Sucks that we lost but we’ve got five games to win. Win those five and we’ll be champions for the 20th time.
Four wins are probably enough but let’s win five.
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Basically win one game at a time and see how that plays out.
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But… why?
They could have done their planning before this, in January.
It’s not like either of them particularly needs to sign players…
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I’m sure a few brown envelopes were involved in the decision-making process.
All empty, of course. 
In a way, it’s pretty apt. Corrupt approach for a corrupt competition.
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Basically seems to suggest it’s a basic attempt to try and get the best players there.
As I said I’m happy we aren’t going and I’m happy I’ll be in Berlin for some of it so I can avoid it. Not to mention the trophy currently sits on the senile fat orange fuckers desk.
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The split transfer window sounds a nonsense. It won’t stop players being signed, just bugger up their pre-season. Hopefully, we do any incoming business in early June.
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It is that, but also a reflection of just how badly conceived of the tournament even is. no one knows if it is an end of season tournament or a pre-season one and as a result it does not fit into the existing legal structures around players contracts. Just a shit show all around.
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Hopefully it doesn’t hamper our chances of number one targets…
As in Frimpong to Chelsea or City to win a medal in his first week.
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Well Real Madrid are going there so not a certain.
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The new season is nearly upon us. Just another 48 hrs to wait.
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What kind of bullshit is this?? The Chelsea ownership own both companies! They “sell” their women’s team to BlueCo (not even trying to hide it) and declare a profit.
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Blatant disregard of PSR and some shit shit loopholes
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That will be an interesting valuation, to be sure. That transaction put the value of the women’s team at nearly £200M. Given the spending restrictions on the men’s side, I can understand why they would want to move the women out of the same entity, but that is a remarkable number.
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It’s cheating, plain and simple. But unfortunately they will get away with it, as the culture there is to find loopholes and exploit them. The authorities are amateurs by comparison, but I do have some sympathy.
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Isn’t that the culture everywhere these days? 
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This sort of creative accounting is a big part of the benefit of having this sort of corporate structure. The benefit is obviously limited by the number of non-footballing assets the club can sell to its parent. The absurdity is that these parts of the business are exempt from calculations on spending limits, so the real issue is that BlueCo can just keep funding Chelsea’s building and/or acquisitions of non-footballing parts of the business without hurting Chelsea’s spending capacity and then buy them back off the club to give them a big lump sum to fill in an accounting hole.
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Yeah but this is almost exactly what City have been doing and they should be brought to heel. How is what Chelsea are doing any different?