Bayfox Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 13 minutes ago, Sunbury Fox said: When I was growing up in the 80s Chelsea were equivalent to West Ham, mid table in the top league at best with occasional relegations. They had a major hooligan problem and sometimes got sub 10k crowds. I find it hard to see them as a big club but to younger folk they clearly are. But they weren't always "big", and neither were Man City. So by your reckoning it shouldn't have been possible for them to break into the top group of clubs. I guess their owner is just much richer than ours and that's what made it possible for them and not for us. Hate to break it to you. Out owners can afford the money as they have tried to prove. What makes it impossible is leicester. Like it or not it's not London or Manchester. We could pay 500k a week but how do you spend it in leicester you could buy the bar not a bottle.
Countryfox Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 2 minutes ago, ZeGuy said: They did us a favour when they bought kante How ever much I try I can't get my head around that one pal ....
AS78UK Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 His 2 big seasons for us coincided with us withing the Championship and Premiership. He also appears to have been a key cog in team morale. Will be fondly remembered after the dust has settled. Good luck on your new endeavour.
ZeGuy Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 3 minutes ago, Countryfox said: How ever much I try I can't get my head around that one pal .... Kante never wanted to stay. Any other club in the Champions league would have paid less and taken him anyway. Chelsea weren't in the CL that season and paid more to have him.
Captain... Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 2 minutes ago, Bayfox said: Hate to break it to you. Out owners can afford the money as they have tried to prove. What makes it impossible is leicester. Like it or not it's not London or Manchester. We could pay 500k a week but how do you spend it in leicester you could buy the bar not a bottle. The best thing LCFC could do is invest some millions in the City.
AS78UK Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 1 minute ago, AS78UK said: His 2 big seasons for us coincided with us withing the Championship and Premiership. He also appears to have been a key cog in team morale. Will be fondly remembered after the dust has settled. Good luck on your new endeavour. Oops wrong thread....lol
sylofox Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 Does anyone think the Barca forum has a. Are We Happy To Be PSG's Feeder Club?
Redouane Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 There's nothing we can do unless some Sheik buys LCFC and brings in his oil money
fox in the sox Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 If we were just selling to bigger clubs to make money then it would annoy me - but it looks like we are going to spend a lot of the money on a decent replacement (could actually turn out to be better than DD?) Unfortunately Chelsea have huge amounts of money at the moment so will always be challenging for honours on all fronts. Therefore players want to go there and it is not worth trying to stop them. You could also say it is huge credit to LCFC that the 'top clubs' are now interested in so many of our players.
sylofox Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 Rather a Chelsea be after our players than Swindon Bristol or Plymouth sniffing around our players. Just shows how far we have come since the Thais took over. Infact before the take over no one wanted our players.
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 1 September 2017 Author Posted 1 September 2017 13 minutes ago, MrSpaM said: Not really much we can do about it tbh Really? Limit of our ambitions Ranieri got the sentiments right when he said keep dreaming we need to keep dreaming, why not aim big we shouldn't be Chelsea's feeder club and that's my main point who is happy with that?
Dr The Singh Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 Realism has hit us, were a mediocre mid table club, having our best best picked off as and when they want them
Sir Shep Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 To be fair, we got Izzet off them he didn't turn out too shabby, and the mighty Frank Sinclair, so yeah, have it.
Xen Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 How the hell are we a feeder club for Chelsea? We've sold TWO players to them in two seasons - they're not exactly raiding us like Liverpool did to Southampton. One of those players we were going to lose regardless, and Chelsea did us a favour by paying more than we would have got otherwise. And in Drinkys case, I'd hardly say we've weakened ourselves seeing as we've replaced him with the captains of two strong Europa League level clubs (pending Silva) for roughly the same cost. And as for strengthening Chelsea? Well, they've got a bit more depth now but that's about it. Ridiculous thread...
Bob Weasel Fox Posted 1 September 2017 Author Posted 1 September 2017 3 minutes ago, Xen said: How the hell are we a feeder club for Chelsea? We've sold TWO players to them in two seasons - they're not exactly raiding us like Liverpool did to Southampton. One of those players we were going to lose regardless, and Chelsea did us a favour by paying more than we would have got otherwise. And in Drinkys case, I'd hardly say we've weakened ourselves seeing as we've replaced him with the captains of two strong Europa League level clubs (pending Silva) for roughly the same cost. And as for strengthening Chelsea? Well, they've got a bit more depth now but that's about it. Ridiculous thread... It's an opinion and we are all entitled to them
Gerard Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 Considering Kante's release clause was £20m to a CL club we done great getting £32m out of Chelsea. Selling Drinkwater for £35m was just damn good business.
Joefox Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 As others have said there is literally nothing we can do about it but get a high a transfer fee as possible. I'd just rather they went abroad
Trav Le Bleu Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 Two players, one per season, does not a feeder club make.
foxtillidrop Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 41 minutes ago, Bob Weasel Fox said: Really? Limit of our ambitions Ranieri got the sentiments right when he said keep dreaming we need to keep dreaming, why not aim big we shouldn't be Chelsea's feeder club and that's my main point who is happy with that? I agree with you. We have given our premier league winning engine room to chelsea. As a recent winner of the title we should be looking to compete rather than feed our premier league competitors.
Dr The Singh Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 Porto must be thinking there our feeder club, shit happens
AyewJoking Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 Drinkwater was a key player so 40M wouldn't have been unreasonable but if we get Silva for around 20M it's hard to complain.
Koke Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 4 hours ago, sylofox said: Does anyone think the Barca forum has a. Are We Happy To Be PSG's Feeder Club? I wonder if anyone on the Sporting CP forum has a: "Are we hsppy to be Leicester's feeder club?"
sylofox Posted 1 September 2017 Posted 1 September 2017 4 minutes ago, Koke said: I wonder if anyone on the Sporting CP forum has a: "Are we hsppy to be Leicester's feeder club?" Not sure but i think redcafe has had a feck off madrid one for a long time
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