Pizy

I take a quick 2 hour nap, wake up, and we’ve signed some dude I’ve literally never heard of. 🤣🤣🤣

One of my favorite players in all of Europe to watch before that injury. Honestly, he looked pretty decent in the limited minutes I saw of him with Italy this summer? Still looked really quick and dangerous when Italy actually passed him the ball.

I’m watching too and find it strange that Argentina are playing Enzo in such a super advanced role like this. His skill set feels wasted way up there and he doesn’t really look comfortable.

Yeah, I’m seeing the Estevão goal all over Twitter. He and Paez both look insane for their age. I just pray that they join up into a team that’s coming off of a great season where we’ll have UCL football. Imagine how good the vibes will be with Estevão, Paez, and Anselmino all arriving.

You’ll all see. In 2030 when we have all these teenaged wonder kids in the team and win 5 straight PL titles we’ll look back at people slaughtering Clearlake and laughing. 😉

After buying a completely unproven 18 year old kid last week in Guiu surely the club know that any further signing in that area has to be an experienced, finished product of a player. Since Nico Jackson is young and inconsistent himself. If we do buy someone else (which I’m skeptical that we will) it better be someone in that 23-28 range. Someone whose got multiple seasons of consistent output like Jonathan David. More likely than a striker I think we’ll get another wide attacker and trust that we get enough goals from Jackson, Guiu, and the attacking mids.

Genuinely surprised we haven’t been linked with Vardy on a 1 year deal or something 🤣🤣🤣

We finished just a few points behind a Villa side who had one of their best ever PL seasons despite us being dogshit for most of the year. Tottenham apparently had this awesome, praiseworthy season yet they had to desperately hang on until the final day to stay in front of us. Just the returning injured players alone should improve us considerably, never mind the new players being brought in. Some of our supporters are acting like we are a million miles away from….Villa and Spuds? Really? We will 100% be in the mix for a UCL place. Some of you think that since we aren’t signing 4 superstars this summer we should disband the club. 🙄

Arse were clearly in discussions directly with him first and have convinced him. Doubt it’s worth bothering now that he is convinced about going there. Unless we double their wage offer I guess.

Whenever Ornstein, Fabrizio, or Law don’t all tweet out something confirming it I think it’s safe to assume it’s bullshit. And this dude’s name looks familiar as a bullshitter.

If we have another horrific season then I’ll stop defending them. But I am still willing to give them this last chance.

I like the signings we’ve made so far 🤷‍♂️ Just like I’m really glad we’ve got Caicedo, Enzo, Lavia, Gusto, Palmer, and the future potential stars like Paez and Estevão. Again, for me Clearlake have been very mixed. Lots of unfortunate duds like the ones you named (plus Koulibaly & Sterling) but plenty to be optimistic about, too. Personally, I’d much rather act the way our club have in the window than what a club like United are doing where they drag their feet for ages and have their fanbase protesting the ownership nonstop. At least we’re trying to “go big” and take some chances even if every one hasn’t worked.

All gone a bit quiet on the first team targets following the KDH transfer. With Calafiori looking Arse bound there isn’t really a concrete name that were after from the top insiders.

I’m actually relatively relaxed about our defense for the time being. Getting Reece back and hopefully fit will help. Cucu seems to have made big progress. Colwill I expect to excel under Maresca. And despite what Fulham fans are saying about him being suspect at times, I think Tosin will also fit the way Maresca wants to play like a glove. Plus, playing with 3 midfielders in the center of the pitch instead of 2 should be a massive help to our defense. Especially since we’ll likely have 2 of the 3 being super mobile and hard working at all times assuming Enzo is always a starter. Having Caicedo and Lavia or Caicedo and KDH in there should be huge. Then we have to hope that our squad takes to this system and play style quickly. If Maresca is able to implement it smoothly we’ll have so much of the ball and our midfielders & attacking players will be hunting the ball so aggressively that our defense won’t be exposed as often. It was a hallmark of his Leicester team. Dominate the play with the ball and press aggressively to win it back when out of possession. This is what we need from our players.

On the striker front, I do wonder if the search for another one now slides down the priority list for the time being and we revisit it later in the window after getting a look at Guiu for a few preseason games. If he looks really comfortable straight away and doesn’t seem out of his depth then I can see us going into the season with Nico and Guiu as our two strikers and Nkunku as the emergency false 9. We are playing against a few really big clubs in preseason, right? So we should get an idea pretty quickly if Guiu is up for it.

The Maresca stuff is super weird indeed. I’ve been saying it for a while. It’s like we appointed him ages ago and then he disappeared into the void. Then there’s the fact that we haven’t revealed our new shirts for the season and for the second year in a row we’re scrambling around trying to find a shirt sponsor. We used to reveal the new kit at the end of the previous season and wear it for the final match. Now it’s once again delayed for months while I assume we’re waiting for that sponsor. Makes the club look really amateurish and clueless. Like we’re a super understaffed operation or something.

I think the Clearlake slander should wait until the window closes personally. If we enter the season without the last 2-3 pieces we need and still have dogshit wage wasters like Lukaku, Kepa etc on our books then by all means slander away. For me they’ve been a mixed bag. I’m in wait and see mode with our new ownership and don’t think they’ve been the unmitigated disaster so many of our supporters cry about. They’ve had some REALLY bad mistakes but also signed us a bunch of really good players who I think will be fantastic in the long run.

PL to PL transfer are always gonna have a massive premium. Not really fair to compare those deals to Calafiori coming from a relatively tiny Italian club who for them £42m is a gigantic sum they can really turn down.

Apparently we’re struggling mightily once again to find a front of shirt sponsor for this coming season just like last summer according to Matt Law. The Infinite Athlete deal was supposedly only for last Seaskn and then they move to just a sleeve sponsorship. This makes us look like such amateurs. I remember saying similar things last year but it fucking INSANE to me that one of the very biggest and most famous club in the world, playing in the best and most watched league in the world can not find a company that will pay to out their logo on our shirt. You would think corporations would literally be fighting each other to partner with a club of our stature. Boehly & co are supposedly these marketing/business genius types and they can’t get Chelsea FC a shirt sponsorship after 2 whole years?!

It definitely is super weird that we haven’t seen or heard anything from him since his appointment. No press conference, no in-house presentation, no pictures of him around Cobham. Nothing. I’d just like to hear from him and have him describe what his ideas are for certain players.

If we’re both offering the same money and they’re actually speaking to the player first then I’m not sure we can win. It’s not like the Roman days where we can blow any competition out of the water with higher wages. Arse probably offer higher wages than us now. Add UCL football, the prospect of winning the PL, and them being much more stable than us and it’s kind of a no brainer to choose them over us at the moment.

We can’t even afford £42m without trying to throw in players these days? Whatever. Let Arse have him. Go for an actual specialist LB instead rather than a CB who can also play LB.

What’s strange is that despite multiple reporters saying for quite a while that we want a versatile left footed defender we haven’t really been linked with anyone other than Calafiori. So I wonder who the alternatives are.

Arse are probably the worst club we could go head to head with for a signing at this moment in time, sadly. Because they can offer a player the same things that would usually give us the edge over other big PL clubs like living in London rather than Manchester or Liverpool. Arse are basically a guaranteed title and UCL contender next season so a player choosing them is only logical right now. Guess the thing you have to hope for if you’re someone who really wants us to get Calafiori is that the lure of playing more and being convinced by an Italian coach are more enticing to him.

Maybe Broja. Or Badiashile so they can directly replace Calafiori like for like.