Chelsea Transfers

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4 minutes ago, mkh said:

Don't forget the Duran deal to Chelsea didn't work out because Conor Gallagher didn't want to go to Aston Villa!!!😪😵‍💫

no

we could have bought him and sold Conor still (and still bought Felix to grease that) to Atleti

we not only fucked about with Shamu and Osimhen...................

BUT we also dropped (and this was with Villa)  €22.5m on Omari Kellyman (ANOTHER left-footed AMF/winger type, one of like 11 or 12 we now have, we could have just dropped the extra £21m and bought DURAN, and NOT bought some below, especially KDH OR sold some of the ones listed below that and not fucked about with Shamu and Osimhen)

plus

we also dropped (in terms of players who I either do NOT rate or are, like Kellyman, pure prosepects)

    
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall    €35.40m
     
Filip Jørgensen    €24.50m
     
Mike Penders    €20.00m

Caleb Wiley    €10.10m

112.5m euros there (94m quid) in toto

 

Villa only wanted £40m for Duran

Kellyman and KDH cost almost £50m

Jørgensen and KDH cost £50m

we already had Petro for GKer (who is playing great at Strasbourg btw) so zero need to dump out the cash for Jørgensen, OR if we wnated him no matter what, we could have sold Sanchez (I would have preffered that, I still am ragaing over why we ever bought him)

plus we were so busying fucking about with crazy complicated buys (multiple ones which blew up in our face) that we did not concentrate HARD on perma sales for suplus goods

we should have ALWAYS been trying to PERMA dump (from the moment the season ended, but no, we fucked about until it was too late)

Badi

Disasi

Chilwell

Broja (no buy obligation, no loan fee and only we also will pay his entire salary until Broja is ready to play)

Trevoh Chalobah  (no buy obligation)

Kepa Arrizabalaga (no buy obligation)

David Datro Fofana (no buy obligation)

Alfie Gilchrist (no buy obligation)

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the absolute shit buys since Roman's last year (the Lukaku nightmare buy)

I am not even counting the massive overpays for Caicedo and Enzo

the first 3 (italics) are looking dodgy so far, especially KDH

Omari Kellyman    Aston Villa      £19.10m (unless he blows up this may well be a bold rotter bust buy, especially as it helped to cost us DURAN, as shown above)
Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall    Leicester City    Leicester    £30.00m
Filip Jørgensen    Villarreal CF    Villarreal    £20..50m

Axel Disasi    AS Monaco    Monaco    £38.50m
Robert Sánchez    Brighton & Hove Albion    Brighton    £25.00m
Deivid Washington    Santos FC    Santos    £13..50m 
Wesley Fofana    Leicester City    Leicester    £75.00m including add-ons (massive overpay due to his being damaged goods BEFORE we bought him)
Mykhaylo Mudryk    Shakhtar Donetsk    Shakhtar D.    £60.00m + add-ons that take it to £89.00m
Raheem Sterling    Manchester City    Man City    £47.50m (plus an insane £325K PW 5 year contract)
Kalidou Koulibaly    SSC Napoli    SSC Napoli    £35.00m
Benoît Badiashile    AS Monaco    Monaco    £34.00m
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang    FC Barcelona    Barcelona    £10.50m
David Datro Fofana    Molde FK    Molde FK    $10.50m
Romelu Lukaku    Inter Milan    Inter    £97.50m with add-ons and subtracting loyalty payment from Inter to us (£118.10m now  in September 2024 when adjusted for pound sterling inflation!)

 

£566.20m in toto (gross transfer fees + some add-ons) when Lukaku is adjusted for inflation and the Mudryk add-ons are included

£448.10m (gross fees + some add-ons) of that is on Bo-Clownlake

for the Americans here, that £566.20m is over 3/4ers of a BILLION US dollars gross spend ($750.52 million at current FOREX rates)

Other than Wes Fofana (IF he stays healthy, but we still paid double what he was worth IMHO even then, as he was damaged goods) every player listed is either SHIT or (the first 3) potential (if not likely) shit.

 

Edited October 3, 2024 by Vesper

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https://football-observatory.com/WeeklyPost474

The 474th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the top 50 creators of chances in today world football, both in the Europe's big-5 and in 60 other leagues around the globe, according to an exclusively developed index (see below). The top Portuguese talent João Neves (Paris St-Germain) outranks the iconic Lionel Messi (Inter Miami).

 

For the five major European leagues, João Neves is ahead of Cole Palmer (Chelsea), Romano Schmid (Werder Bremen) and Lamine Yamal (Barcelona). At the level of the other 60 leagues included in the analysis, two Spaniards rank after Lionel Messi: Iñigo Vicente (Racing de Santander) and Riqui Puig (Los Angeles Galaxy). The youngest players in the top 50s are Lamine Yamal and Kenan Yildiz for the big-5, as well as Kendry Páez (Independiente del Valle, on loan from Chelsea) for the other leagues.

The chance creation index is calculated on a scale of 100 by adding the frequency of passes leading to a goal or a clear chance, passes made to the assistman (second assist), as well as passes breaking the opposition's defensive line received by a teammate (Wyscout). More explanations in this Monthly Report. The data refer to the current season's domestic league matches. Only footballers who played at least 360' have been included in the rankings.

Chance creation index ranking

Domestic league matches, current season until 30/09/2024.

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https://thedailybriefing.io/i/149653761/murillo-would-be-very-expensive-for-Chelsea

So guys, I’ve seen the rumours about Murillo and Chelsea, and what I can say is that Chelsea are following several players in the centre-back position but no talks taking place yet.

There are so many links but there’s nothing concrete or really advanced now.

Also, Murillo would be very expensive for any club as when Juventus thought about him last summer, Nottingham Forest didn't want to open the doors for him to leave.

Chelsea will look for Chukwuemeka solution in the new year

Sticking with Chelsea, Carney Chukwuemeka is still not playing. Why?

Enzo Maresca has always been very honest and clear with his players, and has never hidden things, even when he speaks to the press in public.

Maresca clarified that the plan this summer for Chelsea was for Carney to leave, but only to a club that would give him a good opportunity.

A club where he could play 38 games, not moving to a club where he was not going to be a regular starter.

This was why Chelsea rejected many approaches from Milan and others during the summer transfer window.

Carney ended up staying of course but he's not playing, so the club will look for a solution in January.

The player wants to play and Chelsea don't want him to stay out of the squad for too long, so work is in progress already.

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Chelsea have enough keepers… don’t need Hermansen

https://thedailybriefing.io/i/149698844/Chelsea-have-enough-keepers-dont-need-hermansen

Chelsea will not sign goalkeepers in January according to their current plan, so the information concerning Enzo Maresca moving for his Leicester keeper, Mads Hermansen, is false.

They already have many in that position with Jorgensen, Sanchez, and also Penders for the future.

So, it's already set for the goalkeepers future at Chelsea and I'm not aware of negotiations with any other GK in the market so far.

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• Maresca: “The club signed Misha Mudryk as a big player and at the moment, he is not playing in the Premier League. But things change quickly in football, I hope he can do great tomorrow. He did very well against Barrow.”

• Enzo Maresca has apparently been courting one of his former Leicester players. Fabrizio Romano has the truth on a potential pursuit.

• Cesare Casadei: “I’m not thinking about leaving Chelsea in January, not now. It was my decision to stay and not go out on loan, after speaking to Maresca. I never had plans to leave permanently. I always wanted to play for Chelsea, one of the biggest teams in the world.”

• Si Phillips takes a look at what Chelsea should expect in their Conference League tie vs Gent.

[mkh 580]

The plan remains for Chelsea and Ben Chilwell to part ways in January.

(@FabrizioRomano)

[Fernando 6,585]

16 hours ago, Vesper said:

In terms of an LCB, assuming we do not even remotely think about dumping 75 to 80m quid on Jarrad Branthwaite (I simply to do see us doing that, he likely goes to either Manure or Pool)....

then, from all that I am seeing atm, we likely move for for one of the 4 following (David Hancko turns 28yo next season, so outside our age perimeter)

Gonçalo Inácio

or

Murillo

or

Piero Hincapié

or

Castello Lukeba   (he also can play LB)

 

Any of them are massive upgrades over Badi
 

 

I think we might go for Murillo since he is already in the pl. Let's see how much he would cost. 

[Thor 2,698]

Need to chill on the KDH hate. He will come good. Decent squad option. 
 

People hating on a guy who has barely had play time apart from the lumpy pitches at conference league. 
 

Relax and let a player settle. 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,814]

 

[mkh 580]

‼️Chelsea are monitoring Santos youngster JP Chermont and evaluating a move for the full-back in the near future.

In fact, they sent a scout to watch him last Saturday in the win over Operário.

{Via@UOL}

 

Edited October 3, 2024 by mkh

[mkh 580]

Chelsea remain interested in Duran but sources close to Aston Villa say that it will take over "£80m" for anyone to sign him.
 

Chelsea owner Behdad Eghbali has expanded its business portfolio by completing a $2.1billion (£1.6bn) buyout of a software company in the US.

 via@Football_LDN

[mkh 580]

Chelsea and Aston Villa almost agreed on every term for Jhon Durán in the summer. Conor Gallagher was in the deal.

The deal collapsed. The issue was Gallagher rejected Villa, and he wanted to decide after Euro's future.

(@FabrizioRomano)

😜👌

Edited October 3, 2024 by mkh

[LAM09 7,048]

28 minutes ago, mkh said:

Chelsea and Aston Villa almost agreed on every term for Jhon Durán in the summer. Conor Gallagher was in the deal.

The deal collapsed. The issue was Gallagher rejected Villa, and he wanted to decide after Euro's future.

(@FabrizioRomano)

😜👌

If only Gallagher had played ball. 😔

I'm sure we'll revisit this transfer over the next two windows. However, we might be priced out of any potential move at this rate.

2 hours ago, Thor said:

Need to chill on the KDH hate. He will come good. Decent squad option. 
 

People hating on a guy who has barely had play time apart from the lumpy pitches at conference league. 
 

Relax and let a player settle. 

£30m for a squad player (money we'll most likely never recoup) while people complain about us buying whatever the flavour of the month is in SA.

Neither is ideal, but I know for sure which I prefer.

Edited October 3, 2024 by LAM09

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3 hours ago, Thor said:

Need to chill on the KDH hate. He will come good. Decent squad option. 
 

People hating on a guy who has barely had play time apart from the lumpy pitches at conference league. 
 

Relax and let a player settle. 

Agreed. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit to learn he was on a special training schedule to bring his fitness levels up. 
Playing time is usually limited in such cases.

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All the strikers we were linked with in the summer scoring for fun recently. Samu, Sesko and Duran. First time I have seen Samu play live and he looks good. 2 excellent finishes against United and generally looks a real handful. Mix of pace and aerial ability.