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Agreed on not selling Mount, but depends what he is asking for on a new contract. If it’s not realistic to keep him because he has outrageous demands out of sync with what we are trying to do then sadly selling him makes a lot of sense and would set us up well in FFP.

It is impossible to stop thinking about it

If we sell Mount it has to be for 75m+ based on the market now...

Sort of surprised there hasn't been a flurry of last minute Enzo rumours. My vague hope that we were going to last minute go and grab this guy is dwindling.

Lukaku is surely the worst transfer in history.

The two most feasible players I reckon, Zubi even has a release clause (but I assume he is known to be Madrid bound or smth as Spanish prospect, otherwise someone would have bought him already).

If Caicedo to Arsenal becomes even close to looking likely I bet we would swoop in again. Funny they've started going after all of our targets though, after we started doing it to them.

You are the only person here with an agenda. Tbh I (and probably most people) don't even really think about nationalities (and definitely not continents) in football, but I'm sure we have had pretty amazing contingent of Africans throughout the years. There is a simple problem with Koulibaly that he plays like a man in his 40s, the rest of the players all did great things for Chelsea and even Ziyech who never really banged here I have a lot of sympathy for as he is obviously a very good footballer it just didn't work out for him here. I don't know why you are trying so hard to read something into this, we spend half of our time on this forum slagging off players and I'm sure a German could come on here and call us all fucking communists for hating on Kai Havertz and Timo Werner but it really wouldn't make a lot of sense would it?

As we get closer to the end of the transfer window I feel more like we'll just be signing a backup RB and waiting until summer for everything else. It does feel like it would make sense to get Enzo done now and on a long ass contract for FFP reasons, but if we're not I'm sure the club have a plan for summer. We have a pretty good recruitment team in place now imo.

Huh, that's a very beautiful way of looking at it, where do you find such things?

I knew this rumour wasn't over with for the transfer window. Looking forward to one more rollercoaster of endless speculation from Twitter that everyone takes as gospel, as everyone calls Boehly a useless American cunt who doesn't understand our fine British sport before he somehow ends up joining Barcelona.

Probably we'll bid just south of 100m as a final bid and they'll reject it.

Enzo is the only midfielder I've seen that would force his way into even the best Chelsea teams from the past. We should definitely just buy him if we have so much money available. Just give him like a 10 year contract.

Agreed, should be part of a swiss army knife of formations we can play but should be at best 3rd choice after 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3

Two players that would cost more than some PL squads I imagine. Still, not beyond the realms of possibility...

I guess the club must either not like Zubimendi or know from the player that he is not interested, because given our need in CM and his release clause being pretty "reasonable" I'd have thought we'd just go and get him tbh. Maybe they still expect Enzo to be that player.

Agreed, wasn't sure if he would even make it into the XI tbh but looks like an astute buy and getting time being personally developed by Thiago Fuckin Silva cannot be underestimated, think this guy will be amazing for us. Curious what happens when Fofana is fit again, I guess he is just rotation for Thiago to manage his age a bit.

Agreed. I think Potter ball will only really emerge at the beginning of next season but I think he has done more to transition us than people are giving him credit (e.g. no longer playing 3 CBs in every game) and this time with the whole squad together will be amazing for him, we've created a little positivity with results improving and new players joining. I'm genuinely excited for the rest of the season now.

This is more normal for clubs that are not going deep into all competitions I think... There is an FA cup round coming up we wont be taking part in.

Good we'll have some training time, but really makes Felix's suspension feel like a long one.

With all the new boys maybe Mount wont even make the bench in a couple of games time. Still think he can be a real player in the future but he is way off of it at the moment and needs a rest and a reset imo. Thrive and beat the competition to prove yourself or move on, in the typical way that always happened at successful Chelsea sides.

Thought it was Cucu's best game for us btw

Fofana must have turned out to be really shit in training if he is not getting on the pitch because there is such a huge chance here for players to get into the lineup. The only plus side recently has been seeing so many young players get their shot, Gallagher has more or less pissed his away. Hall & Carney don't look ready tbh, a loan move to play every game would do them both good but as it happens we're so desperate we need them both right now.

Would have taken Mount off instead of Kai but ok let’s see edit: both off, excellent

Got to be something wrong with the way we are preparing the players