Chelsea Transfers

[Pizy 18,928]

7 minutes ago, DH1988 said:

The length of the contracts now that the rule is in place on depreciation makes me really think we are in for some ban. Especially the Palmer deal.

Might be part of it. Secure our assets on super long contracts so that if any kind of punishment ever happens a bunch of other clubs can’t swoop in like vultures and take away our best players for peanuts.

But I think this is mostly just a very American way of doing things as I well know as an American. 

[TheHulk 2,467]

Get the fuck to Saudi already.

[Vytis33 1,272]

[mkh 598]

Chelsea are set to pay Atlético Madrid €50m plus €10m in bonuses for João Félix.

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[Vegetable 830]

Felix may be an oddball as is Sterling, but IF we'd get VO I wonder whether it would mean Clearlake decided to quietly move from the "only exciting project players" philosophy into more realistic approach without loudly admitting it doesn't work in top football or it's a sign of scattergun whatever stick haywire approach, especially in context of potential ban. If so, it's interesting concept to wade into multi-window transfer ban without a goalkeeper or rather with bus full of Championship level ones.

[Pizy 18,928]

Trying to imagine which PL clubs outside the Big 6 would be interested in Sterling and who would be rich enough to pay him a huge wage. The on,y ones who have really been splashing the money in recent years are West Ham, Newcastle, and Villa. But all of those clubs have key players in wide positions already.

Sterling would probably think he’s far too good to go somewhere like Palace who would probably love him to replace Olise.

So with all of that being the case he pretty much has to move abroad. But most of these big non-PL clubs like the Italians are broke. Like, I can absolutely see Inter/Milan/Juve/Roma proposing a loan for him with their cheap asses. 

His options and ours are super limited. This is why I’d have held off on trying to bin him and tried to move Mudryk instead.

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

12 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

Felix may be an oddball as is Sterling, but IF we'd get VO I wonder whether it would mean Clearlake decided to quietly move from the "only exciting project players" philosophy into more realistic approach without loudly admitting it doesn't work in top football or it's a sign of scattergun whatever stick haywire approach, especially in context of potential ban. If so, it's interesting concept to wade into multi-window transfer ban without a goalkeeper or rather with bus full of Championship level ones.

Maybe the extent of the evidence they have presented to the premier league is really bad and know we are in for a massive transfer ban or even relegation, got decent young players in on minimal wages to see us threw the bad patch then after they can sell them on at a profit. Truth is we have know idea what's going on and why, it's all guess work.

Edited August 19, 2024 by YorkshireBlue

[mkh 598]

Crystal Palace are closely monitoring Carney Chukwuemeka's situation but may be put off should the asking price move much beyond the £20 million.

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[NikkiCFC 8,327]

1 hour ago, Pizy said:

We’re paying only about £10m more for Felix than Leicester just payed for Oliver Skipp. A player who any time I’ve watched doesn’t even look like a PL caliber footballer.

Yes but we paid 26m more for Mudryk a player who any time I've watched doesn't even look like a footballer. 

[Mário César 1,278]

it's in these things that you see how wrong the direction is

sterling may have many faults, but he's better than mudryk and wanting to give up sterling and bet on mudryk says a lot about our problems

it's better to keep sterling for another year and then sell him 

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

13 minutes ago, Mário César said:

it's in these things that you see how wrong the direction is

sterling may have many faults, but he's better than mudryk and wanting to give up sterling and bet on mudryk says a lot about our problems

it's better to keep sterling for another year and then sell him 

Or, to play devil's advocate, Sterling is on enormous wages. Perhaps we need them off the books to be able to give Osimhen what he wants.

Osimhen improves our squad far more than what Sterling offers. For similar wages I know who I'd rather. 

I may be well off the mark though.

[Pizy 18,928]

15 minutes ago, Mário César said:

it's in these things that you see how wrong the direction is

sterling may have many faults, but he's better than mudryk and wanting to give up sterling and bet on mudryk says a lot about our problems

it's better to keep sterling for another year and then sell him 

As @We Hate Scouse says below this is 100% about Sterling’s wages. That’s it. If he was on the same wage as Mudryk he would absolutely have been the one to stay.

Maybe the club can pull off a miracle and BOTH can be sold this summer.

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

23 minutes ago, Mário César said:

it's in these things that you see how wrong the direction is

sterling may have many faults, but he's better than mudryk and wanting to give up sterling and bet on mudryk says a lot about our problems

it's better to keep sterling for another year and then sell him 

Mudryk and sterling are the same player except mudryk has more pace, they both just run into players constantly all game, ones on huge wages the other isn't, sterling is the obvious choice to go.

[Mário César 1,278]

4 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Mudryk and sterling are the same player except mudryk has more pace, they both just run into players constantly all game, ones on huge wages the other isn't, sterling is the obvious choice to go.

n he is not

sterling is far better than mudryk, which it isn't much hard to be better than mudryk

if we sold sterling and get VO it is fine for me

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

4 minutes ago, Mário César said:

n he is not

sterling is far better than mudryk, which it isn't much hard to be better than mudryk

if we sold sterling and get VO it is fine for me

Your missing the point, better or worse they do exactly the same thing and they are both shit at it! So who do you keep big wages or small wages? It's not even a question.... You keep the least paid shit house

[TheHulk 2,467]

 

[TheHulk 2,467]

When you take into consideration his age and his wages Sterling is the biggest fraud in this team. Least Mudryk has age excuse Sterling still plays like a 20 years old.

Edited August 19, 2024 by TheHulk

[Mário César 1,278]

if sterling help us to get 4th place and mudry not, I think I know what choice I will make 

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

11 minutes ago, Mário César said:

if sterling help us to get 4th place and mudry not, I think I know what choice I will make 

Stop smoking weed for a second! For the left we now have mudryk, Neto and looks like Felix as well, nkunku can play there also! Wtf do we need sterling for exactly? 

[Mário César 1,278]

4 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Stop smoking weed for a second! For the left we now have mudryk, Neto and looks like Felix as well, nkunku can play there also! Wtf do we need sterling for exactly? 

we need to offload mudryk first and after this season we sell also sterling but not now

we need quality and sterling is far better than mudryk