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Congratulations to Arsenal for finally winning the league after two decades, a billion pound spent, multiple incorrect refereeing decisions, cheating, time wasting, demoralising football, dirty tactics. You sold your soul and identity for it, but enjoy it nevertheless
"We should have signed Marc Guehi for £20m over Jacquet for £50m!!! Bargain missed!!!"
Fun fact: Marc Guehi would have been significantly more expensive than Jeremy Jacquet.
Marc Guehi wasn't just a £20m transfer fee – he was also £300k p/w in wages. In other words, over a 5 year contract he would cost a total of £98m while holding very little resale value in that time. Guehi is a very good player but he's not THAT good.
As for Jeremy Jacquet, had we signed him for say £50m and given him say £70k p/w in wages, he would have cost us about £68m – a solid £30m less than Guehi – all while holding significantly more resale value(if he doesn't work out) and being a world class talent.
In fact, over the entire 5 year period, we would pay Jacquet only £3m more in wages than City will pay for Guehi in 1 year.
THIS is the logic behind their strategy. Older more established players typically demand significantly higher wages – making them more difficult to offload should they not work out, while at the same time holding less appeal in the market for simply being older.
Scenario 1 – Jacquet: He signs, becomes a world class player and is considered a bargain who will remain a key first team player for many years.
Scenario 2 - Jacquet: He signs, struggles for 2 years before we decide to move him on. He will be 22 years old and will likely be sellable for ~£30m-£40m because of his age and potential. His market will also be fairly big because of his £70k p/w wages. In this time we would have paid him about £7m in wages and made back £30m in transfer fee. The total cost of the deal would be £27m, wages included.
Scenario 1 - Guehi: He signs, becomes a very good player who stays until his contract ends and will likely leave for nothing at the end of it having cost a total £98m.
Scenario 2 - Guehi: He signs, becomes a less useful player who will seek more game time after 2 years. At this stage because of his age and wages, they will likely not be able to sell him and will be forced to loan him out, paying majority of his wages. Regardless of how it plays out he will be a very expensive signing, whose ceiling is about Aké for Man City.
It's very easy to see why Chelsea do what they do. Protesting THAT is just ignorance.
Experience is good but GOOD experience is EXPENSIVE as f*ck and significantly more risky than signing a talented player, total package taken into account.
There's no such thing as a "guaranteed success" and Chelsea, more than anyone should know that.
Eventually this squad will be experienced and we obviously have the talent. It just requires some patience. And as many hits as the SDs have had, they have also had some misses which we are still trying to work on.
I know people believe that enough patience has been had, especially with all the money spent. However, we have spent money in a way no one has before. We have spent the money to build a solid foundation and to win in the future, not to win now.
These directors have assembled a squad of Levi Colwill, Josh Acheampong, Mamadou Sarr, Reece James, Malo Gusto, Mike Penders, Robert Sanchez, Jorrel Hato, Moises Caicedo, Enzo Fernandez, Andrey Santos, Estêvão Willian, Geovany Quenda, Cole Palmer, Joao Pedro among others. There's more than enough individual talent to compete. The few holes we have is being worked on and targeted very clearly.
I personally don't see the need for a protest. People want Chelsea to be exactly the same as they were under Roman while Clearlake wants Chelsea to be successful by a completely different path. Ultimately as long as the goal of the ownership is to achieve success, and they are investing heavily for that in some very very talented players(Enzo, Caicedo, Estêvão etc being SUPERSTAR players on the market) I can't see why anyone would have issues. Clubs have been ran SIGNIFICANTLY worse than this both in the past and present.
La France est attachée à la souveraineté et à l’indépendance des Nations, en Europe comme ailleurs. Cela préside à nos choix. Cela fonde notre attachement aux Nations unies et à notre Charte.
C’est à ce titre que nous soutenons et continuerons de soutenir l’Ukraine, et que nous avons bâti une coalition des volontaires pour une paix robuste et durable, pour défendre ces principes et notre sécurité.
C’est à ce titre aussi que nous avons décidé de nous joindre à l’exercice décidé par le Danemark au Groenland. Nous l’assumons. Aussi car il en va de la sécurité en Arctique et aux confins de notre Europe.
Aucune intimidation ni menace ne saurait nous influencer, ni en Ukraine, ni au Groenland, ni ailleurs dans le monde lorsque nous sommes confrontés à de telles situations.
Les menaces tarifaires sont inacceptables et n’ont pas leur place dans ce contexte. Les Européens y répondront de façon unie et coordonnée si elles étaient confirmées. Nous saurons faire respecter la souveraineté européenne.
C’est dans cet esprit que je m’entretiendrai avec nos partenaires européens.
Today is an off day so let me just throw this one in
What's happening with Chelsea and Maresca is just a simple order in life. When Maresca agreed to this Chelsea project, he was a "nobody", he only had one season the Championship. He was "lucky" to get a job as big as Chelsea so of course he will say YES to everything Chelsea says. Enrique and some others won't
Couple of years down the line, his reputation has grown, helped by the stature of the club and his success at the CWC. Now the personal desires as a man and manager has changed for Maresca. He is no longer the championship manager who just came. He wants more. He wants to compete with the top. He feels, he has to win the big things.
In his way though is this Chelsea project. Buying and selling young players when they could easily have built a scary team with the money they spent.
So of course, with his ambitions changing he's no longer on the same page with the Chelsea hierarchy. Do you realize he changed his agent?
Like I said many months ago, no elite manager will take this Chelsea project. Now Maresca wants to play in the leagues of the elite and now has problems with decisions at the top.
Thing is, these projects can win you some things, but it can't be sustained. I mean Palace, Newcastle have all won trophies but to sustain success requires a lot more than what Chelsea are doing.
Even Oliver Glasner was upset with the lack of support from Palace after he won the FA Cup. When you taste some level of success you don't want to anything to stop you from getting more.
Chelsea have spent so much doing nothing and Enzo is within his right to feel like the club is stalling his ambitions.
I barely get these things wrong, you can give it more time if you want. Let's see
Happy New Year
Hello @ebehdad
You follow me, and I’ve never tagged you before in a tweet but today is the day.
Sacking Enzo Maresca may be the stupidest thing you ever elect to do, and trust me, you’ve done quite a lot since taking over Chelsea.
From FOS issues to refusing to go all in on Earl’s Court for financial reasons, you are clipping Chelsea’s ambition. We are the biggest club in London, and World Champions. What you’re doing is unacceptable.
If I ever wanted to kill myself, I’d climb your ego and jump to your IQ.
Before considering removing Maresca, remove Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart. They are the ones that have constantly left this team in need of reinforcements. Maresca is a once in a generation coach, and the fact that he will likely replace Pep while you bring on some new random “upcoming” manager is beyond me.
Step down this pedestal of narcissistic greed and arrogance and accept that you made a mistake. Many of us did in backing this vision of Chelsea, and now you’re truly taking the piss. The fact that you cannot handle that the gaffer spoke out about your lack of support is so telling. The fact some wankers in the sporting team are showing him Matt Law clips tells me how insecure you all are.
You have spent your entire time at Chelsea trying to be the ‘alpha’, but you’re really just a walking insecurity that everyone tolerates out of pity and necessity.
Either fix up, show confidence in Maresca by extending his contract and buying who HE wants, or sell to Boehly. Enough is enough.
Here’s hoping we have a better New Year. Cheers.
L’interdiction de Shein me rappelle pourquoi j’ai quitté la France. Ce pays fait systématiquement l’inverse de ce qu’il faudrait faire. Ça en devient pathologique.
25 millions de Français achètent sur Shein. Au lieu de se demander pourquoi Shein cartonne, et pourquoi les Français se détournent des grandes enseignes (qui, pour certaines, vendent aussi des produits médiocres à des prix délirants), on préfère interdire.
La réalité, c’est que la France n’est plus compétitive. Trop de taxes, trop de régulation, aucune culture entrepreneuriale, aucune culture technologique.
La France, pays des Lumières, est devenue un pays moyenâgeux. Le pays de l’obscurantisme technologique. Les Français, qui profitent hypocritement du confort du capitalisme et des bienfaits de la technologie, sont devenus ultra-conservateurs sur ces sujets, pour ne pas dire des communistes mentaux.
L’interdiction de Shein, c’est juste pour cacher l’échec français. C’est pour cacher qu’on est devenu une colonie numérique des Américains et des Chinois. Un pays sans croissance, incapable de créer, incapable d’innover, et même pas bon à réguler. Un pays dont la seule réussite des 40 dernières années est d’avoir raté toutes les révolutions technologiques.
Ordinateurs, Internet, réseaux sociaux, conquête spatiale privée, biotechnologie, industrie, nucléaire (qu’on a saboté politiquement), blockchain, intelligence artificielle… Tout a été raté. Sans exception.
Mais on se permet d’être arrogant et de dire au monde ce qui est “bon” ou “pas bon”. On croit détenir la vérité absolue et être le phare du monde, alors que le reste de la planète, y compris les pays émergents, n’en a strictement rien à faire de nos délires. On se suicide au nom d’un pseudo “progrès social” et d’une écologie punitive, pendant que le reste du monde avance à vitesse supersonique.
Pendant qu’on se tire une balle dans la tête, des villes entières, prospères, sortent du désert, comme Dubaï ou Doha. Des villes fleurissent dans des zones tropicales humides et hostiles, comme Singapour. La Chine sort régulièrement des villes de plusieurs millions d’habitants en quelques années. Le Vietnam, un pays exsangue il y a encore 30 ans, affiche aujourd’hui une croissance insolente. L’Inde, colonisée il y a à peine une génération par l’Empire britannique, forme désormais plus d’ingénieurs que l’Europe entière et est en train de devenir l’une des capitales mondiales de la tech.
La France et l’Europe se sont endormies. La bureaucratie et l’incompétence nous ont détruits.
En Chine et aux États-Unis, il y a déjà des robot-taxis en service réel pendant que nous, on en est encore à débattre de comment les réguler (lol), et du statut des chauffeurs Uber face aux taxis… deux métiers qui n’existeront même plus dans 10-15 ans.
On débat des retraites, alors qu’on est à l’aube des robots humanoïdes et de l’IA généralisée. Dans un monde où robot et IA vont transformer radicalement la notion de travail, de productivité, et de valeur. Le capital à taxer demain ne sera plus l’humain mais la machine. Les besoins en puissance de calcul sont tellement colossaux qu’il faudra construire de nouvelles centrales nucléaires uniquement pour alimenter des data centers.
Des milliardaires américains investissent des milliards pour vivre plus longtemps, voire viser l’immortalité, pendant que nous débattons encore de “l’éthique”. Les chercheurs chinois et américains, dopés à la puissance de calcul, sont à deux doigts de révolutionner la médecine par la génétique, pendant que nous n’avons même pas été capables de produire un simple vaccin anti-Covid.
J’ouvre X et je lis “taxes” et ”interdiction de Shein”. L’enjeu n’est pas là du tout. L’enjeu est technologique. Il y a une guerre froide technologique entre la Chine et les États-Unis pour savoir qui atteindra en premier la singularité, qui vaincra le cancer, qui augmentera radicalement l’espérance de vie humaine, qui contrôlera l’IA, le calcul quantique, la biogénétique.
Et notre classe politique, elle, débat encore d’interdictions et de taxes stupides, au lieu de débattre de la dépense publique, du modèle d’innovation, de l’éducation scientifique, de la souveraineté technologique. Pendant qu’Internet disserte sur les retraites, alors que ce sujet ne représente même pas 10% du vrai problème qui arrive.
Le Français a un cerveau qui n’a biologiquement pas évolué depuis le Paléolithique, et des institutions qui n’ont quasiment pas évolué depuis le Moyen Âge.
Ça ne peut pas fonctionner. Et le pire, c’est que ça n’inquiète quasiment personne.
the generational wealth effect of AI coins to Trump will be talked about for many years to come
have seen traders run up to legitimately 9 figs from nothing in the span of a year (many lost/ Roundtripped tho) but nonetheless it’s insane to reflect back on
Hey @Carra23, I hope you will see this post and read with an open mind.
I have read and heard your comments on Chelsea under BlueCo and feel that you are a bit misinformed.
BlueCo are rebuilding the entire structure of the club, including a complete makeover of the squad and you have to agree with me that with such a change, the club won't be stable in a couple of years. I feel you have forgotten what happened to Roman and the club before BlueCo took over.
In your latest article, you questioned the direction of the club compared to the club under Roman Abramovich. And also talked about how they keep buying young players. Well, I need to remind you that BlueCo's first transfer window was bold and ambitious but it ended up as one of Chelsea’s worst windows in recent history and we are still paying a big price for it today. I believe you saw Sterling to Chelsea for close to £50m as a major statement, the same with Koulibaly to Chelsea and the rest that happened in that window. Today, it doesn't look like it.
You said this about Raheem Sterling in 2018: “He deserves everything he gets. What he is doing for Manchester City now, we talk about Aguero, Silva, De Bruyne; he is in that company.”
I'm sure you don't think about him like that since he joined Chelsea. And that uncertainty is likely one of the reasons BlueCo decided to rebuild with young players on low wages and high resale value, because if any mistake is made, we won't be in a situation where we struggle to sell and recover our funds and it has proven to be the case so far.
The downside is on the pitch, but we are looking for balance not perfection at the moment. On-field stability will come when the rebuilding process stabilises.
The misconception here is, Chelsea owners are patient with the rebuilding of the squad and putting together a sustainable structure, and aren't in a hurry to throw everything out of the window and gamble in the name of trying to win the league or compete for the biggest trophy immediately. It's an illusion to think we have arrived despite winning the CWC.
You talked about not signing Maignan or Donnarumma. Maignan was going to cost €25m. Why spend that much on a player whose career is going down and isn't a clear upgrade? PSG decided not to renew Donnarumma's contract because of the wages he was demanding was outrageous according to reports. Only City or Man United who generate a lot more than Chelsea can afford that. I expect a former professional footballer of your status to understand that the financial aspects of football today are as important as the sporting aspect. You talked about how many Billions Chelsea have spent but I haven't heard you talk about how much Chelsea have generated or how they have managed to bring down excessive wage structure under the new owners. This summer, we basically made more than we spent. Or does it not matter?
So, try and understand that the model isn't geared towards winning or competing immediately but for a more sustainable winning culture and financial future. You don't have to like it to understand it, and add context to your analysis.
Thanks.
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