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Loan to a European club next season so he is out of the spotlight is probably the best for all parties Even with the squad being in fairly good form, it still seem the team is playing with 9 outfield players when he is on the park

^^^^^^^ Enzo slows the game down, unfortunately he doesn’t have game reading foresight like Fabergas who used his speed of thought to compensate for his pace

That also goes for some of the regulars

The real question is the £30m upgrade any better than CHO

Poch is on course for 60pts. absolute miracle worker given the bag of dolly mixtures the not so dynamic duo gave him.

Quality service from RJ.

Why because we are beating a relegation team?

Odds on Reece vs Callum in the second half?

Roy Keene Stuart Pearce

If memory serves me poch was giving it large around December about needing player etc. in the January window, then overnight he went into jellyfish / company man mode. I would not be surprised if he’s been tapped up about a position at another club. One suspects it’s all down to how much input he gets to summer’s signings and shaping of the squad.

It the dream of every player to play in the CL, therefore a player like Cole Palmer will not hang around “depending on season 2 performances” should the club fail to qualify for the CL next season. So in 25/26 season you think the club will have the strongest sqaud in the league? I would suspect 50% of the current regular first team will have left the club by then and all the team around the club will strengthen. Also where in your calculations are the Europe factor?. The team has struggled in a 38 game window, hevans forbid should they need to play midweek european matches

Yes However is he a £29m purchaser /improvement above CHO?

His CV with his and being given the bag of dolly mixtures by the first team coordinators, points to INEOS although one suspects TT is ahead of MP.

None because the level of the team is the problem not the coaching.

His level

Why would it be brave. his stock has probably risen, based on what he has achieved to date with the bag of dolly mixtures which he had zero input to. His stock might go higher should he hit the 60pts mark. with all that said, he went on a similar vocal defiance before the last transfer window and overnight he became a company man allowing the first team coordinators to dictate their philosophy again.

Eh I think I agreed with your post on Hutchinson. It’s Madueke where we disagree on

I guess it depend on the height of the bar you are setting?

Not sure this squad is ready for two or three games per week

You could also ask, how many time did the overlords going in front of the cameras when the team were not on such a good run this season. Going to be interesting to see if the overlords have any influence on how the marketing / sponsorship side of players like Cole Palmer

The only thing creamcakes are fans of is making money, regardless how they try to package it.

Chelsea’s recent form shows plan is ‘coming together’, says Todd Boehly LONDON, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 03: Todd Boehly, Owner of Chelsea looks on prior to the Premier League match between Chelsea FC and Brighton & Hove Albion at Stamford Bridge on December 03, 2023 in London, England. (Photo by Alex Pantling/Getty Images) By Adam Crafton 8h ago 40 Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly says the team’s past two and a half games demonstrate signs of the club’s plan “coming together” as head coach Mauricio Pochettino’s future continues to attract scrutiny. Chelsea remain in seventh place in the Premier League table amid another testing season, after finishing the first full campaign under the stewardship of Los Angeles Dodgers owner Boehly and the private equity firm Clearlake Capital in 12th position last year. Pochettino’s relationship with the club’s ownership and sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Lawrence Stewart has been under the microscope in recent months, with the Argentine suggesting contact with the owners has been limited. In response to questions regarding his relationship with Winstanley and Laurence Stewart, Pochettino said last month: “That’s a good question for them if you have the opportunity to ask them. But it’s not a subjective idea of us (that we have problems) — it is the reality.” The coach’s position will be reviewed at the end of the campaign but he may take some optimism from public comments made by Boehly during a Sportico conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Pochettino’s initial contract, signed last summer, was a two-year agreement with the option of a one-year extension. go-deeper GO DEEPER Mauricio Pochettino - should the Chelsea head coach stay or go? Boehly, who was not asked about the head coach during his interview, said: “We’ve seen the last two and a half games, at least in the second half at Aston Villa (2-2 draw) and Tottenham (2-0 win) and West Ham (5-0 win) where we played just beautiful football. “It was so fluid, it was exactly the way we drew it up, when we came out of the back, built up and moved up the pitch, (it was) very organised and the number of shots we had on board. In those two and a half games, you could really start to see what we were working on coming together. “Even the commentary has changed over the last two and a half games. I’ve never seen anything change so quickly.” Boehly was speaking during a one-on-one session in West Hollywood. He was asked why he decided to invest into Premier League football, having previously acquired the L.A. Dodgers baseball team. “There’s no bigger sport in the world,” Boehly said. “When you think about just the size and scale of European football, it’s just mind-numbing and there’s no better league in the world in the Premier League. If you look at how these guys play, the speed with which they play the game. One of my players who I had a great relationship with is Kalidou Koulibaly. Koulibaly came over from Serie A (where he played for Napoli) and he told me one time, ‘In Serie A, I get to think and then run but in the Premier League, I have to run while I think, and I’m still adjusting to that’.” Boehly also said that he was supportive of new proposals within the Premier League to add a hard spending cap to the new “squad cost” rules that are being introduced for the 2025-26 season. Based on the concept of “anchoring”, the de facto salary cap would limit the amount of money any club can invest in their squads by tying it to a multiple of what the lowest earners get from the league’s centralised broadcast and commercial deals. It will be formally voted on in a meeting at the Premier League’s annual general meeting in June. Chelsea abstained from the initial proposals in a meeting last week but Boehly indicated his support on stage on Wednesday. go-deeper GO DEEPER Premier League salary cap mailbag: Why? Who wins and loses? How would it work? “We’re supportive of anything that adds to the competitive nature of the sport,” he said. “The reason the Premier League is doing so well is because it is so competitive and everyone wants to watch it and no one knows how the games are gonna happen. If you look around at what’s going on right now in different European leagues, some of them are having a hard time selling their media (rights). I think the competitiveness that you’re going to continue to see and evolve as the sport evolves is just going be good for the Premier League.” Boehly was also asked how the Premier League can continue to boost its popularity in the United States, where the television deal with NBC was worth $2.7billion for the six seasons leading up to 2028, and where record Premier League television audiences have been recorded on six occasions in the past sixteen months. “You have to make it relevant to them (young people),” Boehly said. “And I think the sport is becoming more and more relevant. The window that they have on the east coast in particular Saturday morning and Sunday morning — where there’s nothing really that competes with other sports — really gives it a great opportunity to reach. “The fan fests that the Premier League do from city to city, you see them, it only builds momentum. Hopefully, (Chelsea midfielder) Cole Palmer will become a household name (here) soon. He’s been a phenomenon for us and so we’re thinking hard about how we continue to expand our brand in the United States. That’s ultimately a priority as well. “One of the things that Premier League clubs have is worldwide marks they can use — we’ve got a global group of players from Argentina to Brazil. Part of the long-range plan will be really to extend the brand as much as possible to build a fanbase because ultimately the larger our fanbase grows, the more competitive we’ll be able to be because these salary caps are based on revenue. “In order to compete, you have to have growing revenue. And I think a brand like Chelsea really allows for that. Growing that brand, especially globally, is predicated on winning. I think that winning is at the top of the things that’s most important. When you’re attracting a new fan, the key is to have something that’s really aspirational.”

On his salary absolutely. then in January he can choose his own destination.

Unlucky Tommy T, ManUre await your services.

You should stop because you are embarrassing yourself 04/05 season - DD scored 16 goals in 41 matches PL - 10 in 26 games won the PL CL - 5 including a couple against bayern home and away in the QF League Cup - 1 "in the final in extra time against the dippers" and won the league cup FA Cup - 0