Chelsea hit with two window transfer ban

[Goo Punch 4275]

I have no idea if this is one of those things that never actually gets enforced or not, but that's the report.

 

[texanbychoice 354]

Really good news for Arsenal and ManU in the battle for 4th-6th spots.  

[Surly Bevo 24908]

Sarri for partying.

[mdmost 42997]

Sarri, not sorry?

[maninblack 7974]

You can rule Mourinho out to replace sorry

[Longhornfan1024 1707]

It might actually make our board's performance better.  Instead of wasting over 120 million on guys like Drinkwater, Zappacosta, and Morata, we'll be saving that money.

[Jograves 357]

Save money? Chelsea owes their owner £1 billion. 

[maninblack 7974]

Only one man has big enough balls for this job...

[mdmost 42997]

Why do you hate MoJames so much?

[ztejas 43411]

Could you not have just posted this in the Chelsea thread?

[Jograves 357]

It's a big story on one of the big clubs in the league most of us follow.

Plus, most of us don't want to say anything negative about a club in other teams' threads. That's for their supporters. 

[ztejas 43411]

Where is @TreatyOak when you need him 

[mdmost 42997]

He got hit with a one year post ban.

[Bone3421 716]

So what was the rule they broke...heard it mentioned but hsvent looked up what it is exactly

[TexArcher 37761]

This could actually help Chelsea if it forces them to keep Callum Hudson-Odoi instead giving him away like Kevin de Bruyne, Romalu Lukaku, Mo Salah, etc.

Yes, I'm a Chelsea fan and yes, I'm reaching.  

 

[RichUT 1832]

Chelsea will appeal in order to have access to the market this summer, and hopefully they get the ban reduced to one window vs. two.  To TexArcher's point, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if Chelsea's board had to take some time off from the transfer market.  They have fucked up in spectacular fashion over the last few years.  Outside of Kante and (hopefully) Pulisic, it's hard to find any positives in the decisions they have made.  

[MoJames 8244]

Chelsea will appeal in order to have access to the market this summer, and hopefully they get the ban reduced to one window vs. two.  To TexArcher's point, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if Chelsea's board had to take some time off from the transfer market.  They have fucked up in spectacular fashion over the last few years.  Outside of Kante and (hopefully) Pulisic, it's hard to find any positives in the decisions they have made.  

Rudiger has been excellent
Christensen will be
Holding onto RLC and so far CHO
Emerson is showing progress
Getting good money for both Tbo and Diego in shit circumstances.

Just some positives I see.

[RichUT 1832]

Rudiger has been excellent
Christensen will be
Holding onto RLC and so far CHO
Emerson is showing progress
Getting good money for both Tbo and Diego in shit circumstances.

Just some positives I see.

They purchased Christensen at 15, along with countless others. Eventually one was going to work out, though he has received very little play time since switching back to a back 4.

Rudi is a fine player and I should have included him.

Emerson theoretically has potential, but he hasn’t beat out Alonso and Marcos has been a whipping boy this season.

The board hasn’t been 100% awful, as that would require some level of intent to avoid the occasional bit of success. That said, they’ve been too often lethargic and unquestionably poor for a pretty long stretch of time.

[MoJames 8244]

They purchased Christensen at 15, along with countless others. Eventually one was going to work out, though he has received very little play time since switching back to a back 4.

Rudi is a fine player and I should have included him.

Emerson theoretically has potential, but he hasn’t beat out Alonso and Marcos has been a whipping boy this season.

The board hasn’t been 100% awful, as that would require some level of intent to avoid the occasional bit of success. That said, they’ve been too often lethargic and unquestionably poor for a pretty long stretch of time.

No shit on Christensen, but the board also managed to get him to stay after quite a bit of noise he wanted out.

Emerson did just play a cup tie over Alonso, and I dont know how you would blame the board for Sarris line ups.

Ok who should they have pushed harder for? No one knew what KdB and Salah would do in 5 years and it appears that Lukaku went to Manure based on his choice of agent and has since regretted it.

[RichUT 1832]

No shit on Christensen, but the board also managed to get him to stay after quite a bit of noise he wanted out.

Emerson did just play a cup tie over Alonso, and I dont know how you would blame the board for Sarris line ups.

Ok who should they have pushed harder for? No one knew what KdB and Salah would do in 5 years and it appears that Lukaku went to Manure based on his choice of agent and has since regretted it.

Feels like a discussion to take back to the main Chelsea thread, but whatever. Their three biggest failures have been 1) being slow and/or cheap, 2) spending stupidly on highly questionable plan B’s/plan C’s in response, 3) giving up on talented youngsters before they have been given a chance to get on the pitch. A few recent examples:

Papy Djilobodji (don’t even recall who we were after at CB at the time)
Alvaro Morata (after dragging our feet on Lukaku, who has been up and down at ManU, but I think that’s due to how much he doesn’t like it there)
Danny Drinkwater (mind boggling and indefensible even at the time)
Playing it slow/cheap with guys like Neymar, Modric, Koulibaly, Stones, any one of the Mendy/Walker/Danilo trio that went to City, etc, etc.
Giving up on KDb/Lukaku/Salah

There are more that I could go find, but these were just top of mind.

Again, they aren’t batting zero, but they have been hampering the club for a solid 5 year stretch and it’s getting really fucking old.