Chelsea Transfers

[Puliiszola 519]

10 hours ago, Jason said:

LMAO

Lol.

Not at all worried. Conte will stink up the place if he does not get his first choice. Don't think inter would want that to happen

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

I wonder what we are doing about the defensive midfielder position. If Kante gets injured again, we're depending on Jorginho to protect Werner, Ziyech, Havertz, Pulisic upfront.
We are begging to be hit on the counter guys. Unless Lampard has a plan for Mount, because he's a good tackler but getting a Defensive midfielder (our Casemiro) making the tackles even temporarily would not hurt. 

Ampadu, even kovacic I think Frank would play.

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[Puliiszola 519]

13 minutes ago, Supermonkey92 said:

Ampadu, even kovacic I think Frank would play.

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I read that as "Frank would play". Would not mind that. 

[Puliiszola 519]

40 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Gallagher can play there, likewise Ampadu. Hopefully Gilmour wins the place once he's back, can't handle a full season of Kante there.

I thought (and definitely saw on the few occasions I could) Gallagher playing as an AM, did not know he could play DM

[Tomo 21,733]

18 minutes ago, Puliiszola said:

I thought (and definitely saw on the few occasions I could) Gallagher playing as an AM, did not know he could play DM

He can pretty much play any midfield position (wouldn't be shocked if he could play fullback aswell) and has according to this actually played DM more than any other position.

https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/conor-gallagher/leistungsdaten/spieler/488362

Including many times for Charlton (he was mainly an AM for Swansea though).

The uncertainty around the position infront of the back four could give him a potential opening

[kellzfresh 7,229]

2 hours ago, DDA said:

Ampadu !

Nice one, totally forgot about him. I hope he's experienced enough in the Defensive mid position. 

[kellzfresh 7,229]

2 hours ago, Tomo said:

Gallagher can play there, likewise Ampadu. Hopefully Gilmour wins the place once he's back, can't handle a full season of Kante there.

Gallagher would need more experience imo. Ampadu seems the best option. People will target counterattacks against us so I wouldn't want a soft Gallagher or Gilmour there to be honest. I want someone that will allow Ziyech and Havertz not worry too much about defensive duties 

[kellzfresh 7,229]

1 hour ago, Supermonkey92 said:

Ampadu, even kovacic I think Frank would play.

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Ampadu yes. I'm petrified if Kova has to play there. He'd could get sent off for his mistimed tackles. 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,157]

Try ampadu there for preseason

[Dimitr 488]

[Pizy 18,368]

I'm going to be old and grey before Havertz is a Chelsea player. 👴🏻

Also, people have to take it easy on the Ampadu talk. I don't think he's anywhere close to ready for the first team of a side trying to challenge for trophies. We need to get him a good PL loan to see if he can cut it here first.

[Jase 43,479]

Thiago Silva officially announced. Player thread here...

 

[Jase 43,479]

5 signings confirmed. Now, we just have to wait 57 more years before THAT one gets done, if it'll be done...

[King Kante 1,476]

6 hours ago, kellzfresh said:

I wonder what we are doing about the defensive midfielder position. If Kante gets injured again, we're depending on Jorginho to protect Werner, Ziyech, Havertz, Pulisic upfront.

We are begging to be hit on the counter guys. Unless Lampard has a plan for Mount, because he's a good tackler but getting a Defensive midfielder (our Casemiro) making the tackles even temporarily would not hurt. 

Amapdu. 

[Dimitr 488]

Or sell kante and sign partey

[King Kante 1,476]

8 minutes ago, Dimitr said:

Or sell kante and sign partey

Kante may get sold but if we buy a DMF it will be Rice. 

[1chelsea 864]

With Thiago Silva on board and hopefully a Goalkeeper I would conclude Kai is overkill and this leads to a fun season ahead. I would take happy ending here[emoji12]

 

 

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[King Kante 1,476]

27 minutes ago, 1chelsea said:

With Thiago Silva on board and hopefully a Goalkeeper I would conclude Kai is overkill and this leads to a fun season ahead. I would take happy ending here

 

 

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The problem with our CM is twofold. First is the lack of goals and the second is the lack of robustness. A fit RLC, Kante and a hand from Amapdu could help with the robustness. However, I suspect SFL is looking for a CM that gets 12-20 goals a season like he, Gerrard, Ballack, Scholes etc used to do. If he wants that, then he has to get Harvetz.