Chelsea 2023/24 season thread.
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Indeed. Keep no.4 warm for caicedo.Enzo moving to 8 leaves the 4 open for Caicedo
Enzo moving to 8 leaves the 4 open for Caicedo
Enzo wore 5 last season though. It was Badiashile who had 4.
Interesting bit of that number list is the new boy Ugochukwu getting the number 16 shirt. If he was heading on loan wouldn't it make more sense to just not give him a number at all, or at least stick with the higher number mainly reserved for the youngsters? For example the other new boy Angelo didn't get a number.
Lukaku?
Lukaku?
Been stripped of a number completely, along with Ziyech and Hudson-Odoi who are all expected to leave.
Just keeping his number warm before he's reintegrated to the squad, evidently.
He has physical attributes. And got plenty of first team experience compared to other choices in the squad. Have good aerial ability and strong in tackles. Won't be surprised if he stays.
Chelsea being investigated for offshore payments according to The Times.
When the takeover happened, £100 mil was taken off the purchase price and was set aside to pay for fines arising out of stuff like the above and the new regime self-reported a ton of questionable shit.
Points deduction then
That's like me buying a car and getting punished because the previous owner broke the speed limit in it 5 years ago!
Who the feck are "infinite athlete"?
No it’s not. The rules were broken and just because you changed ownership doesn’t change that.
The rules were broken by the previous regime and any punishment will absolutely take that into account.
Sort of irrelevant though. The club broke the rules end of story.
It's only the start of the story.
throw chelsea in with the nonces.
Your car analogy doesn’t work. It’s more like an F1 Team broke the rules in a season then gets purchased by someone else. The penalty incurred should absolutely stand regardless of the owner.
If you think the new owners won't face a far less punishment (than if Roman was still in charge) then I would question your sanity.
We'll see I guess. At the moment it's just an investigation.
I remember when Chelsea fans used to say there was nothing dodgy at all about their dealing under Roman and it was all conspiracy theories. Of course, an investigation is only now happening well after he sold the club.
Love it when a redcafe debate breaks down into progressively more obscure analogies.
The new ownership self-reported a load of stuff done by Roman and Co. We recently got a fine from UEFA for FFP stuff (as did Man United by the way).
Your fine was a tad bigger
Lots of things of mine are bigger.
I genuinely don't get this Infinite Athlete thing.
They apparently were a sports focused tech startup called Tempus Ex Machina that just rebranded yesterday after buying another small startup focused on injury analytics called Biocore.
Tempus Ex Machina has an estimated $15m in annual revenue and 103 employees. How the feck can a company like that be a shirt sponsor? Maybe they are paying Chelsea in services rather than money or something? The club could probably use that injury analytics part...
They apparently were a sports focused tech startup called Tempus Ex Machina that just rebranded yesterday after buying another small startup focused on injury analytics called Biocore.
Tempus Ex Machina has an estimated $15m in annual revenue and 103 employees. How the feck can a company like that be a shirt sponsor? Maybe they are paying Chelsea in services rather than money or something? The club could probably use that injury analytics part...
It’s not the owners being punished it’s the club for breaking the rules.
They’re paying 50m for one year apparently. The same as our shirt sponsor deal. It’ll definitely be above board though.
Is it absolutely them (I genuinely dont know)?
Several more titles for United, please.
You're also a FFP rule breaker so who is next on the list after you?
I mean, regardless of who is liable or whatever, this is not a good look for Chelsea at all is it? Surely casts a shadow over their achievements under Abramovich for the era in question?
Give it to spurs.
We literally got fined for FFP stuff a few weeks ago.
It's all under a shadow at loads of clubs for donkeys years, always has been.
I do agree that this chelsea squad is perfect for Pochettino to take over and implement his philosophy, but a lot of their signings address a long term project, while not fixing glaring issue to the first team squad.
The type of project and recruitment being done, seems like Chelsea owner do not want immediate success. If that is the case, the fans and Chelsea board should have patience with regards to Pochettino challenging for a title. Getting players like Caceido, Adam's, vlahovic and olise would address some of the glaring issue though, although not my pick.
I believe they need Caicedo, lavia, cherki and felix
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That's just to keep them off the scent of the shit they are doing currently.
Ah, that's ok then. Just pay a token fine and move on then.
No idea. That's all I can find on the company.
Don't know but endeavor and silverlake invested in them recently. Silverlake have assets worth 98BN and endeavor UFC and WWE owners. So to get exposure by sponsoring pl club not bad idea from their perspective. Jurasek is bringing the deal to club. And don't worry pl will thoroughly check it.
It's more like a loan to buy mortgage from 1999, not 98, versus buying a house outright now. Leave Means Leave.