[Football] Chelsea or Fulham?

[Sarisbury Seagull]

“It’s where we’re at”

Is the new “it is what it is”.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Fulham moved the ball so much better than Chelsea.

 

[Weststander]

Nothing unique at all.

Yep financial cheating’s been in place for a long time. Real made £100m’s from repeatedly selling real estate at vastly over value to RealM supporting banks to cover Galactico’s spending and losses. Ironically, La Liga are now furious with UEFA for not dealing with certain English clubs cheating.

 

[The Rivet]

Overall, a very satisfying night!

 

[ConfusedGloryHunter]

I know it flies in the face of everything I've written this week but:-


Please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please





Please score lots of goals tomorrow.

Well that seals it. Record defeat incoming.

 

[Triggaaar]

Yep financial cheating’s been in place for a long time. Real made £100m’s from repeatedly selling real estate at vastly over value to RealM supporting banks to cover Galactico’s spending and losses. Ironically, La Liga are now furious with UEFA for not dealing with certain English clubs cheating.

Indeed and it's pathetic. The same La Liga clubs that claimed football is dead without the super league.

 

[Greenbag50]

Yep financial cheating’s been in place for a long time. Real made £100m’s from repeatedly selling real estate at vastly over value to RealM supporting banks to cover Galactico’s spending and losses. Ironically, La Liga are now furious with UEFA for not dealing with certain English clubs cheating.

It does grind my gears. Whenever I bump into one if big six in queues, train, bus etc I always reference spending, fairness etc. they look at me as if I have 2 heads (which I don't obvs).
V obvious they are completely illiterate to economics of football and only worry what’s happening between the white lines.

 

[Invicta]

Chelsea boss Graham Potter to BBC Sport: "There was a lot of excitement and positivity from the start, a good atmosphere. The spirit of the players was really good. They worked hard for each other against an organised team.

"They've been together a while. We’re a different stage of that – players coming back from injury and new players. We needed time to settle everything down. We were missing the connection, fluidity and confidence that comes from knowing each other.

"The decision we took in the window you can see the profile in terms of age. We feel we have a very strong group of players. We have to gel and become a really good team. That’s where the work is.

"It’s working together. When players have been injured they have not been on the training pitch. We have new players with us. It's about getting ideas across and woring with the group.

"Sometimes you have to look at the whole package. Young players, nice mix of them both. For us it’s about improving and

"New players are adapting to a new country and a new league. It’s not straightforward. When the price tag is what it is questions will be asked, it's the nature of the business."

Utter twaddle. Chelsea fans you are welcome to him.

 

[jessiejames]

Yep financial cheating’s been in place for a long time. Real made £100m’s from repeatedly selling real estate at vastly over value to RealM supporting banks to cover Galactico’s spending and losses. Ironically, La Liga are now furious with UEFA for not dealing with certain English clubs cheating.

But Chelsea are not cheating, all they are doing is going around it by giving longer contracts. I heve heard people say Bholey is cleaver doing it this way, however, other chairman are wise enough to see the future risk this can give so dont use it.

 

[Weststander]

It does grind my gears. Whenever I bump into one if big six in queues, train, bus etc I always reference spending, fairness etc. they look at me as if I have 2 heads (which I don't obvs).
V obvious they are completely illiterate to economics of football and only worry what’s happening between the white lines.

But they know really, obsessed with spending power during transfer windows, down in the dumps if a rival spends more. They know full well it’s 75% about the money, the fees and wages spend.

 

[Weststander]

But Chelsea are not cheating, all they are doing is going around it by giving longer contracts. I heve heard people say Bholey is cleaver doing it this way, however, other chairman are wise enough to see the future risk this can give so dont use it.

It’s more complicated than the (media obsession) with 7 year contracts instead of 5 for new young-ish players.
[Outlawed any day now by UEFA for new players, in accounting terms].

Several respected sports writers are saying this is all built on CL income 2023/24, Boehly absolutely needs it to meet FFP.

Even Guardiola’s talking about it and Citeh cheated big time themselves, with secret Operation Longbow.

I get the impression that the EPL’s increasingly not run by billionaires and accountants, but by firms of the very best law firms ‘The Magic Circle’. El Pres in a radio interview a few months back explained that clubs, even also cheating Everton, engage multiple top law firms each to fight their corner in private negotiations with the EPL when caught cheating FFP. In essence, getting a confidential slap on the wrist, only.

 

[El Turi]

Was that the Fofana that we were after? I quite liked the look of him. Muscular, direct, dangerous.

Very raw though. I don’t think we would have thrown him in the first team so quickly.

 

[dwayne]

Very raw though. I don’t think we would have thrown him in the first team so quickly.

Really annoying.

The only half decent player on show for them and of course its basically a player stolen from us. Our scouting. Chelsea would never have dreamed of signing him before winstanley

 

[B-right-on]

Chelsea boss Graham Potter to BBC Sport: "There was a lot of excitement and positivity from the start, a good atmosphere. The spirit of the players was really good. They worked hard for each other against an organised team.

"They've been together a while. We’re a different stage of that – players coming back from injury and new players. We needed time to settle everything down. We were missing the connection, fluidity and confidence that comes from knowing each other.

"The decision we took in the window you can see the profile in terms of age. We feel we have a very strong group of players. We have to gel and become a really good team. That’s where the work is.

"It’s working together. When players have been injured they have not been on the training pitch. We have new players with us. It's about getting ideas across and woring with the group.

"Sometimes you have to look at the whole package. Young players, nice mix of them both. For us it’s about improving and

"New players are adapting to a new country and a new league. It’s not straightforward. When the price tag is what it is questions will be asked, it's the nature of the business."

Potter had a lot going for him. Sparkling personality and gripping media interviews weren't amongst them.

 

[jcdenton08]

I thought Chelsea were very poor tonight and a long way off a top four side.

 

[Weststander]

I’ve wondered the same throughout, Boehly’s ego looking like ‘loyalty’.

 

[Bozza]

 

[kevo]

Great result for us but I've a horrible feeling we won't capitalise on it tomorrow.

 

[Mackenzie]

Just home from work, great result, the table looks very nice.

 

[Eric the meek]

Perhaps Potter did us all a favour by seizing his chance with Chelsea.

We could have suffered his football for years, and with inertia, never have known about RDZ and how profoundly different possession football could be from Potterball.