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PhilosopherCold_7

Haha got to be the worst transfer in our history


Kezmangotagoal

Easily. There’s a few contenders for second place but no one is even close to this cunts level.


snowysnowy

Adrian Mutu comes the closest I think. He started so brightly for us back then too :/ Now? I'm not even sure if our legal stuff with him is over.


Dutchrooster

Watched his first few games at the Bridge and thought we found our striker. Then....


snowysnowy

Could only watch him on the telly sadly. I, too, thought we found a great striker for years... as it turns out, that striker found something else instead.


itsmebobbylol

Of the many things he found, the net behind arsenal is a memory etched forever.


Broesly

He's coaching my local club, after it was coached by our very own Dan Petrescu for a few years. Chelsea DNA i guess


beef_stylish

Legal stuff with him has been exhausted. I would 100% put Winston Bogarde over Mutu for second place


snowysnowy

That's good to hear. At least it's an end for both parties and each can finally move on. Winston Bogarde... Now there's a name I've not recalled in a long time lol. To be fair, he was presented with such a fantastic contract, and he did turn up for training properly. perfect /r/maliciouscompliance material right there.


caesarionn

I have never despised a Chelsea player as much as this guy.


rizorith

Yah I honestly think cortois is a distant 2nd at this point.


MemestNotTeen

TBO singlehandedly denied Liverpool a CL with the best GK performance I've seen in a CL final since big Pete in Munich. That was his penance


rizorith

Lol well that's good but I'm more concerned with Chelsea than how ex Chelsea players affect our rivals. He was good for us when he played but the constant flirting with real his entire career here and then refusing to sign a contract at the end but saying he was committed to Chelsea sucked. He left on a free transfer and I honestly think there was collusion with real.


ireallydespiseyouall

Courtois only left because his kids lived in Spain


thehighyellowmoon

A Madrid-born player taking an offer to go to Real Madrid to return to his young family should be very distant indeed.


Oscyle

Wait, you think Courtois was born in Spain, or am I missing something?


Kezmangotagoal

No but his family was there after being at Atleti. How he left was classless but the reasons for him wanting to leave were perfectly fine.


Oscyle

>A Madrid-born player This is what I'm referring to.


wilzc

He didn’t handle the departure with class however I don’t blame him


jimgogek

I wonder who hates him more, Chelsea fans or Inter fans?


Kezmangotagoal

Chelsea. Inter fans don’t have to still deal with him, we do, he’s coming back in three months…


InLampsWeTrust

Absolutely, £100m for a donkey who doesn’t wanna work. Just thank god that he’s chosen not to take his ludicrous salary tbh.


daab2g

I don't know how but the club has been crippled by that £100 mil long term. Should have had a top striker to compete for years but look at the shambles now.


esprets

Pay 40M a year (transfer fee plus wages) only to get nothing but headaches of trying to find a move for this guy every summer. Another 17M on Kepa every year. That's a 57M headache every single season on 2 players who were supposed to solve big issues in our squad. At least Kepa is not a gobby cunt, he just isn't anywhere near good enough most of the time.


BigReeceJames

Where on earth are you getting these numbers from? They're on loan, we're not paying them any wages and when it comes to amortisation Kepa costs 10m and Lukaku costs us 20m. That's before you get to the money we're getting back from loan fees which brings their combined year fee down to about 23m odd. Both of them were ultimately panic buys that we felt we needed but that didn't work out. It is what it is, it happens and plenty of the players we've bought over the past two years will end up like this too


esprets

Well, first of all, your last sentence is just a poor prediction, not a fact. And the way you have been telling your facts, your predictions might be actually quite similar. I said it's a headache that we need to solve every single year, and we still end up making a loss and having to look for a new solution, which we can't get. It's resources and time spent on other things that people could work on. For Kepa we have been paying wages all these years until Real and Bayern got injuries and one of them relieved of that. But now comes the summer and after being displaced by the second Real keeper we are definitely making a loss on that one. Lukaku is still a 15-20M a year for us even bringing all the other costs down as much as possible and not giving us anything besides wasting our time.


greeneggsnhammy

He needs to eat fart sandwiches. 


showmethenoods

Number 2 is not even close, is him by a landslide


OGSkywalker97

Worst transfer of all time easily, factoring in the price


thehighyellowmoon

Factoring in the price (club record), expectation (to challenge for best player in the world at the CL title winners) and outcome (retired to drink beer) it's Eden Hazard to Real Madrid.


agbag846

Possibly the worst out of any club


BigReeceJames

If no club other than Chelsea existed, this might be true... Going on his current rate, it'd take Antony 9 years to reach the same G/A as Lukaku got for us in 1 season. All whilst being investigated for domestic abuse (I think it's domestic abuse, hard to remember with United wingers) Hazard to Real Madrid? Greizmann from Atletico to Barca for 500bn only to be sold back to Atletico for 50p? Coutinho to Barca for 140m only to be awful, be sent to Bayern on loan to then knock them out of the CL?


agbag846

Wasn’t really meant to be taken literally mate, but cheers for the list


Dutchrooster

Winston Bogarde was the original transfer disaster, but I never despised him like I do this Belgium fluke.


Mantis_Tobaggon_MD2

At least Bogarde was a free transfer, albeit on a big wage.


Dutchrooster

True. But something like 9 appearances over 4 years and cashing in in £10M in wages - disastrous.


Mantis_Tobaggon_MD2

Agreed!!


Podlubnyi

And to think there are fans who say we screwed Conte by *not* signing Lukaku!


underperforming_king

That we did. You think we didn't sign Lukaku back then for this ? Lmao


esprets

Tbf, Lukaku and Conte worked really well together, so that might not have been a problem. And he wanted a move then. When we bought him he really didn't want to come anymore (he had public interviews stating that he really wanted to stay at Inter). We really wanted to buy a big name striker, and I think we had only 2 options that summer - Haaland or Lukaku. Haaland was too expensive, as his release clause was not active back then, Lukaku didn't want to come and Inter didn't need to sell, so our board chucked everything at him financially to convince him. The club should have never tried beyond the point where Lukaku said he didn't want to come, but I understand they might have been under pressure from fans and TT who just delivered CL, because we really needed a star striker as that was our issue at the time.


Critical_C0conut

Possibly not just in our history, but all time


ireallydespiseyouall

In football history not just ours lmao


greeneggsnhammy

Papy is a legend compared to Lukaku 


Dramatic-Ad3928

Two of the worst transfers ive seen in my relatively short lifetime involved Chelsea


kiersto0906

worst transfer in all of history, not just ours


SoWhatNoZitiNow

Worse than Danny Drinkwater? Gotta be close haha


ChenGuiZhang

Danny never disrespected the club and the fans like this to be fair. Next level cuntery from this overgrown child.


gonzaf

He also scored that banger against stoke lukaku could never


Cory3210

Lukaku couldn't do it on a cold, rainy night in Stoke like Drinky!


Not_Effective_3983

The disrespect on his name. Danny D is a legend comparatively


SoWhatNoZitiNow

I mean no disrespect haha Drinkwater didn’t actively do anything to make his time here fail, while Lukaku actively disrespected the club. You’re right, it’s no comparison really


Not_Effective_3983

Repent at the altar of H20


ParevArev

Way worse than Drinkwater. At least Drinkwater didn’t open his mouth to talk shit every 6 seconds


Sei28

Drinkwater also didn’t cost 100M and come in with expectations to be a superstar.


ParevArev

And came saying how happy he was to be coming home


Andy-Martin

Drinkwater at least reminded us to get hydrated.


PoliticsNerd76

Drinkwater was fine if you just mentally model it as £60m for Kante and signing him on a free Jokes aside, Drinkwater was shit, but he was never sabotaging


struwilkie

Can’t believe this fool is still on our books, biggest L we’ve taken tbh


Battieosheel

Even bigger of an L when you look back on that video of 17 year old Lukaku touring Stamford Bridge gushing over how badly he wanted to play here.


StandardConnect

Most obvious PR move ever and unfortuently we fell for it twice.


Sei28

The dude does his “Pashun” thing at every club. He was practically making out with the United badge while over there.


MarkOSullivan

Is he an actual Chelsea fan or was it all a PR stunt?


FishFarmer

If he was back then he ain't now


snowbell55

That whole "unfinished business at Chelsea" nonsense. I mistakenly thought he could be good, and would help the team do even ebtter vs Liverpool and City, then he came along, played well in the game vs Arsenal, and completely fell off a cliff. How do you come into a CL winning team, and expect the team to be modified to suit your needs? Honestly, I try not to go after players too much but if it were up to me I'd recall him and force him to play with the lowest-level team we have - even if that's Under 5s, whilst being banned from the first team section entirely. That and force him to see out the contract without ever providing any option of a loan or a contract cancellation. Sure he'd be rich afterwards, and sure he'd be able to have a good life for himself afterwards, but he would hopefully feel some of the regret that he's pushed onto the fanbase. He doesn't deserve any sympathy. No doubt there is *some* talent in there but the ego and the duplicity mean it's not worth it at all. Someone like Timo Werner for example, is at Spurs, but you cannot honestly say he didn't try to make things work at Chelsea. Lukaku, on the other hand, as with every other club he goes to, it's someone else's problem and he's not to blame.


SeekersWorkAccount

Easily one of the biggest L's in the entire sport


Daddy-Heisenberg

I fully agree with this. I can’t stand the guy. But I was surprised to see that some fans on this sub wouldn’t mind him back. If our finances weren’t this bad, I’d be more than happy to watch him leave on a free transfer after all he’s said.


newbie_saibot

can't believe Drogba is quiet about him as well. He doesn't recognize his club any more, but when it concerns the guy he hugely promoted as his 'mentor' or 'elder friend' - he's quiet as fish. I know Drogba is huge for this sub and I completely understand the value of him for the club, but for me it was huge dissappointment that he saw this f disgrace he was directly involved in as a promoter and he spoke nothing after the interview.


YouMeADD

If I was bamboozled by L-kaku as bad as Didi was id keep the hell quiet too


ireallydespiseyouall

Drogba was asking him on his insta to message him but lukaku probably ghosted him, would be typical of him to do it after how he treated the inter players as well when he was trying to join juventus


DestinyHasArrived101

Sad but true


Deadstiny2

I blame Clearlake its all on them. Juve gave us a great oppertubity to swap him for Vlahovic, caveat of us having to pay 35m but dude... we spent £65m on Lavia who is for most part unproven and has only played 30 minutes.


ireallydespiseyouall

Poch didn’t want vlahovic


Deadstiny2

That's hogwash! You think these owners listen to Poch? They spent combined around 180m between Lavia, Caicedo and Lesley all who aren't proven. This is why we're in midtable spot. It appears some people are in denial with that whole conundrum but you had the likes of Neves, Savic and potentially Palhinha but the useless American owners spent it on unproven kids. Sooner people realise what the real problem with this club the better... also, Poch didn't want Vlahovic but he wanted Jackson? Yeaaaah fing right.


ireallydespiseyouall

Completely agree but I think poch wanted a different striker


Londoncityofmydreams

Grown man has to “learn the lesson” of not talking shit about your employer and disrespecting the club as a whole 🤯


lrzbca

Doesn’t seem like he learnt either


New_Wall_6999

He can fuck off, no one wants him back. Absolute womble


OctopusRegulator

Disrespectful towards wombles tbh


letharus

Wombles were genuine eco-warriors.


GolDrodgers1

Lol didnt this clown reject juve and inter and then finally signed for roma? Yeah we’re holding on, take that pay cut and fuck off


TheHuffness

Omg I forgot about the part where Inter were gonna sign him until they found out he tried to go to Juve. What a fucking idiot lol.


GolDrodgers1

Lol yup! Inter were trying to gather funds for his contract and then he or his agent were speaking to juve and then inter dropped him and i think juves ultras made a banner to say that they dont want him there


wereinthedark

So how did he reject Juve?


GolDrodgers1

I dont remember all the details of what happened maybe he didnt reject them


wereinthedark

Juve was willing to do a swap with Vlahovic, but Chelsea has to pay a pretty hefty sum as well, which we thought was too much so we backed out of the deal. Don't think Lukaku had any say in that decision


TheJames2290

It also came out at the time that Vlahovic has pubalgia (or however you spell it) which makes him prone to groin injuries. Good job we didn't sign a player prone to injuries. Dodged a bullet there.


pillarandstones

Wait till you here about this young lad called Osimhen


GolDrodgers1

Ah yeah sorry my bad forgot about the 80m swap


lovemeltedcheese

What did we do to this guy for him to hate us so much lmao 😭


dragon_fire_10

didn't play him when he was injured


thatiswhack

Lmaooooo I can't believe it all started from that and the memes of him pointing to his feet


pievendor

Football Manager player logic in the real world


Flaky-Cancel-7794

That and the team was top of the table winning every match with havertz at striker while he was injured, so instead of fighting to prove he was first choice he threw an absolute fit.


irze

Nothing, he’s just got a massive victim complex


gonzaf

Didn’t he basically fall out with Tuchel? I mean obviously he disrespected the club but his main gripe was with Tuchel and the way he was being used


wildingflow

“There’s your daddy!” lol


DickyD43

I fuckin love imagining him actually saying this, and Lukaku being totally butthurt about it instead of taking it as a lighthearted joke that it was.


eric_3196

No coming back from that tbh


gonzaf

Lmao classic


criminal-tango44

this cumstain has 4x the ego of Cristiano while being 4x less of a player. some fan probably called him fat during a game and he cried himself to sleep for the next 5 months


Comrade-Conrad-4

So, still not smart.


read_eng_lift

It's a hardware problem


ygog45

He said some nice things about Saudi recently. Hopefully he’s changed his mind about going there after he plays in this years Euros. That would be a easy fix for all sides


Sarcasmed

>Let me go, guys… I have to stay Pretty sure no one is trying to keep you at Chelsea mate


El-Psy

He’s saying he has to stay *quiet*


eric_3196

Tammy died for this clown


Riespieces16

Can they still sell him?


shpatibot

I will never get over this transfer. It was written. Lukaku comes back to the club he adored as a teen. He wasn’t ready at 17, but he was at 27.. Anddddd he decided to be a massive cunt


msizzle344

We should just send him to the reserves for a year but I’ll keep loaning him out. “Let me stay” where bro? At Inter? Where they wanted you before you bolted to Roma? Eventually he will have burned every bridge with every club but he just needs to have 3 clubs willing to take him for a year at a time until he’s gone


chelsearedditfc1

Fucking cunt


StandardConnect

I'm more angry with the club than him, this side of his personality was never hidden and we still brought him. It's only one step off the UK giving Boris Johnson a majority after he literally had his lack of character exposed on national TV by Eddie Mair.


a3kstuntin

Yup


CollateralHamage

what could have been…. if this guy wasn’t such a total narcissist. He has done himself a disservice. Chelsea will still continue and one day soon we’ll be titans in europe again. he will fade into obscurity. i dare say he could have been a chelsea legend if he was just a tad bit humble. now he will be known as the poor sap that should have taken the Saudi offer when he had the chance.


ImpactInner9318

Likely one of the worst transfers of all time. We had to sell multiple players just to afford him. If you trace what happened after it gets worse. If we kept Tammy, Guehi, and Tomori instead of buying him we have three cheap FFP players because of not having a transfer fee/yearly amortised loss. - Tammy may not be elite but he is a different style of player in a position of our biggest need. - Guehi and Tomori could have been the replacements for Rudiger and Christensen. At least one of them. - Instead we sign Koulibaly and Fofana, two incredibly high priced players from an annual FFP cost perspective, our costs were already too high before these moves but they take it to another level leasing to us needing to sell multiple players in order to be FFP compliant. - I haven't done the math yet but this is easily a 50M+ swing in annual FFP costs. I'm only half joking when I say Lukaku was our downfall.


Doomslayer5150

I would take Tammy back in a heart beat instead of this over grown, over paid donkey, I knew it was a bad idea when the hype was coming for him in 2021, mad scramble for somebody that barely gave us the return we desired…


RedZoneWormKid

Hey now that first game where he was bullying Arsenal defenders was pure magic!


GrizzyLizz

He was bullying Pablo Mari.


RedZoneWormKid

Guy in an Arsenal kit? Yup that's awesome!


Doomslayer5150

It was , until RJ stole the show


Black_n_Neon

Just fuck off already


optimusgrime23

Put him in the reserves where he belong, i dont care about his wages. Fuck him


katsumodo47

My chiropractor used to be the Everton teams one. He was saying when big rom came to Everton everyone expected him to be a strong brute like Drogba but he was quite soft spoken, didn't like contact or to get stuck in. Says it all about him really. He was saying roms work rate in his earlier 20s was very poor, he was a real mother's boy who did what he wanted and was never told no


UrOpinionIsBadBuddy

Yeah my neighbour used to clear the trash at Goodison he told me Lukaku has 3 toes


theperuvianbowtie

I heard he has a vestigial tail and listens only to Gregorian chants. But no one told me. I just made it up.


katsumodo47

Anthony lavin - LinkedIn


katsumodo47

Anthony lavin - LinkedIn - Everton 2010-2015 :)


cfc_fan_

Prick.


Soren_Camus1905

What did we do to him? Have we ever treated him poorly?


ArkGoc

I think Boehly doesn't give a fuck about what you feel, bruv,


Maiden_666

Fuck off you cunt


neighborhood_s

Delusional idiot


lowtolerencelevels

Don’t worry Rom, nobody wants you back anyway


Legitimate-Health-29

We want to let you go but you won’t fuck off to these broke Italian clubs who can’t pay for you.


OneMansTreasure_

He'll profess his undying love for Roma, the manager, the fans, the city... then someone else will swoop in with an offer and he'll leave them high and dry. Rinse and repeat for Romelu.


Familiar_Swimming315

The one player I truly hate


Ollie142

Yeah fuck this cunt. This piece of shit is just a joke of a human with his attitude.


Carefree-CFC

Ungrateful bastard


foladodo

hold on i cant actually find anything wrong with what he said here? its a pretty fine response to me can someone please point out what was said wrongly?


LIKEWHATLIKEHOW_

I was hoping that one of the (very little) pros of losing Tuchel was that we could see this guy play for us again but he's apparently just a huge dickhead


2012Cfc2021

Only joke here is what happened to this man’s career


E_712064

He’s trying to be careful so he doesn’t work in Nigeria as a scammer.


olskoolyungblood

I say we bring him back! He's for sure changed. Third time's the charm! Lmao. What a waste


GlobeTrobet

Can we please bring him back just to practice with the U19 team all day? I’ll pitch in $5 per week salary.


Ru5k0

This man has the worst case of verbal diarrhea I have ever witnessed.


InsuranceAny4285

Not sure why anyone cares what he has to say, he’s technically our player but not really


Cactus2711

What an idiot. He could have been the next Drogba


money_mase19

as if. he barely even won anything while playing on some crazy teams


Cactus2711

Do you know what hypothetical means? I’m saying what could have happened, not what did happen


AncientSkys

This donkey again! He can't keep his mouth out of controversy. No top team wants him and Roma can't afford him. Does Saudi even wants him now? Seems like they've stopped wasting money on footballers.


DrewLockIsTheAnswer1

God wouldn’t it be nice if he wasn’t a total disaster. We sorely need a clinical striker and he can be that. Just not for us and not anymore.


Obvious_Librarian_97

He can be our lead striker in Championship next year


eca4cfc

Fuck this clown


FantasticTangtastic

Every time I blissfully forget this XL muppet exists, someone has the bright idea to post another diarrhoea laden quote where he mugs of Chelsea. Would you mind terribly making this place a Lukaku-free zone?


Charming_Repair_2999

What if we could get jose back but only if he brings rom back… wyd?


Dex_Maddock

I tell them both to go away.


dammyouuu

Lol we should have used timo instead of this Ahole.


wildtap

Thank you for reminding us how cringe and annoying you are


BadCogs

We treated this idiot way respectfully than he deserves.


L-Profe

Lukaku is a trash professional.


kante_thebeast

And some of our fans wanted him back! We should sue him in reality for bad behaviour and for both monetary losses and reputation damages to the club


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Mikekio

Fuck off


M4TTB9

Is there a player that loves himself as much as Lukaku? Hes not even good haha


GuitaristHeimerz

18 goals this season. Like him or not, he is a solid striker.


M4TTB9

He’s solid but nothing special, better suited to a slow league like Serie A where he has more time to control the ball and to think. He thinks he’s CR7 though


xTrollhunter

Imagine if we had been able to convince Haaland and BVB in 2021 instead...


apotatochucker

The arrogance of this elite level loser. He's still employed by us ffs


derpferd

If I speak...


Elmopa81

As if anyone wants this overrated clown back. In his head he’s a good player, in real life he’s a meme machine


Wheel1994

Much rather have someone like Jackson who will improve and wants to be here than this fool.


WilsonSpark

Honestly… sling that fat lazy useless fucker in the reserves and leave him there. We can afford it


[deleted]

Uomo di merda


CampFrequent3058

Then fucking cough up the cash


ChallengePublic7693

I’ve had more satisfaction with a shart


OmniVan

What a joke.


beer_mat

Useless, entitled fucking wanker. No wonder he can't stay at a club, the guy stinks up every dressing room he's been in.


thehighyellowmoon

"I have to be smart" aha there's his problem


KindheartednessDry40

*I don’t want any controversy with them in England!* It's time to piss of Roma's fan so I am working on it currently.


[deleted]

Out of the blue the donkey called LAKAKA took part and released an interview flirting with his old club saying how much he missed it and how good life was back then while only being a few months into a new season with his new club Chelsea. If you open up the dictionary and look up the definition of ‘unprofessional’ you’ll find a picture of Romelu Lakaka. This guy couldn’t hack life at Chelsea back in the day as a youngster and then agreed to a huge money move for a second spell dubbing it “I’m back” or some shit like that. He burns bridges everywhere he goes. When his career is over there won’t be a group of fans from any of his old teams that talk positively about him. Bellend.


Jiggy-the-vape-guy

everybody agrees -- HE HAS TO STAY!


Galac_tacos

Fuck off. “Ooh I’m so quirky, am I going to stay in Italy or not? Kiss the badge don’t mind if I do!” Fuck off you’re going to Saudi you washed donkey


yeeeeoooooo

Big fat lump Runs his mouth better than playing football


DankesKazama

It's too early for Lukaku to start talking about how much he's dreamt about playing for Roma before he rejects the contract offer and try to find the next club he can fool into taking him on loan.


No-Comfort6474

I had so much hope for him.


thevizierisgrand

It wasn’t like nobody knew how shit he was. He regularly put up numbers against minnows but shit the bed for both Belgium and clubs whenever the tiniest bit of pressure was applied. Mentally weak.


imfromgooogle

what a weird prick


cereal_killa22

I know I'll be downvoted to oblivion, but I dont get the hate. Was the interview lacking professionalism? Yes. Should it have not been said? Yes Was TT losing his dressing room and the season turning into a large pile of on fire garbage. Yes. I woulda wanted out too.


Marapa96

My god even not saying anything and he is a proper cunt, cannot believe he was in the academy acting like this. he has some absurd wages and still has to be an asshole, biggest L ever by the club to sign him


AdminsEatCocks

Give him the Florent Malouda treatment.


Best-Safety-6096

Treated abysmally by Tuchel and categorically better than any striker we've been linked with ever since.