Hanshithispantz

That's fair enough like as there'd be no reason for it to work if they were in the stadium

Lerlerperl

Grafts in all the right ways

If Rafa is forced out they'd be well received I'm sure. Start bringing additional negativity into the early season when Rafa is calling for support and they'll be rightly destroyed. If Rafa is forced out it would only strengthen their argument You would have to be canny mental to blame anyone other than Ashley for that like.

He's saying he can't afford to splash £200m on players when that isn't what people want or expect, we need like £30m. We've spent 30 million. We need to spend another 30 though. We spent, I assume, money that the cub had - whatever that actually means. So we'll assume we're now sitting at precisely £0, no net gain and no net loss, we need to either loan the money from Ashley or set up a payment plan like Spurs did with Sissoko. I'm obviously speaking in very simple terms here but Ashkey is pretending our hands are tied which is obviously untrue.

Trying to run something obviously well meaning and potentially very beneficial for the club and receiving nowt but moronic abuse must get pretty fucking tiresome tbf.

He's saying he can't afford to splash £200m on players when that isn't what people want or expect, we need like £30m.

Aye used to use it all the time. Infuriating.

Might as well have just arranged an extra friendly for tommorow

It is hard to believe Hellas Verona are not the worst team ever like.

Aye, having a load of bother with it too Finally got it working now, just keep trying. aye just randomly came on there, been absolutely foaming for about half an hour

Aye, having a load of bother with it too

Checked he was there a year with Rafa, for some reason I never thought Rafa completed his final season with Liverpool. Where did he play for them if anyone can remember?

Aquilani was a good player like, he would have only been there a short time before Rafa walked wouldn't he?

Was there not more to the Barry/Alonso situation? Sure it's been mentioned on here before but I might be wrong.

Never realised statto had went down, it was really handy. Any reason why?

Easy to cheat on this like, which is a shame

Might have to move to them after Bet365 fucked me of with their invite only in-play offers the cunts.

We saw last season how fucked we were with a couple of injuries. Gayle gets injured and we're fucked.

I don't fwiw, history tells us he refuses to do this among other things and we get relegated within half a decade. I'm arguing that his method is stupid and in no means necessarily like some would have you believe.

But aye, Mike's past record with us definitely suggests we should trust him, I'm sorry.

We NEED to sell because we've got far too many players...far more than you can register. No club in the country would continue buying players without shifting their deadwood. We are no different in that respect. We are very different in other respects like, but shifting players on before we bloat the squad even more is massively important. so naive man. How many players do Chelsea have, about 40 thousand or something int it? Loan shite like Haidara out and pay half of their wages if we have to. How is that naïve? It's absolutely right, and probably the reason Rafa isn't kicking off. He knows the squad needs to be trimmed. It's easy enough to say we should be doing these deals as favours to other clubs, but if there's interest there for a permanent deal, then why not explore that option? The squad needs to be trimmed, it also desperately needs another 4 or 5 players of Premiership quality. I'll let you decide which is more important. Well that certainly strikes me as the more naïve perspective on managing the squad. I think it's obvious that Rafa is of the more sensible opinion. I doubt Rafa is of the opinion that shite players we have no intention of playing but cannot easily get rid of should be standing in the way of him building an actual squad capable of challenging in the Premiership like. We're probably making a decent loss on Haidara and co, we have to just accept it. Risking a relegation scrap in fear of going into the red just seems utterly moronic to me.

Unless I'm missing something, the only way we could go out and spend money we don't yet have in the bank is if Ashley loaned the club more. Obviously I think he should given the circumstances, but the club itself likely doesn't have the capital to do what we want them to do. Trouble is i don't particularly believe him maybe i'm naive though. Even if it's 100% correct him loaning us the money to improve the squad makes far more sense than going into a season short. You can make up £20m in football piss easy if you're not fucking about.

We NEED to sell because we've got far too many players...far more than you can register. No club in the country would continue buying players without shifting their deadwood. We are no different in that respect. We are very different in other respects like, but shifting players on before we bloat the squad even more is massively important. so naive man. How many players do Chelsea have, about 40 thousand or something int it? Loan shite like Haidara out and pay half of their wages if we have to. How is that naïve? It's absolutely right, and probably the reason Rafa isn't kicking off. He knows the squad needs to be trimmed. It's easy enough to say we should be doing these deals as favours to other clubs, but if there's interest there for a permanent deal, then why not explore that option? The squad needs to be trimmed, it also desperately needs another 4 or 5 players of Premiership quality. I'll let you decide which is more important.