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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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I asked you this:

"If it turned out all along that we'd been cheating (repeatedly!); do you not feel it would be a stain on our club and it's legacy and undermine any silverware gained during that period?"

All I got in return was some snide remark about being on my "high horse".
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Oh yeah, forgot about that.

Gael Kakuta, still playing!

I mean Chelsea are a bunch of cunts and always have been and will be, but the 2009 tapping up controversy does not strike me as something of grand transcendent meaning either way.

Their footing in the modern game is built upon (and consolidated by) the sum of all the things I listed (and safe to presume more)...... Not to mention most recently; the dubious as fuck dealings with the UK gov surrounding their sale which afforeded them a complete re-set and to wipe out a 1.6bn debt!

The whole thing is a fucking sham.
 
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I've seen the reports and the fee looks quiet pathetic really. Was hoping we'd recoup atleast 20m for bissouma, especially when we are being quoted 50m+ for any type of first team player!
Those two idiots Giuntoli + Thiago Motta sold defender Huijsen to Bournemonth for €15 million. I remember when he said that TM told him to find a team because he wouldn't play with him. Well then we spent the same amount on Kelly. Real Madrid then bought Huijsen for €60 million and made him a starter.
 
Cheating is breaking the rules and Chelsea keep finding loopholes around the rules so you are technically right that they have not cheated yet.

Not true... They've been handed multiple punishements over the years.

But Chelsea are so dirty man. It's clear as day that what they've done is wrong but they've cooked the books to cover their arses. Selling hotels and their women's teams to parent companies and writing off bad debts just so they can show blown up revenues. That's dirty. To me it's cheating. They just got away it it. They are no better than city.

Amen; however..... In some ways worse IMO.

In fact Chelsea have always been the biggest problem. They set the standard and always have. PSG and City followed their model but the rules changed to stop them. Chelsea just timed it all right.

Amen again.
 
Their footing in the modern game is built upon the sum of all the things I listed (and safe to presume more)...... Not to mention most recently; the dubious as fuck dealings with the UK gov surrounding their sale which afforeded them a complete re-set and to wipe out a 1.6bn debt!

The whole thing is a fucking sham.
Eh, the "sum of all these sins" thing is too cute by half.

Their footing in the modern game is built upon Abramovich throwing endless money at the team during the era when the powers that be were too hapless and chickenshit to do anything about it. That's all. Such is life.

The good news is, unlike City, they really haven't grown or developed as a club in the ways that make those advantages stick, and after the handoff are still owned by an idiot with bottomless pockets, but in an era where that doesn't get you as far.
 

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The shit Spammers are putting out. So pathetic

As if it’s some kind of moral victory that they won’t sell to Spurs

All noise. I'm not too pushed about kudus anyway. Can understand why the club aren't offering anything above 50m especially with them waiting for Chelsea anyway and talking about a Tottenham Tax.

Best thing we can do is work hard on other targets and be ready to go for one. West Ham have to sell Kudus this Summer and they won't want this dragging into August. They literally are begging Chelsea to offer 60m
 
Eh, the "sum of all these sins" thing is too cute by half.

Not really...... Less "cute" than you insinuating that Gatuka be perceived as an isolated case.

Their footing in the modern game is built upon Abramovich throwing endless money at the team during the era when the powers that be were too hapless and chickenshit to do anything about it. That's all. Such is life.

The good news is, unlike City, they really haven't grown or developed as a club in the ways that make those advantages stick, and after the handoff are still owned by an idiot with bottomless pockets, but in an era where that doesn't get you as far.

If the authorities had any balls (which of course they don't!) they'd strip MC & CFC of the majority of their ill-gotten gains.

I'm not inclined to glaze over that fact... Especially if it's in the context of them being held up at the 'expense' of my own club (nor - as it has - it hindering our own progress over the last 25 yrs).
 
I'm not inclined to glaze over that fact... Especially if it's in the context of them being held up at the 'expense' of my own club (nor - as it has - it hindering our own progress over the last 25 yrs).
That our chairman has invested more in the AI that has produced your hundred thousand messages slavishly carrying his narrative water on this board than on the football team strikes me as the more significant issue, but so it goes.
 
All noise. I'm not too pushed about kudus anyway. Can understand why the club aren't offering anything above 50m especially with them waiting for Chelsea anyway and talking about a Tottenham Tax.

Best thing we can do is work hard on other targets and be ready to go for one. West Ham have to sell Kudus this Summer and they won't want this dragging into August. They literally are begging Chelsea to offer 60m

Of course it’s noise.

It’s funny to me. I can’t remember the last time I’ve seen a club call on another club to buy one or their best players before ?

It’s so embarrassing.

Oh and we’ll just say we don’t want to sell to Spurs to make it look better. They’re still selling their 2nd best player. B
 
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