Chelsea Transfers

[Artandur 939]

Just now, Vesper said:

 

And they did bring in Doku.. fingers crossed

[Pizy 18,368]

Cole Palmer is surely a direct recommendation from Shields. Think I remember seeing a pic of Palmer, Shields, and Lavia together a couple of weeks ago during the Lavia saga. Also noticed Palmer congratulating Lavia on IG after his move here so they’re clearly good mates from their City days.

If this move happens in addition to us going big for Lavia it will be crystal clear that the club and Poch trusts Joe Shields intensely. 

[Vesper 28,795]

Game over with Salah ‘likely’ to leave Liverpool this week after ‘unbelievable’ double Saudi offer

Samuel Bannister 1 hour ago

 

https://www.teamtalk.com/liverpool/game-over-salah-likely-leave-liverpool-this-week-unbelievable-double-saudi-offer

 

Mohamed Salah is now expected to leave Liverpool for Al-Ittihad by the end of the week, according to reports.

Salah has become a top target for Al-Ittihad after a summer in which the Saudi Pro League champions have also signed Fabinho, N’Golo Kante and Karim Benzema. Liverpool’s stance all along has been that he is not for sale after signing the biggest contract in the club’s history last summer.

Furthermore, Salah’s agent has denied that they are looking to get him out of Liverpool. But the rumours have been relentless about a move to the Middle East.

Now, Jan Aage Fjortoft has revealed via Twitter that “it’s likely that Salah will leave Liverpool this week”.

The former footballer, who now works in the media, has described the offers Al-Ittihad have made to Liverpool and Salah as both being “unbelievable”.

Other sources have suggested recently that Salah is in line to become the best-paid player in Saudi Arabia, which is quite something when Cristiano Ronaldo is already there with Al-Nassr.

The value of Al-Ittihad’s bid to Liverpool for his transfer could come to €150m (around £129m), including a guaranteed payment of £89m.

Clubs in Saudi Arabia have until September 7 – six days after the English transfer window closes – to complete any more signings for what has been an incredible summer for their league.

Liverpool have already sold Fabinho to Al-Ittihad and Jordan Henderson to Al-Ettifaq this summer, while Roberto Firmino signed for Al-Ahli after his contract on Merseyside expired. Firmino and Salah’s former attacking colleague Sadio Mane has also ended up in Saudi Arabia with Al-Nassr after leaving Bayern Munich.

End of an era for Liverpool

Together, the trio of Salah, Firmino and Mane represented one of the most dangerous attacks the Premier League has ever seen. At the peak of their powers, they helped Liverpool to lift a long-awaited Premier League title in 2020.

Salah will certainly go down as a Liverpool legend after climbing to fifth in the club’s all-time scoring chart. From 307 appearances, he has scored 187 times for the club – more than Steven Gerrard, Robbie Fowler, Kenny Dalglish and many other legends.

During his debut season, 2017-18, he scored a sensational 44 goals in all competitions after joining the club from Roma. In the five seasons since, he has always broken the 20-goal barrier in all competitions; in fact, he hit the landmark of 30 or more in each of the past three seasons.

But it could now be the end of an era for the Egyptian King, who will be a tough act to follow at Liverpool – especially if they run out of time to sign a replacement before the transfer window closes.

Liverpool’s attack also consists of Darwin Nunez, Luis Diaz, Cody Gakpo and Diogo Jota, but most of the wider options prefer to play on the opposite side to Salah.

[Mhsc 876]

My guess is fee would depend on other conditions. To a midtable club who will accept a buy back / huge sell on fee clause maybe they'd let him go for not much, to us (who wont even consider a buyback) they probably want more. I'd be surprised if we're interested unless it is gonna be sub 40m though. 

Edited August 30, 2023 by Mhsc

[Vesper 28,795]

45 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Hmm. I was under the impression that Cole Palmer was a striker. Seems he’s a #10/winger?

yes, AMF/10 and a RWer 

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[TheHulk 1,855]

7 minutes ago, Vesper said:

yes, AMF/10 and a RWer 

How do you rate this Palmer guy?

[Special Juan 27,424]

Poch apparently signed him off, club are going for it right now apparently.

Seeing statements like "City may not want to sell to a rival" 🤣 like saying Rotherham is a threat to us

[Duppy Conqueror 1,494]

34 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Looks like Slabhead is likely staying with Manure (per Romano video)

🤣

a potential backline of Slabhead,Cucu and the argie midget,they might aswell play a 0-6-4 formation.Onana seems to like wandering into no man's land..

[Mhsc 876]

He would be a similar purchase to Carney for me. Might work out and might be ready to even play for us now, but its really hard to say until they get a run of games and we just see. If the deal is right, there is a tonne of potential upside, and little downside - probably the lowest expectation for his career would be that he ends up at a midtable PL club.

It is definitely a much bigger bet than Kudus so the deal has to be for far less money and far less wages.

[Vesper 28,795]

of the names I still see linked the ones in bold are the most likely at this point

    
Jamal Musiala fantasy
Randal Kolo Muani  (£85m is what Frankfort says is the price or GTFO)
Dusan Vlahovic
Darwin Núñez (lol)
Jonathan David  
Raphinha 
João Félix 
Jadon Sancho 
Jeremie Frimpong
Eberechi Eze
Ansu Fati  (hell NO)
Amine Gouiri   
Emile Smith Rowe (but too much money I wager)
Ivan Toney (January, but not if they demand £80m, which is madness)
Pedro Gonçalves  
Pervis Estupiñán 
Rayan Cherki  
Jean-Clair Todibo 
Ferran Torres 
Marcus Edwards
Thiago Almada
Gift Orban 
Bradley Barcola 
Antonee Robinson  

on edit added 

Cole Palmer

Edited August 30, 2023 by Vesper

[YorkshireBlue 3,122]

11 minutes ago, Vesper said:

of the names I still see linked the ones in bold are the most likely at this point

    
Jamal Musiala fantasy
Randal Kolo Muani  (£85m is what Frankfort says is the price or GTFO)
Dusan Vlahovic
Darwin Núñez (lol)
Jonathan David  
Raphinha 
João Félix 
Jadon Sancho 
Jeremie Frimpong
Eberechi Eze
Ansu Fati  (hell NO)
Amine Gouiri   
Emile Smith Rowe (but too much money I wager)
Ivan Toney (January, but not if they demand £80m, which is madness)
Pedro Gonçalves  
Pervis Estupiñán 
Rayan Cherki  
Jean-Clair Todibo 
Ferran Torres 
Marcus Edwards
Thiago Almada
Gift Orban 
Bradley Barcola 
Antonee Robinson  

You forgot Palmer lol 

[Mhsc 876]

Honestly I've got no beef with us picking up 'scraps' from City, should have taken Lavia, Gabriel Jesus and Zinchenko too when they were up for sale. Minimum is that the people they let go become very useful squad players wherever they go. They don't let bad players even exist in the first team squad.

[Jype 6,398]

Just now, Special Juan said:

Seeing statements like "City may not want to sell to a rival" 🤣 like saying Rotherham is a threat to us

We're not going to be of any threat to City in the short term but surely anyone looking at the squad we're building should think we could be onto something eventually.

Chilwell, Colwill, Badiashile, James, Gusto, Enzo, Caicedo, Lavia, Nkunku, Sterling, Jackson etc. is a great core for the next years IMO. There are still some question marks over long term suitability and quality of our GKs, RCBs and some of the wingers but at this point in the project that's to be expected. 

[Special Juan 27,424]

we have had a 35M bid rejected by City

[Gundalf 804]

Rumor gone as quickly as it came up lol

[Pizy 18,368]

If we get him I’m just curious where Poch sees him. As someone mentioned on the last page Sterling has started the season brilliantly on that right side of our attack. But it appears that’s Palmer’s best position. His next most natural position seems to be the #10 area. But what happens eventually when all of Nkunku, Carney, and Gallagher are fit?