Pizy

Hmm. I was under the impression that Cole Palmer was a striker. Seems he’s a #10/winger?

That we haven’t heard any concrete “Chelsea have decided their target and have opened negotiations” talk this close to the deadline tells me that we probably couldn’t make what we wanted happen and will not be signing anyone else. Think we’ll wait for a January and target Toney.

So the names I’ve seen throughout the day are Sancho, Ansu Fati, Ferran Torres, and Raphinha. I don’t think I’d be genuinely happy with a single one of those. And I really wanted both Sancho & Raphinha badly before they moved to United and Barca. If I had to choose one of those I’d probably take Sancho. His top level is higher than the others if it can be unlocked again. But he’s only obscene wages so is surely impossible with our current wage straucture.

We need both him and Cucu to be awesome on their new loans so that Roma & United take them off of our books for good.

Forest are like the pound shop version of us. Feels like they’ve signed 45 players over the last year. Really does feel like a terrible place to send Santos. Should’ve sent him to one of the top Portuguese clubs who are amongst the best in the world at developing young talents.

Because it feels like he’s been permanently injured for the last 3 years and after that initial burst on to the scene he hasn’t come close to fulfilling that early promise. No chance do I think he’s at the level needed to walk into our team.

Big time NO to Ansu Fati. The absolute last sort of profile that we need.

A lot of them are in meltdown because they know he’s shit and saying we have scammed them again after Mount. And then there’s a bunch of them like Mark Goldbridge who are rationalizing with themselves like some of us were. “Maybe we’ll get the Brighton Cucu from 2 years ago!”

It’s a bit weird, the Cucu situation. Luke Shaw’s injury isn’t severe. He’ll be back in just a few weeks. So then Cucu goes to their bench and is right back into the same situation he’s in here. With as injury prone as Chilly is you’d think Cucu would fancy his chances of getting more minutes for Chelsea than for United. But perhaps Poch has told him in no uncertain terms that even Maatsen is ahead of him now?

Don’t think anyone has really tried for him because of his strong desire for Barca. But I’m sure he’d be happy to return here. I’m guessing his wages are the biggest hurdle or many top clubs would have been interested.

Since it’s clear they hate each other and want the situation solved desperately, I wonder how much João Felix would cost to buy outright these days? Surely they aren’t still asking for silly money that nobody on earth other than Saudi’s would pay? Like, in an era where bang average talents like Brennan Johnson could go for £50m or more and his teammate on the other wing went for £45m then surely Felix for around £50m would be a steal if Atleti would accept that?

Listening to a Poch just now, it sounds pretty much 50/50 whether we even do sign an attacker before the deadline. He wants one, the club are working hard behind the scenes, but they might come back and say the right player is not available. He says he’d be happy even if we don’t make another signing. Which says to me that that’s a real possibilty.

Don’t think there’s any chance that the club doesn’t know who they want yet. It’s surely that they don’t want a super public back and forth that would get other clubs in a bidding war or complicate negotiations. There’s no way with mere days to go in the window that we’re scrambling around in desperation behind the scenes.

From what I’ve been seeing the Arse fans seem almost universally against selling ESR to us and feel like he should be playing more for them. Idk, man. There’s obviously a very talented player there and for a cut price he may be worth a punt. But it would be very underwhelming compared to Cherki or Kudus.

Palace would probably quote any club asking about him £100m at this point. Not even worth discussing, really.

Seeing the latest Fabrizio quotes from his livestream tonight it sounds like Cherki isn’t really even under consideration. That’s a shame.

It’s definitely a concern. If the player we bring in isn’t a natural forward but instead a winger and Nico gets injured we’d probably see Sterling playing as a false 9 if Broja wasn’t ready yet.

Barcola doesn’t scream “special” to me watching him in highlights and that’s just the best bits of him. Talented youngster for sure but doesn’t strike me as a player who is good enough to instantly start for us. The Chelsea fans on Twitter begging for him are just anxious for anyone and have latched on to him. For me he needs to have another great season on a smaller stage like Lyon before he’s ready for a huge club. The only youngster who still has lots of development left to reach his potential that I’d instantly take and is obtainable is Cherki. Otherwise we would do well to get someone who is in their mid 20’s and ready to immediately help the team. Who that could be…. 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

Let’s see what kind of offer the cheap ass German’s will offer. They go huge on some players but then try to go super cheap other times.

Just feels like this kind of report happens with so many players these days that go to our rivals. After a high profile player signs we get someone saying “Chelsea tried to swoop in at the last minute but it was too late.” It’s like they’re trying to make us look like incompetent amateurs.

This sounds like a WH fan trying to make Chelsea look bad and WH look good. If we actually wanted Kudus we would’ve pulled the trigger a month ago when Ornstein first reported our interest. Someone thing must have put us off him.

He looked really good for them and then Odegaard came in and took over his position. Plus I think he’s been injured.

As part of a front 3 together with Jackson and Sterling and with all 3 of Enzo, Caicedo, and Lavia behind him I don’t think his tracking back and defensive work would be too much of an issue. And if it was you can rotate him out for Gallagher against the very rare opponents that will dominate possession against us like City. I’d happily take the gamble on him.

I think Cherki could have a pretty dramatic positive effect on our attack immediately. His chance creation could be superb. Barcola I think is still too raw for what we need right now, I think. I know he’s a similar age to Cherki but Cherki’s game is “cleaner” and more refined.

I doubt we would try to bring in some reclamation project. All those players have flopped or been big letdowns from their initial promise. We need someone to lift our levels in attack so why would we bring in players who are worse than what we have now?