Chelsea Thread - 2021/22

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How come Chelsea seem to fly under the radar (relatively speaking compared to City) when in comes to transfers?

Last season they had net expenditure of £169.5M. They are 31M in credit so far this season but dropping 98M on Lukaku will change that to -£67M

I know there was hatred between them and the dippers a decade or so ago - will they share our status as public enemy no1 if they compete for the title or do they have more friends in the "right" places?
 
jamesha said:
How come Chelsea seem to fly under the radar (relatively speaking compared to City) when in comes to transfers?

Last season they had net expenditure of £169.5M. They are 31M in credit so far this season but dropping 98M on Lukaku will change that to -£67M

I know there was hatred between them and the dippers a decade or so ago - will they share our status as public enemy no1 if they compete for the title or do they have more friends in the "right" places?
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Abramovitch is not a Muslim Arab.
 
WestGorton said:
Funny. No script how they can pay 100 odd after Havertz... Werner.etc.
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Give it until they have a 6 point lead...


As an aside Tommy Tuchel is a boring **** when being interviewed. But personalities don't win titles. His strength in tactical awareness will influence where the title goes. As long as it's a fair competition. PiGMOL might try and clip their wings early one with a dodgy VAR red.
 
jamesha said:
How come Chelsea seem to fly under the radar (relatively speaking compared to City) when in comes to transfers?

Last season they had net expenditure of £169.5M. They are 31M in credit so far this season but dropping 98M on Lukaku will change that to -£67M

I know there was hatred between them and the dippers a decade or so ago - will they share our status as public enemy no1 if they compete for the title or do they have more friends in the "right" places?
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Oligarchs are more welcome than Arabs. Just...

I'll see if I can the Johnny Vaughn radio piece on it where he claimed about us and his own club it's our shirt colours and owners the PL have an issue with. If we were owned by Chester Wolowski III Who owns a whole US states gas or oil supply we'd been drowning in jizz about how good we are.
 
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jamesha said:
How come Chelsea seem to fly under the radar (relatively speaking compared to City) when in comes to transfers?

Last season they had net expenditure of £169.5M. They are 31M in credit so far this season but dropping 98M on Lukaku will change that to -£67M

I know there was hatred between them and the dippers a decade or so ago - will they share our status as public enemy no1 if they compete for the title or do they have more friends in the "right" places?
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If Abraham's £35m move happens, Chelsea will have raised about £98m in player sales this summer which more or less funds the Lukaku transfer, so the middle bit is a little off the mark.

About why we don't get the same bad rep as City? Not sure. Maybe we've had our time as the big bad wolf of English football. Maybe you should hope for some Saudi investors take over another club so City can be looked as "not that bad" :)

Joking aside, I don't follow City news enough to know if you get battered in the media like that, but I don't think we get such an easy ride ourselves.
 
David El Mago Silva said:
Even if he is the cheaper option I don't think Pep was ever interested in Lukaku. I'm sure Kev will be a bit dissapointed because of how well they link up for Belgium, I believe he even recommended to the club that we should sign him when he renewed his contract recently.
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Pep wont buy any player that he thinks is not up to snuff technically, whatever their other merits. (That's his little secret.)
 
KS55 said:
Pep wont buy any player that he thinks is not up to snuff technically, whatever their other merits. (That's his little secret.)
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Yeah I don't think we were ever in for him.

I do think Pep makes certain exceptions when it comes to technical ability though. Look at Walker and Sterling for example, neither are particularly gifted technically but what they provide off the ball in terms of pace, work rate and in Sterling's case great movement more than makes up for any technical deficiencies either of them have.
 
Vialli98 said:
If Abraham's £35m move happens, Chelsea will have raised about £98m in player sales this summer which more or less funds the Lukaku transfer, so the middle bit is a little off the mark.

About why we don't get the same bad rep as City? Not sure. Maybe we've had our time as the big bad wolf of English football. Maybe you should hope for some Saudi investors take over another club so City can be looked as "not that bad" :)

Joking aside, I don't follow City news enough to know if you get battered in the media like that, but I don't think we get such an easy ride ourselves.
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I don't think Chelsea get much positive coverage compared to the media darlings of MUFC and LFC. For example the CL win seems to have been airbrushed out of history while you constantly see footage of Liverpool in Europe. That said City are the real media targets these days.
 
Vialli98 said:
If Abraham's £35m move happens, Chelsea will have raised about £98m in player sales this summer which more or less funds the Lukaku transfer, so the middle bit is a little off the mark.

About why we don't get the same bad rep as City? Not sure. Maybe we've had our time as the big bad wolf of English football. Maybe you should hope for some Saudi investors take over another club so City can be looked as "not that bad" :)

Joking aside, I don't follow City news enough to know if you get battered in the media like that, but I don't think we get such an easy ride ourselves.
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Thanks for the reply. I know Chelsea don't have the easiest of rides from the press and other fans but what we get is on another level. I guess UEFA's failure to prove any wrongdoing flung a lot of crap our way which has stuck in the mends of many football fans.

Out of interest what are your expectations for Chelsea this season? - from the outside it looks like they will be very strong bit interested to hear your take.
 
Vialli98 said:
If Abraham's £35m move happens, Chelsea will have raised about £98m in player sales this summer which more or less funds the Lukaku transfer, so the middle bit is a little off the mark.

About why we don't get the same bad rep as City? Not sure. Maybe we've had our time as the big bad wolf of English football. Maybe you should hope for some Saudi investors take over another club so City can be looked as "not that bad" :)

Joking aside, I don't follow City news enough to know if you get battered in the media like that, but I don't think we get such an easy ride ourselves.
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What are we missing? I can see about £31m so far for Tomori and Moses.
 
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