Pizy

Not saying it should be swept under the rug. He should 100% be punished. I just don’t think his punishment should be “never play for Chelsea again.” But I’ll wait to see his response and how sincere he is.

A sincere apology and a suspension from the club should be enough. You can’t kill someone’s career for a (very, very stupid) celebration. He’s now got to live with fans booing him in every stadium, his teammates never trusting him fully again, and everyone thinking he’s a massive racist for the rest of his career. All of that plus whatever discipline from the club and put a line under it. Selling someone who we just payed over £100m for and who was set to be a key player is surely impossible for the club.

I don’t know which is dumber, the team singing the racist, super offensive song or Enzo filming it, putting it live on IG, and not thinking about the reaction it would get. How can you be that fucking stupid?! I honestly don’t know what he can do other than getting up in front of the whole squad and profusely apologize and ask that they please allow him to earn their support back. Any talk of selling him is complete madness.

I see we’re now linked with another Brazilian “next Neymar” type wonderkid. 🙄🙄🙄

I agree. So there’s no chance we’d sign him even if Barca weren’t in the race.

I feel like for the right player we could go big again. Especially if there are still some big outgoings like Lukaku, Kepa, Gallagher, Trev, Broja. The bigger challenges for us I think are 1) convincing a top player to choose us over the multiple other big clubs that are after them and 2) hoping that they don’t ask for wages of over £120-150k a week. The transfer fees I don’t think are the problem.

It is a bit weird that any and all rumors and links with Trev, Broja, etc leaving have all died. There are so many teams that are dying for solid young CB’s and someone of Broja’s profile so I figured they’d be relatively quick, easy sales for us. Looks like it could be another mad scramble right near the deadline where we’re desperately looking for loan moves for 20 of our unwanted/unneeded players.

They’ll probably offer to pay in installments over 3 years or something. Whether Athletic accept that or not is the question. I get the impression that they’re desperate for him as a way of showing they can get back to competing with Real Madrid. He’s their answer to Mbappe. They want a pair of world class wide players like Madrid have. Mbappe & Vini vs Yamal & Williams. They’ll further fuck themselves over for a short term boost.

The Barca president has publicly come out and said they have the money for Nico Williams. The president of La Liga has said the same. I think it’s absolutely classless and insane for them (especially the La Liga boss) to come out and say these things about a player from another club and one who just signed a new contract, btw. But it’s clear they’re going to go for him. His super close friendship with Yamal and the allure of Barca even in their current state is far too enticing for a Spanish player to turn down. Don’t know why our name keeps getting brought up. There’s no chance he’d choose us over them.

Play central where? If we play with 3 in midfield like everyone expects I think KDH or Carney play as that advanced midfielder in front of Enzo & Caicedo. Or have Lavia at #6 with Enzo & Caicedo as the two #8’s. I’ve always just assumed it would be Nkunku left, Palmer right, Nico Jackson/new striker up top, and then a combo of whichever 3 CM’s that suits each opponent.

Looks like all of the concrete links with us are now exhausted. There’s no one now that you can point to and say “this guy could very well be our next signing.”

It looks like a kit you’d see a fake football team from an anime wearing. 🤢🤢🤢

Mate, we’ve made like 4 signings in the past couple of weeks. 🤣🤣🤣

Noticed a couple of players who haven’t reported back yet. Haven’t seen pics of Ugochukwu or Marc Guiu yet.

Doubt my opinion will change tomorrow when we actually see the kit being worn by the players but from the leaked photos this is genuinely the worst Chelsea kit ever. Astounding that this got the thumbs up from the club.

Gallagher seems more and more likely to stay at this point. The two main English clubs he was linked with earlier this summer have signed midfielders. Villa signed Barkley & Onana and Spuds signed Archie Gray. Only other PL club I could picture going for him now would be Newcastle. But keeping him would be nonsensical with the midfielders we now have. With Lavia and Chukwameka now hopefully fit PLUS Enzo, Caicedo, and KDH there really isn’t any place for CG.

The only striker target left id actually take. But if PSG are also interested I doubt we have any chance at all.

I pray he’s good, then. Game changer of a player if he stays fit for the whole season.

He’s not a winger but that the only place for him in the first XI unless we use him as a false 9. If he’s fit he has to start for me and I’m hoping that injury he had last season was just an unlucky, freak injury. He’s not a guy like Reece or Wes Fofana who has had chronic injuries to the same area, right? So I don’t see why we shouldn’t be optimistic.

Good signing. Villa are going to be very good again this season but I still think they take a slight step back.

Surely Nkunku will be starting on the left…

Btw, what ever happened with the Anselmino deal? By all accounts that was a done deal like 2 weeks ago, we agreed to loan him back to Boca, but then we never did get an announcement or anything.

I get the feeling that striker isn’t really even in our thoughts currently. The club are banking on Nico taking a big leap (which I agree with) and a combination on Guiu, Nkunku, and the attacking mids being enough to score us plenty of goals. There just isn’t that standout striker available this window that’s within reach. Any attacking signing we make the rest of this window will likely be a wide player. We’ll revisit both the striker and goalkeeper positions in January after we’ve had a good chunk of the season to assess whether Sanchez and Nico Jackson + Guiu are adequate.

We’ve already got plenty of big name players already. We just need sensible players in areas of need now. The only big name we should go all out for is a keeper. But that doesn’t appear to be happening.

Does he come in and start over Nkunku/Mudryk/Sterling? Or is he Palmer’s backup on the right ahead of Madueke?