past calendar year, including non-penalty goals per 90 minutes, pass completion percentage and successful take-ons. Mauricio Pochettino, who will officially take over at Chelsea on 1 July, has usually preferred a tactical system with one central striker. Nkunku could well be employed in that role. With Kai Havertz expected to leave and Romelu Lukaku unlikely to return to Stamford Bridge, the Frenchman would seem to make the most sense for the position. Equally, he could also be selected on the wing with a licence to roam to the inside. He displayed his tactical versatility during the recent German Cup final, which RB Leipzig won 2-0 against Eintracht Frankfurt. Nkunku started the game as the lone striker in Leipzig's 4-2-3-1, holding the ball up and combining with Dani Olmo or Dominik Szoboszlai. During the second half he moved to the wing when Yussuf Poulsen came on to provide a more physical presence. When he was employed in a wider area, Nkunku again showed his speed and progressive passing qualities. He also scored the opening goal as he drifted in from the left side in the 71st minute. The Frenchman has made the most of his past four years in the Bundesliga. However, while he has received praise for his performances, won two German Cup finals with Leipzig and received the trophy for the best goal scorer of the 2022-23 Bundesliga season, Nkunku has also had to deal with setbacks. He suffered a ligament tear in his knee in the days before the World Cup in Qatar and was denied the chance to represent his home country in the tournament. While Mbappe and the rest were playing in the final against Argentina, Nkunku was working towards his comeback. He looked rusty in his first few outings and had another setback when he suffering a torn muscle fibre. After recovering from that second injury, Nkunku steadily improved his form, peaking in the final few weeks of the season as Leipzig secured a spot in the 2023-24 Champions League and won the German Cup final. "Having played in Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga, I now want to play in the Premier League, one of the strongest in the world," Nkunku said on Wednesday. He has been in the shadow of Mbappe and a other stellar countrymen in recent years, but the move to England and an ambitious and financially powerful club should offer Nkunku the stage to gain more international exposure and take his game to the next level.