Pizy

I know a lot of our fans on Twitter are buzzing about being linked with Cherki and I can see why from a pure talent POV. But the more I watch of him the more I’m skeptical about whether he’s the right player for this current Chelsea team and with Poch as manager. He’s got that same demeanor about him as Ziyech and Hazard do. Like they know their talent is awesome so they don’t really need to try that hard and have great work rate. And those things seem antithetical to the Poch philosophy. He looks like the sort of pure luxury player you drop into a team like City who are a well oiled machine.

Just comes across as a classy guy. You can see why so many players of his like him so much. If he and his coaching team can immediately install the fitness and training structure that he did at Southampton and Spuds then he can do big things with this young squad.

Unlike that lazy ass Ziyech, Kudus at the bare minimum is a machine in terms of work rate. And he would be the picture perfect replacement for Kova’s play style. The fact that Brighton are so keen on him should tell everyone that he’s good. Will probably become a £80m player within a year or two if he moves there.

SMS gets hyped up and rumored heavily to leave for a new club literally every transfer window and it never happens. There has to be some reason nobody has ever pulled the trigger other than the asking price. Because loads of big clubs are perfectly willing to pay huge fees for midfielders.

Should be a target for us in addition to Caicedo.

I’m gonna die of old age by the time we sign a midfielder. 💀💀💀

I mean, we can’t really force a player to go somewhere he doesn’t want to. But at the same time he can’t force us to accept a laughable price from the one club he want to go to. This is the problem with us signing so many average players who THINK they’re stars. When we try to move them on they think they’re too good for these smaller clubs.

Looks as though Pulisic will refuse the move to Lyon and only wants Milan. But it’s hard for me to imagine the club accepting just the €14m Milan have offered and rightly so. He’s worth much more than that.

Snap their hand off for that offer.

Hope so. And having let go so many midfielders already I have to trust that the club are on it.

The point that several posters in here have made about the risk of Enzo getting a bad injury is an important one. We absolutely can’t be in a situation where 1 injury to him means that it screws up our entire team as we have nobody who can step in and offer what he does. All the more reason the club better not stop at Caicedo. Imagine how horrendous to watch a midfield pairing of Caicedo & Gallagher would be in terms of linking the defense and attack. 🤢🤢🤢 The plan CANNOT be to have Caicedo as our only new midfielder with Gallagher and these completely untested teenagers as cover.

Looks like Liverpool will make their move for Lavia next. Must say, they’re making some fantastic moves so far. They get Szoboszlai, Mac Allister, and Lavia that is an amazing and total midfield rebuild. They’d go from the old guard of Henderson, Fabinho, and Thiago who can barely move about the pitch any longer to 3 midfielders who can do it all and who are all very young. I’m jealous of them having not seen what we’re doing in midfield yet. 😒

As you would expect, Brighton are probably trying to get the price as close to Rice’s fee as they can. That’s the only thing that could be dragging this out for so long. We need to get it done this coming week. Absolutely HAVE to have our new midfield setup ready for the ENTIRE preseason which starts in just over 2 weeks. Caicedo + another within the next 17 days. Need to build chemistry and understand what Poch wants from them ASAP.

🤢🤢🤢 If Vlahovic is ever on the table we should do what these cheap ass Italians do and get him on loan for the season to see what he’s like. Include an OPTION to buy for the €70m next summer.

I can’t even fucking read Twitter, man. This fucking idiot just killed the website.

Yeah, I really don’t understand the big uproar about Viera getting that job. Before the wheels fell off at Palace he was being lavished with praise for the job he was doing. The players seemed to love him early on as well. Being back in France where he is a massive legend working with lots of French players can only be a good thing.

Wirtz doesn’t look that slow to me. Just kinda average. Cherki on the other hand does looks super slow and kinda chubby as well.

I’m getting “Rate Limit Exceeded” everywhere. Can’t refresh my timeline and can’t click on or search anything. Seems to be a widespread thing. Elon’s Twitter breaking yet again. These amateurs don’t have a clue what they’re doing.

Twitter been fucked for everyone else for the last few hours?

Wirtz does indeed look like a special player from a technical POV. If Poch decided to play with 3 in midfield I’d very happily have him in that advanced midfield role. He looks much better to my eyes than Gabri Veiga.

It almost feels like the new ownership have instructed the football directors and scouts to sign as many youth “stars” as we possibly can so that over the next 5 years they don’t have to spend any money on established senior players. That’s my worry. Initial massive spend in the first 2 seasons and then no spending afterwards but instead use all these youth players.

Good Lord, we’re signing a literal army of youth players. Another q announced this morning, ffs. How about some senior players?

Well, he cannot come back here under any circumstances. He’d get rightly booed by the whole of Stamford Bridge. So if coming back here isn’t an option and Inter decide that they don’t want him anymore he’s going to have to take that Saudi deal.

Hoe\ping first thing Monday morning I wake up to a Ornstein or Fabrizio tweet saying we’ve reached an agreement for Caicedo. No more fucking around now that the vast majority of our deadwood are officially gone. Don’t give time for any our rivals to suddenly decide that they’ll push for him. Get him in and quickly move on to another midfielder.

Lukaku and Ziyech. Two players with rotten attitudes that are now anchors around our necks that we can’t get rid of.