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[Vegetable 790]

On 05/10/2023 at 12:10, DH1988 said:

Perform or you're gone, at least some of Roman's attitude remains, even if it's not in the areas we are used to seeing, pitchwise.

There's non-zero chance it may be "don't have your own ideas or you're gone" as well, as per Vivell thing. Makelele perhaps wasn't the top man in his position, but had the club appointed anyone better? Would it make sense, with all that "process needs time" thing to replace executive people all the time? 

On the other hand, those 3 appointments are in areas where club's situation is dire, so we will see.

[ZAPHOD2319 3,937]

Interesting perspective. This is about the Glazers deciding not to sell to Qatar and instead bring in Jim as a 25% investor.

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Chelsea are at least gambling on (a) the judgement of proven SD/high-end recruitment people; (b) spending serious money above and beyond that's extracted out of the club (as an investment, obviously) and (c) investing that money based on judgement of the former AND into top-bracket players for the medium to long term. It could have been handled more smoothly and seems overly haphazard right now as a squad for this season, but they're targeting very specific profiles and right across the team. In 3-4 years, if City start to dip post-Guardiola and no-one else steps up, they could be a serious force and into the 2030s.

Boehly may seem slightly clownish but strategically it's well above what the Glazers have done with the resources they inherited and cultivating the brand. They've made some many unforced errors or worst possible calculations, even taking into account the drive to 'capitalize on the brand', that it could almost seem malicious. There's been no project there aside from marketing an hoping for the super league dividends , not even in the sense of a 'club strategy' to invest in younger, less costly talent and money-ball it or move into untapped markets with recruitment and marketing. I'm not exaggerating when I say half the people on tis forum, given a trading-places style speed-induction into the niceties of liaising with advisors and the CEO ( which is where most of the action happens, except for overall 'strategic direction' and whatever, invariably counterproductive bits of micromanagement Joel has engaged in) would do a better job. The only equivalent in the English game would be Blackpool; even Leeds was a more coherent project that ad their club punching above their weight for a while until combination of bad luck, fine margins and some over-leveraging caused them issues.

There's no reason why United shouldn't have been cruising at worst at 3rd place or higher and at least pushing City ala Liverpool, given fan base, prestige, ability to source investment etc, even with the Glazer debt. They' might have been able to pass whatever business school daddy's money got them into and hot-housed them through, and play the part of a competent functioning business-person when giving a boardroom speech or amongst their friends in the country clubs and gatherings, but when it comes to United, they're genuinely stupid, and no amount of justificatory contortions can fully obfuscate that.

 

[DDA 9,570]

So we are facing a possible points reduction as a result of dodgy transfers with Willian and others....

Lol

 

City just chillin' winning trebles.

[Mário César 825]

we are so pathetic 

long hard years will be coming to this football club

[Laylabelle 9,305]

14 hours ago, DDA said:

So we are facing a possible points reduction as a result of dodgy transfers with Willian and others....

Lol

 

City just chillin' winning trebles.

Ffs...we worked hard to earn these 12 we have! Assume if anything does happen won't be for a while 

[ZAPHOD2319 3,937]

It will be a fine

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[DH1988 1,203]

7 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

All of sudden people covering Chelsea women's when it's negative.

[Vesper 27,436]

So what happens if we get relegated due to getting smashed with a truly massive points deduction?

I am not going to follow a team that looses all its top players and is out of the EPL for years.

Nope, not doing it.

I hope to fuck Boehly and Co have a fucking plan.

And FUCK CITEH, those cunts have done WAY worse and yet they will never be touched.

Bitter??

You're goddamn right I'm fucking bitter.

Chelsea face Premier League point deduction over new 'leaked' Roman Abramovich documents

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.football.london/Chelsea-fc/news/Chelsea-face-premier-league-point-28108095.amp

[MoroccanBlue 5,219]

Just accept the fine and be done with it. I'm sure Clearlake allocated funds to deal with this sort of inevitable shit. 

Undeclared payments to associates. 

Ultimately they are not going to find anything nor prove such payments directly contributed to our success to a point where points deduction is needed. I'm sure BlueCo/Clearlake analyzed this. It's just more scaremongering. 

[OneMoSalah 8,619]

On 09/11/2023 at 03:43, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

Been saying it for ages him and other boy in the sporting directors roles, they are fucking hopeless and need to have some real criticism and scrutiny thrown their way. For the money we’ve spent on the mens team since they were given the reigns and where we are at, its reflects poorly on them.

We have needed a top GK and prolific CF for years now yet we will ended up with Sanchez and Jackson, who yes is a good prospect but not the man to be the main man right now, as well as countless players such as both Lavia & Ugo - who you could argue we didn’t need both of at once considering we were always after Caicedo instead and had Santos already signed. Then also Mudryk signing for that huge huge fee also. Not to mention Madueke - who has vanished off the face of the earth, what a waste of a signing.

Clearly not up to the job at this level and failing to secure Emma Hayes on a new deal for the women’s team is also further signs of that.

If this project of Boehly’s is going to work for both the mens and womens team, he needs to appoint some competent, shrewd, high end people in these positions. The demands here are always going to be different to what they are at Brighton or Monaco. Theres always going to be more at stake and losing a manager of Emma’s calibre because of a breakdown in negotiations is piss poor for a club of this magnitude.

Edited November 17, 2023 by OneMoSalah

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[OneMoSalah 8,619]

On 21/11/2023 at 01:44, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

I suppose that will make up for the last 18 months of mediocrity, celebrating our wage bill being down significantly. Some of the comments in reply to that tweet are embarrassing, yes we’ve reduced our wage bill but we look like a team that has heavily reduced in quality on the park for the best part of 2 seasons now.

A 4-1 win v Spurs & 4-4 draw with City wont change that.

Edited November 22, 2023 by OneMoSalah

[Vesper 27,436]

fucking Gary Neville saying that N'Golo Kante (lol he left on a free), Kalidou Koulibaly, and Edouard Mendy sales were dodgy and UEFA needs to investigate and perhaps ban us from Europe

seriously???? wtf

the Saudis bought of dozens of players and paid crazy money for some

but

they paid us a COMBINED £36m for all three (Kante was on a free)

come on that is £12m a player!

we took big losses

he is a fucking cunt

 

[milka 3,308]

Abramovic 1st  season  was 2nd , 2nd was 1st and 3th was 1st again  that's how looking a  ''project'' ,  these American cowboys   will roar if they ever reach the top 6

Edited November 28, 2023 by milka

[MoroccanBlue 5,219]

Luton (17th)

Fulham (14th)

Burnley (20th)

Spurs (Down to 9 men)

 

 

4 wins all season. That is fucking grim. 

[Special Juan 27,111]

We are shit, simple as that. As long as people's expectations like us, and that is mid-table then you won't be shocked at results.

Anther defeat coming this weekend, get fuck all against Brighton