Good. Still hope for Jim Ratcliffe to buy us someday then
Roman Abramovich plans to sell Chelsea | SOLD for £4.25BN
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I was kinda hoping you’d end up in limbo. What’s the expectation in terms of spending on new players now or is that hard to tell right now?
Hard to tell. You'd think theyll want to do something big, given its a quick way to make a name for yourselves. Matt Law was their media mouthpiece through the entire process, one of the team was his source; and he expects some eye catching signings to be made, could all be opinion though.
Difficult to say. My hope all along has been that the new owners would want to make a couple of statement signings in the first transfer window. I wasn't ever sure if that was delusional on my part or if it was somewhat realistic. Now that we know its official, the noise from the ITK journos is that they want start sorting out squad this summer.
Looks like a poor mans Robert Palmer.Turning up to sign a 4 billion pound deal looking like he's just popped out to the supermarket for some milk
They are in a mess and need to replace Christensen and Rudiger first and foremost. They then need to look at Lukaku and Werner whilst making a decision on the midfield.
Basically there’s plenty of work for them to do in the summer but this time without Romans magic chequebook.
Interesting times
Well the opinion among journos who generally are good for chelsea, is that there will be big money spent and a lot of sorting out to come, as WeePat stated
He bought the dodgers when they were in bankruptcy and hadnt won a world series in a long time, today they are one of Baseball's powerhouse teams, world series champions, and match the payroll of the Yankees, who were by far and away the richest team in Baseball for god knows how long. So he will put whatever money is needed into the team - this group is also 5-6 billionaires so the money is there, youd think.
One of his big appeals is revenue, he has so many links to the media and entertainment industry that i could see a host of new sponsors on board soon
I dont think you'll see much difference between our spending this summer in particular with Boehly, as you would have with abramovich, remembering that he hasnt personally funded any signings in a long time [if i remember rightly...]
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We need to win a couple of games and then see what we need to do to freshen up the squad. At least it is not an overhaul. We still have a great group of players that are maturing. Some key loanees that are ready for first team minutes. Losing Lukaku would be great, even at a loss. Werner’s time has come, but at the price we got him, that should be easy. There are clubs in a real mess as far as their squad goes, Chelsea is not one of them. Hate to see Rudi go, but things like that happen. Christensen is not a big loss, he will be easily replaced.
Well that’s promising that he has a track record like that. It’ll be interesting to see what Chelsea look like in a couple of years.
Well seems to be done.
Good luck to all the resident Chelsea fans!
Good luck to all the resident Chelsea fans!
Off to championship you go.
New ownership group, led by Todd Boehly, Clearlake Capital, Mark Walter and Hansjoerg Wyss
More like a Mike Ashley than a group of
sheiks
More like a Mike Ashley than a group of
sheiks
If this is true how is it in any way shape or form fair? We’re stuck with those leaches and meanwhile Chelsea are protected from being put in the same position. That’s not a level playing field.
the rumour there is that it's Roman demanding that from the bidders, as is his right as the seller. it's not like the league/FA/government are imposing that rule
Todd's tots or Hansjoerg's hatchlings? I can't decide.
I understand your point but a line has to be drawn somewhere.
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It's not fair.
If the Man United fans who have consistently and vocally criticised the Glazers have made it harder for other clubs to get saddled with the same shit, then without any irony I thank them.
For all that I loathe the sugar daddy phenomenon, he at least blazed the trail and had to make it work without a playbook already available to follow. While wasn't the first time a rich owner took over a club and spent money, it hadn't been done to anything near that extent before. Elevating a club from relative obscurity to one of the world's strongest teams in short order, winning the PL just two years after the takeover. Compare that to how long it took City despite spending even more and having the route already mapped out for them by Chelsea, or PSG doing it in a farmer's league with no meaningful competition. And of these three, only Chelsea have CL trophies. And not just one.
What Abramovich did was genuinely impressive. It's still an unhealthy way for a football club to rise to prominence, but it took a lot more to do it then than when others followed suit. Plus he's just one businessman (say what you will about the ethics of Russian oligarchs), not the government of a fecking country. He basically invented the wheel when it comes to buying a club of no particular note and transforming it into a powerhouse, something that no one man has ever done before or since. I hate that it happened, but it was most certainly a feat. City and PSG don't compare to that, there's a huge difference between a businessman and an entire state, and doing it first vs. copying the process.
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he’s a businessperson first and foremost. stamford bridge is ripe for turning into kensington flats and that’s one of the first things on his agenda, blaming chelsea and kensington planning for the move. he’s keen not to alienate the fans though and he will move the team to pitsea, so the imaginative fans at the bridge don’t have to work too hard to replace the “chelsea, chelsea” chant.
Prefer Todd’s tots. Can’t say Hansjoerg.
The pitch is owned by the Chelsea Pitch Owners, so nothing can be redeveloped without their consent, which won’t be given.
Hardly comparable situations though, are they?
At the time of the Glazer takeover, United were publicly listed on the stock exchange. Anyone with enough resources could have bought shares in the company and the stock exchange doesn’t care nor do they have any power whatsoever to dictate whether a buyer should be using cash in hand or debt money to finance the purchase.
The Glazers managed to grab themselves enough shares to launch a takeover of the remaining stakes so there really wasn’t anyone who could even have told them to go feck themselves, let alone make them give some kind of guarantees your club would be in good hands with them.
Compare that to Chelsea who are 100% private owned so naturally the current ownership can dictate whatever terms they choose with the prospective buyers and it’s then up to the buyer to decide whether they’re terms they could get on board with or pull out of the process. Abramovich, before being sanctioned, outsourced the sale process to be handled the Raine Group and made them ensure the new owners would do right by the club with promises to continue investing, as well as the rumored ’anti-Glazer’ clauses that prevent the kind of nefarious plots the Glazer were up to. There was plenty of interest in the purchase of Chelsea with close to a dozen credible parties involved in the bidding so at that point it’s just a matter of picking a decent buyer and negotiating the best possible deal in the circumstances available.
It’s not the the FA / EPL / Boris Johnson who are dictating these terms designed to ’protect’ the future of Chelsea, but rather it’s Roman Abramovich and Raine Group on his behalf. Or are you saying that just because your club got the short end of the stick then everyone else should be forced to endure the same merely out of sympathy, even though the situations around the sales are completely different? The Glazers are definitely cancerous and should be driven out of your club but that’s a whole other conversation and doesn’t have much to do with the Chelsea sale process.
It remains to be seen how this so called ’anti-Glazer’ clause or any future investments can be enforced on the new owners though, because once they own 100% of the club who’s there to make sure they’ll do what they promised? From what I’ve read everything looks promising (maybe not as great as with Roman but as good as can be expected atm) but I’ll reserve my judgement for later when I’ve seen what the new owners are actually planning, which could take a few years.
Errrr...........Jack Walker says hello........
Taking a club from the second division to Premier League glory, is something that he did, sadly at our expense.
He paved the way for what Roman did after him.
I'm not going to hide it. I'm very jealous. The Dodgers definitely don't seem worse for wear and the guy himself is heavily invested in sports. He seems to know what he is doing it.
Meanwhile, we are stuck with the abhorrent leeches for what seems like decades to come.
Meanwhile, we are stuck with the abhorrent leeches for what seems like decades to come.
Yes, the all-conquering Blackburn Rovers who took the world by storm and claimed a place at the top of world football, right?
I said that he paved the way for Roman to do what he did, he took a club from nowhere to the very top of the game.
Which he did, it didn't last too long, but Jo one can deny the impact that he had on that club.
Good timing for Chelsea fans, expect a few good signings this summer for them. Wouldn't be surprised if a pair like Kounde & Tchounameni are the first through the door.
Replacing Rüdiger and Christensen alone is going to cost a bomb. So I highly doubt we’re going to be after a midfielder that will cost 70+ million as well.
Unless Boehly wants to go all out as sort of a statement of his intent I can see this being a modest summer. We thankfully have a few extremely promising players out on loan to plug some holes and refresh the side without spending a pound.
The Bucs aren't any worse for wear either. Doesn't necessarily mean he will invest in Chelsea at the same level he has his US franchise.
Didn't the Buccaneers recently win the Superbowl??
It shows that what happens in America is a meaningless way to try and extrapolate what could happen over here.
I still find it somewhat pathetic, that with all the FFP rules, Chelsea can literally just be allowed to wave off £1.5bn debt and other clubs are punished harshly for having much smaller debts.
It changes the entire landscape and puts Chelsea in an unfair position in terms of fair play.
FFP was designed for this type of ownership to make it fairer and here we see it being totally disregarded.
All these small clubs taken to court and wound up for such small amounts of debt despite new ownership, surely must have a legal case
It changes the entire landscape and puts Chelsea in an unfair position in terms of fair play.
FFP was designed for this type of ownership to make it fairer and here we see it being totally disregarded.
All these small clubs taken to court and wound up for such small amounts of debt despite new ownership, surely must have a legal case
'something bad happened to us. It's not fair that they should try and avoid bad things happening to others in the future.'
It would be unfair if the government had imposed those conditions. This is Abramovich who is making them agree to this. Who knows how enforceable any of this is, but the reports said 'binding agreement' so it sounds like they're legally prohibited from doing what the Glazers have been doing.
That said, I'm almost certain United fans shining big bright lights on the leeches the Glazers are has helped protect the same happening to Chelsea.
And Kronke and the Rams just last season, so successful American team doesn't necessarily translate to successful European team. That said, these guys do feel different from Kroenke and the Glazers.
We have new American owners now. Championship means the title around here now.
I think a summer of say Kounde, Gvardiol, Tchouameni and say a forward if Lukaku / Werner leaves is quite realistic to be honest, and incorporate Sterling, Colwill, Gallagher & Broja back from loan.
Yep this is more realistic. Those thinking this will be like an Abramovich summer are dreaming
The loan rules are changing thus summer, so it will be very interesting to see what Chelsea and others do with their respective players thar have been on loan.