14 Aug 2023 18:18:20
So my thoughts on the last few days is that money talks. Yes Chelsea are arguably an elite club with their own draw from recent history without the money but when you have an owner willing to pay relatively untested young players over £200k a week for the next 6-8 years that will trump all else. Its not just chelsea either with the Saudi league buying in some top talent to play in a sub par division for outrageous amounts of money. Who can blame them though. If you take the rose tinted glasses of and you were offered 2 jobs one of which pays double the other, 9 times out of 10 you'll go for them.
That all said I think their needs to be some serious questions asked of the recruitment team. Why on earth they spent 2 weeks bidding for lavia going up increments of £2-3m when they new the price wouldn't budge knowing they had the money available to then go and try and outbid team owned by a cash splashing billionaire for a player they had shown no interest in baffles me beyond belief. They should have focused on lavia, paid the price and got the deal done. I don't know how much Jorg was involved with all of this but he's meant to be heading this and I think it's fair to say he's out of his depth.
Not sure how we recover this window and I'm sure this will have a knock on effect on the pitch with the general mood around the club being in the gutters.
14 Aug 2023 18:52:32
Agree mate, I like it when we do business quietly without any fuss. The whole MC and RL saga has proved to be nothing but an unwanted distraction. Keep your business private please in the future, we win some and no doubt lose some but airing it all in public gives the haters / doubters the proverbial stick to beat the club with. Going to be a long two weeks, keep the faith and cross those fingers.
14 Aug 2023 21:06:36
I think it’s really important we don’t transfer fan feeling to the players. This whole “12th man” idea can’t just be a thing when it works to inspire a comeback.