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Chelsea can go suck a lemon.

Not putting any energy into transfers yet. Expecting a very active late June/early July.

Burnley Cat B

Christ, I can only imagine what that hard face would look like in a bad fettle …

Jarmies on. Imagine if Michelle Collins heard that me and T-Swizzle had a no-jarmie sleepover at mine. It'd cause RUCTIONS

Lucky Arsenal catching the big teams cold

They did - no real issues with recruitment nor Howe’s nephew for me Agreed re Eales - that was on his watch, and he should’ve been across it. His ‘everyone is available’ statement was probably the only destabilising moment at the club post-takeover, and seemed to result in a complete communications shutdown. I think I heard Penfold talk as much during the Ashley era - comms have been poor and slow.

Unhinged.

Goma having played for Guy Roxy’s Auxerre was as notable from memory

Any good? Still surprised no one's took a punt on Maignan - he's a cracking keeper.

I remember we all said this last summer (I agree with you though).

You make a good point - Andy Howe and Nickson had a play in past signings didn't they? No issues with that going forward they unearthed some gems. Just find it odd people are quick to criticise Amanda/Mehrdad for past spending but Eales gets away relatively scott free

Wolves starting to spend the Cunha and Ait-Nourhi wedge: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c5yg3d184ndo

Before they became rich we were buying their best defenders for £4m a pop (Domi, Goma, Rozehnal)

Tbf he’s temporarily been replaced by Howe’s nephew - it doesn’t get more jobs for the boys than that

I'm sure it happens at City. I'm sure Monchi was hired at Villa because of Emery too. And obviously it happened at Liverpool too. If the manager is THE man and the club want to build around that particular manager, he'll have input. It's not entirely clear at our clubs who does what. Roman Era Chelsea - it was Roman's club. He made all the major decisions. Marina was his main advisor and seemed to run the club day-to-day. Petr Cech (was it?) and others seemed to have important roles but Roman made most of the major calls. It's a bit unclear with us - whose baby is it? When Stavely and Mehrdad where here. It is obvious they ran the club and had the direct line to PIF who could be convinced to go bigger than initially planned. You had Reubens, Eales & Ashworth but S&M where the dominant figures. Ashworth seemingly was in charge of contract extension decisions and heavily involved in transfers. But we don't know the extent he influenced the budget. Indeed it seemed he had planned 2 FFP exit routes and when he left S&M closed one of them. I *think* Ashworth was key in signing Tino & Hall - we were linked with Robinson previously and in retrospect - that looks like a Howe #1 pick. I think Howe liked Hall & Tino but I doubt either was his #1 choice. We need someone that can challenge him and provide him with smarter alternatives. No disrespect to Robinson, if his contract was up next week he would move to a top 8 club.

Jammies or no jammies?

Also clubs will wait until the end of June to ramp up pressure on any clubs possibly needing to sell so they can drive the pri especially down a bit more.

Swap deal for Trafford with Popey, this lad as deputy.

If the CL draw is favorable I'm officially putting feelers out for Spurs, Burnley, CL game and Sunderland. @Interpolic

I don't think he said that did he? Obviously that's a rancid look for him if so. i do think an air of inevitably existed though, we put the cart before the horse and rightfully so, Bruce had to go and given the speed we move at can you imagine where we would have been if we would have hired a DOF before Eddie?