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15 minutes ago, Henrique said:

Easily the worst take I've read on this forum, and thats really an achievement.

Your alive 😲

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2 hours ago, Henrique said:

Easily the worst take I've read on this forum, and thats really an achievement.

coming from you that's a compliment m8

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Surprised to see Cech leave, was hoping he'd stay on but with the other departures it was also a real possibility. 

Biggest worry now is that Tuchel feels exposed. We've all unheard how unenjoyable he ended up finding the PSG and Dortmund jobs with regards to having to manage upwards and from what has been reported the Chelsea structure with Marina and Cech protected him from that and allowed him to just get on with coaching.

Based on what has been reported regularly, Boehly will back Tuchel and I assume part of that will also be to build a structure around him that doesn't leave him isolated. 

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26 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

 

Surprised he's actually leaving. He knows many languages, has immense respect in the game. It was reported he was leading the talks on the Havertz deal, the biggest in the last few years. Good luck to him, he should be in demand. 

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Jesus, man. So we now have a brand new owner who isn’t well versed in how everything works in European football handling everything? 
 

Surely a new sporting director etc will be put in place soon. At what other club anywhere is the billionaire owner himself negotiating transfers? No wonder everything is taking forever. 

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[Sir Mikel OBE 4,919]

No surprise at all really. Thats how it works in American corporations.

 

New boss comes in

They build their own empire.

 

What you did before I arrived is of little importance. You prove you can do your job when I get here or you walk.

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Abramovich did the same - the difference being he is 100% into his football

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27 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Abramovich did the same - the difference being he is 100% into his football

But like the new owners he had no previous experience within football.

The people that he surrounded himself with at the highest level too (Buck, Tenenbaum, Marina) had no real experience within football either. Very much learning on the job.

He did make some key appointments like Peter Kenyon, Frank Arnesen, etc with a lot of football experience in key roles though, it's important that Boehly gets some of these appointments right in roles within the club (chief exec, sporting director, etc)

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On 25/06/2022 at 13:21, OneMoSalah said:

Hardly 🤣 

Talk about throwing a respected and highly successful person under the bus now they are on their way out…. although I am glad she is being asked to stay available for the new owner at present because she is clearly good at her job and can still contribute.

Whether or not she picked signings (again I doubt it severely, she was the last person to sign off on deals, that was a given in her role - which prior to her was probably Roman, who also had the final sign off on some horrible signings but don’t see you saying his legacy will be poor or he picked players although he did push heavily for Sheva and Ballack) she wasn’t exactly going and watching players and picking them without input from others. That wasn’t her role and for years to have seen this nonsense branded around here by many users, it is simply moronic to assume she randomly had a brainwave and thought ok lets sign Kepa, Lukaku, Werner, Ziyech (or anyone else who struggled) etc and put these into motion herself. Just an easy target now shes on the way out.

In fact, I would go as far as saying, moronic isn’t even the word. This narrative comes from people who are living in some sort of deluded fantasy that previous managers and the scouting department shouldn’t shoulder a lot of the blame. They should. Clearly. In fact I would say 75% of the blame for bad transfers at least lies with them. Easily.

I mean to say our transfer record is as bad as Uniteds or Barcelona’s is absolutely mind blowing 🤣 I mean barring Liverpool and City recently every big club has had some shockers but thats the transfer market.

Our transfer record over the past 10, 11, 12, 13 years or so has been pretty good and Marina will have had final sign off on a lot.

I mean signings like Hazard, Mata, Costa, Courtois, Matic, Kante, Kovacic, Rudiger, Chilwell, Mendy, Silva, Cahill, Jorginho, Fabregas, Giroud, Alonso, Pedro, Willian, Azpilicueta, Ramires off the top of my head have all been successes and contributed to the club in a big way. 

Even the likes of de Bruyne, Salah, Lukaku (1st time round), Luiz all made the club shedloads of money as well as multiple other loanees to comply with FFP and be reinvested so this narrative that Marina has fucked hundreds of millions is absolutely mind boggling. Plus you look at the recent integration of Mount, James, Chalobah, the money raised by sales of Tomori (FL should of tried harder to play him and never let him go out on loan to Milan because he is a sore miss just now with AC and Rudi away) and Abraham, the academy has also served us well on and off the pitch. 

Ok she wasn’t the chief executive to 2014 but its widely been reported since 2010 she was Roman’s main representative at the club due to being his chief assistant and was heavily involved in transfers and contracts.

I think it shes goes elsewhere and is half as successful and makes an impression like she did here, some of you might start to see her value instead of making daft accusations that she alone is responsible for X, Y or Z. We complained about the board and others beforehand but personally I think with Marina leaving, it is a huge gap to fill.

And for your post to say what we won despite her? With despite her in bold. That is absolutely mental 🤣 She was hugely involved in getting Jose back as well as Conte and Tuchel in the door, in fact a lot would say she probably had the most involvement.  

Personally, I am of the opinion Granny had final say on transfers. This meant that she could kill a deal if she wanted to or she could get one through. 

Do I think she scouted players? No, I do not. 

Do I think she would push through deals that weren't necessarily what the manager wanted and/or what she was being told was a good player by other people? Yes, I do. 

The problem for me with Granny was that she was in the most powerful position in regard to signing players (outside of RA) but didn't have much judgement on whether they would be any good or not (as she doesn't have a football background.) As a result she didn't kill deals that should've been (I mean how many of us muppets on here would've killed the Lukaku deal if we had as much power as her, owing to us knowing he was a Donkey?.) 

I think with her, she just went on what was told and she played a version of Fantasy manager in selling players (she was good at this) to balance the books to fund the incoming players. However, she wasn't able to judge from a footballing perspective if the deal was good or not; just from a financial one; this is also why we kept on extending players like Baka and Batsh*t. 

For me, a DoF should have knowledge of football in order to make the final sign off as otherwise they're going to get blamed. It is the same in all industries, whoever is the one signing off the cheques is ultimately responsible (even if they've not done the leg work) as they've got overriding power to stop/push something through. 

Edited June 27, 2022 by King Kante

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2 hours ago, Hermione said:

Not surprised Cech got sacked as well, everyone need to take it's fair share of punishment for buying that talentless hacker. It's because of people like him and Drogba, Marina pulled the trigger to buy that elephant. I still remember Drogba bigging this clown up after he got transferred.

We still won 3 trophies last 18 mths, the world cup and super cup with Lukaku! He was not a good fit for Tuchel and Chelsea's system! No need to insult him. Apart from Drogba and Deigo, how many strikers have done well in Chelsea and the no9 shirt?

 

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'I'm scared of these new owners': Chelsea fans hit out at Todd Boehly's sweeping boardroom changes after Petr Cech becomes the latest stalwart to lose his job, with one fearing 'these Americans will finish our beloved club' 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10956503/Chelsea-fans-hit-Todd-Boehlys-sweeping-boardroom-changes-Petr-Cechs-departure.html

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42 minutes ago, milka said:

'I'm scared of these new owners': Chelsea fans hit out at Todd Boehly's sweeping boardroom changes after Petr Cech becomes the latest stalwart to lose his job, with one fearing 'these Americans will finish our beloved club' 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-10956503/Chelsea-fans-hit-Todd-Boehlys-sweeping-boardroom-changes-Petr-Cechs-departure.html

oh ffs

absolute bullshit shit stir by the Daily Hail

and PURE hypocrisy

as these same fans whinged on about Lukaku, who was brought in (and was wanted to remain here) in by the people leaving!!!

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1 hour ago, Hermione said:

Romulus did nothing to help us win those trophies, if anything this fraud should be happy he left us with a World Club medal he will never sniff another one in his life.

As a matter of fact we went out against Real Madrid because this clown couldn't score an easy tap in with his head.

You must be suffering from amnesia but the scores for the final were 2-1 with Lukaku and Kai Havertz the scorers for Chelsea. He also scored the only goal in the semi finals. 1-0.