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If he continues playing well and developing it’s more likely Villa sell Ollie Watkins than Duran at this point. He’s nearing 30 so they may want to cash in while they still can. Duran could become their main man for many years.

If he can receive the football, take players on with confidence in 1v1 space, and just create/score even the occasion goal then he’s immediately a significant upgrade on Mudryk. I guess that’s how we have to look at this move for it to make sense. Neto + Sancho as LW options for the PL. Mudryk can play in the Conference League and Carabao Cup.

Has a player ever been officially signed and just not announced for such a long time before? Are we really waiting until tomorrow to parade him on the pitch like he’s some trophy signing or something?

Did they make Sancho walk from Manchester to London? Did he get lost?

When you think about it, Arse don’t really have a traditional #9 either and are favorites for the league. Jackson and Havertz will likely put up very similar numbers and are of similar quality. So you don’t NEED a world class striker or even a classic striker at all to be a top team. The big difference between us and them is that they have a world class defense that acts as a solid base that their team can build from.

Very weird. Is this the only deal in the league that hasn’t been announced yet?

Find it hilarious that the entirety of the English media have been silent about how shit and useless Sterling has been for ages at Chelsea but now that he’s joined Arse he’s suddenly a top class player and one of the signings of the window.

Never really formed much of an attachment to Sterling at all in his time here. So seeing him in an Arse shirt just feels completely empty. Don’t feel any sort emotion at all. He didn’t really ever feel “proper Chels” as they say. Havertz was annoying because of what he did for us in the UCL and because he actually liked being at the club.

If any of this happens then heads need rolling. No exaggerating, people need to be sacked if paperwork wasn’t sorted in time even with the 2 extra hours.

So uhhhh, what’s the deal with Sancho?

Very true. Just have to hope it gets more solid. The attacking talent we have is absurd, though. The better we keep the ball and if the attack is clinical like we were against Wolves then the defense should be less vulnerable.

People need to keep some perspective I feel. True, we don’t have a marquee striker but between Palmer, Neto, Nkunku, Felix, and Jackson that should be plenty of goals to get us into contention for 3rd/4th. If Sancho miraculously turns things around that’s a significant upgrade on Mudryk who barely looks like a footballer. I’d be depressed if Newcastle, United, Villa, Liverpool etc all had 10 out of 10 windows whilst we signed dross. But none of them made moves so good that we should be thinking “yikes, we got left behind.” Newscaster signed basically nobody, Liverpool signed ONE player who is a huge injury risk. United signed some players that should be good but don’t look like big game changers to me. We should be fine as long as there’s steady improvement and comfort within this new system. Oh, and if key players like Lavia can keep fit.

Maybe Sterling helps Arse take points off of our top 4 competitors and it’ll be worth this shit deal? 😬😬😬

Yikes. So we’re basically paying Sterling to play for Arse?

I’m not that worried about a transfer ban tbh. All of our big signings recently are young and we have even younger gems coming in. It might even be a huge blessing in disguise for these crazy directors. It’ll stop us buying 5 more goal keepers and 7 more attacking mids.

Good to get the wages of Kepa, Lukaku, Sterling, etc off our books for a year even if only temporarily for some of them I guess. But we’re going to be going through this very same shit this time next summer. Desperately scrambling to find homes for these guys. Unless they all perform super well on loan that is.

So in the end Chilly may be the only big earner who rots on our bench until January unless I’m forgetting someone?

No, talking about what Di Marzio is now saying. We apparently offered him €4m base salary with the rest in bonuses which he says is less than half his current Napoli wage. Imagine getting offered €30-40m per year in the morning and then we come in after he said no to Saudi to wait for us and we offer €4m.

The reported offer I’m seeing we presented to Osimhen….holy shit. 🤣🤣🤣 No wonder he refused.

So now the game begins again in January regarding a striker. I wonder which flavor of the month makes a name for themselves in the lead up to that window that we’ll inevitably be linked with? No chance we go back for Osimhen after he was so stubborn and refused us.

We shouldn’t be upset with Osimhen himself at all. Be upset with the club’s strict new structure if anything. Imagine you’re earning £250-300k and Chelsea are offering you maybe half that. That’s a hard wage cut to take I would think. If it was just a slight cut down to £200k it might be a good compromise but it doesn’t even sound like we went near that. We as Chelsea fans need to come to grips with the fact that we will no longer be able to go for the already established stars that are already on big wages. We can only go for up and coming future stars who are on low wages to whom £120k per week is a huge raise for them.

Welp. We didn’t get the striker we so desperately desired. But at least we didn’t do something idiotic and sign DCL or Omorodion. I’m just going to be happy with my two favorite signing of this window in Neto & Felix. I think we’ll be fine in attack for the most part.

Imagine telling Chelsea supporters exactly a week ago when a huge portion of our fanbase were already questioning where João Felix would play that on deadline day we’d be signing ANOTHER WINGER and no striker! It’s the most unbelievable thing I’ve seen. We’ll have 15 attacking mids and 1 senior striker. 🤣🤣🤣🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Everyone was hyped up about this supposed “insane” deadline day for Chelsea and we may end up doing nothing of note other than a few outgoing loans. We’ve let the whole watching public down! 🤣

In addition, I’ve seen lots of Arse fans say that Saka gets really burnt out as the season goes on because they rely on him so much. So Sterling could rotate for him too.