ChelseaBoy

Yes spent £325m but sold £220m (inc Havertz 65m and Mount 60m, Kovacic £36m) worth of players plus saved a few £m a week on wages.

Don't read this Compo!!!

Hard watch today, hopefully if the squad have anything about them and ditto the manager, it will shake them to the core and there will be a positive reaction over the next few games. Far too early to be calling individuals out, inc the manager. Not an ideal start by any means, but this one result will not cost the season.

Yes, my thoughts on going there once for business, but i could probably put up with 2 seasons for $40m tax free, thinking that I would only be in country for 9 months of each year and living in a 5 star hotel.

They are switching from Three, who decided to ask Chelsea to remove the sponsorship from the shirt after the start of the conflict in Ukraine and Chelsea refused and were going to sue, so Three relented after the new owners took over. That deal was £40m a year and they had a couple of deals blocked, Paramount Plus was one but was blocked by the EPL. Any new deal is expected to be £50m for 5 years.

Can't do much worse, and if we did, we would be relegated!! Luton, Sheff Utd and Wolves my pick for relegation?

Much needed GK, AM (Caicedo?) and maybe another CB or CF if a deal can be done.

Or another Jayden Sancho?

Maybe the crew were ex members of the Mirror Group pension scheme that Maxwell plundered. Whole family of wrong-uns!

Or did he????

Ah the BBC, who would have guessed.

Not sure they are in their prime. Most are well over 30 and would attract minimal fees between European clubs. Some may be crying, but in joy that someone is paying a fee for unwanted players. If they were to offer say, £100+m for Rice or £300m for Haarland then Europe would sit up.

Only difference is the vast majority of players are over 30, so its akin to the US, but with more money!

They have no place on the board unlike Newcastle, and no direct involvement in the club. I'd certainly expect the clubs owners to use the fact that PIF has £bns of assets managed by Clearlake," to their advantage, which isn't against any rules. Payments for the players aren't exceptional as Kante was a free agent, Ziyech is £8m, Mendy £15m and Koulibaly £25m so they aren't paying over the odds. If Gary Neville and Chris Bryant are against it then I'm glad the club are doing it.

Yes they are investors, but not owners.

What state would that be? Clearlake capital (US) a private investment firm own 60% LA Dodgers/LA Lakers part owners Billionaires Todd Boehly/Mark Walter own 20% Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss Foundation own 20% Apparently the terms that Roman Abramovitch insisted on after seeing what happened to Man Utd prevent any of the new owners from selling shares, or collecting fees or dividends from the club for a decade. There are also limits to the level of debt they can impose upon the club.

I know

That's Americans for you.

Tough tackling Doug Rougvie. I saw him chin John Fashanu and knocked him over at the Bridge and also saw him smack Dave Beasant and headbutt Carlton Fairweather both against Wimbledon in the first few minutes of a game and got sent off

No, lets not!!

Frank's done his two stints in the trenches!!!

Its no surprise that two clubs who have been praised for their youth products over last few years have gone down, i.e. Leicester and Soton. You can't just survive by selling your biggest assets, you need a mix. Brighton would do well to learn.

More chance of Hull 802 sliding out of port on its maiden voyage!

Bournemouth are a strange team and were 0-2 up at Arsenal and should have won. Quite capable of scoring and play nice football.

About right for the Spanners.