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Perhaps it’s best to just get a super creative type now and then move for Toney as so many here have suggested in January. The striker market it absolutely piss poor right now and we’d end up dramatically overpaying for someone bang average. So instead we should get a player who, even if they don’t score much themselves, they are hugely creative and influential and can produce moments of magic.

LMAO Basically retiring before his career even took off.

I don’t exactly want either “badly,” but I do think Kudus would’ve done well for us. Barcola I have no idea because I haven’t watched him. Cherki is probably the only attacking player left that we’ve been linked with that I badly want. But we aren’t even linked with him by anyone noteworthy anymore. Think he would help us massively in unlocking defenses. But he still wouldn’t really help us in the goal scoring department. I fear we’re going to end up massively overpaying for Balogun or panicking at the deadline and accepting that dogshit Lukaku + cash deal for a Vlahovic.

Kudus close to WH says Ornstein. Scratch another off the list. Wonder what the club saw with him that made us back away? Remember a month ago when Ornstein broke the news that we were very close to signing him and then things just went silent. You’d have to imagine that had we made it known that we really wanted him he’d have been a Chelsea player long ago. So something made us back away. Kind of annoying if we end up buying someone who isn’t as good.

Yeah, both he and Caicedo essentially skipped their entire preseasons in order to force their transfers. That’s why I wasn’t bothered or worried about the former’s horror debut even a little bit. It’s going to take several weeks for us to start seeing the best of both our new midfielders. People need to be patient.

No images of him at all yet since the unveiling and no update from the club or the journalists who usually leak injuries ahead of time, Please don’t tell me we bought an injured player…

The only concern about the Kudus possibility is that Ajax have seemingly raised the price considerably as the window has gone on. I remember in the beginning of the summer there was talk about under £30m or something. Now they’re rejecting bids of over £40m from West Ham I think? So that means when Chelsea get involved we’ll probably get quoted £55m or something.

Whoever we bring in now is going to be hugely overpriced due to how late in the window it is. So with that in mind we 100% need to make it a player we think has an extremely high ceiling and have a super high confidence won’t underwhelm. We can’t afford another mega high priced bust in attacking positions. It’s straight up embarrassing just how long it’s been since we bought an attacking player that lived up to the hype before they joined us. Literally all of our rivals have bought hyped up forwards who have come in and killed it for their new clubs. Whereas every time we do they become scared little children who melt under the spotlight almost overnight. Kudus is the safest bet to instantly fit into the PL and into Poch’s style for me. But Cherki would be the one I’d be most excited about because I think his potential is the biggest. A player who can produce moments of Hazard-like magic out of nothing. Balogun would be extremely underwhelming and we’d probably have to essentially give Arse all the money back that they gave us for Havertz when we ripped them off there. Sadly, the Cherki rumors don't have any actual reporting behind them. It’s just random Chelsea Twitter users trying to wish it into happening.

I’d sell him. I think if it was purely a board decision they’d sell him. But if Poch has the final say I think stays.

Really doesn’t look like Gallagher will go anymore. Poch seems to love him.

So not Doku, most likely not Johnson, Wahi is gone, the Cherki rumors haven’t been revived since about a month ago, and the Barcola rumors kinda came and went after a day since PSG are after him. Sounds more and more likely that we’re going to end up with Balogun. Someone who doesn’t walk into our team, someone who can’t play with Jackson, and someone we’ll end up paying Arse WAY too much money for. Oh, and he’s not really that good. 😔😔😔 Hope there’s a mystery target out there we haven’t heard about.

Whoever it is we choose it would benefit us greatly to have him in during this “easy” run of fixtures. Get them accustomed to their teammates and maybe get in the score sheet.

You could be right but I sort of recall it differently. I could’ve sworn it was very much like Colwill for Saliba in that he was very reluctant to come back unless he was ensured that he was going to play and even said so publicly.

Now that we bought 2 new, high priced DM’s I don’t think bringing Felix back makes sense. If the plan was to stick with this back 3 for good I could see the case for Felix because he could just play the same role Carney has been. But if we’re going to play a 4-3-3 with Enzo, Caicedo, and Lavia I don’t see a place for João. Putting him out wide where his excellent and intricate link up play in tight spaces is negated would be a waste. I will say this, though. If we get close to the deadline and are panicking to find some sort of attacker I’d rather Felix than some of these other names we’re linked with like Balogun or Brennan Johnson.

If we didn’t already have Noni who sadly looks prett bang average then Brennan Johnson would probably be an interesting player to have in the squad for depth. But having both would just be a]saddling ourselves with multiple bang average RW’s. We need someone ready made and already very good. An instant impact, goal scoring beast.

More Balogun chatter this morning on Twitter I see. Would be such an underwhelming signing, man. I just don’t think he adds any qualities we’re currently missing. Looks like the same level as a fit Broja to my eye and will also stand in Broja’s way which Poch just said he didn’t want to do. Plus, paying £50m or whatever it would take to sign a striker that doesn’t even walk into our first XI is silly. There has to be a reason Arteta simply doesn’t fancy him over someone bang average like Nketia. I know he has done well at Arse recently but he’s not anything special. Usually when one of your loanees kills it like Balogun supposedly did their parent club can’t wait to bring them back and reintegrate them into the team. It’s what they did with Saliba. Yet here it feels like Arteta isn’t bothered about Balogun at all. Even with Jesus out. Arse fans don’t care either. How is this not a huge red flag? We need the same scouts that identified Jackson when no other big club went for him to find us another gem.

You’re spot on, but I would be stunned if we were able to find someone to fit the bill this late in the window. Unless we’re willing to buy someone in their late 20’s or early 30’s which I can’t see this new recruitment team doing. Oh, hell no. He’s busted and damaged goods. That explosiveness that he had pre-injury looks gone. Even at his best for us he was wildly incinsistent in front of goal. There’s gotta be someone out there in Europe who is very similar to Diaz/Mané/Jota etc.

In the case of a new attacker I do actually think there’s 1 spot in the first XI up for grabs for a player to come in and instantly start. Especially now that Carney is out for who knows how long. Poch clearly doesn’t think Mudryk is ready yet. So a new attacker I think goes straight in with Jackson and Sterling I guess.

Some of our supporters really think this kid from New England is going to come in and immediately bench Sanchez. 🤦‍♂️ We didn’t just pay £25m for a keeper, allow Kepa to leave at the drop of a hat, and give him the #1 shirt in the span of a week only to immediately replace him after 2 matches.

Said it before and I’ll keep saying it, it’s absolutely insane to me that one of the biggest and most successful clubs in world football who play in the most viewed and most sought after league in the world is struggling so badly to find a shirt sponsor. Huge, global mega corporations should be lining up to get their logo on the front of our shirt. And yet we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel with crypto gambling bullshit and some company that was formed a few months ago. Wtf is going on with the commercial side of the club?

I DO think Lukaku would score a decent amount of goals in this team if he was in shape and highly motivated. Simply standing in the box as a predator would net him quite a few. But I don’t see how you can possibly bring him back. He would get mercilessly booed by the entire stadium as soon as he stepped onto the pitch. I guess the only way I could see that changing is if he issued a sincere apology, say he’s going to work his ass off to help Chelsea, and then delete his social media. Oh, and agree never to do any interviews again.

I don’t know if it’s intentional or not but all of your posts come out in German.

Didn’t Bruno Fernandes put up monster numbers at Sporting as well? He translated well to the PL as much as I hate the prick. So perhaps this Goncalves dude is worth a punt?

Yeah, as much as I like Cherki and wouldn’t say no to him if the club targeted him, he really isn’t what we need now. If the plan is to have a rock solid midfield 3 of Enzo, Caicedo, and Lavia then there isn’t really a place for a traditional #10.

I feel like he’d be kind of wasted out wide primarily. From what I’ve watched of him he needs to be centrally where he can be more influential.