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This bollocks makes it seem like they've sold themselves short at £200m. We were sold for £305m 4 years ago and it took Ashley a while to get a buyer. We're a club with over 100 years of history, one of the highest attendances in the country and huge international recognition - not to go all SMB but I've had people call out/comment positively on a Newcastle shirt in New York, Hawaii, South Africa, Italy, Sydney, Melbourne (and call out and comment negatively in London). I'm genuinely happy that women's football support, viewership and participation has had massive increases in the last 5 years but the reality is that it will always be a vastly inferior product as far as the game play is concerned. These sort of stunts to fund the main event only serve to make a mockery of the progress that has been made.

Yeah Chelsea women's team have been heavily involved in the later stages of the WCL, I think they may have even won it. With the best will in the world we weren't going to get even half that valuation.As you say even if we'd tried it in the first instance we'd have been blocked, wrong club badge 😑

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I suppose its only like buying young player

They seem in the right place, TP? (Always happy to clarify and confirm).

That's all well and good, but are the stripes aligned ?

TP's first real connection.. "Hello? It's Toonpack here, have you got that file I asked for at the Shields police ball last week?"

I think most of those are better than our trefoil shirt tbh. Obviously they're tailored to the specific clubs so wouldn't necessarily translate to us but I just think that Adidas picked an awful shirt to re-imagine. It's almost as if the wanking by younger fans about the special kits they did for us wasn't based on actual evidence as they did a few stinkers to go with the odd diamond hence why the new one plus last year's white effort were a definite 'so fuck?' from me and don't get me started on the Saudi green obsession which is just not us.

Yeah but you could still theoretically demonstrate that more easily if you’re established, successful team I suppose. I.e. there’s no way we’d have been allowed to make a similar argument/have a similar valuation. I mean it’s all fucking bollocks anyway and it was just a way of letting Chelsea get out of their predicament.

Chelsea's women's team were valued at what they may be potentially worth On first glance, Chelsea Women being valued at £200m might seem quite high for a company with under £15m in revenue last season, but the long-term case for investment in women’s football is strong,” Jordan Gardner, a global football club management and investment strategy consultant at Twenty First Group, tells The Athletic. “NWSL expansion clubs starting from scratch are selling for well over $100m and are only going up. In comparison, Chelsea have incredible existing brand equity value, and it could be argued that £200m is undervalued when taking into account the upside opportunity leveraging the history and attractive location of the club, alongside the growth of the WSL.

And what would the team have been worth? They aren’t in the top flight and weren’t they newly promoted to the second tier at that time?

Was just about to post that the Madrid one is absolutely awful imo

None of that forrin muck

They look from ordinary through to shite tbh. The bayern one looks like a knitted sweater vest. The Juve one is probably the nicest but you'd be hard pressed to know it had anything to do with Juve.

I feel like we'll be well positioned to bring Anderson back in a few years when Forest are faltering.

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Can they not buy them back at their actual value and then repeat the trick?

Presumably we'd want to get into the Women's Super League first (fanks Mike), then we can use Chelsea's valuation as a guide.

Cos there was no precedent for it and it might not have got voted as ok if we had been the first to do it given the rest of the league's attitude towards closing off all potential loopholes for us in the past. Villa are expected to sell the women's team though aye, they've supposedly been monitoring Chelsea's approach closely. If they can get out of PSR by selling players first though, and keeping their women's team til later, they might want to do that. You can only sell your women's team once.

Probably because it wasn't voted through as being allowed by the EPL clubs until a few weeks ago...it's only now another club are going to do it...

They'll promptly close that loophole if/when we decide to do it.

I hear that we've agreed personal terms with Matt Targett and we're absolutely desperate to hang on to Joe Willock despite a lot of interest. 😉

Re Pedro. Honestly I am not arsed about him.

If that happens ill piss myself