Chelsea Transfers

[Reddish-Blue 2,509]

24 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

So we have wasted a window and a chance to add to the team but instead we sent every fucker out on loan and bought some no mark from France

Well....at least we didn't add that Brighton striker!   That's a massive positive from the window.  

 

[Special Juan 28,141]

2 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

Well....at least we didn't add that Brighton striker!   That's a massive positive from the window.  

 

He was never ever coming here

[Reddish-Blue 2,509]

Just now, King Kante said:

Disaster will do well if all he has to do is attack set pieces in the opposition box and doesn't have to defend, pass or run back. 

He was fine at Monaco, keep him to his limited role and he'll be fine. 

I didn't get why the club/Maresca decided to use him as a RB, he wasn't a great defender to begin with and then you put him up against wingers and attacking mids....

[King Kante 1,643]

26 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

So we have wasted a window and a chance to add to the team but instead we sent every fucker out on loan and bought some no mark from France

Not sure who we where going to buy? At CF I am pretty convinced Delap is the player they want now. No way where Ipswich selling him in Jan. At CB, who was there? One of the players City brought? However, once City get involved it becomes very difficult owing to wages. Marmoush for instance is now on a reported £250-300k per week. If the AM option was Tel, then I am happy we didn't sign him. Luiz was the only player we were linked with that made any sense but his situation is complicated by his misses also having moved to Juve Women with him. That said, he age probably means he was never an option. At GK we already have 7. Only thing we could/should've done is brought back Petro and given them Sanchez. 

[King Kante 1,643]

5 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

He was fine at Monaco, keep him to his limited role and he'll be fine. 

I didn't get why the club/Maresca decided to use him as a RB, he wasn't a great defender to begin with and then you put him up against wingers and attacking mids....

People said the same thing about Bakayoko. 'He was good/ok' at Monaco'. In Bakayoko's case, I saw a lot of him at Monaco owing to that exciting team they put together and was telling everyone before we brought him that he was an absolute donkey and owed his career to Fabinho. 

As for Disaster, I suspect someone was also bailing him out, as I cannot see how he can be a functioning CB for a PL team unless they go full Dyche and having him sit on the 18 yard line hoofing balls down to pitch and only venturing out of the final third for set pieces. 

[Special Juan 28,141]

17 minutes ago, King Kante said:

Not sure who we where going to buy? At CF I am pretty convinced Delap is the player they want now. No way where Ipswich selling him in Jan. At CB, who was there? One of the players City brought? However, once City get involved it becomes very difficult owing to wages. Marmoush for instance is now on a reported £250-300k per week. If the AM option was Tel, then I am happy we didn't sign him. Luiz was the only player we were linked with that made any sense but his situation is complicated by his misses also having moved to Juve Women with him. That said, he age probably means he was never an option. At GK we already have 7. Only thing we could/should've done is brought back Petro and given them Sanchez. 

We should have been at least trying for Delap, like slapping a fee in front of them and make them knock it back as opposed to doing nothing. We are one injury away from disaster up front and as bad as Jacskon has been we actually need him. We have dicked around this month and got nothing that has strengthened us and simply made ourselves more exposed. 

[Thor 2,713]

Now that Duran Duran has gone on tour to Saudi - Delap is the next best thing. He is an animal at pressing and gets in the right places. 

Think him as a rotation to Jackson is what we need. 

Really need to sort our CBs out and I think the entire team looks better. 

[King Kante 1,643]

53 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

We should have been at least trying for Delap, like slapping a fee in front of them and make them knock it back as opposed to doing nothing. We are one injury away from disaster up front and as bad as Jacskon has been we actually need him. We have dicked around this month and got nothing that has strengthened us and simply made ourselves more exposed. 

Who is to say we didn't? A lot of our transfers aren't widely in the media until quite late. Additionally, Delap now vs the Summer is probably a very different proposition. Now, I reckon Ipswich would've asked for £100m+. They would have justified that by saying he is their best chance of staying in the league at that is worth £170m. 

In the Summer, with Ipswich likely relegated they won't be able to demand the same. The only issue may be City's £40m buyback but with the way they spent in the window you have to suspect they were loading up for a ban or some sort of punishment, so not sure they will be able to do anything. 

Honestly, I just do not think he was ever a possibility in the window unless we vastly overpaid. 

[Reddish-Blue 2,509]

Just now, King Kante said:

The only issue may be City's £40m buyback but with the way they spent in the window you have to suspect they were loading up for a ban or some sort of punishment, so not sure they will be able to do anything. 

How does the buyback work though?    Let's say someone bids 60 million for Delap, do City still get to buy him back at 40 million or do they waive that right and get some sort of sell on clause instead? 

Would make sense for City to just activate the clause and sell him to the highest bidder.   No wonder why they wanted that clause into O'Reilly's deal. 

[YorkshireBlue 3,277]

4 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

How does the buyback work though?    Let's say someone bids 60 million for Delap, do City still get to buy him back at 40 million or do they waive that right and get some sort of sell on clause instead? 

Would make sense for City to just activate the clause and sell him to the highest bidder.   No wonder why they wanted that clause into O'Reilly's deal. 

Pretty sure it’s first dibs on the player at the amount that was in the contract, so if it’s 40m they can buy him back for 40 million

[milka 3,393]

Clowlake out they feeding more Strasbourg  with kids to make money of them than Chelsea to be competitive  with proven players absolute pathetic management.

[NikkiCFC 8,325]

1 hour ago, Reddish-Blue said:

How does the buyback work though?    Let's say someone bids 60 million for Delap, do City still get to buy him back at 40 million or do they waive that right and get some sort of sell on clause instead? 

Would make sense for City to just activate the clause and sell him to the highest bidder.   No wonder why they wanted that clause into O'Reilly's deal. 

 

56 minutes ago, YorkshireBlue said:

Pretty sure it’s first dibs on the player at the amount that was in the contract, so if it’s 40m they can buy him back for 40 million

But if player rejects to go there nothing City can do. And why would he go there when they are already full of strikers. Here on the other hand it's easy to be number one. 

[Pizy 18,926]

That latest Fabrizio tweet about our plan for this kid we just signed is unbelievable. Payed 15m to basically rent this kid for a few months with zero intention of him actually being a long term Chelsea player. He probably won’t even be given a game by Maresca and then in the summer he goes to Strasbourg never to be seen or heard from again.

 

[Mhsc 1,097]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

That latest Fabrizio tweet about our plan for this kid we just signed is unbelievable. Payed 15m to basically rent this kid for a few months with zero intention of him actually being a long term Chelsea player. He probably won’t even be given a game by Maresca and then in the summer he goes to Strasbourg never to be seen or heard from again.

 

Surely it would just be an attempt to repeat the (somewhat) successful journey of Andrey Santos - go on loan for 2 years or so and if you are standing out in France as one of the best CM then maybe you get a shot to be integrated here?

[King Kante 1,643]

11 minutes ago, Mhsc said:

Surely it would just be an attempt to repeat the (somewhat) successful journey of Andrey Santos - go on loan for 2 years or so and if you are standing out in France as one of the best CM then maybe you get a shot to be integrated here?

This. Even if he doesn't reach Santos levels he then becomes a serviceable player for Strasborg and/or gets sold on for a small profit. 

I don't mind these sort of transfers, but we do need to get some decent players for the Chelsea first team. 

Edited February 4 by King Kante

[NikkiCFC 8,325]

So to sum up winter transfer window:

Defense

Out: Chilwell, Veiga and Disasi 

In: Anselmino, Chalobah and Josh introduced 

Midfield

Out: Casadei, Carney 

In: Amougou

Attack

Out: Felix and we lost Mudryk 

In: no one although George is now regularly part of the team 

Not important players so pretty much nothing changed. 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,819]

8 hours ago, DDA said:

Ahh that’s actually a shame. He looks solid. Thought we had him but loaned him back. Damn.

I guess I missed something?

 

 

[Mhsc 1,097]

30 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

So to sum up winter transfer window:

Defense

Out: Chilwell, Veiga and Disasi 

In: Anselmino, Chalobah and Josh introduced 

Midfield

Out: Casadei, Carney 

In: Amougou

Attack

Out: Felix and we lost Mudryk 

In: no one although George is now regularly part of the team 

Not important players so pretty much nothing changed. 

Thanks, tbh found it hard to keep track with the total mess we have in the squad, so Anselmino is a first teamer competing for a CB spot now? 

Looks like we managed to clear out a lot of B teamers and some Z-listers

Probably good from a financial perspective given how little most of these players have actually brought so far this season, and maybe good from a morale point of view for those who stay (more realistic chance to play serious minutes for all of them).

[LAM09 7,056]

7 hours ago, Stats said:

Nope, but getting rid of him while we are already kind of limited in attack and not having replacement signed up is crazy. He also is a mainstay in the UECL and the more we used our fringe players for that, the better chances it helps us in the league games as our first team players have more rest.

That was in the group stages. I'm sure Palmer will be added to our squad for the KO stages, so his game time would be even less. I totally agree someone should have been signed to fill his void, but we have been crying out for another CF for months and look where we are.

[Fernando 6,585]

1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

So to sum up winter transfer window:

Defense

Out: Chilwell, Veiga and Disasi 

In: Anselmino, Chalobah and Josh introduced 

Midfield

Out: Casadei, Carney 

In: Amougou

Attack

Out: Felix and we lost Mudryk 

In: no one although George is now regularly part of the team 

Not important players so pretty much nothing changed. 

Veiga I rated and shame he didn't get more games as CB. But if he had attitude problems with the coach then best he got a loan and that he does good is better for us so we can sell at a profit.