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🗯💥Statement from Strasbourg supporters federation: 

"The transfer of Liam Rosenior marks another humiliating step in Racing's subservience to Chelsea. For two and a half years, along with others, we have been trying to raise the alarm about this.

"The problem goes far beyond the mid-season sporting impact and the ambitions of a young coach. It is structural; the future of French club football is at stake.

"Every additional contortion by Marc Keller, every extra minute spent at the helm of the club, is an insult to the tremendous work accomplished before 2023. What was seen by many as an outrageous move last September increasingly looks like sound advice: he must leave. Now.

"The FSRCS will coordinate closely with the three other associations actively fighting against multiple ownership, as well as all people of goodwill, to define the next steps."

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43 minutes ago, gdlk said:

At least i hope he can develope young players.

Fuck sake is that the only ambition you think a manager should have for us? Develop young players, sell them off, rinse & repeat. Winning is what any Chelsea manager pre BlueCo needed to do. BlueCo have killed this club. An absolute cancer.

Only 6 years left before they can sell up as per the original sale, cannot come soon enough.

People bought in at the beginning (optimistically) but anyone with 2 eyes could see after Tuchel’s sacking and all the changes in structure/recruitment they were full of shit.

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There's a vague chance that as long as he keeps it simple and continues mostly with what Maresca was doing and just slowly tweaks things that he'll be able to do well, at least initially. Surely any big overhaul in approach will have to wait til summer with a scheduled so packed that you can barely get training sessions in. We have a good fixture run coming up which is perfect starting point for a new manager.

From my PoV:

Benefits to Liam's appointment

- He will instantly lift the way the media talk about us, and will de facto be given more time and more respect than he deserves (not to say he doesn't deserve some, but English managers get a ridiculous amount of leeway by the English press). Perhaps even referees will start to treat us with less open bias.

Downsides

- Everything else - respectfully, of course. Not a job he is likely ready for in the slightest. The only reason he has a slight chance is that our situation is way more normalised than what Potter or Lampard were given (squads that needed multiple changing rooms filled to the brim with frauds).

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1 minute ago, Special Juan said:

Feel sorry for Strasbourg in a way, we are just taking the piss out of them and stripping them of there manager and coaching staff

 

Absolutely, not even hiding that they're just a puppet feeder club. Doesn't really make sense to be a fan of such a thing does it? No independence and no ambition outside of supporting some foreign club you've no prior link to.

And you just know the French are not the type of people to take that with a smile

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The worst of it is, every BlueCo managerial appointment bar Pochettino, you think nah cannot get anymore riskier. But it does.

Potter 5 year deal. Maresca 5 year deal. Rosenoir 6 year deal. These lot are just pissing money away on managers as well as players.

They should just start giving out rolling 12 month contracts, make it easier on themselves, I mean its a circus regardless but least they’d save themselves some cash. And believe me, the way things are going, we will need it.

19 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

And how highly Rosenior spoke about Winstanley is quite worrying

It's like all the best mates are together again, we are in for a bumpy ride, strap yourself in

Winstanley worked with him at Brighton aye. As did Sam Jewell (not sure what he does as head of global recruitment, not even sure if that title exists at any other club in world football).

The more & more you look at it, it is cronyism/spoils system at its finest. And they’ve ripped the arse out of Strasbourg too instilling Davie Weir in place as a sporting director, another ex Brighton man who has strong links to the mob we have in place. Gary O‘Neil going to be their next appointment, so no doubt he will be top candidate to be Chelsea manager in 12-24 months. 

Anyone who has been attending games the last 12-18 months, save your hard earned money, don’t give it to these charlatans.

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Just now, Special Juan said:

Strasbourg held a protest last Saturday during the game and this morning have spoken out about Blue Co taking Rosenior to Chelsea

This is tragic

And that's perfectly acceptable.

It's easy to understand the fans' point of view.

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6 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

Develop young players, sell them off, rinse & repeat.

Where has this narrative come from all we do is buy and sell players for profit? Who exactly are these players your talking about? 

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18 hours ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Where has this narrative come from all we do is buy and sell players for profit? Who exactly are these players your talking about? 

Well we did sign (some academy also) and then sell Madueke, Chukwuemeka, Veiga, Amougou, Petrovic, Moreira, Angelo, Maatsen, Hutchinson, Hall, Gallagher, Mount, Ampadu, CHO etc. all at profits. Some huge profits.

Some in particular Madueke, Chukwuemeka, Veiga, Amougou, Petrovic, Moreira, Angelo were all signed by BlueCo…. all sold by BlueCo. Within 1-2 seasons of buying them. 

Would imagine the likes of Jackson, Paez, Kellyman, Anselmino, Sarr & Essugo all likely going to be added to that list also because we already have players joining & likely buy more again? At least 3 of them probably? Whether their profits or not on all but again, long contracts, young ages, good position to generate revenue no?

The narrative isn’t that it’s all we do but the recruitment is clearly geared up to look like its going that way. They can say whatever they want about the right player over 23 not being available etc in certain windows to gullible journalists but cmon….

People were critical of us & Vitesse under the previous ownership for the loan army and what not. And BlueCo believed football side of the club wasn’t run well.. they have turned us into Brighton/Leipzig/Monaco, player trading between us & Strasbourg at will, like the NFL draft 😂

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On 06/01/2026 at 09:50, OneMoSalah said:

Fuck sake is that the only ambition you think a manager should have for us? Develop young players, sell them off, rinse & repeat. Winning is what any Chelsea manager pre BlueCo needed to do. BlueCo have killed this club. An absolute cancer.

Only 6 years left before they can sell up as per the original sale, cannot come soon enough.

People bought in at the beginning (optimistically) but anyone with 2 eyes could see after Tuchel’s sacking and all the changes in structure/recruitment they were full of shit.

They can sell up now. Don’t believe that 10 year nonsense. That was a PR stunt to protect their antics.

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