Mateo Kovacic

[Superblue 6,370]

The club has learnt from last summer.

We could have taken £70-80m and spread it over a new keeper and midfielder and perhaps got something like Butland/Schmeichel and Vecino.

Instead for a similar outlay we have got Kepa and Kovacic which is significantly better than the above. 

Next summer if Kovacic then needs replacing either (1) Sarri has had a good look or coached the likes of Barkley and RLC to play more prominent roles, (2) We have a new summer budget with which to buy a top midfielder or buy Kovacic permanently.

[akgw13 867]

11 minutes ago, termninja said:

I understand, but Bakayoko is still here. We should've already handled his situation and sent him on loan or sold him. Instead, we are planning to play a foreign player while our investment of 40mil sits on the bench (if he makes the bench). Bad.

Only the prem window closes today, Serie A is open until end of the month. Chelsea are focusing their time right now on incoming as the window closes in 90 mins. Bakayoko can complete his loan to AC milan any day between now and the end of the month. Same for any other loanees who might be going outside of the prem.

[Tomo 21,733]

36 minutes ago, termninja said:

I would prefer us to play RLC, an England international, our academy product and actually a promising player. We have invested millions in developing youth and then we bring a young player from Real Madrid on loan to train him for them. Then next season, we lose RLC (obviously he can't wait half his life to get a chance here) and Kovacic, leaving us with Bakayoko and Drinkwater only, and look we must spend ton of money again on midfield.

We ain't bringing Kovacic in to train him for Madrid, we are bringing him in to help our team right now.

[Unionjack 7,531]

51 minutes ago, termninja said:

I would prefer us to play RLC, an England international, our academy product and actually a promising player. We have invested millions in developing youth and then we bring a young player from Real Madrid on loan to train him for them. Then next season, we lose RLC (obviously he can't wait half his life to get a chance here) and Kovacic, leaving us with Bakayoko and Drinkwater only, and look we must spend ton of money again on midfield.

We invested in the wrong lad then cause right now hes not Chelsea standard.

You would expect that loaning him to a lower grade team he would stand out but he never set the world on fire.

Him playing for England isnt about how good HE is. Its about how few options there is for his position.

I dont want to slag him off because it would be amazing of course if he did come good. But I cant see it in a Sarri system.

[Tautvix 1,321]

If he fits in our team, if we will make him happy we can still sign him next Summer. Might cost more but if he will want to leave Madrid will definitely sell him.

[coolhead23 1,146]

This is where I feel the board's inefficiency by not putting a buy back (hoping it is there & we arent knowing abt it)  ... Kovacic would surely get more game time here than Madrid ... if he lives up to the expectation he goes back to Madrid next season to replace Modric if not Chelsea will buy him. We are basically giving him a platform to justify him as a player and if he succeeds then Madrid takes him away. 

[Vesper 28,768]

2 hours ago, Unionjack said:

 

I would also want us to get Talisca in the winter window.

 

[Unionjack 7,531]

Just now, Vesper said:

 

most semsible signing IMHO

How ya been gal? Been a bit quiet last week. You OK?

[Vesper 28,768]

Just now, Unionjack said:

most semsible signing IMHO

How ya been gal? Been a bit quiet last week. You OK?

Major M&A deal at my hedge fund, been knee deep in a 45,000 page contract

[Clockwork 1,794]

5 hours ago, DYC. said:

As for Kovacic, very talented but unproven. I can only hope he hits the ground running because there's no time to adapt with this deal. I am looking forward to the prospect of this new midfield though. Games in 18/19 shouldn't be as painfully dull as they were in 17/18 .

Yup if this is indeed just a one year loan deal, he doesn't have much time to adapt or find his feet. When given the opportunity he has to play good and make an impact immediately. If he struggles initially, he may find himself on the bench and we may see very little of him. 

So this could go either way, either he is too good not to play and the team benefit a lot, or he could be ridding the bench on the entirety of this loan. 

But i don't see this being a one year loan only, he basically did the same thing as Tibo to force a move he went awol. Can't see Kova wanting to go back to Madrid. I think Madrid priced Kova too high, they wanted 80m. They decided on a loan and maybe there is arrangement in place for a sale. 

[Unionjack 7,531]

Its going to be interesting to see how Sarri handles our 3 CM. Might do some switching about?

Would love seeing WBM heading for goal now and then.

[Milan 17,853]

What number is he going to wear? I cannot find any information on that, so I guess it is still TBD?

[Johnnyeye 7,440]

Welcome to Chelsea Football Club Kovacic, so glad to have a player of his ability here, we've been crying for a player like this for so long, eventough its only on a season long loan, i have faith he will give us that extra edge in midfield ala Modric, and with Sarri's system in place it will do wonders for Kovacic confidence and development. We'll see how it goes and who knows? maybe we can get him on a permanent basis when the time comes. KTBFFH

[BXL70 396]

He was a substitute at RM. Like Morata who was also a substitute. I have serious doubts about him. Hope  to be proved wrong.

 

[Jase 43,479]

3 minutes ago, BXL70 said:

He was a substitute at RM. Like Morata who was also a substitute. I have serious doubts about him. Hope  to be proved wrong.

 

The world is only big enough for one @Mana. We don't need another one! 

[LAM09 6,744]

Anything to keep DD and Baka out of the XI is a plus. Just don't see him starting that often as of now

[dreamcfc 182]

The loan or if we keep him next year should be irrelevant right now, what's important is that Sarri is confident in the team he has to play the way he wants, he said since he came in (after Jorginho) that he needed a midfielder with different characteristics, well here he is.

What we don't want is to go in the season with regrets that we didn't come close to getting what he wanted.. we all know what happens in that case, we try to play attractive football and end up looking really sloppy, pull the plug on the manager and get some stubborn manager who sets up to not lose 3-0.

What we needed was to do whatever it took to allow Sarri to adapt his system as soon as possible, next year if we have a decent season, make top 4 while playing anything close to the way City do, i'm sure we will be a more interesting prospect for players. 

[Milan 17,853]

The trio is getting ready!