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Kante has been one of my all time favorite footballers and in my top 3 favorite Chelsea players ever together with Drogba and Hazard. Be really sad to see him go but it’s the right move for both him and the club. Adios to one of the best midfielders of his generation.

See the annual Neymar rumors are bubbling up again. Would be one of the most nonsensical transfer targets possible.

I’ve heard Gabri Veiga’s name linked with other big clubs but have never seen a second of him live. Checking him out on YouTube he looks pretty classy and you can see why he’s linked with a big move away. But he’s obviously not the DM we desperately need. If he’s a genuine target he is much more of a Kova replacement. Excellent ball carrier, tenacious, hard working, but with the added bonus of being able to shoot and score goals which Kova couldn’t. He looks like someone you’d play in a 3 but definitely not a 2 with Enzo.

Wonder why Nkunku hasn’t been announced, btw. Waiting for the new kit or main shirt sponsor? Kind of insane that one of the world’s biggest and most desirable clubs still doesn’t have a shirt sponsor.

Looks absolutely horrendous, imo. The white on the sleeves and the brown mustard colored stuff look tacky and cheap as hell. I pray that these are all fake.

Since we know Caicedo is going to be a bitch to sign away from Brighton, I wish we would go and get Lavia in the meantime. With Southampton relegated it seems like that’d be a much simpler deal to do. At least then we know we have at least 1 class midfielder in case all the others are snatched up.

No top players in their prime is going to go there. It’s like a China from years ago where fading or well past their prime stars go for one last mega payday and to sportswash for an authoritarian regime.

With one of his Argentina midfield partners, an Argentine manager, and with Mount going we really should’ve gone all out for him. Especially at such a cheap price. He’d have been great in a midfield 3 just like he was at the World Cup.

As I said the other day, Liverpool squad was pretty threadbare and they’ve already let some players like Milner, Ox and Firmino walk after their contracts expired so they could get their business done immediately. They’ve also been working behind the scenes laying the foundation for Mac Allister for months. Whereas we are the opposite. We have an extremely bloated squad and need to rapidly trim the fat before we can really start to push on I guess. Hopefully it’s not too late and all the top quality midfielders aren’t holding up the shirts of our direct rivals by the time we kick into gear.

Fair, Bissouma was nice at Brighton. But for me Caicedo looks a level above. Very Kante-like, though obviously not at that level yet.

There are quite a few very solid midfielders out there. But I think Caicedo is the most ready made and least risky since he’s been killing it in the PL already.

Keepers like Onana and Maignan are really great shot stoppers but I wish we’d go after a keeper who’s a superb distributor as well. Onana looks very mediocre in that aspect. Diogo Costa looks unbelievable with his feet like Ederson or Allison but would apparently cost near Kepa money which we obviously will never do again.

We paid £72m for Havertz. We’ll be making a significant LOSS, not a profit.

I don’t blame any lesser known players from other smaller leagues jumping at the chance to go to a farmers league like France. A dude probably making relative peanuts at Sporting going on to making hundreds of thousands per week at a club in an amazing city where you’re essentially guaranteed the league title and UCL football every season is an easy choice. It’s when actual world class players take the pussy route and go there that bothers me.

Even after Kai hasn’t really lived up to his potential since joins us that feels very cheap indeed. Just €50m for a 24 year old UCL winner who is Germany’s starting forward? Who can potentially still realize said potential and become a top player at some point? I’d keep him if that’s all Madrid will offer. The minimum we should ask for is €65m. At least get somewhat close to what we paid for him. As we well know since we need a new striker there aren’t many options out there. So Madrid don’t have many other players to look to since they’re clearly biding their time for Mbappe.

Both players we should be closely monitoring as well. Unlike us, looks like Liverpool can get their incoming business done quickly because they don’t have 12 players they have to bin off.

We should all thank our lucky stars that we pushed hard and refused to take no for an answer with Enzo when we did. Because after the season we had we would have ZERO chance at him now and he’d be holding up the shirt of a PL rival right now instead. We’re lucky he’s so good that we can plug in 3-4 different midfield targets on our list and be happy. We just have to sign that player quickly before they’re all gone.

Very, very good signing. Jealous they’re getting him as I think he’s top class.

I just have a bad feeling that we’re going to be stuck using several bang average players that we all want sold next season. LikemGallaghernstarting in our midfield. 🤢🤢🤢

Whatever we decide to do needs to happen rapidly. Ugarte and Rice will likely be off the table THIS week. If Arse spunk £100m on Rice I can’t imagine a notoriously penny pinching club like them are going to also be able to spend mega money on Caicedo. So our competition for him may “only” be Liverpool and United.

Those two would be excellent. But again, Caicedo will be an absolute bitch to sign since Brighton are such tough negotiators. What’s stopping them asking for £90m if Rice will cost £100m or more? Or tell us that if Colwill isn’t involved in some way they won’t even come to the table? He may be just as tricky to pry from them as Rice is from WH.

Cucu and KK are probably why they’re suddenly cheaping out. They got burned so badly on some of these big buys. But coming off a shockingly terrible season is when you DON’T want to tighten the purse strings.

I just feel like convincing Caicedo to choose us will be even more difficult than Ugarte. He’s wanted by ALL of the big PL clubs.

I’m not devastated as if Ugarte is some world class superstar or anything. I just think that in terms of pure, purpose built DM’s he was the best available to perfectly slot into our midfield and compliment Enzo’s style. Players like Lavia and Caicedo are excellent midfielders but they are more roaming CM’s than pure DM’s. Caicedo is like Kante in that he travels all over the pitch. Ugarte was perfect because he did one job and one job only and did it superbly.

I think it’s going to be a real issue for any player that’s also wanted by other big clubs. Why come to Chelsea and have loads of incentives and stipulations in your contract when you can go to an equally big club and just get a huge wage with no stipulations? This is the kind of thing that could really hamper us in the market.