Chelsea Transfers

[laura90 556]

On 10/06/2022 at 13:54, Pizy said:

Looks like Tuchel could’ve taken that holiday after all. Jack shit happening at the moment.

Why wouldn't he? We will spend entire summer trying to offload Donkeyaku just like we spent entire last summer selling our youngsters to get the funds to buy him.

This club is becoming some kind of parody. On the official you tube page there is video about Havertz - Chelsea's main man. After splashing 100+85 mill on Donkeyaku's fee and wages year before, Havertz is our main man. What's wrong with that picture? 

Message to  Donkeyaku perhaps, but what is it for - no way we are offloading Donkeyaku without taking major financial loss. We will just have pleasure of having him far playing for other club while still paying his wages and transfer fee. 

Donkeyaku came here to get his pay increase Inter chairman refused to offer him,  and to come back. His plan is running smoothly.

And people still argue if this is the worst transfer ever. Not only at Chelsea, in entire football history.

 

Sterling? God no. He will become championship player here. Lukaku wibes.

Jesus. No. He will be at least three times less affective here than at City. 

Unless we sort out that midfield  we stand no chance.  Midfield still main priority. Nothing has changed from the last season. In fact it has. We need new defence too. 

Edited June 11, 2022 by laura90

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

Yeah all will be for nothing unless midfield is sorted. 

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

4 hours ago, Fernando said:

While we spent 100 on donkey. 

Good value for this one. And if it don't work out they can sell. 

We are stuck with donkey. I hope whoever did this deal gets sacked. 

Donkey surely one of our worst signings

Even if he had performed, to his inter level, which still would have been just around 20 non-pen goals this was a terrible deal. Which is why half the forum was up in arms about the price tag.

But while Darwin is a better value for money signing, I just do not see it. Many players had decent scoring seasons in portugal. Luis Diaz looked like an absolute beast and wasno surprise at all he made an instant impact at pool

but i took some time to watch Darwin's highlight reel and while that is no indication of a player being good enough, most of his best actions do not look that impressive. he rarely makes clean contact with the ball for his goals, a lot of scrappy moves and scruffy goals. A ton of pens. Terrible defending and goalkeeping involved. A small number of very nice finishes tho  but most are either very easy ones on empty goals or 1 on 1 with the goalie. Sure our strikers are proficient at fucking those up as well but you would expect a 100m to make the basics right. The Uruguayan Calvert-Lewin for me. Decent but would not bat an eye to pass up on him even if we had not signed the donkey for 100m.

[lucio 5,418]

Is Dybala bad these days ? He’s free 

[Hashishi 148]

I seriously hope that I'd we don't sign a DM we start to transition James into midfield. He made Alonso look good when he played there and the team is naturally more balanced. Would need a new RB but I have faith in the academy to provide another Livra.

[Blues11 213]

5 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Yeah all will be for nothing unless midfield is sorted. 

Agreed. The creativity from our midfield is horrendous. We literally have to play a certain way to cater to them because they can't hold up the ball on their own or work out of a press...

To me our #1 priority. 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

2 hours ago, lucio said:

Is Dybala bad these days ? He’s free 

There is a reason why Juve didn't extend him.

[Special Juan 27,499]

Expecting some happenings with Kounde this week

[Hashishi 148]

1 hour ago, Special Juan said:

Expecting some happenings with Kounde this week

Please no.

[DDA 9,701]

43 minutes ago, Hashishi said:

Please no.

What do you mean please no... it's happening wether you like it or not.

[YorkshireBlue 3,127]

1 hour ago, Hashishi said:

Please no.

Do you even know why you don't like kounde? Or isit just the fact he's not In your ultimate team? 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[Superblue 6,372]

Huge risk/reward signing for Liverpool.

One good season in Portugal, it's difficult to really assess where his level is at. 

It's easy to say at least he's young so he'll have a resale value to him but for that price he'll likely be joining on some very good wages too which will price him back out of leagues like Portugal in the future if it doesn't work out. We've seen ourselves with someone like Bakayoko how hard a player is to shift from a big transfer fee and wages if they prove to be a bust.

At least what Liverpool can probably do is allow him time to settle in, similar to what they did with Fabinho who looked nothing more than a pub player initially until he adapted to the league and the way Liverpool play. Klopp will only leave there when he's ready to, so Nunez can be confident he'll be given the time and support to do everything to make it work.

It'll be interesting though to see how Liverpool rebuild. That front 3 was a vital element of their fear factor and I think in particular if they lose Mane this, and then Salah next summer that is a lot of goals to replenish, especially from players who aren't strikers. Diaz looks a really good player but I'm not sure he'll hit numbers like Mane and Salah do so I can understand the feeling and need to bring someone like Nunez in. We'll see if he can play that focal role as well as Firmino and Jota have in the past. 

I do think though on paper losing Mane for Nunez makes Liverpool currently weaker.

[Mário César 1,037]

jesus christ 

makes grealish and lukaku cheapers transfers lol

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

34 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

Huge risk/reward signing for Liverpool.

One good season in Portugal, it's difficult to really assess where his level is at. 

It's easy to say at least he's young so he'll have a resale value to him but for that price he'll likely be joining on some very good wages too which will price him back out of leagues like Portugal in the future if it doesn't work out. We've seen ourselves with someone like Bakayoko how hard a player is to shift from a big transfer fee and wages if they prove to be a bust.

At least what Liverpool can probably do is allow him time to settle in, similar to what they did with Fabinho who looked nothing more than a pub player initially until he adapted to the league and the way Liverpool play. Klopp will only leave there when he's ready to, so Nunez can be confident he'll be given the time and support to do everything to make it work.

It'll be interesting though to see how Liverpool rebuild. That front 3 was a vital element of their fear factor and I think in particular if they lose Mane this, and then Salah next summer that is a lot of goals to replenish, especially from players who aren't strikers. Diaz looks a really good player but I'm not sure he'll hit numbers like Mane and Salah do so I can understand the feeling and need to bring someone like Nunez in. We'll see if he can play that focal role as well as Firmino and Jota have in the past. 

I do think though on paper losing Mane for Nunez makes Liverpool currently weaker.

yeah not sold on Nunez as alluded above.

Even if Diaz continues to shine, Darwin continues his development and Jota looking competent, that will never be the same level as their attack with Salah and Mane. While they clearly have  a better scouting department than we do and thus will continue to make decent purchases but they will not strike gold again like they did with salah and mane anytime soon.

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

11 hours ago, Blues11 said:

Agreed. The creativity from our midfield is horrendous. We literally have to play a certain way to cater to them because they can't hold up the ball on their own or work out of a press...

To me our #1 priority. 

Think we need a DM more than anything. 

[Marvin123 486]

“I am told Chelsea are in negotiations with Koulibaly’s agent speaking about the deal. 

Chelsea are happy with Napoli’s valuation. This is all on what the player decides to do, but he’s open to joining Chelsea.” 

- @siphillipssport https://t.co/jha7j1PfHf

[Strike 7,278]

40 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

yeah not sold on Nunez as alluded above.

Even if Diaz continues to shine, Darwin continues his development and Jota looking competent, that will never be the same level as their attack with Salah and Mane. While they clearly have  a better scouting department than we do and thus will continue to make decent purchases but they will not strike gold again like they did with salah and mane anytime soon.

Their scouting department would never land on Lukaku and Saul as summer signings. We have to be cautious about looking forward to their downfall even if they lose Mane and Salah. Even in 2020-21 their worst season in Klopp's tenure, they finished above Chelsea.