Ohh yeah, sorry. I am at work and saw wages pop up in some comments, and replied as per that. But I do agree, loans are taken to pay for transfer fees. It's standard for every major transfer irrespective of the club.
Can we convince Boehly to sign the Glazers?
I fail to understand your point. How is getting a loan "ruining the sport"?
Also where do you get that they get loans with hardly any interest, if any? What kind of bank or financial institution is gifting money away?
How so? It seems more stable from the players perspective, they have these nice long contracts so they know they're still a part of Chelsea despite being bounced from club to club and country to country on expiring contracts.
for players its fantastic, their future is secured for a long time and they are in a (hopefully) stable environment. For the club its a massive risk to make such long commitments
Roman was just as scummy as they are
sorry, no matter how you dress it up an Oligarch isn't as scummy as a state that has executed hundreds of people, commits human rights abuses, and creates humanitarian disasters in other countries
Yes, that's the point, it's intentionally hypocritical. I wasn't just taking a shit on Chelsea.
So what does their state now actually have to do with the roman era? They barely have players from that era, different manager different staff.
It's more or less a different club. And the article was about him not caring about the club after the Todd era.
You’re singled out because you spent a billion pounds in a year how is the difficult for some chelsea fans to understand. And then to further the singling out after spending untold money you are remarkably bad.
how so?
I kinda of feel Poch will turn it around, he is a really good coach and works the best with a group of young players
I was wondering if it was that Andy Hamilton. Loved Bob and Margaret in the 90's
Can't support a financial group mate
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The thing is the drop in talent and quality is significant. People want to watch the best players and teams playing at an elite level
The government was helping Real 20 years ago with some shady deals.
In the case of Chelsea, both ways of understanding the statement are correct.
Seems like a lot of people understand that statement as "omg they are the worst" but as i see it, it's more like "football is fucked in so many ways, and these guys somehow check nearly all boxes"
So funny to see english fans argue who the worst team is in their league. Meanwhile, football is fucked anyway and its a business first and a sport second, so no matter if its the Saudis sportwashing or an American pumping billions into it, the image of that pure, innocent and local football sport is long gone.
You have a red bull flair?
I mean... Tottenham are one of the more sustainable and less shady premier league clubs, and Joe Lewis is far from a moral and stand-up fellow.
No private entity with the money to own a top flight club got there by being decent.
Lewis is absolute scum, but most of the damage he does is outside football