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Poisoned Slice

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No both of these two weeks have been terrible. There is too much malaise around Spurs right now for 3xTottenham side to be optimal. I will have to make some tough moves until they show me a change in form :cry:
It's kind of the same with me and Man United. Once again, I show that I don't have a clue. Who in their right mind would put Bruno, Amad and Onana in the team? ''Uh, that would be me, boss.'' Then Jimmy Smits responds with a ''well then **** you. You're fired!'' Yeah.
 

Poisoned Slice

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It's really simple, you've probably all worked it out. I just get pulled back in every single time. Man Utd devotion clouds all rational thought no matter how many times they show that they're gonna show up for one game and then disappear for 10.
 

Poisoned Slice

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Heard it was all going off in the dressing room yesterday. Marky says the hairdryer treatment had nothing on what happened yesterday. Also gave a cryptic Garnacho warning about something he heard. Yeah. Rashford u turn. He's found out nobody else wants him and wants to stay, allegedly. Ok, That's it all out of my system now. I can go back to being reasonable.

''We had Brighton players dancing up our tunnel. Wait, that sounds wrong.''
 
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Poisoned Slice

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Agent Garnacho spotted at the Chelsea vs Wolves game. ''Get ready for the ultimate betrayal.'' Once again, if I had gun to head then I'd like him to stay. I know United fans use the ol don't want to sell academy player. etc, But I'm a bit like Paul Scholes here, I'm indifferent to it. Again, it's all a question of my faith and thinking selling Garnacho and get in some players.

Patrick Dorgu is still on at the moment. Again, huge pinch of proverbial. :giggle:

Another report is saying Garnacho will be ready to play in the Napoili vs Juventus match. ''Everything has been sorted apart from the bureaucratic stuff.'' :laughing:
 

Poisoned Slice

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''Jose Mourinho came in, he was vibrant and bouncy. Then Man Utd had their way with him. Same with Ole, same with Erik Ten Hag. And now I look at Ruben Amorim and I see a tired man. The same thing is happening once again.''

:(
 

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Agent Garnacho spotted at the Chelsea vs Wolves game. ''Get ready for the ultimate betrayal.'' Once again, if I had gun to head then I'd like him to stay. I know United fans use the ol don't want to sell academy player. etc, But I'm a bit like Paul Scholes here, I'm indifferent to it. Again, it's all a question of my faith and thinking selling Garnacho and get in some players.

Patrick Dorgu is still on at the moment. Again, huge pinch of proverbial. :giggle:

Another report is saying Garnacho will be ready to play in the Napoili vs Juventus match. ''Everything has been sorted apart from the bureaucratic stuff.'' :laughing:

This Garnacho stuff is close to finishing off the Chelsea fan base :-D they’re an angry bunch at the best of times, but this one is too much.

Of course, as fans they want to make moves to be a competitive, balanced team who can win. “The sporting directors are incompetent, they have to go!”.

In a vacuum, I’d agree with them.

Unfortunately, what they don’t understand is for the last 2-3 years the directors have been wheeling and dealing, signing assets, market opportunities, swaps etc.. that’s the job they’ve been tasked with. They’re doing a fantastic job at making profit, but a team capable of winning it ain’t.

Hence why they’re trying to sell everyone they bought in the summer for profit, will spend it on more opportunities to flip etc..

The fan base is all “I can’t wait till Santos returns in the summer! He’s badly needed”.. yes, yes he is. He’s also an incredibly valuable asset who would fetch £50m+. So he will be sold, profit banked and they’ll spend £20m on someone they can loan to Strasbourg and flip for £40m in a year or two. Rinse and repeat.

Again, that’s the task the Sporting Directors have been given. They’re smashing it!

All the fans crying out for “needle movers” and experience have been disappointed for 3 years now. You’d think the penny would drop, but no. Seems this Garnacho stuff has a few of them starting to realise though.
 
This Garnacho stuff is close to finishing off the Chelsea fan base :-D they’re an angry bunch at the best of times, but this one is too much.

Of course, as fans they want to make moves to be a competitive, balanced team who can win. “The sporting directors are incompetent, they have to go!”.

In a vacuum, I’d agree with them.

Unfortunately, what they don’t understand is for the last 2-3 years the directors have been wheeling and dealing, signing assets, market opportunities, swaps etc.. that’s the job they’ve been tasked with. They’re doing a fantastic job at making profit, but a team capable of winning it ain’t.

Hence why they’re trying to sell everyone they bought in the summer for profit, will spend it on more opportunities to flip etc..

The fan base is all “I can’t wait till Santos returns in the summer! He’s badly needed”.. yes, yes he is. He’s also an incredibly valuable asset who would fetch £50m+. So he will be sold, profit banked and they’ll spend £20m on someone they can loan to Strasbourg and flip for £40m in a year or two. Rinse and repeat.

Again, that’s the task the Sporting Directors have been given. They’re smashing it!

All the fans crying out for “needle movers” and experience have been disappointed for 3 years now. You’d think the penny would drop, but no. Seems this Garnacho stuff has a few of them starting to realise though.
Do you think they're gonna sell Palmer? If you look at Mssr. Boehly's US Blues (the LA Dodgers) you'll notice the principal directive is to win, not to run an asset flipping factory.
 

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Do you think they're gonna sell Palmer? If you look at Mssr. Boehly's US Blues (the LA Dodgers) you'll notice the principal directive is to win, not to run an asset flipping factory.

Boehly isn’t in charge. I think he owns something like 12%, Clearlake (Eghbali and Feliciano) are the real owners. They own 62%.

Wish Todd was in charge! I imagine it would be a bit more like the Dodgers if he were.

But yeah, we had all that stuff early in the season about how they’ve fallen out and want to buy each other out.

I’m assuming Boehly wanting to win and Clearlake wanting to do their Private Equity thing has a lot to do with it.

Boehly has nothing to do with the club these days, and hasn’t since the first few months after the takeover.
 
Boehly isn’t in charge. I think he owns something like 12%, Clearlake (Eghbali and Feliciano) are the real owners. They own 62%.

Wish Todd was in charge! I imagine it would be a bit more like the Dodgers if he were.

But yeah, we had all that stuff early in the season about how they’ve fallen out and want to buy each other out.

I’m assuming Boehly wanting to win and Clearlake wanting to do their Private Equity thing has a lot to do with it.

Boehly has nothing to do with the club these days, and hasn’t since the first few months after the takeover.
Was it always the case that he was only minority owner? Why was he the target for all the memery and criticism?
 

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Was it always the case that he was only minority owner? Why was he the target for all the memery and criticism?

Yep, always the case.

The takeover was very difficult and took a long time, so it didn’t all go through until well into the offseason.

Boehly has a bit of experience with sport so he took the lead for the summer, he relied on Tuchel and Neil Bath and Jim Fraser (the wonderful academy masterminds) for players to go after. Tuchel wanted Sterling, Koulibaly, Aubameyang. The academy suggested Casadei, Chukwuemeka etc..

Unsurprisingly, it was a poor window and Boehly took the blame for it, despite only going after players people already at the club wanted and being thrust into the position in the middle of summer.

So yes, still to this day you hear people talking about Boehly. But he’s had nothing to do with the club after the first summer.

It’s funny in a way, the players the academy suggested were (and still are) some of the best talents at their age (Carney and Casadei). The Sporting directors are trying to get rid of them though. Partly because they’re on fairly high wages, but mostly because they were signed by Boehly and suggested by Fraser and Bath (who the Sporting Directors have since fired).

Yes, you heard that right. One of the best academies in the world was shut down last summer because the SD’s are egomaniacs and are trying to wipe out everything they achieved over 25 years :)
 

Poisoned Slice

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I'm now reading through the Onana vs De Gea season stats. Oh dear, it's just unavoidable, everything sucks. The 52% pass accuracy for this game changing sweeper keeper.
 
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I heard through the grapevine, yeah. It looks like we will get the here we go from Fabrizio soon. I think so anyway.

Amazing! How did you hear?

The only way I know he’s still alive is by checking his FPL each week to see which player he’s bought in to captain when they face Spurs :D

I’d say it’s ironic, but it usually comes off. He triple captained Palmer and got about 60 points. Captained Gordon the other week for 18 points when everyone else got the Salah 4 pointer.

Shame he didn’t bring in DLC this week, but there’s definitely method to the madness.
 

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I'm now reading through the Onana vs De Gea season stats. Oh dear, it's just unavoidable, everything sucks. The 52% pass accuracy for this game changing sweeper keeper.

You want to know something funny? Sels was signed by Forest from Strasbourg, our feeder club, for £5m.

Meanwhile, we’ve got Dirty Sanchez dropping clangers every week.. who cost 5 times that much.

I think Man Utd and Chelsea need to be studied in school. That stretch 15 years ago when it was head to head for the title and Champions League every season seems a lifetime ago.
 

Poisoned Slice

Bionic Poster
What a disaster.^
Amazing! How did you hear?

The only way I know he’s still alive is by checking his FPL each week to see which player he’s bought in to captain when they face Spurs :D

I’d say it’s ironic, but it usually comes off. He triple captained Palmer and got about 60 points. Captained Gordon the other week for 18 points when everyone else got the Salah 4 pointer.

Shame he didn’t bring in DLC this week, but there’s definitely method to the madness.
@Federer and Del Potro told me, I think they've been speaking on discord.
 

Federer and Del Potro

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Amazing! How did you hear?

The only way I know he’s still alive is by checking his FPL each week to see which player he’s bought in to captain when they face Spurs :D

I’d say it’s ironic, but it usually comes off. He triple captained Palmer and got about 60 points. Captained Gordon the other week for 18 points when everyone else got the Salah 4 pointer.

Shame he didn’t bring in DLC this week, but there’s definitely method to the madness.

We got him on the Discord. I believe it's the end of this month.
 

WJ155

Rookie
That’s amazing news!

With a load of Man Utd fans and a couple of Chelsea fans in here, he’ll fit right back in. Misery loves company :D
Chelsea isn’t that bad off, they’re normal right now. Tottenham is *checks table* 6 points from relegation, however.
 

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Chelsea isn’t that bad off, they’re normal right now. Tottenham is *checks table* 6 points from relegation, however.

True! Tottenham definitely have it worse. They have awful owners and league position. We have awful owners and sporting directors, but a surprisingly good league position.

Apparently this Garnacho stuff is driven by Eghbali. If he wants someone, he gets them.

But yeah, £60m on Garnacho when we already have more left wingers than a CNN struggle session.. whilst West Ham are bidding £57m for Duran.. when we only have Guiu as a genuine number 9 (and he’s got a combined 105 minutes of first team football in his career to date).

It doesn’t end well.
 

Fabresque

Legend
We got him on the Discord. I believe it's the end of this month.
Need him back in here to destroy Postecoglou. That clown has gotten away with one of the biggest scams of the 21st century. He tricked everyone into thinking he’s some revolutionary tactician cuz he attacks when he’s down to 10 men. He’s actually one of the worst coaches in PL history.
 

Fabresque

Legend
True! Tottenham definitely have it worse. They have awful owners and league position. We have awful owners and sporting directors, but a surprisingly good league position.

Apparently this Garnacho stuff is driven by Eghbali. If he wants someone, he gets them.

But yeah, £60m on Garnacho when we already have more left wingers than a CNN struggle session.. whilst West Ham are bidding £57m for Duran.. when we only have Guiu as a genuine number 9 (and he’s got a combined 105 minutes of first team football in his career to date).

It doesn’t end well.
Garnacho is gonna be one of the worst purchases in Chelsea history. Think Morata in 2017. Sure he might have some technical skills here and there but he has a major flaw. He has no footballing IQ. He doesn’t know when to take on his man, make a pass, take a shot, etc… it’s completely foreign to him. Watch Timo Werner play for Spurs. A braindead chicken is a braindead chicken, it won’t change. Esp in Maresca’s system we don’t need someone like Garnacho. Eghbali is so clueless, he just keeps proving how dumb he is every window.
 

Poisoned Slice

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It says that Man Utd have lowered their asking price and they're almost near a deal with Napoli, allegedly. Heard that Garnacho would prefer Italy but can't be such about such things. The headlines making it sound like it's happening.

It's funny, have to mention football manager again. Every player has a plus and negative category. Garnacho's one negative is intelligence. But perhaps he can study, maybe he will do his homework. Still young enough.

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At least you're not signing Origi. Yeah, this is from one of my Milan games. That's why they're there in the squad comparison.
 
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WJ155

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for MUFC fans I hope they don’t. it’s crazy to sell someone like Garnacho, but it does go to show you how down bad MUFC is.
 
Need him back in here to destroy Postecoglou. That clown has gotten away with one of the biggest scams of the 21st century. He tricked everyone into thinking he’s some revolutionary tactician cuz he attacks when he’s down to 10 men. He’s actually one of the worst coaches in PL history.
He will return on the day of Postecoglou's sacking, it is foretold in the prophecies.
 
True! Tottenham definitely have it worse. They have awful owners and league position. We have awful owners and sporting directors, but a surprisingly good league position.

Apparently this Garnacho stuff is driven by Eghbali. If he wants someone, he gets them.

But yeah, £60m on Garnacho when we already have more left wingers than a CNN struggle session.. whilst West Ham are bidding £57m for Duran.. when we only have Guiu as a genuine number 9 (and he’s got a combined 105 minutes of first team football in his career to date).

It doesn’t end well.
What is wrong with Tottenham's owners exactly? Joe Lewis is a standard billionaire goblin I mean but he seems content to sit there and see the value of the asset appreciate.
 

Poisoned Slice

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I shouldn't even give Richard Keys the time but there are so many Ruben Amorim headlines right now. No, I do not agree with. I keep hearing how you shouldn't throw the players under the bus like that, but perhaps it's possible that everything else has been tried. Yes, the truth can indeed hurt.

''Trying to get himself sacked'' is pure unadulterated clickbait, and I fell victim once more.

I'm glad that Wes Brown agreed with Ruben. Gives me hope, I dunno.

''Amorim did not defend his side after the match on Sunday, instead deciding to label them as the “worst team maybe in the history” of Man Utd.

That has drawn some criticism from pundits, while former Man Utd defender Wes Brown defended Amorim’s decision to throw his players under the bus.

But Keys reckons Amorim is trying to get himself sacked at Man Utd, with his comments after the Brighton match now convincing the former Sky Sports presenter that he wants the boot.

Keys wrote on his blog: “What the hell was Ruben Amorim thinking when he said [his side were the worst team maybe in the history of Manchester United]?

“Is he mad? Why would you do that? Isn’t he the man charged with making things better?''
 

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What is wrong with Tottenham's owners exactly? Joe Lewis is a standard billionaire goblin I mean but he seems content to sit there and see the value of the asset appreciate.

They don’t really have the desire to win things. As long as they’re top 6 and making money from the NFL and Beyoncé concerts? They’re a happy bunch.
 

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Garnacho is gonna be one of the worst purchases in Chelsea history. Think Morata in 2017. Sure he might have some technical skills here and there but he has a major flaw. He has no footballing IQ. He doesn’t know when to take on his man, make a pass, take a shot, etc… it’s completely foreign to him. Watch Timo Werner play for Spurs. A braindead chicken is a braindead chicken, it won’t change. Esp in Maresca’s system we don’t need someone like Garnacho. Eghbali is so clueless, he just keeps proving how dumb he is every window.

Utterly ridiculous signing. I mean, Delap is probably £30m.. pay £40m+ if you have to in January. Still £20m cheaper than Garnacho and it could be the difference between top 4 and not, which is worth what, £100m, plus the front of shirt sponsor (which we still don’t have). Do we want £40m a season from Qatar Airways, or £10m from Greggs? Which would be a fair deal considering we won’t have seen UCL for 4+ years if we miss out next season.

As I said in a previous post, as fans we’re speaking from a logical point of view, to build a squad capable of winning.

When you realise the sporting directors have been given a different job. Buy, sell, flip, swap, agent fees, market opportunities, low wage bill, pure profit sales etc.. everything makes sense.

“The SD’s are incompetent and have to go!”.. It’s not incompetence, everything they’re doing is by design.

Those baffled by signing Garnacho, perplexed by Caicedo being our only fit midfielder but they refuse to recall Santos/Lesley.. when you realise what they’re doing, the moves they’re making are sound.
 

WJ155

Rookie
and I thought Arsenal was weird in not buying a striker. Chelsea takes it to another level. “how about we buy an 18 y/o striker?”
 

Poisoned Slice

Bionic Poster
There is a conflicting report saying Garnacho wants to stay in the Premier League. I dunno, I'm not convinced he is going to Chelsea yet. But I will be, if he does. lol
 

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Just makes me sadder when I look at City getting the hot prospect Brazilian defender Vitor Reis as well as Omar Marmoush. GGMC Booooooo

More leaked footage. My goodness, this bloody club.

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There is a conflicting report saying Garnacho wants to stay in the Premier League. I dunno, I'm not convinced he is going to Chelsea yet. But I will be, if he does. lol

I also heard that he wanted to stay in the Premier League. That Gaston Edul fella, who is pretty much flawless on any news relating to players from Argentina, seems to think it will be Chelsea.

Although tonight it sounds like he might actually be closer to Napoli. Which is giving me a bit of hope!

Sounds like they’ve agreed personal stuff and a fee with Man Utd, whilst we’re still deciding what to do. Could come out last minute and blow them out the water, but hopefully it’s too far advanced.

Just makes me sadder when I look at City getting the hot prospect Brazilian defender Vitor Reis as well as Omar Marmoush. GGMC Booooooo

More leaked footage. My goodness, this bloody club.

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Crazy! And Khusanov, and they’ve also signed Juma Bah from Valladolid. 6’6, 18 years old, looks about 40, first player from Sierra Leone to play in La Liga.

But yes, before this window we had a list of the next great CB’s. Reis, Khusanov, Bah, Mosquera.. Man City have gone and signed 75% of them in a couple of weeks :-D
 
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