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  1. Chelsea 2024/25

    They both are good at different things. Disasi is much better in the air and as a box defender. Chalobah is miles better as a passer and is a much better 1v1 defender, especially in wide areas. Given that it should be relatively rare that Chelsea are under siege defending their own box...

  2. Chelsea 2024/25

    40m seems steep to be honest. We paid €45m in the summer of 2023 and he signed a 6 year deal - so he has €30m/£25m of book value left as of this summer. (@Mb194dc) I think we'd take £30m and it'd be reasonable for all parties. In general there seems to be a pretty cordial & collaborative...

  3. NBA 2024-2025

    Completely predictable and criminal management: On a related note, what the feck is Nick Nurse doing???

  4. F1 Season 2025

    Apologies for the dumb question but I've joined for the first time this year - would you mind clarifying the format / scoring?

  5. Christopher Vivell | 25th Feb 2025: Appointed Director of Recruitment on permanent deal

    It's hard to say. Things were so chaotic that it is impossible to know the extent to which he was or wasn't responsible for things. I believe the only window he worked for us full time was the winter of the 22/23 season - when we went bonkers and signed Enzo, Mudryk, Badiashile, Felix on loan...

  6. Christopher Vivell | 25th Feb 2025: Appointed Director of Recruitment on permanent deal

    This is more or less exactly what happened. Believe Vivell thought he'd have a lot more autonomy and responsibility than he wound up having in practice.

  7. Is there a modern candidate to go up against the All-Gullit xi?

    As loathe as everyone is to admit it, the correct answer might be 11 Van Dijks. Unlikely to concede much and would be basically impossible to deal with on set pieces. Excellent on the ball and there is the inherent safety net of winning pretty much every header if it has to be played long.

  8. NBA 2024-2025

    Social media and the nature of online highlights has made these guys scared of getting embarrassed. It's cooler to not try than it is to get dunked on. A lot of this comes from the best players in the league who disproportionately set the culture - Lebron especially. Let's not forget he had all...

  9. Club ownership | Senior management team talk

    Also vetoing Bruno paying for the staff out of his own pocket? Thin skinned and pathetic.

  10. Enzo Maresca - Chelsea manager - Sack watch

    I probably came across as too abrasive initially in responding to you but with respect I would also suggest that I'm more plugged in with Chelsea than you are - so I feel quite comfortably saying that Poch's tactics were genuinely Neanderthal-level idiotic for the top level at this point. I'm...

  11. Enzo Maresca - Chelsea manager - Sack watch

    Results were only good on the surface if you ignore that we got smoked 5-0 by Arsenal and then drew 2-2 with Villa before our "good" period of 5 wins to close the season. And even then of those 5 wins, we were outplayed by Forest and Bournemouth pretty comprehensively. This is to say nothing of...

  12. Enzo Maresca - Chelsea manager - Sack watch

    It's absolutely not a fair question; we didn't actually finish the season all that well but had a couple flukey results. Poch is a dinosaur of the modern game.

  13. Sam Kerr | Found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment

    Why the feck are Australian pieces that came out defending her and would subsequently be proved to be correct in a court of law triggering you to this extent? You probably should take a step back and self-evaluate why you are so angry about your initial perception of what happened being proved...

  14. Sam Kerr | Found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment

    No one has said that men can't feel threatened. But you are being obtuse if you think that those fears are even remotely comparable in terms of rationality.

  15. Sam Kerr | Found not guilty of racially aggravated harassment

    What are you even trying to argue here? Good grief, this is embarrassing
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