Howay

Ah well

https://swissramble.substack.com/p/will-chelseas-transfer-spend-break Here’s the piece, so their losses are fucking huge each year and unlikely to improve but they’ve been overcoming them with massive player sales. The issue they have is that’s less likely going forward, which has started telling with the struggles to move on the likes of Bakayoko, Lukaku, Ziyech, etc.

Aye I’ve been searching about out of interest to try and find someone that discusses the more medium term impacts for chelsea, as there’s just a lot screaming on about how it’s fine right this minute but not many discussing down the line. Swiss ramble did a piece where it’s basically saying they need to have big sales like they did recently, but he questioned on if that’s realistic. Surely this will end in trouble.

Absolute scumbags. The wanker having a go at Gordon for not getting out of his car is an absolute melt, I’m sure you’d have got right out your car as a 21 year old kid at night to a crowd of blokes with their faces covered hurling abuse at you. It’s pathetic man, it’s a fucking game of football you scummy twat. No wonder Gordon couldn’t get out quick enough, it’ll make it hard to attract players going forward as well as anyone that’s seen that would think twice about going.

He really can’t get anything right can he? Freddy Woodman was sold in summer.

The sale of Gordon going down well (nsfw language, if anyone can understand it)

Tindall

wykiki’s main man at it again

Interesting that it looks like Gordon put in a transfer request to leave Everton, they just put out a statement about him leaving and stated that in there. We’re massive now lads. Not Sunderland massive, as we all know we all dream of one day playing the type of attacking football that the “new entertainers” as they are now being dubbed play, I guess we will just have to console ourselves by being such a big draw that one of the countries biggest prospects puts in a transfer request to join us from his boyhood club, and maybe some CL football will soften the blow next year.

Chelsea have lost the plot like. £115m apparently, higher than his £105m release clause so they can pay in installments (irrelevant for FFP since that’s based on contract length not payment structure). They’re surely going to be buckled? It’s close to what? £600m this season? So even if they were all on 10 year contracts (which they aren’t) that’s a £60m per year FFP hit ignoring wages etc, so factor in wages, bonuses and other clauses and it’s surely close to £100m FFP hit every year before you even factor in the players they already had, and transfer fees they’re still amortizing (Lukaku, Havertz, Ziyech etc). Call it £150m a season FFP hit, they’d have to have around £350m income on their bottom line for FFP purposes just to clear that £105m loss over a 3 year period hurdle? That’s a fucking high bar considering CL is a long shot for next season, and it’s not even factoring in the different FFP for European purposes, they must have nearly 35 first team squad members.

Aye, I think a loan to us would be ideal for him as it’s a positive high flying side he’d look decent in even if he wasn’t spectacular, which would set him up for a move in the summer - going to Everton could see him headed for the Championship on big wages with a big fee, and a fan base who would threaten him. I agree with Tom in that I’m not a huge fan of Gallagher, he’s a hard worker but I’ve not seen loads else. He was rated at Palace and if Howe/team are interested I’d give him a chance, I do think he’s lower down the list though which is why we want him on loan. The point is probably moot anyway as I highly doubt Chelsea would let him go to us.

He’d be mental to go there tbh. I suppose if they offer enough money it might tempt him but he will get a move to a steadier club in the near future.

The wages are the separator between him and Longstaff, that’s why I see Shelvey as someone we need shot of now and Longstaff can be a squad member. I think if he does go it’ll only be if we get someone in as you say. I’m hoping it’s just a loan as it seems like we’re not bringing in our top target for the role in the way that Gordon, Bruno, Botman, Pope, Tripps and Isak were our main targets. Gallagher or Berge would both be canny but I think Berge has a bit of a crap injury record?

RTG will have had that one circled and underlined on the calendar, meanwhile we didn’t have a fucking clue it was happening. I assumed they would be a lot higher than us given they’re the best academy in the world and we’ve had 14 years of Mike Ashley ignoring ours.

I think the difference with him to others under Bruce is he didn’t fucking try, Almiron, Joelinton, and a few others were shite but they worked Shelvey basically downed tools knowing he was getting picked regardless. He has ability but he’s just another in a massive line of players whose attitude stinks, for me he doesn’t deserve a chance under Howe, we’ve seen him under Howe and it was pretty average - his performances were nowhere near Bruno which is the calibre of player we are aiming to bring in and having deadwood like him is blocking that. Having another year of him on £80k a week would have been an issue, getting rid now is the best solution as we’ve not needed him at all this season. I’m sorry like I just can’t get my head around people watching this prick for 7 fucking years and wanting to see more of him, we can and will buy better players than he ever was even when he tried his fucking hardest for the 3-5 games a season where he did. I can’t stand him as a player, and he’s also one of them where I’ve heard enough accounts from people where I can safely assume I wouldn’t like him as a person. Good riddance to a waste of talent. I’ll be happy even if we don’t replace him, he’s done nowt this season and we now have Joelinton freed up to play CM with Gordon coming in. We need to be supporting and backing Howe, allowing him to bring in top players that fit in his system not hoping he can carry on polishing turds.

So they’re genuinely serious thinking they’re this amazingly exciting attacking side? Staggering, I thought they looked exactly what they are - a counter attacking side whose only threat came on the break against a weakened Fulham. It’s funny how they claim all their players are these amazing youth talents yet none of them are linked anywhere . They really need to pack in calling us deluded the way they’re going on.

I’ll be absolutely buzzing for us to finally be rid of Jonjo fucking Shelvey. I’m confused by comments regarding his attitude, the bloke is an absolute prick and took the piss for 8 fucking years I couldn’t give a flying fuck if he finally decided to start turning up once a manager held him accountable. If it’s true we got 10m for the cunt we’ve absolute rinsed Forest this window. They can enjoy him kicking 40 yard passes out to touch while he has 3 better options on.

The levels of delusion are off the charts like. The difference between bottom half championship (which they’re 3 points off) and top end of League One is minimal, what they’re claiming is some immense accomplishment isn’t anything special at all. Meanwhile they all automatically assume they’d walk the PL, despite the fact a newly promoted Fulham side were all over them (with half a second string out). A Burnley side who were absolutely fucking wank last season are now walking that division, the gap they think is small is actually a fucking canyon the deluded cunts.

Been in the toon 10 minutes and he’s already ditching the dodgy corduroy for a Nike tech fleece and Air Maxes.

Aye, as shown where we’ve agreed a fee with West Ham for a player less than a day after Edwards said there’d be no more after Gordon other than a “never say never” deadline day move, another transfer window he got completely fucking wrong. Expect an “as I said” about Ashby since he mentioned him in passing once prior to saying we’d not sign anyone else.

Aye while it absolutely didn’t happen, it’s just fucking weird how everything they do is amazing and no one ever experienced anything like it before. Like what is different about how their away end celebrates a last minute winner? It’s honestly one of the weirdest things about the whole thing, well besides finding some absolute level of validation from “a group of lads that live in Brixton”.

Tickets in that away end seem to have been easy to get mind.

I guess the game against Fulham was meant to be an amazing attacking display by them going off this? I’m honestly not convinced they actually watch games if they claim that was a brilliant display when they got fucking dominated possession wise, yet when we controlled all of the play against the same side and won both games it’s “turgid” .