Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre

28 años, estudiante de la Licenciatura en Derecho en la UDG.

[DENIRO @polyesp]

🚨Elon Musk: “Puede que todavía no sepas qué te apasiona… porque nunca exploraste el mapa completo”

Cuando le preguntan por el sentido de la vida, Elon no habla de meditación ni de “encontrar tu propósito”. Va directo:

“Lee. Lee muchísimo. Construye un terreno accidentado del paisaje del conocimiento. Aprende un poco de muchas cosas.”

La razón más subestimada:

Solo puedes desear lo que has visto.
Si tu menú de opciones se limita a lo que te dieron tus padres, la escuela o el primer trabajo… estás eligiendo a ciegas.
Los libros rompen ese límite.
Son el motor de búsqueda de tu propia vida.

Habla con gente de mundos distintos.
Explora campos que nunca imaginaste.
Luego busca la intersección perfecta:
ser intrínsecamente bueno en algo

que te guste hacerlo de verdad.
Porque el talento solo es una trampa:
puedes ser excelente, ganar dinero… y odiarlo en silencio durante años.

Lee. Amplía el mapa.
El mayor riesgo no es equivocarte de camino…
es nunca haber visto los otros.

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

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[ᴱᴺᶻᴼᴵᶻᵁ @ENZOIZU]

🎙️ Let me tell you exactly what Chelsea’s current transfer activity actually is. Not what the graphics tell you. Not what the Romano updates feel like at midnight. What it actually is.

Maxence Lacroix. Pep Chavarria. Valentin Barco. Budget for a big midfielder. Multiple fronts. Multiple reports. Multiple positions simultaneously.

And the copium brigade is already calling it “big club behaviour.”

It isn’t. It’s noise management. And this ownership perfected it.

Here’s how it works. You don’t need to complete five deals to control the narrative around five deals. You just need five deals to be in the news simultaneously. While Enzo’s exit is being processed, while Cucurella is already in Madrid, while Santos is already sold to Manchester United, the recruitment machine floods the zone with activity. Not completed activity. Reported activity.

Lacroix from Crystal Palace. Fine. A centre back. Chelsea need one. But Lacroix is 26, has never played in a Champions League season, and is coming from a Crystal Palace side that finished below Chelsea last season. That is not an upgrade that announces elite ambition. That is a sensible, affordable, model-friendly acquisition that fills a gap created by four years of defensive negligence. Whereas John stones is free😂, a Treble winner for Manchester city but not model friendly.

Pep Chavarria. A left back from Rayo Vallecano. 28 years old. Deal still described as “difficult.” The same language used about Xhaka for three weeks before Chelsea quietly moved on. Whereas Marc Cucurella, a European and World Cup winner now, senior leader, established Premier League performer, sold to Real Madrid for £47m. Then Valentin Barco. 20 years old, Long contract, announcement pending. High ceiling. Low current output at this level.

Notice the profile. Notice it every single time. Young. Long contract. Potential. Cheap enough to be model friendly. Sellable in three years if the ceiling is reached.

And now “budget for one more big player, potentially in midfield.”

Potentially. In midfield.

Enzo Fernandez, 15 goals, 7 assists, vice-captain, Alonso publicly wants him, has a £120m tag and is being sold. And Chelsea’s midfield answer is potentially one more big player.

Not confirmed. Not identified publicly. Potentially.

This is the part that should make every clear-eyed Chelsea fan genuinely angry. Not at the individual signings. Some of them might work out. But at the structure of what’s being built.

They are replacing proven with potential. Established with developmental. Leaders with projects. And doing it across every single position simultaneously so the noise of activity drowns out the question of direction.

The recruitment machine is functioning exactly as designed. That is the most honest sentence in any of these reports.

Exactly as designed.

Not designed to win the Premier League. Not designed to build a dynasty. Not designed to give Alonso a settled core to work with from day one.

Designed to maintain flexibility. Manage PSR. Develop assets. Maintain optionality. Keep the fanbase feeling like something is happening.

And it’s working on the people it’s supposed to work on.

The ones celebrating five simultaneous transfer links as proof of ambition.

The ones who see Romano posting at midnight and feel excitement instead of asking what problem each signing actually solves.

The ones who will celebrate Lacroix’s announcement graphic and forget that Chelsea still don’t have a settled goalkeeper, a confirmed holding midfielder, a left back with Premier League pedigree, or a striker who guarantees you 15 goals.

Activity is not ambition. Parallel negotiations are not a plan. Five simultaneous links are not a spine.

A spine is Enzo Fernandez staying.

A spine is Cucurella not going to Madrid.

A spine is one player, just one, that this club looked at and said not for any price.

That player doesn’t exist at Chelsea right
now.

And no amount of Romano updates changes that. 💙 #CFC

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@skarletvgtt @Rhevolver Tienes razón, Tuchel no es "buen entrenador", está muy por ENCIMA de eso.
Es un entrenador especialista en partidos de eliminación, podrá ser cuestionado pero sus resultados lo avalan. Con Inglaterra ya ha llegado a instancias más avanzadas (anterior mundial) que Southgate.

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@MartinoliCuri Hoy no sólo perdió México, perdió la familia.

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@MakinaAzulMx Pierde México, pierde la familia.

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@ElPrincipeDicee

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@stoydesbasatado 😂😂

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@saul404notfound @MemoNavarro_ ✔️

[Juan Pablo Galeano R. @juangaleanorey]

12 modelis mentales es pensar mejor

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

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[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@CarlosReynosoKC David Ornstein es un portavoz de BlueCo, habrá que tomar poco confiable la noticia. Parecen más relaciones públicas.

[Blake @blake_cfc]

🚨 Pep Guardiola: “Tuchel is so creative, one of the few managers I learn from constantly. His teams challenge my intelligence.”❤️

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@Sharp3do @West_LB1908 @GoldbergCFC Oliver Glasner también quedará libre.
Tiene historial de competir directamente al City y Liverpool.

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@CarlosReynosoKC BlueCo nos tiene una sorpresa.

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@_JoeAlexanderr ¿Maurizio Sarri?

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@CarlosReynosoKC Hola Carlos, ¿que nombres contemplarías para sustituir a Liam Rosenior?

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@alIforchelsea Vuelve.

[The Athletic | Football @TheAthleticFC]

▪️ Chelsea’s operating losses under BlueCo have totalled £689m over the last three years, or £629,000 every single day.
▪️ Under BlueCo, Chelsea has spent £1.867bn on new signings, including more than £1bn on players aged 24 and under. They have spent more on teenagers than the rest of the “Big Six” combined.
▪️ The loss at 22 Holdco Limited, the uppermost UK-registered company in the BlueCo group, was even more stark: £700.8m. In its first 38 months of existence, losses at 22 Holdco were £1.852bn.
▪️ BlueCo has taken on £1.390bn in debt to fund its activities. If 22 Holdco were a single football club, it would be the most indebted on the planet.
▪️ Chelsea’s commercial income of £200.9m trails its nearest "Big Six" rival by over £60m and is more than £100m behind the average of those five teams.
▪️ Chelsea’s wage bill reached £374m last season, accounting for 76% of the club’s total revenue — the highest such ratio among the Premier League’s "Big Six”.
▪️ A £500m loan from Ares Management is currently accruing interest at a rate of 11.23%; if left unpaid until 2033, the total bill is projected to balloon to over £1.4 billion.

@CWeatherspoon_ investigates Chelsea's finances under BlueCo.

https://t.co/uvmqxUu9gc

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

@Mercado_Ingles Harán desaparecer al club.

[Carlos Andrés Cortés de la Torre @carlos_andre_s]

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[Bobby F. 🍁 @bobbyfairview]

📣 Fans like me are relieved that mainstream journalists have finally started reporting on the leveraged buyout of Chelsea. This article by @CWeatherspoon_ confirms a lot of what we have been saying. It does provide new insights, but also has key conceptual and factual errors.

Critical new findings

•Clearlake’s £1.794bn contribution to 22 Holdco via COPIII is a credit position, not equity. The only true equity in this structure is Boehly Group’s approximately £1.1bn (initially£900m), and the Athletic never confronts this. It changes everything in an insolvency situation.

•COPIII has approximately £400m of capacity remaining, considerably less than the £1.3bn cited by an unnamed source in the @FT on Saturday. Critically, COPIII closed in May 2022 and cannot make further cash calls on their investors. The £400m is not just what remains today, it is the absolute ceiling on what Clearlake can deploy. Blueco burned £522m in cash in FY2025, and the 22 Holdco going concern note confirms additional owner funding is required, with no certainty that support will continue.

Other observations

•The Athletic cites a 10% uplift in recent LP filings, but for a private credit fund, a mark above cost reflects the fair value of a debt instrument. A 10% cumulative uplift over approximately three years is low for any private credit position, implying the fair value of the underlying instrument is below what accrued interest alone would generate.

•COPIII’s mandate per documents filed with American pension investors is non-control special situations. Eghbali runs Chelsea day to day while Boehly has been sidelined, but a private credit fund does not take operational control of its investments unless there’s a breach of the loan covenants. Has Clearlake effectively foreclosed on Boehly?

•The true debt to equity ratio in this structure is £3.1bn against £1.1bn of genuine equity. Is that appropriate for a football club?

•The £1.7bn owner commitment was partly met with £1.3bn of borrowed money rather than owner equity, yet the Athletic presents this as reassuring on liquidity without noting the distinction.

Errors in the article

•The £5.1bn break-even uses the projected 2033 terminal value of the Ares PIK alongside current values for everything else. The current Ares balance is £609m and the £800m difference between the two figures is entirely the future PIK accrual, not the bank loan which coincidentally carries the same value. Mixing future and present values in a break-even calculation is not valid methodology.

•The £4.1bn figure double counts the £1.3bn debt, treating it as a separate recovery requirement on top of the £2.9bn equity. It was always part of how the £4.2bn commitment was funded. Boehly and Clearlake never had to provide it.

•The anti-circumvention clause is by no means an Anti-Glazer clause but is a standard co-owner protection sitting in the Articles of Association. It prevents Boehly and Clearlake from manoeuvring around each other and has nothing to do with whether both owners can agree to sell shares or assets.

Finally some good news

•The JPMorgan and Bank of America facility has reportedly been renewed at more favourable terms. This does not appear in the 22 Holdco accounts and remains unverified, but if confirmed it removes a significant pressure point in the structure.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ It looks like they’ve managed to get ahead of the current market conditions.

p.s. it’s frigging Blueco not BlueCo!! That name with an upper case “C” is another unrelated company!!!