Chelsea Transfers

[R2D2 368]

16 minutes ago, Jas said:

Sounds like Lukaku wants to stay at Inter..?

 

Thank fuck.

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[OneMoSalah 8,809]

hace 3 minutos, R2D2 dijo:

I get hes not your cup of tea but dont see why your shouting about him going nowhere. We urgently need a top CF....

So now the potential 4 big options who were potentially available/people felt were available (Aguero, Lukaku, Haaland and Kane) has now basically halfed in a week 🤣

[R2D2 368]

12 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

I get hes not your cup of tea but dont see why your shouting about him going nowhere. We urgently need a top CF....

So now the potential 4 big options who were potentially available/people felt were available (Aguero, Lukaku, Haaland and Kane) has now basically halfed in a week 🤣

We do but Lukaku isn't the solution not for that pricetag, not for those absurd wages, not for that age and not for those skills, I'd say it's bullet dodged, just hope he doesn't change his mind.

I trust Werner and Kai to deliver next season and while it may backfire we should all keep in mind that Tuchel only came in the middle of the season and brought us back in Top 4, taking the points we got since he got here we should easily finish Top 4 during the whole season even with no improvements. The good thing is we will surely improve maybe not with a ST but with a new midfielder, a more attacking RB, a top class CB.

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[OneMoSalah 8,809]

hace 13 minutos, R2D2 dijo:

We do but Lukaku isn't the solution not for that pricetag, not for those absurd wages, not for that age and not for those skills, I'd say it's bullet dodged, just hope he doesn't change his mind.

I trust Werner and Kai to deliver next season and while it may backfire we should all keep in mind that Tuchel only came in the middle of the season and brought us back in Top 4, taking the points we got since he got here we should easily finish Top 4 during the whole season even with no improvements. The good thing is we will surely improve maybe not with a ST but with a new midfielder, a more attacking RB, a top class CB.

Yes and no.

Lets be honest only finishing top 4 isn’t going to be enough now after winning a CL this season, is it? I think closing the gap is an absolute must and would think TT will be looking to try challenge for the title. Plus we have all seen how what you do one season has no guarantees the next season, I am actually shocked to be honest people still think as simply as this (I mean particularly after 2015/16 and 2017/18, those should be used as evidence that there is absolutely no guarantee that we can just do what we did again this season).

Hopefully Kai and Timo deliver more next season but we probably will still need more goals regardless. Especially to win more trophies or compete for the league. Be in from a number 9 (would be out safest bet) or another position.

We will hopefully grab a few good players but if we are desperate for a top top number 9 we are fucked now. We more than likely wont get Kane or Haaland for different reasons - Kane for the fact its Spurs and Haaland for the fact he has just said he wants to respect his contract which after Dortmund got CL football next season, not surprised.

Edited June 2, 2021 by OneMoSalah

[R2D2 368]

3 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

Yes and no.

Lets be honest only finishing top 4 isn’t going to be enough now after winning a CL this season, is it? Plus we have all seen how what you do one season has no guarantees the next season. 

Hopefully Kai and Timo deliver more next season but we probably will still need more goals regardless. Be in from a number 9 (would be out safest bet) or another position.

We will hopefully grab a few good players but if we are desperate for a top top number 9 we are fucked now. We more than likely wont get Kane or Haaland for different reasons - Kane for the fact its Spurs and Haaland for the fact he has just said he wants to respect his contract which after Dortmund got CL football next season, not surprised.

With Real broke, we should go all out for Mbappe maybe he wants to play 3-4 years in the PL and move after to Madrid when he will be 26-27, worth a try at least, I don't understand why there aren't any rumours about his possible departure it sounds like he isn't extending and I don't think PSG are so stupid to lose a value asset like him for free.

Edited June 2, 2021 by R2D2

[OneMoSalah 8,809]

hace 12 minutos, R2D2 dijo:

With Real broke, we should go all out for Mbappe maybe he wants to play 3-4 years in the PL and move after to Madrid when he will be 26-27.

I think hes gonna do another season at Paris then leave on a free in all honesty to go to one of Madrid/Barca. He has one year left on his deal and personally I think he wants to go to Spain as has been talked about for ages, mainly Madrid when Zizou was there but Barca will have seem him up close and personal a few months ago and he was electric against them also.

[milka 3,358]

Chelsea need a strong transfer summer with the right players  like 2014/15 to make to challenge for the title .

Summer 2014   we bought two people who largely won our title - Diego Costa  and Fabregas .

Repeat .

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5 minutes ago, milka said:

Chelsea need a strong transfer summer with the right players  like 2014/15 to make to challenge for the title .

Summer 2014   we bought two people who largely won our title - Diego Costa  and Fabregas .

Repeat .

this!

[LAM09 6,824]

8 minutes ago, milka said:

Chelsea need a strong transfer summer with the right players  like 2014/15 to make to challenge for the title .

Summer 2014   we bought two people who largely won our title - Diego Costa  and Fabregas .

Repeat .

They were signed really early too. Lining up targets and signing them early is something we just can't seem to do.

[Jase 43,479]

2 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

They were signed really early too. Lining up targets and signing them early is something we just can't seem to do.

We did that with Werner and Ziyech last summer.

[Pizy 18,509]

Welp. Looks like it’s Haaland or bust, then.

Kane was always impossible, Lukaku is happy being the king in Italy where he’s the main man and free of the English media criticizing him. We can now either make Dortmund an offer they can’t refuse (£150m now I think they’d reluctantly sell rather than for his small release clause next summer) or we go the Sancho route, play Havertz up top, and extend Giroud for another year.

Our options are even more threadbare now.

[LAM09 6,824]

1 minute ago, Jas said:

We did that with Werner and Ziyech last summer.

The former had a buy-out clause.

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, LAM09 said:

The former had a buy-out clause.

Still. 

[Jase 43,479]

2 minutes ago, Pizy said:

We can now either make Dortmund an offer they can’t refuse (£150m now I think they’d reluctantly sell rather than for his small release clause next summer)

Think Haaland is impossible. This is the same club that decided to keep Lewandowski in his final year of the contract rather than sell him to Bayern and then let him go to them for free after that.

[LAM09 6,824]

4 minutes ago, Jas said:

Still. 

It's not exactly difficult to wrap up a target when a fee is there in writing. Haggling has been the issue for a host of targets in recent years and look what we've ended up with. Baka, Emerson and Zappacosta are supposedly going this Summer for 40m loss.

One plus I read over the past few days is, those days are seemingly over. Tuchel wants his first choices or nothing.

Edited June 2, 2021 by LAM09

[Jase 43,479]

2 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

Haggling has been the issue for a host of targets in recent years and look what we've ended up with. 

True but at the same time, it's never straightforward to complete big money transfers, even more so while we're in this pandemic.