Pizy

It’s really hard to judge him based off of YouTube footage because it’s entirely against youth competition. Where he does look pretty impressive in terms of the physical tools. Looks fairly polished for someone his age as a big, physical striker. But how will he do when he’s up against dramatically better competition? Who tf knows? 🤷‍♂️ It’s exactly the same with this kid from Villa we’re buying. All the footage is against other kids so it’s difficult to properly access him. These 2 don’t really explode off the screen like Estevão & Kendry Paez do for example.

This is a good thing. Won’t be going to United in that case.

Yep. Instantly thought that was the case when I saw that “it’s not all agreed just yet.” He wants Barca to show that they really want to keep him so he’s suing us to get that. This’ll be yet another thing in recent weeks that Fabrizio will have been wrong on. It’s unlike him to be this unreliable. His desire to get scoops first to uphold his image is getting in the way of getting things correct first and foremost.

If Guarassy does indeed go to Arse he’s going to bag a lot goals. He or David would be the ideal striker signing for us. Would be super annoying if both end up elsewhere in the PL while we sign a couple of teenagers. Entering the season with Jackson & a teenager from Barca who will have never played at this level would be madness.

That low of a price for David surely means that 2-3 other PL clubs will want to move for him. Spuds and United seem likely to try, imo. That Beier kid from Hoffenheim looks completely bang average on YouTube. And that’s meant to make any decent player look like a star. I’m more impressed with a bunch of our teenage prospects than I am him.

Again, I wonder why the hell one of La Masia’s current most promising talents who Barca fans seem to rate and want to keep would want to leave Spain at such a young age and agree to be loaned out to Strasbourg. Feels really, really weird. You’d think he’d be signing a new Barca contract and asking to be sent on loan to a smaller La Liga side to gain experience in the comfort of Spanish football.

Great… 🫤🫤🫤

I wonder if this Barca kid is the Duran alternative and we can still get Jonathan David as the main competition for Nico Jackson. That I suppose would make a bit more sense.

Why would a product of La Masia who is apparently highly rated want to leave Barca and then likely get farmed out to Strasbourg? Seems really strange from his POV.

Isn’t this kid we’re about to sign from Villa a striker? Why are we then buying another teenaged striker at the exact same time?!

The thing with all of these players you’ve listed is that k don’t see any of them as surefire upgrades on the wingers we already don’t think are quite good enough. I’d rather we give Omari Hutchinson a legit chance to impress on either wing than buy one of these guys.

With this self imposed new wage restriction we’re never going to be able to sign a ready made top class player again. We can still apparently pay really high transfer fees themselves but we won’t pay the massive wages that the top players will demand. So any super high fee we pay will have to be for younger players like Enzo and Caicedo who were on really small wages at their previous clubs and will therefor accept more “modest” (by todays standards) wages like £120-150k per week. Gone are the days where we offer £200-300k per week for any player. Which in the one hand is smart. But on the other hand it really limits us to taking gambles and hoping that the lower tier of player we buy turn into gems.

It’s a crazy amount of money for him but in terms of playing style he would fit them like a glove. So they’ll say it’s worth a big overpay.

A Spanish player who knows Barca wants him and who is happy staying at his current club if he has to doesn’t sound like the kind of guy we’d be able to convince to come here. Think he’d be an interesting signing of it could happen, though. He reminds me a LOT of Jeremy Doku in terms of playing style. Could be an absolute weapon running at defenders and causing havoc.

For the absolute life of me, I cannot make sense of this move for the kid from Villa. It looks exactly like what all the salty opposition fans are moaning about: clubs helping each other out with PSR. Where does this kid even fit in the team?

Things I like most about watching Jonathan David’s footage are his composure in front of goal and the variety in his finishing ability. Doesn’t seem to get rushed and doesn’t panic when an easy chance presents itself. Which so many Chelsea players have done in recent years.

Much as I’d love Fofana to be fit and ready to start from the get-go, I can’t see it. Swap in Tosin for him and I think that is indeed a great looking XI.

After the names we’ve been linked with in recent days for the striker position, Jonathan David gets a big thumbs up for me. Not a “sexy” striker but one who is highly productive, the perfect age, and he’s a decent footballer rather than just a poacher within the box. Could be a shrewd move if the price is reasonable.

What a joke. Feels like we’re setting up for another season where we’re miles off the pace. Buying up MORE teenagers in the attack when we’ve already got so many on the books that most will never see the pitch in a blue shirt.

The briefing from the club that Olise’s transfer is too expensive is hilarious. As if anyone believes that the club who in this calendar year alone has spent £100m on Enzo and £100m on Caicedo plus untold tens of millions on random teenagers can’t now spend £50-60m on a player who they’ve told every reliable reporter is our #1 priority target. A player the club have wanted badly for 2 straight summer windows. We’re about to spend about the same total on 17 year old Estevão. It’s clear that Olise didn’t fancy us. Just like he didn’t last summer. can only hope we don’t go out and spunk huge money on an alternative that’s not very good. I’ve said all along that I wasn’t bothered about Olise. But if we DO still want a winger it has to be someone at his level.

It’s a joke at this point. We’re literally journeying across Europe right now bidding for or inquiring about every clubs teenaged backup striker. I’m honestly speechless. 🤣🤣🤣

If we were supplementing this massive youth movement with established, top class players in the 25-28 range every now and then I’d say “fair play, that’s a smart strategy.” But it seems like what we’re actually doing is targeting only young talents who are perhaps years away from being Chelsea first team quality, if they’re ever ready. I don’t understand how the ownership expects us to get the UCL revenue back flowing every year when we’re going to once again have a squad full of kids over the next few seasons.

This has the potential to be the worst/most underwhelming transfer window we’ve had in recent memory. It is starting to resemble the sort of window a club like Everton or Brentford have.

Fuck off. We’re fucking done out here, man.

Would be really silly of Villa to bid such a large amount and go through the trouble of negotiating with us if they didn’t already have the green light from Maatsen that he’d go there. But it could be possible that Dortmund tells him to wait for them to come up with the money that we’d accept and he ONLY wants to return there.