Let's All Laugh At... Let's all laugh at Chelsea thread

[Maxtremist]

It certainly seemed like Nkunku was their prize buy this summer, so him being injured has hampered them a fair bit.

I've seen a lot of people talk up Jackson and how he's looking like a nuisance and I agree... but I also don't feel like he's a goal threat.

Ultimately I think that's this Chelsea teams issue still... Goal Threats. How they've spent 1 billion and still not really addressed that is pure madness to me. For as much as yesterdays game had a lot of the old Poch traits that we saw... if they had an out and out goal scorer somewhere on the pitch I think they win that game. Hell, same with United. Both teams just need that striker and why they haven't got it is baffling.

Would imagine given (like us) they've not got Europe to worry about, they will probably be okay and maybe challenge for a European place, but given how much they've spent and everything that feels like they're kinda failing and I don't know/think their fans would be happy with that. No matter how much they may pretend they wanna have a project to build.

 

[philll]

 

[Sarsipius]

Beautiful

Nice one Poch. Lillywhite forever

 

[fletch82]

Hi my names Todd it's been 5 hrs since my last transfer

 

[JerryGarcia]

Over £200 million on two midfield players who arent worth it. They might be good players but they werent worth that. I'm sure they could have picked up two players for a lot less who would be better and more effective. Trouble is £100 million each on two players who dont score and dont assist is a lot whichever way you paint in.

Fucking funny so far obviously!

Don’t know about that, how much would it be worth to them if those players keep them up?

 

[aliyid]

 

[RuskyM]

Inflation has got so mental that it’s a decade since our magnificent seven came in and Rodgers went “if you’re spending £100m you expect to be challenging for the league”. Chelsea have spent that on a single player twice this year and I’ve not heard anyone say they should be winning the league. This can’t be sustainable.

 

[Flynn]

A hostile one as any Chelsea manager would get in my opinion

just replay the interview of him talking about chelsea after he got the job on the big scream before the game. That should ensure a hostile reception.

 

[dirtyh]

Beautiful

Nice one Poch. Lillywhite forever

jfc, what a bunch of complete wanksocks. I always say that when you walk down the street you can instantly see what football team people support and no surprises here. that guy/kid first up is doomed bless him, he'll still be in his mum's basement having bitty when he's 55.

 

[Marty]

Inflation has got so mental that it’s a decade since our magnificent seven came in and Rodgers went “if you’re spending £100m you expect to be challenging for the league”. Chelsea have spent that on a single player twice this year and I’ve not heard anyone say they should be winning the league. This can’t be sustainable.

The madness is that it kind of is. The PL gets about £1bn more in domestic TV money than it did ten years ago and you can multiply that by a factor of 10 internationally, the money the league makes from international TV rights has gone up exponentially. Additionally clubs have signed massive sponsorship deals for just about everything (Man United have an official noodle partner for sod's sake) and are increasingly good at eeking out every last penny they can from every avenue possible.

Now Chelsea are obviously pushing this to an extreme, and if it goes wrong in the next couple of years it'll be spectacular, but I wouldn't put it past them making it work.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Inflation has got so mental that it’s a decade since our magnificent seven came in and Rodgers went “if you’re spending £100m you expect to be challenging for the league”. Chelsea have spent that on a single player twice this year and I’ve not heard anyone say they should be winning the league. This can’t be sustainable.

The transfer market is fundamentally different now. Even disregarding inflation. If you had big money ten years ago you could pretty much guarantee that clubs would be willing to deal and sell you top players. City were able to pick up Aguero, David Silva etc before they were competing for titles. £100m on one player is still big money now, but it doesn’t guarantee you anything in terms of reinvestment.

Transfer prices used to reflect the true value of a player. They don’t anymore. It’s much more context dependent.

 

[EastUpperDK82]

From SkySports transfer centre:


Petrovic set for Chelsea medical | Blues finalising Washington deal.

Goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic is expected to have a Chelsea medical within the next 24-48 hours as the Blues finalise contract details for midfielder Deivid Washington.

 

[robotsonic]

From SkySports transfer centre:


Petrovic set for Chelsea medical | Blues finalising Washington deal.

Goalkeeper Djordje Petrovic is expected to have a Chelsea medical within the next 24-48 hours as the Blues finalise contract details for midfielder Deivid Washington.

If they needed anything at all it's a few more players that aren't ready for their first XI, so this is great business for them.

 

[Monkey boy]

It certainly seemed like Nkunku was their prize buy this summer, so him being injured has hampered them a fair bit.

I've seen a lot of people talk up Jackson and how he's looking like a nuisance and I agree... but I also don't feel like he's a goal threat.

Ultimately I think that's this Chelsea teams issue still... Goal Threats. How they've spent 1 billion and still not really addressed that is pure madness to me. For as much as yesterdays game had a lot of the old Poch traits that we saw... if they had an out and out goal scorer somewhere on the pitch I think they win that game. Hell, same with United. Both teams just need that striker and why they haven't got it is baffling.

Would imagine given (like us) they've not got Europe to worry about, they will probably be okay and maybe challenge for a European place, but given how much they've spent and everything that feels like they're kinda failing and I don't know/think their fans would be happy with that. No matter how much they may pretend they wanna have a project to build.

This is my concern for us and why i thought we should have rejected any offer we received for Kane. As we've seen countless times to our cost signing strikers even for big money is very very difficult and more often than not doesnt work out. We had a sure thing that guaranteed us 20+ goals this season. I just dont see us getting that anytime in the foreseeable future.

 

[Maxtremist]

This is my concern for us and why i thought we should have rejected any offer we received for Kane. As we've seen countless times to our cost signing strikers even for big money is very very difficult and more often than not doesnt work out. We had a sure thing that guaranteed us 20+ goals this season. I just dont see us getting that anytime in the foreseeable future.

I think with players like Maddison, Son, Kulu, Richarlison in our team... I'm not as worried as Chelsea because we have players that can score. Whilst we don't have the 20+ goal striker, we still have goals. So I'm not as concerned.

Also the more I look around the leagues, it feels like there's less and less teams in the Prem (hell in all of Europe) that have a 20+ goal a season striker.

So naturally having Kane would have given us (or any team) an edge, but it's feeling like a dying breed of players and there's other ways to get goals.

Looking at Chelsea, I feel like the only player in their squad who's reliably got goals in multiple seasons at a top level is just Sterling, and even then for as good as he is, so much of his goal scoring was helped by playing for Man City. So I think it's a much bigger issue for Chelsea. (This is also on the assumption Lukaku just never plays for 'em again)

 

[jay2040]

Signed Washington from Santos as well.
Taking the piss!

 

[goughie1966]

3 years is a long time in football:

 

[philll]

 

[PCozzie]

That'll end up with a two week loss of pocket money reduced on appeal to 20 minutes on the naughty step.

 

[superted4]

Boehly and Chelsea were very good at exploiting the 8 year contract/amortisation loophole. So wouldn’t shock me in the slightest if they are fully aware of what they are doing and what repercussions they will face and have a plan for it