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50 million for Lewandowski!? Do you think Bayern are stupid? 🤣 Drinkwater is not earning £200k p/w. It's £120k p/w.

Move to Crystal Palace official now...

That might be a possibility given Sarr has come out and said he hopes to break into the first team in a recent interview with the club, although it's still coming from only one direction for now. And not sure if there's any buyer for Zouma at the moment. The club are seemingly valuing him more than what clubs can afford right now. There's a lot of ifs and maybes there but Loftus-Cheek is an interesting one. Tuchel praised him last season (before we played Fulham) and even said he reminded him of Ballack but the problem with Loftus-Cheek is he has never been consistent, is not particularly mobile and not great tactically. His best form for us came when we played the 4-3-3 under Sarri and he was given the license to bomb forward from midfield, similar to Lampard or what Toure did for Man City. If we're gonna stick mostly with a pivot, then he's not gonna be able to do that and I'm not sure he has the creativity to thrive as a deep lying playmaker either. Plus I know it's Fulham, but he somehow managed only 1 goal last season, despite playing 2,085 minutes in all competitions. 🤣 It was only a tongue-in-cheek comment.

lol Think the 9 subs rule is here to stay.

I just mentioned Sterling because he was mentioned.

Would rather just give the spot to Sterling and sell Zappacosta once and for all.

Gallagher seems likely to go out on loan if the persistent rumors are anything to go by. Not sure about Sterling considering we have James, Azpi and I guess CHO as well for the RWB slot.

So, who do you think from those deadwoods might be useful under Tuchel? Am assuming the source is Magic Lamps?

Didn't the ExWhu fella tweet something about Rice-Chelsea very recently?

It's bloody amusing to see non-local media suddenly giving updates on our transfer dealings...

Officially confirmed now...

L’Équipe report that Premier League side Chelsea are looking into the feasibility of engineering a swap arrangement with Bayern Munich that would see Kingsley Coman and Callum Hudson Odoi switch clubs. Coman, who is under contract with the Bavarians until 2023, recently hired Pini Zahavi as his agent. Talks over an extension have been dead for 2 months, after Bayern offered the player €13m a year gross. He is currently on €9m a year gross, but wants to match Leroy Sané’s €18m a year gross. Talks are therefore at a standstill. Especially as the German outfit are understood to have made €150m in losses over the course of the 2020/21 campaign. As a result, Bayern have opened the door to the sale of Coman in the coming weeks – however, their initial stance is making a deal totally impossible for the rest of Europe’s elite – asking for €90m. Manchester United had looked at the player before concluding a deal for Jadon Sancho, Manchester City, Liverpool but above all Chelsea are also monitoring the situation. Thomas Tuchel has never hidden how much he leaves Coman as a player – Chelsea’s board would like to include Callum Hudson-Odoi in a deal, as the English winger is not in Tuchel’s plans for the coming season and Bayern have shown historic interest in him. New boss Julian Nagelsmann would like to keep Coman, feeling that the French international’s ability to break lines will be key in his early reign as Bayern boss. The situation will continue to evolve in the coming weeks.

He could so easily have been playing in the PL were it not for some volcanos!

No offence to Giroud but calling Lewandowski an impact sub like the former might be an insult to the latter. And seems like you're referring to the latest story that came from The Sun? They say we're gonna bid £50 million (50 MILLION!?) for him. Don't know whether to laugh or cry at the stupidity of the BS rumor.

Getting really tired of this fucking pandemic. Just when things were going in the right direction at where I live, there's suddenly an explosion of cases and clusters and I have to hold myself back from going out too much, especially when I haven't gotten my second jab!

The players will get tomorrow off and return on Monday for COVID testing as well as training. They will then fly out to Ireland on Tuesday for a week-long training camp in Dublin before returning to England to face Bournemouth on July 27.

It's always "interesting" to see how people react to pre-season outcomes.

Am shocked you've come asking me this till the point I don't know whether it's a joke or not. 🤣 The thing is, I can't see us buying anyone else if we buy Haaland or vice versa because of the money involved. So, I don't know if the club are still trying to bide (or waste?) their time with Haaland OR they're working on other transfers already and we just don't know it yet. Also, the club may also be waiting a bit to see what Tuchel makes of some of the returning loanees, to see if they will be of any use to the first team. If they are, then maybe we don't need to go buy a defender, for example. But rumors are persisting that we are still looking for a defender - e.g. Sule - and midfielder - e.g. Rice - on top of a striker. At the same time, the club are also in a somewhat tricky spot because they still have some contract renewals to sort out and sell some players first before potentially buying, like for example the ST position. I don't think we'll buy 2 strikers, it'll be just 1 at most. Tuchel had/used 4 last season - Werner, Havertz, Giroud, Abraham - and he ended only favoring only 2 of the 4. Broja could well take up the spot that Giroud left and I won't be surprised if we ended up keeping Abraham if we can't buy any ST and also because there's no buyer for him. If you are suggesting that clubs would pay 500-600k wages (something that is possible) to Haaland next year, then what's stopping his camp from demanding the same from us this year? The fact that neither he nor Raiola is seemingly pushing for the move to us suggests they well know that they will get more money next year. I don't know why people are making this seem like one way traffic and assuming Dortmund will just accept a big offer immediately. If they are gonna say no until August 31, then we can't do anything. The situation with Havertz was also somewhat different. The cost to sign him (transfer fee + agent fees + wages) was way lower than trying to sign Haaland now and we didn't need to deliberate too much over it. On top of that, he also wanted to leave Leverkusen, which helped our cause even further but that doesn't seem to be case with Haaland at Dortmund.

I didn't. I was just typing in capital letters. 😜

If Dortmund are really gonna say no till the bitter end, then what the club do really?

He won't say no to us next year after we win the Premier League and Champions League!

I stand corrected. The final score was 6-1. lol https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/07/17/Chelsea-hit-six-in-opening-pre-season-friendly Abraham, Pulisic, Ziyech (x3), Broja all scored.