Chelsea Transfers

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2 hours ago, Mário César said:

well newcastle are already not interested in pulisic lol

 

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We should be offering Lukaku to Saudi tbh. Try and get him a similar deal to Kante to turn his head, and get rid of him for good.

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6 minutes ago, Gundalf said:

Why is DeSantis looking like a young Boehly in this picture 😭

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8 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Messi, Alba and Busquets close to Miami. 

Ok, actually Miami is the Florida of football 💀

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27 minutes ago, Gundalf said:

Tbh a lot of signings in the late Roman era have been extremely bad:

• Lukaku
• Saul
• Werner
• Ziyech
• Kepa
• Pulisic
• Sarr
• Higuain (lol)
• Morata
• Bakayoko
• Drinkwater
• Zappacosta
• Emerson

The only good signings in Romans last 5 years at the club are probably: Thiago, Chilly, Kovacic, Jorginho, Rüdiger but thats about it. 

 

We had two moments that greatly hindered the club's evolution.

The first happened in 2010, after winning the EPL, the management didn't know how to renew the squad and we lost the 10/11 championship because of that, since United was weak that year.

It continued in 2011/2012 and culminated with the club's weakest campaign in years, but we had a miracle of winning the Champions League. 

In 2017 our slump began with a horrible transfer market and we are still paying for that mistake today. 

Buying Morata and losing Costa had a lot of impact, as well as losing Matic and buying Bakayoko. 

We missed the UCL that year and the following year we had for example to buy Kepa because Alisson wanted a club that would play in the UCL and went to Liverpool (we are still looking for a goalkeeper today).

Despite so many breakdowns and it hurt to lose so many cup finals, the club once again managed without anticipation to win another Champions League, which helped boost the club's status. However, we again failed to buy Lukaku and many of the signings were poor 

Spending so much money on Havertz and Werner proved to be a failure, like so many others (the worst last year was cucurella). 

On the other hand, City is really strong and it will be difficult to win the Premierleague again. 

It could be years before we win the title again unfortunately. 

 

Edited June 7, 2023 by Mário César

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CIES Football Observatory
n°425 - 06/06/2023

https://football-observatory.com/WeeklyPost425

Values

Transfer values: Haaland takes the lead

Issue number 425 of the Weekly Post presents the top 100 estimated transfer values using the statistical model exclusively developed by the CIES Football Observatory. Manchester City and Premier League top scorer Erling Haaland heads the list with a value of almost €250 million (eventual buy-out clause not considered). Two other footballers under 23 years of age, Vinícius Júnior and Bukayo Saka, who just extended his Arsenal’s contract, complete the podium.

Rumoured close to Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund’s teenager Jude Bellingham is fourth with an estimated value of €190 million (eventual add-ons included as for all players listed). The Englishman outranks Rodrygo Goes and the FC Barcelona’s duo Pedri González and Pablo Gavi (assuming that the registration of his contract until 2026 will be effective). Jamal Musiala, Phil Foden and Kylian Mbappé (contract with PSG until 2024 only) complete the top 10 list.

The highest estimated values for players from outside the big-5 were recorded for two Portuguese top talents: António Silva (€89 million) and Gonçalo Ramos (€82 million). The SL Benfica’s duo are ahead PSV Eindhoven’s Xavi Simons, FC Porto’s Diogo Costa, Sporting CP’s Gonçalo Inacio and three AFC Ajax players. More information on the statistical model used is available in this scientific paper. Evaluations for more than 30,000 players in 75 leagues around the world are available via a paying platform.

CIES Football estimated transfer values (€ Million)

Date: 05/06/2023

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saka lmao

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Bellingham to Vardrid done. 103+30 Euros 

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1 hour ago, Magic Lamps said:

Bellingham to Vardrid done. 103+30 Euros 

Too similar to Valverde imo, they need a controller in midfield. I see Bellingham developing into a Gerard/Lampard type player.

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Leipzig looking at Openda to replace Nkunku. €30m rejected, Lens want €45m.

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2 hours ago, Gundalf said:

Tbh a lot of signings in the late Roman era have been extremely bad:

• Lukaku
• Saul
• Werner
• Ziyech
• Kepa
• Pulisic
• Sarr
• Higuain (lol)
• Morata
• Bakayoko
• Drinkwater
• Zappacosta
• Emerson

The only good signings in Romans last 5 years at the club are probably: Thiago, Chilly, Kovacic, Jorginho, Rüdiger but thats about it. 

 

I'd never put Werner and Pulisic in the "extremely bad" category. Achievements alone speak for themselves. They don't belong in the same list with the likes of Bakayoko and Drinkwater.

Even Lukaku, and to a lesser degree, Emerson, were employable in the right circumstance.

There is more to building a team than merely signing players, a lot more, and I'm not sure the new leadership know how to do that just yet. They may learn the in and outs of footy (with feet) at some point, but I'm afraid it will be a painful process.

 

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2 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

Bellingham to Vardrid done. 103+30 Euros 

Makes you wonder how we paid 121 for Enzo as Bellingham was supposed to be out of financial scope and somehow he costs substantially less; It's beyond me how we are paying twice the price any other club would every time. 

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37 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

Makes you wonder how we paid 121 for Enzo as Bellingham was supposed to be out of financial scope and somehow he costs substantially less; It's beyond me how we are paying twice the price any other club would every time. 

The problem with signing Bellingham was not so much a financial one, but rather there was just simply too much competition for him that he likely wouldn't have given us a second thought when the likes of Real Madrid were after him too, especially after the shit show of a season we've just had. 

Would also assume Bellingham will be on a significantly higher wage package than Enzo is. 

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5 hours ago, DDA said:

and as for Kone.... every player can have a bad season.

his season was not that bad

https://www.whoscored.com/Players/369570/History/Manu-Koné

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7 hours ago, Pizy said:

With that cheap of a price for Mac Allister, Liverpool may be able to completely rebuild their midfield with 3 players for the price WH may ask for Rice or Brighton may ask for Caicedo. And neither Rice nor Caicedo are even close to as good as Enzo which shows you how massive the PL tax is.

 

Bit rich saying about PL tax for those when we paid £100m+ for someone who whilst he is a v good player and will be here for the long run, was still quite over priced. But thats modern day football. Theres not a lot of bargains these days.

Mac Allister smart signing for that price but honestly don’t see him being an exceptional player for Liverpool or any top club tbf. I get the feeling he’s just a cut below that level.

Edited June 7, 2023 by OneMoSalah

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2 hours ago, Jype said:

The problem with signing Bellingham was not so much a financial one, but rather there was just simply too much competition for him that he likely wouldn't have given us a second thought when the likes of Real Madrid were after him too, especially after the shit show of a season we've just had. 

Would also assume Bellingham will be on a significantly higher wage package than Enzo is. 

Bellingham was never coming here, that was always a pipe dream

same for Mbappe

same for Håland

all 3 are Real players sooner or later

we will likely never be able to compete with Real and Barca IF they truly want a player (once Barca gets their financial shit sorted)

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it will be interesting to see if Citeh can stop Real from pulling Gvardiol