Pizy

Matt Law’s hit pice about Chalobah and others being “banished and barred” from the first team is having just the effect I figured it would. Loads of prominent Chelsea content creators and other football journalists calling the club a “disgrace” and other things like this is something that no other club does.

The Kellyman deal from a pure monetary POV never made sense. Never mind whether he’s good or not. When you spend 5 or 10 million on some young talent it’s easy to turn around and flip an easy profit on them if they are merely okay on loan. But when we spend almost TWENTY million like we did on Kellyman he’s going to have to absolutely kill it out on loan for any other club to want to pay more than what we bought him for. He’ll have to perform like Gallagher did at Palace, Omari Hutchinson did last season, or Reece did when he was on loan. Basically the loaning club’s player of the season. Otherwise we’re taking a big loss on him. It’s called buy low, sell high for a reason. You’re taking a huge risk by buying high like we did.

These sensationalized reports about us “barring” or “banishing” players from the main group is so dumb. It’s like they’re desperate to create anger and unrest amongst the fanbase for clicks. Is it not pretty common for players who will be sold or loaned to be in a separate group? This happens at every club. These reports make it sound like Chalobah is that loser trying to get into the nightclub and the bouncer out front pushed him away and prevented him from entering. In reality, the club probably just told him “we’re looking to get the best move for you so it would be best if you train over here.”

Man, there’s a guy who uploaded footage of Pedro Neto against individual teams from this past season which I just got through watching. He is an absolute bastard to play against. Caused massive headaches and ran all over ourselves, Spuds, and United. He attracts so much attention when he’s on the ball. In the Spuds match in particular he is playing on the LW so you can get a good look at what I hope we can expect from him. Looks perfectly comfortable there. He essentially looks like the exact sort of player we HOPED Mudryk would be when we bought him. A really aggressive, really quick, really tricky winger who is a pain in the ass for the opposition to deal with. He looks like someone who would’ve been a Jürgen Klopp dream signing if he had stayed at Liverpool this summer. All comes down to whether he can stay on the pitch as we’ve all been saying.

Insane money for a pure penalty box only finisher. You can go outside of the PL and get someone with Solanke’s characteristics for a fraction of this price. I’d be incredibly pissed off if we spent this much on him. He’ll probably do pretty well for them but still, crazy money. May not be advisable to start such an attacking team when our defense is currently struggling. I think all 3 of Caicedo, Enzo, and Lavia need to start and we pack the midfield for more security.

With his age and relatively low wages Mudryk will probably be much easier to move than Sterling. If someone is genuine interested in Raheem we need to bite their hand off at the first opportunity. Like Lukaku, his monster wages off our books is all that matters. Don’t care about the fee.

I think Paez & Estevão are such outrageous talents that they will be definite successes for us. To already be playing against grown men and looking great is what gives me that confidence. They have genuine “generational” talent. I think Anselmino’s physical characteristics should translate well to PL/European footy as well. All the other “wonder kids” we’ve hoarded recently I think could go any way. No real expectations that any of them will blow up into superstars.

Yeah, in theory Sterling should really excel in this new system since he played for Pep. If he ever hits some consistent form he’d be a useful squad player. Trouble is he looks like he’s barely ever bothered. He looks like the classic case of a player who has accomplished everything, won everything, got his massive fortune in the bank already, and is now just coasting. Mudryk is just a massive flop, I finally have to admit. I have been one of the last on the “he could still come good” bandwagon but it just appears like he’s destroyed mentally.

Sterling is probably impossible to move with his monster wages. I think our only salvation from that contract is a Saudi club. There would surely be quite a few smaller/traditionally midtable PL clubs that would love someone with his experience if he’d agree to a huge wage cut. But why would he do that?

I agree with everyone who is being cautious. It’s definitely a wait and hope for the best sort of signing before getting too excited. His qualities if he can stay fit are exactly what you want from a PL wide player, though. The most important of which is his aggression and desire to get on the ball and just run at defenders. Much like Madueke but much quicker. Cautiously optimistic. What we should have here that Wolves didn’t is quality depth options to rotate Neto. Perhaps we can protect him from injury risk by not putting massive minutes in his legs.

The brief from all the journalists for weeks now has been that we wanted a striker and a wide player before the end of the window and it turned out to be true. Samu and Neto. But those same journalists ALSO have been saying that even if Samu is brought in that we shouldn’t rule out getting Osimhen as well. If that happens then surely all of the negativity will cease at least for a little while? Anyways, we have to start selling and loaning players urgently. We have like 60 players! It’s time to trim, trim, trim!

Kinda funny that 1) all the talk for like the past month since we missed out on Olise was that we had switched instead to a right footed winger who plays on the left side and 2) that we were able to wrap up this super expensive deal without a whisper until it was basically done. How the hell was this kept 100% secret? Wasn’t even brought up as a possibility by any journalist. Could it be that this came together after the Real Madrid game where Maresca hated what he saw from Mudryk and Sterling? That could explain why nobody knew ahead of time. This could’ve been a urgent request from Enzo so he’d be ready for the City game. But now I’m wondering what the idea is for him as he looks to be strictly a RW who loves cutting inside and shooting with his left foot. But that’s where I figured Cole was a lock and we have Madueke who has been getting better and better.

Surely this signing spells the end of one of our current wide players? Either Sterling or Mudryk have to go or one of them is never seeing the pitch.

Spuds fans are in absolute meltdown, btw. Apparently they had been working on this transfer all summer long and he was their #1 top target.

Jesus. That’s Wes Fofana like.

Very direct, very dangerous wide player. But am I mistaken or hasn’t he been injury prone these last couple of years?

Speaking of crazy fees, Spuds are about to pay £60m for Dom Solanke. Absolutely bang average player.

Feels like we’ve signed almost a whole new squad’s worth of teen wonder kids now. It’s insane.

I know a lot of our fans have turned on Enzo after an underwhelming season but to suggest Conor is better than him is equally as dumb. All 3 of our current CM’s have talent/potential to be world class. Gallagher is an above average workhorse and nothing more.

This is just silly. If you’re this depressed and angry about Chelsea why watch?

I’m just trying to look at the positives and I remain pretty optimistic unlike most of our fanbase. No injuries in preseason for Lavia, Nkunku, or Reece so far. Lavia in particular has been a beast. We look as though we actually have a clue in attack now and this is before Palmer & Jackson have even started yet. I think KDH will be very solid for us. I’m not as optimistic as I was earlier in the summer when I figured we’d go big on a marquee striker, winger, and GK but I will choose to think that a side which missed top 4 by the skin of our teeth last season and are now getting 3-4 big players who improve our first XI back from injury will be perfectly capable of fighting for 4th. It’ll be a scrap and probably go to the wire, but our squad is good enough for 4th. There’s no planet on which anyone can say that Newcastle, Villa, United, Spuds, and West Ham have squads more talented than ours and those clubs will all have the thought entering the season that they will finish in the UCL places. So why shouldn’t we?

I predict our incoming business will be done following Omorodion. Then it’s all about trying to move on as many unwanted players as we can. I only see new incomings happening if we carry on conceding silly amounts of goals through the first few PL matches. Then we’ll panic buy a defender again.

I just got done watching an extended 8 minute video of Omorodion and wish I hadn’t. 😔😔😔 He looked pretty awful aside from his physicality. He seriously does look like a young Lukaku. His touch and ability on the ball look extremely clumsy and limited. He may cause some problems for defenders merely due to his size and athleticism but I just don’t see the world class potential or talent which has made someone or multiple someone’s at our club obsessed with him.

Btw, what in the hell happened to this Kellyman dude we signed for silly money from Villa? Felt like we announced him and then he fell off the face of the earth never to be seen or heard from again. Haven’t heard anything about a loan or what his role is if he stays with us.

Welp. Hopefully the addition of Samu doesn’t mean Guiu joins the endless “loan before being sold off 5 years from now” army. Think he’s really got something about him and would be a great alternative weapon off the bench this season for us.