Topic: Chelsea - schooled by Liverpool's kids

[Black Bull Nova]

I'm not sure if he'd fit our No Dickheads policy but Palmer seems a proper player.

He's a good un, shame City did not see it

[Buck Pete]

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Andy's score predictions are about as accurate as his movie reviews.

[Crosby Nick]

Andy's score predictions are about as accurate as his movie reviews.

Chelsea killed Everton over and over on the counter last night. You could say Everton looked lost in transition.

[RJH]

Not sure what others think but if the team is 4-0 up and you have already scored a hat trick, you would want to be some sort of selfish asshole not to let one of your teammates take the penalty but insist you do it.

I can definitely see the argument that Palmer could have handed it over to someone else at that point, but kicking off at him and trying to grab the ball from him is definitely worse behaviour.

[Kopenhagen]

Toxic dressing room full of egos.

Other teams are fighting for titles and these are fighting over Golden Boots and penalties. I guess Palmer learned it from Sir Harry of Kane.

[Oldmanmick]

Toxic dressing room full of egos.

Other teams are fighting for titles and these are fighting over Golden Boots and penalties. I guess Palmer learned it from Sir Harry of Kane.

Klopp would have twatted those players after the game. Poch has no control over that rabble.

[Dim Glas]

Toxic dressing room full of egos.

Other teams are fighting for titles and these are fighting over Golden Boots and penalties. I guess Palmer learned it from Sir Harry of Kane.

Not sure what Palmer did wrong, isn’t he the penalty taker? Madueke and Jackson though, pathetic stuff. And the stuff after in the celebration. Ridiculous.

Palmer seems to be the only one of that mad transfer spree who’s ended up actually looking a bargain! He also made the choice to get out of Man City, so bonus points for that, although then going to Chelsea takes some of those away 

[Kopenhagen]

Not sure what Palmer did wrong, isn’t he the penalty taker? Madueke and Jackson though, pathetic stuff. And the stuff after in the celebration. Ridiculous.

Palmer seems to be the only one of that mad transfer spree who’s ended up actually looking a bargain! He also made the choice to get out of Man City, so bonus points for that, although then going to Chelsea takes some of those away 

I can see it both ways. I'll just say they're all idiots and leave it at that. 

[Andy82lfc]

I think that penalty episode epitomised perfectly why they are where they are.

Absolutely zero spirit in that team apart from pure ego. It was incredible to watch at 4-0 how you can have not just one but two players acting like that, desperate for their own attention when the designated penalty taker was on the field and you also had the captain telling them to go away, who clearly holds zero respect from them as they didn't listen and push him away. Shocking.

Potch is too weak to do anything but a lot of managers would bench them so fucking hard they'd be shitting splinters for months. I would be amazed if he just brushes it under the carpet, if he does he is blind as fuck.

[owens_2k]

Chelsea killed Everton over and over on the counter last night. You could say Everton looked lost in transition.

[Crosby Nick]

[oojason]

'Vitesse Arnhem relegated from Eredivisie after 18-point deduction':-

Dutch club relegated in wake of Guardian and TBIJ investigation
Documents appeared to show financial ties to Abramovich

www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/19/vitesse-arnhem-relegated-from-eredivisie-after-18-point-deduction






'Roman Abramovich secretly bankrolled Dutch football club, leaked documents suggest' (from March 2023):-

Exclusive: Files reveal €117m in loans for Vitesse Arnhem originated with then owner of Chelsea, despite repeated denials

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/29/roman-abramovich-secretly-bankrolled-dutch-football-club-leaked-documents-suggest


'Roman Abramovich secretly funded the takeover of a Dutch top division football club and bankrolled it for years during the period that he also owned Chelsea, leaked documents appear to show.'

[...]

Weren't they a Chelsea affiliate? They were sending loads of their loanees there.

[smutchin]

Weren't they a Chelsea affiliate? They were sending loads of their loanees there.

There’s a coincidence.

[MonsLibpool]

'Vitesse Arnhem relegated from Eredivisie after 18-point deduction':-

Dutch club relegated in wake of Guardian and TBIJ investigation
Documents appeared to show financial ties to Abramovich

www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/19/vitesse-arnhem-relegated-from-eredivisie-after-18-point-deduction






'Roman Abramovich secretly bankrolled Dutch football club, leaked documents suggest' (from March 2023):-

Exclusive: Files reveal €117m in loans for Vitesse Arnhem originated with then owner of Chelsea, despite repeated denials

www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/29/roman-abramovich-secretly-bankrolled-dutch-football-club-leaked-documents-suggest


'Roman Abramovich secretly funded the takeover of a Dutch top division football club and bankrolled it for years during the period that he also owned Chelsea, leaked documents appear to show.'

Regulators with teeth.

[BarryCrocker]

Chelsea’s £76.5m hotel deals raise questions over PSR compliance
> Club’s losses reduced by property deal with sister company
> Chelsea would have lost £166.4m without hotel sales

Premier League clubs reacted with exasperation after seeing that ­Chelsea eased their financial ­position with the £76.5m sale of two hotels to a ­sister company in a deal that appears to have helped the club avoid a breach of profitability and ­sustainability rules (PSR).

Chelsea’s accounts, published last weekend, revealed the club made a loss of £89.9m in the last financial year. That figure would have been £166.4m without the hotels sale from Chelsea FC Holdings Ltd to Blueco 22 Properties Ltd. Both companies are subsidiaries of Chelsea’s holding company, Blueco 22 Ltd.

The move to sell the Millenium and Copthorne hotels, and their car ­parking, was not blocked by the league. But Chelsea’s ability to exploit a loophole in the rules has not gone down well with ­everyone. An ­executive at one top-flight club was incredulous after learning of the deal and another club were left with “raised eyebrows” and were said to have read the accounts “with interest”.

There was a sense of ­resignation at another club, where a figure said that the deal came as “little ­surprise”.

Under the PSRs Premier League clubs are not permitted to have losses of more than £105m over a three-year period. The league has sought to deal heavily with PSR breaches this ­season. Everton received their ­second points deduction of the season last week – the appeal board handling the appeal said on Friday it intended to announce the outcome before the end of the campaign – and Nottingham Forest were docked four points last month. Forest’s appeal against their ­punishment will be held next week.

Chelsea have spent more than £1bn on signings under their Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital ownership but are confident they will continue to comply with the regulations. They are likely to need to sell players to raise funds this summer.

The hotel sales were yet to be assessed as “fair market value” under the league’s associated-party ­transactions rules, according to ­Chelsea’s accounts. Any decrease in the £76.5m ­valuation could place Chelsea’s finances under renewed pressure. The accounts were signed off in December 2023, six months after the hotels deal took place.

Chelsea and the league have not confirmed whether a fair-market assessment has been concluded. It has been pointed out by Chelsea that they appointed two independent valuers to assess the club’s valuation of the hotels and that no issues were raised.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/apr/19/chelseas-765m-hotel-deals-raise-questions-over-psr-compliance

[rafathegaffa83]

Regulators with teeth.

What a concept

[TepidT2O]

 Vitese now on -1 points