It's the same issue with a player being shit in their first year and having a 4-5 year contract. Clubs won't be thinking well yeah I'll stick around with him the next year's until he contract expires.
I think Wes Fofana is on big dosh but Mudryk, Badiashile and Gusto (the other 8 year club members) are not on £5 mil per year, let alone £10.
I didn't realise Fofana was in fairness, I was away over the summer so i was basically watching the games and checking updates once a day if that.
I agree. Barring injury those two seem pretty nailed on to be long term top players.
Yeah, apologies. I was stupidly looking at how Chelsea are going to amortize the fee over the contract length at £10 mil a year and mistook that for his salary because I'm a incredibly lazy reader.
This is entirely believable.This is from TalkSPORT so big pinch of salt anyway, but surely this can’t be true?!
Chelsea owner Todd Boehly ‘got James Corden’s opinion’ before appointing Frank Lampard
Corden is a Hammer allegedly so he’s probably set up Boehly as a prank. Wonder if they spoke on the 1st?!
Have you by any chance had a look at the league table and state Chelsea are in?
Individually not more wealthy than Abrahamovich. They do manage a private equity firm with ~ $75b assets under management. This means (at least theoretically) they have far more cash to splurge to rebuild the team. However, I doubt if any significant portion more of this will make it's way into Chelsea since they are also accountable to their investors who will simply pull money out if they see poor return on their investment (Chelsea revenues will fall 20-30% next year and profit will take a huge blow due to lack of Europe). There is a ceiling to how much a football club can generate revenue, unlike tech companies. I think they pledged something like 1.3b additional investment into the club over the 10 year period and about 600-700m of that looks to be already spent.
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It's nice to emphasis the point being made.I like the way they had to include a massive graphic, as if the concept of "failed to score in four consecutive matches" was somehow difficult to understand
Yeah I got confused as I read it first as Chelsea winning some match 4-0.I like the way they had to include a massive graphic, as if the concept of "failed to score in four consecutive matches" was somehow difficult to understand
I wonder how far it will go if you add a couple of games. It’s not that far fetched that they would fail to score against Brighton and Madrid in their next two matches.
I mean Forest and Chelsea have been testament to that certainly, but surely there comes a point where a couple of signings stick. Its essentially what City did in their earlier sportwashing days until they signed the likes of Silva, Kompany and Aguero.
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Of course, Lampard “knows more about Chelsea” than Nagelmann, but that really has feck all to do with anything. The kit man also probably ”knows more about Chelsea” than Nagelsmann, so why not put him in charge? I’m not sure Nagelsmann is all that yet, but he’d be better off steering clear of Chelsea because I can see other problems coming down the line other than how to move on their shite players. Chilwell, James, Kovacic are coming to the end of their contracts and two of those are wanted by City…
Shh, shh, let's agree with Dick Keys
Hopefully Keys has Boehly’s ear as well as Corden.
Not at all. City always had a clear plan, whereas what Chelsea did was pretty much the exact opposite of a fire sale, they panicked and tried to sign players just for the sake of signing them in order to beat the new rules that would restrict their spending. Then they hoped the manager can somehow make a team out of them.
Spot on, mate. Chelsea need someone that knows the history and DNA of the club. Like Lampard. Nagelsmann is an ignorant clown and has no business managing Chelsea.
Say what now? James is under contract till 2028 and Chilwell just signed an extension earlier this week till 2027.
I hope Lampard gets 6 year contract
For somebody with the paymasters he has, there's always something latently xenophobic about his opinions of this nature (see Ten Hag)
That's a brave thing to admit.
He usually gets Jody Morris to do them.
This is such a bizarre assbackwards view that I had to check if this bloke was one of our ex players
- that’s me told!Say what now? James is under contract till 2028 and Chilwell just signed an extension earlier this week till 2027.
A record of actually winning lots of games as a manager ? That would be for a start
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