Strike

Jesus is on Chelsea’s shortlist along with Bayern Munich’s Robert Lewandowski, RB Leipzig’s Christopher Nkunku, City’s Raheem Sterling and Barcelona’s Ousmane Dembélé, who is available on a free. The club will listen to offers for Timo Werner, Hakim Ziyech and Christian Pulisic.

Mbuyamba. A year left on his contract now.

Don't like the idea of Skriniar in this deal. Better CB options in the market. Bastoni is one of the top left sided centre backs available but then again wasn't on the club's priority list till this week.

Liverpool's response to Haaland. Possible we go into the season with Havertz as the main striker and Liverpool and City have traditional 9s

I agree. Recruitment and tactics are two totally different skillsets. Manager will also have tunnel vision and will generally prioritise immediate gains over long-term building

He and his agent are basically driving themselves out.

He's signing it if it lowers his release clause. Clear he's thinking about an exit

Names Dembele, Nkunku, Sterling in attack. Kounde, De Ligt, Gvardiol in defence. Rice in midfield

Reasonable assumption - the 150 is a bluff.

Close to Rice money. The board must be regretting all their decisions last summer.

Time for Tuchel to do course correction here as this is one of the things he has ignored so far. Even Chalobah's integration was not a planned one. Livramento, Bate, Lamptey, Musiala left in recent years, Guehi, Tomori sold without buybacks. You can't keep them all but there needs to be a policy to integrate the top academy players with the squad.

Chelsea interested in Matthijs De Ligt and are monitoring what is happening with him. Contract till 2024 with 120m euros release clause. He's in talks to extend it with lower release clause or let the contract run into final year next summer.

Nkunku is the other winger option, a costly one.

Zinchenko in midfield. I would love it if we could get him from City. Cover for Chilwell and can play midfield.

Who's better among Dembele, Raphinha, Gnabry and Sterling?

Tier 5 source. Often rolls a dice

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/12/07/media-watch--james-father-main-goal-defender-nears-move-ex-player-column-title James’s father reveals his main Chelsea ambition Nigel James has said a major ambition of his son Reece is to become Chelsea captain one day.

Unbelievable that Gavi is 17. He's running the midfield in Spain v Portugal tonight. Any chance Barca mess up his renewal we should be all over him

Kinsella is also spelt wrong

Not one semi-credible source has reported

Should have expected that from him since it was Madrid that came calling and he wasn't the kind of character like Hazard to wait.

https://theathletic.com/3333034/2022/05/30/Chelsea-transfers-kounde-tuchel/ Recap of things we all kinda know Jules Kounde first signing, Gvardiol depends on outgoings, Colwill, Ampadu, Billy, Connor, Broja to be assessed in pre-season Kepa bid his goodbyes, Azpi didn't but could still leave Club wants Gabriel Slonina (18), Nathan Baxter maybe 2nd choice Tuchel wants RWB cover - Dujon Sterling, still monitoring Hakimi Tuchel wants Emerson to be Chilwell backup Ziyech, Werner, Lukaku exploring options. Lautaro Martinez and Nkunku name-dropped in attack. Ousmane can't be ruled out

Can we take a moment today for this RIP Liverpool quadruple 2022-2022