@Statford_Bridge $1.5 million to get a meeting with Trump. Does Nick Candy fancy stumping up the cash?
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Our only hope is the Trump Whitehouse sanctioning Eghbali and forcing a sale. If there is a DC lobbyist Chelsea fan, I am begging you.
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@ChicagoDmitry “I personally do not know how to do this therefore it must not have been done”
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I don't really understand why so many people on this platform who, frankly, no offense, have no background in this whatsoever, assume that an experienced writer and an economics PhD don't know about confounding factors and how to control for them.
NiiNiiFC-BlueLionsTV@NiiNiiFC
It’s interesting but isn’t the data reliant on so many variables? Standard of league, quality of squad, injuries, etc Football is very ineffecient in many areas, there’s usually 1 component or 2 that’s undermining another moving part I don’t know, data doesn’t really move me, don’t know what I’m supposed to gain from this
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@ChicagoDmitry @TheChelseaWay I recognise you’ve caveated this but this is exactly what he did! He said a racial slur because he couldn’t control what he said. He then left the audience so that he didn’t continue to do so. He tried to minimise the impact of his condition.
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@TheChelseaWay I don't know the details of the story in full but I have noticed that somewhere along the line for some people having a legitimate diagnosed condition has become synonymous with absolving self of responsibility to try and manage it in a way to minimize impact on others.
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It's this condescension that certain people are employing to pass this message along that makes the whole thing difficult to take. You can't expect black people to not be affected by the n-word. Are you people insane?
Andrew Christie@thatAndrewC
"I understand he has a condition, but..." Well no. No you don't.
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@ChicagoDmitry Realistically there is no way to significantly cut your wage bill/grow your revenue without compromising success at the elite levels of football. It’s why private equity should be nowhere near. It doesn’t match any of their growth objectives.
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@ChicagoDmitry I'm happy that out SDs fucked this up and that we haven't ended up with him. I think it's absurd that the reason we haven't ended up with him is because Liverpool convinced him rather than that we backed out at a fee which was so ridiculous.
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@ChicagoDmitry I think there are just unbelievably few value add managers in the world right now (in part because clubs have put aesthetics over performance). Arteta probably wouldn't do a better job with this squad but will win the league at Arsenal.
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Everyone's takes on Maresca are too extreme. He's.. fine. He's got points that are good and bad. Does he bring the kind of managerial value add you need to win the league? Probably not. That's fine right now, because we don't have the squad to win the league anyways
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This is just incredible bad luck. £20bn is huge, you’re putting 2p on income tax just to get back to where you started.
Financial Times@FT
Reeves faces £20bn hit to UK public finances from productivity downgrade on.ft.com/4hyozAw
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@GalvinEarly @ChicagoDmitry I agree maresca was disadvantaged by the delay sub but you have to give caicedo a break at some point and if you can’t give essugo 15 mins in a game you’re just gonna sit back in and are defending a 2-0 lead then what can you do?
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@TydemanGil @ChicagoDmitry I get that part.
I think the game was still in the balance at that stage and control needed. Still 17/18 mins left.
If he subbed Caicedo and Fulham came back there would have been outrage. I'm not arguing over the need to freshen subs, by the way.
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@GalvinEarly @ChicagoDmitry Yeah but he could have made a third change when he did the third substitution. He could have taken Moises or enzo off and he chose not to.
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@ChicagoDmitry I thought we could only have 3 x sub breaks and that was used up or does the first half one not count?
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If you didn’t moan last summer but you’re annoyed at this summer then there must have been a personality change at some point. Last summer angry mobs were justified.
Benji@benji_harper17
I didn’t moan last summer, didn’t want to this summer but post cwc ppl have a right to
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@ChicagoDmitry I think it’s remarkably under discussed in these conversations the extent to which the costs of renovating or building a stadium have changed since the takeover.
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@ChicagoDmitry I keep coming back to the idea that you could blow any football agency out of the water by just yelling “put it in writing” at your client.
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Promises? Get them on paper, you big dummy
Luke Edwards@LukeEdwardsTele
Alexander Isak has finally gone public on his desire to leave Newcastle United. The last move in this saga available to him #nufc
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@ChicagoDmitry I also think the “higher ranked team” thing doesn’t make sense. The reason why premier league teams have five champions league spots and french teams have three is because the premier league is the better league so it isn’t coherent to consider finishing third in France as better
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I don't know why Chelsea fans are lashing out at Dale here, he isn't suggesting anything improper happened, he's exploring how a hypothetical situation would have affected Chelsea.
I think he makes a lot of interesting points worth considering
Dale Johnson@DaleJohnsonBBC
Strasbourg lost their last two games of the Ligue 1 season to finish 7th. Had Strasbourg won both to finish 3rd, MCO rules would have locked Chelsea out of the Champions League with Aston Villa promoted in their place.
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@ChicagoDmitry Sure but most high liquidity assets don’t have a 10% annual maintenance cost (albeit a successful and compliant loan operation can deal with this to an extent)
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@ChicagoDmitry Not least given the cost of a rebuild has materially changed since they bought because of borrowing costs. My guess is at an absolute minimum we don’t see any further movement until the fed rate drops by >100bsp.
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@ChicagoDmitry Very much one for my “Chelsea are actually just acting like spurs 2018-2023” theory. Probably looking at the right sort of profiles but paying 20-30% premiums on players who are not definite upgrades and have an exaggerated reputation because of the context they’re playing in.
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This is just a ton of money for an attacker with a pretty unremarkable final third track record so far
David Ornstein@David_Ornstein
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea reach agreement with Brighton to sign Joao Pedro. Deal for 23yo #BHAFC forward in excess of £50m. Personal terms in place on 7yr contract. Medical being arranged. Brazil int’l only wanted #CFC + will join #FIFACWC squad @TheAthleticFC nytimes.com/athletic/64602…
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