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11 Feb 2025 17:12:45
Does anyone - perghaps one of the Eds? - know whether there is any truth in the rumour that CFC may be wanting/ willing to sell Santos in the summer to the highest bidder for 'pure profit?
I hope it isn't true - and that is just paper news stiirring things up - given AS's great performances for Strasbourg and of course for Brazil youth teams. He seems to have worldy potential. Also because one fears that Lavia may never be fit for very long.
{Ed001's Note - I don't know about wanting, but they will sell him if the right offer comes along. You could probably say the same about any of the players to be honest, from what I have heard.}
1.) 11 Feb 2025 17:41:48
JBS, there was a rumour pre January window that a club (no name given) was prepared to offer £160m for Palmer.
I personally don’t like the term commodities to describe a person but that’s how I think they are considered.
2.) 11 Feb 2025 18:30:50
And that's why Tom, we will not be successful. We needed a settled squad to grow together.
If we wanted to sell players, I would put the ones who are forever injured, first.
3.) 11 Feb 2025 19:42:42
Bill, you may well be correct but it’s not as if we didn’t buy and sell players under the RA ownership.
All clubs get injuries but it’s when the same players keep getting injured it becomes a concern. As I said a few weeks ago, it’s a tough decision to draw stumps on a players Chelsea career but making those decisions is why they get paid the big bucks.
4.) 11 Feb 2025 20:46:50
Tom yes players have been commodities for a long time now in terms of being traded by clubs. What worries me with new owners is that this trading has not only been surcharged in terms of volume but also that it does not seem to have prioritised creating a winning side any time soon. Instead it's become as much if not more about trading for for bottom line accounting sake. We sell Gallagher and buy Felix to then loan him out. Maresca belatedly says he wanted to keep him and perhaps he did but then why give him so little EPL game time? We buy Veiga then sideline Chilwell then loan out Veiga removing cover for Cucurella at LB then spend money on bringing in a 16 yr old striker from Kazakhstan. An investment in the future? Vision 2030 again? Who knows but how about 2025?
I can just see so little logic in far too much of our transfer business.
Was loaning out Santos in CFC interest or other owners' club Strasbourg?
Is Sanchez who Poch didn't particularly rate better than Petrovich who he did but then gets loaned to Strasbourg where he shines?
Bottom line is do the new owners care as much about success on the pitch as Roman A. Or more about success with the bottom line in accounting terms itself
Yes but do they not know that GETTING ECL football would likely do more for bottom. line playersvhan tradingng in kids?
5.) 11 Feb 2025 21:16:08
Really good points JBS.
6.) 11 Feb 2025 22:07:58
JBS, I have said many times that in my opinion the owners have gone too quickly in taking on what is a complete rebuild of not only the first team squad but also the supporting structure but I will maintain that the club was overdue that restructuring.
I am absolutely convinced that our current owners not only care about success but also crave it. I cannot for one moment believe that they don’t want to increase the value of there investment and the best way to do that is to be consistent winners and habitual champions league qualifiers.
I’m not sure I like the idea of buying/ investing in 16 year old kids but that is a different subject. In the last window I think the spuds signed three (one from us) academy players from other clubs. As is often the case clubs act like sheep and it would appear that a significant percentage of clubs are looking more and more at youth as the way forward. Maybe it’s a PSR thing but as I said in a recent post how many premiership clubs have paid a transfer fee for a player over the age of 25 in this last window? I’m struggling to think of any!
Time will tell if the owners approach pays dividends but generally in the world of football ownership these are early days and remember they made a complete horlicks of virtually everything at the beginning of there tenure.
7.) 12 Feb 2025 10:05:38
Tom
I agree that we have sold youngsters in the past. However, we had a large number of experienced players as a nucleus of our first team.
Likewise, other teams are bringing in youth as you say., However, they have a number of experience in their first team squad, that is the difference.
8.) 12 Feb 2025 10:55:38
Bill. I’m not saying that the current trend is correct or that having a mixture of youth and experience wouldn’t be a better way to go. I’m just pointing out what appears to be a pattern.
9.) 12 Feb 2025 11:59:18
Spot on Bill we have got rid of all our experienced players bar James - and some sidelined on loan.
Belayted thanks Ed001 for your comment and Tom I am sure the owners want the club to succeed as they have made a huge investment in it but one is questioning whether they've got the right ideas about achieving this in last few seasons where we crying out to have experience in key -spine of team of you like - positions alongside youth. Look, with right decisions in the summer - and if we have qualified for ECL so we can attract the best we need eg top striker and retain the best we have - we could move faster in right direction.
Right now and with ECL v far from guaranteed my feeling is our medium term fate in the balance. It could all go well with ECL qualification and good summer transfer dealings. But if we don't get ECL qualification perhaps we will have to sell the likes of Santos or - as you have suggested - even Palmer and it will feel like a struggle all obver again to get back to chgallenging for big trophies and to have really got 'our Chelsea back' that we were singing lustily in the Southampton away game.
{Ed001's Note - very welcome JBS. I do think I should point out that you might have different ideas about what success is than the owners though. They are looking at it as an investment to make money, I am not so sure they see success on the pitch as all that vital. Which I disagree with personally, but it does seem that it is about trading players to make a profitable enterprise, rather than about putting the best players possible on the pitch to win trophies.}
10.) 12 Feb 2025 12:15:59
Good point to emphasise Ed001 and thanks for it. Yes if owners care more about trading to gain profit rather than success on the pitch - though you would think that they should realise success on the pitch would help with profits and dealings - then we have to be very worried as fans.
{Ed001's Note - these are not football people though JBS, they are investors who are new to the sport and see it from an American sports perspective. US sports franchises are money-making machines regardless of results.}
11.) 12 Feb 2025 12:16:55
JBS, I haven’t suggested we will sell Palmer, I have said there was “rumoured interest. ”
I keep saying and this is only my view that the players are a commodity and I believe we have to get used to our favourite players being available for sale.
I also assume that the club will make more revenue if it wins trophies and that’s why I think our current owners would also like to win competitions.
12.) 12 Feb 2025 14:14:17
Tom I think we all hope you are right. But what do you think of ED001's additional point - one it is hard to disagree with from myn perspective - that our woners are not footballing people ie so may not have the passion that owners who are have for success on the pitch above all?
13.) 12 Feb 2025 15:31:10
JBS, as usual us fans are only guessing but they are a very rich group of people who seem to have a passion for sports investments and making money.
I have no idea if they are truly in love with “soccer” but my guess is they are truly in love with money. Again just me guessing but if they win trophies with Chelsea for example the potential increases in revenues are huge. The club also becomes globally more appealing if it wins trophies and that again brings in more revenue.
14.) 15 Feb 2025 07:01:24
I have been screaming on here that boely and Co are not working to make Chelsea great again on the pitch winning games. I said that the club had been hijacked and might never be the same again but tomb and likes were there deceiving themselves with plenty talks.
The policy of buying only young players is just the profits from the sale and not to get the club back on top boely and Co were the worst possible owners from the bidders but the enemies of the club who taken the political advantage of the war in Ukraine chose them to Bury the club overtime. Roman was targeted and I still think he might return to the club again.
15.) 04 Mar 2025 11:43:24
Tussle, I have always assumed that if there is football success then the value of the owners investment will improve.
I have also assumed that any investment has been made to achieve a profit and that includes the buying and selling of players.
Pre our present owners I have also referred to players (same at most clubs) as commodities.
03 Feb 2025 17:12:48
Seems as though we may still be paying half of Chilly's wages at Palace (ie 100, 000 of the 200, 000 pounds per week) .
1.) 03 Feb 2025 17:54:04
I suppose the alternative was to pay him full wages and get splinters. Personally I would have kept him in the squad as Cucarella cover.
2.) 03 Feb 2025 18:13:03
Tom
Maresca would not have played him even if we only had nine players to choose from, that's how stubborn the man is.
3.) 03 Feb 2025 19:21:25
I'd have kept him in the squad and played him Tom. His experience surely useful to youngsters.
4.) 03 Feb 2025 20:15:23
It's just bad business imo. Surely at that point you'd just keep him? This is another thing that annoys me with the 7 year contracts. What happens when this happens and the player still has 5 years remaining on x wage? The bomb squad didn't work, just had adverse affects imo.
Sad to see chilly go, injury prone but when fit the best left back in the epl imo.
5.) 03 Feb 2025 23:16:16
I would have kept Chilly as cover only for Cucarella. I think fans should remember how bad Cucarella was when he joined our club and for whatever reason it took him time to find his feet. In my opinion he is now one of the best left sided defenders in Europe and a long way in front of Chilly.
6.) 04 Feb 2025 08:41:08
I agree tom. I think he put in some of the worst chelsea performances ever, worse than bakayoko. He's fantastic now.
7.) 04 Feb 2025 09:15:47
He is a very good example (me included) of why its beat not to rush to judge.
8.) 04 Feb 2025 17:55:58
Absolutely tom. And I do think you told me that when I was criticising his performances. Very glad he was able to find some performances, and he's exceeding my expectations.
9.) 06 Feb 2025 08:38:59
Cucurella was always a good player but did put in some bad performances as did many of the squad. However, I am a great believer in the saying “ You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”.
10.) 06 Feb 2025 09:07:40
But you can make a sows ear out of a silk purse!
11.) 11 Feb 2025 09:09:09
I disagree that cucurella is a long way in front of Chilwell. Chilwell is better in offensive position, final third.
03 Feb 2025 15:24:14
Is Felix likely to be sold or loaned to AC Milan? Is Disasi likely now to stay at the Bridge?
1.) 03 Feb 2025 15:45:23
Loan with no buy option for Felix.
2.) 03 Feb 2025 16:52:22
While i liked felix, every man and his dog knew it wasn't going to work. A favour for his agent, I suspect.
3.) 03 Feb 2025 16:53:06
So with Felix and Veiga going to Italy on straight loans, if they do well, come the end of the season it will be 'they want to stay in Italy and play for us but we can't afford to buy them, how about another loan'.
Before we know it we have more littke Lukaku's running across Italy.
We never learn with Italian clubs, we are their charity organisation.
4.) 03 Feb 2025 17:09:43
The reports I’m reading on Felix seem to be so different. One is saying straight loan with full wages paid plus €6.5m loan fee. I would be happy with that.
5.) 03 Feb 2025 18:13:59
And another loan next year Tom?
6.) 03 Feb 2025 19:28:47
Talksport reporting 5 million loan fee for Felix but Milan paying his wages. I enjoyed watching him and wonder if we really gave him a chance. Suppose if he does well at Milan we will just sell him or indeed loan him out again.
7.) 03 Feb 2025 20:17:54
Unfortunately I don't think there's a way back for felix. There wasn't a spot for him 6 months ago and there won't be one 6 months from now. Great player on his day and I hope he reaches atleast half what his potential was.
8.) 03 Feb 2025 23:18:20
I think it depends what happens to Palmer. If a ridiculous offer comes in for CP, Felix would be a reasonable replacement.
9.) 04 Feb 2025 15:24:30
Bill, they’re paying £5m as a loan fee for 6 months so if they want a loan for the whole season next year it’s £10m. Easy money and would count as a profit for the year in the accounts as his amortisation fee is around £7-8m I believe.
With Veiga Chelsea only paid £12m for him and are getting £4m as a loan fee. Any Italian club could afford to buy him at the end of the season easily, but I’m sure the club would love to keep farming him out on loan if that’s the fee they’ll get for just 6 months given the massive profit.
10.) 04 Feb 2025 18:18:36
fuser, good point and good economics.
03 Feb 2025 10:10:40
We are alsa said to be pusihing for 19 yr old Turkish striker Kenan Yildz of Juventus for c 75 million who is described as a forward (mainly left winger) and attacking midfielder and one of the most promising talent in then world.
Any legs in this one? Do any of the Eds have any info on CFC likely dealings today (we are all thinking of ED02 of course at this time, bless him) .
1.) 03 Feb 2025 10:25:45
JBS, I think if that amount of money was available in this window we would have signed Tel. We apparently offered BM a loan with an “obligation” to buy. That for me tells a story.
2.) 03 Feb 2025 10:36:49
Interesting Tom, if not very encouraging in terms of our fortunes right now and how we might be seen by talented players with options like Tel. If we want success in terms fe being genuine EPL challengers and really competitive in ECL any time soon we clearly need to qualify for ECL this season as we all thought we would come emnd of last one.
Hugely hope we can and will as you think we will Tom. But am sticking with my miserable 5th to 9th position at the moment and just praying its 5th and that will be enough! Mind you a hammering of the Hammers tonight plus trabsfer window uncertainties over tomorrow might just set us on right course again for last fourteen games after this one.
3.) 03 Feb 2025 12:21:48
JBS, as I said in a previous post, I’m not very optimistic about getting a result tonight.
I would rather the club get the right player than do what it has been doing and from the outside it’s like doing transfers because we can.
I think we may well sign a midfielder in the last mins of this window but for me that in some ways is crazy when we could just have brought back Santos.
Anyway only a few more hours of transfer rumours. Hooray!
4.) 03 Feb 2025 12:43:45
Couldn't agree more Tom. Almost every reported transfer seems to hinge on, or at least involve, a Chelsea player going the other way. We can read between the lines.
Despite what Maresca might say, Champions League qualification is an absolute necessity this season.
21 Jan 2025 14:46:24
It is hard to. make sense of the rumours about possible in and out transfers this window.
Why for instance are we doing a pre. transfer agreement for 19 Yr old Strasbourg CB Sarr for the summer? Will TC be sold . I certainly hope not given how he has always played well for us.
Why are we linked with yer another wide player in Ganacho . as a Mudryk replacement? Because no good striker available? Does the same go for goalkeeper or do either Petrovic or Johansen still have a chsncebof making it?
Why dies EM not trust either Chucky - who looked do good at start of last season - or Casadei who has also looked v promising on few occasions he's been given minutes in first team? Neither were even on the bench yesterday.
Presumably Nkunku was notbused because going to be sold? Otherwise he should surely come on for Jackson at some stage last night?
1.) 21 Jan 2025 15:42:15
Do we really need to replace a player (Mudryk) who hardly played this season?
2.) 21 Jan 2025 15:54:34
I think we look a mess. Starting from the players we’ve bought. To players we’re forcing out, then calling back. Maresca is a one trick pony. I can see the next couple years being a waste.
Who would you actually keep. Gusto, James, cucurella, challobah, Collwill. Caiciedo, enzo, palmer. Would keep lavia and fofana if injury free. Neto and madueke, I don’t think are good enough to be starters. The rest of them I really wouldn’t keep. Also it’s a shame chillwell can’t get a wing back role sometimes and maresca change his tactics now and then.
I really believe the sterling and chillwell situations was down to the owners removing big money earners. Also they wanted the profit from challobah. I know we’ve been singing we’ve got our Chelsea back at leicster away Southampton away. But I think we are from it.
3.) 21 Jan 2025 16:00:24
JBS,
I feel your frustration and I'm pretty sure we are not alone.
We seem to collect wingers and goalkeepers, have a number of CH's who are normally injured and a ST in Nkunku and the young Spanish lad who seem not to get a look in despite Jackson not being able to hit a barn door from 6 inches since Xmas.
I really do not know what our SD"s thinking is apart from buying up lots of youngsters only for Maresca to say, they are not needed. I just hope the media start to question our DD's and put pressure on them and the club to explain what their thinking is.
Whist I'm at it, still no word on the fantastic FOS we are supposed to be soging up with and not a peep on the so called SB project. When the owners first arrived updates were coming out on a regular basis, now absolutely nothing from them.
4.) 21 Jan 2025 16:17:29
JBS, I would have a clue about the young CH from Strasbourg but I hope it doesn’t mean we have no more interest in the young lad from Ajax.
Looks like Chuka is going out on loan (thankfully) and we are selling Casadei with a substantial sell on clause. I personally wouldn’t have signed Felix on KDH. If they hadn’t signed them maybe things would have been different.
I don’t think the club want to sell Nkunku unless our valuation is met but maybe the sale could be driven by a player transfer request. There are two things to consider (a) we have a valuation that Bayern don’t want to pay and (b) the club would probably want a replacement in this window.
The Ganacho rumours are a worry to me. I can only assume the club feel that Mudryk is going to get a ban if some sort but more importantly to me I would be happy to stick with the four wide players we have and that includes George. I really don’t know enough about the lad himself other than he is playing Utd.
5.) 21 Jan 2025 16:58:07
Bloody hell, just seen about Ed002. I'm a bit off the pace here. Condolences to his family – and to you Ed001.
JBS, I generally find your posts well reasoned and thoughtful, and this is no exception. Surely – surely – these Garnacho rumours are just agent faff? Another inconsistent, arrogant young winger with a sulky attitude who doesn't get his head up – would at least provide balance with Noni on the other side I guess. I'd be hugely disappointed in this transfer, especially at the prices quoted – although his output would probably be higher than Mudryk at least, saying that isn't saying much.
I wish Maresca wasn't treating Chucky like this. I get that he's coming back from a severe injury, so a loan might make sense, but every time he plays he's looked more dynamic than, say, Enzo, to me (although in recent European sub appearances, understandably a bit nervous. Wish he'd scored one of the chances he had in the last game he played) . I really rate him, and we're killing his career at the moment. Casadei also always looked good to me when he's been given minutes by the club – though clearly asked to do a much more conservative safety-first Lavia-style job by Maresca this season, he wins headers in the midfield and can bomb forward. Maybe not the profile of midfielder we want in this setup, but another talented player on the pyre of the SDs' confusion.
Nkunku looks a cert to be sold. He's looked disinterested last five games or so – guess he's known the writing's on the wall for a while. Not a great reflection on him, that – I'm not a fan of players sulking and feel you should give your all if you play, regardless – but he looked so dynamic in his first games back from the injury and it seems a strange one to be letting our club's top scorer go when we have an issue with scoring goals.
{Ed001's Note - thank you EdW. He is very missed.}
6.) 22 Jan 2025 07:18:15
Garnacho surely not, the last type of player we need both positionally and personality wise.
The two obvious positions are keeper and centre forward, may as well give the nos 2 keeper a run although I wouldn't start him against city but the games after that.
Centre forward Delap or Duran at Villa
An experienced midfielder would be useful but not vital
If it was up to me would sell Nkunku, Felix Casadei, Diasi, Veiga, Chucka on loan.
7.) 22 Jan 2025 11:50:50
Enjoyed reading all responses to my questions about the logic of our transfer policy and current transfer rumours. Reckon we are all largely on the same page in terms of degree of puzzlement although clearly some (slight) differences in terms of who we should keep and who we might let go.
EdW good to see you back posting and in your typically well considered way.
Yes Ed02 is hugely missed and perhaps particularly in this first transfer window without him. He shed so much light on what were nonsense rumours and what had legs and could happen. We loved his input and even if some replies were (usually justifiably) short and sharp e. g. as in when he used the one word 'twitter? ' (ie did we get this from twitter) .
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21 Sep 2025 17:19:40
Well at this stage last season we had three wins one draw and a loss for ten points so were on the 2 points per game ratio usually needed to get top 4 and Chamions League. Of course due to mid season slump we didn't quite keep this up but still finished in 4th spot.
Point though is that we only had the Conference League to play in in terms of European competition so could play a B team for most of those games and we had very early exits from both domestic cup competitions. So we could focus on the EPL games but still had that very wobbly patch.
This season the Champions league games midweek will provide a far sterner test and no or little resting of first choice starters. We . ay also hope to go deeper than last season in the domestic cups. So we have a sterner test ahead of us this season I think and although our first five EPL fixtures no harder than last - after all had City as the opener - we have dropped two points more and with very tough games to come still in league stage of the ECL. With Palmer now an injury concern along with Delap out until November plus LC out for the season and most players onky having had three weeks rest and little preseason we must be realistic about size of task ahead for our young squad this season
I have predicted a 3rd to 7th finish but realistically for continued progress we must make Champions League qualification again. We can hope that there will be five places on offer once more but must qualify imho as bottom line again for season to be a reasonable success as we edge towards building a EPL or ECL winning side. Well winning the ECL this season would do the trick nicely but from what we saw versus Bayern it seems a very tough proposition indeed if not necessarily Mission Impossible depending on reaching knockout stage then the draw in that. But wouldn't want to count on qualifying that route so 4th ( or 5th is extra place again) or above would be ok if we then addressed remains weaknesses in three or so positions that need reinforcing conlme next summer. But please no vast turnover of personnel yet again.
1.) 21 Sep 2025 18:16:51
JBS, another enjoyable post.
I am not as disheartened as some about our performance in Munich. I might be disappointed if we lose to Benfica and Jose at home!
19 Sep 2025 11:59:47
The problem of access to tickets for genuine CFC members is just as bad as last season if not worse and despite what seemed like the promising new edvelopment of access to tickets only through the phones of members with the CFC App.
Meanwhile it is still possible to buy tickets for almost any EPL or Champions League game including Chelsea home matches via numerous unofficial tocket-selling (touting?! ) sites and often ahead of rhe on sale date for members. So what is happening and how does it happen? Is the club releasing some tiockets to these sites? Or in some way I can't figure out are season ticket holder's tickets say when not wanted by season ticket holder being got hold of by bad actors of some kind? For Champions League games have some who have bought maximum number via 'bundles' for the four group stage games of ECL sell some on? To members with links to thse other sites? Or how does this work? I don't want to purchase via these sites but some of them are offering tickets at far klower prices - if still not cheap - than on offer on official site via Westview say.
Do honest season ticket hold ers like Tom who always puts his seats on via ticlet exchange but who I think had a case of those tickets ending up on another tivket selling site last seaso - bt when this seemed easier to do given no phone app involved - know why this is still happen ng? I
I think I will go to Stamfor Bridge tocket office in person to try and find out what is happening unless anyone has a better idea abot channel of communication to the powers that be in these matters?
1.) 19 Sep 2025 12:32:35
JBS, if you go to the Chelsea site you will find out who is in charge of Chelsea ticketing. He is a really nice guy and struggles not to show his frustrations about the farce that is football ticketing.
It seems to me that the purpose of digital ticketing was to stop touts getting hold of match day tickets and also to stop multi ticket ownership of ST’s.
For normal people who occasionally have there ST to friends and family the process now is just a pain in the backside.
As far as touts and scalping sites are concerned it should now be virtually impossible to sell on a ticket unless the ticketless recipient is an active member.
I do have a mate who has his digital ST on a second almost disposable phone so he can still pass it around for the use of his friends.
Also, one of the reasons that some ST holders are giving for not taking up cup matches including the champions league tickets is the digital farce.
I hope things will improve and it would be interesting to hear the experiences of other clubs supporters who have knowledge of digital ticketing.
2.) 19 Sep 2025 12:38:17
In fact you can buy tickets for any CFC match this season in advance it seems so these ticket sites must be very confident about access to tickets. Seems outrageous.
3.) 19 Sep 2025 13:37:19
JBS, you are spot on mate it is outrageous and defeats one of reasons for digital ticketing.
4.) 19 Sep 2025 18:11:58
Tom, like you I thought the digital ticketing system would cut down on this racket. My Chelsea mates all have STs and if I can’t attend I put the ticket on ticket exchange and trust that they end up with a true supporter.
5.) 19 Sep 2025 21:12:25
This is me, the old cynic but I put my ticket for the Brighton game on the ticket exchange today. My ticket was sold in THREE minutes.
I just think these companies have multiple memberships and algo systems. The normal fan would have to be very lucky to get a ticket from our ticket exchange site.
01 Sep 2025 08:35:55
So does Isak to Liverpool mean Newcastle will sign an additional striker - pethaps Jackson? - or is Nick Woltemade recently signed their replacement for him?
1.) 01 Sep 2025 10:30:01
I still think Wissa will sign for them at 6.59 tonight.
2.) 01 Sep 2025 11:30:29
Bill, I think Wissa going to Newcastle has now been agreed.
3.) 01 Sep 2025 12:15:42
Yes that makes sense and would not have minded Wissa as a late CFC signing! Brentford attack quite hard hit by this window it seems.
31 Aug 2025 18:08:28
Seems as though Man United are hoing yo sign Martinez from Villa as probable new number one GK.
Good signing or not for them?
Probably means their financial situation improves sufficiently they won't be selling Rogers this window not that thiscwas ever likely perhaps.
1.) 31 Aug 2025 18:32:20
I’m certainly not a fan. Utd are welcome to him.
Having said that he has to be better than Onnana.
28 Aug 2025 19:00:02
Tricky fixtures in champions league for us if especially in first 4.
1.) 28 Aug 2025 20:54:29
JBS, I agree but that’s what being back in the champions league should be all about. Love it.
2.) 28 Aug 2025 21:02:31
JBS, this is the Champions League not the Conference League, no trickier than for other teams. If we’re good enough we will get through the first phase. We have spent more money than any of the European teams.
3.) 28 Aug 2025 22:01:14
Jimbo
Our net spend is probably better than most.
4.) 28 Aug 2025 22:12:03
Yes new format means quite a few tricky fixtures for most in competitions. and exciting as a result.
5.) 28 Aug 2025 22:13:46
Jimbo, as Bill says, our net spend is one of the lowest in europe.
6.) 29 Aug 2025 08:48:50
Yes, net spend is important particularly for PSR and now balancing transfers. We have done well in selling players. However, if say we sell Jackson, Nkunku, Disasi, Sterling and Chilwell this summer: who are we going to sell this time next year? The point I was making was that we were able to refresh the squad. Barcelona’s spend so far is €26 million and Bayern Munich’s is €72. So no excuses about tricky fixtures.
7.) 29 Aug 2025 09:35:47
All teams will be looking to strengthen there squad. The Bayern and Barcelona games will be brilliant for us fans and the neutrals. We should welcome the challenge and the exposure.
If the PSR rules are not changed then my guess is most top clubs will have to sell some of there academy players to balance the books. The interesting challenge will be wage turnover against revenue. If I understand that mechanism correctly our PRP structure will help us comply, certainly in the short term.
Generally nothing in this window has changed my mind about us being a “trading” club. So lots of continuing transfer activity. If that makes sense.
8.) 29 Aug 2025 09:54:55
We don’t know how the new signings will turn out but hopefully next summer we will just sign a couple of top class players in the right positions. However, if the club persists in in the same manner, we may have to sell established players to balance the books. Trading players doesn’t imo provide for establishing a squad that can compete at the highest level.
9.) 29 Aug 2025 10:25:51
All players at most clubs can be bought for a certain amount of money. Supposedly PSG were interested in buying Palmer. I wonder, if that interest had been real, what our asking price would have been.
We hopefully will have a FOS sponsor in the coming weeks and also a reasonable amount from the CL. So, maybe next season the trading will be less hectic.
16 Oct 2025 10:50:07
RPD am sure Maresca will stay as long as the club thinks of him as they do now in same way that you do. I think most of us would like him to stay for at least this season and hopefully beyond cos that would mean CFC being successful - and surely at least getting ECL qualification again - but also because the players know him, seem to like and trust him and his tactics/ system/ s, he won the CWC, and frankly it is not clear to many of us in, cuding me who would definitvely do a better job who is also avaiolable and willing to come to CFC. Also the seemingly endless rebuilding process has made progress towards us having a critical mass of fine young players even if some additions and greater consistency (the two may ho together) still necessary to have us more securely back among the top few clubs in EPL and on European stage.
11 Oct 2025 10:13:27
Thanks Tom. Matt Law porbably is more reliable than most and if also mentioned by Ornstein there's a good change it's true. I am sure ED002 - still much missed of course - would have known as he seemed to have top notch inside track info on almost all things CFC and especiallt financial matters. Don't know if any of the others Eds have any info here?
10 Oct 2025 11:26:43
Can only hope it happens. Do either of you know where the rumour/ leak came from about Riyadh Air being out potential FOS and therefore how reliable the info might be?
17 Sep 2025 10:09:53
He is off to Fatih Karagumruk (not sure my spelling right) who are near the bottom end of Turkish top division currently just one place of relegation slot. So may be a hard battle in struggling side but perhaps he will at least get game time with them and let's hope he does well there even if more often or not in a losing cause.
01 Sep 2025 18:29:45
Ok so there is a condition about how many appearances or hours on pitch Jackson would have to. make but presumably we aren't going to know? Now perhaps Bayern could lend us Harry Kane for rest of season and it would be a double whammy for us!
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17 Oct 2025 09:49:23
Interesting stats Jimbo if a tad worrying!
17 Oct 2025 09:48:04
A glorious game that was just such a wonderfully fitting climax to a glorious goal-fest season presided over by King Carlo and his expressive eyebrows. Defintion of a Blue Day and one of the best ever at Stamford Bridge. So great to be able to relax in te second half and simply enjoy our lads demonstrating why they were the best in England. Exhibition football including DD hat-trick and volleyed goal from Ashley C. I loved it and celebrations afterwards. even if my head didn't much enjoy life the next morning!
16 Oct 2025 17:55:28
Do agree that CFC has been so up and down in EPL in recent seasons that it is hard ever to be anything other than uncertain or nervous before a game. So hoping too that we can put a run together. Had posted after Brighton defeat that was hoping that turnaround and more consistency in season ahead would come with beating both Benfica and Liverpool in the week ahead. Well we managed that but absolutely need to keep momentum going v Forest away. Oh, and not have a fifth red card in a row after Maresca's one after run down touchline to celebrate Estevao goal earned him a secondd yellow. Discipline has been a problem in recent games and we must have picked up more cards than most others in EPL though haven't checked the stats.
16 Oct 2025 10:35:45
It's a game we will obviously befirm favourites to win and Forest have been plummeting twards the relegation zone but we all now the unpredictablity of the EPL.
But despite not wanting to jinx us with optimistic prediction I would eexpect a fairy comfortable away win given their form of late, the boost of vctory v Liverpool, TC back plus some others (Tosin? Fofana? Santos? ) perhaps after injury (though Josh and BB did v well together) and v importantly fact that likes of Caicedo, Pedro and James spared from International duty. and EM has had plenty of time to prepare with fair numnber of likely starters for the Forest game. He and squad in general must see this as a must win league game to help continue post LFC game momentum. Otherwise all the doubts about our season and possibility of Champions League spot come end of it will be back in droves.
KTBFFH.
12 Oct 2025 16:47:13
That's v bad news about Enzo Bill do you know how serious it is?