Chelsea Transfers

[ZAPHOD2319 4,487]

This thread is seriously lacking transfer news. Starting to think nothing is in the works.

[Styl1994 188]

26 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

Every club is looking to always strengthen, I don't believe in the idea of the board being content.

But give us some insight then into who we should buy to strengthen and why/how they could strengthen us. It's boring hearing this statement on here constantly and across social media without people providing realistic suggestions.

Take Haaland out of the equation, name me a realistically attainable striker who will strengthen us?

Is there a specialist wing back out there that can significantly improve on Chilwell and James?

Is there a midfielder who can improve on Kante and Jorginho?

If we want to strengthen our "strongest XI" then the pool of players shrinks significantly. Or by strengthen are you happy with a couple of squad players so long as we've been seen to spend some money, back the manager and appease a fan base who have become too accustomed to having it all now?

We are not going to sign Haaland next summer do you think we can compete with the 500-600k Madrid will offer next summer. 

[YorkshireBlue 3,122]

The problem with this window i find personally is... most of the transfers we actually get are in the news for weeks.. its a constant barrage of stories of players we do end up actually signing. Now this window is basically just one player we are hearing reports on. But none of these reports haven't once said we are close like we get normally, so I do genuinely believe there isn't much going on at all??? What do u all think? 

[NikkiCFC 7,955]

1 hour ago, Styl1994 said:

Jorginho was our top scorer in the league ffs

Crazy that Vlahovic last night in 35 mins scored more goals than any Chelsea player in 38 games full season 😂

[Superblue 6,370]

15 minutes ago, Styl1994 said:

We are not going to sign Haaland next summer do you think we can compete with the 500-600k Madrid will offer next summer. 

How exactly does that answer anything I posted?

[milka 3,347]

Peter Crouch 

 

[Superblue 6,370]

1 hour ago, MoroccanBlue said:

I'd like us to go with a back 4 against these low block types but yet again lies the issue of no recognisable DM in the team. 

I do wonder whether this is the reason for the links to Rice.

I think in our current system, he's too defensive and not technical enough but in a back 4 he does become a possible option to shield the defence and in doing so add an extra attacker to the side.

[Laylabelle 9,359]

Can see it being another one of those nothing windows.. then be ooooh things have gone wrong. I dont think we have it in us to win the league.. hopefully proven wrong...see what occurs I guess.

[Alabama 1,992]

The negativity here is surprisingly astonishing....

[Magic Lamps 11,655]

4 minutes ago, Alabama said:

The negativity here is surprisingly astonishing....

that does sound tautological.

Pretty much given up on the legaue. but i am fine if we collect the cups we have to win anyway and maybe add one of the domestic. ending the season with 2 or 3 small trophies would be fine. we need to maintaint our momentum and continue winning finals again. The squad is still young and will get better. It is not a huge number of signings we need. If  the baord feels we can't get the necessary quality i am fine with signing no one at all and wait tille the market is more accomodating. what is frustrating is that there were some quality moves possible and we were not involved.

[Tomo 21,733]

I love how people are so closed minded to the prospect of our attacking signings improving in their second season but (going by the mass sucking off of United cause of their "great business") also seem convinced Sancho who is signed from the same league is going to smash it straight away. 

[Magic Lamps 11,655]

Just now, Tomo said:

I love how people are so closed minded to the prospect of our attacking signings improving in their second season but (going by the mass sucking off of United cause of their "great business") also seem convinced Sancho who is signed from the same league is going to smash it straight away. 

tbf Sancho is a lot more talented than werner and i expect him to acclimatize quite well with him being English but I can not see ziyech, kai and timo not improving. Kai quite visibly turned a corner with his CL winner IMO, he was our best player at the euros. Timo can't hardly have worse luck he just needs to keep trying and Ziyech, well, he should still be fine as a back up.

But the main problem is that there are areas we nee to improve in where we can not bank on the 2nd season effect...

[Tomo 21,733]

2 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

tbf Sancho is a lot more talented than werner and i expect him to acclimatize quite well with him being English but I can not see ziyech, kai and timo not improving. Kai quite visibly turned a corner with his CL winner IMO, he was our best player at the euros. Timo can't hardly have worse luck he just needs to keep trying and Ziyech, well, he should still be fine as a back up.

But the main problem is that there are areas we nee to improve in where we can not bank on the 2nd season effect...

Okay but on the same token, why are so many people banking on Sancho coming in and smashing it straight away? 

Speaking strictly for next season I bet Kai scores more.

[Azul 1,615]

5 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

How much game time Billy had? 

Gallagher or someone else can easily cover that role in the stands. 

If anything now with Jorginho and Kante being ballon d'or candidates and Kova doing good they established their place in team even further. 

Even if we sign guy from Monaco for example he would struggle to get game time. 

I'm not saying that if Billy stayed that we would not have needed a DM, we were still linked with midfielders last summer and in January too. With all due respect Gallagher is average and not on our level. 

You're under the impression that we are fine with three midfielders but in a full season, with Club World Cup coming up, we need the luxury to be able to rotate. We only have Kante that's a ball winning midfielder, we need someone with the same skillset as a back up. The reason why Billy didn't get game time is because it's a huge stepdown to use him instead of Jorgi, Kova or Kante, we've only used Billy when they were suspended or injured. A full season is unpredictable and to be honest we were very lucky with injuries in midfield last season, seeing as they weren't injured a lot.

Saying that 3 midfielders is enough for a system that requires 2 midfielders, is crazy. Why? Because we're competing for the League Cup, FA CUP, Premier League, Champions League and Club World Cup. That's 5 competitions! Look at what happened to Liverpool, Leicester and many other teams last season..... you need depth especially in a club that competes for so many competitions.

[MoroccanBlue 5,306]

4 minutes ago, Tomo said:

I love how people are so closed minded to the prospect of our attacking signings improving in their second season but (going by the mass sucking off of United cause of their "great business") also seem convinced Sancho who is signed from the same league is going to smash it straight away. 

- United scored the 2nd most goals in the league and had the 3rd best conversion rate. They are now adding Sancho who's been a proven goal creator for 3 seasons now. 

- We were 13th in goals scored and had the 16th best conversion rate since Tuchel's appointment. We added no one to reinforce our attack/midfield. 

This isn't about being 'closed minded'. It is about assessing risk. It isn't being closed minded to think United, based on the statistics/facts above, are in a less riskier situation than we are. 

 

[Azul 1,615]

14 minutes ago, Tomo said:

I love how people are so closed minded to the prospect of our attacking signings improving in their second season but (going by the mass sucking off of United cause of their "great business") also seem convinced Sancho who is signed from the same league is going to smash it straight away. 

Even if our players all hit form, we still need a classic number 9 and a DM. Most of us are disappointed with the lack of activity, especially after winning the CL. Now is the moment to strengthen our squad.

[NikkiCFC 7,955]

I expect Havertz to score 40+goals next season. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,306]

Here's a question, has there ever been a time where a club that won the league or CL, did nothing in the summer, and continued on to be just as or even more successful the following season?