Chelsea Transfers

[Vesper 29,165]

I easily prefer Garnacho over Adeyemi

all day, all night

[mkh 331]

Four different clubs have approached Chelsea to discuss the future of Deivid Washington who wants to leave the club.

(@venecasagrande)

[robsblubot 3,561]

Just now, mkh said:

Four different clubs have approached Chelsea to discuss the future of Deivid Washington who wants to leave the club.

(@venecasagrande)

Likely returning to Brazil. Wasn't good enough to leave yet anyway.

[Vesper 29,165]

19 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

The hate for him is so strange it's almost embarrassing at this point but whatever floats the boat I guess. This guy is making due with whatever limited minutes he is getting while Noni pulls trash after trash performance but most don't mind it.

I have zero hate for Felix

I just think he is not the type of player for us (I wish he was, I think he is fun to watch)

there are many teams (good teams) he would be better suited for

he would be a monster at Atalanta, for instance

same for Bayer Leverkusen or Eintracht Franfurt

Dortmund perhaps

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Vesper

[TheHulk 1,937]

6 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I easily prefer Garnacho over Adeyemi

all day, all night

I'd prefer Gittens over both of them.

[robsblubot 3,561]

20 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

The hate for him is so strange it's almost embarrassing at this point but whatever floats the boat I guess. This guy is making due with whatever limited minutes he is getting while Noni pulls trash after trash performance but most don't mind it.

I don't hate him, but I also don't rate him--never did.

It's not strange at all. We know him. He has played for the club before. He was employed as a false 9 because he can't play anywhere else in modern football, and he's not good enough as a false 9 for a club like Chelsea.

He's not a new player waiting to show his stuff; we all know his game from his performances at Chelsea, in Spain, and for Portugal. 🤷‍♂️
Is it really a surprise that Maresca does not seem to rate him either?

[TheHulk 1,937]

4 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

I don't hate him, but I also don't rate him--never did.

It's not strange at all. We know him. He has played for the club before. He was employed as a false 9 because he can't play anywhere else in modern football, and he's not good enough as a false 9 for a club like Chelsea.

He's not a new player waiting to show his stuff; we all know his game from his performances at Chelsea, in Spain, and for Portugal. 🤷‍♂️
Is it really a surprise that Maresca does not seem to rate him either?

The problem isn't that he doesn't rate him, problem is that he rates worse players than him instead of making the most of what he has at his disposal right now. Serial losers like Noni should be on the bench indefinitely, guy was celebrating and screaming for pushing a ball that was going in anyways whereas being complete wank otherwise.

Edited 3 hours ago by TheHulk

[Vesper 29,165]

Just now, TheHulk said:

I'd prefer Gittens over both of them.

oh, for sure

and you can add in

Florian Wirtz 
Jamal Musiala 
Bradley Barcola
Rafael Leão
Xavi Simons     
 

plus a wild card (basically impossible)

Rodrygo (he is right footer who plays out of postion on the right wing at Real due to RM's overload on the left wing)

 

I fucked up (position-wise) in a post last week and also listed Johan Bakayoko of PSV Eindhoven, but he is a left-footed right-winger, the last thing we need due to all the incomings and already-heres

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16 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

The problem isn't that he doesn't rate him, problem is that he rates worse players than him instead of making the most of what he has at his disposal right now. Serial losers like Noni should be on the bench indefinitely, guy was celebrating and screaming for pushing a ball that was going in anyways whereas being complete wank otherwise.

No fan of Noni here. Think he lacks skill -- the selfishness bit only makes it worse as it is on display when we have to defend.

Still it's a team balance thing: if we had Sancho on the left, Felix on the right, and Cole in the center, we would lose a lot more than win. Just not enough people doing the defensive tasks.

Edited 2 hours ago by robsblubot

[Vesper 29,165]

Gyökeres top scorer for the last year

https://football-observatory.com/WeeklyPost488

 

The 488th CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the 100 players who have scored the most goals in official club or national team matches (senior, U23 or U21) over the last year. Sporting CP's Swede Viktor Gyökeres is clearly at the top of the list with no fewer than 64 goals: 54 for his club and 10 at national team level.

Erling Haaland (Manchester City and Norway) and Harry Kane (Bayern Munich and England) complete the podium with 52 and 47 goals respectively. In terms of goal frequency, the top three are Irishman Garbhan Coughlan of Cashmere Technical in New Zealand (one goal every 43 minutes), Japan's Tomoyuki Doi of Geylang United in Singapore, and Uruguay's Martín Cauteruccio of Sporting Cristal in Peru.

The Post also presents the rankings for the last two and three years. Over the last two years, nobody has scored more goals than Erling Haaland (101), while Kylian Mbappé tops the last-three-year list with 147 goals. The youngest player in last year's top 100 is the Spaniard Chupete (Atlético Malagueño), while the evergreen Cristiano Ronaldo (Al-Nassr and Portugal) is the oldest.

Highest number of goals scored in official matches

Club domestic (CL-DOM) or international competitions (CL-INT) and national team matches senior, U23 or U21 (TM-NAT)

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[Pizy 18,510]

Please, Napoli, don’t fucking do this to us! Don’t switch targets from Garnacho! 😫😫😫

[Special Juan 27,507]

Bayern can fuck off the cheeky cunts...we go in for one of theirs and it's all "Hands off he is going nowhere" coming knocking for one of ours and they want us to suck them off as well 

[LAM09 6,824]

58 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I'm still left scratching my head as to why we didn't even consider De Gea. He was a free agent for months & has shown he still has it at Fiorentina.

 

Edited 2 hours ago by LAM09

[Pizy 18,510]

Just push harder for Douglas Luiz on loan and buy a striker. That would be a perfectly acceptable January window. 

Forget doing something really fucking dumb like splashing insane money on Garnacho. 

[King Kante 1,524]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

Club board are like, 'you watch, give Rob enough time, and he will evolve his game and become amazing' 

Chelsea fans: 

[Vegetable 830]

39 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

I'm still left scratching my head as to why we didn't even consider De Gea. He was a free agent for months & has shown he still has it at Fiorentina.

Had De Gea ever been Brighton player? There goes the answer.

Plus, buying actually decent, developed players didn't fit the club policy, even though it seems like a reasonable move regarding few positions and that I can somewhat understand, repeating Thiago Silva case any time soon seem mathematically unlikely.

[mkh 331]

Chelsea are demanding at least £70m before allowing Christopher Nkunku to join Bayern Munich. 

(via@SkySports)