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

[JamieSpursCommunityUser]

This is a disgrace

Every PL team bar Chelsea, City, and Newcastle should form a break away PL 2.0 with strict membership criteria that they would never pass.

Like is your club owned by a country?

Is your history built on fraud and cheating?

Has your owner ever ordered the abduction and beheading of a critical journalist?

Let them join the Saudi league and good riddance.

The PL and English football will be better off without their foul stench.

 

[newbie]

The hotels

now this

you couldn’t make it up

all through my life I’ve been fighting against companies who are registered charities, set up in foreign countries, to avoid payin tax, go bankrupt regularly they always get away with it. Unfortunately sometimes you realise some people have a talent for just being absolutely cheating bastards I just always get away with.

The most amazing thing is they go bust reopen after knocking everyone and company still trade with them after they’ve been knocked by them. You have to accept these things and do your own thing and concentrate yourself.

Nothing will ever change Chelsea and city have found there own rules.

 

[KirstyG]

I said they’ll get around it from the start and they will.

 

[Trix]

Everyone is acting like this deal is done and been approved by the Premier league, it hasn't. Just looks like another desperate shot in the dark to me.

 

[Tucker]

Everyone is acting like this deal is done and been approved by the Premier league, it hasn't. Just looks like another desperate shot in the dark to me.

If they had to give up on the hotel swizz, surely this one won’t get through either will it.

 

[Trix]

If they had to give up on the hotel swizz, surely this one won’t get through either will it.

It will all come down to whether Cobham is worth the money they say it is, which I very much doubt.

 

[luRRka]

It will all come down to whether Cobham is worth the money they say it is, which I very much doubt.

And if they actually own it anyway as the company that did own it dissolved in 2015

 

[the stick man]

They have continuously stretched the rules and just outright cheated for nearly 3 decades.

No surprise they're pulling this stunt.

And won't be surprised when the premier league lets them.

It's all such a cesspit.

This is why levy gambling in ffp to get us places isn’t going to work. Money always finds a way around rules. Always.

 

[Styopa]

This is why levy gambling in ffp to get us places isn’t going to work. Money always finds a way around rules. Always.

I mainly agree but I think it depends about expectations too. Levy has effectively secured the financial security and stability of the club. It’s never 100% secure because you can always end up with terrible owners who make a mess of everything but we have really solid foundations now.

But I agree there will always be Chelsea’s, Man C’s, Newcastle’s who come along and find a way to circumnavigate the rules and those clubs will always hoover up the trophies. The best we can hope for is being good enough to pick up some of the crumbs, like Liverpool for example, or even Man U.

 

[Albertbarich]

This is why levy gambling in ffp to get us places isn’t going to work. Money always finds a way around rules. Always.

I think he had to do this either way even if it's just to maintain our position as a top six club but yeah I think he would be naive to think this is going to change, it's a race to the bottom.

For all the FFP bluster this year they still only just agreed for the Saudis to take over Newcastle with the provision that if it's proven it's state owned they reserve the right to go back to it. Well in a New York court PIF said that it was one and the same and guess what ? The Premier league have done nothing about it

You have City a runaway machine , arsenal playing a guy on bail for rape whilst taking sponsorship money from a dictatorship , Chelsea being Chelsea and everyone else being scummy in one or or another.

I hope Chelsea don't get away with it but they don't seem as panicked as they should which I suspect it because they think they will get away with it.

 

[Trix]

I think he had to do this either way even if it's just to maintain our position as a top six club but yeah I think he would be naive to think this is going to change, it's a race to the bottom.

For all the FFP bluster this year they still only just agreed for the Saudis to take over Newcastle with the provision that if it's proven it's state owned they reserve the right to go back to it. Well in a new York caught PIF said that it was one and the same and guess what ? The Premier league have done nothing about it

You have City a runaway machine , arsenal playing a guy on bail for rape whilst taking sponsorship money from a dictatorship , Chelsea being Chelsea and everyone else being scummy in one or or another.

I hope Chelsea don't get away with it but they don't seem as panicked as they should which I suspect it because they think they will get away with it.

How do you know how panicked they are? It's a multi billion pound operation with share holders, even if they were panicking they wouldn't be broadcasting it to the world. The fact that they are trying all kinds of workarounds and spending millions on looking for loopholes suggests they are very worried about it imo.

 

[Albertbarich]

How do you know how panicked they are? It's a multi billion pound operation with share holders, even if they were panicking they wouldn't be broadcasting it to the world. The fact that they are trying all kinds of workarounds and spending millions on looking for loopholes suggests they are very worried about it imo.

Id suggest they are leaking it because they have found a loophole and are confident that it gets through

Let's see , of course I hope you're right and I'm just being an idiot.

 

[Trix]

Id suggest they are leaking it because they have found a loophole and are confident that it gets through

Let's see , of course I hope you're right and I'm just being an idiot.

They did the same with the hotel.

 

[Styopa]

How do you know how panicked they are? It's a multi billion pound operation with share holders, even if they were panicking they wouldn't be broadcasting it to the world. The fact that they are trying all kinds of workarounds and spending millions on looking for loopholes suggests they are very worried about it imo.

I agree, but I think we have become cynical about this sort of thing as football fans.

We see how Man C have dominated English football.

We see how the league waved through the Newcastle takeover.

We see how the World Cup was moved to December to accommodate a tournament in Qatar.

We see the enormous salaries even relatively average football players command, making more in a week than many people make over several years.

So whilst I think you could be right about Chelsea's specific situation, it's hard to believe that money isn't king in football. So then it's a question of whether the Chelsea owners have the money or appetite to bankroll the operation - if they do, then i can see them finding a way around all this.

 

[Nick-TopSpursMan]

They did the same with the hotel.

Has the hotel stuff been allowed or rejected? What’s the latest with that?

 

[Trix]

Has the hotel stuff been allowed or rejected? What’s the latest with that?

Still not been approved by the PL. Whether that means it's been rejected or if it's still being investigated I don't know, but it's certainly not gone through.

 

[jurgen]

It's such an obviously cynical exploitation of a loophole, an accounting trick that is deliberately undermining the spirit of the rules and why they were brought in, that you'd have to hope the independent commission would see it as a transparent attempt to circumvent PSR and judge it as such.

 

[cjsimba]

What's most annoying is if this was Spurs doing this you know 100% it would get rejected, called out in the media as Spurs cheating and we'd be thrown out the league or something. But because it's Chelsea, it's all fine.

 

[Trix]

What's most annoying is if this was Spurs doing this you know 100% it would get rejected, called out in the media as Spurs cheating and we'd be thrown out the league or something. But because it's Chelsea, it's all fine.

Is it though? I'm yet to see how this pans as the PL haven't said one way or another as far as I understand things.

 

[yankspurs]

Boehly is just asset stripping at this point. Selling off the women's team in order to be able to sign another few wonderkids for 100m each would be pretty gross.