Chelsea Transfers

[Vesper 29,123]

 

[manpe 10,861]

1 hour ago, Vegetable said:

What about midfield situation? Tchouameni obviously waved us goodbye, links with SMS last since forever and we are still potentially stuck with erratic Jorghi, erratic Kova and Kante or rather potential absence of Kante. Are we counting on RLC and Gilmour to step up? Didn't see any interesting gossip here.

We can count Mount in the mix also and potentially Gallagher. If we sign both Sterling and Raphinha then I think there is a good chance we are going 4-3-3/4-2-3-1 next season and the only place for Mason in that formation is in the middle. We have plenty of good midfielders on our roster, a good mix between youth and experience, but the problem being that none of them is a DMF we need. We will have numbers and quality, but not necessarily the balance. I'm afraid we'll continue to see inconsistent performances from our midfield next season - they will run rings around some teams and will be overrun by others due to not having an out-and-out DMF.

RLC, Barkley and Gilmour will surely be off-loaded if there are any willing takers. Don't think we can count on them.

Survive the upcoming season and then go for our obvious nr. 1 target Declan Rice. It would be nice to one day have an all-English midfield of Rice, Mount and Gallagher. 😁

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

Are we still not after the Portuguese fella? Think he will provide some reassurance if we move to a back 4. 

[nathangeorge99 27]

Thoughts on this?

https://www.90min.com/posts/Chelsea-alerted-to-potential-dayot-upamecano-availability/amp

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

Good thing Graeme Bailey isn't reliable. 

[Mário César 1,021]

 

 

 

 

[Blue Armour 4,324]

40 minutes ago, Vesper said:

 

Ridiculous if true. 

That is, if we actually fund them to get an even better CB to fill their squad, when we sign someone barely fit enough to be a squad option.

I also don't buy the Rudiger and Christensen improvement argument. They suffered mainly because of Lampards system, and they looked better after Tuchel changed it.

Tuchel couldn't work wonders with Saar, and I doubt he's going to make Ake grow an extra pair of wings. 

Steer clear of Ake, and put everything on a quality CB., even if it's only the one CB we end up signing. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

Let's be real, neither Kounde or Gvardiol would come to City to get Ake minutes. 

They'll sign neither. 

[Mário César 1,021]

Why not spend a little more money and buy Kounde? 

[Blue Armour 4,324]

In other news, PSG are on the verge of making an improved offer for Skriniar to Inter.

Not sure why we never even tried to make a bid here. Especially after the big favor we did Inter, your would think we would at least try to take advantage.

It's like there's no real plan B for the deLigt bid failing.

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

1 minute ago, Blue Armour said:

In other news, PSG are on the verge of making an improved offer for Skriniar to Inter.

Not sure why we never even tried to make a bid here. Especially after the big favor we did Inter, your would think we would at least try to take advantage.

It's like there's no real plan B for the deLigt bid failing.

It's been rather quite on the CB front. (Bar Ake)

Feel we will know more this week. 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

46 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Are we still not after the Portuguese fella? Think he will provide some reassurance if we move to a back 4. 

Nunes? he isn't a DM.

[Vesper 29,123]

33 minutes ago, nathangeorge99 said:

Thoughts on this?

https://www.90min.com/posts/Chelsea-alerted-to-potential-dayot-upamecano-availability/amp

he is shit

said it years ago

saying it now

[Mário César 1,021]

 

At least we will not go to our rivals 

[MoroccanBlue 5,320]

6 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

Nunes? he isn't a DM.

Who is nowadays? Phillips really the only natural one. 
 

Think Tuchel wants a double pivot with two box to box central midfielders with defensive attributes, ala Rice and Nunes. 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,162]

I mean Todd is smart right? He is a businessman... He wouldnt help fund a competitor right?

[Blues Forever 1,232]

12 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Who is nowadays? Phillips really the only natural one. 
 

Think Tuchel wants a double pivot with two box to box central midfielders with defensive attributes, ala Rice and Nunes. 

We probably won't sign any unless either Jorginho or Kante leave. The DMs pool aside from Rice also pretty underwhelming.

Edited July 10, 2022 by Blues Forever

[Vesper 29,123]

3 hours ago, Hermione said:

Kounde is plan 2 🤮

we are all over the bloody place

fucking buying Ake, we only make Citeh that much stronger

I cannot believe we did not go all out and focus on just TWO CB's now, this summer (and land one)

Skriniar

or

De Ligt

why? (besides the fact they are the 2 best CB's remotely available, and Marquinhos was a pipe dream)

because:

Napoli are fucking gameplayers (KK)

Ronald Araújo renewed with Barca

Niklas Süle went off the board early (and I was never a huge fangirl anyway)

Bremer is simply not in the cards, I see nothing but negative thoughts on him from basically the entire board (TC) and I am picking my battles

Merih Demiral (see Bremer)

Kounde is overrated and Sevilla are also gameplayers, let Barca or Real (or hell, even Citeh or PSG or Bayern or Manure, etc) overpay for him

we missed out on a great young CB (Nico Schlotterbeck) who was, for me, the OBVIOUS AC replacement

Finally, then, this winter, do a precontract for Gvardiol (RB Leipzig loves to do precontracts, and they REALLY do not want to sell him thsi window) for summer 2023

Edited July 10, 2022 by Vesper