Chelsea Transfers

[DH1988 1,273]

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.

[DH1988 1,273]

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? 

[mkh 273]

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

 

via@SachaTavolieri

[ZAPHOD2319 4,479]

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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[Fulham Broadway 16,851]

''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. 

[jandomi10 82]

#Chelsea have reached a general understanding on personal terms with Victor #Osimhen.
Rudi Galetti

[mkh 273]

💬Conte likes Casadei 🔵

👀👀

via@SachaTavolieri

[iceboy 1,001]

I smell Osimhen👀

[LAM09 6,749]

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.

[ChrissWTF 10]

Imagine Osimhen running towards you !

 

Edited August 27 by ChrissWTF

[Mhsc 876]

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.

[Vesper 28,822]

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.

GO DEEPER

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

[ZAPHOD2319 4,479]

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. 

[YorkshireBlue 3,122]

9 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

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

 

Until tomorrow when we get a contradiction tweet 😂

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

On the plus side, if we sign Osimhen, kaveh and sky sit there with egg on their face after running the Chelsea move for Toney stuff for hours. I see they have discreetly pushed it down their homepage 

while I am not a fan of signing Osimhen bc of afcon, injury, general fitness, skill level etc the dealbreaker for me will be his salary. I hope that if we do make that big move and pay him those insane wages it is heavily incentivized both on goals and overall title sucess. If we sign him we cant pretend to be the underdog with some young inexperienced team anymore. Plenty of the players are 24,25 approaching their prime. We have to finish top 4 and win one of the cups (at least the incompetence league) 

[Pizy 18,368]

I wonder what the price could be if we do buy him. More than the €65m the Saudi club offered? The same? Less but with another player in addition to Lukaku going the other way?

If we got him for just the €65m and end up paying less for Osimhen than Spuds did for Solanke it would be pretty hilarious.