Pizy

Feels like any and all transfer rumors and reporting have come to a complete stop with us. I know the CWC is starting soon but surely we should still be pushing seriously for deals. What’s going on? 🤦‍♂️ We aren’t seriously just going to wait around for weeks for Gittens and that’s the only signing we’re working on. And that’ll be a massive overpay, too.

Nike finally stopped fucking around with the horrid kits they’ve given us lately and gave us 2 absolute beauties this time. This is the prettiest away kit in years.

Which is why we need an injection of highly experienced players who have been there and done that and know how to handle it.

City have had the exact sort of surgically precise week we were sold on us having leading into the CWC. They had clearly identified all their targets some time ago and went out and got each one of them with little to no drama or drawn out sagas. Cherki, Reijnders, Ait Nori in the span of 1 week. Following them doing similar in January. Now their new team gets to gel and train together all summer and can hit the ground knowing exactly what Pep wants from them once the PL starts. Meanwhile, our club is penny pinching and gaslighting the fanbase.

Signing dozens of young players whilst we had also been signing loads of first team players that blocked their pathway was always going to bite us in the ass at some point and piss some of them off. That time is apparently now. Paez, Petrovic, who knows who else probably all were under the impression that they’d get a look in this summer to prove themselves worthy of staying.

What I mean is the manager wants them so you’d think the club would push a bit beyond what they initially intended to to reward Maresca for achieving his goals this last season. If he wanted Maignan and the only intended to go to £12.5m, would it have really been a big deal to go to £20m? It just seems like insane logic having seen what they’ve spent on complete rando’s for years now. For literal kids aged 17 or 18 they’re willing to pay whatever is necessary even if that’s £40m+ yet for one the premier keepers who is also a leader in the squad which we badly need, we blow up the deal that would’ve been cheaper than what we paid for Sanchez.

The club are treating Gittens as if he’s a superstar going back again and again for him. Dortmund appear to be smacking us around like the own us. It’s embarrassing. Imagine if they went this hard after an already top winger instead.

I don’t rate Gittens highly either but he’s apparently what the manager wanted. Just like he apparently wanted Maignan. The former I couldn’t care less about but missing out on the chance to get a serious keeper really stings.

We’ll pay like 20m more for Gittens than City paid for Cherki…

“The club has faith in the keeper we have” is the most obnoxious gaslighting you’ll ever see. They’re actually trying to make the fanbase be,ieve that utter bullshit despite the evidence before our own eyes. It’s exactly like the striker chase last summer where everyone and their mother knew we desperately needed a top #9, we chased Osimhen all the way, and then cheated out and refused to pay what was needed. Then the club briefed everyone just like with this Maignan deal that “we trust Nico Jackson.” And then we saw how that went.

Massively overpaying for a winger Dortmund don’t even want but refusing to pay for a top keeper. Starting the season with Sanchez as our #1 again just confirms that we have no ambition whatsoever from the top of the club to challenge for a title or the UCL. Just happy to be there for a few fun European nights and another fight until the last day for 4th.

It’s just the idea that we were willing to shell out £20m+ for Sanchez after he was benched by Brighton no problem but won’t go there for a keeper who is much better and has a pedigree like he does is insane. A player who is super keen to join us, too! A top player basically falls into our lap and these guys may fumble it. For Kellyman, Amougou, and a dozen other random teenagers that will never wear a Chelsea first team shirt they’ll happily spend the money. For the top keeper we’ve needed since Mendy’s first season here we refuse to go about £15m? Seriously?

There’s no panic if we don’t secure him before the CWC but surely it’s beneficial to have your new starting keeper in place for it since who knows what our preseason looks like this summer? Getting him settled in ASAP and hopefully playing a bunch of games during a deep run in the tournament could be all the preseason he gets.

Yeah, haggling over a million here and there for a player that would cost a maximum of just over £20m is unbelievable. We spent that on the kid from Villa who will never be seen or heard from again, ffs.

True. But you’d think after we worked smoothly with them with numerous sales recently they’d be willing to make this a smooth process for a player out of contract in a year and has told them in no uncertain terms that he wants out. I could understand them playing hardball if he had 3 years on his contract or something.

I swear Italian clubs are the most annoying to deal with. This reminds me of dealing with Napoli.

Simon Johnson says it’s not looking like.y as of yet… If we actually bottle a world class keeper over a few million pounds I’m gonna be sick. Even at £25m he’s a bargain.

Definitely feels now that Maignan will get over the line and we’ll probably hear about it tomorrow morning.

Imagine signing BOTH Gittens and Garnacho. 🤢🤢🤢

I remember myself and many other Chelsea fans here and elsewhere really wanted him last summer but I do think he’d be more of a risky signing for us than he is for City. He could be perfect for that Pep system where they’re going to try to pass everyone to death and play at a slow pace. Whereas here you can tell by our signings and targets that Maresca wants high tempo, hard pressing monsters and width from his wide players.

Yep, actually makes me a bit jealous sometimes. We as a club always seem to sign or prioritize pace, directness and athleticism whereas City always prioritize players who are super technical, intricate footballers with immaculate close control. As we saw with Klopp’s Liverpool, you can be an amazing side by playing with a team full of super athletes who play high octane, balls to the wall football but you need some absolute killers up front like Mané and Salah which we still don’t have.

City and Real Madrid have now done just about all of their business (and very good business, too) before the CWC starts. Plus the new UCL winners are in the competition. I don’t see us getting anywhere near this trophy. The club briefed all these journalists like a month ago or more that we were going to push super hard to get most of our business done before June 10th. So much for that…

Maybe a big European club has been in his ear telling him they want him? That’s the only thing I can think of.

So no Saudi for Osimhen after all that. Seems hard to believe that he’ll go to Galatasaray permanently as much as he loved them. He’s WAY too good to stay there at his age. So where to? PSG? United for some silly wage?

They should be thanking us for supplying them with Pulisic!