Chelsea Transfers

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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

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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.

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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 😀

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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. 

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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 866]

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? 

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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.

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

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Doesnt Fati wanna leave Barca?

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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?

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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

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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/

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Johnson is attracted to winning nothing

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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.

 

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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.