Caice-d'oh!

[jexykrodic]

I think the league was lost last year by game 2 ...
There is insane pressure to keep up with Man City, who basically have all clubs thinking they need to hit 100 points to win the league.
If we don't win tonight, it makes the next game a 'must win' ... and the pressure just won't let up.
It's a young team, with new leaders, and I think a win today is so key ... a loss and it could unravel like it did last season.

No pressure then!

 

[dee]

I’m expecting the game today to revolve around midfield with Chelsea being short in that space. Thus emphasising exactly why this is such a big deal for them to “win”

 

[Tinto]

It seems simple enough equation to me; either Chelsea take the FFP piss and lodge a bid over ours and force Brighton into a U turn regarding the bid end date which means they lose any control over future sales or we get a top class DM who doesn’t want to play for us for £111m

Not looking great either way at the mo

UEFA disqualified Juventus from European footie this season for failing FFP.

It must be some 4d chess that I don't understand if Chelsea thinks it's worth giving up on the Champions League money for another year to sign Caicedo

 

[dee]

UEFA disqualified Juventus from European footie this season for failing FFP.

It must be some 4d chess that I don't understand if Chelsea thinks it's worth giving up on the Champions League money for another year to sign Caicedo

One season out but signing their whole midfield; Fernandez, Ugo, Santos, Caicedo and Lieva. Add in two strikers for £85M too! One punishment, maximum gain

UEFA will then change their rules to make it one punishment per transaction but not make it retrospective and Chelsea will have their squad set at a high point for the next 5-6 seasons with FFP reset so they can start again

 

[Tinto]

One season out but signing their whole midfield; Fernandez, Ugo, Caicedo and Lieva. One punishment, maximum gain

UEFA will then change their rules to make it one punishment per transaction but not make it retrospective and Chelsea will have their squad set at a high point for the next 5-6 seasons with FFP reset so they can start again

Without CL money, won't it make it harder to sign players next season?

The midfield may be sorted for the next few seasons but they need to address other areas of the squad too.

 

[dee]

Without CL money, won't it make it harder to sign players next season?

The midfield may be sorted for the next few seasons but they need to address other areas of the squad too.

They’ve spent £20m on a keeper, £85m on two stikers and however much Disasi cost for defence. They are spending stupid amounts of money now to get it all written off with one slap. If they do get Caicedo and Lieva they’ll have spent over £350M this summer whilst “under scrutiny”. Way, way, way beyond taking the piss.

 

[Woland]

Boehly strikes me as the kind of dude that made his billions by sticking his fingers in his ears and telling everyone to fuck off until they did exactly what he'd told them to.

 

[tombrown]

I wonder what decision he came to after sleep on it last night

24 hours later & he's still fucking asleep. Rip Van Calceido

 

[Hansern]

Lolz

 

[Red Bird]

Beyond hilarious. The bid has been imminent for the last three days.

 

[Woland]

Beyond hilarious. The bid has been imminent for the last three days.

So...

The other take on this could be Chelsea stalling long enough so the transfer doesn’t go through until after todays game so their fans don’t get all hissy

Hmmm

 

[Buddha]

Beyond hilarious. The bid has been imminent for the last three days.

They simply can’t do it can they? They’re just hoping that we walk away.

 

[Mystic]

They simply can’t do it can they? They’re just hoping that we walk away.

The longer is goes on, the more this seems the case.

 

[Mystic]

 

[dee]

Lolz

This doesn’t make sense, they were already allegedly £300m plus to the bad regarding FFP coming into this window and have spent £180m in it so far. There is not fucking way they can do any bid at all that meets FFP but so what? It doesn’t seem to bother them.

could it be they have actually run out of cash? Finally?

 

[6TimesaRed]

They simply can’t do it can they? They’re just hoping that we walk away.

Exactly this.. And they are using every trick in the book to try and make us..

It ain't happening.. Proud of my clubs stance right now

 

[Markeh]

This doesn’t make sense, they were already allegedly £300m plus to the bad regarding FFP coming into this window and have spent £180m in it so far. There is not fucking way they can do any bid at all that meets FFP but so what? It doesn’t seem to bother them.

could it be they have actually run out of cash? Finally?

they don’t care about FFP, before the mess involving us with Caicedo they were in for him at 80-90m plus Tyler Adams at 20m so they were definitely spending around 110m anyway

 

[Fabio]

they don’t care about FFP, before the mess involving us with Caicedo they were in for him at 80-90m plus Tyler Adams at 20m so they were definitely spending around 110m anyway

That was before a supposed 35m olise as well.

They've literally bought a new starting xi this summer and supposedly it's all above board

 

[Fabio]

I'd just love for us to drag our balls across boehlys face and somehow get caicedo and also get lavia. Fsg to spunk 4 seasons worth of money on one window

But it won't happen

 

[Markeh]

Are the penalties for being on the wrong side of FFP purely financial?

 

[The Nomad]

Even if they are unable to to put a package together.

In that event and they want to book a medical with us.

At that point I hope Klopp pulls the rug and tells Caicedo and Sierra to go suck on dick and withdraw our bid leaving him high and dry.

 

[737Max]

This doesn’t make sense, they were already allegedly £300m plus to the bad regarding FFP coming into this window and have spent £180m in it so far. There is not fucking way they can do any bid at all that meets FFP but so what? It doesn’t seem to bother them.

could it be they have actually run out of cash? Finally?

they dont give a fuck about FFP. They're going to smash through it spectacularly. See the twitter link i posted above. They're gambling that the premier league will just slap them with a fine and then they'll be in their merry way

 

[Hansern]

The point about them not caring about fines or a potential point dediction is probably correct.

 

[Tinto]

Are the penalties for being on the wrong side of FFP purely financial?

Disqualification from Euro footie is one penalty

 

[6TimesaRed]

You do know the ideal solution for us.. ?

Go back with a bid for Lavia then send him on loan to Brighton for the season with a clause to recall in January, to get the deal over the line .


Win win for all parties.. Brighton and Liverpool

 

[737Max]

They're also trying to get a sponsor onboard who don't have the financial means to even commit the money needed for the deal.


Oh, did I mention they have strong ties to Silverlake Capital who are, wait for it... yes Chelsea's owners

 

[Markeh]

Disqualification from Euro footie is one penalty

hopefully backdated to when they actually qualify for something

 

[Markeh]

hopefully backdated to when they actually qualify for something

Postdated? Whatever

 

[dee]

they don’t care about FFP, before the mess involving us with Caicedo they were in for him at 80-90m plus Tyler Adams at 20m so they were definitely spending around 110m anyway

So what’s the problem then? Shit or get off the pot seems to be the thing here.

 

[Markeh]

So what’s the problem then? Shit or get off the pot seems to be the thing here.

Who knows. Smartarsery in the repayment terms Brighton don’t like maybe? Hopefully nothing announced in the next few hours to sour the game.