Chelsea Transfers

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

13 hours ago, Vesper said:

wrong

Chelsea warned off trying to sign Lyon striker Moussa Dembele in January transfer window

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/01/02/chelsea-warned-trying-sign-lyon-striker-moussa-dembele-january/

Chelsea have been warned off a January bid for Moussa Dembele after Lyon took the unusual step of publicly reaffirming their desire to keep the striker.

It is now up to Dembele whether or not he pushes for a possible move to Chelsea this month or accepts his club’s stance.

Dembele is one of a number of forwards Chelsea have been considering to bolster head coach Frank Lampard’s attacking options.

Chelsea have tracked Dembele’s progress since he was at Celtic and French reports have linked the Blues with a cash-plus-Olivier Giroud bid for the 23 year-old.

 

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That statement does NOT mean Dembele definitely wont leave.  How is it so hard to grasp?  Of course he will leave if their price is met.  

 

We offered £34m apparently, do you really think, for example, theyd turn down 50 and Giroud.  Of course not

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

Nathan Ake's buyback does not guarantee he will join either, he can still turn the move down.  It just means Bournemouth cant reject a bid of £40m from us, but they can from someone else.

 

I don't believe that Chalov rumour though.  Think thats a lazy link

 

 

[Superblue 6,372]

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

Seems the best option at present who is available and has a reasonable price attached.

The only question mark is stepping up from the Portuguese league to the Premier League but plenty have in the past.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,517]

According to The Telegraph, Bayer Leverkusen star Leon Bailey is one of the names on Lampard’s radar.

Another alternative is Samuel Chukwueze, with the Nigerian catching the eye for Villarreal in La Liga.

Fyodor Chalov is also in the club’s sights but the Russian star is more of a centre forward. He is also attracting interest from Crystal Palace.

 

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1223695/Chelsea-transfer-news-LIVE-Timo-Werner-decision-Jadon-Sancho-Wilfried-Zaha-Lampard-targets

[Special Juan 27,439]

Telles is a good player, delivers real quality and is miles better than what we have.

[Jase 43,479]

3 hours ago, Jason said:

Cheeky bid for Eriksen, anyone? 

 

[NikkiCFC 8,048]

Our top three targets are obviously Sancho, Werner and Chilwell. Non is available now but they are in the summer. We have great chance on all imo. So biggest question is what do we do now? Signing players on theirs positions in January is mistake. We have just 17 games in the PL left this season and by the time new players come in January just 14,15. So it's not worth it. Ok Telles now over Chilwell in the summer may be worth it but signing Zaha and Dembele now and missing on Sancho or Werner in the summer is huge mistake. 

So in January I hope we bring back Ake, maybe sign attacking midfielder and I'm ok with selling Emerson or Alonso and buy Telles. That's it. Because of the reason I mentioned I'm not ready to accept new striker or right winger in the January even though we need new players there badly. 

[Tomo 21,733]

29 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Thankgod. He's finished as a top footballer and if you think Willians bad at corners.....

[Tomo 21,733]

8 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Our top three targets are obviously Sancho, Werner and Chilwell. Non is available now but they are in the summer. We have great chance on all imo. So biggest question is what do we do now? Signing players on theirs positions in January is mistake. We have just 17 games in the PL left this season and by the time new players come in January just 14,15. So it's not worth it. Ok Telles now over Chilwell in the summer may be worth it but signing Zaha and Dembele now and missing on Sancho or Werner in the summer is huge mistake. 

So in January I hope we bring back Ake, maybe sign attacking midfielder and I'm ok with selling Emerson or Alonso and buy Telles. That's it. Because of the reason I mentioned I'm not ready to accept new striker or right winger in the January even though we need new players there badly. 

In my opinion. Grimaldo ≥ Telles.

Re Zaha and Sancho if it's financially possible we should go all out for both.

[NikkiCFC 8,048]

9 minutes ago, Tomo said:

In my opinion. Grimaldo ≥ Telles.

Re Zaha and Sancho if it's financially possible we should go all out for both.

CHO, Pulisic, Zaha and Sancho is too much. Basically we would have potentially four 100m players in two positions. 

[Pizy 18,418]

Whatever we do I wish we'd hurry up and not wait until deadline day. We have a brutal stretch of fixtures in numerous competitions coming up soon. We need an injection of quality.

If I recall correctly I think we play Leicester, United and some other big team all in a row soon. Then CL against Bayern.

[Tomo 21,733]

25 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

CHO, Pulisic, Zaha and Sancho is too much. Basically we would have potentially four 100m players in two positions. 

I have high hopes for the former pair long term but I don't think they're anywhere near ready in terms of delivering week in, week out and look a good couple of years away from having that type of consistency, possibly more in Cal's case. They will win us games (like Pulisic did at Burnley and Odoi did Vs Newcastle the week before) but they look a million miles away from doing it at the rate we need. The December month shown this, there was a lot of pressure on them (especially Pulisic) to produce a moment of magic to win us the points like Eden did and they just couldn't do it.

I don't blame them, it's just the stage of their career they're at. They need to develop at their own pace.

Jadon while at a similar age is miles ahead of both on present day level and Zaha has been bailing out his side (admittedly at a lower level) for years, they're at a level right now that will turn a poor performance from a 0-1 to 2-1 a lot more regularly than what we will get from Puli and Cal. It won't be too big a deal for the pair long term because Zaha will only give us 4 years max and at that point they will still be only 23 with a good 8 years of peak/around level to come if all goes well.

It will also give us scope to revert to 4-2-3-1 when need be or even a false 9.

[Laylabelle 9,381]

1 hour ago, Pizy said:

Whatever we do I wish we'd hurry up and not wait until deadline day. We have a brutal stretch of fixtures in numerous competitions coming up soon. We need an injection of quality.

If I recall correctly I think we play Leicester, United and some other big team all in a row soon. Then CL against Bayern.

Arsenal..Leicester..Man U then Spurs.

Be nice to get job done quick not the usual drag it out madness 

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Pizy 18,418]

Gabi-fucking-gol!? Didn't this dude move to Europe and fail spectacularly?

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Superblue 6,372]

Seen a couple of reports on Twitter that Zaha wants in excess of £200k per week and Chelsea aren't prepared to pay him this figure.

[LAM09 6,778]

Gabi-fucking-gol!? Didn't this dude move to Europe and fail spectacularly?

He's owned by Inter and didn't exactly get an abundance of chances.

I wouldn't be against the move, if Giroud/Alonso was thrown into the mix.