Chelsea banned for TWO transfer windows

[Pizy 18,848]

We're fucked in other words. 

If RLC, CHO, and Reece James were all 100% fit, Bakayoko, Michy and Zouma came back and rose to new heights, and Mount followed Lamps here to take Kovacic's place I suppose we could be optimistic at least. But with three of those injured long term it's very difficult to summon any optimism heading into the season.

Its going to be absolutely brutal watching all our rivals signing players we would've been after. Seeing the likes of United, Arse, and even Spuds who never spend buy great players is going to suck.

[Special Juan 28,089]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

Its going to be absolutely brutal watching all our rivals signing players we would've been after. 

we would of been in the usual mode of shit player buys again, make no mistake about it.

The board will love all the money and not having to spend it the useless cunts.

[MoroccanBlue 5,375]

Honestly going to be an embarrassment in the Champions League. 

[Stats 7,135]

Pretty sure the club will ask for the transfer ban to be frozen while ban is in place and hope that the ban is realistically reduced to one window. 

[Blue Armour 4,436]

Ask for a freeze. Dont wait. Reputation or even a slightly longer ban wont matter if we cant sign anyone worth a damn.

This summer, while we are still in the Champions league, is our best bet to sign any decent players 

Do not risk waiting

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

1 hour ago, xPetrCechx said:

So we just don't want to appeal to freeze the ban?...

I think our board like this situation. It gives us advantage over other clubs because nobody is expecting from us to sign players. I'm sure we are trying to sign top players at the moment and when we close the deals we will ask for ban to be frozen which will be in the matter of days if not hours after we request from CAS. 

[DDA 9,924]

1 hour ago, Blue Armour said:

Ask for a freeze. Dont wait. Reputation or even a slightly longer ban wont matter if we cant sign anyone worth a damn.

This summer, while we are still in the Champions league, is our best bet to sign any decent players 

Do not risk waiting

Reputation? Our reputation is awful. Everyone hates us. Everyone thinks we are a dirty club. There really is nothing to ruin.

[Vesper 30,083]

3 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

we will ask for ban to be frozen which will be in the matter of days if not hours after we request from CAS. 

It doesn't work like that, unfortunately

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

Who was responsible for this and are they being sacked? 

 

[Vesper 30,083]

53 minutes ago, Alan Partridge said:

Who was responsible for this and are they being sacked? 

 

It is a puppet board stacked with SIBNEFT mafia, so the only way to 'sack' the person responsible is to buy it away from Abramovich. He refuses to sell to a Brit (due to the UK government refusing him visa renewal) so Jim Ratcliffe is not an option anymore. My main fear is IF he sells us, it will be to a Saudi head-chopper royal, especially Mr Bone-Saw himself, Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud. MBS and multiple other members of that barbarous, medieval, murderous, radical clan are sniffing around the EPL and other big leagues looking to purchase clubs. I cannot morally countenance such a sale, it will put my life-long allegiance to the club on life support. 

The other nightmarish possibility is that Russia foolishly tries to get involved in the yank's presidential election again (Trump is idiotically once again saying there is nothing wrong with a foreign government (ie. Russia) 'helping' him win). At that point, the level of simmering tensions may very well boil completely over, and a post-Brexit UK, tied even more so to the US (much due to a new trade deal/security linkage), may try and seize us (as a punitive measure against Putin and his oligarchic money men). if the level of sanctions are drastically upped. Abramovich is already under global scrutiny from the American and UK (especially post-Skripal, the main public reason given for his visa renewal being rejected) governments. 

 

Report: UK to target Russian-Israeli billionaire Abramovich over Kremlin ties

https://www.timesofisrael.com/report-uk-to-target-russian-israeli-billionaire-abramovich-over-kremlin-ties/

 

Has Anyone Seen Roman Abramovich? The Last Days of Londongrad

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2018-09-25/has-anyone-seen-roman-abramovich-the-last-days-of-londongrad

 

Is Abramovich at last paying the price for being too close to Putin?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/21/is-abramovich-paying-price-for-being-too-close-to-putin

 

Roman Abramovich was deemed potential 'security threat' by Swiss police

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45641867

 

Roman Abramovich on list of six Russian oligarchs targeted by UK intelligence over links to Putin

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/07/romanabramovich-list-six-russian-oligarchs-targeted-uk-intelligence/

 

US names Russian oligarchs in 'Putin list' but imposes no new sanctions

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/01/29/politics/trump-russia-sanctions/index.html

[Vesper 30,083]

10 hours ago, Pizy said:

We're fucked in other words. 

If RLC, CHO, and Reece James were all 100% fit, Bakayoko, Michy and Zouma came back and rose to new heights, and Mount followed Lamps here to take Kovacic's place I suppose we could be optimistic at least. But with three of those injured long term it's very difficult to summon any optimism heading into the season.

Its going to be absolutely brutal watching all our rivals signing players we would've been after. Seeing the likes of United, Arse, and even Spuds who never spend buy great players is going to suck.

I have accepted this outcome for months. Yes, it will be brutal indeed, but sometimes when you play stupid games, you win stupid prizes. The main things that have gutted me are the injuries to CHO, RLC, and Reece James. THOSE were never in my calculations for the last 12 months.

Other than those, the rest  has been pretty much a foregone conclusion when we fucked up last summer's and then January's transfer windows and did NOT liquidate deadwood (and I mean ruthlessly liquidate), did NOT sell Eden for around to £200m (including add-ons, and replace as best we could) and failed at most all other transfers saving for Kepa (that was a given when we fucked up yet gain and did not sell Cuntois in summer 2017, and replace, plus when Oblak and Alisson both turned us down before Kepa was purchased) and  also Jorginho (and Jorginho was purely and only purchases as it was the only way Sarri would come and Napoli did not want him anymore due to style/formational change under Ancelotti)

My myriad number of posts on this overarching subject serve as a historical record of the validity of my future-forward laying out of all this happening (minus those 3 injuries of course). It has been a 2 year in the making slow-motion trainwreck, and the level of powerlessness to do anything to affect the real, temporal world that is Chels FC has been a source of great frustration for me. The only positive is that I have long-since resigned myself that this was indeed the wretched path upon which we would be cumulatively forced to trod upon moving forward, and the 3rd place finish and EL trophy were quite pleasant surprises.

[Laylabelle 9,534]

I'd be surprised if we get it frozen. This is so stupid why did no one learn before?! 

I'd rather lose January window then the 2 summer windows.. Then again our board seem to make shit signings anyway so prob wouldn't use what we got wisely.