Chelsea Transfers

[We Hate Scouse 10,286]

1 hour ago, Blues Forever said:

Tapsoba suddenly dropped our name in his interview. He also recently did this.

Also worth noting that Deco is his agent.

[Muzchap 8,966]

59 minutes ago, We Hate Scouse said:

Also worth noting that Deco is his agent.

Great player he was 👍

[King Kante 1,484]

14 hours ago, Jas said:

Is this a known fact or what? Maybe my memory has failed me but I don't recall it being mentioned much in past years compared to now, almost as if people are trying to convince themselves something is really happening when it could be like 50-50. Last summer for instance, our pursuit of Havertz and Chilwell was public knowledge and everyone knew negotiations were taking place. 

Even if we somehow managed to not leak anything out to the media, I would be surprised if the media covering the opposing club didn't get any inkling something is happening. Some may point to the Werner transfer as something that happened out of the blue but he had a release clause and there was no need for long negotiations with Leipzig.

Fair point but think we'll only start to feel its impact once we start to ditch the bigger deadwoods. 

Well the thing with Werner was that everyone knew about the buyout and hardly anyone linked us. He was apparently nailed on for the Dippers. Ypu could add Pulisic to the list of discreet deals (also with Dortmund), Kepa (who was tracked for months if you believe the club; I don't on that one), Kovacic was also quietly done. If you go back further you have examples like Bosingwa who had no links at all then was announced on the website one day. 

So, yeah, I would say, when compared to other clubs were discreet (when placed in the context of world football industry.)

 

 

[King Kante 1,484]

12 hours ago, Hashishi said:

I would be happy with signing Camavinga. He can play understudy to Jorginho and Kovacic is cover for Kante. Even better would be signing Tchomenei as well and loaning Camavinga to Germany. That would solve the midfield problem that we saw under conte. Rice is a Drinkwater in this situation. 

Personally if we're going for a young CM I'd rather we just roll with Gallagher for CM4 and try and get Bellingham in a year or two. If not Gallagher then get someone like SMS who can actually score goals and provide assists from CM. In my opinion, with a 3atb system the need for a DM is limited (only reason I buy the Rice rumours is because he can also play CB.)

Edited July 7, 2021 by King Kante

[DH1988 1,273]

Gallagher is very underrated, don't feel he's ready to be included though, he would be far better off going to another PL team for another year - Just not a relegation dog fight.

[Jase 43,479]

3 hours ago, King Kante said:

Well the thing with Werner was that everyone knew about the buyout and hardly anyone linked us. He was apparently nailed on for the Dippers. Ypu could add Pulisic to the list of discreet deals (also with Dortmund), Kepa (who was tracked for months if you believe the club; I don't on that one), Kovacic was also quietly done. If you go back further you have examples like Bosingwa who had no links at all then was announced on the website one day. 

So, yeah, I would say, when compared to other clubs were discreet (when placed in the context of world football industry.

We were linked with Pulisic before we signed him and Kepa was more of a panic buy.

Either way, for every discreet transfer you mentioned there, there's always one that is public knowledge and we know negotiations are taking place. 

[Jype 6,398]

4 hours ago, King Kante said:

Well the thing with Werner was that everyone knew about the buyout and hardly anyone linked us. He was apparently nailed on for the Dippers. Ypu could add Pulisic to the list of discreet deals (also with Dortmund), Kepa (who was tracked for months if you believe the club; I don't on that one), Kovacic was also quietly done. If you go back further you have examples like Bosingwa who had no links at all then was announced on the website one day. 

So, yeah, I would say, when compared to other clubs were discreet (when placed in the context of world football industry.)

The most out of the blue transfer was definitely Marko Marin. Obviously that one didn't work out in the slightest but he was still a somewhat highly rated young player with 3-4 years of Bundesliga experience, played CL football for Werder Bremen and was even in the Germany squad for the 2010 World Cup. No transfer rumors whatsoever and then one day while the season was still going (like March-April) the transfer was announced on the club's website.

Of last years transfers Ziyech was also a discrete one. The first time we heard of it was when the Dutch media told everyone it was a done deal and after that it didn't take long for both clubs to announce it too.

[Styl1994 188]

If we can’t get Haaland which of these options would you want or maybe 2 

lukaku 

Ings 

Schick

Isak 

Moffi

 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

4 hours ago, King Kante said:

Well the thing with Werner was that everyone knew about the buyout and hardly anyone linked us. He was apparently nailed on for the Dippers. Ypu could add Pulisic to the list of discreet deals (also with Dortmund), Kepa (who was tracked for months if you believe the club; I don't on that one), Kovacic was also quietly done. If you go back further you have examples like Bosingwa who had no links at all then was announced on the website one day. 

So, yeah, I would say, when compared to other clubs were discreet (when placed in the context of world football industry.)

 

 

In the recent years i can only think about Luiz, Kepa, and Ziyech. The rest including Werner, Pulisic, Kovacic are hardly discreet.

[Hashishi 148]

45 minutes ago, Styl1994 said:

If we can’t get Haaland which of these options would you want or maybe 2 

lukaku 

Ings 

Schick

Isak 

Moffi

 

Literally none. 

[Styl1994 188]

1 minute ago, Hashishi said:

Literally none. 

But the problem is Giroud wants to leave and the manager clearly doesn’t seem to rate Tammy who has only two years left on his contract so what’s the solution? Can’t expect Havertz and Werner to play every match. 

[avrobsws 29]

1 hour ago, Styl1994 said:

If we can’t get Haaland which of these options would you want or maybe 2 

lukaku 

Ings 

Schick

Isak 

Moffi

 

We will get Haaland as reports have emerged of us making a bid of that same region as Dortmund are expecting. Haaland is a deal which we have to make keeping our future in mind as no one has the same potential. Haaland is the heir to Drogba. We have make the deal eminent this season. 

[avrobsws 29]

15 minutes ago, Hermione said:

Not sure that 90min source is worth anything.

Not only this channel but there are multiple other sources have revealed the same but the amount is close to 150 mil. Barca are trying to offload their Griezmaan shit to us to reduce the wages but they should loom somewhere else. We are not here to cash on lame rejects.

 

 

[Pizy 18,368]

I could absolutely see us panic buying Danny Ings on deadline day after fucking about and failing everywhere else.

Actually wouldn’t be a bad buy, tbh. He’s the sort of striker who wouldn’t stand in our way of pursuing Haaland or someone else next summer and would remain a great squad option for several years.

Could see Ings bagging 15 PL goals in our team for sure.

[Tomo 21,733]

36 minutes ago, Pizy said:

I could absolutely see us panic buying Danny Ings on deadline day after fucking about and failing everywhere else.

Actually wouldn’t be a bad buy, tbh. He’s the sort of striker who wouldn’t stand in our way of pursuing Haaland or someone else next summer and would remain a great squad option for several years.

Could see Ings bagging 15 PL goals in our team for sure.

The noises are we will do a January 2020 as opposed to Summer 2017.

If we can't get the top or atleast a suitable target we will look elsewhere.

[Superblue 6,370]

42 minutes ago, Pizy said:

I could absolutely see us panic buying Danny Ings on deadline day after fucking about and failing everywhere else.

Actually wouldn’t be a bad buy, tbh. He’s the sort of striker who wouldn’t stand in our way of pursuing Haaland or someone else next summer and would remain a great squad option for several years.

Could see Ings bagging 15 PL goals in our team for sure.

If the club were to sell Tammy and Giroud and had exhausted all possibilities of a Haaland deal then I wouldn't be completely against us buying Ings if the price was right. Considering he has one year left on his contract, his injury history and age we shouldn't be paying anything over £25m in my opinion. I personally think he's too important to Southampton to sell for that sort of fee and they'd want more. Especially as just keeping him for the final year of his contract would likely be more valuable to them if his goals kept them in the league again.

The important thing is to add quality not just add for the sake of it. If Southampton are asking silly money for him, I'd be loathe to blow a big part of the budget on someone like him. But there does also have to be some consideration in the futures of Tammy and Giroud. I don't mind going into next season with one of them, Werner and Havertz as our main options for the central attacker, but if both were to leave then we would be left incredibly thin (unless Tuchel was planning on someone from loan or the academy stepping in) and therefore we would have to add something to the squad.

He'd be a good rotational option that has a proven goal record in the league and is actually a better technical player than he's probably given credit for (I don't think he would look out of place technically in our squad like some striking options would). And importantly he wouldn't get in the way of potentially a big attacking signing next season. 

I wouldn't even mind him the following season on a freebie as an experienced, rotational attacking option. If he doesn't move this summer, he could be a shrewd move for someone next year.

[NikkiCFC 7,955]

Belotti over Ings. Similar price and situation. 

[OneMoSalah 8,778]

5 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Belotti over Ings. Similar price and situation. 

Neither please.

Belotti isn’t a top class side starting CF and neither is Ings. They are enough for a certain level but I’m not sure they would improve our options upfront.