Chelsea Transfers

[Reddish-Blue 2,341]

On 30/09/2024 at 04:52, Vesper said:

only 5 GKers on the planet are now valued at £30m and over

Would take Ederson/Alisson/Courtois ahead of those 5 any day of the week.   Even Raya should be worth 30+ million right now with the way he is playing. 

Donnarumma is wasting his career at PSG, he should be at one of the top clubs competing for UCL titles etc. 

[IMissEden 18]

Sesko is just another system player designed for where he currently is ignore it 

[Pizy 18,360]

Tbh, with the way we’ve looked so far and the chances we create at will from our attacking mids I think any solid striker would score quite a few. And we have t even seen close to full form from any of Sancho, Neto, or Felix yet. They’re all still finding their feet.

Think Sesko would thrive here tbf. Whether I’d pay massive money for him is another question. I’d say no. 

[mkh 266]

Simon Philips reports The recruitment team really like Brazilian centre back from Nottingham Forest, Murillo , and they enquired about signing him in the summer just gone. However, at that point the price quoted was just far too much and the interest was shelved for now. Chelsea look to go back in for him in one of the next two windows, because he is high on our centre back shortlist.

[Vesper 28,715]

I am really starting to want this lad to come here

right footed CB 

 Martin Vitík

Edited October 1 by Vesper

[mkh 266]

2 hours ago, Vesper said:

I am really starting to want this lad to come here

right footed CB 

 Martin Vitík

Vitik for Disaster and Murillo for Badiashile🏄✅️

[Vesper 28,715]

7 minutes ago, mkh said:

Vitik for Disaster and Murillo for Badiashile🏄✅️

I absolutely can live with that

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[OhForAGreavsie 5,890]

On 30/09/2024 at 00:49, Vesper said:

Tyrique George needs to be loaned to RC Strasbourg next season IMHO

I was hoping he might start against Gent on Thursday but he played for the 21s tonight so that won't happen now. A place on the bench may not be impossible.

[Vesper 28,715]

madness how many fwbullbacks or CB/fullback combo players Arse have

plus Saka can play LB/LWB

Riccardo Calafiori 
Jakub Kiwior 
Oleksandr Zinchenko
Kieran Tierney 
 

Ben White  
Jurrien Timber
Takehiro Tomiyasu
Nuno Tavares  (on loan)

[Thor 2,392]

Our front 3/4 are better than anything we had even in the 2021 UCL run. 
 

It’s everything behind that needs time to gel and come together. Our FBs are not as good but certainly good enough. I think the CB depth needs help but aside from that - we should be good. 
 

Along with letting the midfield mature and grow. 

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

4 hours ago, Thor said:

Our front 3/4 are better than anything we had even in the 2021 UCL run. 
 

It’s everything behind that needs time to gel and come together. Our FBs are not as good but certainly good enough. I think the CB depth needs help but aside from that - we should be good. 
 

Along with letting the midfield mature and grow. 

All of our attacking players apart from mudryk are on an insane technical level and all of them have decent pace. While I would say we had overall better starting front 3/4 before (think Drogba,Lampard, Robben + Ballack/sheva/jcole)  I am not sure we ever had such great depth in terms of wingers and AMs. Mazacar+KDB,Salah comes close on paper but they weren’t all in their prime yet. 
football has evolved. Most of our previous great teams played more vertical or with more crosses and long shots, so central players were key. All of our PL winning teams had dominant midfields. We see this a lot less today with the focus on exploiting space in the channels, getting in behind and quick interplay in front of the box. Also there is a clear slow but steady upwards trend in goals scored (last PL season and last WC again set new records) . I think this is bc of both evolution of tactics but also mentality and quality of players. Defenders and goalkeepers are a lot worse at actual defending and shot stopping nowadays but are asked to take more risks as well. central/defensive and CFs are asked to do more donkey work and less attacking but also need more tactical awareness. Wingers/Ams and fullbacks are asked a lot more offensively but also enjoy more freedom. 

our current team fits modern football perfectly. They need this last bit of quality, maturity, grit and champions mentality to become really great. 

[mkh 266]

🗣️ Victor Osimhen: "I am worth over 100 million euros. There are few players in the world like me, who have reached such style and success. It all relates to my characteristics, what I do, and my quality. Therefore, I believe I deserve it."

[Strike 7,212]

Gotta say the board got it right with Duran - Should have pulled the trigger and we'd have the best backup forward in the league by miles

[Fernando 6,447]

4 minutes ago, Strike said:

Gotta say the board got it right with Duran - Should have pulled the trigger and we'd have the best backup forward in the league by miles

They have been getting everything right except GK and defense. 

Maybe they should get a specialist that identity defense? 

[OhForAGreavsie 5,890]

32 minutes ago, Strike said:

Gotta say the board got it right with Duran - Should have pulled the trigger and we'd have the best backup forward in the league by miles

He makes the 'failed medical' excuse look totally lame though. Wonder if he simply turned us down because he's looking for club where he is the projected starter?

Edited October 2 by OhForAGreavsie

[Vesper 28,715]

7 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

While I would say we had overall better starting front 3/4 before

2009/10 Double (Treble if you count the the CS, and Quad if you count us winning the World Football Challenge) 

103 EPL goals

+71 GD

attacking players:

    
Frank Lampard   
Michael Ballack    
Joe Cole 
Deco

Florent Malouda
Salomon Kalou 
Didier Drogba
Nicolas Anelka 
Andriy Shevchenko 
Daniel Sturridge

 

Edited October 2 by Vesper

[mkh 266]

Victor Osimhen is expected to be out of action for around 8 weeks after suffering a thigh strain while on loan at Galatasaray.

 

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[Vesper 28,715]

9 minutes ago, mkh said:

Victor Osimhen is expected to be out of action for around 8 weeks after suffering a thigh strain while on loan at Galatasaray.

 

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hard pass