Howay

Frank Lampard is a bit early in his career to do a destroy and exit, but he’s doing a tremendous job of one.

Absurd looking at those tables, especially if you look at the mid table sides like Brighton as they had 5 wins and were clearly safe and now we have the same amount of wins as them.

You know what’s mint about those photos, aside from it showing the atmosphere Howe is cultivating, is without even looking at RTG you know for a fact the mackems absolutely hate it.

It seems like winning the game isn’t something that interested his players, given the way they aimlessly passed the ball around doing fucking nowt from open play. “I’m not bovvered” says man who is clearly bothered. Couldn’t shut the fuck up about it since the game was postponed. Get in the sea.

I don’t even get what their complaint is about tbh, playing a side once before January and once after is fair. The only team that can feel aggrieved is Everton who have to play us twice post January window, but they’re just quietly going about their business of being humbled every game like good lads.

They drew 2-2 with the team managed by Bruce ffs. They just lost at home to a side whose right flank was Emil Krafth and Jacob Murphy. I genuinely think I could lace up my boots and start the game and we’d still win at this point. Howe can do absolutely anything.

Did we ever win at all? Even if we did they still felt like losses.

I love that when Bruno was taken off Howe decided it was fine to go down to 10 men, that’s how little he respects Ralf. Just put a random red faced fan on to run out the game.

Only Southamptons second home loss of the season apparently. What a fucking turn around Howe has managed. We’ve dominated some of these games and we’ve ground some of them out, we don’t struggle for goals anymore no matter who is available, and look solid at the back. They really didn’t trouble us much outside of set pieces.

I’m pretty sure the second goal was a Targett corner, to Burn who headed it to Bruno for the goal

6 minutes?

Love that by the ref, Southampton player does that grab the ball thinking he was fouled shite and the ref gives a handball. If we win with Wood and Bruno scoring I look forward to watching Haselbitch’s press conference.

Pound land Klopp is fuming.

The one who said “this isn’t over as this is the team that have dropped the most points from winning positions in the league”? Not exactly resembling the side that did that are we though? What a fucking goal by Bruno btw. Going from struggling to score goals to having a CM do a back heel volley into the net in one season.

Oh aye, I know they’re allowed to but they only have £16m on hand which won’t last long. Once that dries up what then? Even if they’re allowed to use the revenue from match day concessions to keep paying certain expenses (which I’m not sure they will be) that won’t go far and is dodgy ground if they players and other staff aren’t being paid.

I was just thinking, will they even be able to have attendances at games soon? Stewards are paid by the club I assume, and if so once this £16m of cash on hand they have dries up surely they stewards, and other match day staff stop? Unless of course the match day revenue of the sale of food and drink is allowed to fund those wages? But I thought I remembered seeing those sales went into the pool of frozen assets. What a fucking mess they’re in.

Tweet should have said “Brilliant night sleep under this #Ferrari #sleepingrough #SAFC”

I’d argue they weakened in the window, selling Digne and bringing in an inferior player to replace him and then loaning/buying two players who while ability wise maybe improve them neither looks up for any type of fight nor has much incentive to be. Honestly I think Gemmill was right about them, they look absolutely fucked to me. Burnley will inevitably pick up some points as they churn out draws for fun but Everton look weak as fuck. They play the two bottom sides, but every other game is tough and imo Watford are a bad match up for them since they are decent at scoring goals.

Insanity man. If you say there’d be 40 people going, they genuinely think you couldn’t possible manage travel and one night stay for £500 per person? Piece of piss that, especially given I’m fairly sure the club own buses. Must be a fucking nightmare for those saying that trying to plan a holiday.

I thought the bloke was joking about it not being possible but it seems he’s serious . The club own buses, put the players on a bus and go through the channel tunnel, there’s no fucking way that would cost £20k. Could even book them into cheap as fuck hotels or hostels. Of course they can’t do it in a way the players are accustomed to but it’s ridiculous to say it can’t be done, fucking local youth clubs manage trips away to tournaments in Belgium etc.

I think that’s the way a lot are coming at it. Maybe it should be the way you’re saying, I just have no faith that the government give a shit the way they didn’t give a fuck when clubs like Bury and Macclesfield went out of existence. I’m not saying I’m right in anyway btw, I genuinely don’t know if frozen assets are typically sold as that seems more like a stripping of assets to me - so to me that’s a special exception they’re making to attempt to keep Chelsea alive but as people have pointed out that 1.5b loan might kill that.

Yeah, depends how you look at it. I looked at it from the perspective that the UK Government didn’t do any of this with CFC in mind or forcing a sale, instead they wanted to cease all income generation by Abramovich from the UK by freezing all of his assets to punish him with the issues happening to Chelsea being an unintended consequence. I think that your second paragraph kind of supports the view that the UK governments intention is to do what I’m saying rather than force a sale. I’ve seen Chelsea fans saying they’re bankrupting CFC to force a sale and pocket the proceeds, but who are they forcing in this situation? In that scenario they’re simply reducing any sale price which is surely counter intuitive. I just honestly think none of this was done with CFC in mind, it just so happens they’re one of his assets and people happen to care about them more than say some holding company he set up to run the staff on his yachts.

So people are now saying Abramovich never got round to writing off that £1.5b loan, meaning it makes it even fucking harder to sell the club if it’s actually allowed. Since any sale would basically be an asset strip at this point his incentive to write off that loan would be eliminated, and if eventually his assets are unfrozen he’d be able to demand payment of that loan from CFC, so if that’s all the case anyone that bought Chelsea is doing so with that hanging over the club. It looks like they’re fucked.

They’re conflating things. Be annoyed that football was allowed to get into bed with people like Abramovich, the UK Government wasn’t doing this specifically for Chelsea it’s just an unintended consequence of freezing Abramovich’s assets, frozen companies go bust if the freeze lasts long enough it’s not some fucking conspiracy.

But wouldn’t allowing the frozen asset to carry on generating money defeat the punishment? Since freezing rather than stripping is only meant to be short term if they allow the club to carry on generating money there’s no real punishment to him other than losing control of the asset for the short period it’s frozen. That was my assumption anyway. I’ve had a Chelsea fan twisting on at me all morning, even implying this is some elaborate conspiracy by the UK government to gain money from the sale . The UK government is a lot of things but I don’t think they were all that arsed about getting whatever proceeds they’d receive from this, it’s either the normal function under a sale of a frozen asset or they’re allowing a special sale due to the meaning of a football club do that it stays operational, in which case where else would the money go? It cant go back to Chelsea otherwise the sale was essentially for £0. I’ve not even seen anywhere that they will allow a sale mind let alone that they’re getting the money so there’s a chance he’s making all that up because he’s being hysterical.