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Just now, Superblue said:

I don't like to fall into conspiracy theories, like them wanting to get rid of anything and everything they inherited under Roman but it makes it that much harder to scoff at this when people like Neil Bath and Jim Fraser are leaving the club.

I've been of the belief for years that the academy should be providing the squad depth for the first team, so we can concentrate on just buying players solely to focus on improving the starting XI, at most first 15-16 players in the squad. It's pretty clear that this ownership do not share the same views. 

For everything good that Roman did for this club, it gets more and more worrying that the biggest mistake he may have ever made here was locking this ownership into the club for at least 10 years. 

the good thing is that we only have 8 years left with this board 

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I imagine new owners are happy with academy because it brings pure profit which helps us massively. If that is all that we get from academy it's still worth it because let's be honest. Who from academy last 10 or so years was good enough for Chelsea starting 11? Only Reece and he is also not providing much last 2 seasons. Colwill may become another one. 

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13 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

I imagine new owners are happy with academy because it brings pure profit which helps us massively. If that is all that we get from academy it's still worth it because let's be honest. Who from academy last 10 or so years was good enough for Chelsea starting 11? Only Reece and he is also not providing much last 2 seasons. Colwill may become another one. 

All of these are arguable cases I grant you but; Abraham, Ake, Guehi, Livramento, Mount, Musiala, Rice, and Tomori are a few who could be discussed. All of these qualify as solid squad players at the least. That's not a bad record when you consider the level at which we were competing, and competing against sides which are basically drawn from the entire globe. Remember there are geographic restrictions concerning which players can be recruited by club academies. No club, not even the supergiants, will produce a world class first XI featuring a majority of homegrown players except in very rare circumstances.

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Joe Shields and Sam Jewell are set to be in charge of building a new management structure, after the losses of Neil Bath and Jim Fraser. (@liam_twomey)

 

BREAKING: Chelsea are preparing to name Estoril U23 and former Benfica academy coach, Filipe Coelho as the new Development Squad Coach.

(@chelseayouth)

 

Neil Bath has decided to leave Chelsea. He is leaving of his own accord and amicably.(@Matt_Law_DT)

 

Breaking: Riccardo Calafiori is close to Arsenal for £42.3 million

(@DiMarzio)

 

Marc Cucurella: "I’ve been telling Nico Williams to sign for Chelsea! In the end, everything depends on him. He is very young, with a lot of experience. I think he will be a great player."(@sport)

 

 

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11 minutes ago, mkh said:

Riccardo Calafiori is close to Arsenal for £42.3 million

(@DiMarzio)

FUCK

gutted if we lose him

J David and Cala are my two obessions this summer

we could have BOTH for around what we paid for just CuCu

do not get me started on Fofana, Mudryk, Rom, Caicedo, Enzo, Sterling (wages included) , Lavia, and DisASSi

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16 minutes ago, Vesper said:

£42m for him is a fucking STEAL

we paid a combined £140m for CuCu and permawrecked Fofana ffs!!!!!!!

 

PL to PL transfer are always gonna have a massive premium. Not really fair to compare those deals to Calafiori coming from a relatively tiny Italian club who for them £42m is a gigantic sum they can really turn down.

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7 hours ago, Pizy said:

We can’t even afford £42m without trying to throw in players these days? 

Whatever. Let Arse have him. Go for an actual specialist LB instead rather than a CB who can also play LB.

he is not just any CB

if he goes to Arse I predict he haunts us for year

he is cut, IMHO, from the legendary Italian CB rock, and thsoe types almost NEVER leave Italy

plus he will be a marketing star, massive commercial revenue generator

look at the lad

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25 minutes ago, mkh said:

Neil Bath has decided to leave Chelsea. He is leaving of his own accord and amicably.(@Matt_Law_DT)

Ah, that's a bit better. It doesn't rule out the possibility that he is leaving because he does not like the direction of travel, but at least he wasn't pushed. To go from talking him up, and effectively promoting him, to kicking him out would not bode well for our management. It's still significant however that Frasier is also leaving. The chances of this being coincidence is obviously slim.

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Apparently they have not been happy with Fraser and Bath in recent years who have played big roles in recognising talent for the youth teams.

These included:

-Mason Burstow

-Dylan Williams

-Eddie Beach

-Zak Sturge

-Jimmy-Jay Morgan

-Omari Hutchinson (was a hit)

-Alex Matos

-Ishe Samuels- Smith

-Diego Moreira

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20 minutes ago, Pizy said:

PL to PL transfer are always gonna have a massive premium. Not really fair to compare those deals to Calafiori coming from a relatively tiny Italian club who for them £42m is a gigantic sum they can really turn down.

come on m8

we have overspent by hundreds of millions combined on players since 2017, when the nightmare windows started, many of them not from other EPL teams (do you want me to make a Vesper List© ???, lolol)

the most common premium for EPL players has historically been the 'English Tax' for HG

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Leny #Yoro is one step away to #RealMadrid. The young centre-back has chosen Madrid as his new club. Talks in progress to finalize the deal with #Lille. For the centre-back ready a contract until 2030.

😒😒

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Just now, mkh said:

Leny #Yoro is one step away to #RealMadrid. The young centre-back has chosen Madrid as his new club. Talks in progress to finalize the deal with #Lille. For the centre-back ready a contract until 2030.

😒😒

so so many of my targets blowing away in the wind like dandelions

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next will probaly be Mamardashvili and Diogo Costa and maybe even (a bit cooler now due to age) Oblak

whilst we suffer with Donkey Sanchez probably costing us 9 to 12 or so points in the EPL throughout the 38 games with a veritable cornucopia of blunders and howlers plus overall quotidian meh meh play

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