Chelsea Transfers

[Vesper 28,864]

Tottenham transfer shortlist: Three players Nuno may sign to keep Harry Kane
Nuno could bring a few players to the club to tempt Kane to stick around.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1461076/Tottenham-transfers-Nuno-Espirito-Santo-Harry-Kane

 

roflmaooo

the first one just agreed to go to Lyon

Andre Onana

 

that leaves

Jules Kounde

Ousmane Dembele

 

a dwarf CB and a £130m flop

 

soooooooooo spursy

 

 

 

[Hashishi 148]

8 hours ago, Vesper said:

Tottenham transfer shortlist: Three players Nuno may sign to keep Harry Kane
Nuno could bring a few players to the club to tempt Kane to stick around.

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1461076/Tottenham-transfers-Nuno-Espirito-Santo-Harry-Kane

 

roflmaooo

the first one just agreed to go to Lyon

Andre Onana

 

that leaves

Jules Kounde

Ousmane Dembele

 

a dwarf CB and a £130m flop

 

soooooooooo spursy

 

 

 

I see spurs having a terrible window. Regardless of whether Kane is sold or kept. That 150m would just go to waste. 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,488]

 

[NikkiCFC 7,955]

Happy with Mendy but I always wanted Donnarumma before anyone else. Such a shame. 

[Styl1994 188]

31 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Happy with Mendy but I always wanted Donnarumma before anyone else. Such a shame. 

If we didn’t have Mendy we should have gone all out for him but you can’t keep two goalkeepers like that happy imo. 

[Hashishi 148]

5 minutes ago, Styl1994 said:

If we didn’t have Mendy we should have gone all out for him but you can’t keep two goalkeepers like that happy imo. 

We have big problems when AFCON comes around. Can't have Kepa in goal for a month.... 

[Superblue 6,370]

13 minutes ago, Hashishi said:

We have big problems when AFCON comes around. Can't have Kepa in goal for a month.... 

Whilst it's hardly ideal, I think even if Mendy was away for the duration, it may only be something like 2 league games and a round or two of the FA Cup. 

[avrobsws 29]

1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

Happy with Mendy but I always wanted Donnarumma before anyone else. Such a shame. 

Exactly, Donnarumma is the future and we should have snapped him. Mendy is close to 30's.

[MoroccanBlue 5,306]

8 minutes ago, avrobsws said:

Exactly, Donnarumma is the future and we should have snapped him. Mendy is close to 30's.

As if GK’s career die at 30s

[Styl1994 188]

32 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

Whilst it's hardly ideal, I think even if Mendy was away for the duration, it may only be something like 2 league games and a round or two of the FA Cup. 

You still can’t have two elite keepers because of 2 weeks till a month lol

[Superblue 6,370]

2 minutes ago, Styl1994 said:

You still can’t have two elite keepers because of 2 weeks till a month lol

I completely agree, it's not ideal but you don't have much choice but to trust the backup in this situation.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

4 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

As if GK’s career die at 30s

I would bin Mendy for Donnurama if we are given the opportunity. Mendy is solid but Donnurama is world class. Mendy was solid for us but he still has his flaws that showed up now and again last season. 

[Hashishi 148]

So Euros is over. Kennedy and Bakayoko are refusing to return to Chelsea so are probably out. Emerson probably out to napoli (A CL and Euros winner should not be 3rd WB). Tomori is out to Milan, Gilmour is out to Norwich. Zouma and Alonso may also be out. 

Any idea who's in? 

[OhForAGreavsie 5,892]

3 hours ago, Hashishi said:

Kennedy and Bakayoko

At least that will save some wages as they are likely to be fined. Assuming the club are contractually allowed to retain the fines. that is. Sometimes the money goes to charity. 

Edited July 12, 2021 by OhForAGreavsie

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[jandomi10 82]

 

Chelsea are ‘most active in recent days’ to try and sign Antoine Griezmann.

The Blues see the operation to sign the attacker, most likely on a loan deal, ‘very favourably’.

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Sport via @Sport_Witness

[Vesper 28,864]

Should Chelsea wait for Haaland or sign a striker now and maybe miss out on him?

https://theathletic.com/2697679/2021/07/12/should-Chelsea-wait-for-haaland-or-sign-a-striker-now-and-maybe-miss-out-on-him/

Pre-season training is under way at Chelsea and there is not a new, expensive striker in sight to play with.

After winning the Champions League in May Chelsea were tipped to be title contenders for 2021-22, with the caveat that their chances of success depended on who they could bring in during the transfer window, especially up front.

There is still plenty of time to go — the deadline is on August 31 — but fans are increasingly wondering what is going on. By this stage last year, negotiations for Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech had been concluded even though the market didn’t officially open until July 27 due to delays to the 2019-20 season, caused by COVID-19. Talks over Kai Havertz and Ben Chilwell were at an advanced stage too.

Ask a Chelsea supporter who is on top of their wishlist and most will reply with the same answer: Erling Haaland. As The Athletic revealed in January, the club are prepared to smash their transfer record to get the Norway international.

Hope has been raised with Olivier Giroud being given the green light to join AC Milan, a move worth £1.7 million which should be completed any day now. It means a space in the squad needs to be filled. So surely that is a sign something is in the pipeline if Chelsea are prepared to let the veteran go? Not necessarily, especially as far as Haaland is concerned.

Chelsea always knew it would be difficult to prise him away from Borussia Dortmund this summer. The Bundesliga club tend to only sanction the sale of one star player a year and Jadon Sancho is joining Manchester United for £73 million.

 

Haaland and Sancho, who is joining Manchester United (Photo: Alexandre Simoes/Borussia Dortmund via Getty Images)

Things were made even more difficult by Dortmund finding a bit of form late in the previous campaign to qualify for the Champions League via a top-four finish in the Bundesliga. Securing a spot, and the finances it brings, was vital after reporting losses of €43.9 million (£37.7 million) in August 2020, with another €75 million (£64.4 million) forecast for the following 12 months.

Had Dortmund been relegated to the second-tier competition that is the Europa League, which brings in a minimal amount of revenue in comparison, they might have had no choice but to negotiate. However, sources told The Athletic in May that Champions League football meant Haaland isn’t going anywhere soon.

And yet still the stories about a switch to Stamford Bridge come, that owner Roman Abramovich is willing to pay whatever it takes to get the player, who turns 21 on July 21.

As discussed in January, it is understandable why Chelsea want to push for a move now. Next year a release clause worth €75 million (currently worth £64.4 million) kicks in, which will bring far more competition for his purchase to the table. Teams like Real Madrid and Barcelona are in no position to bid over £100 million for a player at the moment due to the impact the pandemic has had on their cash flow.

Chelsea have made efforts over the past 18 months or so to get on better terms with Haaland’s agent Mino Raiola, who the west London club felt was a major factor in Manchester United beating them to Romelu Lukaku’s signature in 2017.

For Chelsea to acquire Haaland, it is expected they will have to pay a sizeable commission to Raiola and the player’s father Alf-Inge Haaland on top of the fee to Dortmund.

It is believed Raiola is also angling for the striker to become one of the highest-paid players in the world, comfortably beating the wages of Chelsea’s top earner N’Golo Kante, who is on £290,000 a week.

Fresh reports of Chelsea lining up a £150 million offer this week are thought to have caught the hierarchy by surprise because they are coming to terms with the reality that Dortmund don’t want to sell in 2021, even though the German outfit will receive a fraction of his value in 2022.

If that is the case, it begs the question: what are Chelsea going to do instead? Surely manager Thomas Tuchel does not have the strikeforce to win the Premier League as things stand. Chelsea found the net 58 times in the Premier League last season, which made them only the ninth highest scorers in the division.

Werner struggled to convert chances and continued to show a lack of confidence while playing for Germany at the European Championship. Tuchel clearly does not rate Tammy Abraham too highly, having given him just 230 minutes of playing time after taking over in January. The England international is also angling for a move away from Stamford Bridge.

There is of course Havertz, the Champions League hero, to lean on. He scored the winner against Manchester City to claim the trophy and is growing in stature as an attacker who can lead the line. But is he capable of being the man reaching and breaking the 20-goal barrier that most title-winning teams have?

 

Abraham and Giroud with the Champions League (Photo: Darren Walsh/Chelsea FC via Getty Images)

Despite all the indications that Haaland is not for sale this year, it would be a big call for Chelsea to completely end their interest and walk away. Strikers of his ability — he has found the net 57 times for Dortmund in 59 appearances — do not become available often.

It is not as if there is an array of top-class alternatives to choose from. Naturally, Chelsea like Harry Kane but Tottenham do not want to lose their prize asset, particularly to them. Lukaku, now represented by Federico Pastorello, has stated he is happy at Inter Milan. His team-mate Lautaro Martinez is negotiating a new contract to remain at the San Siro too.

They might decide to test Lukaku’s and Inter’s resolve and make a significant offer. Yet if you spend £100 million on the Belgian to be your main striker, you are not going to go for Haaland the following season as well.

Chelsea could always go for a cheaper alternative as a stop-gap, a bit like what they did with Giroud when he was bought from Arsenal for £18 million in January 2018. For example, Southampton’s Danny Ings is looking for a move and will not put much of a dent in the budget. That would still leave them with the option of going back for Haaland next summer.

But if you are Tuchel and knowing how trophies, especially the Premier League and Champions League, are key to your long-term future, are you going to be happy with a short-term solution in the hope of something better to work with later down the line? A player like Ings has a lot of talent, but there are question marks over what he can do under pressure at the highest level, as with other lower-priced names on the market.

Abramovich has shown in the past with the expensive purchases of strikers Fernando Torres (£50 million in January 2011) and Alvaro Morata (£60 million after pre-season had begun in 2017) that he has the spending power to get things done late in a transfer window.

The club clearly has a decision to make over whether to stick or twist over Haaland and it is not straightforward. Tuchel will be taking a keen interest. Under Abramovich, Chelsea have always been about the here and now and not even a European Cup win can save you from bad results. Just ask Roberto Di Matteo.

[Tomo 21,733]

6 hours ago, Vybz Kartel said:

I would bin Mendy for Donnurama if we are given the opportunity. Mendy is solid but Donnurama is world class. Mendy was solid for us but he still has his flaws that showed up now and again last season. 

Apart from penalties what exactly has been his flaws?