Chelsea Transfers

[DH1988 1,273]

33 minutes ago, whats happening said:

if its not an obligation to buy (it wont be), i dont get this cucu loan to united.

I imagine so it justifies keeping Maatsen for backup.

[Pizy 18,368]

Was just watching Younes’s latest YT video about our potential transfers and agree with him that the club must have something completely unexpected and secret planned. And it’s kinda crazy that nobody knows what or who we’re targeting. 

Every attacking player we’ve been linked with looks off the table now:

Kudus —-> done to WH

Balogun —-> done to Monaco

Doku —-> done to City

Cherki -—> Lyon are adamant that he must be kept

Barcola —-> priority target for PSG and apparently really fancies going there

Johnson —-> likely and thankfully going to Spuds

 

There haven’t been any genuine links to anyone else. I’m starting to think that there’s a greater than 0% chance that we bring João Felix back. He now knows the league, knows our club, won’t need settling in time. The club may think he’s worth another chance in a more structured setup and under a better manager.

 

 

[Vesper 28,787]

1 hour ago, TheHulk said:

Don't know why people keep talking about Saudis it was reported they withdrew the offer for him a few days ago after they got Mitrovic..

there are 5 or 6  other Saudi teams that can easily buy him

[Mhsc 876]

1 hour ago, whats happening said:

if its not an obligation to buy (it wont be), i dont get this cucu loan to united.

£9m wages per year (base) to keep him competing with Chilly and Maatsen then?

We can't sell him for 2-3 years as I explained above (v small chance could sell him in 1 year if Utd, Arsenal, City or Saudi want to buy him for £40m), so unless we're doing Super League 2.0 and abandoning CL, we either have to loan him or commit to keeping him in the squad. Personally I think we should loan.

I don't consider this strengthening a rival either. They're effectively paying us £9m (covering his wages) to help us balance our books, plus maybe some kind of small loan fee too. And they're getting Cucurella, not someone that might genuinely help them. If they don't get him, they'll get someone else, except that wont benefit us whatsoever.

And of course, Poch asked for a small, tight squad of ~22.

Edited August 27, 2023 by Mhsc

[ZAPHOD2319 4,477]

Saudi teams have unsettled Salah….hahaha

 

 

[Vesper 28,787]

1 minute ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Saudi teams have unsettled Salah….hahaha

 

 

go go head choppers!

Edited August 27, 2023 by Vesper

[Mhsc 876]

TBH Salah might as well, no feasible route out of Liverpool for him other than Saudi and what the fuck is the point staying where he is? They need a similar level of rebuild to what we've just done. Plus he just saw his club get mega cucked over and over for midfielders by us.

[Pizy 18,368]

Liverpool are in a world of hurt without Salah this season. Still have plenty of quality in their attack but nobody who truly terrifies entire defenses by themself like Mo Salah does.

[Mhsc 876]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

Liverpool are in a world of hurt without Salah this season. Still have plenty of quality in their attack but nobody who truly terrifies entire defenses by themself like Mo Salah does.

Assume they'll refuse it tho?

They'd be finished without him, Klopp wouldn't last the year and then it would be another long painful cycle of failure IMO for them.

[mkh 273]

BREAKING: Manchester United have officially asked FC Barcelona to sign Marcos Alonso. Negotiations ongoing.

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Cucu Stays😒

[TheHulk 1,855]

Looks like he got over his injury. This guy is absolute class, if the board wants to splash the money on some attacker it needs to be on a quality player like him.

Edited August 27, 2023 by TheHulk

[Pizy 18,368]

12 minutes ago, Mhsc said:

Assume they'll refuse it tho?

They'd be finished without him, Klopp wouldn't last the year and then it would be another long painful cycle of failure IMO for them.

You would think Liverpool would refuse for sure. But what if Mo pushes really hard to go? That makes it very tough.

[Mhsc 876]

10 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

Looks like he got over his injury. This guy is absolute class, if the board wants to splash the money on some attacker it needs to be on a quality player like him.

Very interesting player, but they were talking for about 100m Euros weren't they? Might be a bit much for a player coming back from injury. Plus, a lot of Bundesliga players look uninspiring in PL.

Who knows though. It feels like it will be a player that the media hasn't been talking about, which means it could be almost anybody including Wirtz. My guess is we don't have another 100m to splurge tho.

[Mhsc 876]

Love this guy on Twitter btw 

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

🚨 Chelsea would consider sending Cucurella on loan. (@polballus @lauriewhitwell @TheAthleticFC) #CFC

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

🚨 Romelu Lukaku to Roma on loan is close, Chelsea will collect £4.2m. (@DiMarzio)

[mkh 273]

There could be 2 new faces at Chelsea FC in the last few days Amine Gouiri & Rayan Cherki are high on the Blues' list.

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52 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Was just watching Younes’s latest YT video about our potential transfers and agree with him that the club must have something completely unexpected and secret planned. And it’s kinda crazy that nobody knows what or who we’re targeting. 

Every attacking player we’ve been linked with looks off the table now:

Kudus —-> done to WH

Balogun —-> done to Monaco

Doku —-> done to City

Cherki -—> Lyon are adamant that he must be kept

Barcola —-> priority target for PSG and apparently really fancies going there

Johnson —-> likely and thankfully going to Spuds

 

There haven’t been any genuine links to anyone else. I’m starting to think that there’s a greater than 0% chance that we bring João Felix back. He now knows the league, knows our club, won’t need settling in time. The club may think he’s worth another chance in a more structured setup and under a better manager.

 

 

Removing all on your list (except obviously Felix)

and 

Marco Verratti looks set to leave PSG. The club has agreed with Qatari Al-Arabi on a sale. (Qatar is now flexing after the Saudis started it)

Here is a list of all options available for creative MFers, Wingers, and CF/SS still left on the table and remotely doable this late (so no giant, methodical club like Bayern for instance)

 

SS

João Félix  
 

AMF (super slim pickings at this point)

Thiago Almada  
Giovanni Reyna   
Luka Sucic

youth:

Désiré Doué  
Georgiy Sudakov   
Eliesse Ben Seghir  

Wingers (assuming Barcola is off to PSG)

Yéremy Pino
Ansu Fati (pass, far too damaged atm)
Bryan Mbeumo   (hard AF pull this late)
Pedro Gonçalves 
Nico Williams 
Nicolás González 
Marcus Edwards
Viktor Tsygankov 
Amine Adli
Andreas Schjelderup (youth, I deffo would wait to see how he develops) 

CF (Osimhen is not moving this window)

Randal Kolo Muani  (nearly done deal with PSG
Dusan Vlahovic
Jonathan David
Ollie Watkins  (pretty much impossible at this point and would be crazy expensive for hsi age)
Amine Gouiri  
Ivan Toney  (January, but Brentford demand £80m, which is insane)
Santiago Gimenez   
Evanilson   
Gift Orban
Hugo Ekitiké  
Marcos Leonardo
Jhon Córdoba (30yo stop-gap)