Jase

PLOT TWIST!

See my reply above.

Right, forgot about the currency. Previous reports did say we paid 71.6 million pounds for Kepa. If we pay 72 million pounds upfront, then he will be our record transfer by a few hundred thousand. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/11466355/chelsea-seal-71-6m-kepa-arrizabalaga-signing-from-athletic-bilbao https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/aug/08/chelsea-kepa-arrizabalaga-athletic-bilbao-transfer

Do we have a choice if there are no takers for Kepa?

Wouldn't Havertz be the record transfer immediately considering we're paying 80 million upfront? We paid 72 million to activate Kepa's release clause.

If we want to be decisive, we could maybe just sell Caballero, put Kepa as the #2 and then buy a new GK.

According to Bild, Leverkusen have accepted our offer. Broken English translation from Google Translate below...

It will help him settle in general but I'm not concerned about it being a problem on the pitch at all. Football itself is like a universal language and players go to a league in a different country all the time without language becoming a problem.

Has Jim White been living inside a cave..?

lol You forgot the goalkeeper... Does Silva speak English?

Just because we have other problems, it doesn't mean Kepa isn't a problem. Months ago, I was still willing to be patient with Kepa but as the season went on, the situation had reached breaking point because he has let in goals that he should have saved and he has rarely even made any sort of saves. Every shot from opposing teams was like turning into a goal every time, might as well not have any keeper in goal at all. Go through the games last season and am sure he cost us like 10 points, a few additional wins because of his paper-esque wrists, pathetic reflexes, technical flaws. The stats do not lie when they state he has the worst save % in the league and heck on top of not saving shots, he appeared to have even forgotten how to do the basics, which culminated to all the defenders screaming at him for not coming for the cross late on at Anfield. It feels so alien that when you see other teams' keeper makes save after save after save, big or small and then realize that your team's keeper does not do that. Having the likes of Werner, Ziyech, Havertz etc would likely help with the chance conversion this coming season but at the same time, that would be pointless if the keeper, who is supposed to be our last line of defence, makes a blunder in goal. It would be like taking a step forward and then two steps back.

Bakayoko and Drinkwater say hello.

Problem with Ancelotti was that his training methods didn't have any intensity. It was all too relaxed.

With every signing we make, the pressure on Lampard increases like 10x more than before to get things right this coming season. No more struggling to finish in the Top 4, have to finish comfortably in there and close the gap on the top two as well as maybe win at least one of the cups.

GO SIGN THIAGO ALCANTARA!

Tuchel confirmed Silva is leaving in his post-match interview...

This.