thevelourfog

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1898617/chelsea-womens-team-todd-boehly Reports now that the owners are seeking to divest a stake in the women's team. Could be 2+2 bollocks, but there is a pattern here and it is not a good one.

I'd settle for just not breaking Reece James before the weekend is out.

First sentence, I genuinely am not following what you are saying. Did Fordstam own Chelsea assets separately from owning Chelsea? Not my understanding but again, not claiming expertise. I haven't mentioned the hotels, never mind "pretended" anything about them.

I am not going to pretend to be any kind of financial expert but I am curious to know what the "interpretation", and relatedly what alternative interpretations, could be. To the lay person, the screenshots show ownership of a club asset being moved outside of the club. That would be, in very literal terms, an asset being stripped. Anyone who isn't a lay person here?

It's true that the owners at least intend to sell Cobham from the club to BlueCo, the screenshots make that quite clear. We're being asset stripped and there isn't two ways about it. BlueCo owning our assets isn't clever accounting (not least because it doesn't seem clear it will actually fall within the profit and sustainability rules), it's Clearlake protecting itself and throwing the club to the wolves. It is something to be very, very worried about.

Hugely compromising us as a long-term asset to temporarily manage a short-term problem entirely of their making. I'm sure it's actually "genius", though.

He's an infuriating watch, but that is because he's doing so much of his learning and developing right in front of us in senior games when it'd usually be done in youth games with basically no one watching. If next season is even half as big a step up, he'll be a superstar. The tough question for me is who do we bring in up front so that we're not reliant on Jackson without killing his momentum.

Couldn't watch live, from extended highlights broadly positive that we didn't crumble at 2-1 and eeked out a win from an at best so-so performance over 90 minutes. In a different season, I'd have a much more positive view of that, in this one it's hard to not look at how easily we concede and think "is that really going to be any better come August?". Lovely to see James back. I do think we're immediately at least 10 points better off if he can do 30 games next season.

I don't quite see it the same as @martin1905 but had a similar interpretation that Pochettino was being a bit barbed and sarcastic throughout. He also made a comment about being "very happy" to have fit players "in the last week of the season". I think he was directing any sarcasm at the journalists in the room rather than the owners, mind.

Still, we had won every European competition until this was introduced, something nice to rounding that out again. Think it would kill our league form next season, though.

Who the hell from?! I think we probably could have conned someone like West Ham out of a good £10-20m more than we have any hope of getting this summer. I'm genuinely fascinated to see who bites. Lots of noise today as well about us buying a mate for Mudryk.

My guess is that he's not going to be sacked and there's been no noise about that in the club, but that his agent's asked when contract negotiations start and been told ... they aren't. Would explain the slight sense of limbo. I don't see much point in sacking him now, but I also don't see any justification for extending his deal. I don't know how out of step I'd be with the club on that.

You're right, for some reason thought Luton played on Sunday. If they and Burnley both lose their 3pms, Forest are effectively safe (something like a 12 goal swing would be needed on the last day!).

An intriguing fixture for testing out the recent good results given Forest have everything to play for, and could potentially assure survival with a win. I think we'll have a much, much harder ride here.

But it is 5 PL starts this season Lewis Hall? I do take the point you're getting at, but think you're over-egging the pudding.