Other clubs' transfers

[LV]

13 minutes ago, jack j said:

That will be half a billion in less then half a year for them

Safely hidden in real world assets i.e. players, that can then be sold on for real, legitimate and not dodgy at all money. 
 

I really think there is something about this deal to get the club that is dodgy and they’ve had to spend quick to legitimise the money they’ve got with the club.

 

 

 

[gbandit]

2 minutes ago, LV said:

Safely hidden in real world assets i.e. players, that can then be sold on for real, legitimate and not dodgy at all money. 
 

I really think there is something about this deal to get the club that is dodgy and they’ve had to spend quick to legitimise the money they’ve got with the club.

 

 

 

Completely agree, their transfer dealings don’t make any sense at all, they’ve overpaid for a lot of their players and gone for positions they didn’t even need to prioritise. Some major red flags 

[SUPERTOON]

 

[Kanj]

RB Leeds

[SUPERTOON]

 

[gbandit]

Complete and utter joke of a club and makes a mockery of any financial regulation in football 

[Scotty66]

It is absurd. I don't think I've found a simple explanation as to why and regardless, it's obviously a massive loophole. 

 

Also can't see why a big deal isn't being made of this from the media as they are spending like absolute crazy. 

 

Imagine it was us, there would be BBC panorama investigations etc within days 

 

 

Edited January 1, 2023 by Scotty66

[Disco]

Hilarious if they don’t get the CL

[Kimbo]

I really don’t mind Chelsea’s spending, I see it as a gamble that could easily end with them fading into midtable obscurity in a few years.

[loki679]

1 minute ago, Kimbo said:

I really don’t mind Chelsea’s spending, I see it as a gamble that could easily end with them fading into midtable obscurity in a few years.

 

Why would it?  If it fails they can just throw more money at it.

[Kimbo]

1 minute ago, loki679 said:

 

Why would it?  If it fails they can just throw more money at it.

I’m assuming the lack of CL football and FFP will eventually restrict them.

[loki679]

7 minutes ago, Kimbo said:

I’m assuming the lack of CL football and FFP will eventually restrict them.

 

[Geordie Ahmed]

This was from March last year (taken from Swiss Ramble on twitter), not too sure what it means and how much scope they have

 

Buy they spent big in the summer and are seemingly set to spend big again 

[Interpolic]

It annoys the fuck out of me like. Chelsea started all of this crazy spending when the Russian came in, largely kept at it, made a mockery of the loan system, got bailed out (again) and now they're hoovering up players we might want at way above the going rate.

 

Not once have they had to face the consequences of their spending, other than the transfer ban when they already had a world class squad sitting there. 

[LionOfGosforth]

On 31/12/2022 at 03:52, Groundhog63 said:

Rapist or not. Dickhead or not. Narcissist or not. 

Someone's offered him £400m ffs and people are saying he should go back to Portugal or coach kids ????

 

Amazing to think that back in the day, if you were lucky enough to be a footballer, you were married to Carol or Audrey, lived in a detached, drank lager and lime and made 600 quid a week. Nowadays, if you're good enough for long enough you can legit become a billionaire. 

[madras]

On 31/12/2022 at 08:52, Groundhog63 said:

Rapist or not. Dickhead or not. Narcissist or not. 

Someone's offered him £400m ffs and people are saying he should go back to Portugal or coach kids ????

At what point does someone say "I have enough".

[Tsunami]

Back in the day Joe Harvey used to visit my mother’s best friend’s house in the west end of Newcastle and he’d arrive on his bike, trousers kept away from the chain with his trouser clips.

[GeordieDazzler]

I hate Chelsea for taking players I really like and making me dislike them intensely. 
 

Would be great if they missed the CL. Here’s hoping.

[Groundhog63]

46 minutes ago, madras said:

At what point does someone say "I have enough".

Some people do wrap it in when the stresses outwiegh the reward tbf. Some do extraordinary things with their wedge as well. 

I can't think, tho, why anyone would turn their nose up at £400m for kicks

 

 

 

[Interpolic]

2 hours ago, madras said:

At what point does someone say "I have enough".

 

 if he doesn't feel he has earnt the right to put football before money at this stage then it's really quite pathetic imo. He's already worth about half a billion dollars (Google). 

[Interpolic]

1 hour ago, Groundhog63 said:

Some people do wrap it in when the stresses outwiegh the reward tbf. Some do extraordinary things with their wedge as well. 

I can't think, tho, why anyone would turn their nose up at £400m for kicks

 

 

 

 

Because they already have way more money than they could ever spend? 

[Groundhog63]

9 minutes ago, Interpolic said:

 

Because they already have way more money than they could ever spend? 

Well there's your multi billionaires who have reached the monetary level where they can afford space rockets for toys but you can always "spend". 

In some ways greed v benevolence is in the eye of the beholder. 

 

I simply can't imagine getting paid £200k a week like ?

[Kaizero]

50 minutes ago, Interpolic said:

 

Because they already have way more money than they could ever spend? 

 

Not that I necessarily agree with the core concept of greed and luxury, but Drake (of all people) put it in words that I'll now butcher by paraphrasing:

 

"When you don't have a million dollars, you dream of being able to buy what people that have a million dollars can buy. When you get a million dollars, you dream of being able to buy what people that have ten million dollars can buy. When you get ten million dollars, you dream of being able to buy what people that have a hundred million dollars can buy. There will always be something too expensive for you and you will always want to earn enough money to be able to get it. When you have a lot of money, you buy more expensive things, so you burn through it almost at the same rate as you did when you didn't have that amount of money - because the stuff you now want to buy, and can buy, are expensive."

 

 

Edited January 1, 2023 by Kaizero

[Kid Icarus]

Not everyone has that mindset, particularly in music.

[Kimbo]

14 minutes ago, Kaizero said:

 

Not that I necessarily agree with the core concept of greed and luxury, but Drake (of all people) put it in words that I'll now butcher by paraphrasing:

 

"When you don't have a million dollars, you dream of being able to buy what people that have a million dollars can buy. When you get a million dollars, you dream of being able to buy what people that have ten million dollars can buy. When you get ten million dollars, you dream of being able to buy what people that have a hundred million dollars can buy. There will always be something too expensive for you and you will always want to earn enough money to be able to get it. When you have a lot of money, you buy more expensive things, so you burn through it almost at the same rate as you did when you didn't have that amount of money - because the stuff you now want to buy, and can buy, are expensive."

 

 

 

A depressing indictment of our species. If Drake is to be believed, we’re not much more than a Fox that goes mental in a Chicken coop, killing 10 when it can only eat 1. Fortunately Drake is a dipshit.