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Currently, I am planning to attend. If anyone else from here is going, we could maybe organise to meet up or something? Let me know if you're going to be there.

 
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Currently, I am planning to attend. If anyone else from here is going, we could maybe organise to meet up or something? Let me know if you're going to be there.
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That statement is littered with some of the most daft and entitled sh*te I've ever seen. And of course bits of truth that we can all agree with. I hope it goes well for whoever joins because if I were the board I'd toss that straight in the bin.

 
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They'll ignore it, regardless. But as fans if we're not happy with the way the club is being run, we should at least try and do something, even if it is pointless in the end.

 
That statement is littered with some of the most daft and entitled sh*te I've ever seen. And of course bits of truth that we can all agree with. I hope it goes well for whoever joins because if I were the board I'd toss that straight in the bin.
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We have no entitlement to win, nobody does.

We have an entitlement to be run as both a business and football club/team, not as a means to only line Clearlake pockets.

Jose Feliciano made it clear from early on, has just taken so long for the fruit to be seen.

"It is more important to build business value than win or lose on the field"

What they have shown is winning and losing does not matter, only building business value.

 
They'll ignore it, regardless. But as fans if we're not happy with the way the club is being run, we should at least try and do something, even if it is pointless in the end.
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Yeah I think the point of it is to just make the owners look as bad as possible, the more discontent from the fans the worse it looks to their investors, the people that Eghbali etc really care about.

 
We have no entitlement to win, nobody does.

We have an entitlement to be run as both a business and football club/team, not as a means to only line Clearlake pockets.

Jose Feliciano made it clear from early on, has just taken so long for the fruit to be seen.

"It is more important to build business value than win or lose on the field"

What they have shown is winning and losing does not matter, only building business value.
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I agree, Chelsea FC should be run like a sound business and football club. And there is zero evidence that it's being used only to line Clearlake's pockets. Whatever you think of the ownership group, it comprises best-in-class businessmen. They are not morons, despite what anyone sitting on their stained sofa and chatting on a forum says. Only a moron spends 100m on Caicedo and Enzo if their clear goal is to line their own pockets. Look at how differently Clearlake and The Glazers operate.

Feliciano's quote was in the context of building record levels of revenue and he is very much correct. To get Chelsea to match Europe's elite, they need to build a sustainable business that can increase value, and this IS more important than day-to-day match results especially in the short-term. If the goal was just to win, it would firstly be a foolish goal; and secondly it would inevitably lead to unsustainable decision-making given the current climate.

What they have shown is that winning comes second to sustainability goals (for now) and that's fine. Chelsea are currently closer to being a club that sees stable success than at anytime under Roman. We're not there, mistakes have been made and were inevitable, but Roman always had the luxury of papering over cracks with expensive short-term solutions.

The fact that they ignored the bitching and moaning, never hired someone like Zidane to truly muddy the waters even though it would appease some - that actually impressed me.

 
What they have shown is that winning comes second to sustainability goals (for now) and that's fine. Chelsea are currently closer to being a club that sees stable success than at anytime under Roman. We're not there, mistakes have been made and were inevitable, but Roman always had the luxury of papering over cracks with expensive short-term solutions.
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Chelsea under Roman:

2 x Champions Leagues

5 x Premier Leagues

5 x FA Cups

2 x Europa Leagues

1 x Club World Cup

Average Premier League position of 3.66

Chelsea under Clearlake

1 x Europa Conference League

1 x Club World Cup

Average Premier League position of 7.33

Please explain this stable success? What is success? Not being liquidated? Not being relegated? Being an ‘also ran’?

 
Well now that legitimately surprises me.

I completely disagree with you Venom.
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Nothing wrong with that 😃. If you'd like to elaborate I'm all ears.

 
Chelsea under Roman:

2 x Champions Leagues

5 x Premier Leagues

5 x FA Cups

2 x Europa Leagues

1 x Club World Cup

Average Premier League position of 3.66

Chelsea under Clearlake

1 x Europa Conference League

1 x Club World Cup

Average Premier League position of 7.33

Please explain this stable success? What is success? Not being liquidated? Not being relegated? Being an ‘also ran’?
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What do you think this achieves by showing trophy hauls of essentially two different clubs, existing in different climates and rulesets, and with about 15 years difference in tenure?

Stable success is the ability to challenge for highest honours consistently (and win) while working within the means of the club. This includes adhering to governing body regulations and financial controls.

Spending frivolous amounts of money on players without resale value, putting them on big contracts, having to paper over cracks consistenly, and doing under-the-table payments to get deals over the line is not that. Winning the league and then bombing out for 3 years with an experienced, expensive squad is not that. If Roman bought Chelsea today, a lot of what he'd do would be similar to Clearlake.

 
This club is currently run to a debt that it didn’t have under Roman, before he erased the debt. And they’ve sank the value of the club with their idiotic decisions of taking us to being a midtable team. We’re under investigation and possibly transfer ban due to the stupid amount of money spent by this idiots on dross. This brilliant minds haven’t been able to get a FOS sponsor deal and they’ve let pass the best opportunity to relocate Stamford Bridge to Earle’s Court, thereby passing on the increase of ticket revenue. These “best-in-class businessmen” are showing really how Americans can do it better in European football, we’re just a bunch of know nothings that can’t see the real value of the process.

Well, all I can say is “f**k them”. Get out of this Club!

 
I agree, Chelsea FC should be run like a sound business and football club. And there is zero evidence that it's being used only to line Clearlake's pockets. Whatever you think of the ownership group, it comprises best-in-class businessmen. They are not morons, despite what anyone sitting on their stained sofa and chatting on a forum says. Only a moron spends 100m on Caicedo and Enzo if their clear goal is to line their own pockets. Look at how differently Clearlake and The Glazers operate.

Feliciano's quote was in the context of building record levels of revenue and he is very much correct. To get Chelsea to match Europe's elite, they need to build a sustainable business that can increase value, and this IS more important than day-to-day match results especially in the short-term. If the goal was just to win, it would firstly be a foolish goal; and secondly it would inevitably lead to unsustainable decision-making given the current climate.

What they have shown is that winning comes second to sustainability goals (for now) and that's fine. Chelsea are currently closer to being a club that sees stable success than at anytime under Roman. We're not there, mistakes have been made and were inevitable, but Roman always had the luxury of papering over cracks with expensive short-term solutions.

The fact that they ignored the bitching and moaning, never hired someone like Zidane to truly muddy the waters even though it would appease some - that actually impressed me.
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Only a moron spends 100m on Enzo, 80m on Mudryk and 60m on Gittens if their goal is success and to build revenue.

 
What do you think this achieves by showing trophy hauls of essentially two different clubs, existing in different climates and rulesets, and with about 15 years difference in tenure?

Stable success is the ability to challenge for highest honours consistently (and win) while working within the means of the club. This includes adhering to governing body regulations and financial controls.

Spending frivolous amounts of money on players without resale value, putting them on big contracts, having to paper over cracks consistenly, and doing under-the-table payments to get deals over the line is not that. Winning the league and then bombing out for 3 years with an experienced, expensive squad is not that. If Roman bought Chelsea today, a lot of what he'd do would be similar to Clearlake.
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You have got to be trolling.

The board have spent 2 billion, a ridiculous amount of money. That hasn't translated into stable on field success which has lost us big revenue (and a shirt sponsor). In order to cover their f*&,k up, they've had to resort to loopholes, buying and selling hotels and womens football teams. The world club cup was the only paper they had to cover the one in 2 billion cracks and that's fallen off. The club is an absolute mess.

 
What do you think this achieves by showing trophy hauls of essentially two different clubs, existing in different climates and rulesets, and with about 15 years difference in tenure?

Stable success is the ability to challenge for highest honours consistently (and win) while working within the means of the club. This includes adhering to governing body regulations and financial controls.

Spending frivolous amounts of money on players without resale value, putting them on big contracts, having to paper over cracks consistenly, and doing under-the-table payments to get deals over the line is not that. Winning the league and then bombing out for 3 years with an experienced, expensive squad is not that. If Roman bought Chelsea today, a lot of what he'd do would be similar to Clearlake.
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Give you your dues Venom. First Sarri, then Jorginho and now Clearlake!! You are always up for a fight.

 
What do you think this achieves by showing trophy hauls of essentially two different clubs, existing in different climates and rulesets, and with about 15 years difference in tenure?

Stable success is the ability to challenge for highest honours consistently (and win) while working within the means of the club. This includes adhering to governing body regulations and financial controls.

Spending frivolous amounts of money on players without resale value, putting them on big contracts, having to paper over cracks consistenly, and doing under-the-table payments to get deals over the line is not that. Winning the league and then bombing out for 3 years with an experienced, expensive squad is not that. If Roman bought Chelsea today, a lot of what he'd do would be similar to Clearlake.
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It’s the same club. Chelsea Football Club.

15 years difference? We won the Champions League in 2021, Clearlake inherited that Champions League winning squad and in less than 2 seasons succeeded in ensuring we didn’t even qualify for the competition!

Stable success? Challenging for the highest honours? We aren’t doing any of that!

Clearlake have taken a debt free Champions League winning side and turned us into a mid table Premier League club with 2B in debt now.

I REALLY struggle to see how you can spin anything into a positive with these clowns running the show.

 
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