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£50m (counting the add-ons) is not really 'cheap' IMHO it seems a fair price he is coming from the Dutch farmer league, home of the flops ofttimes I rate him, but not sky high atm (could change) he was wasn't really one of my 'must have if possible' wingers Kylian Mbappé (pipe dream) Rafael Leão Khvicha Kvaratskhelia Federico Chiesa (if fully recovers) Ousmane Dembélé Moussa Diaby Leroy Sané

Chelsea new boy wants to be next Didier Drogba as Graham Potter adds to incredible pool https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1714777/Chelsea-transfer-news-next-Didier-Drogba-Graham-Potter Chelsea’s new signing David Datro Fofana has already stated his admiration for Blues icon Didier Drogba and could become part of Graham Potter’s youth revolution amid a flurry of young talent recently joining the club. The Ivory Coast striker will move to Chelsea in January from Norwegian side Molde for an £8million fee, following a knee injury that ruled Armando Broja out for the season. The 20-year-old previously revealed that he idolised Drogba growing up, and will be proud to have the chance to follow in his footsteps. "Chelsea have been my favourite club since I was little,” Fofana told Norwegian outlet TV2. “Drogba played there, so they have always been my club. So it’s my dream.” The youngster is one of several irons Chelsea have had in the fire since co-owner and acting sporting director Todd Boehly joined the club in terms of the transfer market. Outside of the big-money signings of Raheem Sterling, Marc Cucurella, Wesley Fofana and Kalidou Koulibaly, a young core may be building and shows a lot of promise for the future. Fofana joins Broja as the young striker options at the club, even though the Albanian’s ACL injury has ruled him out for the remainder of the season. Potter has already ousted Edouard Mendy in favour of Kepa Arrizabalaga as the Blues’ number one, as the ex-Brighton coach wants his goalkeeper to be more comfortable with the ball at his feet. Though Potter only joined after the summer transfer window as he replaced the outgoing Thomas Tuchel, he will be impressed with the young core of defensive talent at the club. With Reece James he has a right-back that his side can build around for the next 10 years, and Fofana joined as one of the brightest centre-back talents in Europe. Trevoh Chalobah started the last seven Premier League games in a row before the World Cup break at just 23, and the club will also have an eye on the progress that starlet Levi Colwill is making on loan at Brighton. Chelsea moved to secure some of the midfielders within the league that have the most potential, as Carney Chukwuemeka and Omari Hutchinson joined from Aston Villa and Arsenal respectively and Blues fans will not have to wait long to see them regularly involved in the team, as both were on the bench for the 2-0 win over Bournemouth on Tuesday. They could form an exciting midfield trio with Conor Gallagher in the future, who is fighting for his spot in the team after impressing on loan at Crystal Palace last season. He earned a call-up to the senior England team under Gareth Southgate as proof that the future at Stamford Bridge could be very bright under Potter, who has a proven track record of developing young talent.

Barca scouting: Read online whatever player Chelsea is linked with, then run and try and buy him first Barca scout:

https://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2012/7/30/3204610/on-Chelsea-fc-ffp-and-amortization-of-transfer-fees Today we're going to look specifically at transfer fees and how they'll be accounted for under FFP. The rule as designed by UEFA allows clubs 2 alternatives in how to report transfer fees. The first method would be to simply record all transfer fees as expenses, which is the easiest way to report figures. When you buy a player, you would simply record the fee as a 1 time expense. When you sell a player, the fee would be a 1 time credit. Loss or profit would become a simple matter of subtracting sales from purchases and looking at the total. After the jump I've laid out what Chelsea's first 3 year monitoring period would look like using that specific method. Two things to note here. First, all figures displayed are in millions and have been rounded. Second, I don't have access to the specifics of all sales and purchases, so these figures reflect the most educated estimates we have. The data may be off by a few million pounds in either direction, but overall you get a pretty good idea of where we stand by looking at the chart below. The expensing method has it's good and bad points, but my guess is that basically nobody will show their accounting using this method. Writing off transfer fees as a 1 time expense creates wild variances in profit and loss. While this method would allow for quick fixes to large losses by selling players, it would also make it very difficult to consistently break even. Clubs using this method would likely show seasons of large profit and large loss at varying points of their accounting, and that would seem to make consistent compliance with FFP far more difficult. Because of that fact, I think it's safe to assume that Chelsea and every other club out there will take the other option that UEFA is offering, amortizing transfer costs*. *Clubs can't swap between methods from 1 season to the next, they have to report using the same methods every season. By amortizing transfer fees, UEFA is allowing clubs to spread the cost of the purchase over the life of the contract. As a simple example, a player purchased for £10 million and signed to a 5 year deal would have his transfer fee spread out over the 5 years he was under contract. That's £2 million per year, nice and simple. What happens if a player extends though? We'll use the above £10 million player as our example again. That player finishes the second year of his contract with the club, and the club and player reach an agreement that extends the contract for 2 more seasons. At that point we take the £6 million that has yet to be accounted for in the books ( £4 million has already been accounted for in years 1 and 2) and split that up over the 5 years the players is now contracted to the club. This player will now cost £1.2 million against FFP for the remainder of his contract. If he extends again, you'd simply repeat that process using whatever amount is yet to be accounted for. Below you can find the chart of how Chelsea's transfer spending would look under the amortization method of FFP accounting. You'll note that both Ramires and David Luiz extended this season, and their transfer costs counted against the books this year have dropped accordingly. That looks a lot better, no? Using the amortization method of accounting, there is basically no chance that Chelsea fail to comply during the initial accounting periods of FFP. I've used exactly the same figures for transfer fees, but simply broken them down over the life of the contract. Using the amortization method, Chelsea are showing about £163 million less that they've spent in transfer fees for the first accounting period. This brings up an interesting dilemma though, as how do we account for player sales using this method. First, there are 2 types of player sales. Academy products don't have transfer fees to account for, so they are very easy to show. Simply take whatever you received for the player in question and add it to your income. Players signed prior to 2010 are being accounted using this method as well, although there likely won't be significant fees from those players going forward. What if we sold a guy that counts against FFP though? What do you do with the portion of their transfer fee still to be accounted for? It's fairly simple actually, but it does take a little math. Let's use Yossi Benayoun in this example, as he's likely to be sold this summer anyway. Let's say we sell Yossi for £1 million. We had Yossi on the books for £2 million this season. We'd take that total, subtract the £1 million from the sale, and Yossi would cost £1 million against the books this season. So what if the player we sell is not in the last year of their deal? For this example we'll look at Fernando Torres. Torres through his first season and a half has seen £13.5 million go against the books. He's got 4 years and £36.5 million left to account for. Let's say we manged to sell Torres for £20 million tomorrow. How would we account for that? Well, we'd take all of the £36.5 million still owed to Torres, subtract the £20 million we just got for him, and record the £16.5 million as a 1 time loss for the 2012/13 season. Torres would never again count against the FFP books, we'd take the 1 time hit and move on. This math would work for profits as well. If we take the same player (Torres) and sell him for the same £50 million we initially paid for him, the accounting works the same. We'd take the £36.5 million still needing to be accounted for on the books, subtract the £50 million we just sold the player for, and put the resulting £13.5 million in profit towards 2012/13. It's a 1 time profit, and Torres would disappear from the books entirely after the 2012/13 season. This method of accounting for player sales helps to highlight the genius of what Chelsea are currently doing. We've spent a lot of money thus far this summer, no question about it. But using a player for 4-5 seasons and then selling him at a high point of his value is going to cut out a massive portion of our amortized transfer spending. Buying assets with resale value will literally allow Chelsea to continue spending on the transfer market in the future, buying guys like Luka Modric, Hulk, and Cavani just won't. Selling just 1 or 2 players for £15 million apiece can fund a pretty massive spending spree in the short term, as the sale of Yuri Zhirkov is enough to offset this season's amortized hit of every single player we've bought in the last 2 transfer windows combined. Buying young and selling off the surplus later will help Chelsea remain compliant, as it's actually a sustainable model.

that is why we are offering over the release clause, so we can stagger it out and that tweeter name drops Romano all the time and when you go look, Romano never has said exactly what that tweeter claims he said

IF we get Enzo, that surely closes the door on Bellingham and also on any effort to try and pull de Jong from Barca then it is down, IMHO, to buying either Rice or Caicedo, two entirely different types of players Caicedo, (along with the crazy hard to pull Barella), are the two closest things atm to Kante Rice is a trad DMF cruncher, and he seems to have dropped off, as West Ham have went to shit

Chelsea to discuss personal terms with Enzo Fernandez after agreeing to pay huge release clause for Argentina star https://www.lfclive.net/news/Chelsea-to-discuss-personal-terms-with-Enzo-Fernandez-after-agreeing-to-pay-huge-release-clause-for-Argentina-star-1163862 Chelsea will enter personal talks with Enzo Fernandez after agreeing to pay Benfica's huge release clause in their bid to sign him in January. Chelsea however appear to have blown their rivals out of the water, agreeing to pay the midfielder's €120million release clause. According to The Sun, Chelsea have met with both Benfica president Rui Costa and super-agent Jorge Mendes, with the Blues confirming they will have no issue in meeting that huge release clause. It now leaves Chelsea free to open talks with the player and his representatives as they seek to agree personal terms.

IF we get Enzo in January, we are crazy to not sell Jorginho if we have no intention of caving into hs demands should sell RLC too, Carney (to name just one player) can surely take up his slack wish we could sell Kante too, but zero chance anyone pays much at all for an injured until March or April player in his last 6 months of contract

all else aside we have dropped 10 to 13 inexcusable points both under Tuchel and Potter the 2 loses to Leeds (3 nil, yikes) and Southampton (both the those were true WTF! games under Tuchel) plus the Brentford draw (like 6 or 7 sitter's missed) the Man U choke draw (Casemiro, 94th minute) and that robbery draw v Spuds (the CuCu hair pull slam game) and we should have drawn with NUFC, not lost we should probably be on 37 points And even if you say, well we will accept losing to NUFC instead of a draw and will accept the Brentford draw (the Spuds and Manure draws were a pure robbery for one, and pure choke for the other), it's still 10 points dropped those 10 points would have put us at 34 (one point behind Citeh one even games played, and in clear 3rd place, 1 point above NUFC (and we have a game in hand), and 5 above Spuds (with a game in hand for us), and 6 above Manure (on even games), and nine above Pool, on even games played the rest of the points we dropped (the 2 other losses were to Arse and that hiding Brighton gave us) I can accept (to a small degree, lol, that Brighton games was just one of those things, and they are a solid club)

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nil 3 Håland 20 league goals now

Håland this season in 2000 minutes 31 goals 4 assists 19 are league goals, in 1100 minutes lol

nil 2 Håland

Chelsea Football Club has today released the following statement about Reece James... https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/reece-james-update Defender Reece James underwent assessment earlier today after being substituted during the second half of last night’s 2-0 Premier League victory over AFC Bournemouth due to a knee injury. Scan results have regrettably confirmed a setback for the 23-year-old, with Reece now set to be ruled out for up to a month.

as much as some people do not rate Rice (I rate him, but not at the top top of my wish list) I DO NOT want Pickford as our keeper! ffs go for all of these before him (Plus we have Slonina eventually) Jan Oblak Emiliano Martínez Dominik Livakovic Giorgi Mamardashvili Illan Meslier Odysseas Vlachodimos younger Matvey Safonov Anatoliy Trubin Maarten Vandevoordt

so Pep renewed until June 30, 2025 he will have at least 3 more shots with Citeh at winning the CL thus season, and then the next two https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2022/11/22/pep-guardiola-set-extend-manchester-city-contract-2025/

board must be glitching again

wth, lol

Leeds v Citeh stream https://www.sportfacts.net/sports/2022/premier-league-leeds-united-vs-manchester-city-s1/

Cup revelation, Enzo Fernández denies transfer rumors: "I'm focused on Benfica" The 21-year-old player draws the attention of Real Madrid and Manchester United after excelling at the World Cup in Qatar By Ge's Staff — San Martín, Argentina https://ge.globo.com/futebol/futebol-internacional/noticia/2022/12/26/revelacao-da-copa-enzo-fernandez-nega-rumores-de-transferencia-estou-focado-no-benfica.ghtml Elected the revelation of the 2022 World Cup , the Argentine Enzo Fernández has been arousing the interest of many teams in Europe. However, the midfielder assured that he is focused on Benfica , his current team. - I don't know anything about that. It's up to my agent, I don't want to get involved. I'm focused on Benfica, in a few days we have an important game. I have a flight at night to play in the game on Friday - said Enzo in a speech to a crowd in the city of San Martín, Argentina. + Enzo Fernández: author of the great goal for Argentina had an offer from Flamengo and won the final against Palmeiras The game Enzo is referring to is against Braga for the Portuguese Championship . Benfica is the leader of the competition with 37 points while Braga is in third place with 28 points. According to the Spanish French newspaper As, Real Madrid and Manchester United are interested in Enzo. According to the Portuguese newspaper Record, Benfica rejected a proposal of 100 million euros from Liverpool for the Argentine. The Transfermarkt website points out that the market value of Enzo Fernández is 55 million euros, about R$ 303 million. The athlete has a contract until 2027 with Benfica and was bought for 18 million euros, around R$ 98 million at the current quotation, from River Plate . Enzo Fernández is only 21 years old and left much more valued than when he entered the World Cup in Qatar. The player started the Cup as a substitute for Paredes, but after the great goal against Mexico (watch below) he never lost his position until he lifted the cup.

Report: Chelsea want to sign £130m star and 23-year-old with Enzo Fernandez in amazing potential triple swoop https://www.thechelseachronicle.com/transfer-news/report-Chelsea-want-to-sign-130m-star-and-23-year-old-with-enzo-fernandez-in-amazing-potential-triple-swoop/ Chelsea reportedly want to sign all three of Enzo Fernandez, Jude Bellingham and Declan Rice in a potential amazing triple swoop. According to the Evening Standard, the Blues are ready to pay Fernandez’s £105million release clause at Benfica. Apparently, Chelsea have informed super-agent Jorge Mendes that they’re willing to meet the demands to try bring the 21-year-old to Stamford Bridge in January. The report adds that Chelsea’s interest in the Benfica midfielder doesn’t interfere with their interest in Borussia Dortmund’s Bellingham or West Ham’s Rice. Chelsea want Fernandez, Bellingham and Rice This latest speculation suggests Graham Potter’s side want a huge revamp in the centre of the park. In our view, it’ll be almost impossible to pull off a deal for the aforementioned trio in 2023, who are three of the world’s very best young central midfielders. However, it’s excellent to see the Blues shopping at the top table. According to The Sun last week, Chelsea are among the clubs interested in signing £130million-rated star Bellingham from German side Dortmund. Bellingham, 19, is a box-to-box midfielder already shining on the biggest stage for club and country. In addition, 23-year-old Rice is an all-action central midfielder that’s been performing so consistently in the Premier League for several years now. Journalist Ben Jacobs recently reported that Chelsea think they may be able to steal Rice away from rivals West Ham for £75million. Any side that managed to sign all of Fernandez, Bellingham and Rice would have their midfield nailed for the next decade. For us, signing just one of them would be some achievement.

Report: Barcelona are trying to convince £35m player not to join Chelsea in January now https://www.thechelseachronicle.com/transfer-news/report-barcelona-are-trying-to-convince-35m-player-not-to-join-Chelsea-in-january-now/ Reports from France have claimed that Barcelona are looking to convince Benoit Badiashile to not join Chelsea during next month’s transfer window. According to L’Equipe, the Catalan club are hoping the defender chooses to wait until next summer before he makes his big move to a European powerhouse. Reports over Christmas weekend claimed that the Blues have made an offer to Monaco to sign the 21-year-old in January, with their bid being in the region of £35m. It appears as if they are currently preferring the signing to that of Josko Gvardiol. After nearly signing the young defender during the last summer window, Blues fans were forced to watch him be arguably the best in his position at the tournament. However, RB Leipzig have seemingly used this to their advantage, as they have begun to demand a far higher price than before for the Croatian. Barcelona in for Badiashile This has seemingly seen the Blues shift their focus in the market to fellow youngster Badiashile. However, L’Equipe have claimed that the Blues will face competition from the likes of Barcelona and Manchester United if they don’t get the deal done in January. With Thiago Silva almost certainly on the way out soon, the Blues will need to invest heavily in order to fill the void he is likely to leave in his wake. The Blues are also facing a number of injury issues at the back this season. Wesley Fofana recently suffered another setback after attempting to return from a problem suffered earlier in the campaign. The treatment table is getting very busy at Stamford Bridge right now, with Reece James time off it being very brief. He suffered another injury on his return against Bournemouth, with his comeback lasting just over half of the fixture.