Todd Boehly Thread

[ZAPHOD2319 4,799]

2 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

Isn't it obvious? The guy is searching the bottom end of the barrel for a 30m contract while United get a 90m one being as bad as us on field. This guy bragged how Roman couldn't unlock the full potential of Chelsea and yet he can't even get at least the same numbers as the old ownership.

He had Paramount Plus lined up for the shirt sponsor and the PL pulled the rug out. He has the gambling site lined up, the fans objected so he said no to the deal. When I say he, we have no idea if all this is even Boehly. 

[Gundalf 805]

6 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

Isn't it obvious? The guy is searching the bottom end of the barrel for a 30m contract while United get a 90m one being as bad as us on field. This guy bragged how Roman couldn't unlock the full potential of Chelsea and yet he can't even get at least the same numbers as the old ownership.

your confusing kit supplier with shirt sponsor.

We are on par with City, Liverpool, Arsenal. It is just United that was above everyone else and will be even more ahead now. They just are the biggest club in the world with Real, nothing will change that. Not even City with all their titles.

 

 

Edited August 1, 2023 by Gundalf

[Gundalf 805]

What is most worrying here is that length of our deal. Pretty sure Pool and Arsenal will get better deals soon when theirs expire. Roman tied our hands till 2032 here.

[TheHulk 2,401]

3 minutes ago, Gundalf said:

your confusing kit supplier with shirt sponsor.

We are on par with City, Liverpool, Arsenal. It is just United that was above everyone else and will be even more ahead now. They just are the biggest club in the world with Real, nothing will change that. Not even City with all their titles.

 

You're right thought it's main sponsor but still United didn't seem to struggle to get a 15% increase, while we struggling to replace Three for months now.

[Gundalf 805]

Just now, TheHulk said:

You're right thought it's main sponsor but still United didn't seem to struggle to get a 15% increase, while we struggling to replace Three for months now.

United is just United. They are a weird club. They are shit for 10 years now and still their value and the number of fans increases and increases. They got that 75m deal that is above everyone else in 2015 when they were clearly on the decline. And still companies throw many at them.

[robsblubot 3,595]

11 minutes ago, Gundalf said:

your confusing kit supplier with shirt sponsor.

We are on par with City, Liverpool, Arsenal. It is just United that was above everyone else and will be even more ahead now. They just are the biggest club in the world with Real, nothing will change that. Not even City with all their titles.

 

 

Yeah and reckon signing Mount had that angle in the mix.
Same when we signed Pulisic... football is a lot more complex these days.

Edited August 1, 2023 by robsblubot

[YorkshireBlue 3,264]

18 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

You're right thought it's main sponsor but still United didn't seem to struggle to get a 15% increase, while we struggling to replace Three for months now.

The kit supplier was pre take over, 3 was pre take over, Todd had sponsors lined up, pl pulled 1 fans pulled the other. Seriously stop the todd witch hunt. Its rich saying Todd's clueless when you can't seem to work out Adidas is there kit supplier and not there main front kit sponsor.......

Edited August 1, 2023 by YorkshireBlue

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

Gambling sponsor was reported for 20m per year anyway. Three was 40m. And whoever gets in it will be significantly lower than previous ones. 

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

But wasn't everybody shouting about how Todd had won the spreadsheet championship for us because we sold like £200m worth of unwanted players and therefore had reduces our wagebill by 30-40m a season this summer? Not to mention all the pro talk of the incentive based contracts/deals meaning no superstar contracts?

Now because United, who alongside Barca, Madrid and Bayern, are one of the biggest sides in European football have gotten another £15m a season on a sponsorship deal everything is fucked? Or because we might only get a £20 or 30m sponsorship as opposed to a £40m or £50m one?

Lets just face it, that may just be the reality of everything with the clubs imagine after the whole situation & restrictions put on us by the government prior to the sale or after finishing 12th under new ownership where a lot of questions have yet to be answered. 

[KEVINAA 129]

Updated list of Chelsea transfers under Todd Boehly: How much money new owners spent on new players since taking over club

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/soccer/news/Chelsea-transfers-todd-boehly-money-spent-new-players/ndkj2kmboyx76p2uobsqlsf1

25 of August 2023 - article posted/updated.

 

 

[DDA 9,924]

Normally can't stand this pillock but he makes some very good points here. Fair play.

 

 

[Vesper 30,083]

6 hours ago, DDA said:

Normally can't stand this pillock but he makes some very good points here. Fair play.

 

 

One point.

I think he is being too harsh on Cole Palmer.

I did not include him on my lists as Citeh (and crucially, the player himself) said no way he is being sold.

That all changed in the last couple of weeks of the window, as Palmer, after showing extremely well in pre-season and after talking to the club, basically saw no way to playing a lot for the next 2 or so years and asked to be moved.

At the end of last season, if you gave ne the choice between Smith-Rowe, Olise (who I MUST add, was INJURED when we were trying to buy him), or Palmer, I would say Palmer, hands down. Far higher potential upside IMHO.

Looking back on the window, I think the board was off by 1 year (fine margins can make a big difference and this is fine margins, as we are only talking months or even DAYS (see below) ) in setting the age cap to buy.

They settled on only buying players 25yo and under at the time of the window closing, when I would have went for 26yo as the cap (and I am consistent in this as 27/28yo players often (for all positions other than GK, CB, and CF) make me a bit leery).

IF we had set 26yo as the cap, we would have likely went hard for two AMFs, either of which would now be a HUGE asset.

Maddison and Lucas Paquetá.  

Lucas Paquetá would have obviously been more expensive but the most galling part is that he missed the cutoff age by 5 days!

Date of birth/Age: Aug 27, 1997 (26)

Now, that said, in regards to Paquetá, there were two other issues. Big ones, and interlocked

1. His potential suspension for gambling

and

2. Citeh turning his head and wanting him BADLY (and that potential gambling suspension is why (thank fuck, as he would have SO strengthened Citeh, especially with De Bruyne out for a long time) Citeh pulled out at the last minute.

That all said............

There is no excise for us not trying to go HARD for Maddison just because he is 9, 10 months older than the 25yo cap. JFC we could use him now, and he is HG.

Plus he went to Spuds (arrrrrrf) for £23m LESS than we shit away on that rotter CuCu!

Not just that, his salary is £5K LESS PW (£170 v 175K PW) than CuCu's.

My main issues so far with Boehly and the rest, in terms of buys or cocked up buy attempts (I will not include Ugarte as PSG simply offered him nearly twice the salary, noth we can do there, plus we got Lavia, and Aubameyang was just a crap shoot, we was great at Barca, but after he was smacked in the head with a steel bar during the robbery, he was never the same)

are

in no order

1. Not going for Maddison due that stupid 25yo and under rule

2. Axel Disasi (should have went hard for Jean-Clair Todibo or Mohamed Simakan, or if we had not shit away the insane cash on Fofana, we could have landed my number one overall CB want (still is by far) António Silva

3. Robert Sánchez (should have went for Mamardashvili)

4. Wesley Fofana (should have went for Skriniar or Bremer)as he was DAMAGED goods (I took him off all my lists as soon as he destroyed his leg at Leicester)

5. CuCu (insanity) JFC. take that cash wasted, and add on selling Hall and Maatsen, and we could have purchased Davies or Mendes and have had £30m to £40m left over!

6. KK (waste of money on a  clearly spent player, at least we sold him

7 and 8. failing during the last days now on two youth I DESPERATELY wanted after doing deep dives. U still want them SO bad, hopefully we can sort it out in January or summer 2024

Antonio Nusa (superb young winger, only 18)
Gabriel Moscardo (one of the top youth DMFs out there, only 17)

9. Failing to sell Gallagher  (CuCu may still be sold to the Saudis)

and finally

10. Perhaps buying Mykhaylo Mudryk (I still have lots of hope, he has crazy talent and pace, just needs to get right in his head)

 

 

Edited September 4, 2023 by Vesper