Chelsea Transfers

[robsblubot 3,595]

What J.Davis does for the Canadian team should be taken with a grain of salt, otherwise we should be signing James Rodriguez who currently warms the bench for São Paulo FC.
The level is so different from what we need that I'd not read too much into that tbh.

Now his goal tally, or rather attacking stats, in league 1 is definitely impressive.

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On 06/07/2024 at 12:45, YorkshireBlue said:

What was the last top signing under Roman? Hazard?

Kante

Jorginho

Diego Costa

Cesc

Kova

Kai (money wise, and did score the CL winning goal)

Rom (money wise)

Puli (money wise)

Kepa (money wise)

Morata (money wise)

Chilwell (money wise)

Timo (money wise)

 

all were after Eden

 

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Chelsea

https://thedailybriefing.io/i/146364459/Chelsea

• Samu Omorodion to Chelsea latest - the Blues are not giving up, according to Matteo Moretto in his latest exclusive column.

• After Renato Veiga deal, Chelsea are prepared to complete two signings for the future. Final details being sorted for Aaron Anselmino to join from Boca Juniors, progressing to the final stages. 2004-born full-back Caleb Wiley is also close to joining but the deal will be for Strasbourg.

• Basel confirm Veiga has left their camp to discuss a transfer: “Renato Veiga has left the training camp - he is in talks with another club.”

• Moises Caicedo: “At Brighton it was all tactical, just with the ball; ‘tactical, tactical, tactical’ and at Chelsea it was run, run, run and it was very difficult for me. With Chelsea I always ran a bit more and with Brighton we almost always had the ball, with Chelsea it was a different football and we had to run more.”

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Why Chelsea are signing Veiga

Analysis by Chelsea correspondent Liam Twomey

The acquisition of Veiga is another sign of Maresca’s influence on the recruitment strategy led by Chelsea’s co-sporting directors Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley, following the arrival of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall from Leicester City.

Veiga, unlike Dewsbury-Hall, is not a player Maresca has worked with before. He does, however, fit a specific profile that the Italian is looking for to help implement his style of play at Stamford Bridge: a left-sided defender who can invert from full-back into a defensive midfield role when Chelsea are in possession.

Marc Cucurella is also viewed as capable of performing that role, having been deployed in a similar manner by Maresca’s predecessor Mauricio Pochettino in the final stretch of last season. Veiga, however, offers a more aerially imposing option: at 6ft 3in tall (190cm), he addresses what some have identified as a relative lack of height in Chelsea’s squad.

Maresca will assess Veiga in pre-season and judge whether he is first-team ready or requires a loan spell to aid his development. He is essentially one year behind Riccardo Calafiori, who became a breakout star for Bologna last season after moving back to Italy from Basel in the summer of 2023 and has been widely touted as a transfer target for Chelsea in recent weeks.

Veiga’s modest transfer fee reflects that. Chelsea consider him an excellent value proposition, particularly considering that he is taller than Calafiori and has a cleaner injury history.

Above all he is the type of flexible, multi-positional player increasingly prized by progressive, possession-focused coaches like Maresca.

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On 06/07/2024 at 20:46, Blue Armour said:

I'll still maintain that central midfield is where we needed the big fix

CB (top need now), right footed LW, WC GK, and CF

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On 07/07/2024 at 15:16, mkh said:

Michael Golding has signed in as new Leicester City player from Chelsea for fee around £5m.

No buy back clause included.

Who is Michael Golding? Meet the England youth midfielder Leicester have signed from Chelsea

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5611512/2024/07/07/leicester-city-michael-golding-Chelsea-transfer/

New Leicester City manager Steve Cooper needs reinforcements across the pitch but the one department where he desperately needs more talent is in attacking midfield.

Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall’s £30million ($38m) move to Chelsea, the departures as free agents of Wilfred Ndidi and Dennis Praet, and the return of Yunus Akgun to Galatasaray after his loan spell have left Cooper with very few options if he wants to play with two high No 8s.

Leicester’s second signing of the Cooper era after the club recruited forward Bobby De Cordova-Reid on a free transfer following his Fulham departure is Chelsea’s Michael Golding, an 18-year-old attacking midfielder who, while in the Dewsbury-Hall mould, should be viewed not as his direct replacement but as one for the future.

Golding joins, in a separate deal to Dewsbury-Hall’s transfer in the other direction, for an initial fee of £3million potentially rising to £5m, having captained England at under-16, under-17 and under-18 levels, and having played in both the Under-17s European Championship and Under-17s World Cup in 2023.

He was a key member of the under-18 and under-21 sides at Chelsea as an industrious attacking midfielder, scoring eight goals and providing six assists last season. Such performances led to a senior debut, as a late substitute, in the FA Cup third-round win over Preston North End of the Championship at Stamford Bridge this past January.

Golding, who started his career across London at AFC Wimbledon’s academy before joining Chelsea after his under-12s season, only got nine minutes (including stoppage time) that day after coming on for Enzo Fernandez but showed his temperament and confidence, finding space and demanding the ball.

In this example, even though he initially doesn’t receive a pass when Malo Gusto is in possession, Golding continues to seek an open area to be an option.

He plays a skilful flicked one-two with Moises Caicedo before surging into the box and almost getting on the end of the resulting rebound after Noni Madueke has an effort on goal.

 

He had also shown previously, in appearances in the EFL Trophy for Chelsea Under-21s, what he is capable of.

In a 2-2 away draw against Northampton Town of League One last September, he found pockets in front of the home side’s defence before playing in Ronnie Stutter to score the opening goal.

He went on to score the second himself, squeezing an effort home after Billy Gee’s knockdown.

 

There isn’t a huge volume of footage of Golding so early in his career but there have been other examples of why Leicester were keen to bring in the west London-born midfielder.

While playing for England United-17s against their Faroe Islands counterparts in the Nordic Tournament in 2022, he again showed his strength and ability to deliver an accurate, defence-splitting pass after holding off a defender…

He displayed the same knack for breaking the lines with accurate forward passing in last November’s Under-17 World Cup in Indonesia, with Golding picking out Arsenal’s Ethan Nwaneri in a 2-1 group-stage defeat against Brazil.

When England beat Iran 2-1 in the preceding match, Golding’s strength and quality inside the opposition penalty box (an area of the game where Dewsbury-Hall made huge progress last season under Enzo Maresca) could be seen, receiving the ball with his back to goal, rolling a defender and getting the shot away.

 

Leicester should be patient and not throw Golding into the fray too quickly amid the pressure of an expected Premier League survival battle in the coming season.

They have other young players coming through the ranks who will also be pushing for opportunities, including Sammy Braybrooke, Will Alves and Ben Nelson, who featured nine times last season under Maresca. Braybrooke and Alves have returned from long-term injuries but all three have recently been on England duty with the under-20s, having come through the international youth ranks as Golding has.

Had it not been for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) knee injuries, which kept them out for a year, Braybrooke and Alves would be further along in their developments, ideally having spent a loan spell away from the club playing senior football at lower levels, as Nelson did in the 2022-23 season with League Two (fourth division) sides Rochdale and Doncaster Rovers.

Dewsbury-Hall’s loans at Blackpool, in third-tier League One, and Luton Town, then of the second-tier Championship, were the main reason he made such an impact once he broke into the Leicester senior side. Golding has yet to experience a loan spell but is ready to step up and experience a different environment, as well as the extra pressures of first-team football.

Leicester have only just started their transfer business this summer.

With concerns over profitability and sustainability rules (PSR), they have held back on any incomings as they needed to reduce costs in an attempt to avoid a second charge for a PSR breach for the period covering the 2023-24 season. However, after the financial belt-tightening of the past year, which has seen 10 senior players leave as free agents and four assets sold (Dewsbury-Hall, James Maddison, Harvey Barnes and Timothy Castagne) since their initial relegation from the Premier League, the shackles may be a bit looser.

There will not be a huge budget and the deal to make Abdul Fatawu’s 2023-24 loan from Sporting Lisbon permanent will take up a chunk of the funds available, but Cooper will need further backing to get Leicester in strong enough shape to compete in the Premier League, with midfield now the priority.

Time will tell what Leicester have planned for Golding but they believe they have signed a player who, in time, will be able to make an impact on their first team like Dewsbury-Hall did.

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Leicester Transfer DealSheet: Ndidi in limbo; Fatawu latest; Maresca's plans on hold

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Chelsea reach agreement with Atlanta United to sign Caleb Wiley

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5624615/2024/07/08/Chelsea-transfer-news-caleb-wiley/

Chelsea have reached an agreement in principle with Atlanta United to sign left-back Caleb Wiley.

The 19-year-old USMNT international is set to join for a fee of around £8.5million ($10.9m) and on a contract until June 2031.

Wiley is expected to be sent on loan to Strasbourg next season for regular first-team football.

The negotiations for Wiley — who on Monday was named in the United States squad for the Paris Olympics — were helped by good relations between the Premier League club and their Major League Soccer counterparts.

Wiley has been twice capped by the senior U.S. side since making his debut last year. He was not part of Gregg Berhalter’s squad for Copa America.

Chelsea have been very active in targeting young players at the start of the summer transfer window and have already brought in Omari Kellyman from Aston Villa and Barcelona striker Marc Guiu.

They also look set to add Boca Juniors defender Aaron Anselmino and have an agreement with FC Basel to sign versatile defender Renato Veiga.

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Maresca to introduce 'right mentality and culture' at Chelsea

[YorkshireBlue 3,275]

4 hours ago, Vesper said:

Kante

Jorginho

Diego Costa

Cesc

Kova

Kai (money wise, and did score the CL winning goal)

Rom (money wise)

Puli (money wise)

Kepa (money wise)

Morata (money wise)

Chilwell (money wise)

Timo (money wise)

 

all were after Eden

 

So kante then 😂

[Thor 2,700]

A CB and I’m happy. I think this team can compete. 
 

A right footed winger would be nice too. Think we do more than fine with the forward options we have in Jackson and Nkunku. 

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2 minutes ago, Thor said:

A CB and I’m happy. I think this team can compete. 
 

A right footed winger would be nice too. Think we do more than fine with the forward options we have in Jackson and Nkunku. 

If GKer doesnt worry you, then I do not kow what would.

Petro is a decent backup

Slonina looks like a long term project (and was still a teen just seveal months ago)

the rest are meh

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

Scary thing is that albeit looking better than Sanchez , Petro was still the 2nd worst goalie in the league last season. He is more conventional and his errors were less spectacular but he let in a ton of save able shots . Sanchez is terrible with his feet but he has made some great saves and underperformed his xG conceded by less 

None are good enough ofc. No idea how good Slonina is  but don’t see us buying mamar until we sell one or two of the useless bunch 😕

Edited July 9, 2024 by Magic Lamps

[Special Juan 28,141]

We will go another two steps back if Sanchez is our keeper going into the new season, the fact it is even been discussed makes me sick.

I'm looking around the team, the purchases and the overall big picture and I will say this now, not much has changed and will.

I bet we skip buying a winger and Maresca puts full faith in fucking Sterling and Mudryk, I cannot think of anything worse, both are absolute shite

[Mhsc 1,097]

Been saying since the day Maresca was appointed the new number 1 priority has to be a GK, I don't really believe that Sanchez is perceived to be the answer. He would be a high quality no.2 if he is happy to do that role. I do think he is a good shot stopper and could have found form as a traditional GK and won fans over, but I just don't see him playing the role of a GK we need who can slot into a back 4 in possession and look totally composed and relaxed like a CB.

I guess our goalkeeper coach who worked with him for years would know better what the guy can do in training but I never saw that from him on the field. He is not calm enough.

[Special Juan 28,141]

Falk is saying we are in negotiations for Adeyemi

[Pizy 18,897]

I guess the idea from the club is that with Marescaball where we’ll be playing with 3 in midfield all the times (thus giving us more control of the ball and territory) and also having Reece back & Cucu inverted in there for extra defensive help will paper over the weak goalkeeper?

I don’t think the club genuinely feels like Sanchez is going to suddenly turn into Ederson or Allison, surely. At least I hope not. This feels like them wanting to get one last look at him until January to see if he improves considerably in a different system. If he doesn’t then we’ll get someone more suitable in the winter window.

[mkh 580]

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[Special Juan 28,141]

These Adeyemi rumours are not moving. Sounds like Barcelona are fully bum loving Nico Williams by Leporta declaring his undying love for him yet we cannot afford him apparently? Aren't Barca in dire situation with finances but can apparently make this happen?

Are we seriously not pushing for this Williams fella over Adeyemi?

[Pizy 18,897]

As for Adeyemi, he’s unbelievably rapid, is a great dribbler, is lethal when isolated in 1v1 situations, and has great work rate from what I’ve seen. But his end product and decision making are what let him down. That’s the biggest criticism I see of him from people who watch him regularly.

His profile looks like a player who would be amazing in a PL team that sits deep and counter attacks constantly. Then you can maximize his insane pace as the other team turns the ball over on your side of the pitch. But we will be a side who dominates the ball and facing those low blocks. Will a player like Adeyemi even be effective in this scenario? I’m very skeptical.

 

[TheHulk 2,437]

Would welcome a move instead going for super frauds like Samu who is a nothing player.

[Reddish-Blue 2,503]

37 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Are we seriously not pushing for this Williams fella over Adeyemi?

Williams would want 250k+ a week or something like that, that's why a number of the PL clubs aren't that keen on the transfer.