Chelsea Transfers

[Artandur 939]

Still feels like we should be able to get one of the two

 

[Mário César 1,022]

If they get Kounde 😂🤣

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

32 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

😬

yeah that was what i expected. City, one of the richest clubs in the world, are actually gonna sign a 100x better replacement for the dreg and make a profit in the process. Could not make this up. Absolute amateur hour from our board.

[DDA 9,694]

If City get Gvardiol after selling Ake to us... oh my. 

 

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

Who are City signing that is willing to stay on the bench?

[chelsea_4_eva 1,162]

Ake was their CB4, I dont think the players mentioned above would want that role at City. Laporte and Stones would also not be happy with being CB4.

[Duppy Conqueror 1,494]

The only plus side for me if we signing Ake really is some of us can trawl through our attics for our Gullit wigs and might come across something more valuable.

[LAM09 6,821]

58 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Imagine if we sign Aké and fund their move for the vastly superior Gvardiol who WE should be after. 🤣🤣🤣

Whoever they get will be an upgrade on Ake. 

Edited July 8, 2022 by LAM09

[Pizy 18,480]

8 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

Whoever they get will be an upgrade on Ake. 

Yeah, I just got done watching some footage of him at City from last season and it was VERY underwhelming. He looks like your average PL defender who you’d see at a midtable side. Nothing standout about him at all.

He’s not quick, he’s not physically dominant, he’s just average on the ball, I didn’t really see any passing range or distribution in his highlights so it must not be particularly good.  

I guess we just have to trust Tuchel’s judgement here. 

[Fernando 6,496]

July 8th and nothing. I'm depressed, I'm not going to come back here for a while. 

I wonder if Tuchel will get fed up and leave after a bad season because we didn't help him improve the squad. We just bought duds and more duds. 

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

Just now, Pizy said:

Yeah, I just got done watching some footage of him at City from last season and it was VERY underwhelming. He looks like your average PL defender who you’d see at a midtable side. Nothing standout about him at all.

He’s not quick, he’s not physically dominant, he’s just average on the ball, I didn’t really see any passing range or distribution in his highlights so it must not be particularly good.  

I guess we just have to trust Tuchel’s judgement here. 

That’s what I have been preaching all summer

he is still the exact same player we sold to Bournemouth 

Heard he will have a 77 rating in fifa 23. The fifa players can confirm that is the exact same rating he had on his first non rare gold card in fifa 18. Even the duds at ea have recognised he has not developed one bit. 

[didi007 69]

3 hours ago, Tomo said:

Why such linear thinking? City and Liverpool both brought a player we deemed not good enough at a point we were better and that (unfortunately) didn't go too badly did it?

Did they pay £50m for the player????

[LAM09 6,821]

16 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Yeah, I just got done watching some footage of him at City from last season and it was VERY underwhelming. He looks like your average PL defender who you’d see at a midtable side. Nothing standout about him at all.

He’s not quick, he’s not physically dominant, he’s just average on the ball, I didn’t really see any passing range or distribution in his highlights so it must not be particularly good.  

I guess we just have to trust Tuchel’s judgement here. 

I have no idea how big of a bearing HG quota plays nowadays, but aside from that aspect, it seems like we're almost buying him for the sake of it. It's highly unlikely he'll improve, so we have to be content with the player he is now.

Koulibaly should have always been our number one CB target when assessing the available options this summer. I guess there's still time for things to change, though.   

8 minutes ago, didi007 said:

Did they pay £50m for the player????

De Bruyne cost €76.00m

Edited July 8, 2022 by LAM09

[Magic Lamps 11,677]

7 minutes ago, didi007 said:

Did they pay £50m for the player????

Tha's not even the question.

Did they buy a washed up 27 year old who has not played regularly for years and has not developed at all?

Salah and KDB were always good players, sold bc of a short-term manager and who made great progress as players. They were signed before entering their peak years and put in a system tailor made for them. Nothing of this holds for ake

[Mário César 1,022]

 

bad news...

[Pizy 18,480]

Still have no clue how Barca are paying for Dembele’s wages, adding Raphinha’s wages on top of his huge transfer fee, potentially adding Lewa’s wages on top of huge transfer fee, want Azpi + Alonso who are on big wages, and then also want Koundé who will be on big wages + big transfer fee.

For a club up to their eyeballs in debt and begging their current players to slash their wages. Economic “levers” or not, it’s all so fishy.

[didi007 69]

10 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Tha's not even the question.

Did they buy a washed up 27 year old who has not played regularly for years and has not developed at all?

Salah and KDB were always good players, sold bc of a short-term manager and who made great progress as players. They were signed before entering their peak years and put in a system tailor made for them. Nothing of this holds for ake

That's my point. Why pay £50m for a fourth choice player like Ake when you can buy Koulibaly for €30m. 

[Mário César 1,022]

we will offer money to city and they will buy a better center back than ake

no words about it

I prefer not to thinking about how we will help them