Chelsea Transfers

[Pizy 18,850]

Pedro Neto is definitely the sort of player we should be targeting in terms of style. Direct, super skillful, aggressive. Was excellent yesterday against Leeds.

But I’m not seeing us linked anywhere.

[Alabama 1,992]

I hope its true....

Since we miss out on Raphinha...have been hoping we get him....he is the exact profile of player similar to Chiesa we were interested in getting before...

[YorkshireBlue 3,264]

56 minutes ago, Marvin123 said:

Neto (wolves)to Chelsea. It's happening 

U just pluck that out of thin air? 

[Mário César 1,232]

29 minutes ago, Alabama said:

I hope its true....

Since we miss out on Raphinha...have been hoping we get him....he is the exact profile of player similar to Chiesa we were interested in getting before...

Ahh you hope

its differente than Cheslea really make a move for him 

[LAM09 7,043]

2 hours ago, Pizy said:

We have to go for him this week. With as shit as United look with McFred they may very well get spanked by Brentford next weekend 🤣. Then they’ll offer Frenkie £500k a week plus name Old Trafford after him in desperation.

Seriously though, it should be easy enough to speak with his agent and find out whether or not he’d be willing to join us, surely? I would really hope that he was discussed during the Alonso negotiations.

The one constant is that he wants CL football. If that truly is the case, we have nothing to worry about in terms of competition. 

It comes to whether we want him or not.  

1 hour ago, Marvin123 said:

Neto (wolves)to Chelsea. It's happening 

We need players with an actual end product. 

Edited August 7, 2022 by LAM09

[Pizy 18,850]

14 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

The one constant is that he wants CL football. If that truly is the case, we have nothing to worry about in terms of competition. 

It comes to whether we want him or not.  

We need players with an actual end product. 

He can say CL is very important but if for instance we offer him the same ~£300k per week that we gave Sterling whilst United offer him £400k or more he may think that extra cash is more appealing than CL footy.

[LAM09 7,043]

11 minutes ago, Pizy said:

He can say CL is very important but if for instance we offer him the same ~£300k per week that we gave Sterling whilst United offer him £400k or more he may think that extra cash is more appealing than CL footy.

He's not even getting paid at Barcelona and has yet to force a move. I think that says enough.

[Vesper 30,085]

Pedro Neto simply doesn't score nearly enough

hard pass

 

[Nero 1,868]

I prefer Zaha over 33 years old Aubameyang

[JDY 1,290]

3 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

Any idea when the current assessment period ends?

[JDY 1,290]

32 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Pedro Neto simply doesn't score nearly enough

hard pass

 

Missing out on Raphinha is such a huge blow looking back now. I was fairly relaxed about him snubbing us as I thought it meant we'd get Dembele..truly mudded. Can't even see who we'd possibly target who would be nearly as good as either. 😩

[Vesper 30,085]

13 hours ago, JDY said:

Missing out on Raphinha is such a huge blow looking back now. I was fairly relaxed about him snubbing us as I thought it meant we'd get Dembele..truly mudded. Can't even see who we'd possibly target who would be nearly as good as either. 😩

yes!

I cannot believe we missed out on BOTH, ffs

RW is a fairly weak global position, especially left-footers

after Salah, Foden, Saka, and Bernardo Silva (who is a MFer as well)  all 4 of whom are are left footers, there is a large drop off in RWers overall, down to the injured (if he fully recovers he joins the top group) Chiesa (who is a right footer anyway and often plays on the left) and then true RWers Raphinha (left footer, who can also become truly elite) and Moussa Diaby (left footer, same as Raphinha) and Jarrod Bowen (perhaps eleite), then 3 more right footers, Gnabry, Coman, and Rodrygo

 

the ONLY remotely decent left footed (or ambipedal) wingers (not just RW) out there atm are

 

(RWers in bold. and there are, atm only 6 elite left footed RWers out there, plus the ambipedal Dembele)

the ones in red are players I would take (I am listing many who are not even available, like Son and Salah, etc) (I am not even bothering with Messi on the list)

Mohamed Salah 
Phil Foden
Bukayo Saka
Bernardo Silva can play almost anywhere in MF (other than DMF) or on either wing
Moussa Diaby  
Mikel Oyarzabal    plays majority at LW (bad knee injury, not available until summer 2023)
Leroy Sané    plays majority at LW
Raphinha   grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Jarrod Bowen
Dejan Kulusevski  
Riyad Mahrez 

 

big dropoff

Marco Asensio  
Antony  
Domenico Berardi    
Nicolò Zaniolo   
Pedro Neto    plays majority at LW
Charles De Ketelaere
Filip Kostic plays majority at LW/LWB
Michael Olise 
Thomas Lemar 
Nicolás González   plays either wing
Leon Bailey    plays majority at LW
Viktor Tsygankov    
Pablo Sarabia    
Maxwel Cornet   plays majority at LW and LWB  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr 
Noni Madueke    
Bryan Mbeumo 
Romain Faivre
Tetê    
Malcom   
David Neres   
Francisco Trincão   
Samuel Chukwueze
Dwight McNeil   plays majority at LW     
Kayky   
Luiz Henrique  
Ángel Di María   
Giovani    18yo   Palmeiras

 

and 5 ambipedal wingers

Heung-min Son  plays majority at LW
Ousmane Dembélé   grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Rayan Cherki    18, very soon 19yo youth on Lyon, has a BIT of Eden Hazard about him
Lucas Ocampos  plays majority at LW
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia   plays majority at LW 21yo  just joined Napoli or would be red

 

Rayan Cherki

   

Edited August 8, 2022 by Vesper

[Blues11 213]

3 hours ago, JDY said:

Missing out on Raphinha is such a huge blow looking back now. I was fairly relaxed about him snubbing us as I thought it meant we'd get Dembele..truly mudded. Can't even see who we'd possibly target who would be nearly as good as either. 😩

Definitely would have loved Raphina but I can also see why wingers don't want to play in this system. They don't have the same space and leave the width to the wingbacks so you don't have as many chances to take players one on one. Wish we were more diverse offensively depending on the situation and opponent. 

Sterling has experience playing centrally so that was a great pickup. 

Doesn't look like anything will change so we really need a striker before anything else in attack.

[lucio 5,418]

Forgot about ocampos , underrated baller 

[Strike 7,474]

If Werner and CHO are on the way out, then Ziyech's Milan move must be off.