Pizy

Wtf are we waiting for, though? He could be bullshitting that our new offer isn’t in of course. But if not, what are we doing? We NEED him this weekend. But it looks like another day of nothing.

You never seem to see the big star players from other clubs get serious, long term injuries. Your Salah’s, Kane’s, Rashford’s, or Saka’s never get injured. For Chelsea it’s not just squad players but key, massively important players that are fundamental to the way we play who get injuries that force them to miss months. Just in recent years James multiple times, Mount, Chilly, Kante multiple times, Kova. What the fuck is this curse that’s on us?

So we likely won’t see Nkunku until 2024, ffs. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Yeah, the fact that Angelo hasn’t been given a squad number because he’s off on loan whilst Ugo has could mean that the club still aren’t completely confident in getting Caicedo. So they’re keeping him here just in case. Then they sign Adams to be our starting DM with Ugo as his backup. 🫣🫣🫣

Any Nkunku replacement or cover needs to be a player that can slot straight into the XI. Olise is injured long term so that’s pointless. Vlahovic is a completely different profile of player and would rotate with Jackson, not Nkunku. Neymar rumor came and went within hours as expected. What we need is a highly technical attacking mid who can link play brilliantly and also contribute with killer passes and score a few. Players we’ve already been linked with can slot straight into that #10 role behind Jackson. Kudus or Cherki. Front 4 can be Mudryk left, Jackson up top, new signing at #10, and then whoever Poch fancies at the time on the right.

Agree that there’s no way we’d bring him back now but I DO think he’d look significantly better in this current setup in the 10 position behind Jackson. The interplay between those two would be amazing.

As amazing as Jackson looked through preseason, what happens if he gets to the PL and needs a while to settle? Or continues his impressive preseason form but does everything except for score goals for 3-5 games in a row? Who’s scoring goals reliably in this team with Nkunku out? If Vlahovic is our only answer then….yikes. Or an injured Olise who also won’t play for months. Getting Caicedo will be amazing and should make us incredibly formidable but I just hope we don’t have another season of not being able to score in a brothel.

Man, the Nkunku injury has kind of spoiled the whole summer for me. 😔 Legit believe that he was going to tear Liverpool to shreds and score a couple on opening night. Really set down a marker that he has arrived. We surely have to bring someone in. Nkunku was going to contribute not only goals, but assists, creativity, chance creation, and excellent link up play. Leaves a big hole in our XI for months by the sound of it.

The INSANE part is that United have rejected £30m and want £40-45m for McTominay! He’s like a £5m level player, ffs!

Absolutely absurd if we buy him when Nkunku is already out injured. We need attackers who can contribute from day 1.

If Nkunku is out for a long time we 100% NEED another goal scoring attacker. A RELIABLE goal scoring attacker. So Olise should be avoided since he’s fucking injured, too! Our marquee attacking signing and the one I was most excited for injured before we kick a ball in the PL. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

What would it even cost for PSG to sell Neymar? Feels extremely far fetched that we’d be able to afford him and Caicedo. And equally as far fetched that we’d pay his astronomical wages when we’ve just worked so hard to trim the wage bill. As usual when Neymar rumors start up (which is literally every window) our name gets dropped simply because these journalists can’t make it make sense for any other club. The rumor from earlier today that he’s keen to return to Barca seems closer to the reality than Chelsea.

In the highly unlikely event he came here I would be very skeptical about how he’d fare in the PL where he’ll have loads of clumsy defenders hacking him down and battering him at every opportunity. It would be like Hazard but worse because Neymar isn’t powerfully built like Eden was. I can’t see him casually dancing through entire teams like he can do in Ligue 1 without being fouled into oblivion.

Neymar and Chelsea links every single window. Name a more iconic duo.

Seeing Brighton fans saying that nobody trained today because their squad has the day off after their match yesterday. So it appears several journalists haven’t done their homework. Still, let’s hope the reporting about him now trying to force the issue and us being directly negotiating are true.

GET. IT. DONE.

Nkunku was going to be such a blessing and was the best thing to happen for Mudryk. Takes the pressure right off of him and allowed us to continue to be patient with him. If it’s true that he’s out long term that pressure and scoring/assisting burned returns. He’ll have to be at his sharpest right away to pick up the slack.

The Tyler Adams move still has me confused. The long term starting pairing will *crosses fingers* be Enzo + Caicedo. Then we have THREE quality teenagers in Andrey, Casadei, and now Ugochukwu who play in CM/DM. It’s already going to be an issue finding space for all these guys. So adding Adams who is still just 24 makes things even more of a headache in the long term. For this season specifically where we can use his PL experience it makes sense, I suppose. But what happens if Casadei and Ugo have extremely impressive loans and Andrey really impresses while staying here? We’ll have loads of midfielders then who all are good enough to be playing regularly and not enough minutes to go around.

In addition to the Caicedo saga rumbling on, we haven’t heard anything about Ziyech or CHO in a while. Ziyech feels like he fell off the face of the earth after his Saudi move collapsed weeks ago. CHO situation should be pretty easy to resolve this week. Also, wonder when the Chalobah stuff heats up again. Surely he’s gotta go now but there’s been zero indication that any club is prepared to meet our asking price.

They’d sell him after the season starts if we lose our first couple of matches, get desperate, and offer the same thing Arse paid for Rice.

I don’t think I can bare another entire week of “Chelsea is preparing another bid” or “Caicedo really wants Chelsea” tweets and reports. Gonna lose my mind if we don’t see some serious action tomorrow or Tuesday. Can’t leave this too late in the week for him to feature at the weekend. Laying down a marker against an elite side on our home pitch would be massive for the confidence of the club. Most people are already overlooking Chelsea because of last season and are predicting us to struggle again. Going out on the opening weekend and smacking Liverpool would force people to take us seriously. But I can’t see us doing it with Gallagher in there when we’re also likely without Nkunku. Liverpool’s front 4 will shred our midfield.

If De Zerbi wasn’t such a dick a couple of weeks ago towards us I’d actually like him. Seems like a serious, no bullshit manager. And he can obviously coach extremely well. Surely destined for a big time job if Brighton have another great season.

Will we pull an Arse or Liverpool and ever so slightly increase our bid to like £82m or will we actually push this over the line and offer something they’ll actually accept? Because if we fail with another bid this saga should end right there.

Hope we make that last lush for him FIRST THING tomorrow and don’t have to line up against Liverpool with a Enzo & Gallagher pivot. And with the transfer window going almost a month into the new season we can’t let this carry on any longer or some other big club that gets off to a poor start might try to get involved.

Nobody other than Arse supporters will care about the Community Shield when they wake up tomorrow. May as well be that cup we won in the US a week ago, that’s how meaningless it is.