Chelsea Football Club (II) | WORLD CHAMPS

stormi · Post #121 » by **stormi** » Wed Jul 2, 2025 3:27 am

The_Brecht wrote:You never know.
Maybe spending another billion will get you back into a title race.

How many billions has the original "Bank of England" spent to end up with less European pedigree than Ipswich Town?

Where's Arsenal?

Garburator FC should be focused on Operation: Noni Madueke AKA being the good lap-dog club you are and swallowing up our unwanted trash like always (Sterling, Cech, Willian, Luiz, Kepa, Havertz).

Meanwhile...

Baseline81 · Post #122 » by **Baseline81** » Fri Jul 4, 2025 8:54 pm

From an ESPN article:

Chelsea were fined a total of €31 million ($36.5 million) for breaking financial monitoring rules by UEFA on Friday to hit a record sum for a European club penalized in a single season.

Chelsea were fined €20 million ($23.6 million) for failing to approach break-even and a further €11 million ($13 million) for spending more than a 80% set limit of its revenue on so-called "squad cost" such as transfers and wages.

Drop in the bucket.

stormi · Post #123 » by **stormi** » Sat Jul 5, 2025 4:15 am

João Pedro might be R9...

Who's worried about a silly little UEFA penalty when we can earn it back with a win over Palmeiras.

Gittens was at the game, nice to see. Announcement soon probably.
Andrey Santos got a start, held his own without Caicedo.

Impressive win against an opposition you don't want to face too often, especially considering Brazil clubs have been running rampant in the CWC. Estevao impressed me bundles. A lot stronger than his frame suggests. Generates a lot of football in tight spaces and was riding challenges in the final third to play incisive passes.

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Future teammates serenading Estevao after the match. Very excited for his arrival.

Onto Fluminense and showdown against an old friend, O Monstro.

Baseline81 · Post #124 » by **Baseline81** » Tue Jul 8, 2025 6:18 pm

Interesting take on Chelsea and their transfers. Curious, stormi, what's your take on the article, though I can sort of guess...

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/45691162/chelsea-transfer-strategy-mystery-todd-boehly

EDIT: Here's a snippet on Delap, Pedro, and Gittens.

None of these players raise Chelsea's ceiling, while their floor was already quite high because of all the depth they've built up over the past year. If you were trying to project Chelsea's title and Champions League odds, none of these signings -- even when you add them all together -- would change anything.

EDIT 2: Article is spot on in discussing Chelsea's two innovations. One, exploiting the way transfers were accounted for in financial regulations. And two, creating their own feeder team, Strasbourg, in a competitive league.

stormi · Post #125 » by **stormi** » Tue Jul 8, 2025 9:19 pm

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Anelka/R9 regen.

stormi · Post #126 » by **stormi** » Tue Jul 8, 2025 11:23 pm

Maresca achieving top four with Colwill as his only high level CB, Sanchez in goal and being forced to rely on stiffs like Jackson, Nkunku and Madueke to lead the attack might just trump Tuchel winning the Champions League with Mount, Havertz and Werner up front as the greatest achievement in football history.

Incroyable manager.

The_Brecht · Post #127 » by **The_Brecht** » Tue Jul 8, 2025 11:51 pm

stormi wrote:Maresca achieving top four with Colwill as his only high level CB, Sanchez in goal and being forced to rely on stiffs like Jackson, Nkunku and Madueke to lead the attack might just trump Tuchel winning the Champions League with Mount, Havertz and Werner up front as the greatest achievement in football history.

Incroyable manager.

Dude, you can't compare this mostrosity of a tournament with the best and strongest club competition...

stormi · Post #128 » by **stormi** » Wed Jul 9, 2025 12:25 am

The_Brecht wrote:
stormi wrote:Maresca achieving top four with Colwill as his only high level CB, Sanchez in goal and being forced to rely on stiffs like Jackson, Nkunku and Madueke to lead the attack might just trump Tuchel winning the Champions League with Mount, Havertz and Werner up front as the greatest achievement in football history.

Incroyable manager.

Dude, you can't compare this mostrosity of a tournament with the best and strongest club competition...

Definitely meant top four in the PL + it was more of a comment of how dog the attackers we had to suffer with last season were however I do find it a bit amusing how the loudest detractors of the CWC are conveniently fans of clubs that couldn't qualify on their own merit...

Enough hating from outside of the club. We've seen Brazilian giants take down PSG & Inter, Benfica beat Bayern and a Saudi team befall Man City.

The Club World Cup is a serious competition and there's no easy path to winning it.

Baseline81 · Post #129 » by **Baseline81** » Wed Jul 9, 2025 11:54 am

stormi wrote:Definitely meant top four in the PL + it was more of a comment of how dog the attackers we had to suffer with last season were however I do find it a bit amusing how the loudest detractors of the CWC are conveniently fans of clubs that couldn't qualify on their own merit...

Enough hating from outside of the club. We've seen Brazilian giants take down PSG & Inter and a Saudi team befall Man City.

The Club World Cup is a serious competition and there's no easy path to winning it.

stormi · Post #130 » by **stormi** » Wed Jul 9, 2025 1:30 pm

50 scrillion big ones, please & thanks!

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MetalFingaz · Post #131 » by **MetalFingaz** » Wed Jul 9, 2025 3:26 pm

stormi wrote:50 scrillion big ones, please & thanks!

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Absolutely hilarious if Arsenal pay 50M for Madueke.

stormi · Post #132 » by **stormi** » Thu Jul 10, 2025 5:49 am

Unlimited respect for any young foreign player that cuts their teeth in the championship. Never skipped steps.

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stormi · Post #133 » by **stormi** » Thu Jul 10, 2025 6:06 am

Baseline81 wrote:
stormi wrote:Definitely meant top four in the PL + it was more of a comment of how dog the attackers we had to suffer with last season were however I do find it a bit amusing how the loudest detractors of the CWC are conveniently fans of clubs that couldn't qualify on their own merit...

Enough hating from outside of the club. We've seen Brazilian giants take down PSG & Inter and a Saudi team befall Man City.

The Club World Cup is a serious competition and there's no easy path to winning it.

The difference between qualifying

and not

Better luck next time.

Baseline81 · Post #134 » by **Baseline81** » Thu Jul 10, 2025 1:07 pm

stormi wrote:The difference between qualifying

and not

Better luck next time.

Qualifying, huh?

Care to explain Inter Miami's qualification in such a "serious" competition. I'm sure you'll try and come up with something logical, but, at the end of the day, it boils down to the inclusion of one Lionel Messi.

stormi · Post #135 » by **stormi** » Thu Jul 10, 2025 2:07 pm

Baseline81 wrote:
stormi wrote:The difference between qualifying

and not

Better luck next time.

Qualifying, huh?

Care to explain Inter Miami's qualification in such a "serious" competition. I'm sure you'll try and come up with something logical, but, at the end of the day, it boils down to the inclusion of one Lionel Messi.

Host nation getting preferential representation in a major footballing tournament. Surely never happened before.

stormi · Post #136 » by **stormi** » Thu Jul 10, 2025 2:10 pm

The UEFA coefficient system worked like a dream, diluting down the representation of England to just City and Chelsea was perfect. Easily the two most dominant clubs of the 21st century and the only two deserving of participating in a prestigious tournament like the Club World Cup.

Blue Cartel for life.

stormi · Post #137 » by **stormi** » Thu Jul 10, 2025 9:48 pm

Boom, there it is.

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He was a nice lad but he wasn't progressing fast enough to match the ascension of the rest of the squad.

It's pretty much best case scenario selling him to Arsenal. We nearly double our initial £29m investment from a few years ago and shift him to a direct rival that has one of the premier players of the sport in his position.

There’s really a limit to how much Noni can improve (at) Arsenal considering he'll either be a pure backup or a full time LW. The only chance he'd play a lot in his favourable position would be if Saka was injured, which means Arsenal would be worse anyway.

stormi · Post #138 » by **stormi** » Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:16 am

The Mighty Chels, back in front of the worlds eyes.

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Let's win this thing.

Post #139 » by **Clav** » Sun Jul 13, 2025 7:32 pm

Cole Palmer!

stormi · Post #140 » by **stormi** » Sun Jul 13, 2025 7:39 pm

Clav wrote:Cole Palmer!

TWO!