Magic Lamps

Kante is the player who should be top earner. A model professional who nev speaks bs in the press and always gives his all on the pitch. Him arbing most would drive greedy players to display the same commitment. And we should do it now not wait until Paris comes knocking bc so he feels how much we appreciate him.

Does his contract not have a loyalty clause? If someone talks this much shit about his employer he woulf usually get fined all the time. I hipe we find a loophole there to chase Tibo out and don’t let him run down his contract. And if he indeed does run down his contract i hope we ban him to enter the training ground ever again so he is completely out of shape and nontop teams ever signs him again

Thought about the same and might actually work. Morata is roaming around ound the wing most of the tine anyway. He has the pace and his technique is ok for a club that used to play Ramires as a winger🙈 can come in at times for his headers like Ronaldo used to . Will also make him more difficult to mark It is not like chelsea to move on a club record signing after just one year and teplace him with a 30 year old but then again it also is quit weird to shoehorn said club record signing out to the wing Howeve the more I think of it the more it makes sense. His finishing is poor but his movement and directness might come in handy. Also we have not been linked with any wingers when we clearly need them most badly

Well i really just dont see that much in him. He has his moments but no real identity as a player

Even if we get 80m for tc its like the matic drinkwater deals spending most of a good sum for an inferior player. We should invest the courtois money in a rw

I am not at all bothetee by Courtois leaving but Alisson is way to expensive. I was very aggravated seeing Leno go to Arsenal. But i would also have Areola, Trapp, Ulreich over Alisson as they would cost a fraction 60m for a goalie is madness

We don’t need golovin. We are stacked in midfield I agree.i habe also never seen whats so special about him. Seems an absolute average player to me, like all other Russian players of this generation. We are also fine in defense. We need another am to combine with hazard and make him stay.

This is the kind of business we should never do. I‘d rather start with batshuayi than buy a 30y.o. in decline for 50n plus. This has sheva written all over it.

I Hope he finde the Balance. Would have preserved a Defensive Manager for continuity but if sarri is a bit more cautious at first unlike avb he will be fine.

we changed the system to this torrid 3 at the back playing with 5 players to accomodate him and give him basically a free role. No player not even Lampard has enjoyed this much positional freedom in Chelsea since I watch the team. You can argue that because he has donkeys like Alonso and Moses supporting him on either flank that he has to do a lot on his own but no one can argue that he has not been given enough positional and tactical accomodation. On paper he might be a wide 10 or 2nd striker (which basically is a no. 10) but he is allowed to play as much as a true no.10 as one can.

How can they simply terminate their contracts? don't they need to pay the release clause then?

Hopefully he is out of the wc but recovered before pre season ends so he is fit for Real... Err...i mean us ^^

Yes we are heavily reliant on him but in this case we are in a strong position. he still has 3 years left on his contract. But kante is the kind of player we should literally throw money to make a statement. Not only because he deserves it (as does Azpi) but because of the example he is with his workrate, commitment and professionalism. So tie him down to another 5 year contract. Also similar to Hazard, both are 27, this is the last year anyone will be willing to pay big money for a players of that age so next year we are pretty much safe as the big clubs will probably not come knocking again for what basically is an ageing player.

Well Ratcliffe is way more wealhy than Roman. But Never trust a ManU Fan.

this has shevchenko written all over it. you might argue Shevchenko was in way better shape and the serie still a better league back then. Will be an absolute catastrophe if we sell 25 y.o. Morata and 24 y.o. Batshuayi and want to build our future on 30 y.o. Higuain and 32 y.o. Giroud. Good luck with that. and don't get to me with Tammy. He will never be even as good as Morata. Higuain is the Fabregas of strikers. Should be at his peak at 30 but already has so much football in his bones due to starting at such an early age that he moves like an old man and his goalside contribution barely papers over the cracks.

But goalie is a completely different question. Courtois is a good one but still he maybe makes like 3,4 saves per season that actually save points and only a class goalie could have made and letting in 1,2 that are really harmful despite his class. I reckon even if some of these goalies are a bit worse the net impact will be minimal. For a winger on the other hand it is probably the most important position in the modern systems. a small difference in class can easily be 15goals+assists from that position.

A midfield of Kante - Seri - Barkley/RLC/Bakayoko. Athletic as fuck and no end produkt..... so business as usual

No way we are payign that much for a goalie when there is no shortage of class gks available. Think Trapp, Ulreich, Leno, Gulasci, Hradecky will all be available for cut price fee and bar the hype I do not see how they are much worse than Allison Becker. Tbf he hit a purple patch recently but he has been pretty much under the radar so far.

I remember it as if it was yesterday. One of the best deals the club ever made. A signing which fans were pushing for for ages and then the board finally gave in. Wish we would see more of our old shrewd transfer dealing today.

Rather keep Conte than sign this clueless guy Blanc. Classic Chelsea to fuck up Sarri tho

I think that is absolute BS. Not even Hazard would have the audacity to outright tell the board which manager to hire. Also even if he did, would he really recommend a manager he has never worked with he barely knows (i guesss) and who is known for playing a system in which Hazard himself is not even played to his strengths i.e. cast on the wing? That must have been some crack chat between Mertens and Hazard. "Yo Dawg, you know whos a good manager?" "Tell me" "Sarri, man" "which position would he play me in?" "left wing or striker like I do" "Perfect. neither is my perfect position but I am totally gonna hit up my employer and tell them to sack Conte and hire that guy. Thanks bro" "Your welcome"

No thanks.I would only take Jorginho and ghoulam from them.

Well with all the dust this has thrown up there is surely no way back now. So we better get it done quickly.

I would be fine with both Seri and Jorginho, but in the former case I am a bit sceptical because he is jsut as short as Kante not that it matters much in most games as neither are the type to get bullied but in games that get dirty with a lot of lose and high balls, the two might face problems getting the 2nd balls. Would be nice in a 3 man midfield with Barkley or RLC. If we could get a more complete player, who is the full package like Milinkovic Saivc it would be better ofc but Seri is definitely a realistic quality option so a yes from me, absolute bargain for 40m

They will be the biggest spenders in summer that's for sure. But as long as they got Mou at the helm I doubt they will surpass City. Mou will never change and everyone knows that. Even if they would sign Neymar, Bale and Mbappe, he would still be pumping crosses to Fellaini in attack when he needs a goal and he would still surrender posession in every game against a side who can play football. Utd have invested hugely for years now and assembled a big big squad with at least 2 very good players for every position all of them in or approaching their best years yet they keep buying and buying instead of letting that squad settle. Mourinho needs this constant influx to keep the players on their toes and so he does not need to build tactics and formation around a team or actually develop some attacking tactics. All his magic is loading his box with players to keep it tight at the back and hope for the individual class of his star players to score a few goals up front. This time around because of his fetish for big strong players he failed to buy genuine class though. The 200m they spunked on Lukaku and Pogba could have been spent on real world class players in their positions. Fred might seem an anomaly here but he is likely not to be a game changer.