Chelsea Transfers

[Puliiszola 519]

19 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Westham are not stupid after all. Barkley and Batshuayi would not massively imrpove Westham tho. They are packed with players of comparable quality in midfield and attack and they know they can get mega bucks for them.

Still I can imagine Rice ending up here even though I doubt he will go anywhere this summer. He still has ages left on his contract.

 

I dont think they have CMs. 

Wheelchair is named as such for a reason.

Noble is ancient

Rice

Soucek

Tbf, barkley would be a good addition for them. 

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

57 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Jacob Steinberg is a die hard West Ham fan, he will post negative news non stop re. Rice and chelsea.  If you look at his twitter, 2 hours ago he tweeted that West Ham should not be interested in the swap, then suddenly the article appears.   

 

IMO that article is opinion or hope, rather than fact

[King Kante 1,643]

5 minutes ago, ChelseaFanUK said:

Jacob Steinberg is a die hard West Ham fan, he will post negative news non stop re. Rice and chelsea.  If you look at his twitter, 2 hours ago he tweeted that West Ham should not be interested in the swap, then suddenly the article appears.   

 

IMO that article is opinion or hope, rather than fact

Problem is Rice's contract goes to 2024 so WHU hold all the cards. If they do agree such a deal then they are even more crazy than everyone thought. 

[Jase 43,479]

34 minutes ago, ChelseaFanUK said:

Jacob Steinberg is a die hard West Ham fan, he will post negative news non stop re. Rice and chelsea.  If you look at his twitter, 2 hours ago he tweeted that West Ham should not be interested in the swap, then suddenly the article appears.   

IMO that article is opinion or hope, rather than fact

Daily Mail, who quoted The Times have reported the same thing.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8543783/Chelsea-set-offer-West-Ham-Ross-Barkley-Michy-Batshuayi-Declan-Rice.html

Furthermore, it is silly to just assume West Ham would be dumb enough to just accept the swap, especially when Rice still has plenty of years left on his contract. 

[NikkiCFC 8,334]

Which London club need new GK? 

[killer1257 3,282]

Which London club need new GK? [emoji185]

Arsenal for sure.

They need a top class back up option for their world class Back Up in Martinez. So if their world class first GK Leno gets injured and their first world class BU get injured, they still have another option[emoji30]



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[NikkiCFC 8,334]

People will laugh but dont forget it is Barca board. They may ask for Caballero instead 

[Milan 17,959]

Oh look, another German  

[King Kante 1,643]

26 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

People will laugh but dont forget it is Barca board. They may ask for Caballero instead 

Yeah, I have been saying that we essentially need a board that smoke crack in order to get rid of Kepa. Barca, may just be the crack head's we need. 

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

Just going to be constant spurious reports of us chasing every keeper in the world now. We all know the decent hacks. Unless they report it you can serve almost all these daily links

[Strike 7,492]

Hope this is BS

[Strike 7,492]

1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

Which London club need new GK? 

Lollichon wanted him in the summer we signed Kepa! I prefer Areola among all the options (barring Oblak) so far. Correct me if he's tailed off big time or is unfit after his Real spell

[killer1257 3,282]

Lollichon wanted him in the summer we signed Kepa! I prefer Areola among all the options (barring Oblak) so far. Correct me if he's tailed off big time or is unfit after his Real spell

Is Areola any good? His highlight compilation did not impress me,while Martinez from Arsenal impressed me in an instant lol.

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[Jase 43,479]

 

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[Special Juan 28,140]

If CL was as big a pull as people say we wouldn't of already signed Werner and Ziyech..

I understand it's important but this season was a free hit and what Frank has done so far with us in the top 4 to date, FA Cup Final and signing two absolute quality players is nothing short of tremendous. People forget that we suffered a transfer ban yet we are still in a superb position.

[Jase 43,479]

11 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

If CL was as big a pull as people say we wouldn't of already signed Werner and Ziyech..

I understand it's important but this season was a free hit and what Frank has done so far with us in the top 4 to date, FA Cup Final and signing two absolute quality players is nothing short of tremendous. People forget that we suffered a transfer ban yet we are still in a superb position.

Different player sees the Champions League differently. If we sign someone like Mbappe, he's gonna want Champions League football.

Guess it's probably more important that the likes of Werner, Ziyech buy into the long term plan. 

[Vesper 30,224]

2 hours ago, Jason said:

Different player sees the Champions League differently. If we sign someone like Mbappe, he's gonna want Champions League football.

Guess it's probably more important that the likes of Werner, Ziyech buy into the long term plan. 

and Bayer shitting their pants and blowing CL means staying there yields the same (or worse) as going to Chels, THAT was the big one

although my tummy is still churning until we clinch CL (much more cash and easier time to recruit overall)

it always is my number one thing once it appears we have no chance to win the league (omg, I have turned into a late noughties Arse fan, sob  )

[Puliiszola 519]

20 minutes ago, Vesper said:

and Bayer shitting their pants and blowing CL means staying there yields the same (or worse) as going to Chels, THAT was the big one

although my tummy is still churning until we clinch CL (much more cash and easier time to recruit overall)

it always is my number one thing once it appears we have no chance to win the league (omg, I have turned into a late noughties Arse fan, sob  )

A massive difference in having top 4 as the sole expectation right now vs in 2000-10.

It was literally just the top 4 (United, us, arsenal, pool) and spurs to compete for the top 4. Getting top 4 then was hardly an acheivement.

At the moment, the gap between the 10th placed Burnley? And 3rd place Chelsea has reduced drastically. The tv money has helped the lower clubs in finding talents that you would never have expected to see in those clubs. Hell, villa spent more than 100m on players this summer. 

So I feel comparision between this era and that one is not fair. 

But, what we are building and the incoming talent , we should be challenging and winning the title in the coming years

[Tomo 21,751]

On 22/07/2020 at 1:01 PM, Puliiszola said:

A massive difference in having top 4 as the sole expectation right now vs in 2000-10.

It was literally just the top 4 (United, us, arsenal, pool) and spurs to compete for the top 4. Getting top 4 then was hardly an acheivement.

At the moment, the gap between the 10th placed Burnley? And 3rd place Chelsea has reduced drastically. The tv money has helped the lower clubs in finding talents that you would never have expected to see in those clubs. Hell, villa spent more than 100m on players this summer. 

So I feel comparision between this era and that one is not fair. 

But, what we are building and the incoming talent , we should be challenging and winning the title in the coming years

I think the comparisons between us and Arsenal are misguided but for different reasons than you do.

No one mocked Arsenal for settling for mere top 4 in the mid to late 00s because realistically that was the best they could have done, they were building with teenagers next to no money and up against Chelsea and United's best ever sides (aswell as Liverpool's best PL side pre Klopp), to expect anything more from them at that point would have been lunacy.

When they started to become bantered for settling for top 4 was when the stadium debt was paid off, those kids matured and they started adding players like Ozil and Cazorla to the ranks yet they still didn't adjust their expectations, that plus the relitevely low quality at the other top teams meant they should have really put a title challenging team together at that point but didn't really seem arsed.

Not long ago when I pointed out that we were doing as good as we can with the squad we have someone pointed out "we're Chelsea we shouldn't be settling for this" which was just too much tunnel vision in my eyes, to expect this squad to have sustained a title challenge because of who we are is the exact same type of unrealistic expectations and arrogance we use to scold Liverpool fans for having.

The comparison to Arsenal would be accurate if we were still aiming solely for top 4 when RJ, CHO, Mount, Pulisic etc hit their peak but at this point when you consider the obstacles we've faced since we sacked Conte, changing to a complex style of play, effectively losing 4 world class players (2 to departure and 2 to decline/not suiting the new system as well, lost 1 the previous year to that aswell) and rebuilding with young players we've done about as good as can realistically asked in the last couple of season's, if not overachieved.