Chelsea Transfers

[Blues Forever 1,232]

9 minutes ago, King Kante said:

Pretty sure he is going to Utd. He will be first choice CF there as Rashford and Martial can play wide and they will give him insane wages. Plus he grew up in that neck of the woods. 

I don't think so, still sure Haaland would end up either at Dortmund or Leipzig. 

[Vesper 29,018]

13 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

I don't think so, still sure Haaland would end up either at Dortmund or Leipzig. 

we are mad as ass is we do not go all out to sign Werner IF Håland goes to RB

the big 4 must haves for me (January and Summer) are so simple

LB Chilwell (£70-80m) or if a fail,  Telles (£33m)

RW Sancho (£100-120m) I have resigned myself that if we fail there we will grab Zaha, I just so HOPE we do not overpay (I think it is madness to not drop the extra £20 to 40m on Sancho, but it isnt my club, not my quid)

CF Werner (£25m) or Håland (£17m)

CB Romagnoli (£70-80m or so)

the rest (Ake, plus a DMF, etc) can sort itself out by summer 2021 (Ake sooner, obviously), which is probably when we make a move for Declan Rice, which I am in strong favour of unless he is over £70m or £80m

[BDTips 34]

20 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

They want 80m for Zaha. Giroud with 6 months left on contract in January will cost 6-7m max due to his age. 

they can expect 400 million. No one with a brain pays 80 million for Zaha.
Zaha right now is not worth half of that.
Zaha is not a player for Chelsea.
Maybe an Everton of this life ...

[BDTips 34]

Werner is the man.

"According to reports, Werner's new deal includes a buyout clause which will start at €60 million in the summer of 2020 and drop from year to year."

I think it would be better to wait until summer.
Here would be a great deal.

[1905didierblue 748]

2 hours ago, King Kante said:

We can probably get £20-30m for Bats in a cash transfer to CP. They cannot score goals and he is popular their with the fans (my Dad's side of family are all season ticket holders.) Selling him for cash in Jan makes sense as his contract is running down. Giving him to Palace plus another £40m is eqivilent to giving Palace £60-70m for a second rate player. 

If frank wants this "second rate player", then so be it.

[Nicco 927]

7 hours ago, Jason said:

But he has also mentioned numerous times about having balance in the squad, which could mean he's wary of playing too many young players in the squad. 

Party pooper 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

Definitely needs a new LB, CB, ST, RW, and probably AM. No idea when RLC will be back but, Mount current form is pretty poor almost offer zero creativity and Barkley is bang average.

[BDTips 34]

We will burn all the money and solve nothing.

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

At this rate, we need a transfer window that is better and more efficient than the 2014/15 one to become competitive again. 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

12 minutes ago, BDTips said:

We will burn all the money and solve nothing.

It will solve half the problems if we buy the right players. We are definitely lack a quality players and had inexperienced coach.

[BDTips 34]

4 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

It will solve half the problems if we buy the right players. We are definitely lack a quality players and had inexperienced coach.

As I often say and as we all know, it is very rare to get a good buy in January, very rare.

And with this crisis, surely we will act on impulse and despair, we will not have the necessary calm and planning.

Now nobody knows what Frankie can give or how far he can go.

What a bad day .

[OneMoSalah 8,784]

People were talking about us, Arsenal and Liverpool looking at Ryan Fraser in the summer.

I know its ironic because he played very well today but last season I thought he was excellent for Bournemouth and IIRC he was in double figures for assists. Real pace and capable of providing assists from outwide, maybe be worth a punt as a squad player here? Someone who could spin a game against tired legs? Not be the most popular choice but hes at a good age, 25, and will only get better. I think having seen how good Andy Robertson has become at Liverpool after showing good signs at Hull, he could potentially be another buy in that mould. Maybe not. Would rather we had him to spin a game than the likes of a Ross Barkley.

[Tomo 21,733]

4 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

At this rate, we need a transfer window that is better and more efficient than the 2014/15 one to become competitive again. 

Depends in what context you mean, if you mean competitive straight away I don't even think that will do it, we have too many holes right now to compete with what's on offer at the top of this league.

However I think a good few windows and we can actually be challenging the year after next. Since we've changed our style of play our transfers have been very promising, for example we've gone from probably the worst midfield in the top 10 to the best outside of City.

[Tomo 21,733]

5 hours ago, BDTips said:

As I often say and as we all know, it is very rare to get a good buy in January, very rare.

And with this crisis, surely we will act on impulse and despair, we will not have the necessary calm and planning.

Now nobody knows what Frankie can give or how far he can go.

What a bad day .

Is it? I don't think it's anywhere near as rare as people make out, for starters the two best CBs are January buys.

[Superblue 6,372]

1 hour ago, Tomo said:

Depends in what context you mean, if you mean competitive straight away I don't even think that will do it, we have too many holes right now to compete with what's on offer at the top of this league.

However I think a good few windows and we can actually be challenging the year after next. Since we've changed our style of play our transfers have been very promising, for example we've gone from probably the worst midfield in the top 10 to the best outside of City.

There's no getting away from the poor run of form we're on at present but there has to be more patience at times from our fan base. It's no surprise that our midfield is a particular strong point in our team. Kovacic, Jorginho and Kante are all in their mid to late 20's, in or around their peak.

Compare this to our main attacking players, with the exception of Willian, who are all in their early 20's and need time to develop. Consistency was always going to be an issue this season for them.

I've mentioned in previous posts, Liverpool's front three are all in the 27-28 age bracket, all in the prime of their careers. And if you delve deeper into their squad, nearly all of them are in the 25 - 30 age bracket. The only two younger players I believe they have who play regularly are Trent and Gomez and both have about 3 years worth of experience under their belt now.

City have a few younger players, but they also have some key players that are now well into their 30's such as Fernandinho, Silva and Aguero, whilst Walker will be 30 in the summer and Mahrez and De Bruyne will both turn 30 next season. 

We have a glut of players in their early 20's and very inexperienced at the top level, and a fair few players in their 30's and regressing. We don't have a huge amount of players in that similar age bracket throughout our squad (and some of those we do aren't good enough anyway).

Even with a top drawer window, we would be hard pressed to touch Liverpool at present, whilst you'd also expect City to go again. We need a couple of years realistically to be challenging them. In that time you would expect these younger players to have the experience levels that someone like Trent does, and will hopefully continue to develop to be a big influence for us. Transfer wise, we either need to make a decision of buying similar younger players with the plan for them all to develop together over the next couple of years, or some more players within that 25-30 age bracket which will help to bridge the gap now whilst some of our younger players develop.

 

[Vesper 29,018]

WHITE NOISE 

Chelsea to make shock January move for £25million-rated Ben White after Brighton defender impresses on loan at Leeds

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/10553083/chelsea-january-switch-ben-white-leeds-brighton/

 

Chelsea consider January move for Ben White with Brighton centre-back impressing on loan at Leeds

Chelsea are considering a move for Ben White in the January transfer window
Brighton defender White has been very impressive on loan at Leeds this season 
Although Brighton are reluctant to sell they could accept a bid of £25million 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7793357/Chelsea-consider-January-Ben-White-Brighton-centre-impressing-loan-Leeds.html

[Rapkun 668]

It's The Sun so it's probably fake but this is way more exciting than being linked with Ake. For having watched the player a few times, he's very promising. I doubt Brighton will be able to keep him.

[Superblue 6,372]

33 minutes ago, Vesper said:

WHITE NOISE 

Chelsea to make shock January move for £25million-rated Ben White after Brighton defender impresses on loan at Leeds

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/10553083/chelsea-january-switch-ben-white-leeds-brighton/

 

Chelsea consider January move for Ben White with Brighton centre-back impressing on loan at Leeds

Chelsea are considering a move for Ben White in the January transfer window
Brighton defender White has been very impressive on loan at Leeds this season 
Although Brighton are reluctant to sell they could accept a bid of £25million 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7793357/Chelsea-consider-January-Ben-White-Brighton-centre-impressing-loan-Leeds.html

Don't really know much about him to be honest, but I wouldn't be against thinking outside of the box with some of our transfer targets. If this is the sort of player we are targeting though it looks like our rebuilding plans are much more long term than trying to plug short term needs.