Sidzeret 2,257 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I reckon we made the most effective signings in this crazy transfer window. Hats off to Emenalo and the board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! Eden Hazard 17 28 Posted September 2, 2014 Popular Post! Share Posted September 2, 2014 United's net spend this summer is around £10m higher than José Mourinho's entire net spend in his two spells at Chelsea BlueLion., zolayes, Barbara and 4 others 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didierforever 7,349 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 United's net spend this summer is around £10m higher than José Mourinho's entire net spend in his two spells at Chelsea I seriously doubt this is true. The Chels and Fernando 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 No panic buying, bought the right areas and weren't scratching around on the last day for what we needed.Absolute quality from the CFC Board. Green Lantern18 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Term-X 7,891 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I kept saying NO when Term said we had to get him at ANY priceVery easy to say that now, give it a few years and we'll come back to it, impossible to comment at the present.Bit silly paying anything over £16m for a 29 year old to sit on the bench, although fair play to Ivanovic for stepping up. Shaw would have suited that bench role with him eventually being integrated, not a 29 year old.. they have to play to justify the price tag.Arsenal have 6 English players, and we have 2.. it's disgraceful. This is a club first.. corporation later, you have to sustain the culture. As an English club we're doing nothing for the English game, it's painful to know liverpool have a 'potentially' world class player in Sterling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Very easy to say that now, give it a few years and we'll come back to it, impossible to comment at the present.Bit silly paying anything over £16m for a 29 year old to sit on the bench, although fair play to Ivanovic for stepping up. Shaw would have suited that bench role with him eventually being integrated, not a 29 year old.. they have to play to justify the price tag.Arsenal have 6 English players, and we have 2.. it's disgraceful. This is a club first.. corporation later, you have to sustain the culture. As an English club we're doing nothing for the English game, it's painful to know liverpool have a 'potentially' world class player in Sterling.I do agree in general that we need more HG players, however for this season I was prepared to temporarily put it on hold due to the need to 'complete' our squad to challenge at the top.Next year will be when it needs to change back again, starting with John Stones hopefully. Fernando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLyon 9,359 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 To make it perfect, board needs to start extending contracts.Azpi, Baker already did, Hazard, Courtois must do it soon as possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iseah100 5,612 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 To make it perfect, board needs to start extending contracts.Azpi, Baker already did, Hazard, Courtois must do it soon as possible.Hazard did in the summer, no? He did very recently, I know that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLyon 9,359 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Hazard did in the summer, no? He did very recently, I know that.He didnt? Think he didnt...only 3 years left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iseah100 5,612 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 He didnt? Think he didnt...only 3 years left.Hmm. I guess, not. I could have sworn he did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Hmm. I guess, not. I could have sworn he did.He hasn't signed any contract extension. There were just rumours/talks of him getting one in the summer and how we wanted to keep after handing him the No.10 shirt. iseah100 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myself 793 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I do agree in general that we need more HG players, however for this season I was prepared to temporarily put it on hold due to the need to 'complete' our squad to challenge at the top.Next year will be when it needs to change back again, starting with John Stones hopefully.Oh God no, we have our own academy players you know!! Buying English talents is the same as buying foreign talents, you're not the ones who've produced them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! Tomo 21,751 Posted September 3, 2014 Popular Post! Share Posted September 3, 2014 Oh God no, we have our own academy players you know!! Buying English talents is the same as buying foreign talents, you're not the ones who've produced them.oh right, why on earth did we buy Frank Lampard when we could have just promoted Leon Knight? damm board. Blue-in-me-Veins, Term-X, bababoom and 2 others 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Skipper 20,609 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 No one has mentioned this, but surely we must be well in the positive regarding our net spent considering we get fees for loans? We have 25+ players out on loan too. Obviously not all will enforce a loan fee, but some of the significant players i.e. Bertrand, Torres, T. Hazard, Piazon, Chalobah, MVG etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalBlues 4,050 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 I'm not sure where to post this. Decided to post it in here.While our board did a fantastic job in transfer. I want to point out that our marketing is not that impressive. Surely we are now quite marketable, right?Take MU as our benchmark, well okay not have to be same amount MU sell their kits or having the same amount of store all over the world for an instant, but surely we should have got a much better amount of money every season from sponsorship. The gap is very big with MU, and seeing them could buy freely this summer, and possibly every summer, without having to sell players, make me angry.Hope we could renegotiate the value of our sponsorship, or find a better one if necessary. With a player like Hazard, Costa, Fabregas, Oscar, etc, I think we deserved better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
didierforever 7,349 Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 2004-05 : outgoing = 94.45incoming= 2.2net = 92.252005/06Incomings: £58.4mOutgoings: £22.6mNet spend: +£35.8m2006-07:outgoing = 68.5milincoming = 31net = 37.5mil2007/08Incomings: £18.5m (Summer window only)Outgoings: £29.14m (Summer window only)Net spend: -£10.64m 2013-14Incomings : 108.4mOutgoing: 56.1Net spend: 52.3mil 2014/15Incomings: £85.3mOutgoings: £85.2mNet spend: +£0.1mTotal Net spend = 207.31mUnited:Incomings: 152 (including Falcao loan)Outgoing : 30.3Net spend = 123.384mil is a LOT of money if you spend it WISELY. look at us, we had a total spending of 85mil this season and our squad has to be one of the BEST on the world right now. This is taking nothing away from the business our board has done since that fateful deadline day in 2011 where we bought torres and luiz. they have been brilliant. but that stat is definitely misleading. BlueLion. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 To get this thread back on topic...According to a study by CIES Football Observatory, we sold Luiz far more than he was really worth and bought Costa less than his actual worth..http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/sep/03/angel-di-maria-manchester-united-overpaid-study Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea Legend 11 4,062 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 four pages of good discussion gone? wow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 four pages of good discussion gone? wow.Don't jump the gun please. I've moved it to here - http://forum.talkchelsea.net/topic/18802-lack-of-english-players-in-the-squad/page-6 iseah100 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roquila 1,335 Posted September 5, 2014 Share Posted September 5, 2014 Today's newspaper in Kosovo: 'Chelsea 'king' of transfers'.Bayern MONACO is second , LOL. CFC_4EVER, ChelseaFSee, Fulham Broadway and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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