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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Aug 9, 2024 15:57:27 GMT
Tough place to play brave football. The best bet is to play very close to the playoff final team but with Charlie Daniels and BBD involved, rely on familiarity and task Aribo with being defensive. With McCarthy I seem to remember he was scarily bad in a pre season friendly last summer, but ok when we did finally need to use him. I guess if its the defenders from last season they'll be some understanding in playing out from the back. Thats all I can clutch at as hope. In my memory it's a tough place to go whatever football we're playing... even when we were in a decent phase and they were crap it's rarely a happy hunting ground (Apart from that one under Ron where the Dutch lad who had 1 great game then disappeared won it for us.) Add that to our generally dismal record on the opening day, and I've put this one down as a good one to get out of the way... putting two hoodoos in one basket, as it were. Just hope we're not too badly spanked.
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Post by threehundred on Aug 9, 2024 16:00:01 GMT
I just don’t get it. Chelsea spend circa £500m and can afford to spunk another £17m on a 29 year old keeper and stay within FFP rules..? We can’t stretch to get our squad any stronger than the one that scraped up from the Chump. Is this what FFP was designed to achieve? It’s insane. The whole thing needs to be torn up and replaced with something that actually works. Apologies for the inaccurate post above. I should have fact checked. It appears I have grossly exaggerated Chelsea’s spending. Under-exaggerated. According to the Beeb, “following the takeover by a Todd Boehly-led consortium two summers ago, Chelsea's spending is now beyond the £1.5bn mark”. Sorry.
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Post by spot51 on Aug 9, 2024 17:55:20 GMT
I just don’t get it. Chelsea spend circa £500m and can afford to spunk another £17m on a 29 year old keeper and stay within FFP rules..? We can’t stretch to get our squad any stronger than the one that scraped up from the Chump. Is this what FFP was designed to achieve? It’s insane. The whole thing needs to be torn up and replaced with something that actually works. Chelsea's academy is key to beating the rules. They buy good kids, develop them to first team standard (Broja, Gallagher, etc) then make them as welcome as a fart in a wet suit so they ask for transfers and sell to the highest bidder. Every £ goes into the Profit column to balance the books.
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Post by Frankfurt Saint on Aug 9, 2024 20:55:55 GMT
I see Chelsea are spunking another £100m this evening.
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Post by spot51 on Aug 10, 2024 7:58:30 GMT
I see Chelsea are spunking another £100m this evening. That was Gallagher going to Atletico paid for that.
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Post by choixkoix on Aug 10, 2024 15:05:01 GMT
Carvalho going to Brentford. We seem unable to compete financially for the surefire attacking signings...
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Post by choixkoix on Aug 10, 2024 15:25:57 GMT
And Buonanotte has chosen to loan to Leicester.
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Post by threehundred on Aug 10, 2024 15:43:31 GMT
Buonanotte e sogni d'oro
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Post by bromleysaint on Aug 10, 2024 18:58:18 GMT
I told you all…. Think we will get the OX back!
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Post by bromleysaint on Aug 10, 2024 18:59:06 GMT
No evidence or knowledge on that though …
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Post by spot51 on Aug 11, 2024 8:43:19 GMT
I see Chelsea are spunking another £100m this evening. That was Gallagher going to Atletico paid for that. They need to ship out 6 more first teamers (sale or loan) before the window closes.
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Aug 11, 2024 10:13:07 GMT
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Post by Furry Frank The Combat Wombat on Aug 11, 2024 10:14:05 GMT
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Post by Sir B3na1i on Aug 12, 2024 7:47:30 GMT
After my flounce last week I'm back on the Twatter (it's still shit) and I see Wee Man was spotted at Soton Airport over the weekend, flying back to Newcastle apparently but hopefully it means there's something in it. Also interesting to note that the Newcastle fan guest on TSP this week said he'd love Fraser to play for them as he's their best right winger but it's never going to happen as he and Howe have fallen out (which we know of course). Interesting perspective from a Newcastle fan though
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Post by jickster on Aug 12, 2024 9:45:01 GMT
Dunno if he's any good. But Sam Johnstone just seems so obviously the right option for us at the right price, we can probably pick him up for around £10m and he'll mean we have someone of basic competence in the position. Given we are scratching around on transfer fees for attackers, I don't think we can pass up the opportunity to not be shafted in buying a keeper if it's possible.
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