Chelsea Transfers

[Fernando 6,585]

19 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

Seems like Joe Shields is the hot scout at this moment. 

Everything he says we will listen and try to buy. Crazy what a good call on Palmer can do for ones reputation. 

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https://football-observatory.com/WeeklyPost475

The 475th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the 100 clubs worldwide whose footballers under contract have the highest aggregate transfer value (including players on loan to other teams). With a squad featuring many young stars bound by long-term contracts, Real Madrid clearly leads the way with the highest aggregate transfer value ever recorded for a football club: €1.728 billion.

Manchester City ranks second, with an 'owned-players' valuation of €1.471 billion. Another English club, Chelsea FC, is third: €1.388 billion. Despite recent results that have not always lived up to expectations, the Londoners have a squad that is both rich in numbers and young talented players tied by long-term contracts. In terms of the average value of players owned, Real Madrid are in first place, followed by three English clubs (Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool).

The estimates were calculated on the basis of a statistical model developed exclusively by the CIES Football Observatory, using a methodology explained in this peer-reviewed paper recently published in the International Journal of Financial Studies. The estimated transfer values of the best-valued player by club in over 60 leagues worldwide are available free of charge in this online tool.

Estimated transfer values of players owned (€ Million)

Top 100 per club - 01/10/2024 - Number of players - Average transfer value per player - % of the highest transfer value

 

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every team with an average player valuation of 15m euros and up

we are 9th, Real Madrid's average (€50.8m) is basically double ours (€25.7m)

in order:

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only Boca Juniors (62) have more players under contract than we do (54)

these are all the teams with 40 or more players under contract

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Lewa is tracking to a massive season at the age of 36

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Player Comparison: Liam Delap vs. Nicolas Jackson

https://fbref.com/en/stathead/player_comparison.cgi?request=1&sum=0&player_id1=dd897ee7&p1yrfrom=2024-2025&player_id2=9c36ed83&p2yrfrom=2024-2025

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Stats show perfectly what Chelsea team is missing to become title winning level

https://Chelsea.news/2024/10/stats-show-perfectly-what-Chelsea-team-is-missing-to-become-title-winning-level/

It’s a refrain you hear a lot at the moment about Chelsea. Despite their good start to the season, there’s still something missing when comparing the Blues to the top teams in the league, and the Chelsea teams of the past which won titles.

A ruthless goalscoring number 9 is often mentioned, despite Nicolas Jackson’s improvements over the last year. A top goalkeeper is another thing that often comes up, despite Robert Sanchez’s great showing at the weekend.

But one thing that’s been talked about for a long time is the need for a really dominant centre back. Levi Colwill, Wesley Fofana and even Tosin Adarabioyo all have their qualities, but none display the sort of hyper-alpha, John Terry style domination of their own box that takes a good defence and makes it great.

Some of this is intangible – just the “aura” and the leadership that top defenders have. But you can also measure it to some extent in terms of their “duel success.”

Chelsea still lack final defensive piece

We’ve had some really pretty easy fixtures compared to most of the top teams, yet we’ve got nobody in the top 5, as you can see above. Players like Virgil Van Dijk and William Saliba are exactly who you think of when you talk about these sorts of defenders, and they’re on the list despite having played harder games.

Of course you can still be a great defender and not make this list, and you can have a great defence and not have a player on this list. James Tarkovski is on the list and Everton have conceded the joint second most goals in the league.

But we still think it should be a stat that the club look into very closely next time they look to buy someone for the back line.

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Chelsea could be interested in another striker addition in January, who is currently smashing it in the Bundesliga.

https://www.footballfancast.com/Chelsea-want-to-sign-jackson-upgrade-marmoush-outscoring-harry-kane/

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According to reports from CaughtOffside, Chelsea are among the interested clubs in Frankfurt forward, Omar Marmoush.

The fee it would cost is believed to be around €40m (£33.5m) according to the reports. The 25-year-old has scored nine goals in nine appearances for the German outfit, also providing four assists in 747 minutes played.

The Egyptian has been labelled a "late bloomer" and "electric" by Sky Sports' Dougie Critchley, praising his versatility as a forward who can play as a striker, a number ten, or even from the left.

Marmoush has now made 50 appearances in all competitions for Frankfurt since joining the club in 2023, scoring 26 goals and providing 12 assists in 3,892 minutes played. The 25-year-old has also played for Wolfsburg, St Pauli (on loan), and Stuttgart (on loan), having come through the Wadi Degla academy, and Egyptian second-division team.

Frankfurt's number seven has been showing his ability to impact games, with some lovely 1v1 finishes, lovely ball manipulation in the box to create half a yard for himself, and blistering pace on the break to help get his side forward, creating for both himself, but also his teammates.

 

Marmoush is now outscoring Harry Kane in the Bundesliga this season, and if Chelsea went after him, where would that leave the in-form Jackson?

Marmoush vs Jackson comparison

The first thing to compare is the two player profiles here. Jackson is 22-years-old, has a 6 foot 1 frame, is a very wirey runner, and was developed in the academy as a left-winger, and therefore possesses some winger-like traits, such as his dribbling.

Comparatively, Marmoush is 25-years-old, is 6 foot, and as mentioned earlier, is considered something of a late bloomer.

FBref's "similar players" feature actually notes that Jackson is one of Marmoush's top most similar players which tells you their styles aren't too dissimilar, both liking to run the channels, use their pace and power in transition, and can manipulate the ball in tight spaces.

 

You can see from these metrics, even though Jackson is having a strong start to the season, Marmoush is on another level right now, scoring over a goal per 90 with 1.08, also assisting 0.72 goals per 90, whilst actually generating fewer xG than Jackson.

Expected Goals (xG) is a metric designed to measure the probability of a shot resulting in a goal.

His shot volume is high, taking 4.46 per 90, and getting 1.93 of these on target, but this does affect his goals/shot ratio slightly, as he scores at a rate of 0.19, which is 0.02 fewer than Jackson's 0.21 goals/shot ratio.

But Marmoush isn't just a clinical box finisher, he also has 5.97 shot-creating actions per 90, showing that ball manipulation ability we mentioned earlier, and how he can use it to create shots for himself, but also for others. This is matched by his 3.89 progressive carries and 2.36 progressive passes, which allow him to drive his team forward, something Jackson does very well too.

The dynamic of having both Jackson and Marmoush competing for that striker spot would be very interesting for Chelsea, maybe even pushing each other to get even better, or even playing so well, that you could play one of them from the left-wing, and transform the Chelsea attacking unit.

Edited October 10, 2024 by Vesper

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Journalist tips Chelsea to sell £35m player and sign his replacement in the January transfer window

https://www.thechelseachronicle.com/news/journalist-tips-Chelsea-to-sell-35m-player-and-sign-his-replacement-in-the-january-transfer-window/

Chelsea ensured they were busy over the summer in order to give the best possible backing to their new manager.

Enzo Maresca was gifted a host of new players, however so far only Jadon Sancho has nailed down a regular starting role in the Premier League.

With the money they spent on new players over the summer, it could be believed that they would be in for a quiet January transfer window.However, there are a number of players who have really struggled to break into the starting side that could be surplus to requirements when the opportunity arises again.

This has been the case for Benoit Badiashile so far, with the Frenchman failing to impress when sporadically featuring this season.

Benoit Badiashile predicted to leave Chelsea

There was interest in signing him back in the summer, however the Blues were unable to find a deal that would see him leave.

Journalist Graeme Bailey has exclusively predicted to The Chelsea Chronicle that they will sell the Frenchman in January, whilst also completing a deal to bring his replacement in at the same time.

He said: “When the January window comes I think they’ll be active, I do. I think we might see a left-sided centre-back come in, and Badiashile will go.

“I wouldn’t rule out a right-back, they’ll see what’s available. If we don’t see Reece James before January, I think that’s more likely.”

Levi Colwill performing really well

Badiashile has found it very difficult to displace Levi Colwill from the starting side this season, with the England international taking his game to a new level.

It is fair to say that this has come in tangent with him being played in his more natural position, rather than the left-back role that Mauricio Pochettino was keen to play him in.

After joining the club for £35m, injuries and recent poor form seem to have spelt the end for the Frenchman at Stamford Bridge.

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2 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Journalist tips Chelsea to sell £35m player and sign his replacement in the January transfer window

https://www.thechelseachronicle.com/news/journalist-tips-Chelsea-to-sell-35m-player-and-sign-his-replacement-in-the-january-transfer-window/

Chelsea ensured they were busy over the summer in order to give the best possible backing to their new manager.

Enzo Maresca was gifted a host of new players, however so far only Jadon Sancho has nailed down a regular starting role in the Premier League.

With the money they spent on new players over the summer, it could be believed that they would be in for a quiet January transfer window.However, there are a number of players who have really struggled to break into the starting side that could be surplus to requirements when the opportunity arises again.

This has been the case for Benoit Badiashile so far, with the Frenchman failing to impress when sporadically featuring this season.

Benoit Badiashile predicted to leave Chelsea

There was interest in signing him back in the summer, however the Blues were unable to find a deal that would see him leave.

Journalist Graeme Bailey has exclusively predicted to The Chelsea Chronicle that they will sell the Frenchman in January, whilst also completing a deal to bring his replacement in at the same time.

He said: “When the January window comes I think they’ll be active, I do. I think we might see a left-sided centre-back come in, and Badiashile will go.

“I wouldn’t rule out a right-back, they’ll see what’s available. If we don’t see Reece James before January, I think that’s more likely.”

Levi Colwill performing really well

Badiashile has found it very difficult to displace Levi Colwill from the starting side this season, with the England international taking his game to a new level.

It is fair to say that this has come in tangent with him being played in his more natural position, rather than the left-back role that Mauricio Pochettino was keen to play him in.

After joining the club for £35m, injuries and recent poor form seem to have spelt the end for the Frenchman at Stamford Bridge.

left-footed CBs

the ones in bold will be crazy hard to pull in January

Gonçalo Inácio
Sven Botman
Jarrad Branthwaite
Murillo
Piero Hincapié
Castello Lukeba 
Dávid Hancko 
Jorrel Hato
Jakub Kiwior 
Facundo Medina 
 

Abakar Sylla (R. Strasbourg player, so do not know if we can buy him)

youth

Jeanuël Belocian 
Yarek Gasiorowski (£37.5m release clause)
El Chadaille Bitshiabu  
Christian Mawissa   
Nathan Zézé

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Osimhen’s £109million release clause he had in the summer has expired and will be replaced with a much lower £68million clause that becomes active in January. Next summer, it will drop further to £63million.

 

https://www.corrieredellosport.it/news/calcio/calcio-mercato/napoli/2024/10/09-133883406/napoli_quanto_puo_puo_incassare_da_osimhen_a_gennaio_tutte_le_cifre?primo-piano

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia e Victor Osimhen, i gemelli dello scudetto, sono legati da un filo sottile che continua a unirli anche a distanza. Comunque piuttosto ridotta: Napoli e Istanbul sono separate da 1.233 chilometri in linea d’aria, e tutto sommato Khvicha fa scalo nella capitale turca ogni volta che torna dalla Georgia. Insomma, sono vicini. Più che mai in vista del prossimo mercato, collezione autunno-inverno: Kvara è sempre il protagonista di una trattativa di rinnovo fino al 2029 che ora farà tappa a Milano, sede del prossimo appuntamento tra il ds Manna e il suo agente Mamuka Jugeli, probabilmente già a fine ottobre, a ridosso della trasferta con il Milan o al massimo di quella con l’Inter (una decina di giorni dopo). Osi, invece, è stato ceduto in prestito al Galatasaray a inizio settembre, ma già a gennaio la nuova clausola rescissoria inserita nel suo contratto potrà essere attivata. Con un valore diverso rispetto a quello di giugno 2025: 81 milioni di euro, contro 75 milioni. 

[erinblue 24]

That boat has sailed...money his desire not winning at football & esp not at the Bridge!....😕

[milka 3,392]

Without top goalkeeper and CB we can't win anything . Colwill and Fofana are similar type defenders and they need experience alongside them to progress .

[Fernando 6,585]

10 hours ago, Vesper said:

left-footed CBs

the ones in bold will be crazy hard to pull in January

Gonçalo Inácio
Sven Botman
Jarrad Branthwaite
Murillo
Piero Hincapié
Castello Lukeba 
Dávid Hancko 
Jorrel Hato
Jakub Kiwior 
Facundo Medina 
 

Abakar Sylla (R. Strasbourg player, so do not know if we can buy him)

youth

Jeanuël Belocian 
Yarek Gasiorowski (£37.5m release clause)
El Chadaille Bitshiabu  
Christian Mawissa   
Nathan Zézé

I think we should try for Hincapié if we can't get murillo. 

[mkh 578]

Borussia Dortmund winger Jamie Gittens, who moved to Germany from Manchester City's Academy in 2020, is attracting interest from Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham.

(@BILD)

 

#Chelsea still believe that Mykhailo Mudryk is a top-level talent but there is a growing trail of thought that a loan move in January could be the best chance for him to find form and confidence.✅️