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The football world looks on in astonishment as a club with a rich, colourful history is used as an investment vehicle, a trading platform, by venture capitalist owners. Accountancy wheezes such as selling the two hotels on the forecourt to a different part of the business, and doing similar with the women’s team, resemble acts of desperation rather than visionary commercial nous. A couple of missteps with fans, including increased ticket prices, unpopular corporate schemes such as the Dugout Club and withdrawing subsidies for travelling away fans have met the ire of militant – and well-organised – supporters’ organisations. Success under Roman Abramovich brought comparative serenity, but now long-serving Blues find themselves harking back to their club’s 1970s financial collapse for a spell as fractious.

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Several media saying Osimhen is ''final piece of the Chelsea jigsaw'' Last time i remember them saying that was when we signed Fernando the Wonderhorse

Thats how it used to be - a few domestic pre season games -the most exotic pre season might be against a Scottish team. Main aim of US friendlies is marketing. The US pitches also very dry, something a lot of Euro teams not used to nowadays

Samu will arrive for 35M- he never played once for Madrid first team or even the reserve team. Gallagher is to be thrown out along with Chabloah, Chilwell, Broja, Petrovic - players who were loyal to Chelsea and wanted to stay. While Lukaku and Kepa who treated Chelsea so badly have been pampered with full pay loans and soon to be sold for next to nothing.

Maresca will have to fine tune just how high up the pitch his defenders can play for 90 minutes, before hes dumped. It's one thing to play deeper; giving defenders time to "see, think, then move at speed" and another to play high; forcing defenders to "think at speed and move at speed and at the same time". We have defenders that cant turn quick enough with the high line - Bada and Disaster shouldnt be there. Whats the betting the club will be in the same situation in a years time ? Talking up another mediocre manager/season ?

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They prob dont want to risk their investment getting injured

Quite an obsession with cunts, thats because he is one

Gallagher’s impending departure from Stamford Bridge has ‘saddened’ Petit who believes Chelsea are making another mistake by sanctioning his departure. ‘There is always something happening at Chelsea,’ ‘It does make you want to pull your hair out sometimes – it doesn’t look like this ownership group has learned from any of the mistakes they have made. ‘I’m very frustrated with what’s happening at the club. I’ve been worried for the last two years under this ownership, there have been so many bad decisions and so many changes. ‘They have changed everything. The environment is not that same at Chelsea anymore, inside and outside the club. The connection with the fans is missing. ‘I look at the project, signing all these young players for huge money on incredibly long contracts and it doesn’t make sense. ‘The Americans have spent over a billion and what did they get? Some of these players have been given massive contracts without achieving anything in the game. ‘Then you look at the players they are selling. They are selling their best players and academy graduates. Conor Gallagher was Chelsea’s best player last season and was practically the captain for most of it because Reece James was injured. ‘He plays for the national team. He came through the academy and you’re going to sell him for how much? £30 million? He’s probably the best midfielder in the squad. ‘How can Gallagher be worth £30 million is Manuel Ugarte is worth £60 or £70 million? It doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t get it. I don’t understand the decisions being made at the club. ‘They must sell players because they signed so many and are counting the cost of those mistakes in the transfer market. £30 million for Conor Gallagher is a bargain in this market. ‘They should have done more to keep him. They’ve been trying to sell him for two years. I think he’s been disrespected. They should have offered him a contract in line with the best paid players at the club. ‘Give him the same money you offered to those players who are strangers to the fans and who aren’t academy players.’ Petit, who spent two full seasons at Stamford Bridge, added: ‘Chelsea need to be careful. ‘It’s really important to keep those English players, players that have grown up in the club, in the squad. You need them there to set the standards and to keep the culture. Emmanuel Petit

May be 90% on here, but can categorically tell you its the opposite with match going fans, who arent clowns

Your soviet/communism obsession isnt healthy

I predict pages and pages of moaning this season - some of it quite justified spending over a billion to end up worse as we settle into another mid table finish...Maresca clueless blabla...new manager blablabla....not qualifying for Europe....blabla...need a striker...blabla...need central defenders...blabla...shouldnt have got rid of so and so....blabla

A lot of owners dont like strong leaders on or off the pitch. But every successful club has either a strong manager or trusted leaders on the pitch. Abramovich felt managers were disposable, whereas Man Utd became Ferguson Utd for years. Clownlake seem to think both managers and players are disposable, and that it has no correlation to success or lack of

A former Chelsea player believes the way the club is currently being run is a 'disgrace'. A consortium fronted by Todd Boehly completed a takeover of the club from Roman Abramovich in 2022, and the Blues have since spent in excess of £1bn on transfers. But results on the pitch have gone backwards, with Chelsea finishing comfortably outside the top four in each of their last two campaigns. They have also been through six different managers - including interim appointments - during this period, with Enzo Maresca the latest man charged with turning the club's fortunes around. Frank Leboeuf, who played for Chelsea between 1996 and 2001, is deeply concerned with what he is seeing at the club, and does not expect Maresca to improve matters any time soon. 'Some fans think Chelsea can just start from scratch next season, but it won’t really be starting from scratch after spending a billion pounds,' 'The club can do whatever they want with their money but as a former player, I think it’s kind of a disgrace to see what we are seeing.' Chelsea have largely focused on recruiting young players with Boehly at the helm, splashing the cash on numerous teenagers as well as exciting prospects in their early 20s such as Enzo Fernandez, Moises Caicedo and Mykhailo Mudryk. But Lebouef feels this transfer strategy is a mistake, and is adamant that Chelsea will have no chance of winning the Premier League unless they start to bring in more experienced stars. He continued: 'The talent is there in the squad but you don’t have any leaders or players you can rely on, that’s the biggest problem Enzo Maresca has. Daily News Hes been reading my posts

Ha -sent mine to several people ''Fuck is that real ?'' 🤣

Weak opposition - There is one specific drill that the lads have practised repeatedly in the two training sessions. It involves playing a pass through the opposition defence on to a runner who then cuts the ball back. Its a modus operandi that Enzo clearly wants to perfect ahead of the next season, and I lost count of the number of times we saw that same move against Club America. Finishing was not the greatest, but it will get better with time and Enzo now has his first win in charge of Chelsea.

Would have definitely kept Chalobah and Lewis Hall. But its only opinions at the end of the day Yup seems very reminiscent of Villas boas and we know how that ended. Just because a clubs in new hands doesnt mean everything that went before can be disregarded - its like that definition of insanity - keep doing the same things but expect different results

Anyone else had an e mail from Eden Hazard ?

Its always been pretty mental tbh. Its not called the silly season for no reason

T*ttenham to submit superior Chelsea offer as Levy, Postecoglou refuse to let perfect signing go Yids really rate Gallagher

Osimhen isnt going to stop us conceding stupid goals. We'll just have to be like Keith Allens Vindaloo 'we will score one more than you'

Osimhen seems to be happening - still need a leader or two at the back otherwise it will be the third season of conceding stupidly and mid table mediocrity

Concede and everyone looks at each other, then shrugs. Its all a load of bollocks without a leader(s) on the pitch

The best past teams have a longstanding defender or keeper who is a leader, a shouter - JT, Adams, Ferdinand, Van Dyck, Maldini etc we should focus on such. Rudi could have been that talisman instead of which we tend to offload them and then end up with a load of headless chickens not knowing what each other is doing. Mid table mediocrity this season again, Clownlake will try to spin it all, selling more tat along the way