ewerk 32993 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 I think there’s certainly a chance we could finish in the European spots, I wouldn’t be putting money on it but with a favourable injury list it’s possible. But do we want Europa Conference football? It’s a lot of travel and games for a third rate competition. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5908 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 1 minute ago, Craig said: I'd agree with most of that, apart from your last paragraph. I think the club has developed the infrastructure to be able to build on a European campaign next season. It'd also increase the level of attraction of the club to better players so we'd see another marked improvement in our transfer business. That might well be true but realistically we're seeing even at this early stage in the season, exactly why we're not going to get Europe this time out. For all that we have a good team with a good system and a lot of enthusiasm, 3/4 games in we've got injuries popping up left and right and are starting to become exposed at certain positions as a result. Whether we could manage to build into a European campaign next season is probably a moot point because I think it is unlikely to happen this year unless Isak really does hit the ground running and we stay relatively injury free. I do acknowledge that the drawback with taking another year to 'get there' is we potentially lose our star players to impatience, but I think that's the only real risk with taking an extra year - and ambitious buying next summer would probably (hopefully) placate them anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5908 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 3 minutes ago, ewerk said: I think there’s certainly a chance we could finish in the European spots, I wouldn’t be putting money on it but with a favourable injury list it’s possible. But do we want Europa Conference football? It’s a lot of travel and games for a third rate competition. It's crazy to me that there are fans out there who wouldn't want this Who knows, we might even win the fucking thing. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 22640 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 5 minutes ago, Holden McGroin said: We haven't lost a game yet and there was dribble marks left because of Longstaff. I'll reserve judgment until we get our first tonking. Which will probably be tonight. Im watching you. Was there dribble marks or was I just pointing out how shit Longstaff is? I will tell you, it's the latter. But as you have correctly pointed out, he's our 3rd choice CM and that's where we are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holden McGroin 7502 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Im watching you. Big game tonight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 5123 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 19 minutes ago, Rayvin said: It's crazy to me that there are fans out there who wouldn't want this Who knows, we might even win the fucking thing. Fully agree with this, winnable european football sounds amazing. Look at the teams that contested the latter stages last year. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14051 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 European football is absolutely class tbh. It makes matches more accessible for people who otherwise couldn't get tickets, it's generally reasonably priced at non CL level, you get to see some teams you haven't seen before, some dorty pints on a work night. It's mint. Id even take the conference if we could get it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 16339 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 If it's good enough for FC Vaduz, it's good enough for me. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 22640 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 24 minutes ago, Tom said: European football is absolutely class tbh. It makes matches more accessible for people who otherwise couldn't get tickets, it's generally reasonably priced at non CL level, you get to see some teams you haven't seen before, some dorty pints on a work night. It's mint. Id even take the conference if we could get it. This is true. I remember being at the PSV match at home midweek. Absolutely mortal and speaking to a PSV fan and thinking he must be absolutely wankered as I couldn't understand his English. He was speaking Dutch and I thought he was a mag 😂 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobinRobin 12408 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 5 minutes ago, wykikitoon said: This is true. I remember being at the PSV match at home midweek. Absolutely mortal and speaking to a PSV fan and thinking he must be absolutely wankered as I couldn't understand his English. He was speaking Dutch and I thought he was a mag 😂 Should have got Steve McLaren to translate 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaser 1355 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 (edited) We've got to push for a European place this season, not next as it'll kick on the level of players we can continue to attract. If say we've managed to attract 50% of the players we were seriously interested in, and we increase that to 80% through getting Euro competition, then it can only be of benefit. We're not Champions League level of course, but by getting a few more top drawer bodies in over the next 2 windows, with the attraction of Euro football from 2023, we probably could be. Edited August 31, 2022 by Chaser Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 23461 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 51 minutes ago, Tom said: European football is absolutely class tbh. It makes matches more accessible for people who otherwise couldn't get tickets, it's generally reasonably priced at non CL level, you get to see some teams you haven't seen before, some dorty pints on a work night. It's mint. Id even take the conference if we could get it. i'd love to come up for some boozy european thursday nights Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 23461 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 bargain at that price 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 22640 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 1 minute ago, Dr Gloom said: bargain at that price Offer them £10m 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamTaylor5 1167 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 17 minutes ago, wykikitoon said: Offer them £10m I thought we were supposed to like offering £25m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Craig 6799 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 26 minutes ago, wykikitoon said: Offer them £10m £5m plus tits? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 22640 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 10 minutes ago, GrahamTaylor5 said: I thought we were supposed to like offering £25m That's when they're worth £45m+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrahamTaylor5 1167 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 2 minutes ago, wykikitoon said: That's when they're worth £45m+ I just assumed it was the equivalent of an automatic reply. I thought that maybe they had purchased a template to help them put in transfer offers and sent the same email out regardless of the player or their club. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 23461 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 I hope we do spend the £25m on Tielemens. I’d love to see the chicken peddler explain how we came to spend £100m more than he proclaimed we would in this window. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig 6799 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 (edited) Fofana has cost about the same that we paid for Trippier, Botman, Burn & Targett combined. Utter madness. Edited August 31, 2022 by Craig 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaser 1355 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Chelsea are trying to buy their way out of a shaky back line left since Rudiger fucked off but do the media question them spending so much? Absolutely not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wykikitoon 22640 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 26 minutes ago, Chaser said: Chelsea are trying to buy their way out of a shaky back line left since Rudiger fucked off but do the media question them spending so much? Absolutely not. Listening to TalkSport on the way home they are. Andy Goldstein and Darren Bent saying Tuchal is off his nut saying he needs to spend more when he's already spent £300m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 49568 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 Seemingly FFP-exempt Chelsea have now bid 50m euros for Alvarez from Ajax, so we won't be getting him, if we were ever interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7568 Posted August 31, 2022 Share Posted August 31, 2022 25 minutes ago, Gemmill said: Seemingly FFP-exempt Chelsea have now bid 50m euros for Alvarez from Ajax, so we won't be getting him, if we were ever interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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