Pizy

All 3 of the other top 4 teams have now strengthened. Whereas we have taken a significant step back so far. Obviously we will sign players, but the club have known for months that CB’s are needed and yet we haven’t signed even a single one yet.

Bissouma for £25m and we didn’t even try? That’s an absolute steal and a brilliant signing for Spuds. As of this moment they look better than us. And they’re making us look like amateurs in the market. Getting their business done super quickly and with zero fuss or weeks of bidding. Perisić done, Bissouma and Spence just about done. Conte is quickly and methodically addressing all of Spuds’ weaknesses with significant upgrades in those key positions. Just 1 or 2 more signings and they’ll have totally completed their business weeks before their preseason even starts. Meanwhile, silence from us who have so much work to do after we heard repeatedly about how we were going to be quick and decisive once the season was over. 🙄🙄🙄

That totally fucks things then, huh? Hamstrings are no joke and especially so for a player who relies on physicality and athleticism like Koundé does. Does the new, post Roman Chelsea spend £65-70m on an injured player?

It actually feels like the Twitter admin was having a bit of fun with the “good start to the week” tweet. 🤣 On the day where City unveil Haaland and the day Liverpool will likely announce their shiny new €100m striker Nuñez, we hype up an extension for a player who probably won’t play at all for us this coming season.

Signing a teenage keeper we won’t see for years? Will he sign a 7 year contract like Kepa? Otherwise, with a typical 3-5 year contract that most footballers sign he may never even appear in a Chelsea shirt. Because I doubt we’d keep a 17-18 year old kid as our 2nd choice keeper. That would be incredibly risky.

Koulibaly would be interesting as a shorter term signing. But I’ll still believe he’d leave Napoli when I see it. I’d still prefer us to go younger.

It’s kind of hilarious and ironic that for years we’ve been a club who always chased and signed the big, flashy, classic #9 whilst City and Liverpool have either not used a striker at all or have played with more of a playmaking one. Now we want to sign a more unorthodox striker in order to catch up to City and a Liverpool whilst they’re signing classic #9’s.

Great to bolster their squad but this would be completely out of character for Spuds. Spending £50m or more on a player who wouldn’t even start? And why would Richarlison want to go there when Kane, Skn, and Kulu are already there? Anyways, the player I hate more than anyone else going to a club I despise. Fitting.

If we don’t make at least 1 signing over this coming week I’ll start to get genuinely concerned. Some of the players we’ve been linked with should be easy, straightforward moves unless the club is doing some serious penny pinching. Dembele is a free agent and Koundé we’ve been haggling over for like a year and Sevilla are resigned already to losing him. Why are those two not signed, sealed, and delivered yet?

Just let Azpi go, ffs.

Hopefully. We’ve heard all the talk of ambition and £200m warchests. Let’s see it.

Tuchel was asked on the last day of the season where he was going on holiday to relax and told the reporter that he couldn’t go anywhere because he’s going to be so busy working on rebuilding the team. Since there’s been zero movement it looks as though he could’ve gone away for a few weeks. Maybe he has…

Looks like Tuchel could’ve taken that holiday after all. Jack shit happening at the moment.

Just the same stories regurgitated every few days. We’ve agreed personal terms with Koundé (which we’ve been hearing for literally months, yet no bid into Sevilla) we’re interested in Sterling, Dembele, etc, we have big time money to spend, Tuchel wants to be quick. Same stuff repeated over and over. Yet nothing actually happening yet. If anything were close we’d be hearing from Matt Law or Ornstein a few days leading up to a signing.

Gabriel Jesus to replace Lukaku and Sterling to replace Timo wouldn’t be all that bad at all. Toss in Dembele on top for free and we’ll have done exceptionally well in totally revamping our attack. We’d finally have an entire array of attacker who are proper technical footballers rather than ones with horrendous first touch and no dribbling ability.

What happened to that massive kid we signed from Barca a couple of years ago? Wasn’t he hyped up as a future worldie?

Skriniar also plays on the right side at Inter from what I gather on YouTube. Which is where Koundé will play if we get him and where we have cover already in Chalobah. We really want a left footed, left sided CB. Which is why Gvardiol is ideal. Much higher ceiling and much younger than Skriniar as well.

Think Skriniar would do well in a back 3 as he shares many characteristics with Rüdiger. But he lacks one of the main things that made Toni so special which is amazing pace. Skriniar isn’t Harry Maguire levels of slow but he’s certainly nowhere near Rüdiger. Still, if Inter are open to some form of swap I think Lautaro makes more sense.

We should be happy that Rom is apparently doing this. Makes it basically a sure thing that he goes if he burns his bridges and pushes super hard to go. But the news that Fabrizio tweeted just earlier today that things are advancing between Inter and Dybala surely means that Lautaro is up for sale? How could they possibly fit he, Lukaku, and Dybala into one team? And pay all those huge wages? We should take a punt on him if so.

Much like his compatriot and former club teammate Frenkie De Jong, I think De Ligt is hugely overrated. Both were hyped up as the next superstars when they left Ajax and neither have been anything more than decent at Barca and Juve. De Ligt to me looks kind of slow and pretty clumsy. I guess perhaps you can disguise those weaknesses by putting him in a back 3 but I’d much rather just get someone like Gvardiol who is a natural in that system.

Again I’ll say that any striker coming in leaves us with a Havertz problem. The entire reason Jesus wants to leave City is because he wants to be the main man who starts every game. Which is why the Arse move makes sense for him. If he comes here what happens with Kai? Or do we play a new formation with 2 strikers? Havertz is wasted out wide.

This is why it’s imperative we sign not just him but another attacker who is more of a goal scorer as well.

I think Frenkie De Jong is massively overrated but I do think he’d replace Jorginho’s role quite well. But if he leaves Barca (which looks increasingly likely) I can only see it being to reconnect with ten Hag at United where they’re also desperate for CM’s. We can probably offer him similar a salary and obviously CL football which United can’t but I can’t see us doing anything in midfield until we see what happens with Jorginho and Kante. And De Jong will be off the table by then. He may move within a week or two.

Tbh, if I were a betting man I’d say we don’t sign a DM. Tuchel seems to genuinely love both Kante and Jorginho. With Gallagher coming back he gives us another midfielder who covers lots of the pitch. With all the other areas of the team that need rebuilding I think we’ll run Kante and J5’s contracts down and rebuild the midfield next summer. Maybe one of the two gets an extension. But when we need 2 new CB’s, 2 new wingbacks for cover, and multiple new attackers it may not be feasible to also buy an expensive DM this summer as well. Maybe we just bide our time for Rice next summer.

None, really. Other than the ongoing links to Rice which will never stop as long as he’s at WH.