Source: FOOTYMAD
Who's doing the deal?
Is Gourlay the new Del Boy? While Chelsea chief execuitive Ron Gourlay swans around the Far East looking at venues for the pre-season matches and pressing the flesh on sponsors alike, the real business for fans goes on - getting in players. With a £22m or £25m offer for Luka Modric laughed off the Spurs' boardroom table yesterday, one wonders who is conducting these deals? Everyone in the foorball world knows Chelsea are after a creative midfielder and right-back as a priority. The striking situation is self-eveident evn to thos with little interest in the beautiful game. So who decided that £25m for Modric was a reasonable opening gambit? Modric is worth at least £6m-£7m more. But Gouraly and his cronies do love a "deal" - it's as if he's acting like Del Boy down Peckham Market than the boss of a multimillion-pound operation.Sure, try and save a few bob here and there, but this game of offering peanunts and then moving towards a figure somewhere in the middle is classless and poor business.Roman Abramovich could have saved in excess of £50m by not sacking managers and coaching staff. Most Chelsea fans are getting pretty much fed-up at the lack of communication from the club. Gourlay only said what he said about the manager being in place in the next couple of weeks because he was pressed on it at his his Far East jolly press conference. The club complains about idle speculation but fails to address it.
