Chelsea Transfers

[shrenshah 186]

45 minutes ago, bigbluewillie said:

Chelsea will urge Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku, 30, to accept an offer from Saudi Arabia if a deal cannot be struck with a European club. (Talksport)

AND

Juventus are willing to pay Chelsea £35m for Lukaku but the Italians need to bank £50m from the sale of Serbia striker Dusan Vlahovic, 23, before they can proceed. (Standard)

Not sure why we are not just paying 15mn on top of Lukaku for Vlahovic.

200k a week for Vlahovic who can atleast be tried in our young squad is 10000x better than 325k a week for the unselleable lump Lukaku.

15m is what we are freaking paying for these unknown youngsters.

If Vlahovic is a bust, surely we can get him off the books next year for 30-35mn.

Its a no brainer in my eyes. 

[Vesper 30,218]

7 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

Ziyech, Bergjwin and even on a lesser scale el Ghazi didn’t particularly do well up the PL. Neither did Depay years ago - took a move to France for him to kick on. Cody Gapko (would say he’s got more tools to be a pretty good player) and Antony (one trick pony still) may come good yet but nobody can tell me either are totally convincing either. All been good in Holland but hard to use that as a reason as to why we should sign them. Dusan Tadic

I did not rate a single one of them. Well, Gapko a bit, but not at all to the point he was a main target. I tossed a strop when we bought Ziyech.

I rate Kudus.

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36 minutes ago, shrenshah said:

Not sure why we are not just paying 15mn on top of Lukaku for Vlahovic.

200k a week for Vlahovic who can atleast be tried in our young squad is 10000x better than 325k a week for the unselleable lump Lukaku.

15m is what we are freaking paying for these unknown youngsters.

If Vlahovic is a bust, surely we can get him off the books next year for 30-35mn.

Its a no brainer in my eyes. 

We are not paying 15m for vlahovic. We will be paying 50m for him.

Lukaku still has 60m£ worth of book value. We can not write it all off by saying we sold him for 0m and got vlahovic for 15m. 

Also, there seems to be a salary structure in place at the club, finally. Getting shit players for 200kpw to solve a previously poor made decision is hardly a decent way to proceed. 

[ulvhedin 526]

16 hours ago, Vesper said:

other than knee injury a couple of years ago, that he has overcome to my satisfaction

his main issues for years were hamstring related injuries 

he had surgery on it in Finland, performed by one of the top specialists on the planet, Dr. Lasse Lempainen (who also sorted his knee that I mentioned above), and has now passed a very rigorous PSG physical

I am not saying he was the biggest lock to succeed on that list, but when healthy he is such a massive threat creative wise

we can all now watch him at PSG and see how he holds up

Wasnt that surgery in 2021? Yet last season he again missed 14 games 😉

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37 minutes ago, ulvhedin said:

Wasnt that surgery in 2021? Yet last season he again missed 14 games 😉

He has surgery this year in Finland on his hamstring.

[ulvhedin 526]

1 minute ago, Vesper said:

He has surgery this year in Finland on his hamstring.

oh ok, it will be interesting how he function in PSG team then

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10 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

Can easily see Lavia, Fofana, Cucu etc basically just blackmailing the club by doing the bare minimum waiting for their contracts to be paid out.

Wes Fofana is likely perma fucked with injuries, and CuCu is a turd in need of a flush. Both need to be sold. Disasterclass buys.

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8 hours ago, Nero said:

wtf

 

The Saudis are now signing prime young talents. I hope this stops soon. Veiga is the first player they bought who was a big big target of mine, although, for the non olds, Demiral, Bono, Mitrovic, and Seko Fofana would be welcomed here by me.

Big names so far:

Gabri Veiga
R. Mahrez
Roger Ibañez    
A. Saint-Maximin   
M. Demiral 
E. Mendy    
F. Kessié   
Roberto Firmino 
Fabinho    
Jota    
N. Kanté   
K. Benzema    
Otávio    
S. Mané    
Seko Fofana    
M. Brozovic   
A. Telles    
Habib Diallo
Neymar    
Malcom    
Ruben Neves    
A. Mitrovic    
S. Milinkovic-Savic    
K. Koulibaly    
Bono
Jordan Henderson    
Jack Hendry    
Moussa Dembélé    
Henry Onyekuru

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11 hours ago, Mhsc said:

There’s no one available that I have a particular interest in tbh.

Toney in Jan to compete with NJ and call it done for the year 

This seems to be the best option. Just hope there's no random signing in the next week

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3 hours ago, bigbluewillie said:

Chelsea will urge Belgium striker Romelu Lukaku, 30, to accept an offer from Saudi Arabia if a deal cannot be struck with a European club. (Talksport)

AND

Juventus are willing to pay Chelsea £35m for Lukaku but the Italians need to bank £50m from the sale of Serbia striker Dusan Vlahovic, 23, before they can proceed. (Standard)

Looks like the striker movement is over. No one in the market for a 50m striker at present. We should ask the Saudi club interested in Lukaku to buy Vlahovic and help us do the Juve deal

[Pizy 18,944]

Perhaps it’s best to just get a super creative type now and then move for Toney as so many here have suggested in January. The striker market it absolutely piss poor right now and we’d end up dramatically overpaying for someone bang average.

So instead we should get a player who, even if they don’t score much themselves, they are hugely creative and influential and can produce moments of magic.

[Reddish-Blue 2,509]

18 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Perhaps it’s best to just get a super creative type now and then move for Toney as so many here have suggested in January. The striker market it absolutely piss poor right now and we’d end up dramatically overpaying for someone bang average.

So instead we should get a player who, even if they don’t score much themselves, they are hugely creative and influential and can produce moments of magic.

I don't see that player magically appearing before the end of the transfer window.   It's been clear that we lack the creative type but the club has focused on other priorities and now we have 3 young DM's at the club...

If only we could clone a younger Cesc to play alongside our DM's 😀

[Pizy 18,944]

1 minute ago, Reddish-Blue said:

I don't see that player magically appearing before the end of the transfer window.   It's been clear that we lack the creative type but the club has focused on other priorities and now we have 3 young DM's at the club...

If only we could clone a younger Cesc to play alongside our DM's 😀

I mean, Cherki is that player. 

[Vesper 30,218]

Randal Kolo-Muani situ is simple atm.

Eintracht Frankfurt also have said to every team for months his price is €100m (£85.5m) or GTFO.

PSG just offered, a couple of days ago, €70m + €10m in add-ons (total of £67.5m).

They also are trying to use Hugo Ekitiké as makeweight to even further lower the cash part.

Eintracht told them to piss off, its €100m cash on the beer barrel or nothing.

And here it stands.

 

[Mhsc 1,098]

Saudi buying players in their prime is just in its beginnings IMO, the more they build a genuinely competitive league the more will follow, when the wages can be 10x or more it’s inevitable this is just the beginning. Paths forward seem to either be an intervention from football authorities (who are corrupt and generally work for the highest bidder), boredom or disinterest from the Saudis saves our bacon and we return to status quo, or Super League 2.0 where their teams compete with ours and all agree to work under the same financial framework as some kind of CL alternative / replacement.

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Alot of talk about Cherki again. Is he even being linked by reputable journos? 

[Pizy 18,944]

2 minutes ago, DDA said:

Alot of talk about Cherki again. Is he even being linked by reputable journos? 

Nope. There really aren’t any links that are heating up for any particular attacker right now.

[Gundalf 806]

If I had to guess its either Johnson or someone that hasnt been mentioned so far. 

[Gundalf 806]

Doesnt Fati wanna leave Barca?

[lluubbeenn 174]

You know what. Bring back Eden. He has barely played in the last 2-3 years. Putting the right shirt back on may be what both sides need. Just look at what Robben did after a horrid spell at Real. What do you think?