Chelsea Transfers

[Reddish-Blue 2,673]

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 19,280]

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 31,104]

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 1,146]

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.

[DDA 10,237]

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

[Pizy 19,280]

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 188]

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?

[Vesper 31,104]

23 minutes ago, Gundalf said:

Doesnt Fati wanna leave Barca?

His injury record makes Ousmane Dembélé look like Cal Ripken Jr. and Lou 'Iron Horse' Gehrig in yank baseball.

If not for Gehrig developing Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), (literally known as Lou Gehrig's Disease), he would have likely played over 3,000 consecutive games, and probably would have went down as the greatest player in baseball history, not just top 5 or 7 or so.

Consecutive games played

Edited August 24, 2023 by Vesper

[Vesper 31,104]

Chelsea have backed out of the race to sign Nottingham Forest ace Brennan Johnson after learning he wants to join Tottenham Hotspur.

https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2023/08/24/Chelsea-end-interest-in-special-player-because-he-wants-to-join-spurs/

[Fulham Broadway 17,746]

Johnson is attracted to winning nothing

[Vesper 31,104]

Mykhailo Mudryk joins huge Chelsea injury list but Mauricio Pochettino gives positive update

https://talksport.com/football/1544464/

Mykhailo Mudryk is the latest Chelsea player to join the injury list that now includes nine stars.

Mudryk was absent from training this week at the club’s facilities in Cobham and it has now been revealed that he has suffered an injury.

In a post on their official website, Chelsea confirmed that the Ukraine international is undergoing treatment.

On an injury list of eight other players, Mudryk’s name has been added and said: “Starting rehabilitation having undergone assessments on an injury sustained in training this week.”

Blues coach Pochettino gave some information on the injury, though was coy but insisted the problem is hopefully minor.

He said in his press conference on Thursday: “A few days, but he won’t be available for tomorrow.

“He is a player we hope to help him perform in the way we believe he can perform. It is not a big issue, we need to wait one week or maybe a few days.”

But it adds to yet another headache for Pochettino, who is losing players almost by the day.

Carney Chukwuemeka will miss six weeks of action after suffering a knee injury against West Ham on Sunday, which forced him to undergo surgery.

 

[SomethingSomething 17]

15 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

10 world class players sound good in theory.
But first, which absolute world class player would even be willing to join us? Not too many.  then some including our board also thought Koukibaly and Sterling were world class before they joined us. So signing world class rep is not a sure fire thing . 
Second genuine world class players would demand double or triple the wages we pay Caicedo, Lavia etc. our wage bill would explode and unlike PSG we can not cook the book with some state owned sponsor . We would get in trouble with PL FFP. 
Boehly doesn’t mind amortising big fees over 5 years. Even combined with wages that is still less than 1bn for 10 Sterling like earners on 300k+ pw. 
Instead we got like 20+ players.

Boehly or whoever is in charge is a bit of a betting man it seems. Handing out those massive contracts to potentially wc players means if we indeed strike gold we have some serious asset on our hands. But young players also only choose us bc we do hand out those long deals. As soon as they sign those, they know their family is set for generations. 

At some point all those 21 yo will probably down tools. Many modern footballers lack sporting ambition and just care about the money or their brand. 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.
Once you sign a deal that pays you 50m over 8 years just to show up for training on time and run after a ball for the cameras twice per week, motivation quickly plummets for this generations half assed players. After one more disappointing season we might very well be stuck with a group of unfit quiet quitters who long mentally checked out from caring about their career, the club or its fans. 

Leao, Gvardiol, Bellingham, Haaland, Kvara, type of players.

Starting last summer when we still had CL. 

If we presented serious project under new owners we could probably bag one or two at least with the amount we spent.

[TheHulk 2,647]

3 minutes ago, SomethingSomething said:

Leao, Gvardiol, Bellingham, Haaland, Kvara, type of players.

Starting last summer when we still had CL. 

If we presented serious project under new owners we could probably bag one or two at least with the amount we spent.

To be honest we did bag a couple in Enzo and Caicedo, also Levi is good alternative to Gvardiol. The big miss was going for that fraud Mudryk instead of Leao.

[TheHulk 2,647]

27 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Johnson is attracted to winning nothing

Shit player for a shit team, good combination.

[SomethingSomething 17]

32 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

To be honest we did bag a couple in Enzo and Caicedo, also Levi is good alternative to Gvardiol. The big miss was going for that fraud Mudryk instead of Leao.

Enzo alright, he is probably only signing Im happy we made along Jackson and Nkunku. He is pure quality along with James, then Chilly, Thiago. Colvill and Jackson have massive upside. Nkunku is class to but maybe injury prone like James.

Rest has to prove alot and more for the money we spent. Caicedo and Lavia included. Mudryk was a flop signed just so Arsenal didnt get him. Cucurella should never happen and we should stay away. We already have first choice Chilwell, Cucu isnt CB and was too expensive for backup. Gvardiol could be here instead of Fofana. Fofana is nice player but if injured all the time, we threw 80m out the window yet again.

[Vesper 31,104]

1 hour ago, TheHulk said:

The big miss was going for that fraud Mudryk instead of Leao.

The only two truly WC (atm) wingers out there for next summer are (this is also saying Mbappe is a pipe dream, and Chiesa and Oyarzabal are coming off horrid injuries)

Rafael Leão 
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia  

simple as that

 

Leroy Sané turns 29yo in the middle of next season, so pass

Kingsley Coman is only 5 months younger than Sane, so pass

Serge Gnabry, is older than either of them, he turns 30 a month or so after next season ends, so pass

Ousmane Dembélé is now off the board, likely for good (he turn 27 this season and will very likely be at PSG for the rest of his sub 30yo years)

 

so it is down (if we fail on Rafael Leão and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia) to the young ones with the most potential atm (barring Federico Chiesa or Oyarzabel blowing up again back to their  pre injuries WC levels)

Karim Adeyemi
Yéremy Pino
Michael Olise  (but he likely will not leave Palace for several years now)
Bryan Mbeumo 
Kaoru Mitoma (BUT he turns 27 towards the end of this season)
Pedro Gonçalves 
Nico Williams
Nicolás González
Marcus Edwards
Viktor Tsygankov 
Amine Adli  
Ismaïla Sarr   
Bradley Barcola (may well be on PSG this season)
Samuel Lino 
Crysencio Summerville
Johan Bakayoko
Andreas Schjelderup  
Julien Duranville  

Edited August 24, 2023 by Vesper

[Vesper 31,104]

Joao Felix is stuck in limbo and it's Barcelona or bust for the unwanted Atletico Madrid man and Saudi Arabia could be his only option once Europe's window shuts

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12436491/Joao-Felix-atletico-madrid-barcelona-saudi-arabia.html

[Vesper 31,104]

PSG have the edge over Chelsea for Barcola

https://thedailybriefing.io/i/136363982/psg-have-the-edge-over-Chelsea-for-barcola

Bradley Barcola’s situation continues to attract speculation, but, to be honest, I do not think Chelsea stand much of a chance as long as PSG are in the race for him. The Lyon man has been clear that a Paris move interests him and he is the last remaining major target for Campos this window along with Kolo Muani. To land both would be a game changer and Hugo Ekitike potentially moving on with both Frankfurt and West Ham keen hints at how PSG entire attacking stable would be reset by both players joining this month.

Chelsea is not unattractive to Barcola, especially with former teammate Malo Gusto already there, but the pathway to a clear and defined role at Parc des Princes has already been laid out to him and Ligue 1 keeps him developing without too big a jump in demands.

Should PSG’s interest fail to concretise, then a London switch might be considered but it is not currently the priority. Also, a potential loan move to Strasbourg is unlikely to appeal given Lyon’s situation is fairly similar while PSG can also offer continental competition now.

Edited August 24, 2023 by Vesper