It's Quiet Thread 15 - Txiki Blinders

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Cobwebcat said:
I know they work at City and would probably be in trouble if they said what it was, but I’d have to tell someone!
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I don’t think many know, and as stated before quite a few are no football people (so not as excitable as city fans about a signing) - just top class in their profession. A lot of non football people have been brought in at CFG based on just wanting the best person for the job on the non football side - makes sense to me.
 
Cobwebcat said:
Cough ESL cough ;-]
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Nothing misleading there, just pressured into a decision that couldn’t have gone either way and surprisingly for me FOMO more than anything. They didn’t expect the backlash, and when the full truth comes out I suspect we never fully committed and were def not a main player pushing that through.

From a. Business perspective it made sense, BUT it forgot the tribal nature of the business and the power of supporters voices - it was back tracked on very quickly and I’ll tell you now, that mistake will have hurt Khaldoon deeply - he will make amends
 
BillyShears said:
Personally I think it's Harold that has got them all excited. I suspect that they all know that there's a price, and that they are prepared to get to it. I can't overstate enough just how much of a game changer Kane will be for this squad.
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Was watching 2016/17 Harry Kane goals didn’t realise how good of an understanding him and Walker had at Tottenham. Walker knew every time where Harry would be and it resulted in goals. Hope they can have that understanding with each other here at City
 
i think its going to be a mad week ahead and i do feel city will sign somebody or a couple on the same day
we need to sort out the squad and get players in and out and get the new lads bonding in training
 
tolmie's hairdoo said:
They are still all giddy!! I don't think it is down to getting the £650m loan, either!

It was described as our business already being done, which makes me wonder what/who we are still waiting on?
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Tolm, it's $650m not £650m.

Having just listened to @projectriver (stefan) on an excellent 93.20 pod with @BillyShears (Ahsan) it seems CFG have burnt cash in big numbers due big operational expenses and the impact of Covid on the group.

The Delta variant and the huge growth in number and the potential knock-on impact on 21/22 revenue is a far bigger consideration that it was, say, 1 month ago and that maybe has an impact on our plans.

FWIW he thinks the Grealish transfer is madness and that is more to do with the general state of play re £££ than a comment about his potential playing ability.

Just saying :) Time will tell...
 
blue oli said:
The difference between city and Chelsea is that we don’t treat players as meat, pushed through a machine to make money - city are looking for the gems and those that are not we want to make a little bit of money but also to make sure their career and future is looked after.
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To be fair, I've never heard anything about any young Chelsea players being treated badly. The Chelsea academy is no doubt under as much scrutiny as ours, and I suspect is run along the same lines.
We're just not very good at assessing the value of players we don't want anymore - That's about all there is to it.
 
BillyShears said:
Personally I think it's Harold that has got them all excited. I suspect that they all know that there's a price, and that they are prepared to get to it. I can't overstate enough just how much of a game changer Kane will be for this squad.
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I hope you are right. It strikes me as shit or bust this window.

Reading in between the lines from your great pod it would be no surprise if the Grealish deal doesn't happen unless of course there is money in for Jesus, Bernie etc. But no fooker has any money....
 
WRicko said:
He went beyond saying they are not honest with there transfers and suggested that Chelsea get more money when they sell there players because their owners connections to Putin mean unnamed buying clubs buying unnamed players mean there owners who may or may not have business dealing in Russian are over paying Chelsea for their cast offs

It is a wild allegation

I was not defending rival fans for making similar allegations about us or suggesting we that if we do not make such allegations about other clubs that will somehow stop them from doing so just pointing out that @Silvafox is probably a giant hypocrite for making perhaps more wild allegations about Chelsea than those who make similar allegations about us given that fixing player sales seems more convoluted than say fixing sponsorship or wages but no doubt complaining and calling them out for doing so

After all we where actually investigated and punished and our owner makes Abramovich and his connections look insignificant and perhaps even when compared to Putin given the state of the Russian economy and its pariah status tho it does probably wield more power in other aspects than the UEA

Who cares where I was or what I was doing for 24hrs did not realize there where rules about length of time between reply’s
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Some light reading for you

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Abramovich is treated like Putin’s ‘favourite son’ and lavishes him with gifts

ROMAN Abramovich became one of Russia’s richest men with the help of Vladimir Putin while being described as the leader’s “favourite son”. The Chelsea owner, 51, and his business dealings are under…
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blkswn said:


A wild Javier Tebas appears
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nmc said:
You mean we might get DFI?
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Nah DFI has been suggested for some time, he probably would score a few but his injury record is something the club will be wary of. I suspect we maybe getting a striker akin to when we signed Gabriel Jesus who arrived without too many ITK's predicting it.
 
Pablo ZZZ Peroni said:
Tolm, it's $650m not £650m.

Having just listened to @projectriver (stefan) on an excellent 93.20 pod with @BillyShears (Ahsan) it seems CFG have burnt cash in big numbers due big operational expenses and the impact of Covid on the group.

The Delta variant and the huge growth in number and the potential knock-on impact on 21/22 revenue is a far bigger consideration that it was, say, 1 month ago and that maybe has an impact on our plans.

FWIW he thinks the Grealish transfer is madness and that is more to do with the general state of play re £££ than a comment about his potential playing ability.

Just saying :) Time will tell...
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I’m not sure those calling for £100 million transfers have quite grasped the impact of covid on football finances. There needs to be some sanity in the transfer market at some stage. To be spending big money and keeping fees inflated is not in our long term best interest surely? I’d suggest we go with Torres and Jesus unless or until the fees being requested by selling clubs become more realistic.
 
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