Vesper

If we go back and look at all that has been said and done so far, and really dig down to a granular level, this window appears to come into sharper focus. Early on, and confirmed by a shit tonne of sources, Roman said spending will be capped at £60m. Sarri absolutely said that in order to come, we HAD to get Jorginho, or deal was off (and De Laurentiis had already agreed to let him go because Carlo Ancelotti said Allan, Zielinski, and Diawara were his preferred DMF/CMF options). There is your £60m (well $57m but 3m is shit) spent. Do NOT underestimate the difficult position Abramovich, as a full Russian national, is in with the UK government. He cannot even enter the country ATM. I follow politics even more than Chelsea, and it is an absolute shitstorm in terms of non linear warfare atm between the US/UK/NATO bloc versus Russia and its allies. The Skripal shit, etc etc has seriously hampered Roman's financials, plus (although it is rising now) the price of oil has devastated not just his net well, but all of Russia's. Their GDP has been cut in half over the last 2 years, and a huge amount of Abramovich's wealth is tied up in petro-chemicals and oil production assets. We have spent the bare minimum to get Sarri in the door (Conte had to go, as he personally pissed off Abramovich), and have not sales yet, so it simply is not a shock that we are not buying anything atm. Especially if these new sales rumours (to Jim Ratcliffe) are based on any reality. IF we don't sell Courtois, we don't even need to buy a GK this year, despite the fact we will lose him on a free next summer (but if the club is sold, Roman doesn't give a fuck).

Ermmm, GK? We are so fucked there ATM. Also RW (unless Willian is staying, and even then I think we are lacking, but oh well) and deffo another AMF (no way Barkley can play every minute every game) unless RLC can truly adapt there, and sell the deadwood Also LB is shaping up to be Emerson or nothing, Alonso looks for shit in a back 4

we need Martial as a number 9, not a winger I am absolutely convinced he would be a monster as a striker in Sarriball He played striker for Monaco all the time He was my fathers favourite player there (my father spends a lot of time in Monaco for years), and said he was making a huge mistake going to Manc U back several years ago, as they played such negative football (lol, the same could have been said of us at thew time, ffs)

The sanctions on Russian money transfers/business transactions and Roman being blocked from entry are a huge problem.

woooooooooooooooot

I agree we should buy Rugani but absolutely disagree that AC and Rudi are not good enough.

Well, its not like it is our regular lineup, so I am not at depression level yet

Thank dog Alonso is going off, total liability

Willy Caballero is absolute SHIT too. I would rather roll with that 19 yo Bulka as a 3rd or backup tbh, regardless of some youngster mistakes he is bound to make. Shame he doesnt count as HG

Roberto Gagliardini, the goalscorer, is the Inter MF who I have been saying we should go for instead of Vencino (IF we are insistent on getting another MF and one from Inter to be more specific)

FUCK Bakayoko needs to GO

sorry, dup post

Chelsea agree deal to sign 6ft 5in Polish goalkeeper Marcin Bulka after fighting off competition from Barcelona Chelsea were impressed by Marcin Bulka after he had a trial in April Bulka had been close to joining Barcelona but Chelsea won the race Former Chelsea goalkeeper Henrique Hilario encouraged the signing http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3716007/Chelsea-agree-deal-sign-6ft-5in-Polish-goalkeeper-Marcin-Bulka-fighting-competition-Barcelona.html

Morata looks 100000000000% better (its only 9 minutes so not going to get my panties wet yet!) lolol

woooooooooooooooot

the blue socks really set it it off

loooove our kits

that's a good one too

you may have to refresh it, usually not, but sometimes their stream lock up at times becuase they are full HD resolution

Much higher quality link https://www.easysport.tv/games/chelsea-vs-inter/

MS or Stefan Savić the Montenegrin CB from Atleti? I assume MS

Vecino is so not a AMF, that's why I don't see why we are fucking about with him, other than for some reason Sarri REALLY wants him. Maybe he has some grand scheme, no clue.

He moved to Italy at 15, is a full Italian citizen and plays for Italy, not Brasil at national team level.

Seeing Claude Makélélé made me year up just now, he and Lamps are my favourite footballers ever LOVED those kits too, that shade of blue, and so clean HAPPY TIMES!

And the great ones we sell for shit GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR I will NEVER get over the KDB sale Lukaku, meh, Salah was a mistake but NO ONE on planet predicted he would go for 44 goals, lolol Thiago Mendes in August 2005 ( right after our best team EVER!, my favourite all time team) was my first taste of WTF, and I was 13 then and cried like a baby,cuz he was one of my fav players Mourinho still says it was one of biggest mistakes he made AND we took a 50% LOSS (bought for 15m,sold for 10m) after one year, a good year too he had!