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That's not a surprise, why would he be training with the first team after being left off the US tour? Same with Lukaku.

I think it's transfer fee and wages (I did see reports of him and his agent wanting close to 300k a week earlier in the window). I do wonder what Napoli have set as his asking price, if it's in the 50 million range, Arteta would be all over it.

I hope the Premier League step in and do something about this, stockpiling talent doesn't help. I get the approach, it's just weird to see so many players at the same time. Miss the days of having a solid first team squad and then seeing those 2-3 youngsters from the academy get a few games in the cups (McEachran, Van Aanholt, Mancienne, Sam Hutchinson to name a few).

So we signed a youth player for up to 19 million, just to loan him out and then sell?

The hardest to sell will be: Kepa, Lukaku & Broja (sort of surprised we didn't try to include Broja into the Neto deal as apparently their manager was quite keen on him in the previous transfer window). Acheampong, Humphreys, Wiley, Angelo, Ugo will easily get loan deals elsewhere, just depends upon whether the club wants them to stay in England. I highly doubt Kellyman is loaned out, if that's the case, why did we buy him from Villa in the first place?

They always do this and Chelsea is the easiest target in the world as Boehly & co love to go shopping on the player transfer market!

The only way I see Mudryk going is if we somehow get De Zerbi to take him on loan at Marseille...(as he was one of the few coaches out there that was always a fan of his talent).

How is it that Chelsea missed the one good CB from the French League.....and decided to invest into Badi/Disasi 🤬 We just spent 35 million on a Spanish kid who hasn't proven anything yet. Solanke's price tag is high but he was solid last season and would have been a good addition to most of the teams fighting for top 6 (with the exception of City as they have the machine upfront). We could have given Bournemouth their choice of Broja/Fofana/any other attacker in our 60 man squad as part of the Solanke deal 😆

Fofana and James about to give him a treatment table right next to them! 😆

Mudryk is gonna end up just like Lukaku's time here. Loan after loan until the contract gets down to 2-ish years left and then probably gets sold to someone permanently.

Is there a source for this?

Remember the last time we signed that sort of player, a certain American wide player/no.10... Hopefully Neto stays fit as he's got pace to burn. Nkunku, Palmer, Neto, Jackson is a decent combination up top... If only we could sort out the CB situation! 😆

Haha people are just adding Petrovic's name to any post just to make the club look bad. The guy was signed as a backup keeper from the MLS, played a bunch of games because our other keepers were out injured. All of this could have been avoided if we didn't give Brighton 25 million for their 3rd choice GK.

Don't forget we also threw money on Mudryk (70 million - if all clauses met), Fofana (75 mil - if all clauses are met)... That Omari deal with Villa was purely PSR transfers (just to give them a profit so that they give us a profit for Maatsen after Dortmund didn't want to pay the clause).

Getting ready for a 5-3 loss to City on Matchday 1 (Palmer going hero mode again!)

Funny you say that as JT himself mentioned a few years back about a certain cobham graduate who was showing those signs at youth level *Guehi*....and he's available from Palace as well. Its a shame that he's likely going to Newcastle who already have Botman/Schar as quality options.

I didn't mention prices, I was simply saying Son, Solanke, Kulu and whoever else they have in Ange's attack will be fun to watch! I agree, he's not worth 65m.

That's an exciting attack to watch next season....whereas we'll just see Jackson/Samu "developing" for another 2+ seasons.

Calafiori was available earlier in the window. Even Todibo looks a better player than both of the French defenders we have at the club...

Samu may be fine in a few years time but it doesn't really make sense considering we already have young talent in Guiu/Washington, even Fofana is coming off a PL loan spell and might have been okay playing that backup role... What we needed was a bit of experience like a Giroud/Diego Costa type to come in and take the load off Jackson, not another U-20's kid.

@Vesper would you take him at Chelsea as another option on the wings or too injury prone for us?

He also wouldn't want to be remembered as a player that ran down his contract (sat in the reserves for a full season) and then walked on a free transfer at the age of 24. I've seen younger players (U-18 to U-20) leave on free transfers but don't recall many senior professionals doing it unless there was serious bad blood with the club.

That makes sense, why should Atletico wait around for Gallagher to make his decision, if they found a cheaper alternative, they can spend that money on getting quality like Alvarez up front!

I think there is something else to it. I wonder if that Brazilian wonder kid's transfer is gonna cost us a chance to get a proper CB and a proper 9. 30+ on KDH, Veiga, that Brazilian wonder kid, Tosin (free), Guiu (6 mil)....and the only one adding a bit of quality this season is KDH. I'm sort of surprised the club hasn't moved for Guehi from Palace to help sort out the CB situation.

Victor is right there and Conte wants Lukaku...surely the club can finally sort it out and give the likes of Palmer/Nkunku a proper 9 up front.