Chelsea Transfers

[Strike 7,217]

 

Don't mind Trevoh staying. Shift Koulibaly out or send him on loan. Silva Fofana Badiashile Colwill Chalobah is good enough for the season.

[Strike 7,217]

13 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Has he not been a good squad player these past 2 seasons? Seems fine with his role as well, can also be an emergency RB. 

Given a back 4 is now on the horizon, would've made a lot more sense to part ways with Silva and try and offload Koulibaly. 

The main case for offloading Koulibaly is wages.

Highest earning CBs in the league

Varane 340k/w
Koulibaly 295k/w
Stones 250k/w
Van Dijk 220k/w
W Fofana 200k/w

So many mad decisions in the Todd Boehly summer but this one is near the top of the list.

[Mhsc 876]

Could pull a Barca and tell KK he either goes or moves onto a new contract on reduced wages in line with the other players.

[ulvhedin 507]

21 minutes ago, Mhsc said:

Could pull a Barca and tell KK he either goes or moves onto a new contract on reduced wages in line with the other players.

you don't want to lower yourself to do scummy things like barcelona

[Cosmin 2,484]

1 hour ago, Mhsc said:

Could pull a Barca and tell KK he either goes or moves onto a new contract on reduced wages in line with the other players.

Surely you cannot force playeres into agreeing a new contract on reduced wages.

[Mhsc 876]

Just now, Cosmin said:

Surely you cannot force playeres into agreeing a new contract on reduced wages.

You cannot force them but he can do it if he wants to stay, otherwise find a new club either on loan or a sale. Would imagine he'd leave but you never know.

[ulvhedin 507]

16 minutes ago, Mhsc said:

You cannot force them but he can do it if he wants to stay, otherwise find a new club either on loan or a sale. Would imagine he'd leave but you never know.

We cant sell him if he wont agree to contract with new club (and noone will give him same wages as we)

[LAM09 6,744]

6 hours ago, Clockwork said:

I want to see Havertz under a proper manager who utilizes forwards.

There's really only one position that I can see him flourish in (AMF/SS), but he isn't good enough to have a team/formation cater to his needs. We aren't talking about someone of Hazard's ability or influence here.

[Mário César 975]

how much we can get from him? 50M? 

[Mhsc 876]

1 hour ago, ulvhedin said:

We cant sell him if he wont agree to contract with new club (and noone will give him same wages as we)

In practice we have seen this is not really the case though, players when told to go do go - he would still be a player lots of clubs would want, and he would probably still get extremely good wages somewhere - just not as good as here.

[Reddish-Blue 2,347]

1 hour ago, LAM09 said:

There's really only one position that I can see him flourish in (AMF/SS), but he isn't good enough to have a team/formation cater to his needs. We aren't talking about someone of Hazard's ability or influence here.

He'd flourish under someone like Klopp or even in Bayern's system where they have the players capable of beating the opposition and creating chaos (e.g. Jota, Diaz, Sane, Gnabry, Musiala) and he would be that hybrid AMF.   

[DH1988 1,273]

7 hours ago, Strike said:

 

Don't mind Trevoh staying. Shift Koulibaly out or send him on loan. Silva Fofana Badiashile Colwill Chalobah is good enough for the season.

The regression of Trev was actually shocking but there are so many factors into why the squad were under performing, JT always said the importance of having the old players in the squad to guide the youth in and out of games, fair enough it was a different era but how can you develop IF and I say IF what we are reading about standards, training etc are true. That said, it’s a gamble and I like Poch’s seemingly ruthless decisions early with Felix, let’s be honest, it probably winds Poch up that he’s labelled as a nearly man just as much as anyone else, he knows this is THE opportunity to go a step further than his, begrudgingly admitting, very good Spurs side. 

[whats happening 1,525]

just play havertz once at his best position ffs.

[Vesper 28,796]

7 hours ago, Strike said:

 

Many sources say he's off.

Karim Benzema to leave Real Madrid

https://theathletic.com/4570670/2023/06/01/karim-benzema-real-madrid-transfer/?source=twitteruk

Karim Benzema is leaving Real Madrid after 14 years at the Santiago Bernabeu.

On Tuesday, The Athletic reported that Benzema, 35, had received a lucrative offer from Saudi Arabia with Madrid aware of that proposal and the Frenchman’s decision to leave for several days.

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Several sources from Madrid’s Valdebebas training ground — who asked to remain anonymous to protect their position — said the striker and head coach Carlo Ancelotti held a meeting on Wednesday which was not considered usual or part of the team’s schedule.

These sources all said they expected Benzema to leave after that meeting unless the board could change his mind.

Madrid have not stood in Benzema’s way, despite having renewed his contract until June 2024 earlier this year.

Benzema’s Madrid team-mates knew he had been tempted by the offer from Saudi Arabia for several weeks and he has also asked one of the club’s physios to join him there.

Benzema refused to be drawn on his future when questioned on it at the Marca awards on Thursday evening.

“I’m in Madrid,” he said. “What people talk about is the internet and reality is not the internet.

“At the moment I’m here, I enjoy every day and there’s a game on Sunday.”

Benzema joined Real from Lyon for an initial £30million in 2009 and is Madrid’s second top scorer of all-time with 353 goals in 647 games — behind only Cristiano Ronaldo who has 450 goals in 438 appearances.

He won his first Ballon d’Or last year and has lifted 24 trophies during his time at the club, including four La Liga titles and five Champions League trophies.

Benzema scored a career-best 44 goals in 46 appearances to lead Real to a La Liga-Champions League double last season but he has struggled with muscular problems this campaign.

The Frenchman will receive a hero’s send-off in Madrid’s last game of the season against Athletic Bilbao at the Bernabeu on Sunday (5.30pm BST kick-off).

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“First of all, I think Benzema is a master technician. He can’t be around at the highest level, scoring the number of goals he has, for that number of years, without being brilliant technically.

“He is a brilliant centre-forward. Look at the longevity of him, how long he’s been at Real, how long he’s been scoring goals, who’s been in and gone from Real in that time — and he’s still scoring goals, goals, goals.

“When you look at his goals, there’s something of everything. Finding space at the near post, finding space at the far post, and finding space on the edge of the box. Benzema can do all three.

“He hasn’t slowed down at all. If anything, he’s got better.”

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[LAM09 6,744]

1 hour ago, Reddish-Blue said:

He'd flourish under someone like Klopp or even in Bayern's system where they have the players capable of beating the opposition and creating chaos (e.g. Jota, Diaz, Sane, Gnabry, Musiala) and he would be that hybrid AMF.   

There's no chance he'd flourish at Liverpool; they press from the front from the get-go and don't have passengers, so there wouldn't be any place for Casper in their line up. Bayern, on the other hand, seems like the perfect fit for him for a number of reasons.

[lucio 5,418]

25 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

There's no chance he'd flourish at Liverpool; they press from the front from the get-go and don't have passengers, so there wouldn't be any place for Casper in their line up. Bayern, on the other hand, seems like the perfect fit for him for a number of reasons.

We won the CL playing like that and he played a big part 

[Blue Armour 4,278]

A bit worried that we still don't have any solid links to a striker or any sort of goal scoring central attacker (besides Nkunku)

IMO, transfer departures should wait until Poch comes in and does his own assessment of the squad.

Else would just be the Boehly and Eghbali show all over again.

But transfer arrivals can happen before he comes in.

Maybe we're in this situation all because of FFP, but it's still a crappy situation to be in.

[Pizy 18,368]

So much for Ugarte’s future being sorted by the end of this week like reports said.