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80 is legit an insane price for Caicedo, 100 is just pure stupidity

100m for Caicedo would really be insane, with Enzo I could understand it as he has insane abilities that you cant see in almost any other player on Earth, Caicedo is great but there are a bunch of great players who play similar. I don’t get it. Don’t be fooled by Brighton so many times.

At risk of ending up in the same situation with a lot of dribbles made, a lot of key passes made, and not enough goals. Gonna be interesting, atm betting big on Jackson fmpov. I am more convinced that Kepa is a top 4 quality goalkeeper than I am that Jackson is a top 4 quality ST, as he has never done it, but maybe could.

I don't want him to end up at Inter tbh. Doesn't deserve it. They can put forward a proper package or they can fuck off and he either ends career in reserves or moves to whoever will put up something sensible for him, PL clubs need to stop propping up these poor-ass clubs who are robbing us blind over and over so they can finally sink.

Wonder how Poch gives assurances while simultaneously having the line that you get paid to train not to play. I think all he can tell him is he will be treated as a senior player the same as everyone else and he views him as in serious contention the same as the others, likes the type of player he is etc.

Another player in their prime, I honestly think that Saudi is a long term threat if they don't lose interest in this project. Money wins in the end, always, it just might take a while.

Still think we should be looking at him, good age, experience, height, skills, we would have option to play 4-3-3 with Caicedo at the base, Enzo as a left 8 and SMS as a right 8, would honestly be an insanely strong midfield...

The only way this strategy makes sense is if it is to be spread across 3 clubs owned by BlueCo (assuming another is coming in Portugal as rumoured), but somehow the rumours are all directly for these kids to come to Chelsea. It absolutely does not make sense for Chelsea FC to spend this much money on this many prospects, we've been here before and are clearing them all out now..

No thanks

Shame Dybala chose to stay, would have added goals and experience. He has been persistently injury prone and he / Mou have figured out an arrangement to work around it, I guess the lower intensity league plus the fact it is beautiful Italy is a strong draw to stay there and just enjoy football while he can. I am really hoping we see something concrete about Caicedo pop up today that implies it is done very soon... I like him but honestly if it will take up our whole team for 3 weeks at a crucial time like this I'd rather just grab someone else and work on this slowly in the background with no pressure as a potential added bonus but the pressure on Brighton to sell a player that wants to leave more than on us as a team in a desperate situation.

Enzo, Santos, Casadei, Reece James, Hall… My gut tells me Enzo and Reece is a top 4 tier 2 in a 4-2-3-1 but it would be a huge risk given Reece injury record and hasn’t played there much. I feel like we probably do Caicedo now and Poch takes a deep look at the others to decide if he needs another later in the window. If we don’t get Caicedo we go for a reasonably priced option and get it done very quickly, hopefully (K Thuram perhaps or any number of players that would be done quickly if we just put up 2/3rds of the Caicedo money)

Oh wow. Maybe there really is something to the Dybala rumour. That would really be a great move honestly. At £10m he might become our signing of the year if we got it done.

I think there were reports he has an attitude problem. He reminds me of Ziyech I'm ngl. There's always a chance he could be our next Joe Cole but idk (who also needed some persuasion to help out better defensively). If the scouts want him I'll come around to giving him a shot.

Cherki could easily turn into another Ziyech situation. He is lazy defensively, especially at pressing, and he can be a bit selfish offensively and doesn't really score goals. He has many talents, but I would want him to go through a transformational year before we bought him. Huge gamble imo unless he is cheap, which I wouldn't expect.

Tbh the idea of swapping Lukaku for Vlahovic with a bit of money going to Juve (circa £25m) is still very attractive to me, if they'd go for it. Have some doubts about him based on his season but his output in his bad season is more or less identical with Lukaku's output, and he's only 23. It would be a good deal for all parties in some way.

Random idea: Cancello Cucu swap deal?

The only logic to get De Gea would be as backup for Kepa if we think Slonina is our main GK in 12-24 months. Personally I’m not interested tbh.

Ideal world every player being bought for the XI or bench is in place a week from today. Never gonna happen sadly. Ideal timeline would be Caicedo suddenly happens on Monday and then we are immediately moving deep into other conversations, although it’s not really clear who at this point as only Dybala or Cherki are linked to us as goal scoring options. Enzo + Caicedo + Santos + Reece (if he is maybe being converted) would be a risky bet but may be enough for a 2 or 3 man midfield, but lacking experience. After that I still feel like we should be looking at ST, RW and GK. Dybala maybe resolves the first two problems to some extent and Mamardashvili would solve the latter. All affordable as well. All done by Friday and we spend the rest of the window flogging Lukaku and Ziyech or plotting how they are best used in a toilet cleaning capacity for 2023/24. A man can dream.

No way we allow it. Very disappointing week, but good to have more outgoings. Thought we’d have some concrete stuff on Caicedo by now.

Is he officially cancelled yet? Absolute snake.

He’s decent but not worth dealing with Inter for w/ other decent options in the market. Barella is the only Inter player I’d consider dealing with them for.

Get informed before talking

I honestly think our leadership now is looking pretty excellent, Boehly was clearly amateur-hour as a DoF but he's hired good people and they will steer us to incredible success over time. Poch + Laurence Stewart + Paul Winstanley = excellent team. I honestly think in 2 years we will look INSANE.

Maybe there is a sort of Mexican stand off around Lavia in that loads of clubs want him but none want to start a bidding war where Soton bid us against each other to inflate the price. Perhaps Lavia needs to pick the club he wants (like Caicedo did) and simplify matters.