Chelsea Transfers

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Toney rumour was just some Kaveh smoke

DiMarzio saying Chelsea to bid for Osimhen anticipating PSG interest

https://x.com/DiMarzio/status/18284836891201782

 

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Edited August 27, 2024 by TheHulk

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So basically United is the new Saudis? 😅

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1 hour ago, King Kante said:

Yeah. This is why I do not take this cunt seriously. He is literally like one of us who says they have an ITK.....

 

He keeps rehashing one story ten times but I think Romano has shown by now he's no Twitter ITK

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United will certainly get themselves into a pickle financially at this rate but I imagine good ol' Jim will hoodwink taxpayers into funding the Wembley of the north.. not that we can complain about circumventing rules. 

Shame about Toney, however, 400k a week with no tax, tricky. Easy for us to say XYZ but he's 29, past the point he should have left Brentford and has an opportunity, fair.

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2 hours ago, chelsea_4_eva said:

Only reason we're going after Sacho is financial. Any way to get rid of our higher wage player, as Sacho will be on lower wages.

Isnt he on more than Sterling? 

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🇳🇬 #ChelseaFC enters in action NOW for Victor Osimhen. Passionating last minute deal incoming… ⏳🔵 #CFC

 

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9 minutes ago, DH1988 said:

Isnt he on more than Sterling? 

Current salaries are Sterling 325k pounds per week, Sancho 250k pounds per week. Sancho did cut his wages to go back on loan to Dortmund, but it was just for the length of the loan.

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''Atalanta has made an attempt for Trevoh Chalobah. However, the negotiation is difficult due to the high salary that he receives at Chelsea and also the figures requested by the Blues.

So it sounds like this one might be over even before it has started. And to be honest, I don’t even think that Chalobah would be interested in such a move so wont happen''

As if we ever needed proof that journos print any old shit in the silly season. 

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#Chelsea have reached a general understanding on personal terms with Victor #Osimhen.
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I smell Osimhen👀

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If Osimhen finally happens, I feel our CF issues will finally be addressed. There's still a few more days to go, so anything could happen.

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Imagine Osimhen running towards you !

 

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Personally have reservations around Osimhen, too many to name, but its always the way with that type of number 9. If the only thing you contribute is goals, you damn sure better score a lot of them, because otherwise we're just playing with 10 men and a passenger. A bad season for such a player has to be 20 league goals but realistically he needs to be putting out 25+. His career history does not suggest this is realistic but hope he can do it if he comes.

I'll fully get behind him if he comes and in truth there are not a lot of options out there these days, and we could definitely use another finisher in the squad.

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PFA pushing to stop ‘bomb squads’ as strategy for forcing player exits

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5726144/2024/08/27/pfa-bomb-squad-premier-league/

The Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) is pushing for clubs to stop using ‘bomb squads’ as a way to force unwanted players to leave.

It has become common for players to find themselves training away from the first-team squad if they are deemed surplus to requirements before the transfer window closes.

That has happened at Chelsea this summer, with Raheem Sterling, Trevor Chalobah, and Ben Chilwell all being instructed to train separately from Enzo Maresca’s first-team group.

The PFA, the players’ union in England, is aware of what is happening at Chelsea but does not comment on their involvement in individual club cases.

In all cases where the PFA has been alerted to what is happening at a club, the first thing they do is to contact the member directly to get their view of the situation and to see how they can support the player.

They declined to comment when asked by The Athletic if they are in contact with Sterling, Chilwell, or Chalobah.

“We see this tactic used now because there is this opportunity to move players on before the deadline,” James King, general counsel of the PFA, previously told The Athletic when asked about ‘bomb squads’ in 2022.

“Managers change and they make an assessment of their squad, deciding that some players are not in their plans. But a player still has an employment contract and that is for a fixed term. The player is an employee and they have rights and protections like anyone else.

“This isn’t keeping a player’s skills up to the level they should be. These are professional footballers and the employer is obliged to train them at the highest possible level.

“We’ve got to be pragmatic because we understand how the industry works but you’ve got to also understand it from a player’s perspective. A lot of the time they’ve not done anything wrong. It’s just that they’re not fancied.”

In 2022, FIFA clarified its regulations on the issue and Article 14 (2) found that making a player train on their own could lead to a club engaging in “abusive conduct”.

The PFA lobbied for this guidance to be communicated to clubs because it is rooted in employment law.

FIFA’s position on ‘bomb squads’ also gives the players’ union something to reference when they make formal representations to clubs to remind them of their responsibilities.

High-profile sports lawyers are anticipating the possibility of future instruction, in case players want to claim it breaches employment law and take their clubs to court.

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'Players have rights like anybody else' - how 'bomb squads' could be breaking the law

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Looking like we are going to see how good VO can be.

 

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6 hours ago, Thor said:

He is such a meh player. Quite literally had one good season and it was filled with penalties. He is 28, had plenty of controversy around him, and just doesn't stand out at doing anything amazing. 

This is like a worse version of Demba Ba situation.