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Yes it was their original Asian billionaire, who is now a fugitive from the government in his own country. Aye that's the fella.

Jo wasn't bought by these current Man City owners mind iirc.

Yeah true Baba, I think a list of players that have cost Chelsea £10m+ would be more interesting, there must be fucking loads.

Take inflation into account as well though, and Chelsea have bought plenty of players that were less than £20m but not cheap.

Yep. Chelsea - Highest transfer fees paid Name From Fee Date 1 Fernando Torres Liverpool £50M 2011 2 Andriy Shevchenko Milan £30.8M 2006 3 Michael Essien Lyon £24.5M 2005 4 Didier Drogba Marseille £24M 2004 5 Juan Mata Valencia £23.5M 2011 6 David Luiz Benfica £21M 2011 7 Shaun Wright-Phillips Manchester City £21M 2005 8 Romelu Lukaku Anderlecht £20M 2011 9 Ricardo Carvalho Porto £20M 2004 10 Ramires Benfica £18M 2010 Compared to Man City btw: Name From Fee Date 1 Sergio Agüero Atlético Madrid £35M 2011 2 Robinho Real Madrid £32.5M[5] 2008 3 Edin Džeko Wolfsburg £27M 2011 4 Carlos Tévez Media Sports Investments £25.5M 2009 5 Samir Nasri Arsenal £25M 2011 6 Emmanuel Adebayor Arsenal £25M 2009 7 Mario Balotelli Internazionale £24M 2010 8 David Silva Valencia £24M 2010 9 Yaya Touré Barcelona £24M[6] 2010

Chelsea's youth development system has been a joke as well. They've spent a canny bit of money on poaching kids from quite a young age and they've reaped no rewards whatsoever. Also I remember when they reigned their spending on the first team in a bit then they stopped winning things so they just went proper apeshit again.

At the moment Chelsea are worse, because they've been doing this for nearly a decade while claiming they'll become self-sufficient. Man City have made similar claims which are largely based around building those amazing training and youth facilities, so we'll see but it's probably a bit doubtful. Chelsea did build from a better starting point but it can't be said that they'd had an elongated period of success and achievement before the Russian arrived.

Oh good Lord, what have I done.

Gervinho.

Maiga's another one it could be, at a knock-down price. Reckon Erding's the most likely.

Spot-on usage, that GIF still rules.

Head's about 50% too big.

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article851158.ece/ALTERNATES/s615/Eden+Hazard+in+Chelsea+colours

:lol: WTF Dave, mental that like.

Can't underestimate the London effect, it seems quite important to certain players.

Tonight's Standard had a quote from a Chelsea bigwig saying the Champions League win earnt them hundreds of billions millions, no shit. They then used this to justify them spending £62m on Hazard and Hulk, this is the article here: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-close-in-on-62m-swoop-for-eden-hazard-and-hulk-7793476.html

Horrendous scenes there, fuck's sake.

Nah I don't know tbh. I know he had an up-and-down season overall, but I do remember him playing in CM at QPR and he was brilliant, totally ran the show imo.

Semblance dosnt really work there. There is no need for that word at all tbh, the sentence works without it. Thanks mate.

Every time I see this guy's name I think "Debuchy coochy coo" in the stupid voice you'd expect for some reason, not sure if I can handle him signing from a selfish perspective.

But I don't know which players to pick.

Run it by sicko2ndbest.

These forum bets are hilarious like. Stabaek had 1 point from 10 games and a goal difference of -22, nice one.

:lol: @ both posts.

So brutal, this place. I know I'm as bad as anyone else, just saying.