Pizy

I badly want to laugh hysterically at Liverpool for missing out on their top target mere days before the season starts but we have our own business that can fall through. 😅😅😅 But goddamn, people bitch and moan about our transfer dealings. Look at Liverpool! Don’t think they’ve signed a single player, have they? Their fans are in total meltdown.

The fact that Gallagher has been in Madrid for days and we still don’t have resolution makes me worried about the deal. 🫤

The thought of Osimhen flanked by chance creating machines like Neto and Palmer either side of him or playing together with Nkunku/Felix in another potential lineup does sound pretty damn good I have to say even as someone who isn’t super high on him. My concern with Osimhen would mostly be in the big games against the better teams where service into him will be harder to come by. What does he offer if he’s not getting service is what I’m wondering?

Yeah…. Imagine if we get ourselves in another situation where we piss off another club like we did with PSG last year. We’re going to make clubs never want to deal with us again.

Come onnnnn, give us a Felix/Gallagher update damnit!

This Gallagher situation is so weird. He took and passed his medical, he has apparently been at Atleti training, the Atleti Twitter account posted media with him taking a tour of their stadium and facilities. It seemed as though it was a 100% done deal only missing the official announcement by the two clubs. But now the deal is up in the air just because of the Omorodion situation? How can they afford to spend €95m on Alvarez with no real issue but can only sign Gallagher if a sale is made?

Only saving Grace is that we didn’t put him on silly wages like £200k+ a week so he should have plenty of clubs that could take him in if we want to get rid. The talent is still there with Mudryk. He just needs to go somewhere where he’s 100% comfortable and confident and under a coach that gives him full belief. Needs a smaller profile club where there isn’t gigantic pressure on him every time he takes the pitch like here.

In terms of where Felix would fit or his role in the team, I see him as pretty much the same as Nkunku. A Swiss Army knife of a player who can play about 4 different positions. LW, RW, #10, or emergency false 9. Just like Christo. That’s exactly what the English journalists were briefed months ago that the club wanted in their transfer targets. Versatile players who can be moved around to different positions with comfort. As everyone has said, though, we NEED to sell some of the current lot for this move to make sense.

Sterling seems like the type of player who wouldn’t want to leave England. Doesn’t he have about 15 kids? I highly doubt he’d want to uproot such a big family and move to a country where they don’t speak the language etc. So I think it’s probably much easier to sell Mudryk. Ideally both would go but Sterling’s wages and desire to leave are surely huge obstacles.

Should be pretty straightforward for us to simply offer the same money, maybe just a little more, for Felix that we did for Samu and get this Gallagher swap sealed. Going from Samu to João Felix is a colossal upgrade as people were saying last night. Just in terms of raw talent and technical ability it’s not close. Just being able to turn to Felix instead of Mudryk or Sterling raises both our floor and our ceiling.

Gallagher deal falling apart after he has been posted walking around Atleti’s stadium by their social media account would be disastrous. If we’ve fucked up 3 different deals here Atleti will never want to deal with us again.

Yes, but they haven’t said anything about the situation since those initial tweets last night. I just saw Ben Jacobs and Nizaar both tweet at the same time that Omorodion is still unlikely but not dead. That says to me that they’ve been told by someone who would know. We all await another Ornstein bomb, I guess. But I’m now expecting “after further working on terms, Chelsea and Omorodion have come to an agreement.”

So I wake up to now see the journalists being briefed that the Omorodion deal ISN’T actually competently dead? Damnit. Shouldn’t have gotten too excited. 😞

Can’t imagine how we’d make that work unless there are 2-3 big outgoings.

Watching Felix’s Barca highlights I didn’t realize he was as good as he was. There’s a reason Barca fans really wanted him back for this coming season.

Felix & Osimhen are both on well north of £200k per week, yes? There’s no way we would get both under this new wage cap we’ve implemented. That is unless we can shift several massive earners like Lukaku, Sterling, and Chilwell… 👀 Really, though, we surely have to be selling off not just one of our current wide attackers but 2. They HAVE to go. We have Estevão and Paez coming next summer, ffs. We’d have like 20 attacking mids on our books if nobody is sold!

Felix’s excellent technical quality and ability to link play with quick thinking, one touch play makes WAY, WAY more sense than a giant #9 like Omorodion who has Lukaku like touch and skill. Him linking with Palmer, Neto, etc is already making me excited. His end product isn’t great of course, but we don’t need him to be our main source of goals.

This would surely rule out Osimhen btw, right? Felix would be on huge wages.

BRO, WTF IS GOING ON?! 🤣🤣🤣 I wanted us to keep João Felix when we had him so I’d be delighted to have him back instead of Omorodion.

So he would t accept the wages we offered? Is that the issue?

If true, I wonder what happens with Gallagher? Aren’t they using the money we were giving them for Samu to buy Gallagher? Or would this effect their Alvarez deal?

Would be a huge blessing in disguise if Omorodion indeed doesn’t come, we get Osimhen, and then keep Guiu who looks more polished than Samu at this point.

This is why I hope Maresca starts Tosin and Colwill together. Develop that relationship as our starting pair.

With the way the Pedro Neto deal came out of absolutely nowhere and was reported as a done deal in 1 day, I wouldn’t be shocked at all if we do the same thing with a striker. But I don’t think it’ll be Osimhen. I think it’ll be……Ivan Toney. That’s my prediction. The unfortunate side effect will surely be Guiu going out on loan. He deserves to stay.

Biggest concern for me (and keep in mind that I haven’t actually watched a single one of these preseason matches) is all the stuff I’ve read this summer about how poor Colwill has looked. He genuinely looked like a future world class CB who would lock down an undisputed place at the back for us for a decade or more when he returned from Brighton. We fought off multiple suitors that were after him for that exact reason. We gave him a big, long contract. But apparently he has been poor this summer. I wonder what the deal is? His best qualities when he was in the Brighton team were his composure/class on the ball and his passing. So what happened?