Chelsea Thread - 2022/23 | Pochettino confirmed as new manager

[Bluemoonadam]

Sorry but Potter shouldn’t have gone near that place it’s a graveyard ........... they get someone in they do well and once it goes a bit wrong they cannot wait to pull the trigger

I agree, they should of kept tuchel.

 

[NorthamptonBlue]

Lol take the Mudryk with a pinch of salt. That’s just his agent leaking stuff to get Arsenal moving. Don’t think we’re truly interested in MacAllister either.

You’ve already been gouged by Brighton for Cucurella. Can’t imagine your board fancy being bent over twice.

 

[Vialli98]

I see they are getting offended by the rent-boy chant. Going full dipper under US ownership?

Maybe we should weaponise Liverpool's Shipman chant. How much traction do you think that will get in the press?

I mean loads of LGBTQ groups up and down have criticised it as blatantly homophobic, including the LGBTQ groups associated with the clubs those fans who sing it support. It’s not just Chelsea fans who say it’s offensive. Every anti-discriminatory group going have labelled it offensive and spelt out why it’s offensive.

 

[Vialli98]

You’ve already been gouged by Brighton for Cucurella. Can’t imagine your board fancy being bent over twice.

You never know in football I guess but I don’t see why we’d be in for him.

 

[City_Sean]

Di Marzio now reporting that they're close to signing Enzo Fernandez for €126m. That takes their spending this season to £400m.

 

[Vialli98]

Di Marzio now reporting that they're close to signing Enzo Fernandez for €126m. That takes their spending this season to £400m.

Good stuff :)

 

[Fordyboy46]

Looks like another 145m going to be spent in the coming days. An absolute scattergun approach by Boelhy in his two windows so far, just spend spend spend, with no need to sell apparently

 

[Semper aggressus]

Di Marzio now reporting that they're close to signing Enzo Fernandez for €126m. That takes their spending this season to £400m.

Funny how ffp doesn’t matter when you’re one of the favourites of the media and football establishment. Or perhaps it’s just ok if your owners are American rather than Arab?

Will be interesting to see the reaction if Newcastle spend £400m in summer.

 

[ninjamonkey]

Chelsea have spent a ridiculous amount of money lately but they have it so why not. Their transfer ban was 3 years ago this summer, that gave them a substantial amount of leeway where ffp is concerned for the windows after it. They've got it to spend just as we have, just as united have and just as liverpool have even if they pretend they haven't.

They've spent it incredibly poorly though and will be in a real mess if they have another summer like the last 2. Paying that money for Fernández this early into his career is mental, he looks a great player that we should have got with alvarez in hindsight but the price now is insane, would us, or anybody else pay that kind of price for Alvarez off the back of the world cup if we hadn't already snapped him up last year?

I hope Chelsea get their act together (after this week) to me, they've always been the most tolerable club of the traditional top 6, I'd much sooner have them as our closest rivals than any of the other lot and whilst it now seems unlikely them pipping Liverpool and United to 4th would be superb.

 

[OccupiedPalestineBlues]

Chelsea have spent a ridiculous amount of money lately but they have it so why not. Their transfer ban was 3 years ago this summer, that gave them a substantial amount of leeway where ffp is concerned for the windows after it. They've got it to spend just as we have, just as united have and just as liverpool have even if they pretend they haven't.

They've spent it incredibly poorly though and will be in a real mess if they have another summer like the last 2. Paying that money for Fernández this early into his career is mental, he looks a great player that we should have got with alvarez in hindsight but the price now is insane, would us, or anybody else pay that kind of price for Alvarez off the back of the world cup if we hadn't already snapped him up last year?

I hope Chelsea get their act together (after this week) to me, they've always been the most tolerable club of the traditional top 6, I'd much sooner have them as our closest rivals than any of the other lot and whilst it now seems unlikely them pipping Liverpool and United to 4th would be superb.

I think their leeway is much boosted by debts being written off by Abramovich and iirc a rule that allows new owners to spend without restraint for a period.