Pizy

Such as?

Can see us turning to a striker then if both our primary wing targets after Sterling are off the table.

If the club are somehow in the position to choose between CR7 and Lewa, I’d 100% take Lewa. I think he’d slot in our team much more seamlessly. And he doesn’t consume all of the oxygen and demand all the spotlight that Ronaldo does both on and off the pitch. He would never be a distraction or dressing room controversy. I still have a faint hope or feeling that Barca’s incompetence will somehow play to our advantage with one of these dominoes. Whether it’s Raphinha, Dembele, or Lewandowski. Still be shocked if they can afford all 3 whilst also adding the wages of Azpi, AC, Kessie, and Alonso to their books.

More impossibly stupid vaccine misinformation as usual.

Evidently, transfers for Azpi, Alonso, and Ziyech aren’t close if they’re part of the squad flying over here to the States.

Kante and RLC refuse to get the vaccine so aren’t traveling. Love Kante, but damn. Super disappointing that he’s apparently anti-vax. As for RLC, imagine making this decision knowing your status at this club. You need every chance and opportunity possible to prove that you belong at Chelsea and you now miss 2 weeks of preseason because you refuse to get a simple shot. I’d sell him now. And I’d be annoyed as hell if I were Tuchel.

Fabrizio and others have literally tweeted that same thing everyday for like a week and a half. “Final details being sorted out for Sterling.” Is the contract as thick as a dictionary or something? 🤣

After being so-so on Aké and trying to see the positives over the past couple of days, I too now think it’s a bad move. Oddly, if this was a typical deadline day panic buy for like £25-30m after we’ve exhausted every other option I think it would look better. And at a reasonable price like that he wouldn’t expect to be an every match starter. But for him to be the first CB we buy and to do so for potentially MORE than City paid for him is kinda mad. I really hope that we quickly follow up his signing with another CB of higher quality so we can at least get an idea of what Tuchel is thinking. If it’s Aké and Koulibaly/Skriniar/De Ligt on either side of Silva I can comfortably live with that. If it’s Koundé & Aké I’ll be a bit worried about the extreme lack of height.

Nah, we def don’t want that. Then those Gooner bastards get a free run at him and we’ll never hear the end of it.

Still have no clue how Barca are paying for Dembele’s wages, adding Raphinha’s wages on top of his huge transfer fee, potentially adding Lewa’s wages on top of huge transfer fee, want Azpi + Alonso who are on big wages, and then also want Koundé who will be on big wages + big transfer fee. For a club up to their eyeballs in debt and begging their current players to slash their wages. Economic “levers” or not, it’s all so fishy.

Yeah, I just got done watching some footage of him at City from last season and it was VERY underwhelming. He looks like your average PL defender who you’d see at a midtable side. Nothing standout about him at all. He’s not quick, he’s not physically dominant, he’s just average on the ball, I didn’t really see any passing range or distribution in his highlights so it must not be particularly good. I guess we just have to trust Tuchel’s judgement here.

Imagine if we sign Aké and fund their move for the vastly superior Gvardiol who WE should be after. 🤣🤣🤣

Aké in a back 3 with a marquee CB brought in on the right side? 👍🏼 Aké in a back 4 as the only CB we bring in? 👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼 But surely Aké would only fancy returning here to Chelsea if Tuchel has assured him of a prominent role? He’s not going to hop from one bench to another. Which to me means that he has been sold on becoming our starting left sided CB in a back 3.

So Sterling isn’t actually done yet then… 😒

Same age as Van Dijk who is still showing no signs of dropping off in the league now that he’s over his big injury. Isn’t €40m only like £32m? That’s not bad at all for a world class CB in this day and age. Think it would be pretty smart of the club to make one of the CB’s we buy a more experienced guy.

Ronaldo officially not traveling with United’s squad on tour. Bayern have pretty explicitly said no thanks, Milan have 2 oldies up top already in Zlatan and Giroud, Napoli is not a big enough club for a player of his stature, he left Juve in bad terms. Tuchel wouldn’t………..would he? 😬

I guess. It’s just dumb if so. He would be one injury away from being the starter. And should get plenty of starts even if Kai is fit.

I don’t get why there’s even discussion about Broja right now. With Lukaku gone and only Kai as a striker he will get a LOT of minutes this season. Seems like a no brainer that he should stay.

We can cross Raphinha off for good then, I think. Maybe something changes with Dembele and we still have a shot at him?

How have we still not completed the Sterling deal? It was apparently “done” days ago…

There’s been nothing at all from any English media. Which says it all. Catalan media just using our name to spice things up.

We’re going to end up with 2 above average CB’s this window by the look of it. Every top one is slowly being checked off the list. Aké + Kimpembe would be unbelievably underwhelming. I’d rather just take the chance with Colwill playing a major role than spend big money on Kimpembe.

If we didn’t have like 16 midfielders currently on our books I’d start to get a bit excited. But this is the area of our team that is in the best shape. I find it impossible to believe that De Jong is even a consideration at this moment in time. Kante Kova Jorginho RLC Barkley Gilmour Bakayoko Gallagher Ampadu if you wanna count him as a midfielder? All on our books and earning big wages. How on earth could we do a deal for De Jong unless like 4 of those are gone? It makes no sense.

It may not even be about specific players. Like his meeting with Jorge Mendes a couple of weeks ago, Boehly is likely just trying to establish new relationships with the power players in the world of football. If Mino Raiola hadn’t just passed away I’m sure you’d see video of Boehly meeting with him, too.

Definitely strange. Negotiating for squad players like Azpi and Alonso in person?