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Been v impressed with Gilchrist when I’ve seen him. John Terry has been raving about him for a couple of years now. Personal preferences aside, you’d think he’d be able to spot a good defender when he sees one.
Think Omari’s progress this year puts us in a really good position going forward to get good prem loans in. Especially if we wanted to go back to Chelsea.
We should now be seen as safe pair of hands and more by Chelsea for their youth talent.
Would like to see Alfie Gilchrist on loan next year. Has been v v good whenever called upon this season and played a blinder against spurs and Son the other night.
Can play RB and CB. Would assume if we can only have two loans next year then versatility would be a key consideration.
Wasn't the only one, have a seen a few vloggers who were there too.
Not sure how they got tickets but I do think that needs looking at and those supporters or staff who potentially gave them the tickets should be reprimanded.
They can only sell academy players because they are booked as pure profit in FFP terms. Or in Omari's case, he has a very low book value as they paid £5m for him, so if they got £20m he goes in at £15m profit.
If they sell Lukaku etc, that doesn't make difference in terms of FFP for them.
Chelsea and Birmingham are a cautionary tale of what can happen when you let the Americans start meddling around in things they don't understand...
Chelsea need to sell before June 30th to raise funds for FFP. They'll sell everyone they can to avoid selling Gallagher.
That means, you'd think, he needs to agree a new deal in the next few weeks if he's going on their pre season tour in July? Otherwise be sold in this FFP window.
As I posted yesterday, I think quite likely he goes to Germany when you look at Sancho, Belligham and now Musiala and Maatsen too. A well trodden path for young British talent.
I'd love him back here though obviously!
*One caveat to the above, there is some confusion as to whether Chelsea booked Mount's transfer in the last FFP window or this one. If they have rolled it to this window then the pressure to sell will be less and maybe then Hutchinson signs new deal and is potentially loaned again.
Really really difficult to see how Omari comes back here sadly.
He has a year left on his deal and Chelsea need to raise finances to avoid selling Gallagher. The youth players (or ones like Omari with a low book value) will be the ones sold to raise the money, given how FFP works. I suspect he'll end up on a permanent move to Dortmund or similar for £15-£20m sadly.
But there are other Omari's out there and clubs now know they can trust their youth with KM, so hopefully somebody just as exciting will come in.
The only touting I could possibly see would be the Huddersfield player's allocation coming to market as I imagine every other cohort (town players, sponsors etc) will want to be there.
And as I posted earlier in the week - the various hospitality brokers I know via my work have absolutely nothing. Neither do the two football agents I know. Which would indicate that there has been little to no touting.
I honestly think where we will have "won" it, if indeed we do go up, will have been that 2 week break pre Hull.
We were literally on our knees after that Saints game and it showed with the following three performances. As it was, we got to get Hirst and Wes back in and we couldn't have possibly wished for a better time to play Coventry.
Had it not been the case, would you have fancied us to get a win at a still play off chasing Cov, without those two and a much needed break? I'm not so sure.
On a similar topic, part of my job is often to arrange hospitality for Clients at various things. There are few "brokers" that we would use for this.
As long as you're prepared to pay, they will find tickets - be it Wimbledon, Silverstone, NFL etc.
I have been to every single one of these people and others in my network (an agent, a semi-senior person at sky etc) not a single one of them can get their hands on a ticket for Saturday!! I've literally never seen this before!
I've now resigned myself to a pub in town for Saturday and fair play to all of you who are going and that sat through the Evans era etc. I hope it's a day to remember for all of us, including you guys in the ground! Very envious!
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