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and that m8, is a TRUE fiduciary nightmare went into depth on it in the Kepa thread bottom line IF we somehow (it will never happen for so many reasons) prised Oblak away from AM that will mean (in a BEST CASE scenario) that 7 years of first string GK (Kepa 2, Oblak 5) will overall cost us on an amortised basis £250m minimum overall costs and likely more all is documented over in the thread

IF (I am not convinced we will not make a couple moves still) actually do almost NOTHING this window after fighting like HELL to get it and CLEARLY doable good deals out there and we end up losing out on top 4 (given the pure shit of our competitors) I never want to hear the board defended ever again they likely will have (if we miss out on CL again and if we fail to finally clear rapidly value-haemorrhaging dregs yet again) basically set us upon a ruinous path for years, barring some SERIOUS luck

if he had a fling with Marina and banged out a pickney then 30 or 40 years from now if you wanted to bankrupt a multinational firm just appoint their spawn as the CEO the genetics dictate the firm would be in administration within 2 years

makes too much sense the board will never do it

Chelsea’s proposed deal is to pay an loan fee and cover the forward’s wages, in excess of £360,000 a week, until his contract expires at the end of June. Cavani’s wages alone would total £7.2 million and Chelsea would be expected to pay a fee of at least £5 million LOLOLOL that would mean we will have paid almost 30 MILLION QUID for two 6 months long loans for 30-something strikers and have zero to show for it when it ends (Higs is the other) goooooooooooooooooooooooooooo board!!!!

In terms of older strikers for a stopgap (most may not even be doable this late in the game, there are only 9 days left in the window) some (most) are simply meh Edin Dzeko Roma Artem Dzyuba Zenit Dries Mertens Napoli Bas Dost Eintracht Frankfurt Marko Arnautovic (China) Kévin Gameiro Valencia Anthony Modeste Köln Luuk de Jong Sevilla for longer term buys here is a fairly comprehensive breakdown

Edinson Cavani set to choose Atlético over Chelsea if deal with PSG is struck • Uruguayan’s father says striker’s preferred destination is Spain • PSG are treating him unfairly, says Luis Cavani https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jan/22/edinson-cavani-psg-atletico-chelsea-transfer

Lampard blames one Chelsea player for Arsenal equaliser https://www.football365.com/news/lampard-blames-one-chelsea-player-for-arsenal-equaliser Chelsea boss Frank Lampard says Emerson Palmieri for being at fault for Arsenal’s first goal in their 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea failed to capitalise on old boy David Luiz’s red card, thwarted by Hector Bellerin’s late equaliser. Cesar Azpilicueta thought he had scrambled Chelsea to victory with a neat finish only to see Hector Bellerin steal a share of the spoils, after Gabriel Martinelli’s breakaway goal had cancelled out Jorginho’s penalty. Arsenal’s opening goal from Martinelli came when counter-attacking from a Chelsea corner after N’Golo Kante had slipped. Instead of blaming Kante, Lampard was annoyed by the marking on the edge of the box from Palmieri. “It was on the edge of the box that was the problem,” Lampard said. “People have got to do their jobs. “We have people on the edge of the box that ran forward when they should have run backwards. It left N’Golo, it went to N’Golo and he slips. “That wasn’t the error. That’s something that can happen. The edge of the box was the error, as I say, a job that should have been done but not done.” snip yet we still will not sell the

Chelsea fans slate Kepa Arrizabalaga for performance against Arsenal https://www.thechelseachronicle.com/club-news/chelsea-fans-slate-kepa-arrizabalaga-for-performance-against-arsenal/ Some Chelsea fans once again slated goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga after the club’s 2-2 draw with Arsenal. The Gunners had just two shots on target and scored with them both, causing the Blues to drop yet more points at home. Lampard’s side had an extra man for 66 minutes after David Luiz was sent off in the first half. This seemed to only heap the pressure on Chelsea and they looked half the team once they had the numerical advantage. snip

yes, absolutely just missing out on CL will cost us more than selling him at a massive loss and eating some of his 5 years worth of crazy wages

Its the entire system he is not compatible with it time to sell in the summer or sack Lampard and bring in someone who will use a system tailored to him which is just a silly thing to do it will be one or the other it is not going to change whether you, me, or anyone may wish and hope differently

Afro was literally the only Chels player (other than Kepa of course) to not produce a single goal-scoring chance. The horrific Emerson, just to show you how fucking poor Afro was, produced FIVE. This POS needs to GO.

I rate Tomori based on potential and so so rate Reece now (defenders) Azpi is oki at RB (but thus benches Reece) but he is beyond wretched as a LB, a black hole of death offensively agree on the rest, plus Alonso is dogshit as well, but still actually (what a nightmare) better than Emerson atm

especially if Manure beats Wolves and we then more than likely drop out of the top 4 as of 10 days from now (barring a huge upset by Burnley of Manure tomorrow and us somehow pulling off a result away at Leicester, perhaps without Tammy)

AM will never swap the best or 2nd best GK on the planet for the dodgy Kepa unless we ate that 65-70m, and then they still will tell us to go fuck ourselves I figure Oblak's release clause is now well over £100m btw lets say we outright bought him and we somehow ended up losing only 50m quid on Kepa net on net Oblak's salary demands will be at least 25m pounds more (over 5 years) than Kepa's so 75m over 5 years add in the 20m in salary we will have already paid Kepa for last season and this one meaning a 50m net loss on Kepa 20m in Kepa salary already paid 105m in Oblak RC 75m or so for Oblak salary over 5 years equals £250m or so amortised total cost over the the 7 year period (2 of Kepa, 5 of Oblak) JUST FOR A GK let that sink in a quarter of a billion quid just for 7 total years of first string GK play LOLOLOLOLOL goooooooooooooo board

bingo further collateral damage from the continued square-peg, round-hole shoehorning in of Kante

Willian and Kante (as an advanced CMF) and Emerson and to a lesser extent Azpi (on the right, on the left he is INSANELY poor) are human rain delays when it comes to cohesive speed play Rudiger and AC (and the even worse Zouma) are also hardly the 2nd coming of Nesta as well

at this point Kepa is basically unsaleable we are on the amortised books for around £120m or so after this season (trans fee plus salary owed for FIVE more years at £10m per anum) lets say we somehow found a club that will pay (it will a non EPL club for sure) £32m (around 40m euros) trans fee for him BUT there is ZERO chance they pay all of his insane salary, especially as it is owed in pounds and the Euro is weak as shit atm so we will have to probably eat £25m to 30m of his remaining 5 years of salary as well meaning we take a £65m to £70m pure LOSS on his arse atm (and still a massive loss moving forward, unless he magically comes good) but hej our board are godlike sages according to some on here

not if we had a competent board but I fear yes, we may well be fucked right and proper (especially if Tammy is now injured for weeks) the ONLY silver lining is how utterly, profoundly shit the rest of the EPL (other than Victimpool and Shitty and maybe maybe Leicester) is atm

Lampard is either a diplomatic bullshitter OR he is shit judge of talent, and it is FAR from just on Willian

I was middle ground (as we had a scoring LWer in Hazard who sucked at defence so Willian balanced him out) UNTIL we turned down 65 fucking million quid for hin in 2018, knowing Hazard was leaving the next summer. Combine that with his HORRID attitude and he can fuck off

Isco isnt moving until the summer, after EURO 2020, and zero chance we will pay £45-50m for an 18 month contract for a 33 year old striker (fee plus salary) btw it cannot be an 18 month LOAN, his contract ends in 5 months

no, he just will not renew and will walk on a free or a desperation cheapie sale in two years which may happen anyway and who is this magical monster striker? Werner is not going to end up here we are not going to buy Lautaro better pray that Dembele is the second coming or we all will be sweating like a whore in church

SIBNEFT MAFIA BABY! FOR LIFE

I will keep this simple we literally have (other than the extremely erratic Tammy who has been poor lately) NO TRUE GOAL SCORERS ON THE FUCKING TEAM