Chelsea Transfers

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CFs

    
Alexander Isak 
Lautaro Martinez 
Viktor Gyökeres 
Victor Osimhen     
Benjamin Sesko
Jonathan David

Hugo Ekitiké
Matheus Cunha 
Dusan Vlahovic  
Victor Boniface 
Liam Delap  
Conrad Harder    
 

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4 hours ago, King Kante said:

Can't judge a player by highlights but I agree. I am not sure what the hype is about from the clips. Hopefully, his all round game is much more developed. Otherwise he is a three year project imo and a Mudryk type risk. 

My opinion is that you can't make an accurate positive judgement from highlight videos but you can reach a more reliable negative judgement. If a player looks good in highlight vids you always need to see more, but if he looks bad, and depending on what in particular is bad, you have almost always seen enough already.

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2 hours ago, Vesper said:

CFs

    
Alexander Isak 
Lautaro Martinez 
Viktor Gyökeres 
Victor Osimhen     
Benjamin Sesko
Jonathan David

Hugo Ekitiké
Matheus Cunha 
Dusan Vlahovic  
Victor Boniface 
Liam Delap  
Conrad Harder    
 

Listed in order of preference?

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Isak would cost £180m or something impossible for anyone these days unless PSG for instance comes for him. No PL team is touching him unless his contract is nearly up. People can forget about him.

Tbh, if Jackson returns the rest of this season and returns to form I don’t think adding Delap as his rotation option would be the worst thing. Is it ideal when Sesko or Osimhen are there to be had? No. But he can be a real weapon in the PL as we witnessed first hand when we played them.

 

[mkh 601]

🚨 Barring any last-minute surprises, João Félix will be back at Chelsea; then they will decide whether to keep him or try to find a different solution. Maybe in Turkey or Saudi Arabia, or maybe some opportunity in Portugal with Benfica. We will see.

(@FabrizioRomano)

🟤Kyle Walker in the last Match to Felix "PASS THE BALL WE ARE NOT MESSI"😳😳😳

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2 hours ago, mkh said:

🚨 Barring any last-minute surprises, João Félix will be back at Chelsea; then they will decide whether to keep him or try to find a different solution. Maybe in Turkey or Saudi Arabia, or maybe some opportunity in Portugal with Benfica. We will see.

(@FabrizioRomano)

🟤Kyle Walker in the last Match to Felix "PASS THE BALL WE ARE NOT MESSI"😳😳😳

Kyle Walker delivers brutal seven-word put-down to team-mate Joao Felix as AC Milan slump to defeat at Napoli

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-14556935/Kyle-Walker-brutal-Joao-Felix-AC-Milan-slump-defeat-Napoli.html

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MORE Fichajes bullshit

so so many sites just quote their dosh with no due diligence

it is a fucking pandemic of fake news 🤬

 

AC Milan and PSG look to make a move for Chelsea’s promising talent

https://psgtalk.com/2025/04/ac-milan-psg-target-Chelsea-talent-strasbourg/

Fichajes reports that PSG and AC Milan are eyeing Santos to strengthen their midfield in the upcoming transfer window. Milan sees Santos as an ideal option, especially following the recent departure of Ismael Bennacer.

Moreover, the report also claims that Chelsea have not yet made a final decision on his future, with Milan considering a loan without an option to buy. Meanwhile, PSG could make a move to sign him permanently.

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ffs............................🤬

 

Robert Sanchez likely to compete with 25 year old next season says insider update

https://Chelsea.news/2025/03/sanchez-next-season-compete-insider/

Chelsea’s goalkeeping situation is now a major topic ahead of this summer, Matt Law did a really good piece today where he explained the club’s plan.

The headline news is that they’re not thinking about buying a goalkeeper. We’re sure they would still consider it if a big bargain came up, but for now they want to put their faith in the 4 they’ve bought in the last couple of years.

The senior man (who has been dropped for poor performances 3 years in a row), Robert Sanchez.

The man bought to compete with him last summer who was then dropped for poor performances, Filip Jorgensen.

The man bought the year before, who has shone on loan this season at Strasbourg, Djordje Petrovic.

And the rising star, 19 year old Mike Penders.

They can’t all fit – they certainly can’t all play. As it stands, we forsee Jorgensen going to Strasbourg to replace Petrovic, who will come to Chelsea and compete with Robert Sanchez again (putting us right back where we were a year ago, by the way).

Penders isn’t ready for first team action in the Premier League yet, so he will be loaned somewhere he can play every week at a good level, with a view to being number one as soon as he’s deemed ready.

Can Chelsea rely on improved Petrovic?

The stats show that Petrovic has had a brilliant season, and we would have picked him ahead of Sanchez for this season anyway. But despite his obvious improvements on the ball, there will be very justifiable concerns and frustrations about Chelsea starting yet another year without having bought a super reliable and experienced goalie.

If Petrovic keeps his French form up next season we’re sorted. If he doesn’t – well, we’ll be back here again in 12 months.

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Chelsea make approach for Huijsen after "direct contact" from Maresca

The website and journalist Fermin de la Calle reports Chelsea have approached Bournemouth over signing Huijsen, as have PSG, Man United, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, but Maresca has done serious homework on the player.

The Blues boss has strong connections to the defender through Malaga, and he's been in "direct contact" with Huijsen's representatives "for years".

 

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5 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Chelsea make approach for Huijsen after "direct contact" from Maresca

The website and journalist Fermin de la Calle reports Chelsea have approached Bournemouth over signing Huijsen, as have PSG, Man United, Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, but Maresca has done serious homework on the player.

The Blues boss has strong connections to the defender through Malaga, and he's been in "direct contact" with Huijsen's representatives "for years".

 

If he has been so much aware why didn't he recommend Huijsen last Summer when Juve made him available? Was too busy pushing Dewsbury-Hall ibto the club?

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Maresca cant take us to the "next level" with his slow passing pointless football! The football philosophy changed and now a days even Spain and Guardiola doesnt play such awfull football.. 

[mkh 601]

🚨🔵 Brighton midfielder Carlos Baleba is being scouted by top clubs, including Chelsea.

(@alex_crook)

 

🔴AFC Bournemouth puts the price tags on the players: (Milos Kerkez - £45m)
(Antoine Semenyo - £75m)
(Dean Huijsen - £50m release clause) 
(Ilya Zabarnyi - £50m)
for transfers in the summer of 2025.

(The Times)

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36 minutes ago, mkh said:

🚨🔵 Brighton midfielder Carlos Baleba is being scouted by top clubs, including Chelsea.

(@alex_crook)

 

🔴AFC Bournemouth puts the price tags on the players: (Milos Kerkez - £45m)
(Antoine Semenyo - £75m)
(Dean Huijsen - £50m release clause) 
(Ilya Zabarnyi - £50m)
for transfers in the summer of 2025.

(The Times)

I’d just get Kerkez. Need an experienced head at CB

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32 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

I’d just get Kerkez. Need an experienced head at CB

with Alphonso Davies ripping up his knee, and Nuno Mendes just renewing with PSG (as did RB Hakimi, those 2 are the best fullback duo on the planet by far atm), that leaves only 7 LBs who truly interest me (and are available). Theo Hernandez turns 28yo at the beginning and is weak defensively.

Milos Kerkez 

Antonee Robinson (his age is the only issue, I rate the hell out of him)

Andrea Cambiaso

Rayan Aït-Nouri

Jorrel Hato

Miguel Gutiérrez

El Hadji Malick Diouf

 

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Portuguese coaches are 'super high' on Geovany Quenda

Chelsea's new 17-year-old signing getting rave reviews

https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-portuguese-coaches-are-super

 

[mkh 601]

Liam Delap has a release clause in the region of £40million if Ipswich are relegated from the Premier League. Manchester United have held discussions internally but will face competition from Chelsea, Liverpool, Newcastle and Manchester City who have a buyback option.

(via@ChrisWheelerDM)

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Class player.

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Are Chelsea the first Premier League club whose fans have become bored of transfers?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6244215/2025/04/01/Chelsea-transfers-bored-latest/

The next time news breaks that Chelsea have made a signing — which, statistically speaking, is more likely to be sooner than later — you might find it interesting to check out the comments.

Below the line, you can still find varying degrees of excitement, the default emotional reaction that powers much of the transfer industry. Football supporters have traditionally been hard-wired to receive a dopamine hit whenever they learn their club is signing a new player. Whether you are searching for a saviour or hoping to strengthen your supremacy, the novelty of an acquisition rarely fails to be compelling.

You will also find plenty of trolling from fans of rival clubs. Chelsea’s vast and seemingly relentless transfer spending tends to provoke strong feelings among those not personally invested in the club’s success, from mockery to resentment and anything in between. Sometimes it is funny, often it is tedious, but it is far from new.

These days, though, the trolling is not limited to rival supporters. A growing number of Chelsea supporters in The Athletic’s comment section and on social media react to the news of their club making a new signing with bored indifference or even anger. “Can he play in goal?… Make it stop… Stockpile FC at it again… It’s getting ridiculous… Please save us from ourselves and give us a transfer ban.”

Such sentiments were expressed in some quarters during the rollercoaster final years of the Roman Abramovich era, so this is not an entirely new phenomenon, but its spread has noticeably accelerated since Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly assumed control of Chelsea in June 2022. And while trying to pinpoint exactly what proportion of the club’s huge global fanbase feels this way is clearly a fool’s errand, the transfer cynicism is loud and widespread enough to be heard and taken seriously.

 

Chelsea have recently signed Geovany Quenda (Carlos Rodrigues/Getty Images)

So have Chelsea really become the first club to sicken their own supporters of transfers? It would make sense, purely in terms of volume. Clearlake and Boehly have signed more than 40 footballers in less than three years and sold or released almost as many. The churn has been dizzying and while the bulk of the first-team squad overhaul is done, there is every reason to believe they will continue to be aggressive buyers and sellers in the market.

Then there is the particular nature of that recruitment: prioritising potential over current pedigree and future-focused to the extent that four players (Estevao, Kendry Paez, Mike Penders and Dario Essugo) cannot represent the club until this summer at the earliest and another (Geovany Quenda) will not move to Stamford Bridge until 2026. It is understandably harder to generate excitement about the acquisition of a teenager who might help your team at some point in the relatively distant future.

Even when buying for the first team, Chelsea often target players so young and relatively unproven that many supporters have never heard of them. That is another jarring break from the Abramovich era when most signings were established senior internationals already in their prime years, many with extensive Champions League experience.

According to a CIES report in October, the average age at the point of recruitment of Chelsea’s current squad is 22.5 years, the fourth-youngest among all clubs in Europe’s big-five leagues. The three who recruit even younger than them? RB Leipzig (22.4 years), Brentford (22.3 years) and BlueCo sister club Strasbourg (21.8 years).

There is no shortage of social media accounts prepared to hype up incoming Chelsea signings, whether they seek to be club influencers or simply present themselves as possessing specific local or tactical expertise. But the nature of modern football fandom, informed by the culture war that seemingly pervades everything, dictates that while some supporters will happily get caught up in the fanfare, others will be more inclined to react against it (and them).

In these angry, polarised times, there is also a well-documented crisis of confidence in institutions, and you only need to take note of the growing frequency of protests outside stadiums across the Premier League to realise that football clubs are far from immune. Many supporters harbour a sense of disconnect that cannot be remedied by signing a gifted teenage winger to an eight-year contract and this seems to have become more widely felt since the Clearlake-Boehly takeover, an extraordinary event made possible in 2022 by rapidly shifting geopolitics.

More than anything else, though, what comes through in the negative comments is a fundamental lack of trust in the big-picture thinking at Chelsea. Why is so much money being sunk into teenage recruitment rather than addressing the obvious holes in Enzo Maresca’s senior squad? How does seemingly overloading some positions while understaffing others chime with coherent long-term squad planning? Where are the pathways to develop all of this young imported talent, either at Stamford Bridge or elsewhere?

 

Essugo (right) has also joined Chelsea (Fran Santiago/Getty Images)

Winning on the pitch, and performing more convincingly in the process, will no doubt shift the conversation in a more positive direction. Chelsea fans are more likely to be sceptical of the signings of Essugo and Quenda, and of all that they represent, in the immediate aftermath of a limp 1-0 defeat to rivals Arsenal.

But even if some of this transfer saturation is the mood music of recent results, is it actually a bad thing? It might be for football journalism, which has always been heavily dependent on the transfer-industrial complex for content (though fans engaging with articles out of anger or frustration are still engaging).

The health of football-fan discourse is a different matter. Transfers have always received far more attention than their on-pitch impact merits. If what is happening within the Chelsea fanbase augurs a broader change, it might be a positive development — a new era in which big clubs know their supporters are more inclined to cast a critical eye over what they are doing and less easily distracted by the latest shiny object.