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Whole of our2004-5 season on Sky now. Fucking hell we were immense

And what will happen when Arab teams are drawn against Israeli teams ?? Get Anthony Taylor to referee them 😁

‘Hopefully I can come back one day here to say a proper goodbye to all of you. Keep supporting the team, the club that you love. You are the soul of the club. Keep going. I love you all.’ Never failed to acknowledge us at 90 minutes. Always gave 100%

Agree but not sure about Kova - might come to regret him going and missing his work rate - and Citeh got a bargain there

Another clean sheet. Has any team ever gone through the entire tournament without conceding a goal? Colwill is immense, Young Lions first European Championship final since 2009 England v Spain final

Also UEFA = Union of European Football Associations. Last time I looked Saudi weren't in Europe - then again Israel sneaked in because Arab countries refused to play them. Political minefield.

He sounded good. However a lot of managers say the right things, ingratiate, and are good actors as well. Proof will be in results, and results alone.

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.

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’.

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

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.

That's the spirit.