Chelsea Transfers

[YorkshireBlue 3,264]

5 minutes ago, Mhsc said:

Also blatant undercurrent of xenophobia against Americans imo, a lot of it is pure "these fucking Americans don't know how to behave like us classy Brits"

I've never seen a classy brit, alot of the British think there are far better and more entitled to what they actually are. Which makes us more like the Americans than we think.

[Vesper 30,085]

6 minutes ago, Mhsc said:

Also blatant undercurrent of xenophobia against Americans imo, a lot of it is pure "these fucking Americans don't know how to behave like us classy Brits"

British tabloid and telly media culture is toxic shite

ignore it

 

[Vegetable 830]

Aren't this club transfers always a topic in media all over the world ever since Roman took over? Numbers click, even for non-sport people, so content farms have it easy. Plus a lot of UK pundits seem to be supporting/ex-players of United or Arsenal, so there you go. Don't see much difference with or without TB.

[Pizy 18,849]

So are Russian players just forever trapped in that league because of something they may totally disagree with and not support?

[Vesper 30,085]

7 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Imagine getting rid of a Russian owner to then be replaced by Americans to then send 15m to Russia 

it's going to a bloody football team, not into the Russian war budget

and £22m of our money IS going into the Ukrainian war budget, via Shakhtar's commitment

what is actually funding Putin is the hundreds of billions being spent on Russian oil and gas

 

 

[Mhsc 1,091]

6 minutes ago, Vesper said:

British tabloid and telly media culture is toxic shite

ignore it

 

I ignore it entirely, and am extremely skeptical of what is said on Twitter and other places too by so called ITKs. Seems like I am a lot more cynical than a lot of people but I really don't trust that any of these people know what is going on inside our club or between our club and others, easy to make up stories with no proof that sound plausible and profit off of it for these fakers IMO. No standards for journalistic integrity in the world today.

[MoroccanBlue 5,375]

3 minutes ago, Pizy said:

So are Russian players just forever trapped in that league because of something they may totally disagree with and not support?

Yes. FIFA and their virtual signaling. 

But hey. Let's host the world cup in Qatar. 

[YorkshireBlue 3,264]

9 minutes ago, Vesper said:

it's going to a bloody football team, not into the Russian war budget

and £22m of our money IS going into the Ukrainian war budget, via Shakhtar's commitment

what is actually funding Putin is the hundreds of billions being spent on Russian oil and gas

 

 

I don't make the rules lol, I can pretty much say with confidence, there is no way at the current stage we send 15m to Russia. The government put sanctions on an English football club owned by a Russian, do you really think they will then allow that English club to send 15m to Russia regardless of the reason?

Edited January 17, 2023 by YorkshireBlue

[Vesper 30,085]

4 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said:

I don't make the rules lol, I can pretty much say with confidence, there is no way at the current stage we send 15m to Russia. The government put sanctions on an English football club owned by a Russian, do you really think they will then allow that English club to send 15m to Russia regardless of the reason?

we shall see

you sound giddy at the possibility of us being blocked in a SPORTING TRANSACTION

smdh

[bluesman2610 1,415]

2 hours ago, Pizy said:

More footage I watch of Caicedo the more I’m coming around on him. Got a bit more about him on the ball than I thought he did.

I noticed that too.. maybe not the same engine as Kante but definitely more proactive and technical on the ball

[Vegetable 830]

10 minutes ago, Pizy said:

So are Russian players just forever trapped in that league because of something they may totally disagree with and not support?

Pretty much yes, it's a prime example of diplomatic pressure. I guess they may move to Indian, Belarusian or maybe Chinese league without much issue.

11 minutes ago, Vesper said:

it's going to a bloody football team, not into the Russian war budget

Given how Russia works, that's not guaranteed. Plus football team is also part of economy that most of civilised world is trying to supress, not support.

But it's all more of politics than football really.

[Vesper 30,085]

I find it hilarious that a few here who apparently had no issues with supporting a team owned by a Russian billionaire who literally was helping to fund Putin and Russian governmental entities for decades, are now developing cases of virtue signalling, tongue clucking, and moral compartmentalising over us trying to by a Russian teen creative MF for £12m

smdh