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I wonder if in some funny way Rosenoir gives us an advantage with Jacques choosing us since he will know him well from managing in France. He can explain to the lad how he has studied him closely and has a specific big role in mind for him. That plus having other French players in our squad might swing it. If it all comes down to wages then obviously we’ll be blown out of the water. Tbh, I’m not that bothered either way. I feel like there will be plenty of CB options in the summer including those already on our books.

Conte reunion a sharp reminder of Chelsea's fall Image source,Getty Imagests Chelsea have not won the Premier League since Antonio Conte led them to the 2016-17 title - and facing the Italian's Napoli side on Wednesday brings that into sharp focus. Conte's triumph came in the season when Pep Guardiola began his reign as Manchester City boss. It was Conte's first campaign in England, too, and Chelsea enjoyed a club-record 13 consecutive league wins on their way to lifting the championship with 93 points. Their fifth Premier League crown in 13 seasons matched Manchester United's achievement in that same period. Chelsea - or indeed United - haven't ruled the roost since, amid an extensive turnover of players and coaches. Nine years down the line, we reach a dramatic finale to the Champions League's opening phase. Liam Rosenior's Chelsea need a win against Conte's Napoli at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona to go directly into the last-16 stage. Their hosts - Serie A champions last season - must win to stay in the competition.

SKY Kaveh😐

The board'll try to do a deal now for him to join in the summer. That's the only way I see us beating out the competition for his signing

Palmer has travelled and is fit and ready to play Project Puppet said he is due to have a conversation with Anselimino on Thursday/Friday

In regards to this Jaquet Potato fella, if it is right that Liverpool and Bayern want him we have got absolutely no chance if this is the case unless the players begs to come here. We will be blown out of the water on fee (even for the so called 55M) a small amount in this day and a fee we would never cough at before, but things have changed and also we will be blown out by the wages, Liverpool and Bayern will leave us way behind. We have to come to some sort of realism here, we are no longer big players in the market, the Enzo and Caicedo days are long gone, it's now about Garnacho type players and Garnacho like transfer fees

I miss when we got a transfer move completed and the shirt held up and it's a shocker. The likes of Fab content farming with 100 posts about every transfer has killed the interest + these guys will just publish whatever briefs clubs give them. Hardly any braincells used in the tweets

There is going to be a bit more shite spoken as the window draws to a close The funny thing about all this is, Fab and Ornstein with our board are being led a merry dance and the club that basically goes into reverse after they have sent out one of their so called 'power tweets' I'm starting to think the club are taking the piss

What a shock!! Not! How you guys get motivated to even read these tweets is pretty admirable tbh. Gave up following Fab and Ornstein a few windows back.. You can fool me once but you won’t fool me again. I’ve seen this movie a hundred times now. This ownership and their PR is pathetic at this point.

With the first part of my prediction coming true about how the club would brief that “we like our own guys” once we didn’t get Douglas Luiz, next I think the other prediction comes true by the end of the week. We’ll tell everyone that we are targeting some super unrealistic names for the summer. Yildiz and Julian Alvarez are my guesses.

Usually don’t read it if I see his name attached, time you won’t get back😂

“We love him, but pure profit, isn’t it?” These are words said from someone running the club’s daily operations about an academy player who has/will be sold in the last/next 12 months https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/we-love-him-but-pure-profit-isnt Unfortunately, this article is from a very good academy source and a good friend of mine, so it’s absolutely worth picking up on and not ignoring. I know that everything Parth has written in this deep dive article for The Chelsea Spot will be fully legit and true. Read the full article after this of course, it’s a long one but worth your time. The opening lines and paragraphs will be enough to concern many invested in our academy, and it will concern many. ‘These are words said from someone running the club’s daily operations about an academy player who has/will be sold in the last/next 12 months (unnamed to protect the staff member and player). It’s sadly the state the sport is in at the moment, and especially at Chelsea too. It’s brainwashed fanbases, club directors, and even head coaches, with Enzo Maresca justifying Conor Gallagher’s sale in the summer of 2024 (after the club threatened him to the bomb squad alongside Trevoh Chalobah) with some ridiculously incorrect comments: ‘Ignoring the last part of the report above, which is complete nonsense, a lot of change has happened – this is kinda what private equity firms do. They come in, find things they don’t like, find things they like, and change it up to suit their philosophy. Van Der Kraan and Joe Shields joined Chelsea from Manchester City and said Chelsea were doing things the old and wrong way. They argued Cobham’s old-fashioned culture was the reason we hadn’t won the FA Youth Cup or UEFA Youth League in a while, why we lost the likes of Rio Ngumoha and Ryan Mcaidoo, and why we were falling behind other academies in recruitment. It’s why Jim Fraser was pushed out of the club, a move pretty inevitable to anyone in the academy building who knew about Joe and Jim’s previous relationship, and why Neil Bath’s departure swiftly followed. It’s why there has been a huge staff turnover in the last 6 months, from coaches to local scouts to groundsmen, and by the sounds of it it’s only going to continue. ‘There will be plenty of the old-guard too who will happily tell me that a slight change and a new shock was needed and very much welcome at Cobham – I’m not doubting that either. One of the new moves under the new academy leadership team has seen the ‘best’ talents been pushed very quickly (to the right extent where they’re not skipping instrumental parts of development, maybe apart from Josh Acheampong) and getting such valuable experience at a young age, and I’m a fan. We started to see it when Kiano Dyer was featuring for the U21s regularly as a first-year scholar, but in previous years, there’s a strong argument to be had that someone like Ryan Kavuma-McQueen or Reggie Walsh would not have been getting such U21s and first team exposure with multiple older players available in their positions. ‘With change, comes impact. The new leadership team will be very much aware, and perhaps using to their advantage, that a persistent and lasting impact on academy football and culture can take multiple years to process in terms of credibility, sustainability, success and pathway – at the end of the day pretty much all of the elite U21s and U18s players you’re watching at the moment have been at Chelsea for over 5 years before any (serious) change was made. The previous work done to produce the players you’re seeing dominate the U18 Premier League and the UEFA Youth League must not be diminished in the slightest. ‘Matt Law, from The Telegraph, recently released an article discussing Chelsea’s factory at Cobham and how the academy has produced almost £1bn worth of young players who are now owned by a club in a top European league. I mean that is just ridiculous. Just have a read of some quotes from an agent with clients at the club, and Michael Emenalo (former sporting director and father of academy player Landon Emenalo): ‘The reality is, that if things go well in the next few years in the academy, the new leadership will take all the credit (whether it’s deserved or whether it was inevitable success is the burning question), and if things go badly, they’ll be blamed (while trying to put the blame on the old-guard). It is just how things are going to be.’ Please go ahead now and read the rest of the article, linked above. It’s important to state that a lot of this is of course just the opinion of one man, but remember that this one man is super well-informed with all things academy, gets info from THE best sources there, and is around the daily happenings there. But yes, it is just one mans opinion, other than the info he’s also shared. All in all, some worrying snippets in this, and I know that some of this has been picked up by members of our community on this site as well in recent weeks and months. So it’s important that we don’t ignore it and read things like this, to keep us informed at the very least. The general fan opinion and feeling on Joe Shields I have noticed changing over recent months. It’s interesting.

Sources: Sarr recall on the cards? It's looking likely now https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-sarr-recall-on-the-cards Nothing is done at the time of writing this. The only thing that is done is Aaron Anselmino has been recalled from his loan at Dortmund. As revealed over the weekend, the thinking is that Chelsea are now likely to recall Mamadou Sarr from his loan at Strasbourg to be the new centre back in the doors at the club this window, after a failed attempt to sign Jeremy Jacquet from Rennes. Chelsea are still looking to do a deal to sign Jacquet for the summer, but he will stay with Rennes until then. We are unsure yet if that is close or what type of deal they are looking to do, but they’re working on that now. So, Chelsea still want to give Liam Rosenior a new centre back, and due to the fact that he knows and rates Sarr so well, having had him at Strasbourg, they have decided that bringing him in now would be a good move. Rosenior is happy for this to happen and obviously knows Sarr is more than capable of playing his brand of football. Chelsea as a club also rate Sarr very highly and see him as the future of our defence in a pinnacle role. He already wears the captains armband at Strasbourg at the age of 20, so there is a lot of belief in this player within BlueCo. What we have heard, again, as already reported over the weekend, is that Anselmino will then join Strasbourg on loan for the rest of the season to cover the Sarr departure. So these are all the dominoes that need to fall in place. But we expect to hear more on this going into Monday. As I’ve said, nothing is done yet and all options are still being looked at, including other potential centre back targets. But the fact that Anselmino has been recalled, suggests to me that they are now pushing on with bringing Sarr in. Let’s see what today brings.

Romano "Trust me guys there is a big battle now on for Jaquet Potato between Liverpool, Chelsea and Bayern, all locked in talks with his agent" Ah well

Lavia won't play three games between now and the end of the season

Chelsea are in talks with Raheem Sterling and his representatives and a solution is expected to be found before the window closes on Monday. (@SkyKaveh)

Lavia will again look awesome in his first match or two back and then he will mysteriously vanish from sight for 3 weeks after which it will be announced that he got injured again.

Normal serviced resumed, nobody in, loans recalled, we flirted our penis's with Jaquet Potato and Luiz and we have now left the building

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Rosenoir will probably be told to say that Lavia and Anselmino are like new signings so we didn’t need to bring anyone in at his next press conference.

Yep, we ain't getting in anyone now, it's over.

Ornstein’s latest tweet, I fucking called it! 🤣🤣🤣 We dipped our toes in for some midfield cover, didn’t push very hard, and are now just going to stick with what we have. I’m fine with us not pushing hard for Luiz but we better pray that Moi stays fit if we aren’t getting another body in.

The genius with his finger on the pulse Simon Phillips said - 'maybe he does want to go, maybe he doesnt, only time will tell...' but he padded it out to 500 words.

Half the personnel we're associated with, including the manager, backroom staff, scouting set up would never have even been considered 10, 15, 20 years ago. Shows how far we've come. It was obvious from the 'takeover' we're part of a franchise where mediocrity is acceptable.