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[LDN Blue 7,903]

I hope not, we need professionals. People that know what they're doing like Christian Purslow, they might not love the club but they'll work hard for it. Not some kid that's still learning, hire someone new and have his son be his assistant for 3-4 years then give him more responsibility.

Yeah I agree entirely.

Family and business should be kept separate. I'd imagine his son would 'inherit' the club as to being appointed a senior position so soon, hopefully he'll have a similar hands off approach Roman has and not try to be too radical.

David Dein would be nice..

[obiwan92 217]

​So if the board is changing, what does that mean to the stadium approach?

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​What I mean is: was the board leaning towards redevelopment or building a new stadium?

[LDN Blue 7,903]

​So if the board is changing, what does that mean to the stadium approach?

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​What I mean is: was the board leaning towards redevelopment or building a new stadium?

That remains to be seen with personnel.

What we can only go on is the facts. They're clearly looking at both avenues, the failed bid on Battersea Park and also the announcement of working with the council to redevelop Stamford Bridge.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

The new richest club in football list is out

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30896253

we are 7th after both, ManShitty and PSG have overtaken us. As for PSG it is no wonder after the crazy sums they invested and the fact that they are the only commercially competitive French side, but City's marketing value has increased drastically over the years. Apart from sponsorship deals there is not really an area we can further grow because our world wide popularity has already peaked. Finding financial support for a new stadium which inevitably has to come is a must and a great challenge for the board. Also IMO we should expand our loan system even more. Here we can still grow and dominate world football. Our target has to be to get into a situation where we are the first go-to option for every upcoming talent. They should not see us as a developers.

Here is where the growing disparity between big clubs and small clubs becomes our advantage. Clubs with excellent youth development like Gladbach, Mainz, Ajax, Lyon could be forced to agree partneships with us and develop our loan players.

[Madmax 9,219]

The new richest club in football list is out

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-30896253

we are 7th after both, ManShitty and PSG have overtaken us. As for PSG it is no wonder after the crazy sums they invested and the fact that they are the only commercially competitive French side, but City's marketing value has increased drastically over the years.

City's and PSG's numbers have little to do with marketing or bring competitive and more to do with getting your bro in law to give you some cash that shouldn't be yours. City have banked a ridiculous £40m (set to be increased to £50m a season) a season sponsorship deal with the owner Mansour's family while PSG announced (presumably with a straight face) that Qatar Tourism Authority (their owners are Qatar Investment Authority - both arms of the Qatari state) will hand them £570m over 4 seasons.

[obiwan92 217]

I think looking at the amounts is not as useful as looking at the growth rates, as it is more likely to predict future revenues.

If you look at that, we're second. This is phenomenal considering we haven't yet worked on the stadium and still have a growing fanbase.

Manchester City - 31%

Chelsea - 28%

Liverpool - 27%

Arsenal - 26%

Manchester United - 22%

PSG - 19%

Bayern Munich - 13%

Real Madrid - 6%

Barcelona - 0.41%

Juventus - 0.03%

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Back in the day, i used to scoff at the fact that chelsea were tryna be an IT club, especially when Peter Kenyon left us to join them. But as time goes by, nobody can really say that "its cause of Abramovich" anymore. Truth is in the world of football, they actually have the best business model going. Their transfer dealings over the last 3 years have been astute and they are possibly the only club in europe that you cannot say made a mistake with players they let go. Barring the Torres deal, they no more loose money on players, instead make a profit! .The chelsea fans gripe is just sentimental since most players let go are quite likeable e.g.Mata, Schurrle, Luiz, Alex but the truth is football wise, they dont miss them. Now you can imagine how i feel when for some reason Tom Cleverley was allowed to develop and play ahead of a player like Pogba who in the most rarerest of appearances showed him authority, Now then realise that this same Cleverly is still a Man Utd Player!

This is a comment on the Cuadrado story in Sky Sports by a user called 'manutd fan'.

Shows a lot of how we're beginning to be perceived now in world football. The change in attitude from our board deserves a lot of credit and you can see why there's a drastic revamp going on with the board now, to meet this attitude. Buck and Gourlay represent the 'old' Chelsea, of reckless purchasing.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

This is a comment on the Cuadrado story in Sky Sports by a user called 'manutd fan'.

Shows a lot of how we're beginning to be perceived now in world football. The change in attitude from our board deserves a lot of credit and you can see why there's a drastic revamp going on with the board now, to meet this attitude. Buck and Gourlay represent the 'old' Chelsea, of reckless purchasing.

Emenalo could have sold Tal ben Haim to Bayern Munich for £100 million plus Schweinsteiger.

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[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Anyone else frustated that we seems to be the only team that cares about FFP? The likes of City and Liverpool going out there and spending £50-£100m like it is nothing while we are supposed to be earning £300m+ a year in revenue and have to operate with a 1 in 1 out policy? FFS we are not Arsenal/Spurs, can't we just give Moses back to Stoke on loan and sign Pedro or something? Just sell Mikel for £10m and sign Witsel £25m.

It is almosts as if last summer was too good for us and we believe we can carry on doing that from now on when in reality we had lot of luck(Lukaku 28m, Luiz 50m, Schurrle 23m) which is unlikely to happen again.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Anyone else frustated that we seems to be the only team that cares about FFP? The likes of City and Liverpool going out there and spending £50-£100m like it is nothing while we are supposed to be earning £300m+ a year in revenue and have to operate with a 1 in 1 out policy? FFS we are not Arsenal/Spurs, can't we just give Moses back to Stoke on loan and sign Pedro or something? Just sell Mikel for £10m and sign Witsel £25m.

It is almosts as if last summer was too good for us and we believe we can carry on doing that from now on when in reality we had lot of luck(Lukaku 28m, Luiz 50m, Schurrle 23m) which is unlikely to happen again.

No. Because we have a stadium we need to pay for, and we're trying to operate within our means. But I see your point. City, Barcelona, Real all spend millions and no severe sanctions are ever imposed on them. Makes you think FFP is in essence a load of bollocks, but let's also take into consideration we don't need to spend millions. City have spent ridiculous money, Arsenal have spent, Liverpool have invested, and United are spending serious amounts also - they're all still miles behind us.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

No. Because we have a stadium we need to pay for, and we're trying to operate within our means. But I see your point. City, Barcelona, Real all spend millions and no severe sanctions are ever imposed on them. Makes you think FFP is in essence a load of bollocks, but let's also take into consideration we don't need to spend millions. City have spent ridiculous money, Arsenal have spent, Liverpool have invested, and United are spending serious amounts also - they're all still miles behind us.

Yep I know and not demanding the board go out there and fo 150m on Grizemann and Pogba or something but reasonable signings like Pedro, Witsel for around maybe 40m max after selling the others, surely we can afford something like that even with the stadium? Also I thought the stadium is not accounted within FFP? Otherwise if it costs 500m we can be looking at min of 5 more years of this type of summer(and basically become Arsenal when they started their Emirates project).

I agree our squad is more than able to compete with the best as it stands, but never heard to try improve bit by bit all the time.