What to do with Costa ?

Hmm, before today we had scored 16 you had scored 7. I think I like our 9 at the back, it seems much more attacking than the 7 you play

 

LOL LOL LOL.

It's always a case of the pot calling the kettle black when Chelsea fans start crying about others spending money

To be honest I'd actually say any fan of Chelsea who moans about others spending money, has either a very short memory, or a massive lack of inteligence. Il go with the later with you.

Chelsea are nothing more than a small club with a wealthy owner. Man Utd are a big club who earn the money they spend.

Well done on scoring 4 goals for the first time this season, our back 9 have have already done this 3 times before

Far more researched required?

 

Manutd fan and intelligent are oxymoron. You morons know nothing about Net spend based on football inflation over 20+ years, level playing field etc etc.
Cantona's £1.2 million IS NOT equivalent to £2.24 million in 2017!!
That frenchman was equivalent to 2 Pogba's may be? So it should be 180 million in 2017. That is how Red nose & OT out bought everyone. All Roman did was accelerated your process in 3 years.

Roman fcuked you over in your game in 3 years what Fergie did for good part of 3 decades.
You talk about intelligence? Prawn farking brigade get the fcuk out

 

Anyone see that rather irritating fact that Chelsea have made £500m from the sale of players since January 2014? Bloody Chelsea, earning their money...

 

I never thought of you as this thick before, you do know Francis was £1m long, long before Cantona. At the time we bought Cantona he was **** cheap

 

I'd be careful about crowing this "big Club " stuff. It is only money that has you where you are, and lack of it for the decline of Liverpool. You spent like a Billionaires wife in Harvey Nichols for years. A classic case of "buying " your status. True you had the players and management to then achieve on the pitch, much like we did, and Real did and Barca did. So why are you so derisive when all the other top clubs including ours did exactly the same? We also got the results that matter, check out the cabinet since Roman arrived. Now the Spaniards are bigger than you, Man City rising fast, and unless I'm mistaken, ahead of you in the PL, PSG will be the biggest of the lot in a decade. Man City are actually whingeing today they are concerned PSG might outbid them for Sanchez !!!! That says it better than I can. Don't kid yourself that anything other than spending made you the Club you are. Lets see how you go when we get a decent sized stadium and the playing field becomes a tad more level. Earnings v spending will make more interesting reading then.

 

I think you are missing the point, Chelsea are only where they are today because Roman spent a **** lot of money, United are where they are because the club had the finances to get there.
Chelsea now whinging that they can't compete because Roman will no longer support it is pure Kardashian

 

You're insane. Roman hasn't invested anything for years! How do you think we are able to spend? Everything has been earned through the transfer market and backed up with success.

United didn't start as a rich club, they had investment too, or do you forget your Irish horse owners?

 

That's not exactly a fair argument mate. Most got there by purely by their geographical position. Considered big clubs of the past, Sunderland, Newcastle, Liverpool, United and their like built bigger stadia because the footfall was infinitely greater earning them ability to attract the better players giving them more success unlike London clubs although Arsenal are the only exception being the biggest in the 20's & 30's.

 

How much do you think you will earn by adding a few more seats . Chelsea fans don't realise the owner is about to place you in 500 million pounds worth of debt

 

And you know this how exactly?

 

Yeah, tbh you make a valid point about the number of clubs in the same catchment area

 

That is my point, Chelsea only did what you had pioneered, we found a source of funding and spent. Where did your finances come from?? It came from wealthy owners and you spent their money. You did a brilliant professional job building your Club into a highly wealthy and successful one, as every competent business would.
Which is exactly what we are doing, with the same kind of success you had. Our business is financially sound, our financial planning is sound, our books are balanced and our future looks promising. This can all be confirmed by a visit to Companies House.
No point harping about culture and history and what used to be. Look at Newcastle and Sunderland, Inter Milan, Benfica, even Liverpool. Britain once had a mighty Navy and an Empire, those days are gone too. Your problem now is to retain the place in Footballs' heirachy that you held for so long. That might prove a tad trickier than "getting there", because now you have plenty of other Clubs doing exactly the same thing, and at least 3 with stronger finances and cache' than your Club. As it stands now you are still among the giants of World football, but the times they are a changing, just as they should. Welcome to Football 2017 style.

 

Ironically this is something that Roman IS funding. Adding an extra 10k seats adds a fair amount of revenue at a minimum of £50 a ticket.

In terms of financial fairnplay, this investment is not counted as it's for stadium build so we can continue to spend the money we've EARNED in the transfer market.

 

Good answer mate, It's patently obvious that those in the old top four clubs didn't like any new members coming in ruffling their feathers as they saw it as a closed shop. Of those top four clubs Liverpool and Arsenal have largely been replaced with Chelsea and Man City. United have since Ferguson retired look to be following them down from the pedestal but they have invested large to stop this so the jury is out on them for now. As you say Welcome to football 2017 style, things change!

 

As I see it as well. The only argument United won't get from me is that for years they have been an extremely well managed Club with huge worldwide following and earnings. Therefore ,they had a fair old start on us as a competitive modern Club. We have pretty much caught them in football terms, and are doing most things right in Managing Chelsea FC, the Company.

 

Aye, investments in stadiums, training facilities and Youth academy upgrades are not counted against FFP.