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Blue and White said:
We need to be careful what we say and wish for. We've got them in a couple of weeks in a very important game.

And they knocked us out of the season killer cup a couple of weeks ago.
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It is their cup final.
All Spurs have to do is get into the same mindset (win or the world ends) .
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Roman's been trying to flog the club for a while now but there's no one stupid enough to make an offer anywhere near his £3 billion valuation.

The rumoured Saudi bid for United was £3.8 billion. That gets you the richest club in world football with a stadium that holds nearly twice what The Bridge does.

The most valuable thing at Chelsea is the real estate and Roman doesn't even own the pitch at his own ground. Take away their player loaning business, Roman's £1.3 billion 'interest free loan' that grows by about £80m per year and then add in the cost of developing the stadium and the actual value of the club is pretty much limited to the value of that debt.

It ain't a simple fix, no matter what happens next...
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Ken Bates bought Chelsea FC for £1 in 1982
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Take away their player loaning business, Roman's £1.3 billion 'interest free loan' that grows by about £80m per year and then add in the cost of developing the stadium and the actual value of the club is pretty much limited to the value of that debt.
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AFAIK, Chelsky had a "year zero" where Roman wrote off the
entire debt and has even legally mandated that his inheritors cannot
call it in (in case his then wife decides she would rather have all the
money to spend on shoes etc) .

So now they are running like many other clubs, but with the UEFA FFP
biting increasing harder at a time when they may now be regularly out
of the CL.
 
The RDBD said:
AFAIK, Chelsky had a "year zero" where Roman wrote off the
entire debt and has even legally mandated that his inheritors cannot
call it in (in case his then wife decides she would rather have all the
money to spend on shoes etc) .

So now they are running like many other clubs, but with the UEFA FFP
biting increasing harder at a time when they may now be regularly out
of the CL.
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He'll want to get it back from sale proceeds though. You don't get that rich by writing off that much money. The problem is that it was spent on wages and transfer fees of players who have now retired or are still there and just a little bit ****.

The yanks can spot a turkey when they see one. The stadium is a real killer in terms of growth, which is why Roman's got nowhere to go. It'll cost a minimum £1.5 billion to develop that site....with 5 years playing somewhere else and the owner doesn't even own the pitch area....I can see the Americans just loving that!
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
Chelsea fans are roaming the internet displaying their dissatisfaction. Of course, Sarri has to go...that's a given.

There's also dissatisfaction with the amount of money spent and cries to spend more. In the last 2 seasons they've bought...

Morata £66m
Bakayoko £40m
Drinkwater £38m
Rudiger £35m
Zappacosta £25m
Emerson £20m
Giroud £17m
Barkley £17m

Kepa £72m
Pulisic £57m
Jorginho £51m
Higuain £8m (to jog around for a few weeks)

I make that the fat end of £430m in 2 seasons. Whatever the problems, spending money doesn't seem to be the answer....Maybe Villa will want to loan Barkley or Drinkwater?
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I'm not sure any of those players would make our best XI and only two or three would improve our squad. That illustrates why our policy of not spending is reasonable.
 
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PowerSpurs said:
I'm not sure any of those players would make our best XI and only two or three would improve our squad. That illustrates why our policy of not spending is reasonable.
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Absolutely.

Plus they've had some serious homegrown talent come through their Academy in that time and most of it has headed for the exit for much less. Utter madness.
 
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PowerSpurs said:
I'm not sure any of those players would make our best XI and only two or three would improve our squad. That illustrates why our policy of not spending is reasonable.
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The thing that stands out for me is we were linked with both Bakayoko and Barkley before the Chavs waved a handful of £50 notes at them to secure the deals, and while at the time it looked like we'd missed out now it looks less like we dodged a bullet and more that somebody paid a lot of money to stand in its path for us
 
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humanbeingincroydon said:
The thing that stands out for me is we were linked with both Bakayoko and Barkley before the Chavs waved a handful of £50 notes at them to secure the deals, and while at the time it looked like we'd missed out now it looks less like we dodged a bullet and more that somebody paid a lot of money to stand in its path for us
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In that regard, the Sugga Daddy FCs are useful in the food chain
as they filter out mercs with little drive to make a starting XI place
theirs by right.
 
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