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Name them. If they’re good enough they either play or move on and find form. If they aren’t, they sit and collect a wedge they can’t justify. I would say maybe Nkunku but injuries have been a massive factor too. He was on the up in his career.

Chelsea don't really want or need half these players.. they just don't want rivals to have them.

Social media in general is a cesspool of ugliness, the only interaction I have online these days is on here, don't touch anything else

I'm never bothered by any player that doesn't want to come here, I don't wish him failure either. It's part of the game, especially with ridiculous entities like Chelsea knocking about and warping the market.

Transfermarkt's market values are pretty worthless.

Financially probably none of them; career achievement lots of them. Many of these wonder kids they’ve hoovered up and shoved into a never ending cycle of loans.

When the manager came in he made a big deal of their squad being ridiculous and we would only work with about half the players. Guess he's been slapped down since then.

Why do they do it, the complete pack of freaks? Genuinely would be deleting the app and sending people to the Samaritans, such an ugly place.

They ain’t taking a hit.

There isn’t one, it’s being made up on twitter.

Dont have issue with the players. Only a few of them really lose out massively - your Nkunku’s and even then he’s made a massive wedge. Like whose career is fucked because of Chelsea? but it doesn’t make sense from a squad building. 2 first teams doesn’t really work in real life.

No he hasn't.

Man City would be nowhere if it wasn't for years of just being able to throw money at it. Not to mention the 115 charges.

I'm not sure it's clear what the contract offer was TBH. Could have just been a discussion about his future out of respect for what he's done for us. I hope it wasn't that we really wanted to keep him because we think he's really valuable. We'd have to be very thick to believe that.

Perhaps Villa are playing a longer game, take a few points hit next season but protect the squad and look at Europa as the route into the champions league for 26/27

Asked to leave (apparently). So it begins.

It’s difficult to be too critical of the club’s cultivation of player engagement behind the scenes given the season we’ve just had but I tend to agree 100% with this. I know Man U kept players past their sell by date under Ferguson but they weren’t players for key positions, were usually ‘fill a gap’ sorts and could meaningfully participate at least.

Absolutely, because that would likely mean we have someone very good starting ahead of them. If someone told me we'd sign Harvey Barnes, he'd score 9 league goals helping us qualify for the Champions league again I wouldn't exactly twist. He's been a great signing.

it's the complete lack of self-awareness. I've not read through the thread but I'm guessing from the title that it's them collectively ridiculing supporters for wearing football shirts? Whenever you fly from Newcastle, departures is always riddled with mackem shirts, and more often than not it's a parents and bairns combo. By ridiculing Newcastle fans they're also calling their own because a big chunk of their lot are doing exactly the same, and have been for years. The big question is how many jawdees stank, and how many were covered in gravy stains? They've been peddling this witty bantz repeatedly for an eternity and some on their board still think it's funny as fuck, which tells its own tale.

Still certain we signed him just because Liverpool were interested and it appeared to be a bit of a coup

Time will tell but I don't think it's the smartest decision by Pedro. I think he would have been a star for us but I don't think he is at the stage to be starting week in week out for Chelsea and this will hamper his improvement as a player.

And to add on, buying players off the back of performances in international tournaments is generally a mistake. Let alone a youth competition

Vig Dan Vurn

Easily one of our worst signings in recent years. Just had nothing about him. No drive, no backbone, completely unable to improve enough to gain trust.