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indeed, a really shite track record winger-wise, CF-wise (other than Pedro), and especially CB-wise Sanchez finally stepping up, Penders looking great at Strasbourg make GKer ok

Not just the wide positions. Majority of them. Barring Palmer, Caicedo, Cucurella, Fernandez, Gusto & Estevao (due to his talent) are the only successful signings really. Pedro Neto & Joao Pedro maybe seen as positive signings too but they wouldn’t be starting players in a good Chelsea team. Been a lot of middle of the road players have been signed.

I agree with you overall — I think your take is completely fair. Sancho, because it was only a loan, ends up being one of the “less bad” moves in this whole mess. Even if he hasn’t been amazing, at least it wasn’t another £60–70m gamble that collapses. The risk was controlled, which already feels rare under BlueCo. Pedro Neto is also a slightly different case. He’s not a generational talent and he doesn’t have the ceiling of Estevão or Palmer, but you can see he has Premier League quality. He has moments. The problem is that “showing something once in a while” still doesn’t really justify the kind of spending Chelsea have done on wingers.

So, IN THEORY, if Pool one day down the road sells Rio for big money (say £50m to £70m), we could bank, at the end of the day, around £17 to £21m in toto. Downside to all that, Pool are NOT a selling club often, BUT Luis Díaz gives me hope. They got £65.3m from cheap-arse Bayern this summer for a close to 29yo winger in Díaz, who turns 30yo in the middle of this coming season, AND, in 3 and a half seasons there at Pool, only scored 6, then 5, then 13, then 17, in ALL COMPS, only averaging 8.3 EPL goals per season, ie 29 EPL goals total, divided by 3 and a half seasons. 2024/25 was the one season at Pool he was really great overall. He is now killing it at Bayern. 12 goals, 15 assists in only 2369 minutes. Bayern, in Olise and Díaz, have probably, atm, the 2nd best starting pair of wingers on the planet, after only Barca. PSG go 3 deep, but atm, their best TWO (KK and Désiré Doué, then Barcola as the 3rd) are not the equal IMHO. Only 2 wingers on the planet, ATM, that I would take over Olise are Yamal, and IF you play him as a winger, Mbappe. Hopefully Estêvão soon gets there too.

Chelsea boss Liam Rosenior says Arsenal showed his side a lack of respect during the warm-up for the second leg of their Carabao Cup semi-final on Tuesday. Rosenior was seen angrily shouting at those from the Gunners side to stay on their half of the pitch and not encroach on Chelsea's area as the teams prepared for the game at Emirates Stadium, with Arsenal winning 1-0 to secure a 4-2 aggregate victory. "It wasn't the players," said Rosenior. "When you warm up, you have your half and the other team have their half. "I've never asked my team or coaches to encroach on the opposition's territory. In that moment, I didn't think it was right where they were operating, they were affecting our warm up. "I asked them, maybe not politely, to make sure they stay in their half. I'm not here to have mind games, it's just what I think is right and respectful. Hopefully, we respect that and other teams do too." He added: "There are certain etiquettes in football. "I don't have an issue with anyone at Arsenal Football Club. [Arsenal manager] Mikel [Arteta] is someone I've got so much respect for. It was just in that moment, I didn't think that respect was shown to my team."

🔵💥Liverpool to pay max £6.8m for signing of Rio Ngumoha from Chelsea. @David_Ornstein states Tribunal rules LFC owe CFC initial £2.8m + £4m in potential bonuses relating to senior appearances, contracts & England honours. Chelsea will also receive 20% of the profit if he is sold.

The only way I think Julian Alvarez would come here is if we had a free run at him. If he signals that he wants a move he will have a long list of suitors offering him wages we refuse to go near. We probably have to accept that our 3 strikers next year will pretty much 100% be João Pedro, Delap, and Emegha.

Alvarez is class, Osimhen would do a great job here and Martinez will die at Inter And if there is any sniff that Kane wants back to England for one year go get him, he wants to break the scoring record and he would still do in this league, his intelligence is exactly what we talked about with Terry, not blessed with certain things but made up in other areas with the brain and movement.

Should’ve bought Osimhen or Alvarez already. Would take either here

Well, IF we want an actual world class (proven, not potential) CF this is all there are out there. Some are simply not available. Isak has a broken leg atm and has had (besides that, a horror start at Pool, but he still is WC in my book). in order of valuation (there are only 9 atm, plus 3 ancient ones) the ones in bold are potentially doable in terms of their club selling them (but some of those, especially Kane, may not want to come here, and CR7 would want INSANE money he is making £175m a year now just in salary. Lewa probably would not come either and is our board goin gto buy a player who turns 38yo right as the season starts?) Erling Håland Kylian Mbappé Alexander Isak (IF Pool sells him) Julián Alvarez Ousmane Dembélé Lautaro Martínez Hugo Ekitiké Victor Osimhen Harry Kane and the 3 ancient ones Cristiano Ronaldo Robert Lewandowski Karim Benzema end Who would you choose? Julián Alvarez, Lautaro Martínez, and Victor Osimhen are the only 3 remotely possible options IMHO, plus maybe (IF they sell him) Isak, but that is a WILD gamble until we see how he recovers. We also would absolutely need to sell Nico Jackson for a fair price. BTW Here are the top 10 CFs (valuation-wise) who are 32yo or older (other than Kane, Córdoba, and Lewa, the oldest on my original list in my maximal CF target list post last night was 31yo) Harry Kane Romelu Lukaku Cristiano Ronaldo Jhon Córdoba Robert Lewandowski Álvaro Morata Chris Wood Niclas Füllkrug Mauro Icardi Karim Benzema end

Estevao is pretty special IMO. Fantastic signing.

Sterling, Mudryk, Madueke, Neto, Gittens, Sancho on loan, Angelo, Estevao With the exception of Estevao (and Palmer if you want to include), not one winger signed by BlueCo has raised the level at the club. And hundreds of millions were spent. The owners are probably happy with the Madueke profit

State of it. Just sell him for a pie and a pint of larger. At least you’ll get something for your £50mil

J.Derry Time🙏

Hardly playing, when he does he isn't pulling up trees so not really a massive miss

BREAKING: Gittens has torn his hamstring and will be out long term, says Rosenior.

Delap will be another classic case of loan on loan on loan, he's behind JP in the pecking order, Tuesday night was an anomaly, we won't be using him like that anytime soon and really cannot see him scoring 5 goals between now and the end of the season.

The thing with Delap is that I think there IS a very good striker there. He’s got all the tools physically. For whatever reason he just hasn’t developed at all since arriving and seems more focused on getting in scraps than he is desperate to score goals. Even though we only paid £30m for him he has been so poor that we may not even get our money back on him if we decided to move on. I guess maybe Ipswich would if they’re promoted back.

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Brilliant 😅

Delap is shite, the bloke from Strasbourg is your usual stop gap and Joao Pedro is too up and down, whilst he is currently scoring he's not an out and out 9. We have to get the striker right no matter who is available this summer, and we have to pay very good money to obtain one. I'm not talking about a stop gap, a side shuffle to Strasbourg but simply a top quality striker. We fucked about over Osimhen, he would have done a job for us and ticks all the boxes. But like I have said for months we aren't paying big money anymore for either wages or transfer fees, the stop gaps are the issues and why we are falling away

🔵💥Long-serving Chelsea secretary David Barnard has announced his plans to retire. (@Matt_Law_DT)

what striker? We already have 3 - JP, Delap and the guy from strasbourg that come in the summer

The amount of money we have spunked on that left hand side for Gittens, Garnacho and Mudryk is sickening. For that total amount we could have had a Barcola and had spare change. It's like they can't do the math and think three players is great as opposed to one quality one and a decent back up. If we can get good money for Neto I'd send him packing, but come the summer it has to be striker, CB and keeper. We say this every window/year but they are the three positions without doubt.

Sanchez, Reece, Fofana, Trev, Cucu, Caicedo, Enzo, Estevao, Palmer, Garnacho, Pedro