Off Topic Chelsea

£260m give or take but aye it's in the ball park.

 

It was 238 before the Gordon signing so we are about a balls hair away from the 300m mark. With only Wood really bringing any sort of money for us.

Considering we haven't even got that many sponsorships yet bringing in more revenue we have been spending tons.

 

Even new sponsors aren’t going to make that much of a difference. There is no way we’ll get a £50m shirt sponsor and £50m kit deal be more like £20m each

 

We will always be net spenders now, not that I give a **** like.

One day the club could be as profitable as City seem to be, which will include serious investment our owners seem more than willing to give.

 

Once we start bringing in good players consistently we'll then have assets to sell at a reasonable value. Problem is now we are bringing in decent quality players but have little of value in the squad we would be willing to sell.
Once we have a good squad then the buy / sell rotation can begin. It's just difficult to get there

 

Yeah, Ashley totally drained the club in his final years. At least in the early days we had players who were worth a few quid, but in the last couple of years we had virtually nobody you could sell to generate any revenue - without literally letting your best player go.

 

Was Willock his last purchase?

 

Think so, yeah.

 

Think so myself albeit after a year loan or was it 6 months?

 

6 month loan followed by full purchase, I think.

 

Yeah that sounds right and in fairness to him his goals more or less kept us up that season.

 

Ashley paid up front with transfer fees
Until Willock …..

 

So he didn't buy him,did the new owners have to cough up the remaining payments?

 

Which was always the daftest ****ing model you could possibly implement.

 

If I remember Willock is the only player that was (is) paid for in instalments
Ashley knew what was coming

 

So aside from Jorginho, did Chelsea offload anyone?

 

So if they reach CL they're OK but if they don't they can't play in Europe? Doesn't seem to bad...

 

Oooooooooo a watch list. They must be worried now.

 

260 / 3 - 87 mil

87m per transfer window seems consistent with what to expect for a top 6 side.

87m per window is bang average these days.