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I know the Chelsea shenanigans could be a thread on its own, and there's almost no days when the question is not valid, but, *how the feck are they still operating like this?????* Not long ago, and it seems many times in the past, the statement has been made to the effect that 'they've gone too far this time' (financially). I heard things like they have to sell Gallagher immediately in order to carry on, and in fact everyone would know they are a distressed seller so they wouldn't get fair value anyway. And now we have them behaving apparently the same way they've always done, which is to buy a squad of 500 players and still find some way of not being done by the authorities for anything dodgy. And instead of selling Gallagher to Atletico we hear they're going to buy Felix from them.... following on from other major purchases such as Neto. So please please help me understand. How are they doing this!!!!
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
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You laugh, but I don't think asking for £25m for Nketiah is that unreasonable. He's a useful player, but he's just not good enough for the level we're at now. And even though his stats on the surface might look bad - 168 appearances, 38 goals, 8 assists - if you look at minutes-to-goals ratio, it's pretty decent.

Anyway, Bournemouth have held talks about signing him as a replacement for Solanke, so let's see what happens there.
 
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BrunelGunner said:
You laugh, but I don't think asking for £25m for Nketiah is that unreasonable. He's a useful player, but he's just not good enough for the level we're at now. And even though his stats on the surface might look bad - 168 appearances, 38 goals, 8 assists - if you look at minutes-to-goals ratio, it's pretty decent.

Anyway, Bournemouth have held talks about signing him as a replacement for Solanke, so let's see what happens there.
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I agree, he could be a good signing for Bournemouth and is likely to have a very good career in top level football, and who knows a couple of good seasons with them could still set him up for a step back up to a top 10 club.
 
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BrunelGunner said:
You laugh, but I don't think asking for £25m for Nketiah is that unreasonable. He's a useful player, but he's just not good enough for the level we're at now. And even though his stats on the surface might look bad - 168 appearances, 38 goals, 8 assists - if you look at minutes-to-goals ratio, it's pretty decent.

Anyway, Bournemouth have held talks about signing him as a replacement for Solanke, so let's see what happens there.
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He's just not very good though, plus he's on £100k pw.
 
vimhawk said:
I know the Chelsea shenanigans could be a thread on its own, and there's almost no days when the question is not valid, but, *how the feck are they still operating like this?????* Not long ago, and it seems many times in the past, the statement has been made to the effect that 'they've gone too far this time' (financially). I heard things like they have to sell Gallagher immediately in order to carry on, and in fact everyone would know they are a distressed seller so they wouldn't get fair value anyway. And now we have them behaving apparently the same way they've always done, which is to buy a squad of 500 players and still find some way of not being done by the authorities for anything dodgy. And instead of selling Gallagher to Atletico we hear they're going to buy Felix from them.... following on from other major purchases such as Neto. So please please help me understand. How are they doing this!!!!
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Just when you think Chelsea might go 24 hours without doing something dodgy, it appears they've extended Palmer's contract by two years. *He was already on an eight year contract*!!!! Having decided that nobody could do such long contracts any more, you would have thought that someone would have thought to make the rules that nobody can hold a contract of that length, however that is achieved, not just be given one on signing. But yet again Chelsea's capacity for cheating deviousness has out thought the authorities. So presumably the new rules don't apply to existing contracts, so does this mean his purchase price will be divided over 10 years now not 8 (which was ludicrous enough)?
 
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