European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 3:25pm On Sep 05, 2020 |
Fulks217: The defense is pretty bad A Thiago Silva Zouma partnership can't be bad. I can go all season with that and still stay confident of winning laurels. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 3:01pm On Sep 05, 2020 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 6:47am On Sep 05, 2020 |
Ibime: Final price of £71m. BBC price, not rumours price. Daily Fail won't stop saying it is 89milla. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 11:03pm On Sep 04, 2020 |
pkasso: The way una dey hype this Marina, i no understand. Don't get me wrong, she's a ok negotiator but the way y'all dey go about like say she dey perform wonders. You just paid 50m for an average English leftback and don't let the 67m for Havertz being bandied about deceive you, you are definitely going to be paying more. The breakdown na to no make am loud.
Rummenigge and Daniel Levy drive a harder bargain and if na by scouting and unearthing gems, Monchi kill am. Honestly i'm yet to see her broker a move that will truly convince me of her abilities. Who sells a gung-ho defender like Luiz for 50milla in this time or Hazard who has one year remaining on his contract for almost 120m? Give respect to that lady abeg. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 5:15am On Sep 03, 2020 |
Ibime: Lollichon was the one pushing Areola over Kepa in 2018. He was also Cechs GK coach from Rennes to Chelsea. Cech even asked Arsenal to sign him. I don't understand why Lollichon can't now recommend Areola to Cech for roughly the same price as Mendy. Or did Lollichon change his mind? Areola is better than Mendy. Could possibly be. I can recall this guy and his family closing on a house in London some weeks back and was hoping to sign a contract with a Premier League team. I can't explain how Rennes seems to be leading the race all of a sudden. Areola was playing at a high level between 2016 and last fall. That is the sort of guy we should be going for. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 11:33pm On Sep 02, 2020 |
Ibime: Or maybe Manure refused to sell to us.
I wonder why they don't revive Areola bid since Mendy's price is pushing close to what PSG would sell Areola for. Maybe wages is also another factor. I know Romero also earns decent wage. Funny enough, Rennes are pushing for areola as replacement for Mendy. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 4:17pm On Sep 02, 2020 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 4:07pm On Sep 02, 2020 |
afrodoc2: Your family too believe in agbo. Your current condition in life is because your mother tried to flush you out of her system with agbo.
Most of your brain flush throway. Na vestigial tissue you dey take operate. You still get washing and setting or you don run out of stocks? I wan help you supply to some guys in Effurun, Delta State  |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 3:29pm On Sep 02, 2020 |
Roland17: Please take this advice very seriously!
Now, while seizure is a natural way of reacting to extreme changes, I will definitely advice you and madam to take him back to the hospital/ a neuro specifically after 2 weeks just to make sure everything is still okay. Detail with the neuro preferably what happened and how he has been since the incident and then take it from there.
Keep a close eye for abnormal behaviors especially body movements in the coming days...Except there are changes to his baseline behavior wait until 2 weeks before setting up the appointment with a neuro.
I am not trying to raise your anxiety any further but I am speaking from a professional standpoint especially in children who have higher tolerance levels. Ibime hearken to this professional advice. I'll bet my testicles that afrodoc2 can't give this, he's just busy selling agbo in Australia.  |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 9:35pm On Sep 01, 2020 |
Greatihex: Dele Momodu wrote
"NIGERIAN PASTORS
They are running their churches 100% better than the way the president is running the country.
The fact is many Nigerians are loosing it. They can't think beyond going after pastors.
In what way has pastors prevented Nigeria from owning an airline In what way do pastors prevent Nigeria from having industries.
Less than 0.0001% of pastors own Jets in Nigeria.
----but no, let us forget the over 70% that earn less than 50k/month and focus on the 0.0001% than own jets.
If you run your governments the way church leaders are running churches. Nigeria might be a Qatar right now.
In all these argument Canaanland has had stable electricity and water supply for its over 15,000 residents since 1999 and is already on the verge of converting waste to electricity.
RCCG is producing 25MW of electricity.
Yet your ... govt you pay compulsory tax, vat, CIT, Pet Tax has not been able to give you light decades after independence.
Living Faith has more than 25,000 Staff and has never owed any of them salary! Yet your state govt that collects Allocation plus Tax cannot pay full salary.
Living Faith, a single Church, is schooling 16 thousand of your Citizens in Higher institutions and many more at primary and Secondary levels yet you think you have the capacity to waggle your tongue
I went for Shiloh all through and stayed in the staff quarters, yet it was electricity all through; for one second, water did not go off in spite of thousands that were present.
On a normal day you won't walk 20 metres before you find a segregated bin to dispose your waste.
The entire area was fully covered by different layers of Security with multiple CCTV and IoT enabled barrier gates.
And yet your Abuja, capital of the Nation does not have CCTV yet you open your .... mouth to talk down on pastors!
Between the guy that calls himself Area father and Bishop David Oyedepo Ministries International who resigned a federal job and started a Church of 3 people and has widened it to over 6,000 churches globally, over 200 schools, 2 hospitals, Over 1000 hectares farm for livestock and crop, Another farm in Igbesa and CU.
With 15,000 housing Estate in progress, Water factories, Zeolite factory, One Research center, a scholarship fund, Beverage factories, 10 million books, Publishing house, Radio Station etc
who has had more impact or who will have better capacity to govern the nation...??
Canaanland hosts hundreds of thousands of people every week yet no stampede ever. Government gathered people at stadium for recruitment exercise and before it even began, many were dead!
Living Faith already has a master plan till 2032 yet govt does not have a plan for 2020!
You know Illogicality is the trademark of most Africans. They fail to think beyond their prejudices and sentiments hence Africa has remained on the ground.
Can we imagine how developed the nation would have been if we have people with the right mindset at the helm of the nation’s affairs?
God bless all our pastors.
THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE CAREFUL WITH THEIR TONGUE."
- Dele Momodu And how is this our phucking business? Go share it on your FB wall and stop spamming this thread, WTF is wrong with you religious folks? In short, phuck you bro. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 9:32pm On Sep 01, 2020 |
macjireh: there's this Igbo babe i know,,she's in d US,,she dey find husband seriously... I can link u to her if u don't mind  Dude I'm single for Christ sake. Hope she get asss though? |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 3:39pm On Sep 01, 2020 |
Ibime: The young shall grow. I'm currently in hospital. My son climbed dining table this morning and fell on his head. As we picked him him up, expecting his cry, instead he fell silent and went into seizure and stopped breathing like a boxer about to die in the ring. The fear wey catch me. We gave him CPR and called ambulance. Luckily he caught his wind and regained consciousness after 3 or 4 minutes. After 2 or 3 hours in hospital he was back to his normal self and CT scan cleared him of brain bleed. We will be discharged soon. This made me reflect on the innocents whose lives became punchlines here a few days ago. It is completely unacceptable, and also unacceptable to accuse a father of molesting his children. Nothing scares in life more than losing children, and nothing offends a father more than being accused of being improper with his children, or mocking the death of children. Good to hear he's good. Jah be blessed! |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 11:00am On Sep 01, 2020 |
ShitStain: Ngl I'd sell kante for 80mill Same here mate. As much as he looks indispensable, 80mils looks great to turn down. I can snap an astute DM with 50mils and keep my change. Declan Rice can fill that vacuum. Ndidi is another name. Better still, let them give us 30mils plus Brozovic. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 10:10am On Sep 01, 2020 |
Chelsea are telling them to bring 80mils. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 10:02am On Sep 01, 2020 |
ShitStain: Don't they have enough midfielders already? I heard they're closing in on Vidal. Trust Conte to push for the signing of his favoured player. I don't see him backing out, he believes Kante is the soul of his system. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 9:55am On Sep 01, 2020 |
Wetin be Inter problem? Make dem free us na, we still dey build this team, Kante come be dem wahala. I no wan vex o, make dem no collect curse for my hand.  |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 7:47am On Aug 30, 2020 |
Phuck religion. The third biggest cause of blindness after cataract and glaucoma.  |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 9:30pm On Aug 29, 2020 |
Goal France claim Chelsea have submitted a £18million bid for Edouard Mendy after seeing an opening offer of £15m rejected. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 12:59pm On Aug 29, 2020 |
How many pinks are being fatally shot the way blacks are shot?
How many pinks are given the unfair judge sentence the way blacks are given?
'Bleep this crap. There's what they call 'whites privilege' and it plays out in the US all the fuckin time. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 2:30pm On Aug 28, 2020 |
BlueMann: Up next:
The big one  The icing on the cake. I'm sure Marina is leaving this late so that we can get multiple orgasms when the deal gets announced. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 7:50am On Aug 28, 2020 |
timbros: Lol
Imagine if this happens... If you understand how ego works, you can easily tell that this will NEVER happen. These are two kings, they can't be found in one kingdom. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 11:11pm On Aug 27, 2020 |
9700. We don't park the bus anymore at the bridge. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 10:47pm On Aug 27, 2020 |
Doherty moving to Spuds for 12m. That's a huge steal. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 10:39pm On Aug 27, 2020 |
Just few minutes ago. . .
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 7:21pm On Aug 27, 2020 |
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 7:20pm On Aug 27, 2020 |
On the right path
The arrival of Ben Chilwell is just the latest sign that the Blues are operating in a different way to many of their rivals at home and abroad.
When Covid-19 brought the footballing world to a shuddering halt, there was quickly a realisation that the next transfer window - whenever that might be - would not be like any that had preceded it.
Gone were the days, at least for the time being, of transfers approaching £100 million, as even the biggest clubs began to navigate their way out of the economic collapse that accompanied the pandemic.
And while that continues to ring true for a number of teams, there is one clear outlier when it comes to spending this summer.
The arrival of Ben Chilwell at Chelsea on Wednesday means the Blues have now forked out £134m ($177m) on three players ahead of the new campaign, with the England international following in the footsteps of Hakim Ziyech and Timo Werner after their transfers from Ajax and RB Leipzig respectively.
That expenditure is set to break the £200m ($264m) mark once Kai Havertz's move from Bayer Leverkusen is confirmed, with the west London outfit having agreed to pay an initial £72m ($95m) to secure the Germany international's signature in a club-record deal.
Free-agent centre-backs Thiago Silva and Malang Sarr are also set to join Frank Lampard's side in the coming days, with Chelsea's aggressive summer recruitment drive coming after 12 months which saw them shackled firstly by their FIFA-imposed transfer ban over the summer, and then a lack of viable options in January.
It is clear that having an owner such as Roman Abramovich, who provides all of the club's finances himself, is an advantage when compared to more traditional models at clubs such as Liverpool , Barcelona, Juventus or Real Madrid .
All those sides, as well as new European champions Bayern Munich , are set for relatively quiet summers, meaning the opportunity is there for Chelsea to try and take advantage by significantly improving what is already a talented, but still inexperienced squad.
The Blues are well on track to beat their record expenditure for a season before it even starts. In 2017-18 they spent £234m ($323m) on the likes of Alvaro Morata, Tiemoue Bakayoko, Danny Drinkwater and Davide Zappacosta, and the hope is this splurge will not elicit as many big-money flops.
At the time such spending did not stand out given the way transfer fees were being inflated around Europe. As such, the current flashing of the club's cash harks back to the opulence shown in Abrahmovich's early days at the helm, which in turn led to back-to-back league titles under Jose Mourinho in the mid-2000s.
In the age of Financial Fair Play (FFP) that may seem like a risky strategy, but this is the pay-off of a longer-term plan within the transfer market, rather than a team ruthlessly taking advantage of UEFA's temporary rule changes that were enforced to protect clubs' finances in the wake of the coronavirus.
Lampard was assured he would be backed as they went through the January window without opening their wallet once, and the Chelsea hierarchy have been true to their word.
Despite the decision last summer to make Mateo Kovacic's loan move from Real Madrid a permanent deal at the cost of £40m ($51m), they still have the majority of the transfer fees they received via the sales of Eden Hazard and Alvaro Morata - a sum that amounts to £146m ($193m) - in the bank.
The FA Cup runners-up also bid farewell to the likes of David Luiz, Ola Aina and Tomas Kalas, meaning that, according to the CIES Football Observatory, they have made more from player sales over the course of the last two transfer windows than any other club on the planet. Chelsea's transfer policy has always revolved around using the money raised from player sales to fund their own spending, and this summer is no different, even if the arrivals have come before the departures.
Bakayoko, Emerson Palmieri and Michy Batshuayi are all understood to be on the chopping block, with it expected that their sales alone will raise £60m ($79m).
Despite that, there is no hiding from the fact that while Chelsea continue to do well out of players they no longer require, Abramovich is key to them being able to conduct relatively normal business in an abnormal market.
Few, if any, clubs could realistically follow up annual losses of £96.6m ($127m) and the removal of matchday income with this scale of spending. But few, if any, have a Russian billionaire backing them.
Abramovich is able to cover any temporary shortfall, and with Champions League football secured for a second successive season after Lampard guided the Blues to a fourth-place finish last term, the accounts should look rosier heading into the new decade.
The 53-year-old has also overseen the building of the club's world-class academy and gave Marina Granovskaia - who now has a reputation as one of the best negotiators in Europe - a seat on the board.
Such decisions mean Chelsea now find themselves in the enviable position of having a first-team squad full of world-class talent that is part-homegrown and part-signed from elsewhere without ever having been forced to truly break the bank.
"I want the same [as him]. In terms of his commitment, I think he has shown his commitment regularly to our football club," Lampard said of Abramovich in June. "We have done some business now that will hopefully improve us for next season and we want to keep moving forward."
It is a situation that has other clubs looking on enviously in these difficult times. Chelsea are the kings of the transfer window once more - now Lampard must take advantage on the pitch.
Source: Goal.com |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 6:53pm On Aug 27, 2020 |
Thiago Silva passes Chelsea's medical. Best news of the week. |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 6:07pm On Aug 27, 2020 |
Skimpledawg: "Nzuogbu, Nzuogbu, Enyimba enyi" 
That year sha, men wan die follow Enyimba boys that CAF Champions league year. Guy I celebrated Enyimba's first champions league title in 2003 by marching on the streets unclad with some crazy older men  |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 5:58pm On Aug 27, 2020 |
Skimpledawg: I truly understand your point and it makes sense.
Inasmuch that the board won't sanction the deal, I'd be open to Messi coming to Chelsea. It is a statement of intent and ambition as a club to attract big names and also win trophies.
With Messi donning our jersey, we are sure to win trophies. Key word is SURE!!! Ain't happening mate, he's in my hometown.
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 3:19pm On Aug 27, 2020 |
"The blues have confirmed Sarr will spend the 2020/21 season out on loan to "provide the chance to gain valuable game time and add to his experience so he will be ready to join our squad". |
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 6:46am On Aug 27, 2020 |
OJURONGBE1: In as much as i appreciate your timely chelsea gist here, i think it would be better not to peddle rumours to maintain your credibility. PSG never offered Thiago Silva a contract extension, their sporting director felt he was washed off and at 36, earning that bogus wages, it was in their best interest he leaves. This has been settled since January, when his agent came out to say he would be leaving this summer. Check.
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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Official Chelsea Fan Thread: Club World Cup Champions 2025-2029 by Griffon: 1:28am On Aug 25, 2020 |
pamcode: This is too much please. Like eating fatty tissues with meat. You can still tune down to this, just anything with flesh, just anything that can clap without using hands. 
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