Pizy

This is the thing that’s preventing me from worrying too much for the time being. Surely the club wouldn’t sanction Jorginho’s move (to a hated rival!) without getting their primary replacement in.

It almost feels political at this point. Like Benfica is taking a stand on principal to not sell to big, bad Chelsea.

My God, if after we’ve all got our hopes up yesterday we fail for a second time to get Enzo I’m gonna be sick. How can they turn down €120m if that happens, ffs?

Feels like we’re all little kids on Christmas Eve waiting for our parents to give us a new gaming system tomorrow. Let’s hope we don’t wake up to some socks and underwear instead!

Todd and co wanted to save some bangers for deadline day. Chelsea is going to single-handedly give Sky Sports and all these transfer obsessed pundits stuff to talk about all day tomorrow.

Arse forum are absolutely melting down about the prospect of them signing Jorginho. 😂 I’ll reiterate that I think he’d do a decent job for them and they’ll come around on him after he plays a few matches for them.

Maybe while Todd is there he can convince Benfica to take some of our deadwood?

I realize this is a massive, gigantic, hugely complicated deal but damn… You’d think most of the legwork would’ve been done already since we’ve been chasing him since apparently December.

Doubt the club announce a record deal after midnight UK time when the home fans are asleep.

Same, but pretty clear whatever happens won’t happen today.

We don’t actually have the ideal, perfect partner for Enzo currently with Kante out. If he was 100% fit we’d have the best midfield 2 in Europe. Enzo + Kova will dominate lesser teams but I wonder if they’d have the defensive steel and discipline to hold up as a 2 against the very best teams. So you can see why we MIGHT go for a pure DM in the summer.

Yeah, very stupid. If he looks poor at PSG on loan then we’ll have even more trouble getting rid. We need to start getting these underperforms for good not on loan. Ziyech, Pulisic, RLC, Jorginho. Loans do us no good at all.

In a lot of ways PSG is literally the perfect landing spot for Ziyech. His lazy, nonchalant attitude and body language on a team that can sleepwalk through most matches is perfect. He can use his skills much more effectively with the opponents focused so much on their other attackers.

Yeah, I’d target him in the summer if we can clear a couple of midfielders out but it feels extremely unnecessary now if we land Enzo.

Come on. We need a HERE WE GO today, damnit. Before these Benfica suits change their mind.

If we signed Enzo AND Caicedo our rivals will be signing a joint petition to the UK Prime Minister asking for us to be liquidated. 🤣🤣🤣

Tbf, I think J5 would flourish on a short term basis at Arse with the legs he’ll have around him. So much so that I’d rather we not sell him there.

Having the huge bulk of our transfers in already should be a massive help heading into the summer. You’re right, he’ll have zero excuses not to hit the ground running from match 1 next season. And as grim as it may be to say, if for whatever reason Potter doesn’t work out we’ll have a number of top class managers falling over themselves to take over with the insane squad we’ll have.

Every “update” from Fabrizio is a variation of the same thing. He’s really milking it! ‘’Chelsea are pushing, Benfica are deciding whether to accept it” ad nauseam 15 times.

Benfica would just be being assholes if they say no to this offer now. It would basically be feelings getting in the way of sensible business and burning bridges between the two clubs forever.

Going to be incredibly strange to enter this coming summer transfer window with the biggest/only question mark regarding incomings being what we do at the goalkeeper position 🤣🤣🤣

Selling him to Eddie Howe and Newcastle is potentially very risky. He could actually haunt us there and help threaten our chase for top 4 whereas at Everton we don’t have to worry about as much.

Perhaps the news that UEFA are changing the rules in response to our dealings changed our minds. We may have been waiting until the summer to go after him again but that rule change made it so we could no longer wait.

Wonder what happens if Gallagher refuses to go. I don’t think the club would be terribly upset if we had to keep him but this is the sort of money you don’t say no to. Perhaps another club or two will scramble for Conor in the final hours now they see what sort of price we’d accept. Could get a little bidding war tomorrow for him.

So that’s now all the reliable journalists connected with Chelsea and with Benfica saying a mega, €100m+ offer has been officially submitted after Ornstein just tweeted. We’ve done everything we can do on our side at this point. We really want the move, player really wants the move, now up to Benfica. Whatever happens now we can’t be upset with the club. They’ve pushed as hard as they could.