Vesper

future prognostication is based off of previous experiences the odds are high that the downward trajectory continues to occur

fuck nil 1 Leicester Vardy with his 15th

didn't you get the memo in 2016? everything bad that happens in the UK is Russia's fault including Chels same for in the US ffs

West Brom looks a juggernaut atm, my Baggie m8 is already giving me the business who they are going to tear into us in the EPL next season, lolol

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oh, I am sure he will probably not be sold, and will be kept here for years to come and it will finally get to the point where he is just released. I also have no doubts that if that is indeed the route we go down, he will cost us plenty of games over the next 3 or so years (and many will scream to the heavens that I am wrong and a just a hater, even as he does it)

I have said over and over for months that Pep is arrogant and insane to not buy a CB to replace Kompany, and now, AFTER a top 5 in the world or so CB (Laporte) goes down, he STILL says nope, we need no one that is so foolish and he will pay the price, much to my pleasure he is far too stubborn when he is left with little options it is a joke to think that a soon to be 35yo DMF is an adequate CB on a team that s trying to be the best on the planet for the past 3 years as for Azpi and all the conversations atm, none of thsi would be going on IF Lampard had not trotted him out at LB I mean, yes, I look log term and try to posit moves (my targets are RB are far from super costly and are more than doable) where we can fix shit long term, but but now that he is being played at LB, it just ramps it up more the only thing I can safely say is that IF we do nothing much overall, miss out on all our main targets in all positions of true need, then next year is going to 65% (or higher) more than likely going to see Lampard sacked before the season ends or at its conclusion will we do nothing? I also doubt that, but it is a possibilty that we do miss out on most, as all the other giant teams are going to be stocking up as well there is zero to say that we have a dead lock on Chilwell or any other great LB, zero to say we have a dead lock on Sancho or any other great winger (there just are not that many great RWers out there atm who are available or worth the gamble) there is zero to say we will even try to buy a truly WC CB and may just settle for grabbing Ake and shipping out AC there is zero to say we have a lock on Werner (odds are high high high against us) and I have no clue if we even try for the ludicrously low priced (less than £17m release clause) Håland. No guarantees on Dembele the striker, both in terms of getting him and then even IF he is up to a sutibale EPL level. Even less guarantees that we even move for a true DMF or even a hybrid type like Camavinga. Sander Berge may or may not be the answer, but we do not even know if he wants to come here, and other teams seem to want him more. So yes, I could see us missing out on many if not all of those. I also see, when we go down to literally a player by player level, many on here make a case that we should NOT sell any of them (when you go one by one) other than Pedro, Alonso (and I am NOT convinced we sell HIM ffs, grrrr, as he so seems to be a board favourite) and Barkley (and even Barkley, I think, has been defended as needing to stay by a few). Giroud has been defended as needing to stay. Bats too. Willian (I myself have said this, that he should stay, as we will NOT buy two new RWers as it stands, IMHO) Every CB we have now has been defended as a must keep, even AC (albeit by very few), I see no plan B for LB if we miss out on Chilwell, other than what some of us put up here on this board. The main plan B I see if we miss out on Sancho (and again, I am somewhat doubtful that we can pull him) is the turgid Zaha (I so strongly suggest people watch his game yesterday against the dreadfully poor Watford side to see him in action, he was beyond useless in a horrid nil nil draw) Ake is now injured (hamstring, waiting to see how bad, (Eddie Howe said it looked bad) so he might be out util mid January or so) We got really lucky with Kovacic and probably Pulisic and fairly lucky with Jorginho (and the last two cost almost £120m so it wasn't like they were on the cheap as well and Pulisic took around (per the board) TWO YEARS to sort out). Going even further back, Rudiger and Kante were great buys (as long as Rudiger recovers and stays healthy from now on). Other than that, our transfers (and lack of sales and mis-timed forced sales) have been SHIT lately. Kepa truly is starting to worry me, and pretty much every other move has been a bust. We completely have mismanaged contracts and refused to sell dregs when clubs have came calling. So, no, I am not confident at all that we can sort out our current issues this January and then in Summer, all I can do is keep putting up targets and plans. I (because I am not afraid to go out on a limb) will say that IF the nightmare does happen, and we completely fuck up most everything transfer wise, that we will be in dire straights by this time next year, as the definition of insanity is repeating the same mistakes over and over and over, yet each time expecting a different result. The same goes for normalcy bias, where people simply refuse to think it can get worse, and that there is no real need to change things at all.

neither one would cost a fortune (and it isnt like we would get nothing for Azpi) and there is this Chelsea captain Cesar Azpilicueta to be offered return to Spain if youngster replaces him https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-captain-cesar-azpilicueta-offered-19540958

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well then we are committing to geting nothing (or near nothing for him) and getting either of those 2 I listed will not be insanely hard if not this summer then surely next but if Recce goes down we are more or less fucked at every single option at both fullbacks next year as it stands (Emerson, as I stated in other posts is an ok backup LB but who knows what we do with him, and I did lay out an option where he would able to be sold in the summer IF we brought in Telles this January (£33.5m release clause and only 18 months left on his Porto contract) then dump Emerson (Alonso is surely gone either way) to Juve to partially fund a Chilwell buy in the summer I absolutely think that this summer we still could sell Azpi for enough to basically fund or get damn near the cost of either Castagne or Mukiele Spanish and Italian sides covet him still all that said, I am not convinced we do shit, and we all will be having the same damn convos this time next year hell I can so see us bollocking up LB if we miss out on Chilwell finally I do have to add that RB is being looked at, there are too many rumours about other RB's for that not to be the case, at least in theory

yes, he turns 30 right after next season ends and this year he has fallen off a little and also Napoli will still want insane money for him

I already listed my targets for that over and over main one being Timothy Castagne from Atalanta or then Nordi Mukiele from RB Leipzig

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he would be an upgrade over AC and Zouma (who both need to to GO in the summer or even this January (one of them) IF we can bring in Romagnoli) no problem with him (Ake) coming in, but we still need to buy a truly world class CB, simply swapping him for either Zouma or AC is asking for a further nightmare (albeit maybe a wee bit less of one), even with a healthy Rudiger

Smalling was a BEAST in that Inter game, Lukaku (who somehow has now developed decent touch though) was OWNED by him

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Messi broke CR7's record for La Liga hat tricks, BUT it took him 174(!) more games

Azpi, AC, Mount (his goal aside) Zouma, and Kepa have been disasterclass lately super troubling all have chosen the same time to collapse and Willian (who otherwise has been playing great IMHO) picked a fucked up game to all of a sudden go trigger-scared and not shoot the West Ham and now Everton games have left me more frustrated than I have been in ages I detest losing to shit teams and even more so, I detest having a shit defence to be honest we are playing just like Derby did, score a tonne, but give up more Lamps so far looks fairly clueless on how to organise a defence FOUR clean sheets in 25 games. more goals conceded after 16 league games than any previous Chels EPL side that is fucked up

Kovacic or Rudiger would be my pick as captain, Jorginho 3rd, no one else remotely close (Kante is not a captain style person, he is too shy)

just grabbing him is not good enough both Zouma and AC simply have to go and Ake is NOT (I do rate him coming back to replace AC as that is close to a wash money-wise IF Barca still want to buy AC) the truly WC CB we desperately need as well the 6 main targets in my book (some are basically impossible I do admit) Romagnoli/Skriniar/Konate/José Giménez/Raphaël Varane/Marquinhos Rúben Dias had his release clause raised to 88m euros (around £75m atm as the pound has gained on the euro since the £80m figure was mooted) which is just too fucking high a cost IMHO for a player who has only played in shite Liga NOS

they will tell us to piss off as they can get damn near the same price in summer (when they can grab a replacement) and they are trying for the title (they are now the only team who can stop Victimpool, and although that is doubtful, surely they want a top 3 or top 2 finish) Gaya has a 100m euro (£84m atm as the pound is surging v the euro) release clause but I do not rate him worth THAT much Grimaldo has a much lower RC, 60m euros (£50m) Alex Telles is by far the most doable in January, as I think his RC is still only 40m euros (£33.5m) and his contract runs out in 18 months, so Porto will probably want to deal surely we can also sell either Alonso (much preferred to sell him now) or Emerson (Juve want him badly) now as well to cover some (most if Telles?) of the cost then sell the other in summer and (IF it is Telles we buy) buy Chilwell atm, I do not rate Maatsen, as he is far too small (the bloke is only 1.68m) and will get bullied at EPL level if we really want to find out more right now if he can play LB for us down the road, then start him in a game (FA Cup v Forest or even better (in terms of seeing him against EPL comp) v SOTON or Bournemouth, although those two game up the risk level of continuing our disastrous very late autumn (winter starts Dec 22) mini-run we are in) my ideal back 4 players on the squad after summer window closes (obviously most of these save for Telles and maybe, MAYBE Romagnoli) cannot be done in January) CB Romagnoli or Skriniar 'CB Rudiger CB Ake CB Tomori CB Guehi LB Chilwell LB Telles (provided we buy him now, otherwise I guess just roll with Emerson as backup) RB Reece RB Timothy Castagne (tall (1.85m) pacy Belgian RB on Atalanta, just turned 24 three days ago, or Nordi Mukiele, even taller (same height as Alonso) 22yo on RB Leipzig who was just on the Bundesliga TOTM and who I have mentioned before) SELL (now or in the summer) Zouma (sorry, I am now perma-back to him not being Chels quality, which I never should have allowed my mind to be changed on), AC (GTFO), Alonso (GTFO), Emerson (unless we do not buy Telles now), Azpi (it is sell him now or in summer (summer being far more likely I suppose due to tough pulls in January) or resign ourselves to getting shit or zero for him and having him continue to drag us down when he plays most of the time, ESPECIALLY at the suicidally stupid LB spot) I am absolutely DONE with all of them, save for Emerson in a backup role, but a Telles buy NOW (January) would mandate he be sold in the summer as well IF we want to grab Chilwell in the summer

Nicolas N'Koulou is 30yo in 3 months btw, so absolutely off the board.

SELL HIM THIS SUMMER he is DONE SPENT SHOT he is even worse as a LB than Alonso is

SELL HIM THIS SUMMER

SELL HIM THIS SUMMER