Direction of this club

[Leif 6,006]

21 hours ago, positivefootball said:

We will see when Roman leaves with his millions of $, how many people will stay on this site. Keep dreaming of signing Pogba without Romans $$$$. Pathetic plastics.

We don't want Pogba, we'd rather Roman gone and finally have youth integration, so that we use players of our own for once, instead of trying to buy United products for 80m. 

Being the only club on the face of the earth with a hierarchy that reacts to the idea of using their own academy like it'll cause cancer isn't to be ignored. It shows where the owner's head and heart is. Trophies, not people. Clubs are about people. He celebrates wins with himself and his family, he doesn't celebrate with us. He doesn't love the fans, he loves himself and the fact he has a lovely toy. 

There's plenty rich men out there who'll have developed a passion for our club over the last decade or so who'd make us do a 180 in this situation. What'd be ideal is if 10 of our ex players got together, bought the club from Roman, and elected Drogba as head of our new empire. 

Also, why not just get a Sheikh? One that hires a competent board and allows them to do their job, while he remains an investor, because money is what you are good at if you have that much wealth, not football. (Why does Roman meddle so much? It's like if i were to buy Subway because i really like the franchise, and change all the flavours to my personal taste regardless of detriment to the business and the fact I know fuck all about flavour chemistry.)

We've been one man's personal project too long.

[Kieran. 6,317]

The way this club is run is fucking annoying and I'm getting more and more irritated by it every season.

You see youth as just a way to make a few million quid? Fine, but don't treat our legends - players who have literally put in blood, sweat and tears for this club - like they aren't special to us. We aren't respected by the Chelsea board, they don't give a shit about the fans, the legends, or anything else except money. And I'm fucking sick of it.

[Beigl 1,387]

23 minutes ago, Leif said:

We don't want Pogba, we'd rather Roman gone and finally have youth integration, so that we use players of our own for once, instead of trying to buy United products for 80m. 

Being the only club on the face of the earth with a hierarchy that reacts to the idea of using their own academy like it'll cause cancer isn't to be ignored. It shows where the owner's head and heart is. Trophies, not people. Clubs are about people. He celebrates wins with himself and his family, he doesn't celebrate with us. He doesn't love the fans, he loves himself and the fact he has a lovely toy. 

There's plenty rich men out there who'll have developed a passion for our club over the last decade or so who'd make us do a 180 in this situation. What'd be ideal is if 10 of our ex players got together, bought the club from Roman, and elected Drogba as head of our new empire. 

Also, why not just get a Sheikh? One that hires a competent board and allows them to do their job, while he remains an investor, because money is what you are good at if you have that much wealth, not football. (Why does Roman meddle so much? It's like if i were to buy Subway because i really like the franchise, and change all the flavours to my personal taste regardless of detriment to the business and the fact I know fuck all about flavour chemistry.)

We've been one man's personal project too long.

How do you exactly know that he doesn´t "love" the fans? I always thought he is very passionate about this club. He has always been in the background, which is not bad at all for us. I don´t understand why you criticize him for celebrating our trophies with his family. What else should he do? Do you expect him to show up in a local pub near Stamford Bridge drinking beer with some strange supporters? And for the Sheiks, it´s a bit contradicting when you say Roman doesn´t care for the fans when the Sheiks of City or PSG are even more alien for the supporters I suppose.

I understand it when people are angry at Romans "yes- men" at our club, who have too much power, but without his financial help we wouldn´t have won half as many trophies in the last ten years.

[Kieran. 6,317]

On 5/9/2016 at 2:52 PM, Beigl said:

How do you exactly know that he doesn´t "love" the fans? I always thought he is very passionate about this club. He has always been in the background, which is not bad at all for us. I don´t understand why you criticize him for celebrating our trophies with his family. What else should he do? Do you expect him to show up in a local pub near Stamford Bridge drinking beer with some strange supporters? And for the Sheiks, it´s a bit contradicting when you say Roman doesn´t care for the fans when the Sheiks of City or PSG are even more alien for the supporters I suppose.

I understand it when people are angry at Romans "yes- men" at our club, who have too much power, but without his financial help we wouldn´t have won half as many trophies in the last ten years.

We also would've been more of a football club and less of a soulless business. I'd sacrifice a couple trophies if we actually treated our legends right etc. I think that it's telling that he's never directly spoken to the supporters. Personal opinion though I understand where you're coming from. I've always been kind of weary of Roman - shady, ultrarich businessman so I'm a little more critical of him than others..

[Beigl 1,387]

We also would've been more of a football club and less of a soulless business. I'd sacrifice a couple trophies if we actually treated our legends right etc. I think that it's telling that he's never directly spoken to the supporters. Personal opinion though I understand where you're coming from. I've always been kind of weary of Roman - shady, ultrarich businessman so I'm a little more critical of him than others..

Yeah I know what you mean. But we actually had a 'soul' when Abramovich was here from 2003-2013 I would say. The growing distance between fans and players is sadly the direction world football has taken.

[Clevemayer 764]

I'm not online that often anymore bcs of my work. But boy what a shitty season. Some players at least admitted they were at fault for mous exit. Like Fab telling the truth: "Mourinho trusted us too much and gave us extended hollidays". We suffered from this. Our player weren't hungry enough. Matic went from hero to zero this season, Fabregas was like shit, Hazard did have oh wait, one good game yesterday? Mou was right, for criticising players for being too soft.

I still can't belive whats going on with Terry though and i think he will stay... remember "The Terry/City-Situation" fiver years ago? Think this will End the same way. A few highlights have been..... uhm... The many youngsters gett'n a go. RLC, Traore and Willian being as good as he was. The Club did seem to think they don't need fresh blood. Okay we've got pedro... but he didn't leave for no reason.

I somehow like the look of Conte, and I will se for next season. Smells a bit like when Mou came back. Successfull manager abroad, coming to english leauge to help a Midtable league... Okay Mou was much more unproven und wasn't NAt-Coach, but still I'm hopefull we'll see some good transfers und many young Players. Go on with what Guus started.