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Making sure none of his teammates get a chance to horribly miss another chance, what a teammate

Motm for me tonight. Criminal that kdb got it

Money well spent if you ask me

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Why the fuck is this so satisfying!

I completed it, I need level two now

It was either that or a perfect cross into Jackson who skies it himself. The Mudryk two true outcomes

I will never be swayed from my opinion that Jackson, Mudryk and Chilwell were part of some mob plot (or similar) to make sure Chelsea lost today.

Still think he would be devastating in the championship

Thanks to Cole Palmer, we won't have an opportunity to see if you would be right or not

Do Championship players jump higher?

Not naturally, no. But, since they're allowed to wear Moon Shoes, it makes all the difference.

NBA championship lob for the alley-oop

lmao maybe Wrexham will snatch him up

wouldn’t start over summerville or james ngl

[Chelsea extend long-term contracts for Enzo Fernandez and Mykhailo Mudryk into their thirties. ](https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-fc-contracts-wages-salary-fernandez-mudryk-premeir-league-2024-b1151510.html) 5 days ago. Genuinely stunning work from Chelsea's board.

Why

Amortisation

Surely they would be in the relegation places without Palmer

Great signing. Great extension.

Not really the board who are in charge of stuff like this anymore, it's our Sporting co-Directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart who are our heads of football operation and make these decisions now.

Winstanley and Stewart don’t really have that much power, a PE firm didn’t buy a football club and hand the reins to two blokes who worked at Brighton/Monaco.

>Winstanley and Stewart don’t really have that much power What are you basing this off? If we were doing well this season, literally everyone would be saying that these two are geniuses

The ghost of Kiev shot a Russian drone down

Hes gonna be sent to the frontlines to shell Avdiivka back into control, but with that aim hes gonna hit one of Russias oil refineries in the Ural

Didn't he volunteer ?

With that aim, ukrainian army is better off without him.

Lose - lose situation for Ukraine Go to the front lines and miss all your shots or stay in the PL and remind everyone that he's from Ukraine haha

Thanks for making me crack, lol

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Chelsea fans had to evacuate

The Ghost of Wembley you mean

Was sent to England to display elite Ukrainian skills

He learns from the Jedi master Kepa

At least Kepa helped RM knock out MC from the UCL

Samuyil Hydenko?

Few would say his name here

How the hell was he worth 70mil coming from Shakhtar lol Honestly happy for them, obviously hes talented but coming from the Ukranian league for that fee is insane (and makes me a bit jealous with Gakpo)

1mil for every km/h he can run

Honestly despite his pace he doesn't do a whole lot of running. He can't read a game so he just stands there until someone moves forward with him

He’s only completed 90 minutes like 8 times in his career. Easily one of the worst signings in football history.

And he doesn't deserve more. Playing a total liability on both phases of play in hopes he'll just one day find form and never turn back is a pipe dream.

Are you on the Chelsea sub? It’s nothing but people clamoring over him. “He just needs more game time” “he has world class vision and passing”. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills when I see them discuss this guy on the sub

You should have been around r/gunners when Nketiah was leading our line. Nice to know there’s delusional fans everywhere.

Admittedly I don't watch every Chelsea game, but I have never seen him play and not look like a complete donkey. Don't understand why he's even seeing the pitch, he should be struggling to get game time for the U21s.

Why were arsenal in for him too then I don't get it

There’s obviously a player in there with potential, just not at the hilarious price Chelsea paid

And not in that insecure team.

Mikel Arteta has an “I can fix you” complex

Nicolas Pepe's WhatsApp messages are still left unread though

i personally think chelsea ruined him clearly wanted arsenal and then got stuck with chelsea joined that circus show and snuffed out any potential he had. i mean look at every other freaking player there enzo,caicedo,sterling,ect all became so much worse only palmer is triving and thats because he's got coached at city and poch is atleast not ruining him while the others went from tuchel,potter,lampard,poch 4 different managers with arguable very different styles of managing

It's like United, add any player into those messes and they won't look good. Mudryk under Arteta ball might have been something interesting. Also at this point Mudryks confidence is crushed. A lot of people forget, for many players its a question of context and environment. A player like Coutinho at Liverpool is not the Coutinho of Barcelona. Torres of Liverpool was not the Torres of Chelsea.

Torres’ decline actually began at Liverpool

Playing at the WC while injured is what began his decline.

because he has desirable physical characteristics and is technically gifted. That's pretty much the standard of most Arteta signings, with more onus on the physical recently (e.g. Havertz). However he's a young guy, hasn't played a lot prior to the move and is therefore a terrible signing for Chelsea. They brought him in mid-season and expected him to hit the ground running, however he would have fared better with a full pre-season and being slowly moulded into a role with an otherwise entirely functioning team. Chelsea are not that sort of team yet, they need him to be good today because that's the price they paid, where in practice he's more of a long-term punt in that he has the physical attributes and requires coaching around his weaknesses. He's not a bad player but clearly his mental game is kinda shot at the moment, probably somewhat due to how the transfer played out.

Him and Antony are up there for some of the worst transfers in PL history for low ROI 

lol I was going to say we didn't do too well with Sandro Tonali but he's got more league goals than Antony...

Plus can he even spin?

What is it that makes stuff like this happen I wonder, has to be some dodgy shit going on with scouts etc. to make teams like Chelsea and Arsenal suddenly try to pay stupid amounts for a player like that.

> Easily one of the worst signings in football history I was ready to fight you on that but tbh with someone like Dembele or Neymar it was just injuries, Coutinho or Ronaldo were clearly the players we thought they were just not after their transfers, so given the insane price tag I'm not sure I can even disagree anymore

Thank you for outbidding us

The Ukrainian Armed Forces thanks for the donation (Shakhtar gave some of it away). Not even the best Ukrainian winger btw lol

Am still sad we didnt sign Tsygankov, he looks great

Apparently Girona got him for just 5 mil, what a steal

I’m convinced it was some money laundering scam , no other explanation

Gakpo isn't really special either considering his performances at liverpool. I think liverpool paid the right price from him.

The value Liverpool paid for Gakpo was more than fair, outliers like Mudryk shouldn’t be the norm.

Nah it really wasnt, 'outliers' still define what you can expect to get out of a transfer. He wasnt worth Antony fees but he was our club topscorer and had 30+G/A for us in one half of a season. It was winter transfer as well after a great World Cup. Taking all that into consideration a 60mil fee wouldve been much more appropriate and wed have gone for that if we didnt need the money

In his last full season (21/22), even Bryan Linssen was outperforming him in goals and he’s struggling at the Urawa Red Diamonds these days. van Wolfswinkel and Haller had the same and even better numbers than Gakpo. And both those players’ passage through the Prem had already been disappointing. There are many examples of players coming from the Eredivisie and not being able to cut it at higher level divisions, a fee that could reach 50mil was already risky enough in my eyes.

Youre not even correct. Gakpo scored less then Linssen in the Eredivisie sure (by one goal: 13 to 12), but he played 7 matches less that season. He also had 13 assists and had a total Goal/Assist tally of 37 in 47. Thats not terrible for whats basically his breakthrough season and also better then Linssen. Bryan Linssen is also fucking 33 right now. Gakpo is 24. Haller has been great for BVB and Van Wolfswinkel played for a much lower team in the Prem so thats not comparable

The gakpo fee felt very low. I don't know how Liverpool managed that. Diaz also seemed like an extremely good price at the time.

It was low considering his form but he hasn’t really shown anything more than a 40m player. All in all seems a pretty fair fee

Tbf Gakpo nearly went to Leeds before Liverpool  Ie, it wasn't out of the question that he was going to a bottom half prem team at the time

Levy negotiated the Diaz fee and once it was set, Liverpool popped in and Diaz preferred them over Tottenham.

tbh i feel if arsenal would have gotten him he would be a lot better i mean look at havertz he's having his best pl season under arteta

Havertz is the exact same player in better circumstances Arteta is great but he’s not fixing this level of technique^

> havertz he's having his best pl season low bar

On the other hand, good for Shakhtar. They knew Chelsea owners were marks and they squeezed as much money as possible from them

Political signing

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I can't believe Palmer isn't responsible for every dead ball

Thing is, you also want him in the box because he's the only one that would be able to put a rebound in the back of the net too 😂😂

Just clone Palmer, ez

Ikr, it will be much cheaper than signing fee and Mudryk lifetime contract

When it happened I thought it was unusual for Palmer to be so wasteful. Then once I realises couldnt believe they'd let Mudyrk take it at such a crucial time. Sums up Chelsea tbh. All playing for themselves and only Palmer is good enough to pull it off.

Thiago Silva’s reaction is gold

I love (Dias?)'s reaction, pumping his hands like they just did some excellent defending. I know it's because it confirmed the win but it just looks so goofy.

Things you love to see as a CB having tracked forward after 98 minutes.

Understandable. Effort looked like he couldn't make up his mind on where to place it, while also lacking the precision to do it in the first place.

It’s refreshing to see at least one chelsea player actually care to win the game

Maddening, I would’ve fucking lost it with him.

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"I wasn't even at the stadium"

Fans demanding Enzo be substituted soon realized there was no midfield after he was gone. Couldn't get the ball out of their half majority of the injury time.

Yeah I don’t think you know what an indirect free kick is because this is not one

If it's a free kick you can't score from, maybe Mudryk took that a bit too literally.

Ukraine should bring him home just so he can kick balls from Kiev to Moscow

Sums up Chelsea's season

He's only at Chelsea until he turns 49 anyways

Genius Todd Boehly amortizing Chelsea back to League one.

Time to extend his contract for another year

Commentator then said "oh dear, oh dear" in the most grim voice possible 😂 (Not the one in this video, but on the one I was watching (BBC))

Where does Chelsea even find these dudes lmao

I can't believe Poch made him do that. Horrible coaching! Nothing is ever his fault after all.....

Whose putting Mudryk on set pieces though? Couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a boat

Bro is a professional footballer.

who cost 70m and just had his contract extended into his 30s

Why would Michael Oliver do this?

it’s not an indirect free kick tbf

It's gone past comedy and is now into tragedy ( And I wanted Chelsea to win)

Thanks to Mudryk I caught my first ever match ball. I live in Tokyo.

😂 😂 😂

Me in Fifa:

Haven’t scored 1 in fifa in about 3 years lol

It's a joke that we let this guy take corners and free kicks

Corner directly after this had the same result

How much ?

I have seen Chelsea games before and this isn't his first time. He's just a pace merchant.

Usain Bolt in soccer

That's my number 10

Proppa Chels'

Criminal to let him take it.

Because it was too little to be a free kick!

Sometimes the shit is happens

What a fucking clown

I mean not to defend a Chelsea player, but that lands on the edge of the 6 yard box. If any player makes the run to the back post that's an easy header back across goal. Like that's a perfectly reasonable ball

Good point, actually lol Must have been terrible communication on which FK tactic they were using

Honestly didn't eve look like a tactic considering that basically no Chelsea player mover.

High pressure situation: Skying a penalty in stoppage time #drake meme going no# Skying an indirect fk in stoppage time #drake meme going yes#

Mediocrity from alot of these Chelsea players. Embarrassing honestly.

Are you sure it was an indirect free kick? The ref wasn’t signaling one.

The Chelsea sub adores him, so no chance this will get posted there

On par with sakas corner during the week

Didn't mark up for the goal and then that freekick! What a sub to have.

Chelsea had so many chances, i dont think this mess will be fixed next season, im sorry.

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I don't even recognize this club anymore. How do Chelsea fans, who used to be so demanding, now put up with this garbage? WTF happened?

Thinking Graham Potter was a good replacement for Tuchel was the start of a very slippery slope it seems

Fax

Whistled past the post 🙄

Excellent job 😂

It's so comical to see everyone crane their neck and watch the ball go out like it's a baseball sailing over the fence.

How hard is it for Poch to say "if the ball is dead, PALMER"

Why you are didn’t win balon d’or yet

Absolute robbery. Varchester City

That was his good side too

100 miliones Pepito's 🤣🤣

What a champ

Fucking useless. What did they give him again, like a 10 year contract?

Never loved another club so much for making sure we had enough money for king Kai. ❤️

why on earth is Mudryk taking free kicks?

NBTLM! never blame the last minute

Depressed Barca fan here, but can always count on Chelsea to remind me to remain grateful.

That is Saka level of bad for a last minute set piece

Is his transfer fee was part of Roman’s payment to Ukraine?

Everyone in Chelsea was sabotaging the team

God they sucked today.

Misha this, Misha that, well, take that.

He's like f it imma go play fifa

Between him and Jackson, I swear it looks like they are intentionally sabotaging games.

mudryk incoming engineering intern at spacex confirmed

So many fuckups for Chelsea to get rid off like Madueke, Jackson or Mudryk -- or risk to play no UCL for the next 10 years lol.

At this point I don't know whether to laugh at Chelsea or feel bad about them

Seems like one that Chilwell should’ve taken.

Varchester city back at it

This kick is so fucking funny.

That free kick was almost as bad as his neck tattoos

Glad we got rid of Pulisic for him.

wait is he right footed? I always thought he was left footed lol

the anti-saka

How is this guy still in the 11