Originally Posted by The_don1:
“Would Bamford have been happy going from a player of a season to 3rd choice? I very much doubt it, I would have rather he stayed at Middlesbrough for another season, He was settled there and would have been a senior member of the team, Instead we moved him and if you look at it from a education POV and that's what I look at loans as moving schools is always problematic at very best more so when you really enjoyed it there
Yes picking the right clubs for our loan players has been a issue but hopefully that will change now that Joe Edwards is working with loan players but again this has been the biggest problem at Chelsea over the last few years, Its the behind the scenes stuff we been getting wrong again and again and again, These sort of things cannot be changed mid-flow or on the fly. We need to stop and start again almost like we did when Roman first came in (for example we bought in Peter Kenyon). The whole fabric of the club needs to change if we are going to go down the mixing youth route and I not sure Roman has the right people advising him to put the changes needed in place to do that. I think if you gave someone like Guss real power and a massive say in the running of the club and the ability to say to Roman no or you need to sign off on this no questions asked and let him and Conte work with each other then we would see massive changes but they need to be able to drill right down and get to our issues without having the worry of doing some very hard work and then getting fired at the end of the season.”
“Would Bamford have been happy going from a player of a season to 3rd choice? I very much doubt it, I would have rather he stayed at Middlesbrough for another season, He was settled there and would have been a senior member of the team, Instead we moved him and if you look at it from a education POV and that's what I look at loans as moving schools is always problematic at very best more so when you really enjoyed it there
Yes picking the right clubs for our loan players has been a issue but hopefully that will change now that Joe Edwards is working with loan players but again this has been the biggest problem at Chelsea over the last few years, Its the behind the scenes stuff we been getting wrong again and again and again, These sort of things cannot be changed mid-flow or on the fly. We need to stop and start again almost like we did when Roman first came in (for example we bought in Peter Kenyon). The whole fabric of the club needs to change if we are going to go down the mixing youth route and I not sure Roman has the right people advising him to put the changes needed in place to do that. I think if you gave someone like Guss real power and a massive say in the running of the club and the ability to say to Roman no or you need to sign off on this no questions asked and let him and Conte work with each other then we would see massive changes but they need to be able to drill right down and get to our issues without having the worry of doing some very hard work and then getting fired at the end of the season.”
I don't see why Bamford wouldn't have been happy to be promoted into the first team (even as a 3rd choice striker). He's well aware he's never going to come to the club and be one of the starters when we have Costa. At that time we had Remy who's injury prone so he would've gotten his chance throughout the season and stake his claim to be 2nd choice. His chance is probably gone now we've got Michy who's same age but way ahead in his development. Traore, Solanke and Tammy will also get more of an opportunity than him I think
Hopefully you're right about Joe Edwards, something has to give. We need to get rid of people like Marko Marin who are never going to make it at Chelsea and unlikely to make us a profit anyway. We've got 38 on loan when it should be about 20 if we just keep those who've got potential to be part of our team or actually make us some money. I was under the impression that Guus was going to be given a position at Chelsea but that seems to have fallen through or is he doing his consultancy on the downlow?
Originally Posted by The_don1:
“But from what I heard the 58m came in at the last minute and we spent most of the time putting in silly bids like 30/40m.
What we should have done is go in with that bid from day one”
“But from what I heard the 58m came in at the last minute and we spent most of the time putting in silly bids like 30/40m.
What we should have done is go in with that bid from day one”
I didn't even know we had upped it to that so I was fairly happy to find out the club is willing to loosen the purse strings. You're right though, it should've come in a lot earlier. Reading the statement by the Napoli guy it sounds like he wouldn't have sold him regardless of what offer was made anyway so we should've found another viable option sooner.



