06 Jan 2026 10:09:25
Welcome Liam Rosenior to Chelsea FC the home of the Club World Champions.
I hope you are our manager for a long time and bring us further success.
06 Jan 2026 10:37:42
Good luck to the man. seems a nice fella- bit surprised to see a 6 year contract, they must really believe in him. sure the brighton connection is just a coincidence.
06 Jan 2026 11:09:50
More excited by this appointment than the last couple hope it works out.
Expect to see Santos and Delap benefit in terms of minutes on pitch.
06 Jan 2026 13:53:38
seymns2,
I think all on here hopes he is successful playing good football.
06 Jan 2026 14:33:28
Bill, I have abandoned all hope. The only credentials he has for the job is that he is an in-house Blue Co yes man. It will probably end in tears but it won’t matter: the Billionaire owners will still be Billionaires, the jumped-up scouts in the hierarchy will still have jobs and the coach will get some compo and being sacked by Chelsea is unlikely to tarnish your reputation.
The only people who will suffer are the fans. This set-up has no ambition and no football soul.
06 Jan 2026 14:46:56
I may well be wrong but I think he only played
for Brighton. Not that it makes any difference to me!
06 Jan 2026 14:57:08
Jimbo sadly I don't think any top club has a football soul anymore.
06 Jan 2026 15:13:06
But some do have ambition Seymns2.
06 Jan 2026 15:39:37
Bill1955, I think our owners have ambition, it's only an impression but I think Egbahli has an ambition to make money any which way, but I see Boehly as wanting to make money and having a winning team.
Apart from the state owned teams most teams are owned by Business Men and it's about making cash these days Roman was the last sugar daddy owner with unlimited funds.
06 Jan 2026 15:48:41
Bill, I think the article mentioned above clearly expressed the club’s ambitions and attempted to put to bed some of the myths.
I would like more articles like that and a more transparent ownership or FAB. Bring back CTV.
06 Jan 2026 17:02:10
Seymns, there are a lot more easier ways for Billionaires and corporations to make money than to invest in football clubs. One would hope that part of the reason it to enhance their reputations by building a successful team.
As for the article : who is Danny Windsor? It reads like he has been converted to a cult: he is basically reporting what he was told like a Russian journalist interviewing Putin.
06 Jan 2026 18:23:19
Tom, Seymns2
I really beleive deep down that the owners want us to succeed but I beleive the issue is that they have differing views as to how that should happen.
06 Jan 2026 18:44:38
Bill, the most important thing is they come together as one voice rather than going public with any splits. I think they call it collective responsibility.
Of course projecting such a singular image isn’t always easy. Plus of course you have some who just convince themselves things are all positive or negative.
06 Jan 2026 19:12:39
Bill, the owners idea of success is probably different to the fans.
06 Jan 2026 19:35:51
Seymns
Former Bayern president Uli Hoeneß: "We could charge more than €120 per season ticket. If we charge €350 per season ticket we would get €2m extra, but what does that mean for us?
The difference for a fan between €120 and €350 is enormous and we do not believe that fans are like cows, which are milked.
Football has to be for everyone. That is the biggest difference between us and England. "
Some big clubs do have a football soul.
06 Jan 2026 20:44:20
I wouldn’t know how many home games BM play at home each season but if it’s 25 ish €50m seems a lot to be so dismissive about.
Anyway, good luck to BM and their very lucky supporters.
{Ed001's Note - it is not relevant how many games Tom, Hoeness was talking about season ticket prices, so it would be one payment, not one per home match.}
06 Jan 2026 20:59:24
Ed, good point. Silly me and still very lucky BM.
06 Jan 2026 21:01:47
Ed, on reflection that’s bonkers even for a 20 match season ticket. It’s about £5 per match. Truly amazing.
{Ed001's Note - very common in the Bundesliga because clubs have to be 51% owned by fans. There are a few exceptions, such as the detested RB Leipzig. It makes a huge difference having a league that gives a toss about fans.}
06 Jan 2026 21:15:36
At £5 a game it leaves a lot of change for a few JD’s.
06 Jan 2026 21:55:00
The quote I posted is probably a couple of years old: a BM season ticket now costs €175: extortionate for an elite European club with a top class stadium! Some of you are missing the point.
06 Jan 2026 22:44:15
Outrageous a nearly 40% increase. So about £7 a game. That’s ok I’m still on the large JD’s.
I’ve never been to see Dortmund. At least the natch ticket is affordable.
07 Jan 2026 08:54:20
Tom. Germany is a great beer and football country. One- off tickets for Bayern would be more expensive so you would have to cut back on the JDs. The Bundesliga has the highest average attendance in Europe and it still is the people’s game over there.
07 Jan 2026 09:19:43
Jimbo, my daughter, her husband and my grandchildren has just moved to Frankfurt. So I’m hoping to visit them soon and hopefully see a game.
My other daughter and her family have just moved to Amsterdam. So, that should be fun as well.
The reasons they are both leaving the UK are not very complimentary to country I love. The upside side is I don’t have to watch so much German and Dutch football.