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The Championship is a superb league. The quality might not be as good in terms of talent compared to the PL, but it is far more entertaining.

The government was helping Real 20 years ago with some shady deals.

Like what?

You don't even need 5 years. They're salary cap is now set at £270M while they are currently spending £400M with the smallest squad in the league

Yep wev won it all and got our owner taken away by the government becuase of a war.... keep hating we dont care.

We will be back and you can hate us soke more Hamilton you prick

I was wondering if it was that Andy Hamilton. Loved Bob and Margaret in the 90's

Let’s be realistic, where would all that money Chelsea spent on players go if they didn’t spend it? To the fans? To the community? No. It would still be in the bank account of a billionaire. If they want to splash £100m on a single player from a club deemed smaller, then I don’t see the issue. A club like Brighton can easily spend that £100m on a decent replacement and then some. Also doesn’t guarantee Chelsea trophies and doesn’t wreck a club like Brighton. Brighton also seem to spend that £100m on obscure but high potential players from much smaller clubs abroad, which helps those clubs.

No, Chelsea is the proof of football going right. Thinking they could buy quick success and end up in failures.

City are the true poster boys for where football has gone wrong.

Yeah they just did that slightly earlier than other clubs, earned lots of trophies and international fans and now you cannot criticize the clubs because of their "prestige"

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Chelsea poster boys

*Man City

I love how local and lower level football really does answer nearly all of everyone's concerns but they'd rather pretend the Prem was the only football league on Earth and they're forced to put up with it. Absolutely self-inflicted.

I just want to see fun competition. Eredivisie is high enough a level for me.

I do recognize I'm in the minority, though.

Cant even win that title as an United fan. The rivalry is on.

Can we convince Boehly to sign the Glazers?

So funny to see english fans argue who the worst team is in their league. Meanwhile, football is fucked anyway and its a business first and a sport second, so no matter if its the Saudis sportwashing or an American pumping billions into it, the image of that pure, innocent and local football sport is long gone.

Seems like a lot of people understand that statement as "omg they are the worst" but as i see it, it's more like "football is fucked in so many ways, and these guys somehow check nearly all boxes"

Chelsea are the poster boys for where Chelsea have gone wrong

In the case of Chelsea, both ways of understanding the statement are correct.

Can't argue with that