Chelsea Transfers

[Puliiszola 519]

4 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

But are you ignoring Covid? Look at other teams. Arsenal, Liverpool, United, Spurs can't spend 30m it seems. 

European giants as well. Real and Bayern can't afford Havertz this summer but we can? Juve also just doing swaps. 

Last summer if we could, surely we would spend more than 100m apart from Kovacic. We lost our best player. So this money must have been kept for this summer. Kai, Timo and Hakim are 160m pounds. And we will still buy 3 or 4 more players. Our interest in Chilwell, Rice is well known. Even Atletico asistent confirmed our interest in Oblak. We are scouting Gimenez. Ofc we won't get them all if any but they are all expensive players. It's clear to me that we are in different situation to other clubs because of transfer ban. This transfer window doesn't look like typical Chelsea summer. Especially if you add Covid as big influence for everybody in business. 

Covid influence is on teams which had match revenue as one of their main revs. We don't. We have a small stadium and we don't charge arsenal type prices. If you see match revenue as % of our overall rev, it's quite low. 

Also, there is a paradigm shift in our club. Not in those. Rm still has to pay 300kpw to hazard, Ramos, tibo, Modric etc 

While we have lost almost all of our highest earners in the last 2 seasons- hazard, willian, pedro, Luiz, Cahill

I see our spending as a result in improvement on wage bill and amortized value. Not as a result of hazard fee. Those fees are important if we are a self sustaining club, which we still are not (96m loss last year).

[NikkiCFC 8,337]

Chelsea are back-in for Getafe's Marc Cucurella. The English club launched a first notice in March and now, according to latest news, the blues are willing to pay €30m for the 22-year-old left-back.

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[Artandur 939]

11 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Chelsea are back-in for Getafe's Marc Cucurella. The English club launched a first notice in March and now, according to latest news, the blues are willing to pay €30m for the 22-year-old left-back.

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I know he's good offensively, but can he defend? 

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

8 minutes ago, Artandur said:

I know he's good offensively, but can he defend? 

I have to admit i have only seen him play once. there he looked a bit wild. I am not sure he is any better than Emerson defensively. But apparently we are looking for an attack-minded fullback not defensively super solid one.

[Artandur 939]

1 minute ago, Magic Lamps said:

I have to admit i have only seen him play once. there he looked a bit wild. I am not sure he is any better than Emerson defensively. But apparently we are looking for an attack-minded fullback not defensively super solid one.

Well at least he can run, that would already be a step up from alonso i guess 

[Vesper 30,225]

23 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Chelsea are back-in for Getafe's Marc Cucurella. The English club launched a first notice in March and now, according to latest news, the blues are willing to pay €30m for the 22-year-old left-back.

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no

hard pass

short (he was always listed at 1.72m at Barca, not he has magically grown 3cms at Getafe?), I was not impressed with him at Barca

he is shit defensively too

and in almost 3700 minutes (including mostly in pinball La Liga), 1 goal, 6 assists all comps

€30m for him is MADNESS

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Report: Southampton have completed Mohammed Salisu deal, £11m announcement pending

https://tbrfootball.com/report-southampton-have-completed-mohammed-salisu-deal-11m-announcement-pending/

raw, big, strong left-footed 21yo 1.91m CB

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20 minutes ago, Artandur said:

I know he's good offensively, but can he defend? 

no and no

[Jase 43,479]

1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

Chelsea are back-in for Getafe's Marc Cucurella. The English club launched a first notice in March and now, according to latest news, the blues are willing to pay €30m for the 22-year-old left-back.

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The last few Spanish players we bought have not turned out great at all...

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9 minutes ago, Jason said:

The last few Spaniard players we bought have not turned out great at all...

and please

no more Sideshow Bob haircuts

[NikkiCFC 8,337]

43 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

But apparently we are looking for an attack-minded fullback not defensively super solid one.

If this is true then Alex Telles. 

13 goals and 12 assists this season. 

But with Pulisic, Havertz, Werner and Ziyech upfront not sure we need offensive type? I think these boys will produce so much forward that I am fine with other midfielders and full backs being more defensively oriented. 

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

12 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

If this is true then Alex Telles. 

13 goals and 12 assists this season. 

But with Pulisic, Havertz, Werner and Ziyech upfront not sure we need offensive type? I think these boys will produce so much forward that I am fine with other midfielders and full backs being more defensively oriented. 

Apart from Ziyech they are all more finishers than creators. a bit more creative input from the fullbacks wont hurt

[killer1257 3,282]

no
hard pass
short (he was always listed at 1.72m at Barca, not he has magically grown 3cms at Getafe?), I was not impressed with him at Barca
he is shit defensively too
and in almost 3700 minutes (including mostly in pinball La Liga), 1 goal, 6 assists all comps
€30m for him is MADNESS

La Liga is better than Bundesliga, Serie A and Eredivisie and he plays just for Getafe. It is easier to assist or score when you play for Ajax or Porto and I would not give too much attention for assist and goal stats. Clubs like Ajax or Porto are very dominant in their leagues. Getafe is just a mid table team at best. Me personally, I do not know that guy. I would go for Gosens or Telles. But I do not think that any of those two will solve our defensive problems either. But at least they solve our offensive problems.

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[killer1257 3,282]

If this is true then Alex Telles. 
13 goals and 12 assists this season. 
But with Pulisic, Havertz, Werner and Ziyech upfront not sure we need offensive type? I think these boys will produce so much forward that I am fine with other midfielders and full backs being more defensively oriented. 

Telles is the penaldo taker of Porto, as far as I know.

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7 minutes ago, killer1257 said:

Telles is the penaldo taker of Porto, as far as I know.

Yep, 9 of his 13 goals have been from penalties. So not that many goals form open play but plenty of assists.

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27 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

If this is true then Alex Telles. 

13 goals and 12 assists this season. 

But with Pulisic, Havertz, Werner and Ziyech upfront not sure we need offensive type? I think these boys will produce so much forward that I am fine with other midfielders and full backs being more defensively oriented. 

or Gosens

the only 3 Spanish players who actually (1 is not really due to insane price) I would be thrilled to see here 

  
Saúl Ñíguez   (insanely expensive, far out of our price range)
Ferran Torres   (and TBH, if we get Havertz, we are set for now in terms of left-footed wingers/SS/False Nine/AMF types in Havertz and Ziyech) <<< Pep wants him BAD, which sucks

Mikel Oyarzabal (far too expensive to be a backup winger, and he would never settle for that anyway)

maybe Pau Torres, but not 100% sold on him yet )another one Pep is looking at)

Sergi Roberto is 29yo in February, so zero long term value there

Gaya gas a 100m euro release clause, so Valencia can jog on

[Alabama 1,992]

Why cant we go for Alex Grimaldo...

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1 hour ago, killer1257 said:

 

 

La Liga is better than Bundesliga, Serie A and Eredivisie and he plays just for Getafe. It is easier to assist or score when you play for Ajax or Porto and I would not give too much attention for assist and goal stats. Clubs like Ajax or Porto are very dominant in their leagues. Getafe is just a mid table team at best. Me personally, I do not know that guy. I would go for Gosens or Telles. But I do not think that any of those two will solve our defensive problems either. But at least they solve our offensive problems.

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Cucurella is a LMF, he played TWO games at fullback all season (out of 45 played) and I mean MF, not LWB, as they play with back 4, a 4 4 2 formation

Getafe bought him off Barca for £9m, now, after one meh season (they finished 8th, 33 points behind RM and choked away a  Europa League place) they want to triple the price, lololol

Getafe went winless in their last 5 games, and scored ONE goal total, they won ONE of their last 12 La Liga games, and were shut out in 7 of those games, including v Levante, Alaves, Osasuna, Espanyol, and Celta Vigo (3 of those are bottom 5 teams, none are in the top half, other than Osasuna at 10th)

Cucurella has major fail (and another £27m shit down the loo on a middling fullback, who doesn't even PLAY FB or even wingback) written all over him

he is small, weak, poor defensively

7 EL games, zero goals, zero assists

he hasn't scored a goal in almost 8 months, has 2 assists since October, every assist was against a shit team, except for one v Athletic Bilbao (in August 2019, lol)

I cannot stress how unhappy I am going to be if he is who we buy for a LB

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Apart from Ziyech they are all more finishers than creators. a bit more creative input from the fullbacks wont hurt

Pulisic is a creator as much as he scores.

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33 minutes ago, Alabama said:

Why cant we go for Alex Grimaldo...

overrated, small (really small, 1.71m, SEVENTEEN cm shorter than Alonso, 13 cms shorter than Theo and Gosens), poor defensively, zero Big 5 experience

plus he is injured for the last 2 months

6 CL games, zero goals, zero assists

2 EL games 1 assist

none of his assists came against quality teams, other than 1 against Shakhtar (when Benfica crashed out of the EL)

half of his assists came in 2 games, against the 2nd from the bottom (and relegated) Portimonense and then the turgid Boavista, back in 2019

his last goal was almost a full year ago

hard pass again 

I have no clue why we keep getting linked to these short, middling, Spanish fullbacks