And for those moaning about Holding…for £4 million we got a CB with 100 EPL experience at his prime as back up to our starting two. That’s fantastic business. Thank goodness you lot ain’t in charge.

Oi! I haven't complained about his signing or any other signings or non-signings

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We’ve done well to bring in Henderson and offload Guaita and we have additional cover at centre back. I’m assuming O’Brien wanted to leave for game time. I think we had already decided to stick with Wardie and Clyne at RB presumably giving Ferguson a bit more time to see if he can make it back.
Lerma was a good addition in an area that needed strengthening and we kept the rest of a decent midfield. Up front we have a new young player once his back is better and we’ve clearly decide to give Jesrun a chance which I applaud. We have to start showing our academy leads somewhere other than to sales to the lower leagues or abroad. It also makes financial sense especially given the ridiculous transfer fees recently.
The only negative as I see it is that we didn’t get another striker but that’s never going ti be easy or cheap and a loan was out best hope with the possible exception of Balogun who might have been worth the money Monaco paid out.

All in all the squad is stronger than it was. 8/10

Very poor window for me, we have holes all over the squad and only the centre-mid hole was filled by an excellent free.

Those FIVE players that people are banging on about will be one year closer to the end of their contracts and we have no replacements. If we are trying to adopt the Brighton model then we have to sell these players for a profit with reserves ready to fit in. We are so short of quality in the squad that losing just one of those players would push us towards a relegation battle.

From the outside it looks like there is no plan at all.

Agree with that, it could even be January that we lose one. If we're comfortably mid-table, Holding looks okay and a £70m bid comes in for Guehi.... it could happen.

A theoretical £70m for Guehi, compared to our recent spending, would unlock the total money we spent on the other 4 (Eze, Olise, Doucoure, Andersen).

Forest and West Ham serve as examples this summer of what selling a single player for big money can unlock, provided that the players coming in perform. Kudus + JWP + Alvarez feels like a big upgrade vs Rice.

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I cannot fathom why with such wealthy shareholders (Harris and Blitzer) we dont have a raise of say £50m and dilute existing holders accordingly.
Say we value the club at £200m and raise £50m, that would dilute existing holders by 20%. (Newcastle was bought for £300m)
So if H&B put the money in it will give them 20% increase and the remaining shareholders will decrease (or participate).
If no other holders participate that would give them control eg 36% existing plus 20% = 56%
The others would reduce by 20% which would suit Eagle football who anyway want to invest in Chelsea and therefore need to reduce their stake by 10% down to sub 30%.
Bringing in £50m would have given us sufficient funds to have brought in two decent wing backs and a striker.
Add them to the players we have and with a fair wind that would have given us a squad equipped for european competition.
This would massively add value to the club and fulfil what so many on here are stating as the needed requirement to push on.
To hell with the stadium. That is a massive overhead and turbulence which at this stage we can really do without. The ROI on the new stand is minimal compared to its inevitable cost (min. £150m).
Any of you accountants got a view on this?