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Transfers Summer Transfer thread - 2024

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Trust me I am not at all envious of chelsea football club. They are fascist, racist, funded by scum, and making a mockery of every rule and bylaw in the FFP/PSR handbook. They are a bloated and overpaid mess of a football club. Yes I prefer Ange and Levy to Maresca and Boehly. They are a laughingstock.

All that being said - my original comment was simply that they still have a better frontline than us.

And the larger point I was making is for all the shit we chat about Chelsea, we’ve been acting highly Chelsea-esque these past two years.

Buying Richarlison the “versatile forward” for £60m, turns out that’s just code for “not good enough to start at either position”, spend £65m on an actual striker to replace him

Buying Johnson+Kulusevski, an entire right wing of the future for £80m. Immediately have to replace both of them at RW because one has to play centrally and the other can’t dribble.

So basically, spending huge money on first team players who we then immediately have to upgrade the next year? Tell me that isn’t Chelsea. That’s the fucking club ethos of Chelsea, and it’s the exact strategy we’ve used to build our attack since 2022.
Trying to buy a striker to back up and then replace Harry Kane and also signing Kulusevski and Johnson to play RW for different managers is far from great leadership or planning but it's nothing even close to the scatter gun spend crazy behavior from Clearlake's Saudi money laundering scheme.

We could have certainly used a more long-term plan earlier though, I don't disagree with you there.

On paper we can say Chelsea have a more expensive front line. In reality it's yet to be seen. Even if they did, why the rush to credit them for it. They spent over a billion quid, they should have been getting Mbappe, Haaland, and Vini Jr level players for that. The only real success story they have so far is Cole Palmer and I swear they didn't expect him to explode as early as he did.
 
Now now mate don’t be like that.

I’m just pulling your chain.

Ironically for a guy called Doom Funk you aren’t one of the doom loops that say the same shit on repeat. Bringing the humour to it makes the forum a laugh to be on.
Gotta be between The Extra Mile(sey) The Extra Mile(sey) Oracle Oracle & Fattynomates Fattynomates for the title of funniest fucker on here.

You can have 4th spot, Rich.
 
Nearly there.

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Gotta be between The Extra Mile(sey) The Extra Mile(sey) Oracle Oracle & Fattynomates Fattynomates for the title of funniest fucker on here.

You can have 4th spot, Rich.

I'll take 4th with pride. Whatever you do, don't tell Oracle Oracle he's funny, he's already got a big enough head.
 
Gotta be between The Extra Mile(sey) The Extra Mile(sey) Oracle Oracle & Fattynomates Fattynomates for the title of funniest fucker on here.

You can have 4th spot, Rich.
I can see me winning this.

No Idea Idk GIF by goodfortunesonly
 
Gotta be between The Extra Mile(sey) The Extra Mile(sey) Oracle Oracle & Fattynomates Fattynomates for the title of funniest fucker on here.

You can have 4th spot, Rich.

Good Lord, comedy is subjective I guess.
 
Always comes off as a complete simpleton as well, Gordon. I know Palmer doesn't have much going on upstairs but he is still somehow switched on. Gordon looks about as smart as his hairstyle choices.
I think it’s very much don’t judge a book by its cover with Gordon.

I thought similar to you, until I watched The Overlap interview with the ‘Mayor of Manchester’ where he came across very well and a young player dedicated to his trade.


View: https://youtu.be/0xhieDGrrts?si=m1wxG7C1IRaUIMn8

Unfortunately it appears that his ambition means he has no concept of loyalty.
 
I think it’s very much don’t judge a book by its cover with Gordon.

I thought similar to you, until I watched The Overlap interview with the ‘Mayor of Manchester’ where he came across very well and a young player dedicated to his trade.


View: https://youtu.be/0xhieDGrrts?si=m1wxG7C1IRaUIMn8

Unfortunately his ambition means he has no concept of what the word loyalty means.

good on him. could have been getting hammered 4 nil by everton if it was for loyalty
 
Always comes off as a complete simpleton as well, Gordon. I know Palmer doesn't have much going on upstairs but he is still somehow switched on. Gordon looks about as smart as his hairstyle choices.
Another stunning piece of psychoanalysis from the resident Dr. We should get you in a room with Richy. I wonder if one's hairstyle would be enough to condemn one's intelligence over another who names himself after Richarlison.
 
Trying to buy a striker to back up and then replace Harry Kane and also signing Kulusevski and Johnson to play RW for different managers is far from great leadership or planning but it's nothing even close to the scatter gun spend crazy behavior from Clearlake's Saudi money laundering scheme.
Never said it was the same. However it’s the exact same principles Chelsea use.

The Johnson and Richarlison signings for a club with our financial means are absolutely criminal, crippling mistakes. I cannot believe how poorly we managed to spend £110m on them two.
We could have certainly used a more long-term plan earlier though, I don't disagree with you there.

On paper we can say Chelsea have a more expensive front line. In reality it's yet to be seen. Even if they did, why the rush to credit them for it. They spent over a billion quid, they should have been getting Mbappe, Haaland, and Vini Jr level players for that. The only real success story they have so far is Cole Palmer and I swear they didn't expect him to explode as early as he did.
They pumped in 6 at the weekend and bought our primary winger target of the window. If they get Toney I am very comfortable saying they have bought better attackers than us.

The good news is we’ve bought very well defensively, including keeper.
 
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