Pizy

Even though our club have briefed that it’s not happening, in the back of my head I still wouldn’t totally rule out CR7 coming in. The longer he refuses to show up at United preseason the more I think it’s still possible.

Scamacca for me would be a huge risk. One great season after like 5 loans prior to that. Coming from a small Italian team. Huge potential bust there. I think we need to continue our trend this window of getting players who are ready to slot straight in and not take ages to get used to things. Koulibaly, Sterling, and Koundé should all go straight into the starting XI without much issue. Any forward or wing signing we make now will hopefully be the same. Someone with lots of experience in a big team with proven pedigree and limited risk. Who that is, I don’t know…

Only way Timo goes is on loan with that salary. I’d still keep him and give him one last chance to rediscover himself.

Announcement today would be ace. But from what we saw with Sterling and KK it seems to take us like 3 days between signing everything and the announcement.

They’re probably also pissed off at us (and all English clubs) for blowing up the Super League which was going to save them from financial ruin.

He’s basically the face of Newcastle now. Zero chance they’d part with their best player now that they’re “the richest club in the world.”

I see. Could be one to watch in the future. Not many options for us this summer now.

Moussa Diaby looks pretty damned good after I just watched footage. Looks to offer a out of what Raphinha does but is even quicker. Apparently he has ruled himself out of a move this summer. But perhaps that’s only Becasue a proper big club hasn’t come in for him yet and changed his mind.

Nice, some seemingly positive news to wake up to. If we get this over the line it should be a race to sign a goal scorer next of some kind. Forget blowing money on a 3rd CB, we need goals. Then after that some cover at wingback.

Knowing our current luck, we’ll go put a monster bid in for Leão and then Real Madrid will wake up and say “nah, we’ll be having him.” 🤣😫

We’ll probably do something monumentally dumb after this like bidding such crazy money for Aké that City will privately laugh their heads off at and drive him to Cobham themselves.

Never, EVER again should we table a bid until the player himself gives their word that they want to come. It makes us look like total amateurs and a small club. Looks like two identical chains of events now. Bid massive money, agree with the selling club, player himself finds terms acceptable, then the player decides on Barca. DO NOT BID FOR A PLAYER WITHOUT THEIR IRONCLAD COMMITMENT TO MOVE TO Chelsea!

The going to join up with Sevilla thing not effecting our negotiations sounds like horseshit. If the deal was super close to Chelsea he could join up with us and not miss more than a couple of days training. He’s doing a Raphinha and biding time for Barca to put together a bid.

Chalobah is a solid player who can come in as a rotation option against lesser opponent, in earlier round cup competitions, or if someone better is injured. He is not yet good enough to be an undisputed starter for a team with title ambitions. This “don’t buy anyone an just stick with what we have” stuff sounds nice, but it’s basically just giving up on doing anything special this season.

Perhaps if we had bought him when he was extremely keen early in the window before Barca sold their souls for quick money he’d have been here long ago. Or had we not wasted time chasing the vastly inferior Aké for 2 weeks. Has a big club ever put in TWO nearly £60m bids for players and had them both scuppered like this? By the same club within the span of a week? This would make us look so terrible.

Utterly disastrous summer then, if so. Combine the incompetence of the incomings with the inability to sell off the endless supply of deadwood and its a recipe for us to slip away even further behind the top 2 and allow Spuds/Arse/United to pass us by.

Again, the club better be ready to swiftly move on to the next CB on the list if we get embarrassed here again. Before the actual meaningful football starts.

Christ, just tell us where he’s going already. 😩😩😩 Hopefully we find out today one way or the other.

I do rate him and really like him as a big part of the squad but we absolutely, 100% need another forward signing that can score goals. Because as of right now I don’t see how we score goals at a high enough rate to keep up with the top 2. Even with an improved defense and Sterling as an upgrade on the left I can see us having the exact same sort of season with the exact same frustrations as we did last season at this moment in time. Loads and loads of matches where we dominate poor opposition but can’t score goals because we have serial chokers like Ziyech/Werner/Pulisic/CHO in attack and Havertz who looks amazing one match and then disappears in others. If the powers at this club think Sterling and nobody else is good enough to bridge the gap they’re extremely deluded.

Can we see something resembling a coherent team against Arse? Rather than weird formations and players playing totally out of position? And never see Sarr or Kenedy in a Chelsea shirt again?

Results don’t matter but when you travel abroad for preseason tours you want to out on a good show for the fans. I actually feel bad for these tens of thousands of Chelsea fans watching that. Mix and match teams or not that was a diabolical performance. Most of the players straight up didn’t look fussed at all. Look what Bayern and Barca have done to MLS opposition compared to this. We should be blowing this sort of team away no matter who is playing.

Ziyech is woeful. Good lord.

Even against MLS farmers our attacking players are poor. Zero composure. We absolutely need to bin a couple of these and make another attacking signing or we just won’t have enough goals in us to compete.

CHO still looks as sloppy as last season.

So weird wearing last seasons away kit when we’re just weeks away from a new season.