whilst you mention mendy, what exactly has happened to him, kepa couldnt get a game , then all of a sudden mendy cant get a game and is/has been sold, i may of missed something during the season regarding thisThe argument I made about the long contracts was that FFP dodge sounds very sketchy and mischievous whereas I looked at the long contract as a fair way to remain compliant with the rules set by the governing bodies. It isn’t gaining an unfair advantage and it was only stopped because UEFA thinks it’s a harmful practice to the clubs doing it. So you can call it an FFP dodge but unless you don’t mean that in the negative way I took it to mean, then I still maintain you were wrong about that :)
About the Saudi thing. It’s really just one player we’re talking about here. Koulibaly. Mendy is on super low wages, like around £55ka week. Ziyech is on around £100k a week. These were not difficult players to shift to Europe at all. They are the ones who were presented with a chance to move to Saudi and they accepted. Up until Saudi approached them, Mendy was being heavily linked with a move back to France and Ziyech was being linked moves to Turkey and Italy and he was reportedly happy to take a paycut to leave.
Now that Arsenal and you lot are on the verge of giving us £100m for Havertz and Kovacic, I very much doubt we were in any serious FFP trouble for this year, wether we sold Koulibaly or not.
whilst you mention mendy, what exactly has happened to him, kepa couldnt get a game , then all of a sudden mendy cant get a game and is/has been sold, i may of missed something during the season regarding this
mendy looked very capable, people sometimes don't realise how important a keeper is for success , i don't think kepa is the answer going forward for you either , dont think hes a bad keeper, but if you start off as kepa did it takes something very special to get back, we saw it with bravo, never recovered from his poor start with us , cech was very big boots to fillHe became very error prone. He had that one and half season of being world class and then errors started creeping in. Tuchel stuck with him to be fair but it was unlucky timing that he got injured just as Tuchel was sacked, and Potter was forced to play Kepa. He was out injured for like a month and in that time Kepa actually played pretty well, so he kept his place. What also hasn’t helped is Mendy and Chelsea have been unable to agree on contract terms. He has rejected every offer for the last 12 months, so I guess both parties came to agreement that it was best for him to find a different club.
What about the other dead weight dross like Sterling and Mount?Yep sold him at a loss, Ziyech will be sold for around £8m after we signed him for £30m three years ago.
I understand people are a bit frustrated or annoyed when they all insisted Chelsea would have trouble trimming the squad and now seeing us trim the squad by nearly 10 players with ease by the end of June.
If Chelsea are money laundering then they're not very good at it. Koulibaly has cost them £13million for what has been effectively a seasons loan and they've paid his wages/signing on fee/agents fees and everything else into the bargain.
If any of ours go to Saudi are we dodging FFP?
I've never understood this aggression to opposition fans on a football forum unless they've had a go first. I always thought that was more a rawk thing where no dissenting voice is allowed.
Edit: what are these PIF links BTW?
Ziyech is 30 but Koulibaly & Kante are both 32 and presumably on good money at Chelsea. I think you're stretching there bud.Look who are linked to Saudi they ain’t 31 year old has beens where no other club wants them in Europe! Saying that good look to Chelsea getting rid of there dead wood so they can buy even more players so in effect there squad hasn’t reduced!
mendy looked very capable, people sometimes don't realise how important a keeper is for success , i don't think kepa is the answer going forward for you either , dont think hes a bad keeper, but if you start off as kepa did it takes something very special to get back, we saw it with bravo, never recovered from his poor start with us , cech was very big boots to fill
What about the other dead weight dross like Sterling and Mount?
Or do you consider them part of the squad.
Ziyech is 30 but Koulibaly & Kante are both 32 and presumably on good money at Chelsea. I think you're stretching there bud.
Look who are linked to Saudi they ain’t 31 year old has beens where no other club wants them in Europe! Saying that good look to Chelsea getting rid of there dead wood so they can buy even more players so in effect there squad hasn’t reduced!