🇧🇪 Michy Batshuayi

[Tomo 21,751]

He'll go to Villa, score a decent number of goals and whenever Tammy hits a bit of a bad patch people will bang on about how we've made a mistake without looking at the higher picture of why he never got serious game time here in the first place.

[Jase 43,479]

 

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

I'd be surprised if Villa have a great deal to spend given that they paid out loads in the summer.  So Bats on loan is almost perfect for them, and lets be honest they did a good job with Tammy.

 

 

[Styl1994 188]

1 hour ago, ChelseaFanUK said:

I'd be surprised if Villa have a great deal to spend given that they paid out loads in the summer.  So Bats on loan is almost perfect for them, and lets be honest they did a good job with Tammy.

 

 

we would have to bring in a replacement first. 

[Vesper 30,178]

18 minutes ago, Styl1994 said:

we would have to bring in a replacement first. 

Gabigol

[Styl1994 188]

36 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Gabigol

dude has flopped in Europe only done well in Brazil too big a risk.

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Just now, Styl1994 said:

dude has flopped in Europe only done well in Brazil too big a risk.

thus my sarcasm, lolol (we need a true sarcasm smiley ting )

[NikkiCFC 8,319]

Enough with loans. Just sell him. He will never be good enough even to be a backup here. 

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On 03/01/2020 at 8:42 AM, NikkiCFC said:

Enough with loans. Just sell him. He will never be good enough even to be a backup here. 

Hard to sell him when Marina is quoting teams an asinine £45m price.

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Special Juan 28,141]

He's another fucking dud as well.

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21 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

at least he can hit the target in some areas apparently

must have taken lessons from Cuntois

 

 

[NikkiCFC 8,319]

Stats can fool you.

[MoroccanBlue 5,382]

Forget Alonso

Forget Willian

Forget Pedro

Batshuayi needs to be the first to go in the summer. Bang average. 

[Special Juan 28,141]

Unfortunately this club is stock piling dead wood and shite players. Batshit is one of them, just take a look at that team sheet and bench yesterday.....Christ almighty.

[Tomo 21,751]

His finishing was his only saving grace and now he's not even doing that.

Thankyou for West Brom and to an extent Ajax but it's time to go.

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Tomo said:

His finishing was his only saving grace and now he's not even doing that.

Thankyou for West Brom and to an extent Ajax but it's time to go.

It's ifs and buts but Giroud would have buried that left footed strike Batshuayi missed in the first half! 

[Vesper 30,178]

Michy Batshuayi and West Ham are a match made in transfer window heaven

The Belgian striker could have joined West Ham six or seven times, if you believed the rumours

https://www.football.london/west-ham-united-fc/transfer-news/west-ham-michy-batshuayi-transfer-18183283

West Ham and Michy Batshuayi are two names who are not unfamiliar with each other over the last few transfer windows.

With alarming regularity, the Belgian is linked with a move to West Ham from Chelsea pretty much every window but a move has never materialised.

That is the case once again as the Belgian is apparently a target of east London once again as Chelsea chase a deal for Dries Mertens, according to Belgian outlet HLN who say that Batshuayi has "admirers" in London.

Batshuayi has scored just one goal in the Premier League this season and is out of contract at Stamford Bridge in 2021, having signed a five-year deal in 2016 from Marseille for a fee believed to be £33million.

The Belgian frontman hasn’t really got a look-in at Stamford Bridge though and has had spells away on loan at Borussia Dortmund, Valencia and Crystal Palace.

Even then, links to West Ham have never gone away and here we racp all the previous times it has happened.

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No shirt number, not playing – but Chelsea will struggle to part with Batshuayi

https://theathletic.com/1864033/2020/06/12/batshuayi-chelsea-transfer-contract-pecking-order-abraham-giroud/

The camera never lies.

With arms folded and a stern expression on his face, Michy Batshuayi looks like he has well and truly got the message regarding his future at Chelsea.

A picture posted on the club’s official website and app last weekend of an in-house game between squad members at Stamford Bridge captured Batshuayi in a sombre mood.

Just a few days earlier, it emerged that Chelsea had agreed a £53 million fee with RB Leipzig for forward Timo Werner, increasing competition for places up front. Given Tammy Abraham has been the first-choice centre-forward in coach Frank Lampard’s debut season and Olivier Giroud was handed a new one-year contract last month, Batshuayi already had reason to be concerned.

This photo, taken as Lampard addressed both teams, showed Batshuayi as one of only two players among the group without a shirt number (the other was academy graduate Armando Broja).

A club insider has told The Athletic that Batshuayi only came on for the last third of the match. To not make the starting XI for either side in a Chelsea vs Chelsea game is clearly a worrying sign. His prospects looked even grimmer after club sources confirmed he did not play at all in a friendly when Reading came to the Cobham training ground on Wednesday.

Batshuayi shouldn’t be too surprised by his fall from grace. It was clear Lampard was losing patience with him before COVID-19 forced football’s postponement in March.

For most of the campaign, he had been ahead of Giroud in the pecking order (24 appearances to 13). But that all changed following a disappointing performance against Manchester United four months ago in the absence of the injured Abraham.

Giroud started the next five matches while Abraham recovered from an ankle problem and in the last fixture Chelsea played, against Everton, Broja came on instead of fellow substitute Batshuayi for what was the 18-year-old’s senior debut.

It is inevitable Chelsea will try to move on fringe members of their squad and The Athletic has been told Batshuayi is one of the names they want to let go. However, that is not going to be easy.

For starters, Batshuayi is on a £110,000-per-week salary, which few clubs will be keen to pay in the current climate, especially for a man who has started just 27 league games in the past four seasons, including loans at Borussia Dortmund, Valencia and Crystal Palace.

Twelve months ago, Palace were keen on signing him permanently. They paid Chelsea a £1 million loan fee and all of his salary to take him to Selhurst Park for the second half for the 2018-19 season. But Chelsea decided they could not sell after FIFA’s transfer ban prevented them from signing a replacement.

Sources have told The Athletic that Palace are no longer interested. A combination of his wages and his diminishing sell-on value (he turns 27 in October), has put them off. West Ham United have also ruled out making a bid.

That is a major blow to Batshuayi’s hopes of staying in London. He is settled in the capital and regards as a “cool” place to live, but is not on the wanted list at Arsenal or Tottenham, either. Newcastle United have been mentioned as a possible option since news of their proposed takeover broke, although until that deal is completed, it cannot be taken too seriously.

He only has one year left on his contract, which would prove appealing to interested clubs. However, Chelsea have scared teams off in the past by asking for a huge transfer fee. Dortmund ended negotiations when they were quoted £50 million in 2018. Batshuayi had done well on loan in Germany — he scored nine times in 14 appearances — but wasn’t valued as highly as that.

The short time left on his contract means Chelsea have little hope of getting the £33.2 million fee paid to Marseille for the Belgium international in 2016, but it is believed they will still attempt to get a large sum.

Batshuayi’s agent, Meissa N’Diaye, is understood to still have a good relationship with Ligue 1 clubs Marseille and Monaco but neither of those is in a position to afford the player. To protect their valuation, Chelsea could always try to agree on a contract extension and then sell, or just loan him out once again in the hope a good spell elsewhere will generate offers.

Then there is the option of using him as part of a swap deal to get a player they want from another team. It is a tactic many clubs across Europe are increasingly considering in light of the pandemic’s financial impact, but it won’t be straightforward for Chelsea. One possible scenario would be to offer Batshuayi, plus cash, to tempt West Ham into selling England midfielder Declan Rice, who is on Chelsea’s wish-list (although he is seen as a low-priority signing).

Batshuayi is in danger of wasting the potential that took him to Stamford Bridge in the first place. The Athletic has learned how his time-keeping has got him into trouble on occasion — not just at Chelsea, but during last season’s loan spell with Valencia, too.

An inability to understand a tactical game-plan put forward in training has frustrated coaches as well.

There was one case when Antonio Conte was still in charge at Chelsea and trying to prepare the side for a match without an injured Diego Costa. At the start of the week, Batshuayi was in line to start. By the end of the week, Conte had decided to use Eden Hazard as a false nine instead — because Batshuayi kept forgetting what he was being told to do. An annoyed Conte was heard saying, “Michy is not a genius”.

Roberto Martinez is also understood to have concerns about Batshuayi’s mindset. The Belgium manager believes Batshuayi is too comfortable in London, staying in the city on a high wage despite his lack of games. The threat of losing his place in Belgium’s squad for the European Championship now postponed to next summer might force a change in thinking. Christian Benteke and Divock Origi are more likely to be the back-up options to Romelu Lukaku as things stand unless Batshuayi gets a move and starts playing more regularly.

What isn’t in doubt is that Batshuayi’s career is at a crossroads. Unfortunately for him, there is no simple solution.

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

We should not have priced out Dortmund back in 2018. but Favre was smart enough to block any move for him anyway. Still I imagine he would have been a success there cos a team that created chances for fun but does not need their striker to work too much defensively is exactly what he needs and maybe would have stopped them from signing Haaland later.