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19 May 2024 10:43:02
Anyone think vitor roque might be worth a look in the summer? .

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19 May 2024 11:56:47
Would be a big call in my opinion. I did see him play in one game this season and he was just ok.

He looked quite small but sometimes good things come in little packages (Zola)

If I remember correctly he was only about 18/ 19 years of age. Would be an interesting investment.

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19 May 2024 14:34:21
yeah he's very young tom b and i guess raw so would be a massive gamble.

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19 May 2024 10:23:51
Questions for all the fans/ posters and ed,

Do you think poch warrants another year?

For me yes because it feels finally like something is building and clearly the players have a bond with him.

Who will leave this season?
For me sterling, badiashille or disasi, neither are good enough, and id be tempted by an enzo bid he just reminds me of jorginho all over again, sanchez

Who would i like to sign?
Diogo costa
Guehi
Gibbs white
Solanke/ sesko/ boniface any of them 3

the reason for solanke is i feel like hed be a great rotation player with jackson, he's really grown on me jackson id hate to see us sign oshimen and see jackson on the bench for half the season nect year

Gibbs-white his energy and style would suit us far more than someone like enzo

Guehi i think he was another mistake we let go, i think his history with the club and his maturity now would be great for the dressing room and maybe hel show just like galagher and chalobah and colwill and james etc what it means to be a chelsea and i think solanke also fits that mould

Diogo costa would be an upgrade on what we have id keep petrovic and id play him in all the cups and europa league

1 wild card signing
Michael olise
An unbelievable talent another player whod trive in this team play him off the left maybe? so many options and hard to see were signings would even fit in now that our squad is finally recovering

All the above we probably don't even have interest just players id like to see personally at the club

Also 1 last thing, why the would we sell maatsenšŸ¤£ get him back and sell sick note chilwell.

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19 May 2024 10:46:05
Poch, I want Poch to be our manager at the start of next season.

Maatsen, that ship looks to have sailed but we may well regret it. Anyway I thought Hall was a better prospect.

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19 May 2024 10:52:43
I don't think hall done anything to prove he's a better prospect than maatsen tom
Its a real shame to sell someone like maatsen and them scamper around the market and over pay for someone whos not better.

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19 May 2024 11:47:19
I just think he was a better defender and more importantly he could play as a midfielder. If we continue with this inverted FB (not a fan) shape he would have suited it perfectly.

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19 May 2024 11:52:28
I agree Poch about Maatsen, shame he never really got a chance at LB. I could never really understand why Poch played him on the RW during pre-season. I do understand his concern for lack of height in the side so maybe that is a factor?

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19 May 2024 12:21:11
I think the height thing at FB could be a reasonable call. I also think Cucarella is marginally better
In the air than Chilly and of course James is better in the air than Gusto.

I think we have a dedicated defence coach coming in and it will be interesting to see if that improves our defending of set plays.

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19 May 2024 12:36:08
Iā€™d sign Messi, Chiellini and Buffon. Sell Cech, Ballack and Ivanovic.

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19 May 2024 07:44:23
Obviously hoping for an end of season win today but I'm not confident.

I can see Bournemouth causing us problems and Solanke always seems to be playing very well at the moment.

It would be awful if our small bubble burst in the last game of the season.

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19 May 2024 11:43:16
It would be a great pity not to win today Tom for the reasons you give and also because it's our last home game and would feel like an anitclinax after recent results. We would need a win an d Soutrs to lose to ctach them, unlikely. We need a draw to finish ahead of Newcastle and guarantee some kind of European football and that must be the bottom line. But yes anything can happen in EPL games given standard of the league and we need to be at them them from v start for full game, no slow moments after half time.

I do think thenplayers should be more than up for it and all CFC on field and in the stands will want to gve Silva a good send off.

So hugely hope we do!

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19 May 2024 12:15:09
JBS, such is football I can see us and the spuds both losing! That would be very ā€œspursyā€ and very Chelsea.

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18 May 2024 17:07:51
Congratulations to our chelsea women, champions once again.

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18 May 2024 17:44:38
Brilliant and just gereat for Emma Hayes to end with yet another trophy. She must be Alex Ferguson level successful in this respect. Just a pit that v dodgy refereeing cost her and CFC a cnache of wimming the women's Champions League.

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18 May 2024 17:47:50
Absolutely Bill, champions again!

The profile our womenā€™s team give our club is enormous. Very attractive proposition for club sponsors.

Good luck to EH and FK who will now move on to pastures new. Both are Chelsea legends.

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19 May 2024 11:45:14
Hi TomB - Don't forget Marin Mjelde who has also been a great servant to theclub.

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19 May 2024 12:12:27
Dempsey, good call. If I remember correctly she picked up a bad knee injury a few season ago but she did score some important goals. Also and again if I remember correctly EH refers to her as a ā€œChelsea legendā€ and that would be good enough for me!

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18 May 2024 17:00:29
Well done Chelsea Ladies.5 in a row. Brilliant.

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18 May 2024 17:44:53
Fantastic!

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18 May 2024 09:23:18
I will be at the game tomorrow. It could well be the last time I see Cucarella, Gallagher and Chalaboa playing in Chelsea colours and it will definitely be the last time I see Silva playing for us in the Premiership.

As I said a long time ago I can see about ten players (including loan players) leaving CFC in this window. Thanks and good luck to all of them.

I can't see us being crowned champions next season but it is the first time in a couple of years that I will renewing my season ticket with expectations rather than trepidation.

Anyway, COME on MY MIGHTY BLUES.

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18 May 2024 13:15:32
I hope we keep Big Trev but I understand he is looking for a move to get regular playing time, Conor will leave if he doesn't sign that contract and I hope Marc C stays, he has been brilliant since his surgery and it is great to hear the match day fans singing his name. Silva is doing his coaching badges and I would love to see him back one day as our head coach.

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18 May 2024 07:58:15
The recruitment team are going all out to sign Estevao Willian who looks an amazing talent and is wanted by a number of high profile clubs. I hope this one gets over the line. Also a nice piece in Tomorrows programme notes from Daniel Finkelstein talking about the reality of "the vision" and how patience was always the key. Very easy for some of the pundits and even "fans" to hammer a project with cheap digs and pathetic words. (Gary Neville comes to mind) so nice to see a bit of back tracking and praise being given for all the hard work being put in by the team.

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18 May 2024 09:03:29
If Mr Finkelstein reflects the boards feelings I look forward to Poch being confirmed as manager for next season and beyond ideally.

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18 May 2024 09:14:53
Never seen him play. Iā€™m sure he is a talent but he is young and who knows how he will develop as a player!

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18 May 2024 09:23:08
I mean, we've spent a billion. Top 4 was the minimum expectations from the owners until they moved the goalposts because it went so horrifically. Yes we're on a good roll now and we have brought in some talented players but with the squad we had under tuchel finishing 3rd and winning the champions league a season prior, after a billion spent you'd expect an epl title in that time and another ucl, not 6th.

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18 May 2024 09:33:55
Drog, so far and itā€™s only my experience, the FAB have not covered themselves in glory. What I would say and having had the pleasure of meeting Finkelstein a few years ago I hope his influence can improve fans communication.

Again and for those interested please look at the FAB meeting agendas. Sadly I canā€™t find any action results.

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18 May 2024 09:37:51
With the age of the players brought in Standard, a new coach in Poch, nobody should expect an immediate EPL and/ or UCL.

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18 May 2024 09:52:37
If we had spent a billion on established players who stayed fit for most of the season we would have been competing for the title but we didn't.
We assembled a bunch of talented kids very few of which had PL experience and quite a few have proven chronically inury prone.
Based on that 5/ 6th and good cup tmruns is an acceptable return.

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18 May 2024 10:59:01
Drog, maybe your point about experienced players is valid but generally speaking that would have come with a much higher annual wage bill and going forward that looks like becoming more relevant.

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18 May 2024 11:22:25
Tom, the wage bill is a valid point but if in the future we want to bring in proven top players they wonā€™t come cheap. Also, this has to b balanced out by losses to b revenue by failing to qualify for the CL.

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18 May 2024 12:03:38
Apparently some fans seem to have forgotten that the first summer under Boehly &co we mostly kept the exact squad that won the CL and finished 3rd, whilst adding experienced players like Koulibaly, Sterling and Aubameyang that Tuchel had asked for. We played rubbish and TT got sacked.

If we hadnā€™t been banned by the gov from signing players weā€™d have offered Rudiger and probably Christiansen extensions. Pretty sure weā€™d have signed Tchoumeni too.

You could argue the Ā£100m spent on Sterling, Koulibaly and Auba could have been better spent on Osimhen. Perhaps the Ā£135m spent on Cucurella and Fofana could have been spent on the likes of Gvardiol and maybe Bastoni etc. But the owners bought the players TT wanted.

If you look at the squad when Boehly and co took over, I actually donā€™t think it was very good tbh. Mendy, Kepa, Zouma, Emerson, Alonso, Jorginho, Drinkwater, Barkley, Kennedy, Ziyech, Lukaku, Werner. None of them good enough realistically despite finishing 3rd. Pulisic, RLC and Kante injured 90% of the time. Then Rudi and Christiansenā€™s contracts expired. There was always going to need to be a massive turnover of the squad. Those initial summer signings are pretty much all going to be moved on (Auba and Koulibaly have already left) Sterling and Cucu are linked with leaving.

So Iā€™d actually argue that it was the experienced players that we initially bought which has set the project back.

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18 May 2024 12:27:02
I was responding to the comments made about the failure to compete for the title this season.
The strategy to reduce the wage bill has been clear and probably the way to go currently.
But don't expect the club to compete for Top 4 when we have a lot of players lacking PL experience a new coach plus horrendous Injuries.
The club should have publically praised and supported the manager weeks ago.

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18 May 2024 12:28:54
We have failed to qualify for the Champions League before and managed to struggle through!

I have no idea what cheap is but Iā€™m sure the club will keep under the latest proposals.

I would like and still think there is a chance we might secure the service of Osimhen for next season but is he so called ā€œproven? ā€.

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18 May 2024 12:36:35
Drog, I agree the club should have given Poch the thumbs up weeks ago but to also be fair my guess is that will happen after the supposed scheduled season review in a few weeks time.

Putting aside injuries as something we all home statistically improves for next season, a lot of our young players (but not all) will have had a season in the PL to acclimatise so Iā€™m looking for and expect improvement for next season.

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18 May 2024 12:39:28
Fuser, I agree the new owners have apparently admitted they got things wrong and were poorly advised in those early days. The squad size was ridiculous.

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18 May 2024 13:10:55
I agree with all of your post Fuser.

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18 May 2024 17:33:01
Not qualifying for the CL two seasons in a row is a failure for a ā€œbig club ā€œ like Chelsea whichever way you spin it.

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18 May 2024 18:19:18
You canā€™t spin fact.

We will get by with what Iā€™m told will be a very attractive sponsorship deal, hopefully the Europa cup and a min Ā£50m next summer in that USA club competition, plus an apparent significant cut in salary costs.

Other so called big teams have missed out on Champions league for more than two seasons running and they have also survived.

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18 May 2024 20:47:06
Tom, which Europa cup, no money in either. I hope your mate is right about the sponsorship deal. So other teams are called ā€œso called big teams ā€œ. Your facts are suited to your opinions.

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18 May 2024 21:26:44
The club has exceeded my expectations-fact.

We will be getting a junk of change for playing in an end of next season tournament-fact.

We will be getting money from sponsorship-fact.

We will be lowering our annual wage bill-fact.

Clubs who do well in the Europa Cup make money-fact.

Of course I could be a miserable/ negative old tw@t rather than happy/ positive old tw@t but that is never going to happen-fact.

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19 May 2024 00:59:10
Tom,
Your expectations are not facts- fact
Our invitation into the end of of season tournament will provide income but is based on past performances- fact
Two seasons without CL income will affect our finances- fact
All clubs who have sponsorship deals will receive income- the issue is how much the deal is worth- fact
I believe we have lowered our wage bill but I donā€™t know by how much - fact
I wonā€™t comment on you how you come across, we all have our own perceptions of our personalities.

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19 May 2024 06:47:35
Jimbo, if we reach my expectations it becomes fact- fact.

Obviously not being in Champs league effects our finances but you said there is ā€œno moneyā€ in the Europa, you are wrong-fact.

We will be getting Ā£50m minimum form an end of season competition that will help our financial position-fact.

Our annual wage bill has come down- fact.

I wouldnā€™t have a clue about your personality, my comment was about ā€œmyā€ choice of personality. I will always be positive because I have to be- fact.

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19 May 2024 09:31:51
Tom, an expectation is a belief that something will happen, the outcome of the expectation is a fact, not the expectation itself.

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19 May 2024 09:50:41
Your focus now appears to have moved on from my listed facts and your misguided information that the Europa competitions offer ā€œno money. ā€


I suggest you read my post again. My expectation has been reached therefore that expectation becomes my fact-fact.

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17 May 2024 19:45:53
Just been reading an article about a very long serving employee of CFC called Brian Pullman who has just retired from his work at the club age 86.

There must be hundreds of Brian's up and down the country. Brilliant.

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18 May 2024 09:23:40
I'll be back in england in January, maybe they'll hire me to replace the position šŸ˜….

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18 May 2024 09:35:50
Why not apply. I think he served the club for about 56 years.

I bet he could tell some stories about our club and players. He should write a book.!

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19 May 2024 00:24:58
I'll be applying all over the country tom, though there are a few places I won't apply for jobs in lol.

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19 May 2024 07:07:27
Good luck Standard. There would still appear to be plenty of jobs but Iā€™m not sure how many are well paid.

I was in the City of London a few weeks ago and there didnā€™t seem to be a shortage of funds splashing around that day but I guess that could have all been on credit.

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17 May 2024 19:10:01
Information about ticket prices for next season is on the Chelsea website. It looks like concessions will stay at 50%. I have in recent years been in two minds about the discount for seniors. A lot of baby boomers have a lot more disposable income than younger people who are starting off their careers and families. I suppose it depends to some extent on the percentage of supporters who are entitled to the 50% discount.

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17 May 2024 19:34:49
And a lot of so called baby boomers donā€™t have much, if any, disposable income.

The continued concession for Premier supporters over 65 and kids is most welcome.

As far as I can remember we have generally (some areas did go up) had only one season ticket increase in about 20 years, this 5% increase is now the second.

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17 May 2024 19:50:24
Not sure why the word ā€œPremierā€ appeared.

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18 May 2024 09:38:06
Tom, I was referring to concessions for seniors not young people. A lot of under 65s donā€™t have a lot of disposable income. The old dufffers who I know at Chelsea and personally are generally financially secure. The question is whether supporters who have held season tickets before they reach 65 could afford to pay full price which is very difficult to judge. The issue I raised is not new, the debate about the disparity in wealth between the generations has been going on for years. My point is that concessions for seniors is not, nor should it be sacrosanct.

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18 May 2024 10:56:18
Jimbo, I understood your point but totally disagree with it. The concessions for OAPā€™s and young people are long standing and most welcome for both groups.

As far as some OAPā€™s being better off that other OAPā€™s I canā€™t see how the club could differentiate other than means test them.

Within my group of friends there are six OAPā€™s. One has a top up/ private pension, two have there families paying for there tickets and the other three make personal sacrifices from there state pension and pensioner credits. They have all supported the club for over forty years and paid the full price for there season ticket over many years. Now in there old age they get a ST concessionā€¦ā€¦I think itā€™s reasonable.

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17 May 2024 12:12:40
Remember when Romero before he was eventually sent of v chelsea, was tackled and kicked out at James while in the floor, VAR looked at it and said " petulant not violent "

We should appeal and use that example, the inconsistency is what's annoying.

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17 May 2024 13:57:21
Matt I mentioned that incident below in the VAR thread. An appeal would make sense but I just donā€™t see it being overturned. Regardless of the inconsistency James should know better than to do it.

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17 May 2024 14:36:03
To be fair, those two incidents were of a completely different order of magnitude.

When I first saw the James one I thought it was nothing, but on the replay with the correct angle it's an extremely hard kick out with a lot of force applied through the studs. You could definitely hurt someone like that. Romero's was petulant, fairly soft contact with the laces and not the studs (though there are different kinds of laces kicks, of course ā€“Ā thinking of Rooney's when he got sent off for England), and highly unlikely you could injure someone. Players have certainly been sent off for it before (Beckham, for example), but I'd rather they weren't. I'm a big critic of the way VAR has been used, but on balance both of those decisions were correct.

If you want to show where VAR has been totally idiotic, you'd absolutely look at the Lamptey on Mudryk ā€“ you couldn't see a clearer red card than that. But then VAR has history for being shocking when it comes to intentional contact with the player's head, either through forearm, elbow, shoulder ā€“Ā remember Azpi being absolutely assaulted by Mane in the final a couple of years ago? There have been loads of similar incidents in the last couple of seasons: Bruno Fernandes on Max Aarons last year particularly sticks in my head. Had a long good look at him (which you could obviously see on the replay) and then smashed him in the face with his forearm as they were running side by side. VAR had a glance and decided it was nothing.

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17 May 2024 15:13:11
I remember Harry maguire kicking out at one of our players with far more force in the stomach and got absolutely nothing for it. Whether itā€™s right or wrong there needs to be consistency.

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17 May 2024 20:46:00
Horans: and of course Keita's horror tackle on Chalobah that left cuts down his thigh that needed stitches, and no card. Yes, consistency would be great. I guess that's an issue with a subjective opinion, and why VAR is such a mess. When the ref makes a mistake on field you can understand it. When there's an extra ref looking at replays and they still make the same mistakes it's harder to swallow.

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17 May 2024 10:39:53
Morning everyone, we've had a very good few months, apart from Arsenal game.
I'm even more optimistic about next season, as long as we see progress I'll be happy.
Be a very interesting transfer window and there will always be silly rumours, I hope we get the right players in and try and keep TC and CG.
Hopefully ed2 can give some insight and the abuse can stop.

Also how good was the young Brighton LB when he came on.

Up the blues x.

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17 May 2024 11:32:50
Good morning Steve, we are at the top end of my expectations but obviously not my hopes.

I think we will finish between 3rd-5th next season bout Iā€™m obviously hoping for more.

I want Poch as our manager for the start of next season but he will be under immediate pressure to produce results and thatā€™s the way it should be.

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17 May 2024 14:17:26
Yes Steve, I agree, Barco was fantastic.

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