Transfers, 2024-25 season

[Kid Dynamite 8140]

At least Elanga and Trafford actually look interested in joining us 

 

[wykikitoon 24473]

3 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Rumours that Villa are short for the PSR deadline, but will just sell themselves their women's team to avoid having to sell any players. Which begs the question, why the fuck did we give Elliott Anderson away for £15m this time last year instead of just doing the same?

 

If that happens ill piss myself 

[wykikitoon 24473]

Re Pedro. Honestly I am not arsed about him.

[OTF 8998]

1 hour ago, Dr Gloom said:

is there a player on earth Chelsea don’t want to sign?  

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. 😉

[MrBass 3259]

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

[PaddockLad 20230]

4 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Rumours that Villa are short for the PSR deadline, but will just sell themselves their women's team to avoid having to sell any players. Which begs the question, why the fuck did we give Elliott Anderson away for £15m this time last year instead of just doing the same?

 

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...

[Gemmill 53685]

4 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Rumours that Villa are short for the PSR deadline, but will just sell themselves their women's team to avoid having to sell any players. Which begs the question, why the fuck did we give Elliott Anderson away for £15m this time last year instead of just doing the same?

 

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. 

[OTF 8998]

6 minutes ago, Kid Dynamite said:

Rumours that Villa are short for the PSR deadline, but will just sell themselves their women's team to avoid having to sell any players. Which begs the question, why the fuck did we give Elliott Anderson away for £15m this time last year instead of just doing the same?

 

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.

 

[wykikitoon 24473]

[OTF 8998]

2 minutes ago, Gemmill said:

 

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. 

 

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

[Alex 38413]

42 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

 

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...

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? 

[PaddockLad 20230]

2 minutes ago, Alex said:

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? 

 

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.

[Alex 38413]

2 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

 

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.

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. 

[wykikitoon 24473]

22 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

 

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.

I suppose its only like buying  young player

[PaddockLad 20230]

22 minutes ago, Alex said:

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. 

 

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 😑

 

 

[OTF 8998]

47 minutes ago, PaddockLad said:

 

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.

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.

Edited 6 hours ago by OTF

[wykikitoon 24473]

According to someone on Bluesky it's a myth DCL is always injured and we should sign him. He's only missed 90 games in 5 years.

[wykikitoon 24473]

[LondonBlue 1088]

5 hours ago, PaddockLad said:

@LondonBlue's mate...

 

 

 

i honestly think we've moved on.

thats if we were ever genuinely interested.

i don't doubt we respect his quality but i wonder if we ever thought that he was attainable.

 

tbh i'm quite liking Nunez at rb for us.

he's made a few errors but he's been learning the role.

he's definitely improved a lot as a defender.

and he now seems to be offering more going forward.

plus his pace is just silly.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[aimaad22 5107]

You know what's going to happen: Chelsea, Villa, Tom, Dick and Harry will all sell themselves their women's teams, hotels, arse wipes and used towels. By the time we're ready to do it the rules will have changed. 

 

The pace of decision making at this club has to improve if we have any hope of catching up. Not that they could have done anything in particular about the women's team. 

[wykikitoon 24473]

Pedro to chelsea.her we go.corruption

[ewerk 34964]

£50m

[wykikitoon 24473]

I hope he rots on the bench 

[wykikitoon 24473]

And what will his wages be? PSR has absolutely tucked us.

[thebrokendoll 11269]

 

ahhh...

the long hot summer of low balling and watching all your targets fuck off somewhere else.