Are they a big club?
They were mid-table nobodies before Ambramovich. Russian jew made them big club
>>150481724Biggest club in London.
>>150481724no. a rich club with 2nd division tier following
>>150481724>Mens: first to win everything, current CWC holders>Womens: 5 WSL titles in a row, current domestic treble holdersidk, you tell me :)
>>150481724Yes, and this fact can be alone attested by the many jealous haters who will reply to this thread denying the obvious.
>>150481866>>150481898buying titles doesnt make you big. the fanbase does.there are championship sides with a bigger following
>>150481913/r/chelseafc has over 468 thousand subs on redditlets see walsall or whoever top that
>>150481913That's a fine criteria for smaller PL sides and down the hierarchy, but clubs that can compete at the highest level nationally and internationally should be called 'big' when they have a period of sustained success i.e. winning trophies. Otherwise in the case of teams like Arsenal 'competitors' or Man U 'historic'. Chelsea will one day become 'historic' when the wheel turns.
>>150481754You do realize that it’s 2025 now and Chelsea have won every major trophy available, yes? And have new owners btw lol
>>150481754this
Big clubs with rich histories and legacies of excellence: Liverpool, Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea, Leeds, Burnley, Everton, Crystal Palace, Aston VillaSmall, mercenary clubs without history or fan bases: everyone else
>>150481826Also the quietest stadium in London. Not a venue for neutrals that's for sure.
>>150481754>They were mid-table nobodiesNo
>>150481724there are no big clubs in london since Abramovich had chelsea stolen from him
They’re not even the biggest club in Fulham
>>150489651You must be 35 to post here
>>150489166How does that go against what he said? Their owners aren't much different now
>>150481724As big as Nottingham Forest & Aston Villa
>>150489651They were roughly equivalent to current West Ham
>>150481913Name one championship club that has a bigger following.
>>150481924> RedditMaybe go back there buddy :)
>>150481826Spurs are the biggest club in London. They are the man united of London and that's why the rest of you don't really like them
>>150494942Wrexham
>>150481853This>>150494282And this :^)
>>150481724Peterborough Utd. are bigger.
>>150481724only the big clubs get refballed the way they did against Fulham, so yes
>>150494282Fulham has an absolutely tiny fanbase. Almost nobody supports them.>t. Born and bred Londoner
>>150481724bigger than fulham
>>150494997I wouldn’t claim this but yet the football rivalry dynamic in London does unironically function as if Tottenham are the biggest so maybe they are
>>150489651yes they were. no one knew about chelsea before abramovic. I remember clearly how irrelevant Chelsea were when I was young and then suddenly they started to challenge out of nowhere. charlton with money.
this is what chelsea looked like before abramovich. more european trophies than every club in london combined too
>>150481866Arsenal's men and women's team are both bigger than Chelsea in terms of sheer trophies won. Can't argue with Chelsea's 2 CLs in some ways of course, but still.
>>150481724Biggest club in London
>>150481724Only club to win the CWC
>>150508810>Neverton
>>150494371>>150494932>>150508671Spastics. 97 onwards chelsea were winning trophies. How many cup winners cups, super cups, fa cups and league cups did Charlton win from 97 onwards? You dont know what you are talking about
>>150481754Unironically true. They have no history before 2003.
Chelsea from 95 finished in the top 6 for 19 consecutive seasons. Anyone saying they're a midtable club is a moron born in 2008. They'd also won the league historically and were winning trophies prior to Abramovich coming in. Also they've never been outside the top 2 tiers of English football.
It’ll be the year 2050 and haters will still say we aren’t a big club lol. Envy breeds animosity >>150514732Based
you tell me
>>150481724For you.
>>150481754and now they are the biggest team in england after liverpool in terms of international trophies
>>150508810Leeds have only won 3 league titles, 1 FA Cup and 1 League Cup and yet people think they're a massive club. They're not even the most successful team in Yorkshire.
>>150481724looks like it
>>150504421What about Millwall?
>>150515215>the small village of manchester
>>150527519>MillwallNot in Fulham
>>150526427Delete this
Yes, they have recent international titles and leagues, and also permanently in @st division now>b-b-but muh rich russianall big english teams are soulless multimillionaire corporations, hell I would extend that to all of europe if it weren't for germany and spain
>>150481724https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX0YFrPddto
>>150481724why do the supporters chant tottenham's name before every match at home? >>150494997 is correct, spurs are the biggest club in london
>>150481754Matthew harding, hoddle and ruud did a decent job but chelsh are not as big as Tottenham
>>150514593>>150508810Yeah Chelsea won a few cups in the 90’s but those were also almost their first ever trophies. By the time Roman bought them you only had 7 or 8 in your entire history so fuck off with that ‘they were decent in the late 90’s and early 2000’s so this means they weren’t a small nothing club’ bullshit chelshit fans always try to trot out. Not to mention you were in the verge of financial collapse from overspending and would have imploded like Leeds without Roman buying that shit club
>>150526427I counted. Exactly only 9 MAJOR trophies before Roman lmao. Truly a west ham sized club
literally the 2nd biggest club in Europe after Madrid."big" meaning "i'm an african/asian/brazilian who watches European football on the TV, which clubs have i heard of/want to play for/watch all the time". i'm not talking about most money made from shirt sales or technical fanbases etc, i mean people in the streets of the world, favelas, damp nooks and crannies, earthy people in deserts etc. they consider Chelsea massive now.
Yrs. At this point we have to admit. They finally did it. They bought greatness.
>>150534543no way, manure and scousers are a thousand times bigger for thirdie bandwagoners
>>150534940not anymore. africans in their 20s and 30s look back to the likes of Drogba, Makelele, Essien etc and see that as their dreamland. they aren't looking back to Dalglish or Gerrard or Torres
>>150525593based
