Chelsea Transfers

[Jype 6,398]

19 minutes ago, Kong said:

What is this? to me thats just a young un in a Chelsea shirt, and then at the bottom stevie wonders had a go on a keyboard.

That's Wesley Fofana with a Chelsea shirt when he was a kid. No idea what the caption says but apparently the picture was uploaded to social media by someone who's friends with Fofana.

Edited July 27, 2022 by Jype

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

31 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

 

I dont get it. 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,182]

26 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

 

Wonder how much...

[Jype 6,398]

Just now, chelsea_4_eva said:

Wonder how much...

€50+10M apparently. That's 5 mill less than our offer,

[Pizy 18,928]

Masterful business from Sevilla. In two straight summer transfer windows they strung us along only to eventually sell their best player to a league rival for a significantly lower fee than what we offered. And won’t even receive the money all up front from a club who could be royally fucked within the next few years.

Boehly should make a point to never deal with Sevilla again. Shouldn’t even pick up the phone.

[Clockwork 1,794]

1 hour ago, Superblue_1986 said:

Liverpool hit a goldmine to be honest with the perfect mix of a world class coach and a sporting director who understood his manager and could perfectly identify targets for him.

It'll be interesting to see what happens with both moving forward separately.

Klopp is clearly world class but it shouldn't be forgotten that it took key signings to make everything knit together for his team. Can he sustain those levels over the next few years working with a different sporting director to identify the longer term replacements for a number of players who are now the wrong side of 30.

Similarly is Michael Edwards work overhyped because he had one of the best coaches around to make use of the players he was identifying. Can he go to a different team with a different coach and build similar magic over a sustained period.

Imo Klopp has nothing to prove, he has taken two clubs to their peak. Liverpool is overarching, if they can maintain this it would be remarkable. 

I consider Klopp to be the best manager in the world, I am with @Henrique when Klopp leaves Pool they will fall off drastically. If Pep leaves City, they would still be equally dangerous because they have money.

[MoroccanBlue 5,383]

10 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Masterful business from Sevilla. In two straight summer transfer windows they strung us along only to eventually sell their best player to a league rival for a significantly lower fee than what we offered. And won’t even receive the money all up front from a club who could be royally fucked within the next few years.

Boehly should make a point to never deal with Sevilla again. Shouldn’t even pick up the phone.

Sevilla fans are furious with Monchi. 

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

12 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Sevilla fans are furious with Monchi. 

Well yeah it's crazy absolutely crazy 

[LAM09 7,056]

15 hours ago, Vesper said:

Kane turns 30yo in exactly 1 year He was born on July 28, 1993, but you are legally the new age on the day before your birthday as you have completed the full 365 day (366 if a leap year) year (it is July 27th, 2022 now as I type)

so next season is his last chance for a huge deal, as he will demand 5 years and post age 34 (and maybe 34yo as well) I expect him to be fairly spent, I do not see him as a Zlatan/Benz/Lewa/CR7 type who will still be WC at 34, 35, 36

if he waits till he can leave on a free (2024) he would be 34 and 35 in the last 2 years of a 5 year deal

I do admit, I might be wrong and Kane stays top class into his 35th year, stranger things have happened, and a slower, less brutal non-EPL league may well suit him and strikers (ex Zlatan, CR7, granted those two are a few in a century genetic freaks, like Maldini and maybe very soon Thiago) and GKers (ex Buffon, Dino Zoff) and registas (ex Modric, Pirlo) are the 3 positions who generally age the best

He's had niggling injuries throughout his career that have kept him out for a number of months at a time, so I'm sure they will eventually get the better of him & he won't have the longevity of some players, as you alluded to.

[Last Sicarius 610]

Broke Barcelona just did tranfers for almost 200m this summer. And also has new players to salary. How much of their goods they sold to do that? Incredible for me.

Back to our case: Berrardi and Fofana would be a nice deal for us in current situation. And get some cheap back up for James.

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[LAM09 7,056]

4 hours ago, chelsea_4_eva said:

I just hope that moving forward, we only sign players who are technically good on the ball. I cannot take anymore of these professional football players with little technical skill.

Haven't we been doing that? 

Kepa was meant to be superb with the ball. How's that working out?

4 hours ago, Pizy said:

It just feels like we’re going into the season super undercooked at the moment. Spuds, Arse, and United haven’t made any spectacular signings or anything but they’ve all improved significantly on paper.

How exactly have United "improved significantly"?

They bought a relatively unknown Dutch youngster, their two best players have left/want to leave & they've bought Blind 2.0   

2 hours ago, Clockwork said:

Say what you say is true. Gotze was phenomenal under Klopp, Salah was a flop at Chelsea and was nothing special in Serie A. Who knows how Pulisic would have been under Klopp. If Klopp leaves Pool they will go back to fighting 4-6.

Salah was involved in 13 goals in 26 games whilst on loan at Fiorentina and 56 goals in 81 games at Roma. If that's "nothing special" in your book, I'm not sure what to say.

Edited July 27, 2022 by LAM09

[MoroccanBlue 5,383]

Feel like its a now or never with Fofana. 

Going to be multiple suitors next summer. 

[milka 3,393]

Mendy

Fofana-----Silva----Koulibaly

James---De Jong--Kovacic/Kante----Chilwell

Mount---Havertz----Sterling

This looking optimal at this stage .

[chelsea_4_eva 1,182]

27 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

Haven't we been doing that? 

Kepa was meant to be superb with the ball. How's that working out?

I meant more for the outfield players. Wont be as important for keepers.

We have hits and misses tbh... and its a shame that some of those misses cost us a lot of money.. its just one thing that should be taken into consideration in the future.

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

14 minutes ago, chelsea_4_eva said:

I meant more for the outfield players. Wont be as important for keepers.

We have hits and misses tbh... and its a shame that some of those misses cost us a lot of money.. its just one thing that should be taken into consideration in the future.

All players have technical ability otherwise they wouldn't be footballers its bascally one of thee hardest things in the world to become. Now clearly some are better than others, have different traits etc etc etc but and this is a big but not all these "big name" players will be right for us just like they might not be right for Pep klopp etc. Now there is no 1 in the world that can tell me there is absolutely nothing out there, nothing nada zipppp, that's horse shit. The amount of talent out there is incredible we just need the right some 1 to find it!!!!

[Clockwork 1,794]

@LAM09

Girvinho at one point was tearing it up at Roma too. Salah has incredibly exceeded expectations at Pool, his first season at Pool he scored more goals than his entire time in Serie A. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,383]

35 minutes ago, milka said:

Mendy

Fofana-----Silva----Koulibaly

James---De Jong--Kovacic/Kante----Chilwell

Mount---Havertz----Sterling

This looking optimal at this stage .

Probably the best we can realistically achieve. Still need wingback depth however. 

 

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

9 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

@LAM09

Girvinho at one point was tearing it up at Roma too. Salah has incredibly exceeded expectations at Pool, his first season at Pool he scored more goals than his entire time in Serie A. 

Due to klopp he improved an already brilliant player. Players don't just turn good or bad 90% is confidence in yourself and your managers. Werner for example was brilliant came here started bad and he's never got his confidence back and he never will here, it's a shame but his time is done here, he will move on and bag aload of goals.