Chelsea will have to pay big for Fellaini

Has any one got any ideas on who the new manger will be? I would have Slaven Bilic.

Pointless even speculating here. Who knows what's happening in the summer. Totally depends on our performance between now and May.

If he wants to go, then fine — as long we get the right amount of money, ie, £25M+

Replace him with Michu who I think would move for £12M -£15M.

Disagree We're already past 40 points and won't be relegated, which makes our owners happy and that's that. EFC is their toy to play with, not ours.

Chelsea obviously have the money to "pay big for Fellaini" as do several other clubs across Europe. Narrow thinking on the OP's part that only an EPL club is interested and can pay the freight. Fella might go anywhere.

But to do this, we will have to sell some of our star players.

As long the banks continue to loan — and presumably they're slowly pulling out of their crippling crisis mentality — there should be no need to pay the debt down substantially, except where the interest rates are making it difficult to service the debt.

Then it's a case of making sure standard forms of income are maximized — and that's where the club has been hugely let down by the current custodians in terms of merchandising especially.

Selling players to pay down the debt should only be a last resort, and only if the banks gave us no alternative.

25 million sponds would go someway to help the new gaffer rebuild or, if Moyessiah (Glory be to Him) sticks it out for yet another year, help him pick up four or so buys of Mirallas's quality and astuteness that will be worth exceedingly more than 1 Felli for us.

Should be a spendable buck or two left over for Moyes' replacement?

The new manager coming in would have to look at what we have in terms of youth and have an eye for a bargain.

I have resigned myself to the fact that this team and current manager are not good enough and top 4 and the FA Cup is fanciful.

How envious am I at Swansea getting some silverware and qualifying for Europe. We went out at Leeds with a whimper while the man had ambitions of CL football. Get real — we cant compete in the CL as we can't match it with the big boys in the Prem.

Man Utd seem light years ahead of us. More disappointing is the fact that the S will be above us very soon and will have a better chance of getting 4th.

of which overdrafts are
Group £11,015,000
Company £12,510,000

"other loans" are
Group £14,898,000
Company £14,000,000

and in addition the Company owe a significant amount of £21,286,00 to their subsidiaries which are due for repayment by May.

See Notes #15 for the breakdown

What the difference is between the 'Company' and the 'Group' is I don't know, and I have no idea what a susidiary of the Company would be and why we should owe them so much.

Only recently he has been criticised for looking like he's not bothered but I can understand that, he's only human and has said that he would stay with us if we got to the Champions League only to see the whole team going back to basics and in reverse. He probably is going through the motions and feels a bit fed up with the lack of progression.

People on here have criticised Rooney for leaving and Lescott but both aren't stupid. Look what they've won since. Fellaini and possibly Baines are just the next in what will be a never ending scenario whilst the snakes in the boardroom are still there and the boring old fart is still manager.

The thing with handing Moyes the cash is that he just can't be consistent over the course of a season, from the first game in August to the last game in May. You just get the feeling at the moment that he could have have the Barcelona team along with what we currently have in his squad for next August and still only finish sixth.

Personally, while I would trust him to buy some good players, I just wouldn't trust him with making the most out of any windfall over the course of a season. I think that we just don't have the revenue to keep handing the guy what wen have.

I would take a straight swap for Lukaku personally the guy is sheer class. The next Drogba.