05 Jan 2026 10:44:40
Hi Guys,
Personally I don't understand all the negative stuff about the owners, there spending money and doing things there way by buying young, we all want experience but look at sterling and KK, they were terrible buys, all that was needed was to keep Dave, Kante, silva etc.
RA was a great owner for our club and of it wasn't for his money I don't believe we would of won the PL or CL, but he also made plenty of mistakes buying players, Ben haim, baka, sidwell, boularouz, del horno, SWP, morata, etc etc.
All I'm saying is we've moved on from that era and the fans need to as well, the new owners have got things wrong but have done more things right, I'm not convinced by rosineir, but if that's there choice then I will get behind him 100%, negative and toxic atmosphere isn't going to help the club over forward.
Loads of points and trophies left to play for.
Up the blues x.
05 Jan 2026 11:22:42
great post Steve and fully agree mate.
05 Jan 2026 11:59:14
Steve, while I might not always give the owners my 100% support. I will try my best to understand what they are trying to achieve.
05 Jan 2026 16:15:49
SteveCfc I don't know why the owners haven't tried a judicous combination of buying young players who will then hopefully be of sufficient quality and stay for some time at club. Hence becoming experienced/battle hardened to EPL in time. But also not shy away from carefully adding one or two already proven quality players eg at CB or striker to give us a chance of challenging for EPL or ECL now not just in the 2030s. Yes one expects hits and misses in terms of quality of incomings but the new owners also don't always seem to have key positions covered. Why also sell likes of a Madueke - who was developing into a v good player for us and had great understanding with Cole Palmer - to bring in a Gittens or Garnacho?
Another issue. I don't know how often you try and get a ticket to an EPL game at Stamford Bridge lately? But in the last couple of seasons under the new owners this is almost impossible unless you are willing to pay 180 pounds for a home game v Burnley or 400 for a home game v Arsenal say. In the Abromovich era it was usually possible as a member to get a ticket to an EPL game with even Westview tickets having a top price of 70 pounds. In other words unless you are a season ticket holder - but for years travelling for work purposes didn't make this a sensible option for me - bar the season ticket holders any other available tickets still seem to be going to bumped up price touting sites (one owned by Todd Boehly at one stage) or pay those Westview prices.
Having said all that yes I can see there is a Vision 2030 and that we may be slowly moving in the right direction. plus if we ever get a bigger stadium perhaps getting tickets at affordable price may be easier again.
05 Jan 2026 18:22:19
Again all this talk of the owners getting things right. such as? at this point we have a 1/10 hit rate on transfers and that's probably being generous. Maybe they show less arrogance accept they got things wrong and change this bone headed approach. can't see it with the ego of eghbali.
05 Jan 2026 19:32:52
Out of a squad of 25, that’s not many hits.
I have no idea about the egos of our owners. They are mega rich so I assume they have egos!
05 Jan 2026 20:45:00
squad of 25 and another 25 that have been quicksold or are hanging around as unsellable + a few 14 year olds thrown in cos they might be good in 15 years.
05 Jan 2026 21:05:21
The number of players doesn’t change the ratio.
As I said it would we appear we don’t have many hits.
05 Jan 2026 21:34:25
Yeah cause we have brought loads of 14 year old.
05 Jan 2026 22:54:54
finally got something right Tom- we don't have many hits yet the clowns in charge of recruitment still have their jobs. jealous almost. if i messed up that badly at work id have my P45 before the end of the day.
06 Jan 2026 03:14:27
My maths was right on both occasions. In my opinion it’s your ratio that’s wrong.