Keyblade Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 44 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said: They have certainly elevated themselves as a club. Their trophy count since 2000 is ridiculous, and they have won a lot of European trophies. Remember when we were a bigger club than Chelsea? It wasn’t all that long ago either. Light years ahead now. Fair play to them. Wouldn't say fair play tbh, they've outspent almost everyone by orders of magnitude. They're just an older, less fashionable City. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 Yeah to be fair sacking frank and bringing in tuchel plus beating City makes them sound a bit plucky They spent near £250m last summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 1 minute ago, villa4europe said: Yeah to be fair sacking frank and bringing in tuchel plus beating City makes them sound a bit plucky They spent near £250m last summer The media really pushed that "it's a young team and it'll take time for them to click" narrative to protect the fraud Lampard. When really, all it took was for an experienced manager to come in and completely turn that on its head. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rugeley Villa Posted June 1, 2021 Share Posted June 1, 2021 30 minutes ago, Keyblade said: Wouldn't say fair play tbh, they've outspent almost everyone by orders of magnitude. They're just an older, less fashionable City. And they have delivered big time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Rugeley Villa Posted August 6, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 6, 2021 Where we are on holiday there’s a Chelsea foundation football academy sort of thing. It’s £10 per child and they get 50 minutes training, playing a game etc. Not sure if they are on all Park Dean caravan sites. The lads who do the training sessions are all kitted out in Chelsea clobber and it’s well advertised around the site. My lad has been there twice in the week we’ve been here. Anyway today they have been giving out Chelsea school lunch bags, along with school pens, pencils. Also a gift box with a Chelsea scarf in it. We ain’t talking cheap tacky stuff either, it’s good quality stuff. Very good marketing by Chelsea. I’m in South Wales , so not as if it’s close to London . 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strog Posted August 8, 2021 Share Posted August 8, 2021 Close to signing Lukaku again. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58130354 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 19, 2021 Share Posted August 19, 2021 Kenedy and Batshuayi both sign contract extensions and promptly go out on loan. Emerson out on loan as well. They've pretty much payed for most of Lukaku by selling academy players - Abraham, Tomori and Guehi Victor Moses (remember him) has been sold. Off to Russia. Also, finally, Van Ginkel has left. 2 PL appearances in 8 years. He spent 4 of those years at PSV. Chelseanomics. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 16 hours ago, Xela said: Kenedy and Batshuayi both sign contract extensions and promptly go out on loan. Emerson out on loan as well. They've pretty much payed for most of Lukaku by selling academy players - Abraham, Tomori and Guehi Victor Moses (remember him) has been sold. Off to Russia. Also, finally, Van Ginkel has left. 2 PL appearances in 8 years. He spent 4 of those years at PSV. Chelseanomics. clever game if you can do it. I hope the Villa owners are taking note. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 20, 2021 Share Posted August 20, 2021 2 hours ago, ender4 said: clever game if you can do it. I hope the Villa owners are taking note. Chelsea have got it bang on, over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted August 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 20, 2021 20 hours ago, Xela said: Kenedy and Batshuayi both sign contract extensions and promptly go out on loan. Emerson out on loan as well. They've pretty much payed for most of Lukaku by selling academy players - Abraham, Tomori and Guehi Victor Moses (remember him) has been sold. Off to Russia. Also, finally, Van Ginkel has left. 2 PL appearances in 8 years. He spent 4 of those years at PSV. Chelseanomics. It's great work by Chelsea but I'm surprised the players signed extensions. They must surely know they're not wanted at Chelsea and be tempted by a free transfer with massive signing on fee somewhere they would be wanted. Guess they figured it was guaranteed money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Genie Posted August 29, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted August 29, 2021 ***Contains swears*** 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted September 11, 2021 Share Posted September 11, 2021 Nah. Really not seeing the hype. It's the least scary team out of the top 4 by far. I'd be absolutely amazed if they win the title. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PussEKatt Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 I thought the only reason we lost was because their GK had the best game of his season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 something like 14 clean sheets in the last 23 games that can be good enough, the ghost of Jose - dont lose the big away games, win the big home games - this season could be a case of who wins the top 4 mini league they've already beaten arsenal away and drawn with liverpool away, next 2 league games are spurs away and man city at home so we will see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted September 13, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted September 13, 2021 9 minutes ago, villa4europe said: they've already beaten arsenal away and drawn with liverpool away, next 2 league games are spurs away and man city at home so we will see 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 1 hour ago, fightoffyour said: I thought about it then gave them the benefit of the doubt cos of it still being a bit of a derby game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Czarnikjak Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 6 hours ago, PussEKatt said: I thought the only reason we lost was because their GK had the best game of his season. Not really, our xG was only about 1.5 We lost as they have £100m striker and we made silly mistakes at the back. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 Just now, Czarnikjak said: Not really, our xG was only about 1.5 We lost as they have £100m striker and we made silly mistakes at the back. very true, crazy if we had Martinez and they started Werner it could have been a different game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villalad21 Posted September 13, 2021 Share Posted September 13, 2021 5 hours ago, villa4europe said: something like 14 clean sheets in the last 23 games that can be good enough, the ghost of Jose - dont lose the big away games, win the big home games - this season could be a case of who wins the top 4 mini league they've already beaten arsenal away and drawn with liverpool away, next 2 league games are spurs away and man city at home so we will see They didn't look great defensively to me on Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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