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Jackson as our primary or only striker like this past season is an absolute no go. Jackson as a rotation with Delap is something we could live with. Don’t think we should sell him unless we can get one of the Victor’s in which doesn’t appear on the cards.

Liverpool fans certainly won’t be able to cry about not being able to compete financially ever again. No more of that cringey shit from Carragher and all the other bitter Liverpool media about how they do things “the right way.” They’re about to have a maybe the most lavish transfer window ever for any club.

Don’t know why this Julian Alvarez stuff is even given a second thought. He just moved to Atleti a year ago for nearly 100m. He’s now their best attacker and as a Spanish speaker is probably loving life in Spain. Why on earth would he leave there so soon for one, and why would Atleti even consider selling him? And if they ever did surely it would have to be well north of £100m.

Don’t get me wrong, it wouldn’t be a dealbreaker for me. It’s just strange. Especially for a guy like Gyokeres who is a massively powerful guy.

Ooof lol Looks like a blooper reel. How does a striker get to this level with such poor heading ability?

Gotta be high wage demands similar to Osimhen, right? What else can explain every too club not immediately going and starting a sweepstakes once the season ended? Or maybe everyone has already been informed that he only wants one particular club and is sitting back and waiting until that deal is sealed?

Yeah, those two make sense. He goes to Liverpool and they may dominate the league like Pep did for a few years so hopefully it’s not there. Barca would be picture perfect for them but as you say who knows if they can make it work financially.

Yeah, and that worked out terribly for him and it felt like he was there for 5 minutes. Don't know if he wants a repeat of that scenario.

If you’re Ekitike, why would you even want to come to Chelsea after seeing us sign Delap and already have Jackson here? It makes little sense from either our perspective or his.

Sesko looks extremely talented and could become great at Arse but I’d actually be pretty relieved if they sign him instead of Gyokeres. Sesko looks to me to be more of a risk whereas Gyokeres feels like he’d seamlessly slot in to a Arse/Chelsea/Liverpool and hit the ground running. If Arse do indeed go for Sesko though I wonder where that leaves Gyokeres in terms of options. The usual big boys Madrid, Barca, and Bayern don’t need a #9. The big Italian sides are usually broke. City have Haaland. Suppose there’s an outside chance United pull a Casemiro/Di Maria/Varane and massively shell out for a superstar when nobody expected it. But that’s exactly what got them into the mess they’re in now. Handing players monster wages.

I think Grealish and Zaha both moved to the wrong teams at the wrong time. I still maintain that both could’ve been big successes in different situations. Mbuemo is 25 now so I think he’d transition well to a bigger club. He’s not a kid anymore who would have the weight and expectation of having to be a superstar like those players were.

What do you guys think of going for Mbuemo? Much like Delapmhes got that perfect combo of pace and power and is a total bitch to play against as we’ve seen firsthand several times. He’s most effective on the right hand side as well so can easily play together with Delap/Jackson and with Palmer feeding him. I’d take him in a heartbeat. Goals, creativity, pace, power, PL proven, and available for a decent price.

Good to see that the club mean business just like Liverpool and have gone out and attacked their main targets basically the moment the season ended. If they go out and address our other couple of weaknesses quickly then we should be in one hell of a position come the start of next season. As for those wide attacker links, I genuinely would rather keep Sancho for £25m than going and spending £40-50m or whatever Dortmund want for Gittens. I really think he’d flop here. At least with Sancho he knows the club and knows the league well. Nico Williams or Morgan Rogers for me. Rodrygo is a fantasy and never happening.

Doesn’t make sense unless Jackson is sold. And with Maresca and the club hierarchy in love with Jackson enough to say “I’d love a clone of Nico Jackson” and hand him a o year contract, there’s not a chance in hell we sell him. Signing just Delap is already risky because he’s not the finished product. Signing Delap AND Ekitike who is also a development project would be silly.

I guess I mean attacking player in general. Doesn’t have to be another traditional striker. Still definitely think we need additional attacker after Delap who can score and create goals at a decent clip to replace Nkunku/Sancho. I”d be delighted with Morgan Rogers.

Good signing and a bit of a no brainer at just £30m. But can’t help but feel underwhelmed if he’s our one and only forward signing considering the other names available.

Maybe next summer but I’d be shocked if Madueke goes this window. Knowing our board they’ll set a valuation so silly that nobody will be interested like we did with putting a £70m asking price on Nkunku.

The thing about Nico Jackson is that despite a lot of the fanbase not fancying him and wanting him moved on is that Maresca loves him. Same thing with Madueke and Sancho. I just can’t imagine the club selling Jackson or Madueke because within the club they’re still viewed as potential stars.

Yeah, at least not against the very top teams. Delap isn’t striking fear in any of the big boys entering a match. Perhaps the club would take advantage of Delap being dirt cheap compares to the others were linked with and use the money saved to go all out for a top wide attacker to replace Madueke/Sancho. So while Delap alone wouldn’t be so exciting, maybe we get a Nico Williams or Rodrygo to refresh the attack?

It’s not that Delap is a bad signing. He would be SUPER useful to have and he causes massive headaches for opposing teams. But it’s whether he’s capable of taking us all the way back to the top level. If it was Delap + another reliable goal scorer fine.

New striker cannot come soon enough

ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS JACKSON

Not a single one of our attacking players can do ANYTHING tonight. This is infuriating.

And I know it’ll sound like whining since we’re losing but Caicedo was punished about 2-3 times despite cleanly winning the ball. Happens all the time with him even in the PL because he’s usually so much stronger than the players he’s tackling and they go down.

This is yet another game where we’d probably have score 2-3 if Palmer was in his form from last season or the first half of this one. Him becoming completely lost these days means our attack is clueless. And yes, Madueke continues to be one of the most annoying Chelsea players. Can’t stand watching him.