Chelsea Transfers

[Vesper 29,165]

38 minutes ago, Strike said:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/video/2021/aug/31/best-football-transfer-announcements-summer-2021-batman-gta-home-alone-video

Some of these announcements are hilarious.

Buffon was awesome, and LOLOLOLL at Bats

if his play was as good as his theatre and social media, we would have had THREE Ballon d'Or candidates, roflmaoooooooo

[Strike 7,284]

10 minutes ago, Vesper said:

did you expect them to toss together a BAFTA winner in 25 minutes?

lolol

that loan almost collapsed 15 times in last 2 days

at least something not generic and with a sense of humor? Chelsea's social media game is pretty rigid

[Vesper 29,165]

Just now, Strike said:

at least something not generic and with a sense of humor? Chelsea's social media game is pretty rigid

not if given half a chance

we simply did not have the time yet to make a great announcement video yet

perhaps they do it today

look at our kit videos the past several seasons

they are so so so good

as good as the kits are bad (well some were good)

 

 

 

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

2 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

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Italians appear to be reluctant to come to England tho in general. Only Jorginho and Emerson were here and they are basically Brazilian. 
Some get home sick easily and never really perform that well out of their homeland. 

[Johnnyeye 7,454]

how do you guys rate this transfer window? 0-10 and why? Cheers fellow Chelsea supporters  

[Vesper 29,165]

12 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Italians appear to be reluctant to come to England tho in general. Only Jorginho and Emerson were here and they are basically Brazilian. 
Some get home sick easily and never really perform that well out of their homeland. 

they are reluctant to go anywhere

no superpower football nation so holds onto their best players like Italy does

the only clubs atm who have any of their top 25 (MV) players and are not in Italy are PSG and us

and I want to take all 3 of the top who are still there, those are my 3 top targets for next summer

I would so settle for Barella, Chiesa and then forget Bastoni (as Inter will not sell them BOTH in the same window) and I guess go for the dwarf, it Tuchel and board think Kounde is their man, plus Aurélien Tchouaméni (although I also think we are still obsessed with Rice)

We are already (if Anjorin is purchased in January) £70m in the black, and STILL have more players to sell in the coming windows, at least £130m worth or so, inclusive of the 5 dregs we are stuck with plus those ones out on loan) and that is NOT counting possible sales like CHO, or Ziyech, Puli (obviously Chiesa in would mean we sell at least one winger) Alonso, or Kepa, etc

so a possible £200m war chest or even much higher if we dump 26 man squad players

Barella, Chiesa, Kounte, Tcho would cost around £290m (plus we might buy Saul perm, which might mean no Barella just yet, until we see what happens with Kante and Jorginho down the road, I can wait for Barella another year (so 2023) if that all happens)

Chiesa will be INSANELY hard to pull, as will Barella, but we need to shoot for the moon. The last one I would add to the target mix is, as always, Theo for LB, once we dump Alonso. Now that Spinazzola is likely done as top notch player (and he is 30 next season anyway) plus with Nuno Mendes now at PSG, Theo is it for LB's of true quality atm. We obviously do not rate Gosens, nor Raphaël Guerreiro (and he turns 29yo next season).

#	Player	Age	Nat.	club	Market value
1	Federico Chiesa Right Winger	23			£63.00m
2	Nicolò Barella Central Midfield	24			£58.50m
3	Gianluigi Donnarumma Goalkeeper	22			£58.50m
4	Alessandro Bastoni Centre-Back	22			£54.00m
5	Marco Verratti Central Midfield	28			£49.50m
6	Lorenzo Insigne Left Winger	30			£43.20m
7	Jorginho Defensive Midfield	29			£40.50m
8	Lorenzo Pellegrini Central Midfield	25			£36.00m
9	Nicolò Zaniolo Attacking Midfield	22			£36.00m
10	Ciro Immobile Centre-Forward	31			£34.20m
11	Andrea Belotti Centre-Forward	27			£31.50m
12	Domenico Berardi Right Winger	27			£31.50m
13	Manuel Locatelli Defensive Midfield	23			£31.50m
14	Moise Kean Centre-Forward	21			£31.50m
15	Matteo Politano Right Winger	28			£27.00m
16	Gianluca Mancini Centre-Back	25			£27.00m
17	Sandro Tonali Defensive Midfield	21			£24.30m
18	Leonardo Spinazzola Left-Back	28			£23.40m
19	Alessio Romagnoli Centre-Back	26			£22.50m
20	Davide Calabria Right-Back	24			£22.50m
21	Giovanni Di Lorenzo Right-Back	28			£21.60m
22	Manuel Lazzari Right Midfield	27			£18.90m
23	Alessio Cragno Goalkeeper	27			£18.00m
24	Alex Meret Goalkeeper	24			£18.00m
25	Gaetano Castrovilli Central Midfield	24			£18.00m

 

 

[Alabama 1,992]

Barely ship has sailed...The club is playing waiting game for Rice...Am inclined to see how Lacroix develops whether we can try for Kounde in January or in the summer or not...as Lacroix has that little bit of grit tailor made for the premier league in him....

[Vesper 29,165]

2 minutes ago, Johnnyeye said:

how do you guys rate this transfer window? 0-10 and why? Cheers fellow Chelsea supporters  

8 out of 10

as we spent £100m, and (provided Anjorin is purchased in January) brought in around £170m

Obviously DMF and CB went a-begging, BUT Saul can help the MF immensely, and we got super lucky with the rise of Trevoh. We can by a CB next year.

Rom and Saul are massive players, both in quality, and filling in a need.

We still need to somehow loan out or sell the 5 dregs (4 if you leave RLC in the main side mix) especially Barkley and Sarr. Not worried much about Musonda and Baker.

 

[Vesper 29,165]

Duncan Castles, what a plonker.

He said over and over that Aurelien Tchouameni was in the bag for Manure.

So many of these frauds exposed this window need to be stricken from ALL sites.

[Vesper 29,165]

David Squires on … Cristiano loyalty, Daniel Levy and transfer silly season

Our resident cartoonist on the thrill of transfer deadline day, PSG (the absolute LADS) and Michy Batshuayi in a cape

Edited September 1, 2021 by Vesper

[Alabama 1,992]

Sarr will get a club from Turkey...maybe a championship team can gamble on Barkley...

[DH1988 1,325]

Chiesa next summer would be the dream signing for me. 

[OhForAGreavsie 5,900]

2 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

Italians appear to be reluctant to come to England tho in general. Only Jorginho and Emerson were here and they are basically Brazilian. 
Some get home sick easily and never really perform that well out of their homeland. 

That is a point now that you come to mention it. Maybe we need to get agent Gianfranco on it.

[Milan 17,872]

3 hours ago, Strike said:

at least something not generic and with a sense of humor? Chelsea's social media game is pretty rigid

This is probably the closest you can get 😄

Romelu returns and Saul gets the call

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/09/01/Chelsea-transfer-news--the-blues--signings--outgoings-and-loan-m

[Pizy 18,511]

I absolutely think we’ll go back in for Koundé. Maybe even in January depending on the health of our CB’s at the time.

And he was almost certainly being targeted as a RCB not a LCB. He will be viewed as the long term replacement for Azpi and would’ve slotted in perfectly there.

Our issue now could be that there could be more suitors going forward whereas we had a free run at him this summer.

[milka 3,358]

 Chelsea have  good relationship with Atletico Madrid last years so this probably played a big role in finalizing the Saul deal .

We have done so many business with them recent years .

Sevilla on the other hands  ,are full of shit . They did the same bullshit with Dani Alves to us in 2007 . NEVER FORGET .

 

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

Can we stop whining about losing out on Kounde? The club was 100% to pull the plug after Sevilla got cocky.

We might have dodged a huge bullet here, apart from his diminutive stature he has other red flags which i would have loathed to see at the club, so I can't deny that getting Saul but missing out on Kounde was my absolute dream scenario for deadline day.

Next year there will be better (and taller) CBs available again for less money. I really hope the club and TT widen their horizon about the cb options on the market.

[Tomo 21,733]

The obsession of physicality and height over technique is what caused us to have a few years of 'transition' in the first place.