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[OhForAGreavsie 6,076]

On 25/05/2019 at 1:24 PM, the wes said:

Marina looks like that type woman you come home from a week's hard work and she takes 97% your wages off ya and gives ya the rest 😂😂😂

More like the kind of woman who comes home and gives her other half some pocket money because she's taken pity on their pathetic little paypacket compared to hers.

This will be interesting to keep an eye on. Personally I'll be stunned if Marina loses any responsibilities. If she's going to stop handling transfers and contracts at the executive level, then who is going to take them up instead? If she is going to be doing a new job next season then that makes me wonder if Bruce Buck might be leaving, and Marina will be taking his Job?

[zekinjo 449]

16 hours ago, !Hazard! said:

Could have signed two Mbappes and still had enough money to buy Rudiger, Jorginho, Kepa and Kante with that 600m

Could have signed Koulibaly ( Ghoulam his best friend confirmed KK was leaving  back then on Instagram but we f up as always), Alex Sandro (we f up in June and he changed his mind after that deal was almost wrapped up), Van Dijk in March-April way before Klopp made a phone call was a deal done (almost). In May Conte was off to vacation thinking VVD is well a deal done but he was furious on Marina as outlets reported because someone waited for way too long and didn’t wrap this deal up after (that Klopp’s phone call) VVD only wanted Liverpool. Etc etc... We were supposed to be a football force in CL not a Europa League team with €600m spent. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,383]

The biggest and most hard blowing mistake, was not upgrading our wing backs after the 2017 title win. 

City won fuck all, yet managed to get Walker, Danilo, and Mendy in July. 

We were the PL champions, and we got  fucking Zappacosta on deadline day. 

 

[Vesper 30,193]

21 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

The biggest and most hard blowing mistake, was not upgrading our wing backs after the 2017 title win. 

City won fuck all, yet managed to get Walker, Danilo, and Mendy in July. 

We were the PL champions, and we got  fucking Zappacosta on deadline day. 

 

could have had João Cancelo and Alex Telles

[OhForAGreavsie 6,076]

22 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

The biggest and most hard blowing mistake, was not upgrading our wing backs after the 2017 title win. 

City won fuck all, yet managed to get Walker, Danilo, and Mendy in July. 

We were the PL champions, and we got  fucking Zappacosta on deadline day. 

 

We were confirmed to be interested in all three but got none. Mendy's distain for Chelsea was leaked by his former club's president, Danilo just said it himself and Walker didn't have to. Nor was it just those three. AOC was targeted to play wingback but also said no. I wrote at the time that I didn't rate Danilo and that I was surprised City signed him, but the other three would have helped us.

Although this was once an outlaying opinion, more Blues fans now seem to accept that we are an unpopular club among professionals. They don't believe in the quality of our squad, they don't like our reputation for dull football, they worry about the instability of our coaching staff, and they are not impressed by our support. It's a long road back from here.

I've written that list of reasons professionals reject Chelsea as if I know them all for a fact. Clearly I don't, but I am convinced that anyone who disagrees with me hasn't really been paying attention.

[the wes 7,212]

22 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

The biggest and most hard blowing mistake, was not upgrading our wing backs after the 2017 title win. 

City won fuck all, yet managed to get Walker, Danilo, and Mendy in July. 

We were the PL champions, and we got  fucking Zappacosta on deadline day. 

 

Poor signings was Conte downfall 

[MoroccanBlue 5,383]

18 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

We were confirmed to be interested in all three but got none. Mendy's distain for Chelsea was leaked by his former club's president, Danilo just said it himself and Walker didn't have to. Nor was it just those three. AOC was targeted to play wingback but also said no. I wrote at the time that I didn't rate Danilo and that I was surprised City signed him, but the other three would have helped us.

Although this was once an outlaying opinion, more Blues fans now seem to accept that we are an unpopular club among professionals. They don't believe in the quality of our squad, they don't like our reputation for dull football, they worry about the instability of our coaching staff, and they are not impressed by our support. It's a long road back from here.

I've written that list of reasons professionals reject Chelsea as if I know them all for a fact. Clearly I don't, but I am convinced that anyone who disagrees with me hasn't really been paying attention.

IIRC, We were low balling Alex Sandro until Juve told us to fuck off and the club were not willing to pay over the odds for Candreva. 

Two players who could of been heavy upgrades on Alonso and Moses. 

[OhForAGreavsie 6,076]

3 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

IIRC, We were low balling Alex Sandro until Juve told us to fuck off and the club were not willing to pay over the odds for Candreva. 

Two players who could of been heavy upgrades on Alonso and Moses. 

Sandro also made it clear that he was in no big rush to join Chelsea. Perhaps that had as much to do with the breakdown of negotiations as the difference in valuation.

[Vesper 30,193]

24 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Sandro also made it clear that he was in no big rush to join Chelsea. Perhaps that had as much to do with the breakdown of negotiations as the difference in valuation.

Juve strung Marina Puppetova along like a trout on an 6 pound test line for two years with Alex Sandro

Alex Telles was there for the taking the whole time and said he would love to come to West London, smdh

obviously at the time I would have loved Sandro, but Telles would have been a vast upgrade and is basically a full 2 years younger as well

[Vesper 30,193]

On 25/06/2019 at 10:51 AM, the wes said:

WTF Drinkwater cost more than Kante  

almost £70m bbe counting salary

[Atomiswave 6,117]

40 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Juve strung Marina Puppetova along like a trout on an 6 pound test line for two years with Alex Sandro

Alex Telles was there for the taking the whole time and said he would love to come to West London, smdh

obviously at the time I would have loved Sandro, but Telles would have been a vast upgrade and is basically a full 2 years younger as well

Cant demand much better with a business woman in charge of transfers and how they are cunducted.....dont worry though, RA is well pleased by his puppet and all seems silky smooth. I dont wanna go hard on her, she looks like she is very astute with sponsors and player sales. But getting new players in, getting the deal done fast etc, she is utterlt hopeless and our squad shows this.

[Muzchap 8,966]

Well we have no transfers to fuck up over the next two windows - so that's a positive right 👍

[the wes 7,212]

Chelsea make £160m selling players so far I expect a big transfer budget for next season the think I'm worried about is marina buying more Drinkwater or Baka or morata  

[1905didierblue 748]

1 hour ago, the wes said:

Chelsea make £160m selling players so far I expect a big transfer budget for next season the think I'm worried about is marina buying more Drinkwater or Baka or morata  

I feel that's what cech's job is. So that such shit buys don't happen.

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[!Hazard! 3,394]

How the hell does Arsenal have a net spend 2x of ours? Their current squad is literally dogshit.

[Atomiswave 6,117]

1 hour ago, !Hazard! said:

How the hell does Arsenal have a net spend 2x of ours? Their current squad is literally dogshit.

They have an owner that gives absolute fucks with them. They truly are in dire situation. My Brother is a gooner and he is livid I tell your. Look at our net spend, 138 in 5 freaking years, no wonder we lack quality all over the pitch compared to the fuckers higher up, and if you buy average players on top of that, well your kinda fucked.

[!Hazard! 3,394]

3 hours ago, Atomiswave said:

They have an owner that gives absolute fucks with them. They truly are in dire situation. My Brother is a gooner and he is livid I tell your. Look at our net spend, 138 in 5 freaking years, no wonder we lack quality all over the pitch compared to the fuckers higher up, and if you buy average players on top of that, well your kinda fucked.

Except we don't really lack quality that much. Our midfield looks quite strong, we've got solid central defence, good keeper, Reece James and Azpilicueta for right back position and couple promising wingers up front. All we need is a TOP striker and a left back and we can right up there with Liverpool and City in few seasons if our young players keep progressing and fulfilling their potential. Meanwhile Arsenal and United look absolute shambles and Spurs probably gonna lose their best players and their manager very soon.

[Atomiswave 6,117]

16 hours ago, !Hazard! said:

Except we don't really lack quality that much. Our midfield looks quite strong, we've got solid central defence, good keeper, Reece James and Azpilicueta for right back position and couple promising wingers up front. All we need is a TOP striker and a left back and we can right up there with Liverpool and City in few seasons if our young players keep progressing and fulfilling their potential. Meanwhile Arsenal and United look absolute shambles and Spurs probably gonna lose their best players and their manager very soon.

We do lack quality overall mate. We have wasted so much cash on dross its unreal, give me 2 quality players instead of 6 average ones any day. But yes if we can get those youths playing consistently and they get better and better, then yes we look very good, but there are no guarantees in footy sadly. We could def use quality striker thats for sure. Utd look a mess, Arsenal seemingly have no budget, but I dont see Potch leaving, the fucker has it good where he is.

[!Hazard! 3,394]

15 minutes ago, Atomiswave said:

We do lack quality overall mate. We have wasted so much cash on dross its unreal, give me 2 quality players instead of 6 average ones any day. But yes if we can get those youths playing consistently and they get better and better, then yes we look very good, but there are no guarantees in footy sadly. We could def use quality striker thats for sure. Utd look a mess, Arsenal seemingly have no budget, but I dont see Potch leaving, the fucker has it good where he is.

We have wasted A LOT of money on average players over the last few years, that's for sure. Luckily we have also signed few great young players as well and the academy has been producing some excellent talents so we can replace a lot of the deadwood with them. And yes, there's no guarantees that the kids will become top players but at least now they are getting a chance to show what they can do.

If we could somehow manage to sell all the deadwood, pool all that money together and use it to buy Mbappe next summer. How great would that be. Man can dream eh?