Chelsea Transfers

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

4 minutes ago, Jype said:

Apparently Henderson could be on his way to Saudi as well. If he goes, they get +10M for him too.

Need to be careful not to let the fucking dippers slither their way into any deal for Caicedo now. They've stayed away so far because they've been priced out but if the Saudis are about to hand them an unexpected 50M+ for their over-the-hill midfield duo and free up a good chunk of salaries too they might think differently about Caicedo too.

It isn't a coincidence why we are the only club speaking for Brighton. Not United, Liverpool, City, and Arsenal pulling out in the running. 

Matt Law this morning posted there is a belief clubs have inquired for Caicedo but he's had his mind up in joining Chelsea since May. 

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19 minutes ago, Gundalf said:

We only need Caicedo, and this will happen 100%

Yeah, going on with Enzo, and Caicedo, with Hall, Gallagher, Santos as backups are disaster waiting to happen

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8 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

It isn't a coincidence why we are the only club speaking for Brighton. Not United, Liverpool, City, and Arsenal pulling out in the running. 

Matt Law this morning posted there is a belief clubs have inquired for Caicedo but he's had his mind up in joining Chelsea since May. 

We've been here before. Dembele, Raphinha, De Ligt, Kounde

I'm not considering Caicedo is done until there's confirmation

[Thor 2,434]

Caceido and one more of Lavia, Thurman, Onana, etc would be nice. 

Just get a cheap bully. Even Kessie would be fine if he can be gotten for a decent price. 

[Pizy 18,417]

Going into the season with Enzo and Caicedo as our only two first XI quality midfielders would be a recipe for disaster. We’d be one serious injury to either of them away from finishing midtable again.

It simply can’t happen. We need 2 new midfielders.

[Jype 6,398]

12 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

It isn't a coincidence why we are the only club speaking for Brighton. Not United, Liverpool, City, and Arsenal pulling out in the running. 

Matt Law this morning posted there is a belief clubs have inquired for Caicedo but he's had his mind up in joining Chelsea since May. 

Guess we'll see what happens.

Arsenal, United and City clearly had other priorities with Rice/Mount/Kovacic and were never after Caicedo for this summer in the first place. And with Liverpool having been priced out we've had a seemingly free run at Caicedo so it was probably very easy for him to make up his mind about a potential Chelsea move early, but if Liverpool all of a sudden get the cash needed and enter the race after all who's to say he won't be tempted to change his mind?

Just one more reason for the club to try and clinch a deal for Caicedo ASAP, the main reason obviously being to have him in for the pre-season tour.

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3 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Going into the season with Enzo and Caicedo as our only two first XI quality midfielders would be a recipe for disaster. We’d be one serious injury to either of them away from finishing midtable again.

It simply can’t happen. We need 2 new midfielders.

We only have 1 game per week, no big rotation needed. Reece can be a very good DM and at this point, we need to trust our talents a bit more. It would be ridiculous to spend like another 50m on a 19yo Lavia, when we have a 19yo Santos and a 19yo Chukwuemeka in the squad already with similar talent. Let the boys cook. 

Santos will be worth 100m in 2 years, I swear. 

[Mhsc 905]

16 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Going into the season with Enzo and Caicedo as our only two first XI quality midfielders would be a recipe for disaster. We’d be one serious injury to either of them away from finishing midtable again.

It simply can’t happen. We need 2 new midfielders.

Isn't that exactly what City did, and they just won the treble?

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[Jype 6,398]

20 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Going into the season with Enzo and Caicedo as our only two first XI quality midfielders would be a recipe for disaster. We’d be one serious injury to either of them away from finishing midtable again.

That's one way to look at it.

But considering we only have the domestic competitions to play for, it might not be such a bad idea to go into the season with a smaller squad and have a fixed starting XI and only deviate from that when absolutely necessary. Having many high profile players means they'll all want to play as often as possible and the manager will be forced to rotate the team at the expense of building some consistency and team chemistry with some clear starters.

For years Klopp worked wonders with a Liverpool squad that had a steep drop off in quality after the first XI so it can work. The same could be said about Arsenal last season, for most positions their squad depth was pretty bad but they were able to field almost the same starting eleven week-in week-out which definitely helped their league form.

Of course it's a bit risky and a bad injury can really hurt if the backup players are significantly worse and/or inexperienced than the starters but that's a risk I'd perhaps be willing to take for a season that will only have 40-45 games overall and playing just one game a week. Assuming our starting midfielders were Enzo and Caicedo their injury records are almost spotless. So far Enzo doesn't have any injuries on record at the age of 22 and Caicedo's only missed 7 games to injury in 2020 when he was still playing in Ecuador but nothing since moving to Brighton.

 

[MoroccanBlue 5,318]

City had a little versatility where Foden and B.Silva could play in midfield on top of Rodri, Gundogan, and KBD. 

Not sure if Enzo, Caicedo, and Santos is enough. 

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1 hour ago, MoroccanBlue said:

City had a little versatility where Foden and B.Silva could play in midfield on top of Rodri, Gundogan, and KBD. 

Not sure if Enzo, Caicedo, and Santos is enough. 

He wasn't used but they had Kalvin Phillips too. Someone they paid 45m for

[Blue Armour 4,312]

2 hours ago, Gundalf said:

 Reece can be a very good DM and at this point, we need to trust our talents a bit more. 

I'd like to know where this idea came from.

He's been used in that position barely once.

IMO, it's as bad an idea as having Luiz as DM.

Round pegs in square holes don't work for long.

 

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32 minutes ago, Blue Armour said:

I'd like to know where this idea came from.

He's been used in that position barely once.

IMO, it's as bad an idea as having Luiz as DM.

Round pegs in square holes don't work for long.

You wouldn't have wanted Philip Lahm to move when Pep moved him either I guess? And Gareth Bale should have stayed as LB as well.

[Superblue 6,372]

36 minutes ago, Blue Armour said:

I'd like to know where this idea came from.

He's been used in that position barely once.

IMO, it's as bad an idea as having Luiz as DM.

Round pegs in square holes don't work for long.

 

At Wigan, Reece went from the best right back in the Championship to the best centre midfielder in the Championship, when they moved him during the season.

He can definitely play the position and I would anticipate to a high standard too.

The key will be whether moving him away from right back is to the detriment of the team, and a large part of that will be what sort of impact Malo Gusto can have.

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[Pizy 18,417]

8 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

 

If only a reliable outlet reported this…