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Meh, no great loss we need a leftie anyway. Sarr and AA already can occupy the right. 
£60m on something we dont desperately need seems like a huge waste.

ok, let's think
here is every right-footed (Sarr is right-footed) and ambipedal (there is only ONE ambipedal, Dean Huijsen) CB on the planet valued over £26m on T-Markt
many (not all) of the unavailables we did try to get
in order of valuation (in euros)
strike-throughs are not available
 bold are viable options for me
    
William Saliba 90m
Pau Cubarsí  80m
Dean Huijsen  70m the only ambipedal
Dayot Upamecano 70m (wants HUGE money, in the Guehi range,and turns 28yo, thus making it very hard to stretch out the cost via a long contract, so pass)
Rúben Dias   60m
Cristian Romero  60m  (overrated, pass)
Marc Guéhi  55m (it would have cost us £144.8m to match the Citeh offer (ie fees and salary) for 7.5 years, plus he did not want to come back here from what I have seen)
Leny Yoro    55m
Ilya Zabarnyi 50m
Ibrahima Konaté   50m  (overrated and wants huge money, pass)
Ousmane Diomande  45m (BUT he just renewed until 2030 and his release clause is still £70m, so IF Sporting will not budge on that, it's a pass )
Luka Vuskovic 40m
Jarell Quansah 40m
Malick Thiaw 40m
Matthijs de Ligt 40m 
then all the rest are valued at 35m euros:
Abdukodir Khusanov 
Cristhian Mosquera  
Jan Paul van Hecke  
Edmond Tapsoba pass
Bremer (coming off a horrid injury, and is soon 29yo, pass)
Nathan Collins pass
Bafodé Diakité  pass
Yann Bisseck  pass
Maxence Lacroix pass
Ezri Konsa  
Trevoh Chalobah 
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so there are only 3 somewhat viable options for me, IMHO, on that list, and none of those 3 are locked down sure things in terms of being potentially better than Mamadou Sarr, and one (Diomande) is crazy money for the transfer fee
THIS, in terms of right-footed CBs, is who I would go for (obviously now talking summer 2026) if Jacquet is not doable:
Caicedo LOVES him

Analysis of Chelsea’s signings since Winstanley is worryingly damning
I'm not sure many will disagree too much with this, unfortunately
https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/analysis-of-chelseas-signings-since

This is not an analysis written by me, but it’s an analysis that I actually find it hard to disagree with, mostly at least.
I think every single person in this community has had a gripe around Chelsea’s recruitment under this owners. Of course, we’ve had gripes about recruitment under the previous ownership as well. But right now, that’s irrelevant. We are here and now.
The amount of money spent on this squad that still has gaping holes that 99% of us can all see, is quite literally absurd. How are we about to go into yet another couple of transfer windows and still need to make more big signings? It’s beyond belief really and we can all see it.
I’ve tried to be consistent with my opinion on current Chelsea, even after we won the Club World Cup. I’ve never been satisfied with what I’m seeing from the squad build, and with analysis like this below, it’s easy to see why.
Chelsea fan and former Chelsea TV staff, Jake Heasman, posted this on his X account:
‘Analysis of Chelsea’s signings since Winstanley.
‘42 signings, 3 genuine hits.
‘93% of signings have been misses or had minimal impact. Some in the balance.
‘£1.2bn spent. 89% on players under 25.
‘6 of these signings sold for profit, 4 made a loss.
‘It’s time for change.’

We can debate the hits and misses but I don’t think this is far wrong, in my view.
Enzo Fernandez might be the only genuine debate here. I do rate him, I just think that really the Premier League is just too much for him, he doesn’t quite have the athleticism and physicality to compete with the big, fast, and energetic midfielders that we have in this league, and he is often ghosted out by them. It’s that simple for me.
But even still, this analysis is truly damning and honestly, I’m running out of words to say on it all. I’m just genuinely in disbelief. Jake is right, it needs to change, and change NOW!
 

If it were up to you we would overpay for everyone. 
 
Enzo who you loved and we clearly overpaid for is the weak link out of our midfield/front bunch. 
 
You lot overreact like teenagers on here. 

Jackson is off to Bayern, his agent is in London now finalising the deal, Bayern just need to agree a fee with us and it's done

You guys were saying these awful pessimistic things about Kellyman too, and he is about to have his breakthrough year! 

Fucking hell @Vesper I started watching that post when we won the 2012 CL, I have just finished it now

Acheampong is one of our most composed players already,players develop at different speeds but he's been ready for an extended role for a while.for me the biggest decisìon Marseca has is where should he be a primary starter. But i'd certainly put him in our "untouchable" group of players.

Why are they briefs? At what point are people going to stop listening to everything from twitter like it’s gospel truth. More likely these twitter lying bastards have realised Chelsea fans are mostly dumb cunts who believe anything that is written (click bait) and the fans are the fish that keep on biting 

Actually think Strasbourg will be a great loan for him, he'll be a starter most likely and it's a great spot to adapt to Europe. Come here and he'll get stuff all minutes.

I just don't think its the panic stations everyone is going on about. 
People are praising PSG, but they signed all their current great talent at under 25... We have been trending upwards. 
Our players are going to be a year older, more experienced, resilient, and in tune with the manager and his method of playing. 
People are acting as if we were world beaters the last 10 years. We've won 1 PL title in the last 10 years. Our "success" is a bit of a mask when we had an extraordinary and unexpected CL run where we happened to hit our stride, and clearly built a cup side, but one not capable of winning the league (ala early 2000s Liverpool). 
If you zoom out and look at things for what they are - this last season results wise was one of our best in the last 10 years aside from the PL winning season, and CL winning season. We're in top 4, CL, and won a trophy. 
We are the youngest team in the league (history actually). Have some of the most promising players in Cole, Caicedo, Lavia, Enzo, Santos and Estevao in our team - who will continue to grow, be a staple/core of the team, and the average age between them is under 23 years old... We have RJ who can hopefully work his way back and is only 25. We have the likes of Colwill who has been hot and cold but is 22. 
I'm personally excited for the likes of Essugo, who is young and strong as a bull. I've heard nothing but great things about Quenda who will be joining us next season too. 
People are yearning for this return to glory, but it was masked well in the last 10 years under Roman. It wasn't as consistent or glory filled as we pretend. We had patches where we made it work. Both of our CL wins happened and were shocks to most of us. We didn't win while we were dominant, we won because we hit stride and it masked the faults of the club that were plain and obvious. 
Now we go into next season with more experience and a year older, know how to win a major final, and they showed when it gets tough they know how to get results with the last stretch. That is big. Yes I wasn't happy with the play since Xmas, but they dug deep and won. That is important. Is there things I'd like to be done better? Yes, clearly defensive and GK signings have been god awful, but I'm sure it is a point of making it better. Maignan would have been nice, but is it far and away the surefire thing we think it is? Maybe not - and glad they approached with caution considering how poor they've been spending money on keepers. 

Yeah we've got until the 1st of September to make signings and sell players. Some need to relax.