{"id":578,"date":"2026-08-07T05:05:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=578"},"modified":"2026-08-07T05:05:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T05:05:32","slug":"clowns-running-this-club-chelsea-beaten-to-xavi-simons-signing-by-tottenham-as-bad-directors-told-prioritising-alejandro-garnacho-was-disgusting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/?p=578","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Clowns running this club!&#8217; &#8211; Chelsea beaten to Xavi Simons signing by Tottenham as &#8216;bad directors&#8217; told prioritising Alejandro Garnacho was &#8216;disgusting&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<div>\n<p>Fans, though, appear to believe Simons would have been the superior signing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>@Iewdawg said: &#8220;Were *they* expecting to get him cheaper than \u00a352m or something? after 1 MONTH of negotiating we had no idea of what Leipzig would demand? Now we have 3 days to sign an alternative? we literally just needed to match Leipzig\u2019s bid and he picks us. f*cking clowns running this club.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>@crfcaioj7_\u00a0added: &#8220;Clownlake continues to be a joke. Remember, they made us go through the walk of shame in 2023-2024, and they messed up a lot of the casting. (Madueke, Jackson, Mudryk, Disasi, Sanchez, Badiashile, Felix, Lesley). Bad directors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>@Osowxvyy said: &#8220;Prioritising Garnacho over Simons is disgusting business.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>@Tonnie_Moremi\u00a0added: &#8220;Gittens and Garnacho, then let Spurs sign Simons, make it make sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>@HSports_HD said: &#8220;&#8221;Why are Chelsea fans crying over Xavi Simons to Spurs? He waited for Chelsea but chose Spurs. Garnacho did the same\u2014he said no to every team because he only wanted Chelsea. If Simons\u2019 interest was real, it would have happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goal.com\/en-ng\/lists\/clowns-running-club-chelsea-xavi-simons-signing-tottenham-alejandro-garnacho\/bltc1f67450ecdb42f2\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans, though, appear to believe Simons would have been the superior signing.\u00a0 @Iewdawg said: &#8220;Were&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/footballars.xyz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}