The new players and manager we appointed do not impress me much. Undoing the good work eventually done by Pochettino and bringing in a different and slower style of play based around a central defender reduces the impact of players like James and Gusto. That is not my idea of progress. We have to wait and see, but looks very much like buying kids for profit is still more important than building a top team. Winstanley and Stewart thinking Badasheille is better than Chalobah is another problem.
I watched part of the Celtic game and I know they’ve had a lot more fitness work than us but I was astounded at how poor we were. If anybody wants a laugh watch their goal when Sanchez passes it out to Badiashille, it’s Sunday league stuff. Sadly we’re now very much run as a business. Their aim is to sign these unheard of youngsters and turn a profit in 2-3 seasons. Anybody from the academy that looks good will be shipped out as they’re also seen as full profit. We’re crying out for a solid spine but just haven’t got any of it. I saw a post earlier about the keepers we’ve signed since Cech left and we’ve spent 150m on about 6 of them and the list was horrendous.
Then theres the list of strikers we haven’t signed since , who , Costa ?? You are right, our owners care not a jot about winning, just buy and sell on youngsters and clear out the Academy, hoping against hope to keep the team just good enough to scrape into Europe and get some prize money. Hope its wont be long before kids refuse to sign, then it all goes up in smoke and the Septics bail out back to California, hot dogs, and diet Coke.
Chalobah being forced out and looks like Gallagher on his way to Atletico it seems. Two of the very few left who looked like they always cared, not got many of those left, worrying signs Indeed.
Gallagher now banished from 1st Team if he doesnt agree to go. What a rotten stinking lousy Club we now are. No brains, no integrity, no morality, no trophies, just greed, ignorance and the most gutless couple of duds in football in Stewart and Winstanley. Heres my tip, Maresca will be lucky to last longer than Poccettino, Gallagher and Chalobah will stick it out and leave for frees. Hope Im right. Soon found Gallagher is going. Wish him the best of luck. Treated terribly by Club, another step downwards courtesy of the Septics.
Am finding it real hard to follow my club at the moment. Even when we sucked, at least we had an identity, now I dont know what the **** we are. Boehly's signings continue to baffle the **** out of me. Lots of young, no mark players from random places all around the world, most of whom, I wager, will never wear a Chelsea jersey in a competitive game. Our squad is close to 50 players now, and we still dont have a decent striker or goalkeeper. How is it even remotely possible to manage a squad of that size? Dewsbury Hall and Neto? Decent players both but completely unnecessary signings, we had the same or better already in the squad. WTF is our board playing at? Why are we forcing players like Gallagher and Chalobah out of the club and bringing in expensive replacements, of the same or lesser quality? Makes zero ****ing sense to me!
Exactly how i feel. I have barely even taken any interest in ore season, watched a few odd minutes here and there but that’s it. I think the manager change did it for me, we just started to look good and we got rid of him and I’m not all convinced we’ve made a good choice with Maresca. But the signings I just can’t work out. If it was youngsters that were costing a few million then fair enough but we’re paying 20M+ for players who will probably never even play a game for us? Not only that we’ve spent all that money and we still don’t have a strong #9 or an obvious #1. We also look particularly weak at Centre back but don’t seem to be bothered about that either.
Absolutely spot on !! If there is a Plan it's no good and not working. If there is a "Project" it's about making money, not about making the Club better. If the Owners genuinely care about the Club or football, then they need to fire all their backroom people and start with new ones with football acumen. Especially Stewart and Winstanley who have not made us one jot better or stronger, and spent a Billion and a half doing so.
I think the fans will make their opinion heard pretty quickly if things don’t go well immediately. That might sound harsh but really, immediate performance and success is what’s required to demonstrate the board know what they’re doing.
Yep, they don't seem able to even do that . The Septics have tried to find every backhanded way to work the system financially, long contracts, selling Hotels to themselves, buying kids then selling them to Strasbourg with a buy back equal to the payment received, all they are doing is tying themselves in knots and causing Academy kids to start looking to leave, and others to sign with other Clubs. Absolutely, utterly hopeless owners.
From a pure business standpoint, if you are a billionaire, then investing in a football club is a terrible way to make money. Unless its a global staple like Man United or Real Madrid, you arent going to make any real money, at least not relative to a billionaire's standing. The only way you are going to do that with any other club is to elevate them to a global staple, ie by winning champions leagues and signing big name players, which is what I believe Roman was trying to achieve with Chelsea. Buying a PL club then piss balling about with an endless conveyor belt of unknown teenagers and scraping into the Europa Conference isnt going to achieve jack **** in financial terms. You might make a couple million here and a few million there, but as a billionaire with your hands in, what I can only assume, is hundreds of pies (in business terms), there are far easier and more lucrative ways to expand your bank account. The saying is, it takes money to make money, and if you are a billionaire, you can make money hand over fist doing all sorts of ****, and investing in a mid table Premier league club would be WAAAAY down on the list of profitability.
Indeed. Think about it though, it cost Boehly and co £4bn to buy the club and the highest profit Chelsea have ever posted in a single financial year is £60m. Even if Chelsea made that every year (which they dont, by a long shot), it would take Clearlake about 50 years just to earn enough to break even, and thats before you factor in any other financial investments they make with the club like players, training ground, stadium improvement etc. Chelsea might turn over £600m a year, but most years the profit is 0
and don't forget ,unlike the UK govt , that they have a legal obligation to either upgrade SB or build a new one . Oh and RA pumped in at least £1bn in buying shares that Chelsea had generated so the real profit loss is higher than the accounts show .
I’ve a feeling a transfer ban might be heading our way so they’re getting as many as possible in whilst they’re allowed. In all honesty I think we need a transfer ban.
Indeed. The fact that we, as fans would welcome a transfer ban, says all you need to know about the boards transfer policy.
