Chelsea Thread | 2024/25

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He’s auditioning for a job in Panto at the Alexandra Theatre in Bognor Regis.
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Hinge and Brackett getting all wet about past conquests. Pair of cunts. Is this a computer game? Which side of the screen would you punch first?
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Alleged on bbc news that Abramovic owes millions in tax and some of his tax dodging included money spent on Chelsea.

Anyone think the media will go after Chelsea and say they’re cheats and have ‘dirty money’?

More seriously will the UK Govt want it paid back, forcing the club to rein in its spending?

My guess is no, and no.
 
Semper aggressus said:
Alleged on bbc news that Abramovic owes millions in tax and some of his tax dodging included money spent on Chelsea.

Anyone think the media will go after Chelsea and say they’re cheats and have ‘dirty money’?

More seriously will the UK Govt want it paid back, forcing the club to rein in its spending?

My guess is no, and no.
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You’re losing sight of the real bad guys. You know, the brown coloured ones that keep investing hundreds of Millions and taking nothing out. Those are the ones that need reigning in.
 
Semper aggressus said:
Alleged on bbc news that Abramovic owes millions in tax and some of his tax dodging included money spent on Chelsea.

Anyone think the media will go after Chelsea and say they’re cheats and have ‘dirty money’?

More seriously will the UK Govt want it paid back, forcing the club to rein in its spending?

My guess is no, and no.
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It didn't make any difference to Spurs when their owner was convicted of insider trading. So no, probably not
 
Semper aggressus said:
Alleged on bbc news that Abramovic owes millions in tax and some of his tax dodging included money spent on Chelsea.

Anyone think the media will go after Chelsea and say they’re cheats and have ‘dirty money’?

More seriously will the UK Govt want it paid back, forcing the club to rein in its spending?

My guess is no, and no.
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Listened to that last night and it is incredible that the MSN have let it all go by under the radar, nothing questioned, and yet us ????
 
Semper aggressus said:
Alleged on bbc news that Abramovic owes millions in tax and some of his tax dodging included money spent on Chelsea.

Anyone think the media will go after Chelsea and say they’re cheats and have ‘dirty money’?

More seriously will the UK Govt want it paid back, forcing the club to rein in its spending?

My guess is no, and no.
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If it was us, it would be reported on so differently. BBC haven’t even opened a HYS on it for other fans to wade in.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Tbh I thought City played brilliantly after the first five minutes. The best we have done all season. The media making it all about Chelsea but we tore them to pieces.
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‘‘T'was ever thus.

We never got any credit from the media. The three that stand out are the Maine Road Massacre, the last Maine Road derby and the Sick Swan. In all three cases, it was about how poorly the rags played, and nothing about how brilliantly we were.
 
malg said:
They started lively yesterday and we didn't have a minute on the ball. However, that high line? When has that ever worked?
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That’s a new thing. Hadn’t seen it all season. Brilliant time to roll it out for the first time at the Etihad.
 
Damaging game for Chelsea against City.
Despite a very good first 15 mins they were hanging on after that against a very good City display.
Huge games coming up for them,i cannot think of one player who was better than average.
Surely the Jackson experiment is over and if they play Sanchez in their next league game there will be a fan revolt.
 
bennyboy said:
Damaging game for Chelsea against City.
Despite a very good first 15 mins they were hanging on after that against a very good City display.
Huge games coming up for them,i cannot think of one player who was better than average.
Surely the Jackson experiment is over and if they play Sanchez in their next league game there will be a fan revolt.
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It was a pathetic performance. Our worst performance this season. I couldn’t believe we were both sitting back and not pressing your backline with the very shaky new kid, and at the same time playing a suicidal high line. So you had players with so much time on the ball, under no pressure, constantly looking to chip the ball over the high line. The whole game was a mess. Couldn’t believe what I was watching.
 
Vialli98 said:
It was a pathetic performance. Our worst performance this season. I couldn’t believe we were both sitting back and not pressing your backline with the very shaky new kid, and at the same time playing a suicidal high line. So you had players with so much time on the ball, under no pressure, constantly looking to chip the ball over the high line. The whole game was a mess. Couldn’t believe what I was watching.
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After the first five minutes or so, I thought Abdu Khusanov did very well.

He made some good tackles and a few great blocks, and he is only going to improve, once he gets used to the speed of the English game. He’s only 20, after all.
 
Vienna_70 said:
After the first five minutes or so, I thought Abdu Khusanov did very well.

He made some good tackles and a few great blocks, and he is only going to improve, once he gets used to the speed of the English game. He’s only 20, after all.
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I don't know anything about him, but I presume he's good if Pep has identified him as a talent worth getting.

I was just disappointed that, having seen him make a mad mistake early in the game, and knowing he's 20 years old making his debut in a big game like this, that we just decided to not press high at all after the first 10 minutes. And having decided to not press high, to then not also drop the line deeper made us sitting ducks, and compounded what was a miserable, awfully coached game for Maresca.
 
Vialli98 said:
That’s a new thing. Hadn’t seen it all season. Brilliant time to roll it out for the first time at the Etihad.
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Maybe ,but football as you know is a game of fine margins...you could have been 2nil up in 5 mins playing the new high line...
The managers plan was surely to condense play into a central midfield area which,on paper ,you had sufficient power and guile to win...The Palmer Jackson combo has been shown many times to destroy teams away from home on the break once thst ball has been won in centre mid
The managers mistake ,imo, was, not to change the game plan,once City ,through pure brute hard work,had gained the ascendancy in midfield.
 
Whats with the no shirt sponsor stuff? seems odd.

on paper they would be still about one of top5 popular PL side I guess.

Likes WHU, Villa, Palace, Everton, Wolves etc all rake in between 10-20m per year from front of shirt deals. you would think Chelsea aiming for much higher deals but if that is not possible due to lack of offers something in the 10-15m region would be easily available you would think even short term and not stuck with it for years.
and with the magic tricks they are pulling like hotel sales etc even extra 10-15m could mean a lot for them in the accounts.
 
How have they just signed 2 Sporting players for £70m? Transfer window isn’t open, more than that they have a small ground and no CL football yet they seem able to spend what they want, window after window, and now between windows. How many hotels have they got?
 
BringBackSwales said:
How have they just signed 2 Sporting players for £70m? Transfer window isn’t open, more than that they have a small ground and no CL football yet they seem able to spend what they want, window after window, and now between windows. How many hotels have they got?
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They sold off youth products over the last two Summers for 'pure profit' and spread the transfer expenditure over long contracts.
 
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