The Mailbox ponders whether Chelsea and Barca are trailblazers or totally f***ed. Also: Luke Shaw; Jurgen Klopp’s standards; and a sorry pile of rubble in Sheffield…
Date published: Friday 3rd February 2023 9:55 -
He spoke like the Utd player we all wish he would be last night with a maturity that has flourished with every game he plays this season. I wrote in to say I agreed with him, and that I no longer buy shirts, or merch, or pay for a football subscription. I don’t spend a dime on football. Not a cent. Fees seem to get more and more insane every year, as do wages. It was only two years ago that the working class were getting laid-off from the clubs they love working for, by billionaire owners, while they furloughed wages because the pandemic hit their coffers hard. Now we’re back to insanity and it’s like we didn’t learn a thing? At what point do we say enough is enough?
I’m a capitalist, but a low standard of living for the working class isn’t capitalism, it’s just outrageous greed, and that’s what football has become. We aren’t making the world better, but much worse, and the same people that are struggling to make ends meet are also just going “huh” when reading reports of ridiculous fees all across the English game .
In Chelsea’s case, plenty think that they’re kicking cans down the road and the finances are unsustainable. But maybe it isn’t. Maybe the guys in charge of Chelsea are geniuses and this is a model we could learn from. Before you mention it, I’m aware that we are sponsored by Emirates which I deeply resent. I hate the fact that our stadium is named after Emirates, in fact I hate all corporate stadium names, and I hope that we’ll drop that name in time and replace it with a local cultural name. Having said this, there are levels of evil and Man City and Chelsea are clearly at another far darker level.
I suggest that a bit like West Ham with Pauleta – and to a lesser extent Pogba at Man U – Chelsea just spent big on a specialist CM. That is to say, a specialist central midfielder who really has to play in a 3 to be effective.He’s broadly going to need babysitting just like Silva does. Half a billion spent. I see no strikers, a defence built around a 38yr old who can’t run…and what we are told to believe are a number ofThis isn’t Galactico-era Real. This isn’t even modern Barcelona. This is 2000s era Leeds – with a numpty chairmen pushing the margins on the basis that Champions League money is guaranteed. They are making the Newcastle Saudis look dignified and measured.
It’s perfectly fair to point out that Fernandez played less than 30 games for Benfica and is now worth over 100 million. It is madness. He is young and talented, sure, but the price is insane.under Boehly, to me it looks like they could implode at any moment. I’m an Arsenal fan and I have zero jealousy towards Chelsea right now.
What do I know, maybe someone who doesn’t know the sport signing tons of big name players on huge wages with no clear strategy will pay off. Chelsea managed several successful rebuilds under Abramovich, maybe this is the latest.
When Abramovich was politely asked to get in the sea along with many other Russians firmly tied to the regime in Moscow, the total debt owed by Chelsea to him was £1.6 billion. Chelsea are an unpleasant mid tier London club who have earned none of their success. They suckled blood money from Abramovich and now they continue to suckle from Abramovich’s unfortunate American patsy.The Plough, opposite the world’s oldest football ground – Hallam FC in Sheffield – is now a pile of rubble. It is generally believed to be the pub where the rules of the modern game were drawn up in the 1860’s but has now been reduced to a pile of rubble.
Eventually, the developer went around SCC to the Secretary of State, who received another pile of objections but who waved through the application and ordered Sheffield Council to pay compo to the developer for delaying his plans, totally ignoring any arguments regarding the historical worth of the pub or the retention of the heritage asset.
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