I see people today saying this wouldn’t happen in the Roman Era. Players didn’t do interviews like that in the Roman era…. Some examples to clear things up.
by MrGoaty07
I see people today saying this wouldn’t happen in the Roman Era. Players didn’t do interviews like that in the Roman era…. Some examples to clear things up.
by MrGoaty07
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Some of these “examples” are hilarious.
Deco at 33 saying he wants to go back home to end his career? Jorginho saying the same thing “in a few years”? Gallas who was literally traded by the club for a future legend? Morata which no one gave a F…
Aching saying that is just parroting the misery factory. None of them have the next step in mind.
It’s Saudi owned or someone worse. Once Chelsea are deemed not to forecast profits then the investment group will sell. As long as it holds value and can generate revenue, they will hold.
I mean it’s clear we need senior leadership in the dressing room, we’ll have to see if the bean counters agree.
The difference is we were one of the best clubs in the world back then. What’s keeping our players here now?
Obviously players have always done this, anyone saying otherwise is stupid.
That being said i think most of these examples are pretty irrelevant, Drogba and Hazard are the most relevant and for me contextually there is a bit of a difference between those two and the Enzo/Cucurella/Palmer/whoever situations
Biggest indication is Hazard at his prime age (28) leaving for Real Madrid. Like literally our star player lol biggest one in the last decade+. It’s not talked about as much because it didn’t work out at RM. But fact remains. It’s not even like he was on the decline at Chelsea. Had his most productive season under Sarri. And then left.
Some people have the memory of a goldfish.
Most of these are awful examples, like Badiashile coming out and saying he wants a move.
OP you are right even if some of these examples aren’t perfect. Everyone looks at the Roman years with rose-tinted glasses. What is true is that he won and these new owners have not. That being said, lots of the other statements made comparing Roman era and the Clearlake overlook or forget the true nature of the Roman era. We lost Hazard and Courtois to Real Madrid. We dealt with a transfer ban, struck out on plenty of transfers, and had lots of dysfunction. All the criticisms towards the new ownership as opposed to Roman’s era are often hyperbolic in nature.
What is true and fair to say is these owners have not won at the rate Roman did and that should be the single defining criticism. These other complaints take away from that especially when they are untruthful. They deserved a few years to get us out of the mess that they took over but now they are getting in their own way having built a talented squad by forcing out managers/refusing to sign positions of need.
This has been happening since Spurs were bottling the Cave League 300,000 years ago.
International break is always this way
Drogba said he wanted to leave the day he got here? Not sure how I never knew about that one
I remember when John Terry was in the final year of his contract and he came out publicly and essentially announced he would not be returning, blaming the club for its failure to offer him a contract. I can’t recall who the scapegoat at the time was, probably Bruce Buck, but of course the masses were outraged. Probably earned JT a couple hundred grand extra when he inevitably signed a one year deal a couple months later.
I wish the clowns on here wouldn’t be drawn in by these out of context interviews. It’s international break and they have so many of you on the end of their hooks fishing to views and likes.
I think there’s a difference between players wanting to go back home or move leagues for a different challenge vs the players here who want to leave cause the higher ups are incompetent. All of us knew hazard would leave, every single season there was Madrid links but it wasn’t cause he hated the way the club was run
Lukaku too
These things happen in International week journalists interview players and players talk, so they try to eek out controversy. Always and every International week since the dawn of time.
The notion that players didn’t leave us during Romans time is ridiculous and Hazard is the prime example.
However, we failed to qualify for the champions league spots just twice in what, 19 years of Roman owning the club?
Now we’re on track to fail to qualify for the THIRD time in just 4 seasons with these BlueCo fuckers. I would expect to see a lot more players leaving us than we’ve been used to.
Good players want UCL football.
False equivalence. There’s only one snake in that list … the rest were not in their prime or weren’t getting first team minutes.
We’ve not had multiple top players angling to leave at once. Then again, the club hasn’t been this consistently shit in a long time no matter what the Blueco PR team says