Opinion: Marc Guehi can replace Kurt Zouma if he leaves and save us millions

[James 5,141]

There is a lot of interest bubbling up for Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma this transfer window, and it genuinely looks like he could leave the club. I wouldn’t blame him at all, he has dropped down the pecking order and if as you’d imagine, Antonio Rudiger, Thiago Silva, and Andreas Christensen to continue the form […]

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[Vesper 27,329]

On 13/07/2021 at 16:29, James said:

There is a lot of interest bubbling up for Chelsea defender Kurt Zouma this transfer window, and it genuinely looks like he could leave the club. I wouldn’t blame him at all, he has dropped down the pecking order and if as you’d imagine, Antonio Rudiger, Thiago Silva, and Andreas Christensen to continue the form […]

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Zouma should fetch £35-40m, he is an ideal CB for a multiplicity of EPL clubs (the type who do not rely a highly technical ball-playing CB, which is the vast majority tbh) and he is in his prime for the next 5, 6 or so years

Guehi is short (5-11) and I do not see him atm as an elite CB or evem with a very likely potential to become one soon, which is the ENTIRE point of selling Zouma (we need an elite CB)

these are the only CBs who interest me and are remotely available (which knocks Marquinhos and de Ligt off the list, plus I do not trust José María Giménez to remain healthy all the time, and Milan Skriniar lacks ball-playing skills, and Koulibaly is too old now for the insane cash Napoli still want)

Jules Koundé is a dwarf. IF we crop £69m on him I am going to explode in rage.

Alessandro Bastoni (by far the toughest pull, even more so than Varane, unless Pep says he is keeping Laporte, wh then goes off this list)
Raphaël Varane   
Aymeric Laporte   (IF Pep is actually selling him)
Maxence Lacroix  (If none of the 3 above are doable, then I would grab him, massive upside) 
Sven Botman 
Alessio Romagnoli

maybe Gianluca Mancini

Edited July 15, 2021 by Vesper