Let's All Laugh At... Let's all laugh at Chelsea thread

[CoopsieDeadpool]

That’s both shirt sponsors gone ?

My heart pumps purple piss for them.

 

[SirHarryHotspur]

Nope, still too dumb to understand I'm afraid.

They run at a loss, full stop!

Debt free? How can a club who owes someone over £1.5BILLION be debt free?

It just doesn't add up on any compass, let alone the moral one that they fall outrageously short on.

Unfortunately Chelsea Football Club will survive this , there will be a sale to someone suitable but doubt new owners will pump in money Abramovitch style unless it's a load of oil rich people who take over.

 

[Bobbins]

What do I wish would happen?

That Chelsea Football Club as an entity goes out of business and ceases to exist. I don't care about the people who work there, or the fans. I don't care how harsh it sounds, for me the best possible outcome is that scumhole of a football club disappears from our lives and everything they ever won has a big star next to it so everyone knows their success was bought with blood money.

What do I think will actually happen?

A sale will come about quickly, to an American-based consortium, who will build upon the size and success of the club and they'll be absolutely fine. They'll suffer a blip, as contracts run out and the business get re-modelled to work without a sugar daddy, but they still have all the ingredients to be a future top club, including the illegally-funded best academy possibly in world football, with scores of top young talent they can exploit. Sure, they won't be able to simply buy success off the shelf anymore, but they'll still attract top players and pay top salaries.

What would be a good and acceptable realistic outcome?

That they fall into frustrating mid-table obscurity, that any new buyer struggles with the sheer amount of losses the business is built to suffer, and that they simply lose their grip on being able to compete at the top. Regular Premier League finishes between 8th and 15th for at least the next 20 years would be a fitting fall from grace and at least some punishment for their fans.

 

[Trix]

Sorry but the club can't just wash their hands of it and move onto another owner with no repercussions. They can't just say "well that was the previous owner and he's gone now" then move on. Clubs have accumulated far less than 1.5bn in debt and been dropped down divisions due to their previous ownership. That's the harsh reality of who the clubs shareholders decide to do business with. Chelsea have benefited hugely and won multiple titles funded by a criminal. They've spent hundreds of millions on players to do it. Now they should pay back those debts over the coming years by selling their own assets. Just like many clubs before them they will have new owners and those owners can get the club back on track and clean up their image but they have to build from the ground up. It took years for Leeds to come back up and there are plenty of clubs still struggling in the lower leagues from the clubs previous owners and mismanagement. It should be no different for Chelsea just because they've become this massive club and won multiple titles. That's really the only thing that separates them from Portsmouth when they were run by Russians and look where they are now.

No one at all has said they don't deserve repercussions. They do and harsh ones at that! I just don't want them to fold, which is very different.

 

[Cream]

No one at all has said they don't deserve repercussions. They do and harsh ones at that! I just don't want them to fold, which is very different.

Why not?

 

[TheChosenOne]

Dunno, but I watched the House of Saud thing on iPlayer, and I didn’t realise that there are literally hundreds of Saudi princes, many of whom are billionaires.

The Saudis beheaded 81 people yesterday. Not a good look

 

[TheChosenOne]

in the athletic comments on a recent chelsea story some chelsea fan said “glass houses, lots of dirty money in the premiership. Sure, At Chelsea, City, Newcastle and Everton - but where else?

As far as I know Spurs aren’t tarred by the same brush - are anyone else? That line of argument is Bullshit - “everyone is doing it” is the worst reason to be quiet

Arsenal had Alisher Usmanov but he is now at Everton - and had his assets frozen too.

 

[doctor stefan Freud]

I wouldn't give the remotest shite if they disappeared tomorrow.

I find them way more disagreeable than Arsenal. Horrible club

 

[Trix]

Why not?

Same reason I don't want any long established team to fold. They were here long before RA and the premier League, and they are part of our football institution. If they were relegated a few divisions would I care? Not one bit and their true fans would still have their club and would still go to the games. Those are the fans that don't deserve their club to go out of business. They may well have more than their fair share of ***** that "support" them, but do you think folding the club gets rid of them? Nope they'll just be ***** somewhere else.

 

[nailsy]

Trust me you are pissing into the wind. Apparently you're not allowed to feel sympathy for genuine fans of the club or the club's staff. ??‍

You're definitely allowed to feel sympathy, it's just most people don't agree with it.
For what is worth I haven't thought of them as a real football club for years so I'm not particularly bothered if they go under or not. If they stick around they need to operate within their own means rather than being a billionaires toy. It'll be an absolute travesty If they hit the jackpot with new owners and buy their way to even more trophies.

 

[mil1lion]

No one at all has said they don't deserve repercussions. They do and harsh ones at that! I just don't want them to fold, which is very different.

I was replying initially to a post saying the club are not to blame

 

[mil1lion]

That’s both shirt sponsors gone ?

I'm expecting the lion to leave the badge next

 

[Spursberg]

No one at all has said they don't deserve repercussions. They do and harsh ones at that! I just don't want them to fold, which is very different.

i understand your point, we all hate them, but imagine if every rival around us would fold how boring the football would be without it, we love the rivalry. I just want them to be a team that will struggle to get top 10 every year

They really deserve to have many years with problems though, seeing how they have financially doped the league and made responsible clubs suffer for so many years.

 

[thebenjamin]

The Saudis beheaded 81 people today. Haway the lads.

 

[Albertbarich]

The Saudis beheaded 81 people today. Haway the lads.

And the Saudi media group now sniffing around Chelsea.

 

[rossdapep]

And the Saudi media group now sniffing around Chelsea.

Honestly, if they allow that...

 

[rossdapep]

With the deepest respect.

You're an idiot.

Totally unnecessary and a strange thing to say

 

[PJMoz]

With the deepest respect.

You're an idiot.

With the deepest respect, you're the idiot

 

[spursfan77]

This Saudi group that Goal is reporting about, reading the article sounds like a press release.

Who knows what will happen but hopefully they’re the least likely.

Bids have to be in by 18 March, although apparently that date is flexible.

 

[Trix]

With the deepest respect.

You're an idiot.

The toxicity is just too much on here and that's the final straw for me as far as me passing on. The rest of you all know who to blame.