Chelsea Transfers

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2 minutes ago, Jason said:

OR another striker to help Abraham...

 

I think lamp want a final 3rd guy, sancho is going to be perfect. He will probably will play as no 10 for us

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9 minutes ago, communicate said:

I think lamp want a final 3rd guy,

NO SHIT SHERLOCK!

9 minutes ago, communicate said:

sancho is going to be perfect. He will probably will play as no 10 for us

I don't think Sancho has even played as the No.10 before. In any case, we definitely need someone to contribute in final third more consistently, Sancho or not. Right now, our attacking front 3 are Pulisic, Abraham and Willian but only 2 of them are posting consistent threat in the final third. 

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1 hour ago, Jason said:

NO SHIT SHERLOCK!

I don't think Sancho has even played as the No.10 before. In any case, we definitely need someone to contribute in final third more consistently, Sancho or not. Right now, our attacking front 3 are Pulisic, Abraham and Willian but only 2 of them are posting consistent threat in the final third. 

pull a reverse Samson on Willian

shave the afro and he might grow wonder goal scoring abilities

 

 

[Strike 7,217]

8 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Someone who can also play on the wing like Son Heung Min or Werner

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40 minutes ago, Strike said:

Someone who can also play on the wing like Son Heung Min or Werner

Zaha. 

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23 minutes ago, Jason said:

Zaha. 

By this logic, it is happening isn't it? I just hope it is 40 mil and not 70 + as quoted in the summer. 

[Alabama 1,992]

No Zaha please....

Unless Palace will accept loan deal with option to buy... 

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2 hours ago, Strike said:

By this logic, it is happening isn't it? I just hope it is 40 mil and not 70 + as quoted in the summer. 

I think Everton was quoted £80m. Eeeek.

 

Shit, we should just offer a cheeky bid to Barca

Willian plus £60m for Dembele 

They offered £45m for him (Willian) 6 months ago, which was £20m LESS than they offered in summer 2018. As goodwill gesture we drop Willian valuation down £15 m to £30m.

So total value IN EUROS (as the pound is so strong now) to Barca for that deal for Demebel is around 107m EUROS. 

Their initial fee when they bought him was 105m EUROS plus a shit tonne of POTENTIAL add-ons, which he is not hitting most of.

So they save face, can say they actually skimmed a 2m euro profit off that initial fee, we get out from under the Willian contractual shit, and take a punt on a potential top 10 in world AMBIPEDAL winger who can play all 3 positions up top and is still only 22 for HALF the cash (as Willian walks on a free if we do not renew) that Sancho would cost, and also probably less that the cost of Zaha now, and Dembele is 5 years younger than Zaha as well.

Lamps can screw the lad's head on straight, and Kante can help.

I am only half kidding on this, maybe less than half. Demebele/Pulisic was a CRAZY dangerous combo back at Borussia Dortmund,  and Pulisic is twice the player now. If Demebele stays healthy and just is eased in and treated with firmness yet respect,  we might have pulled off one of the steals of the decade. Zaha is every bit the gamble and due to age, if he busts and we give him two years, the next team that buys him would be getting a player who is almost 30 years old (in 3 months), so far less resale than the 70m or so quid we dump out now.

Just a crazy thought IF the Sancho deal goes south.

 

 

[Strike 7,217]

I like Lampard's words after the game last night. It is better to strengthen in attack. Rudiger, Tomori and Zouma are decent centre-back options. Only area to strengthen would be left-back and there seems no one available. 

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20 minutes ago, Strike said:

I like Lampard's words after the game last night. It is better to strengthen in attack. Rudiger, Tomori and Zouma are decent centre-back options. Only area to strengthen would be left-back and there seems no one available. 

Alex Telles, £33.7m release clause can be done in January. Sell Alonso in January to cover most or at least a large chunk, many teams want him, Conte at Inter have said openly they want him.

Then, in summer, sell Emerson to Juve (they have wanted him for 2 summers at that point) take that cash to partially fund Chilwell buy. OR use Emerson as makeweight with Leicester as they will need a new LB to replace Chilwell.

We then have two great left backs for a total net cash spend of only around £45 to £55m or so and lord knows we have the games to give them plenty of minutes. Pep is burning through THREE atm, due to injuries and rotation, and both of ours at that point are better than anything he has as of now, plus we block him on Chilwell (and block all other clubs.)

 

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If we can somehow get the price down to about £60m I'm starting to come round to the idea of Zaha. With Tammy's emergence another striker that can double up as a winger is handy, no striker worth their salt will come in just to play back up.

We should try and use our connections with Palace to our advantage, we've done them solids with Ruben and Michy which has helped keep them in the PL especially in the formers case, something like offering them first refusal on the players we make available for loan in the next couple of years or even Michy as a makeweight could go a long way.

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Much as I love Zaha, he isn't what you would describe as a clinical goal scorer as Frank wants to see. I'd take him for sure, but I'd say we'd still need another natural striker.

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31 minutes ago, Tomo said:

If we can somehow get the price down to about £60m I'm starting to come round to the idea of Zaha. With Tammy's emergence another striker that can double up as a winger is handy, no striker worth their salt will come in just to play back up.

We should try and use our connections with Palace to our advantage, we've done them solids with Ruben and Michy which has helped keep them in the PL especially in the formers case, something like offering them first refusal on the players we make available for loan in the next couple of years or even Michy as a makeweight could go a long way.

I think Michy as a makeweight would be an ideal scenario to be able to offload him and to bring the price down but that would likely still leave us with the same problem because Giroud will also want to leave. Tammy and Zaha would leave us even thinner.

I like the idea of a top player being able to play multiple positions in attack and thereby covering the striker role. It's clear that if Tammy keeps developing and scoring at the rate he is then he'll keep the position locked down.

Another possible alternative, but it would be short term, is whether we looked at Mertens or Cavani to come in for 18 months, 2 years or something? Both have a degree of flexibility to play out wide or as the central striker so can, like Zaha, be more accommodated. I believe both have contracts up at the end of this season too so would likely be relatively cheap. It would then allow us to focus our transfer budget on other areas of the team that need sorting out and we would also have a much better idea of the level Tammy is likely to reach within another 12-18 months as to whether he is definitely the long term solution or do we need to go big for someone else again.

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10 hours ago, Vesper said:

how to get Alex Telles in January AND Chillwell in the summer for only a combined net spend of £45m to 60m TOTAL for both

sorts our LB shitshow out right proper 

 

How would that work out in terms of squad balance? Would either accept being a backup?

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6 minutes ago, manpe said:

How would that work out in terms of squad balance? Would either accept being a backup?

I think we have enough games, comps, and rotational opportunities to make it work, plus what are the odds they both stay healthy for the next 200 games?

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1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

fucking greed hogs Barca

a pox on them and Real!!!!!

both those clubs are out of control

and if you think it bad now, wait until they open up both of their mega renovation stadiums and complexes

Camp Nou will hold 105,000

Santiago Bernabéu