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is tom boehly trying to recoup all of the £600mn he's spent since he arrived in this one transfer window
seems a lot of outgoings from chelsea, maybe he's been told about financial fair play .... financial fair whatnow ?

Is Dara O’Shea any good @Soul ? Looks like we're signing him even though we already have a fair few centre halfs.

Yes. Gutted he’s going.

Yeah, cool, nothing to see here. Good investigation guys.

The Premier League sought written assurances that Saudi Arabia’s PIF was not part of Clearlake Capital's takeover of Chelsea.

And despite rival clubs expressing concern over Saudi’s sudden interest in a host of Chelsea players, Todd Boehly has provided detailed information to the Premier League, who are totally satisfied there is no conflict of interest.

Also, Neves -> al-Hillal -> loan to Newcastle...

didn't saudi arabia buy newcastle just recently
there's just going to be a never ending carousel of dodgy deals with dubai saudi and uae all competing to win the premiershit, and the premier league trying harder and harder to look the other way while getting their bank accounts filled with gold bars in some tax free, non extraditable country

well at least liverpools owners can't be accused of breaking any excessive spending rules

Pisstake.

Chelsea will be winning the Net Spend Trophy soon though.

Bolton - Loooool.
The toughsheet stadium.

why buy enzo fernandez for £100mn when you can buy a whole club and 36 players for £75mn

boehly- ball

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65992617

At first football goes morally bankrupt slowly, then all at once.

Not the first owners to do this, though. The Pozzo family been at it for ages.

we should still keep an eye on him

Half the premier league are doing it.

Even Fleetwood have a couple of related teams in South Africa and the UAE

Sounds good. I'd hope Kompany should be able to pick out a centre half.

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah, 31, is the next marquee signing being targeted by the Saudi Pro League after the arrivals of Karim Benzema and N'Golo Kante.

phew, at last we get a bit of saudi dirty money. i thought we'd been forgotten.

there was a tweet yesterday saying salah had signed for a saudi team.

He’ll end up loaned out to Newcastle.

Bill Kenwright is like an unflushable turd, isn’t he?

Ha! He just won't go.

These are great...

https://twitter.com/RyanDilks1/status/1671879567722823683

The amount of empty seats in stadiums

UEFA have banned Osasuna to compete in next season's Conference League following the club's involvement in match-fixing (back in 2013).

The Spanish club will appeal... they also state: "UEFA, strong with the weak and weak with the strong."

Ipswich appeared twice!

Truly crap in the 90s.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/ng-interactive/2023/jun/27/david-squires-on-chelsea-going-across-the-multi-club-iverse-with-strasbourg

Lovely stuff from Mr Squires today.

uh oh harry kane is letting his brother do the negotiating again