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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

No, It was not the summer of 2018 It was the summer of 2017 that Conte told Costa (via text, ffs) that he was not wanted anymore. see this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Costa#Club_career 2017–18 season – Antonio Conte informing Costa by text in June 2017 that he would no longer be involved with Chelsea[131] In June 2017, Costa was told by Conte that he was not part of his plans for the coming season and that he was free to move to another team via text message.[131] Although Costa was linked to potential moves to the likes of Milan, Monaco, and Everton, he stated that he would only be open to moving back to his former team Atlético Madrid. Costa attempted to find a legal solution through his lawyer in pushing for a move back to Madrid,[132] and said that Chelsea were treating him like a "criminal" by demanding a high transfer fee for his exit.[133] He was excluded from training with the first-team, but was named in the Premier League squad, yet left out of the Champions League squad.[134] On 21 September 2017, Chelsea announced that Costa would return to Atlético at the start of the next transfer window in January 2018.[135][133] On 26 September 2017, it was announced that after passing medical tests Costa signed a contract with Atlético. He was registered and became eligible to play after 1 January 2018, due to a transfer ban imposed on Atlético.[136]

So instead they have downgraded on Maresca probably due to financial constraints. Im hoping these people kmow what they doing but tbf it certainly doesn't look like they do. I think its really sad times, all you have to do is look at the utter dross being connected to our club whether true or not.

I was perfectly ok with us selling Pulisic. Always injured and inconsistent when he was fit. What’s super maddening about our current situation is that 95% of our fanbase KNEW that we shouldn’t have gone near Gittens and Garnacho. Everyone knew these guys were bang average or even worse than bang average but for some strange reason people at our club were obsessed with both. If I’m being fair, if we had an amazing beast of a starting LW I actually would mind having Garnacho as that player’s sub. As infuriating as he is, he’ll still pop up with goals here and there. Gittens is the one that was a horrific mistake. Dortmund were literally shocked that we were willing to pay that price and their supporters were actually laughing at us for doing so too. We’ve now bought 3 high priced LW’s in a row that have all either been gigantic flops like Mudryk and Gittens or disgustingly inconsistent like Garna.

So far under Rosenior, we've managed to beat all the teams we're expected to beat. Hope they keep that streak going. And hopefully this time there won't be too many surprises in the starting lineup.