Chelsea Transfers

[dimmas 131]

Someone who can play in tight spaces and has excellent technique to execute precise passes and take shots would be brilliant for our team, especially since we'll likely have many games with a lot of possession. Imagining players like Grealish or James Madison would be great (or atleast very interesting) to play in our squad.

But are there no players like that realistic in the market anymore?
Has the Bernardo Silva rumor also faded away? He's likely to stay at City now, right?

And now our transfer rumors revolve around young and young player again,
some of them maybe highly talented but really unproven

Edited August 22, 2023 by dimmas

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6 hours ago, mkh said:

Djordje Petrović to Chelsea, here we go! Verbal agreement in place with New England Revolution on €16m deal 🚨🔵🇷🇸 #CFC

Medical tests booked on Wednesday

I admit I know very little about him

MLS I do not follow for shit

He as only rated around £3m on T-Markt

great size (1.94m) and young (23, turns 24 in October)

[robsblubot 3,595]

MLS is a different sport. Messi dribbles past players as if they were cones... like he's back to 25yo all of the sudden.

Even the speed and power of shots between MLS and the top leagues would be very different for a goalie.

Regarding the striker, I'd prefer a 3rd option from a big club in a strong league.

Kudus is too much of the same--even if a good thing longer term. We need something different right now. One, preferable two, ready players who won't think twice about being at a big club or strong league. Look for composure above all else.

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8 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Just saw Balogun is American. Can't think of another reason why club wants him. After Adams deal collapsed they go for someone else. And he end up in Bournemouth just to show you where is their level. 

Balogun was born in New York City, and emigrated to England when he was two years old, born to Nigerian parents

is not really a yank

other than their crazy birthright citizenship bollocks (millions of anchor babies born to illegal aliens there, so they can scam the system and chain migrate the rest of the illegal family, lololol, I sound like a fucking RWer, but living here in Sweden has driven me to be hardcore on shit immigration schemes!!!)

and this (a big one)

On May 16, 2023, FIFA approved Balogun's application for a switch to represent the United States national team.

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6 hours ago, TheHulk said:

If we want an American least get Gio Reyna who actually has talent unlike this crap Balogun.

that bloke is ALWAYS injured, are you mad? lolololol

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2 hours ago, Tomo said:

One goal and all of a sudden 3 years of next to nothing is forgiven and forgotten, really? 

fuck that plugger Puli

whingey little bitch, formed of glass

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12 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

We need something different right now. One, preferable two, ready players who won't think twice about being at a big club or strong league. Look for composure above all else.

names?

not having a go but I see so many posts from people that describe a type of player but offer nothing

 

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11 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

100% who ever we get isn't being mentioned right now in the media. 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,182]

We really are desperate for a Giroud, Jorgi type of signing.. full of exprerience, professional and different to what we have atm. But also keep in mind that we have to pick a player with the right personality too.. don't need another Ziyech, Auba, Lukaku situation.

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On 20/08/2023 at 23:15, Mhsc said:

How much is Jonathon David suggested to be?

this late in the window it will take at least £50m to £55m to pull him

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59 minutes ago, Vesper said:

names?

not having a go but I see so many posts from people that describe a type of player but offer nothing

 

Thank you for the invitation, but no thanks.  

It's great that you have fun doing that research as a hobby, but I don't. Club has plenty of well-paid scouts to find the right player of the job. The good ones, I hear, would know pretty much everything about the players before they are signed.... like personal details.

Besides my comment was specifically unspecific. I understand Kudus ain't another 19yo--he's 23 actually. I haven't seen him play, so I won't comment based on stats which mean little coming from a totally different league with totally different characteristics and demand. It's always hard to project and see whether a player can replicate what he does elsewhere in the PL.

[Duppy Conqueror 1,543]

Carney had knee surgery,expected return in October.shouldnt change transfer targets due to it 

[Thor 2,718]

2 hours ago, robsblubot said:

Thank you for the invitation, but no thanks.  

It's great that you have fun doing that research as a hobby, but I don't. Club has plenty of well-paid scouts to find the right player of the job. The good ones, I hear, would know pretty much everything about the players before they are signed.... like personal details.

Besides my comment was specifically unspecific. I understand Kudus ain't another 19yo--he's 23 actually. I haven't seen him play, so I won't comment based on stats which mean little coming from a totally different league with totally different characteristics and demand. It's always hard to project and see whether a player can replicate what he does elsewhere in the PL.

Rob - in this thread you say you're not researching and haven't seen some players play. Then in the board one - you say that the players we bought are rubbish, not ready and we don't have the pieces needed.

Is it just fair to say our team might be decent - but we got off to a rough start? 

 

It is so easy to say we need a player who can pass, shoot, dribble, never lose the ball, etc lol... This is a made up player. 

The squad is good enough. People just aren't patient. Not only that, it has a character and build to it. We're clearly building a very robust and dynamic team. We have a lot of strong and quick players who can carry the ball. 

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We spent 40m on Brighton 3rd choice gk and MLS GK 😄

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23 minutes ago, Thor said:

Rob - in this thread you say you're not researching and haven't seen some players play. Then in the board one - you say that the players we bought are rubbish, not ready and we don't have the pieces needed.

Is it just fair to say our team might be decent - but we got off to a rough start? 

 

It is so easy to say we need a player who can pass, shoot, dribble, never lose the ball, etc lol... This is a made up player. 

The squad is good enough. People just aren't patient. Not only that, it has a character and build to it. We're clearly building a very robust and dynamic team. We have a lot of strong and quick players who can carry the ball. 

It's not a made up player, Hazard/Willian/Mata could do most of those things quite well.  

Problem is, as plenty have mentioned before, we never replaced Hazard/Willian with the same level of player and we're paying the price for it.  Pulisic was meant to be the holy grail but we found out he was made of glass, then it was meant to be Mount/Havertz to save the day but now all are out the door. 

[gdlk 286]

First Poch have to decide what tactic he will use, then buy players for it, because at the moment its totall mess.. 

Whole preseason one tactic, in official matches completely different.. Does he know what he needs to do and how to do it? If hes scared to use his favourite tactic, then why we appointed him.. Its suppose to be one coach favourite tactic is his best.. Or we have hidden coach in Chelsea?? 

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9 minutes ago, gdlk said:

First Poch have to decide what tactic he will use, then buy players for it, because at the moment its totall mess.. 

Whole preseason one tactic, in official matches completely different.. Does he know what he needs to do and how to do it? If hes scared to use his favourite tactic, then why we appointed him.. Its suppose to be one coach favourite tactic is his best.. Or we have hidden coach in Chelsea?? 

Waiting for CM signings to be up to speed.

Don't think his primary formation will be the 4-2-3-1...think that was more to have a look at who we have in the final third..if look at who we have signed or targetted,isnt a great emphasis on a CAM, think it'll be more a 4-3-3 as the primary in next game or 2 and in the future.

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29 minutes ago, gdlk said:

First Poch have to decide what tactic he will use, then buy players for it, because at the moment its totall mess.. 

Whole preseason one tactic, in official matches completely different.. Does he know what he needs to do and how to do it? If hes scared to use his favourite tactic, then why we appointed him.. Its suppose to be one coach favourite tactic is his best.. Or we have hidden coach in Chelsea?? 

Probably the injury to the system's most important player in Nkunku played a part in his decision. Opening game against Pool with 5 experienced attackers didn't help 4231 too. 

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I think Poch has said that he's stuck to a 4-2-3-1 throughout, its just that Colwill has moved to LB and Chilly to LW, but we were always building with 3-2-5 when in possession in preseason and that has pretty much not changed (we dabbled a little in 3-1-6 against Liverpool), its just the personnel and how effective they are being in the system has dropped off - Santos who was good in preseason not played a minute, before we had Maatsen playing and being a press machine he's been replaced by Chilwell who has different qualities, and of course we've lost Nkunku who was our top goal scorer and key to lots of the play we worked on. We also did not have Disasi playing alongside Thiago.

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Chelsea want another attacking player

https://thedailybriefing.io/p/excl-Chelsea-to-pursue-another-attacking

Chelsea are working on bringing in one more player in attack, as confirmed as well by Mauricio Pochettino after the defeat to West Ham. They want a creative player, and it’s important for Chelsea to do something in that position after the injury to Christopher Nkunku. We know they wanted Michael Olise but the deal collapsed because Crystal Palace managed to extend his contract, and now there is an internal process to find the right player.

At the moment, I’m hearing that Juventus, through intermediaries, are insisting on the potential exchange deal involving Dusan Vlahovic and Romelu Lukaku, but for now Chelsea are considering different players. Information has been taken on Lyon’s Bradley Barcola, but Paris Saint-Germain are the favourites. There have also been some rumours on Jeremy Doku but I’m still told that Manchester City are the favourites to sign him - and there should be further developments on that this week.

Let’s see what Chelsea decide, but for sure they will try to do something in that position due to their injury situation.

A lot of people keep asking me about Mohammed Kudus, but it remains the case that Chelsea last asked about Kudus at the beginning of August - it’s now more than 20 days and they’ve not been speaking.  🤬

In terms of Kudus and West Ham, at the moment the deal is on total stand-by, the negotiations between West Ham and Ajax are not advancing and at the moment it’s almost off. Let’s see what will happen during the week, but for the moment Chelsea are focusing on different players.