Chelsea Transfers

[Strike 7,474]

35 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

Still can't believe we're dragging on the Caicedo negotiations.   Surely we could have moved for an alternative midfielder by now.   

Why? They've identified he's the best option. Haven't read anything indicating a collapse in talks or any other club interested.

Arsenal, ManU and City have signed midfielders. Liverpool are not interested.

 

 

[Pizy 18,856]

We’ve received such an absurd amount of cash from player sales that I just cannot understand why Caicedo is taking so long. We could literally take the money from Havertz and Pulisic alone and pay for Caicedo in full. It isn’t as if we’re on a shoestring budget where we have to desperately break up the fee into 8 tiny installments.

These rival clubs like Liverpool, United, and City may be keeping their distance for the time being but the longer we fuck around negotiating the higher the chance of one of them saying “you know what, why not just pay what Brighton want?”

City have already shown that they’re willing to put mega money on the table for a midfielder with Rice. They ain’t just gonna not go for someone else. 

Liverpool could unexpectedly receive £50-60m from Saudi for Fabinho and Henderson. They could quite easily take that money, add £25-30m and get Caicedo who I’m sure would be perfectly happy to play under Klopp and reunite with his former teammate Mac Allister. 

I mean, how fucking embarrassing would it be now for us to have negotiated for months (dating back to when we wanted him in January) only to see him go to a direct rival instead?

[Vegetable 830]

15 minutes ago, DH1988 said:

Very odd how it’s so public, works one of two ways, that we think the club will cave to the player, which they clearly won’t, verbal agreement or not, or that the selling club hold all the cards, which Brighton do, sadly.

Well, we may always pull out and Brighton not get the borderline ridiculous money. They are left with unhappy player and no guarantee his price will increase. WHU Wanted 120 mil + bonuses for Rice at one point.

Caicedo is still a bet of a player, not Kante, but 10 years younger. I'm fine with the club being bit less trigger-happy with wallet, than in the first window. I feel that people are loosing their minds over him like with Enzo and earlier they absolute best player ever we will be relegated without, freaking Raphinia lol.

4 minutes ago, Pizy said:

We could literally take the money from Havertz and Pulisic alone and pay for Caicedo in full. It isn’t as if we’re on a shoestring budget where we have to desperately break up the fee into 8 tiny installments.

People seem to be missing a fact that we got cash for players we've sold, but it's not like we have sold them for profit. They have costed us way more, than we got back.

5 minutes ago, Pizy said:

“you know what, why not just pay what Brighton want?”

I don't think any big club bar Chelsea will let themselves be hostage of small clubs for players that are still somewhat of a gamble.

 

Edited July 15, 2023 by Vegetable

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[Pizy 18,856]

1 minute ago, Strike said:

 

 

Lukaku just betraying everybody! 🤣

[Gundalf 805]

Lukaku is fucking us again. We spent a lot of time and effort to negotiate with Inter and right when our guys got Inter to pay the amount that we wanted, Lukaku pulls out of the deal, wanting to join a team that will only pay if they can offload their unwanted other striker. 

[Pizy 18,856]

9 minutes ago, Gundalf said:

Lukaku is fucking us again. We spent a lot of time and effort to negotiate with Inter and right when our guys got Inter to pay the amount that we wanted, Lukaku pulls out of the deal, wanting to join a team that will only pay if they can offload their unwanted other striker. 

So once again PSG could possibly fuck us over by either slow walking their interest in Vlahovic or just not going for him at all and then Juve couldn’t afford Lukaku. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[Gundalf 805]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

So once again PSG could possibly fuck us over by either slow walking their interest in Vlahovic or just not going for him at all and then Juve couldn’t afford Lukaku. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

I swear this guy will be here on 1st of september. Hes like a fungus, hard to get rid of.

[turgi 71]

Arsenal bought players for 250 million pounds while Chelsea is preparing a bid for Caicedo?

[King Kante 1,643]

I foresee a Vlahovic/Lukaku swap. Could potentially cook the books a little on the value of each player to massage FFP a bit. I suspect that Lukaku didn't pull out on this, rather he realised he wasn't getting back to Inter as we weren't going to just take any offer. 

[Pizy 18,856]

Yeah, the idea of Vlahović coming the other way is really the only way I can see this being resolved quickly now. Unless Lukaku suddenly accepts a Saudi offer.

The day we bin this cancerous dude we should all celebrate.

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

This is just Inter and Lukaku colluding to push through a deal at a lower price, just like they did for the loan 🥱

[Jype 6,398]

11 minutes ago, King Kante said:

I foresee a Vlahovic/Lukaku swap. Could potentially cook the books a little on the value of each player to massage FFP a bit. 

Isn't that exactly what got Juve in big problems over the last year or two? 😂

12 minutes ago, King Kante said:

I suspect that Lukaku didn't pull out on this, rather he realised he wasn't getting back to Inter as we weren't going to just take any offer. 

Hasn't it already been reported we'd have taken the €35+5M which was Inter's last offer? 

I feel it all comes down to money:

Inter would have paid Lukaku just €7.5M/y net and Juve's offer is much more.

I think that reported €11M/y net is even more than his Chelsea contract earned him after taxes.

[Vegetable 830]

15 minutes ago, We Hate Scouse said:

This is just Inter and Lukaku colluding to push through a deal at a lower price, just like they did for the loan 🥱

Judging by Lukaku's actions and what he says it would be quite hard for me to believe he is House-of-cards type of mastermind, toying with 3 big clubs and few agents at the same time in game of 7D chess, but who knows 👀