Fernando

Seeing Kante and Caicedo in the same midfield would be the stuff of dreams even if he’s now nearly 35. 

no club on the planet will pay £150m for Palmer at the level he currently is playing to
he looks a shell of what he was pre injuries

For me, he can go but we need to demand a lot of money 

His body language against Brentford was horrific

Yup as I been saying. First the problem of sacking a manager and getting a new one. The new one will want to try out everyone thus wasting time. 
And second Joe Shields seems like a one trick pony. Can't see past only city players. Just because it worked with Palmer does not mean it will work all the time. 
I'm sure that's why we got gitten as well since he is ex city..... 

🙄🔵Keep an eye on Oscar Bobb. Chelsea wants to snatch him away from City and Fulham!
Joe Shields, I'm speechless.🤐
🟢Bounemouth is working on a T. George transfer.
 

🔴Bayer Leverkusen are interested in Chelsea’s second choice, Filip Jorgensen.
(@Kicker)

yes, Sarr and Anselmino make not getting Jacquet a less bitter pill to swallow (if we do not get him over the line), especially from what I have seen of Sarr
The one CB I simply cannot get over not grabbing was Huijsen. Losing out on him was a gut shot, no doubt.
The only thing that made it a tiny tiny bit better was that it was Real Madrid, one of only 2 clubs (Barca of course being the other) that we will lose out to almost everytime (when they REALLY want a player), due to global players' dreams.
Now, those two clubs aside, we, Chels, are number 3 on the 'dreams list' for yoing players globally, after them. The only exception might be some Italians who want to stay in Italy (basically Inter/AC/Juve), but those players are RARE (as an example, look now, even Bastoni is starting to hint he wants to go abroad, although watch him end up at Real or, a wee less likely, Barca, ffs!)
Manure used to be number 3, but almost 15 years of shit football is killing that 'dream-production line', plus, who the fuck would want to live in Manchester over London, lolol.

Why not? Even if the source if crap, we can discuss the idea/possibility of signing players. This topic is about commenting rumours, isn't it?

yes if they offer at least what we paid for him I think we should sell 

Enzo will fetch really good money still, I'm not 100 percent sold on him

The more the better, almost all CBs need sold and replaced outside Colwill.

we should be ALL OVER VDV
and Ordonez was my first choice for an actually available 22yo and under right footed CB, but the club said they were NOT persuing him (a few weeks back)
 
the 20 best non teen left footed CBs on the planet IMHO  
Alessandro Bastoni 
Gabriel Magalhães 
Josko Gvardiol 
Dean Huijsen (ambipedal, he is the only ambiedal CB of any ageI truly rate ATM, although do not sleep on an 18yo Serb, Nikola Simić of Partizan Belgrade )
Micky van de Ven   
Willian Pacho   
Murillo   
Levi Colwill  
Alessandro Buongiorno
Nico Schlotterbeck 
Piero Hincapié 
Jarrad Branthwaite 
Castello Lukeba 
Gonçalo Inácio  
Konstantinos Koulierakis   
Marcos Senesi   
Renato Veiga    
Sven Botman    
Evan Ndicka
Dávid Hancko
 
the 2 best 20yo and under lefty CBs (Huijsen turns 21 in 2 and a half months)
Honest Ahanor (turns 18 in February)
Karim Coulibaly (turns 19 in May)
plus the 18yo (19yo in March) ambipedal Serb I mentioned above


 

🚨🇫🇷 Jérémy Jacquet has already agreed to the move to Chelsea, where he would arrive as a guaranteed starter. Rennes wants to make the biggest sale in the club's history (€70 million). 
🔗 Santi Aouna - Foot Mercato
#CFC | #Chelsea 
 
 
lollllllll!!!!!! 🤬

Dreadful performance overall in pretty much every area of the pitch. The only 2 players who I thought were genuinely good were Sanchez and Trev. Caicedo and Enzo were alright and Garnacho and Neto flashed in spots. But it was almost effortless how easily Brentford ripped through us and should’ve scored 4 or more. We could’ve scored a couple more ourselves, but still, not good enough. 
On an individual level, I’m starting to get really worried about Palmer. I don’t know if it’s because he’s super frustrated with himself that he can’t play to his standard due to the groin injury or what, but his body language is awful. He looks a million miles off the pace. He’s not ghosting past players for fun like he always did, he’s not getting into dangerous areas and wreaking havoc, and he’s not scaring anyone at the moment. Maybe he should be shut down and told to have the surgery. 

I wouldn’t be happy either if I was playing with some of these so called top footballers we’ve assembled, given his ability. Or knew I had another 8 or 9 year contract with the direction this club is going. It will be frustrating for sure because the ambition on show & quality of recruitment isn’t particularly impressive. Throw in the turbulence around the managers & sporting directors also. That stuff gets to players also. Enzo Fernandez another apparently considering a change. Again not surprised, be the first of many potentially.
Genuinely think unless there’s massive changes around the club, him & Moises will eventually up and leave. They’ll get offers from big clubs who are serious about winning trophies.
Ok his performances need to improve & also his body language hasn’t been great but he’s been carrying this side for the best part of 2 seasons as it is. He’s still relatively young. As is Moises. We are already over reliant on those 2. Who else is stepping up?

I agree we need to upgrade and I cannot believe he is the keeper for the 3rd season running now
But he has the second highest clean-sheets this season and the stat about most errors leading to goals is a small comparison pool - Only few GKs have been starting week in and week out for last 2 seasons because teams like City, West Ham, Bournemouth, Brentford and United changed keepers and few others didn't play regularly all the time (Pope, Alisson, Sels)
Honestly, he is having a purple patch with a very poor defense.

It’s mad they try to use that bs again and again!
I can assess that group in 1 day and im not being paid millions..
Shit. 

For 107 Million sell him, he's decent that's about it
In other news, Facundo is off to Leeds on loan until the end of the season

I love Enzo’s personality, his warrior attitude, and I don’t want to sell him. But out of all of our “big” players he’s definitely the most expendable. If we have to make a big sale this summer to fund any planned big moves ourselves AND Enzo asks to go to PSG or Madrid I think we probably do it.
The problem is of course that these clubs aren’t going to give us the money we’d demand. We are the same club who set the price for Nicolas Jackson absurdly high so how much would we ask for one of our key players who we paid £100m+ for?
If he goes and we replace him and replace him with Wharton I think the team overall would function better. We’d lose Enzo’s knack for popping up with goals from midfield but having someone next to Caicedo who can actually get around the pitch with some athleticism would be better for the teams shape.

Apparently Enzo isn’t happy with the constant changes at the club. 
 
Don’t blame .. we all are.

On 2 July 2025, Barco completed a permanent move to Strasbourg from Brighton for a fee of £7.87 million.
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/cn8656yqw4po

some LB options IF we sell CuCu
Nathaniel Brown 
Valentín Barco (plays a lot in MF as well)
Davide Bartesaghi  
 
dice roll 19yo
Dayann Methalie 
 

Even if it aligned up together and he was available at the time of us needing someone this lot wouldn't have gone for him for two reasons....he is not a yes man and he would of demanded a lot more money than what the project puppet is on.
Alonso will sit out knowing there maybe a chance of either the Liverpool job end of the season or the United job, 

we have a manager
Xabi was not avaialble when we hired Rosenior