I've never been a fan of sterling as many know.
But this is just another example of the club treating players and human beings as absolute trash.

Never thought i'd be backing these diva footballers over the club but such is the mismanagement and sh!tshow from top to bottom that I can't help but do it.

Hi Nick,

Imo, bit strong, our players are part of a business, as their contracts confirm.

From that perspective the players are part of that and the club , as all clubs do, decide how to manage their players based upon the direction of the clubs progression or lack of it.

What is not helping now, is as you have said the club is being mismanaged in so many ways. I totally agree with you regarding the way they are going about their business smacks of arrogance & naivety.

What have they done since they arrived to develop good relations with the support?

Removed the away day coach travel subsidy

As far as Sterling goes, You know as well as I do he has not been performing to a consistent level as would be expected by one of the clubs most senior players on one of the biggest contracts.

I think that the club have every right to choose whether he is considered selectable or that he should be put up for loan or sale.

Particularly as either option will continue to cost the club tens of millions of pounds until his contract is off the books or runs out.

Re Gallagher, well the motives for his sale are wrong, they value a 30m fee over his loyalty, qualities and what he brings to the club, but that says everything about what this ownerships priorities are.

Here and now finances, actual football implications on the pitch come secondary, as bringing Felix in seems pointless as we have players in that position and do need an out & out striker , who can invariably hit the net more often than not.

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 35 minutes ago
I've never been a fan of sterling as many know.
But this is just another example of the club treating players and human beings as absolute trash.

Never thought i'd be backing these diva footballers over the club but such is the mismanagement and sh!tshow from top to bottom that I can't help but do it.
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this...CFC only bought him what, a year/2 ago?
He was actually one of your better players last year or the year before i think too, and that club is all over the place with the way they are treating their players..so why should they just sit back and not say anything? This is their lives/career.

People have very very short memories in football because Sterling didn't go from LFC-Man C-CFC because he was a $hit player.

whatever

Look mate his form has been poor on a regular basis.

This is their lives/career.??

seriously what drivel is that?

This player is costing 1,3m per month , I dont see him turning that down because this is his life his career.

If he was so concerned about that, he should up his game and start earning his wages, forget all that short memories drivel, he has been playing for us over two seasons and getting paid

Simple he is not performing at a level commensurate to his wage, contract and senior status.

What he was doing 2/3/ years ago is totally irrelevant.

comment by ifarka, (B-C- out) (U8182)
posted 19 minutes ago
whatever

Look mate his form has been poor on a regular basis.

This is their lives/career.??

seriously what drivel is that?

This player is costing 1,3m per month , I dont see him turning that down because this is his life his career.

If he was so concerned about that, he should up his game and start earning his wages, forget all that short memories drivel, he has been playing for us over two seasons and getting paid

Simple he is not performing at a level commensurate to his wage, contract and senior status.

What he was doing 2/3/ years ago is totally irrelevant.
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Your clearly think we live in football manager world, where players are just NPC's and because they earn x, they should be performing like y......you crack on.

Ok, I ant got a clue what football manager is tbh.

But I believe that contracts are for a reason, and footballers should honour their contracts.

If they don't, then they shouldn't be crying why they may well be dropped or considered for loan or sale.

Call me old fashioned

Clearly something has happened for his team to come out with the statement. It isn’t a bad reflection on Sterling to be honest, not really. It’s a reflection of the chaotic state our club is in to have led to this.

Yes , agreed, but the reality is if the manager felt he was good enough to make the squad, he would be in.

To have him out will only cost the club money.

But lets face it Felix, Neto, Nkunku, Palmer, & Mudryk, plus Madueke & Carney + Sterling , something has to give.

comment by Nickasaurus (U9257)
posted 4 hours, 5 minutes ago

I've never been a fan of sterling as many know.
But this is just another example of the club treating players and human beings as absolute trash.

Never thought i'd be backing these diva footballers over the club but such is the mismanagement and sh!tshow from top to bottom that I can't help but do it.
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Can't disagree with this tbh.

Goes a little under the radar, there's plenty more things to bash this ownership on, but it doesn't treat employees with respect! They have their own ideas (which are largely stupid) and just cut people out to make them happen. Roman left them a great structure to build on, people who'd been with the club for over a decade in some cases & it was clearly working, and they just strolled in & purged it for what?

This summer Gallagher's the obvious example. Can't really have done more last year to prove he deserves a long term contract with a significant bump in pay, but just because he doesn't align with their vision at this precise point in time, he became surplus so f*cking easily. So when Marseca's gone (maybe Fernandez too) by this time next year & they've pivoted again, what was the point of that?

Feels like the beginning of the end for Sterling... overall I don't think he should have released the statement, but the club clearly lack any sort of loyalty so there's a small mitigating factor to his actions.

He hasn't been amazing for Chelsea but maybe not as bad as some say, tries hard enough but just wasteful. I think he'll be a decent player for the right club. And I think this year will be the year for Chelsea to take any loss given we prob made c.£140m in player profits up to June 2024, and should make around another £100m to june 2025 if we manage to shift some of the transfer listed players....coupled with seeing the impact of our lower wage bill and revenues from club world cup next summer.

The reality is players careers are short , they are incredibly well paid and football is a performance related profession.

If you dont perform, you run the risk of being dropped, loaned or sold.

The club have clearly decided to cut their losses now rather than later.

I dont see an issue with that, Raheem will have to get over his ego, he will be laughing all the way to the bank, the club have given him a 16.9m per season contract which one way or another they will need to take responsibility for.

If you dont perform, you run the risk of being dropped, loaned or sold.

So tell me why gallagher is being sold and not enzo or mudryk.

Tell me why chalobah is being sold and not badiashile or disasi

Seriously Nick,?

If you dont perform, you run the risk of being dropped, loaned or sold.

So tell me why gallagher is being sold and not enzo or mudryk.

Tell me why chalobah is being sold and not badiashile or disasi.

As the sentence does very clearly explain even for the most grammatically challenged.

If you dont perform, you run the risk of being dropped, loaned or sold.

The point being - "you run the risk"

What the club do is another question.

In Gallaghers & possibly Chalobahs case the club prefer the fee over there qualities.

Enzo? far to much money involved,possible still believe he will come good?

As for Diasasi,Badishiele & Mudryk the club more than likely for one reason or another at this point in time do not see a route to unloading them.

Lastly the club must have a limit on how many players that they can take a hit on.

Lukaku,& Sterling, will cost the club, & possibly Chilwell may be a cost due to his wages.


I do hope this explanation helps you Nick.

You sound like a clearlake puppet tbh. There's no rhyme or reason for what the club is doing and all it is is scurrying around chasing their own tails

Nick, have a bit more quality about you!

Your clearly not reading the stuff im putting out, fair enough but if you are going to comment, at least do it from an informed position.

Finally, even for the most blinkered of posters i think it would be very difficult to suggest I am as you have stated a:

You sound like a clearlake puppet tbh.

I do have a considerable volume of published views consistently drawing attention to poor custodianship/ management of our club by Clearlake

No Rhyme or reason ?

Well that is more than likely part correct from the perspective of building a side to compete now at a top 4 level, but from a perspective of managing FFP and stabilising the clubs finances your more than likely wrong.

The reality is we do not know what the clubs true aims are.

We can only look at their actions and try to understand.

Understanding may not be for you, for one reason or another, but personally i'm very interested , I have followed my club, Id have a bet since before you were a twinkle in your daddies mate!

* eye*

Not sure why it matters when you started supporting the club tbh and just shows your ramblings are taking you off piste and its hard to actually know what your point is here. Mirroring the situation at the club actually so it's quite apt.

I'm happy with having been to near 600 games in my life and spent a huge amount of my own money and time in doing so.

The club is a circus right now and I cant be blindly defending it.

It matters because i think your disrespectful!

You have no monopoly on what does and does not get discussed on this forum.

You can go and discuss what you wish on any number of threads, I dont see you having much to say on this the club page.

As to your 600 games , I welcome your support! as I would do with any committed supporter.

Welcome to the club son!

Why am I disrespectful? It seems like your just getting upset at someone disagreeing with some of your points.

Really,

You sound like a clearlake puppet tbh.

First imo, it is extremely poor form , for fellow supporters to openly be disrespectful on our own page.

Secondly your repetitively voicing ill informed opinions.

Lastly I did actually answer each of questions very clearly, with fairly sound reasoning, to which you responded with your poor response.

You sound like a clearlake puppet tbh.

I hardly think that my position is unreasonable or illogical.

Nick , just for the record

Why am I disrespectful? It seems like your just getting upset at someone disagreeing with some of your points.

At no point I can see through your posts do I see you disagreeing with my posts in any intellectual fashion.

You have made some very poor , disrespectful comments , but you have failed to offer any reasoned comments that illustrate your disagreement.

Basically your chatting blx