Chelsea Transfers

[shrenshah 186]

8 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Together they are around €310-320m in terms of Napoli's demanded asking price

O is €180m

Kvart is €130-140m

Would be worth it

[Socur Toxanarosa 145]

4 hours ago, Pizy said:

There’s literally no place in the team for Ziyech. So if this Saudi move breaks down just terminate his contract. He can’t come back here.

Because we have plenty of RW and CAM options after Mount is gone

[bigbluewillie 1,930]

Chelsea are pushing for an agreement with Brighton over the signing of Moises Caicedo, with the Ecuador midfielder, 21, having already agreed personal terms. (Fabrizio Romano)

And..

 

Celta Vigo's Spanish midfielder Gabri Veiga, 21, has been identified by Chelsea as the ideal replacement for Manchester United-bound England midfielder Mason Mount, 24. (Standard)

[lucio 5,418]

Veiga and caicedo would be solid 

[Cosmin 2,484]

On paper, yes. But both are 21 y.o. 

With Enzo being 22 and Conor Gallagher 23, the average age of our midfield would be 21.75.

And that's without including the likes of Carney, Casadei, or Santos.

I cannot remember a team making it to top 4 with such a young midfield. We need experience. 

[lucio 5,418]

2 hours ago, Cosmin said:

On paper, yes. But both are 21 y.o. 

With Enzo being 22 and Conor Gallagher 23, the average age of our midfield would be 21.75.

And that's without including the likes of Carney, Casadei, or Santos.

I cannot remember a team making it to top 4 with such a young midfield. We need experience. 

Are there examples of a team failing badly to make top 4 with a young midfield ? ( from traditional top 4 teams) 

[Costa19 858]

Veiga looks very energetic and good at carrying the ball forward.
A much better version of Money Mase 🙂

A midfield with Caicedo, Enzo and Veiga is certainly young but mates we would be set up for years to come.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,799]

 

[lucio 5,418]

Why buy someone as backup ? If he’s truly worse than kepa then he’s a shit goalkeeper. If he’s better then he should be playing 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,799]

Now that is a tease! I enjoy her Twitter, she seems like a genuinely nice person.

 

[Mhsc 1,091]

44 minutes ago, lucio said:

Are there examples of a team failing badly to make top 4 with a young midfield ? ( from traditional top 4 teams) 

I don’t think we are in comparable grounds here. We sort of really are playing real life FM which pretty much no other club is doing, replacing basically the whole squad. It could work but it would almost definitely work better with some experience mixed in.

What we do know from loads of people that became top pros and won everything is that they speak a lot about the importance of the older, experienced heads around them before they hit their prime. We have real lack of that now. I think really you want one such person per area (GK, defense, midfield, attack).

[Reddish-Blue 2,489]

49 minutes ago, lucio said:

Are there examples of a team failing badly to make top 4 with a young midfield ? ( from traditional top 4 teams) 

I don't recall many of the top 4 teams in past years having such a young midfield

Normally you want your midfielders to be in that 23-26 age profile (as they would have played at least 3-4 seasons of top level football by that point in time), with say 1 youngster and at least 1 older head (28+)

Enzo-Caicedo (if it happens) is a nice combo but we need someone in that Kante/Jorginho type of profile to come in and be the level headed one and lead the youngsters through those rough patches. 

[TheHulk 2,401]

19 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

Please let this happen. He will dispose Kepa pretty fast.

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

Really curious how Enrique is going to do in Paris. Ugarte and Lucas Hernandez good buys. They got rid of Messi who doesn't run. Still short 2 attacking players. 

[Special Juan 28,091]

He's better than Kepa, who writes this shit.