The Board

[Vesper 28,769]

The board is destroying the club. We are selling needed players before we have replacements, we are not selling the insane amount of deadweight we have (or at huge losses), we are missing out on target after target (the latest 2, if true, are Barella and Pareds, which make me rage).

WE are getting bullied by Juve over the Higuain (Higs in is also potentially a huge disaster, if he doesn't come good) deal to include a player we payed £18m for (Emerson) as part of the deal, which leaves us NO backup LB as well.

I see NOTHING being done to try and sort Hazard situation out, we may end up losing him for well over £100m less than he is worth.

The club is being slowly destroyed right before our eyes.

 

[Unionjack 7,531]

18 minutes ago, Vesper said:

The board is destroying the club. We are selling needed players before we have replacements, we are not selling the insane amount of deadweight we have (or at huge losses), we are missing out on target after target (the latest 2, if true, are Barella and Pareds, which make me rage).

WE are getting bullied by Juve over the Higuain (Higs in is also potentially a huge disaster, if he doesn't come good) deal to include a player we payed £18m for (Emerson) as part of the deal, which leaves us NO backup LB as well.

I see NOTHING being done to try and sort Hazard situation out, we may end up losing him for well over £100m less than he is worth.

The club is being slowly destroyed right before our eyes.

 

No it's all gonna be Ok tho cause Mz Penny Pinscher got us a good deal on Higs! We should be OK now!

[Vesper 28,769]

9 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

No it's all gonna be Ok tho cause Mz Penny Pinscher got us a good deal on Higs! We should be OK now!

I do not like our future being gambled on via a rapidly in decline, rapidly ageing striker. I also cannot believe we are bollocksing up so many deals (ie Barella and Paredes as fresh examples) yet again.

I see almost zero mid to long term strategic vision and planning, and almost no efforts to sort out past disastrous moves like Drinkwater, etc. He alone is a massive £70m black hole on our balance sheet.

[kc_blue 265]

The window has taken a bit of turn from when it opened.  Started out strong, making a statement of intent, whether the correct statement of intent is arguable but making a statement nonetheless.  Slowly we've returned to a situation we've seen played out over many recent transfer windows.  Identify target, haggle for target, switch to option b over a couple million pounds on 30, 40, 50 million pound deals, fail on plan b, deadline day arrives, panic buy out an option out of nowhere.  Seen this scenario play out many times now.  It's like Groundhog Day. 

I hope we actually break the cycle this time and just put up the extra cash to get the targets we want. 

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

2 hours ago, kc_blue said:

The window has taken a bit of turn from when it opened.  Started out strong, making a statement of intent, whether the correct statement of intent is arguable but making a statement nonetheless.  Slowly we've returned to a situation we've seen played out over many recent transfer windows.  Identify target, haggle for target, switch to option b over a couple million pounds on 30, 40, 50 million pound deals, fail on plan b, deadline day arrives, panic buy out an option out of nowhere.  Seen this scenario play out many times now.  It's like Groundhog Day. 

I hope we actually break the cycle this time and just put up the extra cash to get the targets we want. 

Don't forget that we end up paying 75% of what option A would have cost us for option C who is 20% as good.

[communicate 2,703]

I may not agree with all the board decisions. My main gripe is on player contracts, losing (maybe) hazard and courtois for cheap is absolutely bad businesses decision for a big club like us. 

But in term of transfer, although I disagree with some of the signing but it depend on what the manager want. You can't just I want player x, y, z but the manager does not like his characteristics. That make 0 sense. People complained about drinkwater. I hated that signing but it make so much sense under Conte. We need an HG player and we need a midfielder to play in two man system. 

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Season	Player	PL gls
2000/01	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	23
2001/02	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	23
2002/03	Gianfranco Zola	14
2003/04	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	12
2004/05	Frank Lampard	13
2005/06	Frank Lampard	16
2006/07	Didier Drogba	20
2007/08	Frank Lampard	10
2008/09	Nicolas Anelka	19
2009/10	Didier Drogba	29
2010/11	Florent Malouda	13
2011/12	Frank Lampard, Daniel Sturridge	11
2012/13	Frank Lampard	15
2013/14	Eden Hazard	14
2014/15	Diego Costa	20
2015/16	Diego Costa	12
2016/17	Diego Costa	20
2017/18	Eden Hazard	12
2018/19	Eden Hazard	10

 

Here you can see our top PL goalscorers since 2000. It will probably surprise some because it seems there is a belief here that we had some hot strikers in our golden era. But it wasnt like that. 

Its true however we had big game players and we had alot of players that could score. Hell our CBs were bigger danger for opponent goal than our strikers are today.

We dont need a striker that will bang 30 goals every year. Its impossible to demand that from one player and just deliver. What we need are players that give everything and deliver when they get a chance. Not some fucking Alonso, Morata, Giroud, Willian who miss open net or Kovacic who cant even shoot on goal. 

Instead of going for someone like Icardi and spend 150m on him, get a proven 15-20 goal a season striker (someone that can actualy do it and not just another Morata who will shit his pants) and another RW who can pack another 10-15. That would be much much better and more balanced than a single striker that can get 30.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

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[Jase 43,479]

A far cry from those days...

[OneMoSalah 8,776]

I think the board must be largely blamed for where we could find ourselves very soon. If Sarri is on the brink or if those comments are to be lead to another downturn of form and his sacking, surely they must go cmon guys weve had 4 managers (Mou, Hiddink, Conte, Sarri) in the last 4 or 5 years. Everytime weve won we have stopped and stood still, never taken the initiative to improve. Mou wanted a CB, a LB and another winger the season he got sacked and got dross players in that regard. Conte wanted Bonucci, Alex Sandro and Candreva but instead he got Luiz, Alonso, Emerson and Zappacosta over 2 years. Poor squad building has put us back a bit.

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

4 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

I think the board must be largely blamed for where we could find ourselves very soon. If Sarri is on the brink or if those comments are to be lead to another downturn of form and his sacking, surely they must go cmon guys weve had 4 managers (Mou, Hiddink, Conte, Sarri) in the last 4 or 5 years. Everytime weve won we have stopped and stood still, never taken the initiative to improve. Mou wanted a CB, a LB and another winger the season he got sacked and got dross players in that regard. Conte wanted Bonucci, Alex Sandro and Candreva but instead he got Luiz, Alonso, Emerson and Zappacosta over 2 years. Poor squad building has put us back a bit.

a bit

[Vesper 28,769]

This puppet stooge MUST go.

If Roman refuses, he needs to sell the goddamn club.

She and the rest of the SIBNEFT mafia are leading CFC down the road to perdition with alarming pace.

This delusional bint probably still thinks Hazard and CHO are only having a laugh about leaving.

[Unionjack 7,531]

On 1/18/2019 at 3:02 PM, mccg said:

Marina Granovskaia is working very hard – Sarri 'confident' of January signings
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/news/marina-granovskaia-working-very-hard-sarri-confident-january-signings

Gota laugh sometimes or we would just sit in a dark room drinking gin listening to Leonard Cohen looking at a bottle of sleepers!

[Unionjack 7,531]

18 hours ago, Vesper said:

This puppet stooge MUST go.

If Roman refuses, he needs to sell the goddamn club.

She and the rest of the SIBNEFT mafia are leading CFC down the road to perdition with alarming pace.

This delusional bint probably still thinks Hazard and CHO are only having a laugh about leaving.

My versions much better!

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Laylabelle 9,351]

29 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Sums it up. 

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

Sven Mislintat is leaving Arsenal.  Should be all over them, a scout like him will be in demand everywhere and I reckon our chances will be good, he can stay in London and our scputibg facilities are excellent,  lets hope the board does its job

[YorkshireBlue 3,122]

I'll only ever do one post in here so I thought i best make it a good one so here goes......

 

YOU ABSOLUTE FUCKING CUNT.