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Transfers The Summer Transfer Edging Thread 2025

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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

2nd best player you say. Another wants us to offer more than 50 million pounds. Fcuk that sh!t.

If he was so bloody good, the top teams would want him and West Ham would look at selling other assets.

This could be the worst mistake since we bought Greggs' poster boy.
 
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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".

Apologies, but I did say I wasn’t doubting your sincerity so I don’t think it was that snidey

I think I could live with it quite easily if I’m honest . In many aspects of my life I think many would see me as a bit of a leftie do gooder , or champagne socialist as I have sometimes called myself .
I think there are so many issues in the world that warrant a strong moral stance i just don’t see football being one that would vex me .
When I used to post in the politics thread I think our views iirc were reasonably similar . I just think who owns Spurs if we were winning is a hill I wouldn’t die on . I think with my other political views that probably makes me a hypocrite but not a liar . The answer I have given is honest , might not be something to be proud of , but actually I’m not ashamed of it either
 
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I don't mean to be obtuse here, but how did Chelsea "cheat" exactly?

They made a joke of the sport in the Mourinho era but there weren't rules against it at that time, and the rule-makers have bent (shamefully, but they have) to legitimize everything Boehly has done.

Now CITY cheated. Caught red handed defrauding the actually existing rules and lying about it. But am I missing something with Chelsea?
Evidently.

The off the books payments to players is the main one, reputed to be near the £100M mark over Abramovic's tenure.

Not only does that breach FIFA, UEFA and PL rules, it is classed as a civil crime.
 
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
Haha yeah exactly. Blows up in their face now too if the player wants to join Tottenham and West Ham's stance is "Let's wait and see what Chelsea do"
 
Lewis is absolutely a morally worse person than Abramovich, not that it particularly matters. Two wonderful examples for anti-plutocrat politics.

Yet only Lewis has anyone fooled that his football club is run the "right way", for baffling path-dependent Stockholm Syndrome reasons.


I like Elliott a lot, but him I don't really see as a winger that's interchangeable with Kudus. He also probably costs more.

A whole other set of concerns in his case, but Garnacho is a better player than any of these guys.
Dude lol..I hate Lewis and Levy but he genuinely is not morally worse than RA. Seriously you can not know the Abramovich back story if you say this with any sincerity. The bloke was Putins bag man, he's complicit in more appalling things that little Joe Lewis could dream of. He's listed as one of the world's biggest environmental polluters, and directly funds Isreali setter expansion in the west bank. I'm leaving out the political accidents arranged for Vlads opponents. You should listen some Bill Browder.
 
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Suspect he sees much more opportunities for game time and minutes with us .
I'd imagine so. He'll fancy himself against Johnson on the right. Chelsea have too many players. Probably afraid he could become the new Nkunku there and waist his career.

I respect it. Most players just go to Chelsea for the money. You can be sure his agent and West Ham have both tried to push him that way.
 
I'd imagine so. He'll fancy himself against Johnson on the right. Chelsea have too many players. Probably afraid he could become the new Nkunku there and waist his career.

I respect it. Most players just go to Chelsea for the money. You can be sure his agent and West Ham have both tried to push him that way.
Chelsea will keep him for 2 years then try to get someone else in who they think is better,
 

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