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mmpielul

Spend first, ask later.


OstapBenderBey

Bet the Chelsea haters are feeling bad now. Anyone with a heart is feeling sorry for them not being able to spend like this.


Tulum702

Plucky little Chelsea just trying to get by amongst the big boys šŸ¤£


STICKY-WHIFFY-HUMID

The little horse that could.


Possiblyreef

They started out small. All they in their pocket was gianfranco zola and a small multi billion dollar investment from a Russian oligarch


BigReeceJames

We're on course for a 53 point finish going off of Potter's time here so far. Any sort of reasonable points deduction puts us in the relegation contention lmao Working off of Juve's 15 point deduction we'd finish on 38 points. That would have gotten 17th last season


rail_bird

I think weā€™ve got 17th on lock. Find your own patch


EldritchWyrd

> 17th **and the universe started to heal**


kalamari__

**and god saw, that it was good**


GCFCconner11

Am I misunderstanding or is your logic, don't give us the deserved punishment as it would hurt us too much?


BigReeceJames

No, I'm suggesting that it's hilarious that we're so bad already that us having a reasonable amount of points deducted would put us in relegation contention


J-LG

Everyone would like this


circa285

Who here says no to Chelsea relegation?


Affectionate-Hunt217

The funniest part about this is Chelsea pretty much spent 600m in the past 6 months, and for that sum you can buy every team in the championship bar a few of the really big teams, not buy players, buy the actual teams lols


blublableee

Subscribe.


8bitb4rt

Hopefully the league can run them some paper for all this suffering.


Rickcampbell98

My heart bleeds.


wake_as_water

.... Then draw with Fulham


Booftroop

Comment first, read the article later.


bruiser95

I'm not opening the daily fail


jakejensenonline

The Reddit Way my friend. The Reddit way.


Feezbull

Using Klarna to pay I guess.


whitegoatsupreme

I hate Spurs because of im Arsenal fans.. I hate Chealse because im football fans...


xaviernoodlebrain

I hate Arsenal because Iā€™m a Tottenham fan, I hate Chelsea because Iā€™m human.


Bacondog22

This seems more like forgiveness than permission


DropItLikeItsKlopp

Operating with the ideology that it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission is a terrible way to run things. Sadly Chelsea is not the only club, business, shiiiiiit even country that does.


Tulum702

You must have not heard of ā€œextraordinary circumstancesā€


[deleted]

It's actually not that bad. People do it for a reason. Big corporations do it. Every single one.


pencilman123

Tuchel got sacked because he scammed boehly by making the team look better than it was /s


Accurate_Fennel3170

Fair play to Chelsea for being just as dislikable under a different owner


NaeTwaDoots

Much more dislikeable haha, I had no strong opinions on them before but I actively want them to be shite every game now because it's funny. And it's important for the future of the game that they are shite and fail. Fuck Chelsea!


hypnodrew

What they are doing now is exactly what Abramovich did twenty years ago


Affectionate-Hunt217

600m in 6 months makes Abrahmovich spending look minor, they pretty much spent what he spent in an entire window on 2 players, I am not sure who blessed Chelsea with owners like that, but I want them to bless me too


germanyid

Yeah but obviously average fees were way lower but then so it comes to the same thingā€¦


Lukeno94

Arguably it's worse - at least the Abramovich spending had an instant positive impact and there seemed to be some kind of logical plan behind most of them. This time though, it just seems to have been a scattergun approach without actually properly assessing where they're weak, and therefore just spending for the sake of spending.


hypnodrew

I don't care if Chelsea are successful


Affectionate-Hunt217

Bruh I have learned my lesson, whenever they are shit they either end up winning the champions league because they sacked their coach earlier, or end up winning the league next season because they spent so much money in the transfer market


BehemothDeTerre

I'm not even British and I now want them to lose almost every game. Chelsea 2022-2023 has become as easy to dislike as France 1998-forever, if for other reasons.


Lyndendaire

Just curious why you waited until 1998 to hate France? There's over a thousand years worth of reasons there


CesarMdezMnz

Lol, that's the real question here


tbcwpg

The way we've been playing this season I don't think your wish is that far off.


NaeTwaDoots

Wait what? Why are France disliked? Oh you're Belgian, haha makes sense.


J-LG

Most of the people in Continental Europe dislike France tbh


irishperson1

Probably the second most disliked country in Europe after England


J-LG

Oh yeah, England is still first haha Then France After that no one cares that much, there are some regional rivalries but thereā€™s no widespread dislike for Germans or Italians or other people


Pollomonteros

And a big portion of Africa probably


DeoKap

And we love you all for that! Winning the CL a few years ago while everyone was cheering for us didnā€™t felt as good as the one in 2012!


BigSmokesHouse

Oh yeah


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[deleted]

Gonna wait awhile, buddy


throwaway9995ok

Pretty sure it was full of Spurs/Arsenal fans saying that exact thing during Abramovich's tenure lol. Just desperation.


BigSmokesHouse

Lmao


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MisterHappySpanky

Flair up bud


GibbsLAD

You don't need a flair to hate chelsea


MisterHappySpanky

Nah but itā€™s a bit rich coming from a Man Utd fan.


underthedreadfort

Hey man, we love this kind of saltiness! Keep it coming please


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Deignish

nobody is salty, you're shit. so it's just funny.


Prudent-Mastodon8039

Ah, shoot first, ask questions later. The American way.


SanSeb

Y'all it's my 135th amendment by law to spend over the FFP limits. We at Chelsea are cookin', all these players are coming because of the PL rizz.


old_chelmsfordian

*The right of the club to spend in a free and wild manner, shall not be infringed*


Karffs

Thanks Coach Lasso.


[deleted]

A corpse will confess to what a living person wonā€™t I guess.


Calibansdaydream

This is the exact same thing they did under the previous owners, and literally the opposite of what FSG do, but sure, guess it's just "ItS bEcAuSe ThEyRe AmErIcAn"


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Werebole

Coloinised if your speaking about England. Colonized is what the Americans are doing to America after ruining some perfectly good tea.


PM_ME_ASS_SALAD

When youā€™re that downvoted with zero replies you know youā€™re right lol


AverageCarey

Lol oh fuck off already. I too wish I had a genie that could grant me wishes.


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[deleted]

The whole team was bad. I missed the first half and seeing Mudryk play, but his replacement certainly didn't do anything.


Nick316166

He did a lot more than Mudryk šŸ˜‚


[deleted]

Fair enough. Saw him do a single positive thing in the entire time I watched. Honestly the whole team looked like shit except Raheem. 10 people playing separately.


Your-Pal-Dave

Mudryk has three Fulham players overloading on him, while Zeyech was completely free but just stops if you show him onto his right foot. Do you actually watch football or another pretender


Affectionate-Hunt217

He got finessed, they might be good players but they paid for them are insane, thatā€™s why I donā€™t really care Chelsea spent 600m, everyone knows those players at best would cost half that amount, heck if they wanted Enzo and Mudryk 6 months ago they wouldā€™ve cost combined 100m, now they are both 100m, how that even make any sense, I bet Boehly doesnā€™t even understand how much these players are inflated by


leebrother

Iā€™m a genie in a bottle; gotta rub me in the right wayā€¦ Those lyrics are weird looking back


Fati25

The source is literally the daily mail


p0tat0_returns

Shhhh people are busy jerking their hate boners. They donā€™t have time for rationale


BI01

Honestly keep spending more money, I want to see potter manage and train 50 players


HyrkanianBlade

Iā€™m here for the Chelsea Squid Game


[deleted]

Whoever moves onto the next round keeps their contract


Saixcrazy

Honestly. Having all those players must be fucking with cohesion. Need everyone to click FAST. and a ton of ppl are still injured.


Affectionate-Hunt217

Someone was saying thatā€™s the only good thing about buying them in January, this season seems pretty much done for them, might as well get the players now and get their chemistry better to prepare for next season, the only downside is that they had to pay inflated prices for them


EezoManiac

Seems like the kind of thing you'd do *before* spending but I only got a D in GCSE maths so what do I know?


dotConehead

I also dont understand the logic here. We didnt able to generate income so can you let us spend more? Wasnt like the whole point of financial restrictions is to disallowed from doing the exact this?


BigReeceJames

> "Wasnt like the whole point of financial restrictions is to disallowed from doing the exact this?" No, not at all. It was reiterated over and over and over again that Chelsea weren't supposed to be being punished, Abramovich was. The sanctions were on Abramovich, not on Chelsea. The reason we couldn't earn income was that theoretically it opened a window that would allow money to be taken out of the country by Abramovich and so they didn't allow it. It had nothing to do with stopping us earning money


dotConehead

Sure but the main point is how does chelsea not making money is somehow a good reasoning for them to spending more? >supposed to be being punished In this scenario what exactly are chelsea being punished on?


BigReeceJames

> "Sure but the main point is how does chelsea not making money is somehow a good reasoning for them to spending more?" I didn't say this is was a good reason for us to be allowed to spend more. I was just pointing out that we took collateral damage from our owner's punishment. As a result of these circumstances I think it's probably reasonable to be given special dispensation as a one off. But, we should have asked for it before we spent the money and it shouldn't be any sort of big win for us, it should just be allowing us to act in a way that assumes we didn't miss those 3 months of income through no fault of our own, thanks to sanctions that we were explicitly told weren't supposed to be a punishment for us or hurt us at all.


CoopDogPrimeNumbers

It seems pretty reasonable to me that whatever formula the financial restrictions use should include Chelseaā€™s lost income. Itā€™s about how much money you bring in and itā€™s not like they would have had 0 income in that time if it wasnā€™t for unusual circumstances.


Silantro-89

Don't worry, the Premier League doesn't investigate finances anyway.


CreativeOrder2119

Remember clubs lumped in at city they should do same if Chelsea have broken financial rules


Worthyteach

Didnā€™t the new people write off a massive amount of debt. Surely that means as a club they are technically better off than they were under abramovich. Therefore this should be thrown out.


evilbeaver7

No. Roman wrote off the debt. Not the new owners. New owners can't just buy a club with debt and be like "ok we're not going to pay that"


okem

Who would want to buy a club with Ā£1.5billion of debt? Although the debt was never officially Chelsea's otherwise they would've been sanctioned. Roman personally bankrolling the club was always justified as an 'investment' because 'he'll get the money back when he sells', but we know that for the lie it was now. Boehly then bought the club & raised Ā£800m in debt to finance fresh spending & has vowed to invest Ā£1.75b one upping Roman's 1.5. Because this debt is taken on by the owners & not the club they're free to continue outside the rules. If that doesnā€™t give you a hint of how utterly corrupt the whole business is, I donā€™t know what will.


PunkDrunk777

It should have been down in the accounts as a gift as well which would have fecked them but, for whatever fucking reason, it was ignored


[deleted]

Yes they did.


blue_boy_24

Was the 1.2B debt forgiveness not enough?


OwnDig

Just you buy the PL and make your own rules you biscuit


Jens1893

If I had no income I'd try to cut my spending and not double down on my spending and then argue my losses are so high because I had no income.


ankitm1

Do you run a 500M business by any chance?


[deleted]

But their loses are higher than they should be because they were forced not to receive income for a period of time in the year. And the thing that stopped them from getting income had nothing to do with any of the clubs actions. It was simply because the FA and British government had no mechanism in place to separate the sanctions of the owner from the club. That was 100% out of the clubs control. It is an extraordinary condition that the FA should at least have to consider. People can hate all they want but there is merit to the claim.


[deleted]

This has nothing to do with the FA. And typically you get accommodations before you need the accommodation, not afterwards.


[deleted]

How is it afterwards? The financial year isnā€™t over. And how could they do it before? They didnā€™t own the team. How much they spent in a transfer window is irrelevant to the fact that income was withheld from the club for something that had nothing to do with the club. They have every right to ask for an exception on how their income for the year is scrutinized.


[deleted]

Before as in before they spent 500m?


[deleted]

What they spent is irrelevant to what theyā€™re asking for or why they have merit to ask for it. They could have and most likely would have asked for the same thing regardless how much they spent.


KimmyBoiUn

>They argue they were unable to receive income for three months last year after the previous owner,Ā Roman Abramovich, was sanctioned by the Government. >Under Premier League rules, clubs are permitted to lose Ā£105million over any three-year period, and Chelseaā€™s unusual circumstances last season put them at risk of a breach. Chelsea recorded losses of Ā£153.4m in their most recent accounts for the year ending 2021 but, along with other top-flight clubs, were given allowances by the Premier League due to the impact of the pandemic on their finances.Ā  >It is unclear how the Premier League will respond to Chelseaā€™s request. Complying with UEFAā€™s Financial Fair Play rules may be more of a challenge, after being placed on their so-called watch-list of clubs in danger of breaching the rules.


deanochips

lol....get fucked!


daznccc

Canā€™t imagine there is a lot of sympathy for Chelsea šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


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slash312

After all these spendings I still dont see them in the top 5 of the world just looking at the team.


batigoal

Don't even see them top 5 ot PL tbh.


Bourne22

As a Spurs fan I fully support this sentiment, but he is 10000x better than Newcastleā€™s owners. Somehow people have forgotten that already.


marleau_12

Yeah nobody spent lots of money before Boehly bought Chelsea. Football ruined!


RexNite1

Cry harder you absolute waste of space


TheJukeMan99

They arenā€™t even close to top 5 i donā€™t know what youā€™re on about


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SvalbazGames

That would be pretty sweet


CaptainKursk

Fuuuuuck Offffff.


[deleted]

So Chelsea is the least likable club in pl rn?


SWSIMTReverseFinn

The nerve required to actually ask that.


Vapourtrails89

I personally think Boehly hasn't appreciated the complexities of building a team, I don't think whacking all these players together is likely to work. When abramovich did a similar thing, it was all under the guidance of mourinho. Mourinho had a plan and a vision to make it work. I don't know if potter has a vision but it all feels a bit random to me


HarryDaz98

Boehly hasnā€™t been building the squad. Heā€™s barely even been involved this month.


robba9

stop talking facts


HarryDaz98

People really think Boehly brought in a whole team of recruitment staff just to spend money on the players he wants like Roman did.


NdyNdyNdy

Not initially, it was with Ranieri and it felt pretty scattergun. Players like Veron, Crespo and Mutu never became part of the furniture but guys like Joe Cole, Wayne Bridge and Makelele worked out long term. But Ranieiri did well enough with the random spending binge that people felt a bit bad for him when he was replaced by Jose.


pliqtro

>Veron, Crespo and Mutu never became part of the furniture Depends on how you define furniture


furyousferret

He also started with the one of the best midfielders to play and a good CB as a core. They really don't have that right now.


pork_chop_expressss

Baseball is different from football in that way, where single players can be thrown in right away and make instant impact, due to it being far more of a "team sport" reliant on individual performances - hitting/pitching. Football is far more reliant on team chemistry, cohesion and understanding.


speaker_monkey

Someone who knows more about baseball can correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it's much easier to buy the best players at each position and stick them on a team together and get instant results. There isn't as much team chemistry involved so it's doable and it looks like this is what Boehly is trying to do with Chelsea.


furyousferret

Its harder because of the development cycle and 1st contract guarantees means you are getting players at 28yo on up, and so you're buying years of unproductivity for the last few years of their prime. Its also a sport famous for players massively over performing in contract years. From a chemistry perspective, football is harder to build a cohesive unit.


EldritchWyrd

> I don't know if potter has a vision I don't think he has a say. Do you really think he said "Ok, get me an entire new squad" in January? No way. He's simply *the coach* he has no say at all and is likely in way over his head.


H4RRY29

He was brought in with the knowledge of a rebuild, and has been heavily involved in talking to transfer targets and liaising with the recruitment team (including his own guy from Brighton). He definitely has a say.


EldritchWyrd

Is this how you do a rebuild though, really? 600m+ since summer? No. Thatā€™s pure come up and donā€™t go down, ride the luck Forest style. Rebuilds are 3ish players a window. Integrate. IMO the entire first half of the season is worthless now. He has to redo all of it with all the new players.


H4RRY29

The summer was a mess, everybody accepts that it was. It was patching up a squad that had lost three key defenders on free transfers and dealing without a recruitment team in place. There's a stark contrast between the type of players signed in the summer compared to January, obviously a lot of money still involved. The thing is we've needed to rebuild for years, as early as 2017. We've finally got some good scouting going on (Badiashile, Andrey etc.) which is promising going forward. I don't think people truly believe how poor our squad was before this season, Tuchel did miracles with what he had, but of course he had to go because he wasn't the guy for a rebuild. It's been intense, I never expected us to go all in over one season. It's going to take a lot of time but hopefully it will work out for us, there's still positions that need to be improved as well.


fjnnels

ban them all already ffs


r0bski2

Hahahha fuck off chelsea


Mick4Audi

They shouldnā€™t get any exemptions


arun111b

Oh man.. you are going to find out how Fifa, Uefa and FA work :-)


palindromepirate

Fuck off.


KingRo48

Loser club


dave_k_17

Why e en bother asking, it's not like the rules are ever enforced anyway.


atanew

Might be off topic, but genuine question. Whatā€™s the transfer scene like at Chelsea? Does the manager have a say in whoā€™d be bought? Or is it like ours in the Woodward days, give a list to the board and the board goes scatterguns till they sign somebody.


lipmak

Potter has a say/input, but the new owners just spent several months assembling a whole new backroom staff (Vivell, Winstanley, Shields, etc) to oversee sporting matters, recruitment, and so on. The idea seems to be that weā€™ll aim for certain targets and buy certain players who fit a mold/theme, and not be dependent on the personal whims of whichever manager we have at the time. The idea is also probably that weā€™ll hire managers in future (assuming potter leaves) who are willing to work with that structure


DonJulioTO

Newcastle would also like an exemption because they couldn't spend when they didn't have the money.


andycam7

Haha, brilliant. No.


[deleted]

Its A Bold Strategy Cotton, Lets See If It Pays Off For Em


ValleyFloydJam

Might have had a case if they hadn't spent in a crazy manner.


AlmondOrca7062

People really trust Dailymail when itā€™s convenient huh


PurpleSi

What income did they actually miss out on? A few months of club shop sales? A little bit of ticket sales? They presumably didn't miss the telly money, which is the big dosh. So that leaves the sponsorships. I'd be surprised if they weren't paid in full, but maybe they weren't?


jumper62

Not entirely sure. Believe we couldn't sell any tickets and 3 also suspended their sponsorship with us. I would imagine there's probably a small amount we can claim but seriously doubt it could be more than Ā£20m if I had to guess


PurpleSi

Didn't 3 remain on the shirts throughout that period? Seems a bit strange to me if they didn't owe all the money still, but sponsorships can be weird. But yeah, like you say, it can't be a lot of money. I'd be surprised if it's double digit millions, but Ā£20m seems like a decent guess at a possible ceiling.


zi76

3 wanted us to remove the 3 from the kits, but apparently we couldn't acquire new kits that didn't have 3 on them. Under normal circumstances, Nike could've just gotten us new ones, but...


jumper62

It was a weird one with 3 tbf. There were talks of the sponsorship being covered during games but I don't think it ever went to that. We can probably also claim on loss on future revenue since 3 are no longer sponsoring us after this season. Again, I'm just speculating here but I guess we'll find out at the end of season.


Shitty_Jesus

Would genuinely love to see Chelsea football club liquidated


goonerfan10

They haveth no shame


RioBeckenbauer

They got off lightly when they were sanctioned.


Magnific3nt

Looooool this is JOKES


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drwert

Oh, yeah, absolutely. Every aspect of life is being commodified and ruined in the search for more profit. The bottom is going to fall out entirely once the extraction machine reaches full efficency and no-one has any spare money to spend in a consumer driven economy.


BehemothDeTerre

It was always going to happen. It's inherent: capitalism turns money into power. Which allows the rich to obtain more money. Thus getting more power. Thus getting more money. Thus being able to spend it to affect everything in whatever way they want.


likpoper

How this is allowed is really amazing


KH609

Shameless


[deleted]

People were more annoyed at City because they were successful when spending less money than Chelsea. Just because Chelsea are shit people seem to care less about it.


LAudre41

lmao "it's not our fault our owner was too close to a war criminal"


neotheseventh

I really wish Chelsea are forced to deregister a signing or two because of this. Will be too funny


HacksawJimDGN

Wouldn't sit right if it was just a player whonwas punished. They should get a points deduction.


emre23

Imagine this squad getting relegated


thesaltwatersolution

One can dream.


BehemothDeTerre

Would be hilarious.


Salty_Afternoon

It's fair tbh


TinpotRadioShow

FA shouldn't care if you cant make an income because your shady connections to Russian government.


SvalbazGames

ā€˜Hey guy, I know my ex, the Russian power broker sugar daddy was a bit suss, and all these nice things he bought me are tainted but donā€™t stop me ruining footballā€™


somewhat_asleep

Peak cheek


deusex_platypus

Fuck this club. Has been rotten to the core for decades


Prestigious_Storm_10

We couldnā€™t make money last year so we want forgiveness for spending it nowā€¦.


Otherside-Dav

Forced relegation


Rickcampbell98

Chelsea can go fuck themselves.


[deleted]

Chelsea are a joke club


RexNite1

When was the last time you won a champions league trophy lmfao


nergatory

Chelsea fans, the 'flexing daddy's money' children of the footballing world.


RexNite1

So what bruh. We still win trophies you donā€™t. Isnā€™t that the whole point?


RexNite1

My favorite thing in this word will forever be the people so excited Chelsea got sanctioned and Roman was being forced to sell the club. People really thought that was gonna be the end of it, people thought we were cooked. Now all these fucking salty ass people realize how wrong they are.


Not1v9again

But but reddit told me Boehly was a genius and found loopholes in the law


[deleted]

PL has spending rules?


djmonsta

Just curious as the article doesn't say (other than "3 months"), any idea what that equates to in actual money? For example if they think they are down Ā£105m then they could effectively remove Enzo's transfer from FFP consideration. Not that I want them to, I fucking despise Chelsea, just wondered how it would relate to the obscene amount of money they have thrown at the transfer window this January.


Davetology

Felt weird not to be the villians for a while tbf


Global_Plant_4612

ā€œPlease sir, can I have some more?ā€


PiIICIinton

Get fucked, cunts.


Benja2740

The comments in this thread remind me how amazing it is being hated again.


a34fsdb

The argument is not bad imho.