Chelsea Transfers

[Laylabelle 9,536]

Seems silly to keep a player who clearly wants to go! Just let him go and move on

[Norfolkblue1961 56]

1 hour ago, TheHulk said:

Sell him for 30m.

No more loans for him, Inter can do one

[DH1988 1,349]

Bottom line is that player power only extends so far, yes financially we have implications but at the same time no footballer wants to lose a year of their career to the reserves or being out of favour, yes there are always exceptions of course but no chance Mount wants this at this juncture in his career.

That said, cash in at the price we want, or sit in the reserves, if he wants to go and United are haggling over £5m then it’s down to their side/camp to resolve.

[Superblue 6,372]

I know there seems to be a lot of posturing on the Mount deal from different camps, etc but for some reason, I have a gut feeling that if a move to United did break down and he stayed here, that any issues would be resolved between him and the club and a new contract would be signed during next season.

I think the two big things within this are (1) it's been widely reported Poch would prefer to keep him, so if he did stay he's going to be utilised, and (2) from Mount's perspective he'll want a strong season before the Euros as it's no longer just a starting place for him now, if he has a similar season to the one just gone, he'll be doing well to make the Euros squad at all. He's not in a position to just be able to coast.

There's been similar situations of players seemingly on the brink of leaving before only for the situation to be turned around. I can remember Gerrard back in 2005 being essentially a done deal and being discussed in the media, etc as such and then suddenly a couple of days later the goalposts have shifted. That's why I think the club are more prepared to push a hard line with this deal, because I think there's a confidence there that something could be recovered if we went into next season with him in the squad.

[Special Juan 28,146]

Whats this about us going for Osimhen

[Cosmin 2,484]

7 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Whats this about us going for Osimhen

Slow news day. 

[whats happening 1,622]

39 minutes ago, Norfolkblue1961 said:

No more loans for him, Inter can do one

if they are paying his full wages and a mandatory 30 million at the end of the next season, then its a good job.

i would rather let him rot in the reserves. but i would not be the one missing 30 millions on his transfer

[Pizy 18,953]

5 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Whats this about us going for Osimhen

We should never engage with Napoli again unless one of their players has a release clause. Reports suggest that De Laurentiis will demand like £150m for Osimhen so we can forget about that.

In my opinion, we should avoid ever paying huge money for a striker or keeper again unless they’re coming from another PL club and have been killing it there for a number of years. We can’t afford another embarrassing, mega money bust in these positions.

[Special Juan 28,146]

RLC to Milan is back on close apparently 15m

[TheHulk 2,482]

 

[TheHulk 2,482]

 

[TheHulk 2,482]

Sell Mount already and get going.

[Mário César 1,284]

the question is:
is it really worth renewing Mount even if he wanted to renew?
Wouldn't it be better to sell him and try a better player for the position?

he will never be good enough to raise our level to fight for the league

[Vegetable 830]

51 minutes ago, Pizy said:

In my opinion, we should avoid ever paying huge money for a striker or keeper again unless they’re coming from another PL club and have been killing it there for a number of years. We can’t afford another embarrassing, mega money bust in these positions.

… Or, like, get the scouting department adequate to level of this club.

[Special Juan 28,146]

Kovacic announcement in the coming hours 

[Mhsc 1,098]

1 hour ago, Pizy said:

We should never engage with Napoli again unless one of their players has a release clause. Reports suggest that De Laurentiis will demand like £150m for Osimhen so we can forget about that.

In my opinion, we should avoid ever paying huge money for a striker or keeper again unless they’re coming from another PL club and have been killing it there for a number of years. We can’t afford another embarrassing, mega money bust in these positions.

Agreed. I hope we spend <£50m for most of our future signings tbh. Couple more expensive ones now if needed while we get some fundamental gaps sorted, and then it is time for our massive, expensive scouting / data team to deliver for us in the same way we've seen several other clubs manage. Healthy use of our sister clubs (Strasbourg + Portuguese team?) to buy up a bunch of promising <£20m players and develop our youth and Chelsea FC regularly buying <£50m players, and a team that is being constantly built and developed so that we never end up with a stagnant group of 33 year olds and another big bang rebuild job.

[Mário César 1,284]

Well im reading that we dont want to lay 80m pounds for caicedo

If this is the case, its better focus in other targets

[YorkshireBlue 3,279]

16 minutes ago, Mário César said:

Well im reading that we dont want to lay 80m pounds for caicedo

If this is the case, its better focus in other targets

Where you reading that.

[Thor 2,722]

1 hour ago, Pizy said:

We should never engage with Napoli again unless one of their players has a release clause. Reports suggest that De Laurentiis will demand like £150m for Osimhen so we can forget about that.

In my opinion, we should avoid ever paying huge money for a striker or keeper again unless they’re coming from another PL club and have been killing it there for a number of years. We can’t afford another embarrassing, mega money bust in these positions.

I might get blasted for this - but - I don't think he is as good as advertised... 

[Pizy 18,953]

7 minutes ago, Thor said:

I might get blasted for this - but - I don't think he is as good as advertised... 

I and a few others here agree. Osimhen is a great finisher within the box and is a powerful, classic #9 that would do well in the PL. But he’s not a £100m+ player for me. Not even close. He’s average with the ball at his feet and doesn’t offer enough besides goal scoring to be worth mega money.

For a striker to be worth that sort of money they need a world class all around game like Kane or Benzema. And if they don’t they need to have alien like production every season like Haaland. Osimhen is no Haaland.