Chelsea Transfers

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13 hours ago, LAM09 said:

You could easily put Haaland into that category. However, I'm sure you'd consider him despite that.

Haaland is indeed perhaps the only exception I can think of in world football where you might justify spending big money on him despite very obvious limitations, although its interesting that City have collapsed this year, in a way they have never collapsed in all of the years in which they had more complete players up top.

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Mathys Tel could become a Chelsea target again if Spurs do not take up their buy option. (@JacobsBen)

Edited April 8 by mkh

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Literally haven’t heard Tel’s name once since he joined Spuds in January. What a horrendous target he would be for us. Just as he was when we wanted him last time. Nonsensical. 

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Chelsea are expected to be busy in the period of June 1 - June 10th. CFC want their winger AND striker signing ready for the Club World Cup. (Ben Jacobs)

N.Williams, Gittens and Tel were mentioned in the article.

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‼️ Victor Osimhen’s wage demands are expected to reach around £340k per week.

~ @RobDawsonESPN

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20 minutes ago, mkh said:

‼️ Victor Osimhen’s wage demands are expected to reach around £340k per week.

~ @RobDawsonESPN

hard pass

hell no

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We are getting Tel as our striker arent we! 
 

fuck me

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51 minutes ago, DDA said:

We are getting Tel as our striker arent we! 
 

fuck me

no

we will not buy him

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2 hours ago, mkh said:

‼️ Victor Osimhen’s wage demands are expected to reach around £340k per week.

~ @RobDawsonESPN

time to learn saudi

 

btw who here would take back don carlo

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4 hours ago, mkh said:

‼️ Victor Osimhen’s wage demands are expected to reach around £340k per week.

~ @RobDawsonESPN

Well if he does the business, its money well spent. Lets be real.

We are paying Reece James a minimum of 250k a week, who barely plays more than 15 games a season. Not to mention the wages of Lavia and Fofana also on top who NEVER play mote than 15 games a season. If we offload Sterling also who is on 250-300k a week. And Kepa. More wages free’d up. On top of the wages we have saved since BlueCo ran us from CL winners to Conference League wankers. 

You have to pay top dollar for top players if you want to go far. And I think the fee for Oshimen will be a sticking point as it is anyway, so we won’t get to negotiating.

Wait and see, Liam Delap for £40m on 50-55k a week. 

Edited April 8 by OneMoSalah

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5 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

Well if he does the business, thats not that bad. Lets be real.

We are paying Reece James a minimum of 250k a week, who barely plays more than 10-15 games a season. Not to mention the wages of Lavia and Fofana also. If we offload Sterling also who is on 250-300k a week. And Kepa. More wages free’d up. 

You have to pay top dollar for top players if you want to go far.

Wait and see though, Liam Delap for £40m on 55k a week. 

This is £88m in wages over 5 years

.£124m in wages over 7 years

hell no

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1 hour ago, Vesper said:

This is £88m in wages over 5 years

.£124m in wages over 7 years

hell no

We won’t be signing a player of that age on a 7 year deal though. Not a chance. 4 or 5 year deal maybe.

Would rather give that guy £88m in wages over 5 years and know we might get some actual bang for our buck in the present than persist with guys like Jackson and potentially Delap or Tel in the hope they might do something in 2/3 years.

What is the alternative though? Realistically if people expect us to do anything next season with both Nico and either one of Liam Delap/Mathys Tel then they are dreaming. If Nico had scored the chances he’d missed this season and last we would probably have gotten another 20-25 points since the start of last season.

Even the big Swedish lad from Sporting, he isn’t cut out to do it in the PL for a big club for me. Certainly not worth a gamble for the £70-80m they seem to be talking about anyway.

Maybe I am wrong but have seen plenty of strikers/attackers from Sporting, Benfica and Porto make these moves to other clubs and struggle to replicate anywhere near the levels they did or people thought they could. Likes of Darwin Nunez, Joao Felix, Jackson Martinez, Goncalo Ramos, Andre Silva, Fabio Silva. Then theres also the guys from Portugal who never make the move to a higher level league where people thought they’d be able to after pissing it up in Portugal, ie Hulk & Oscar Cardozo. Falcao, Di Maria, James, Fernandes, Luiz Diaz are really the only ones after Nani and Ronaldo that I can think of off the top off my head who did well in Portugal then moved to a better league and did well/better. Leao & Raphinha as well.

Edited April 9 by OneMoSalah

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Delap is the ideal profile for these wankers, cheap, low wages, young and a huge gamble again on a striker with a burden of needing to score 25-30 goals a season

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Chelsea made fresh contact with Feyenoord regarding the potential signing of 27yo defender David Hancko, who was recently named 🥈 in the Slovak Footballer of the Year awards.

Feyenoord are understood to be open to a sale, provided their €50M asking price is met.
 

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Chelsea-linked Liam Delap's release clause will fall to £30M should Ipswich Town be relegated from the Premier League.

[via @guardian_sport]

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Edited April 9 by Vesper

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Carney Chukwuemeka feels key to Borussia Dortmund’s future – but can they afford to keep him?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6263808/2025/04/09/chukwuemeka-dortmund-Chelsea-barcelona/

It is a sign of how strange Borussia Dortmund’s season has been that as they travel to Barcelona, and despite barely having played to date, Carney Chukwuemeka suddenly seems so important.

Chukwuemeka arrived on loan from Chelsea in the winter transfer window but, owing to illness and injury, the 21-year-old midfielder has only been fit enough to play 135 Bundesliga minutes in the period since. He started his first game for the club on Saturday, playing 70 minutes of the 4-1 away win over Freiburg, and had a profound impact.

In possession, he was cutting and purposeful with his passes, and typically bold with the ball at his feet. But he was rugged in the tackle, too, and physically commanding. Chukwuemeka created a flurry of first-half chances, scored with a deflected shot from the edge of the box in the second, then set Julian Brandt free to create Dortmund’s third goal for Serhou Guirassy.

It was deeply impressive. At the end of the weekend, Chukwuemeka earned his first nomination to Kicker’s coveted Elf des Tages, their team of the weekend. Given that he has had so little chance to develop chemistry with his team-mates and that eighth-placed Dortmund are hardly enjoying a vintage season, that is quite the accolade.

And this is a strange situation.

 

Chukwuemeka scores his first goal for Dortmund against Freiburg (Alex Grimm/Getty Images)

Chukwuemeka has been a virtual bystander since he arrived. But he has also played in short, rich doses that have shown his talent and pointed to a future direction for Dortmund. It helps that he so clearly fits the house style — that he is such a Dortmund player.

The Westfalenstadion crowd wants to be moved by the football it sees on the pitch below and Chukwuemeka, as a blend of slashing technique, craft and ambition on the ball, suits that mood, conforming to all the local ideals while also helping the side to be much progressive — not to get stuck in second or third gear, but to play football at a pace that makes the terraces quiver.

Tactically, as Saturday showed, many Dortmund players can profit from having Chukwuemeka in their midfield.

Karim Adeyemi and Maximilian Beier both had first-half chances arising directly from the loanee’s ability to find gaps in Freiburg’s defensive and midfield lines. Brandt, who has suffered through an extremely difficult season, often appearing bereft of confidence, gave one of his best performances in recent months.

Brandt showed improvement a week ago, in the 3-1 win over Mainz, but he seemed liberated by having Chukwuemeka alongside him and not compelled, as is so often his way and his weakness, to overplay.

There is some overlap between their respective abilities and so taking some of the creative responsibility away from Brandt, particularly in deeper positions, splits the defensive attention he faces and focuses him more precisely. It was notable how often he received passes in space at Europa-Park Stadion and how he was regularly running towards Freiburg’s back four.

 

Chukwuemeka has brought the best out of his Dortmund team-mates (Alex Grimm/Getty Images)

Recently, Niko Kovac has moved away from the 4-2-3-1 he initially used upon taking charge, employing a 3-5-2 instead. Felix Nmecha has now recovered from the knee injury he suffered in January and is set to return to the No 6 role he was playing with such distinction in the late autumn. A central three of Nmecha, Chukwuemeka and Brandt certainly seems balanced and capable of extracting the best from each of those players.

But perhaps nothing seems as valuable as Chukwuemeka’s personality.

Prior to Freiburg, one of the characteristics of his impact across those cameo performances — particularly in the 20 minutes against Union Berlin and, a few weeks later, RB Leipzig — was his capacity to come on, demand the ball and simply play. It often felt like a tonic.

That may sound like a vague virtue, but Dortmund have received a lot of criticism this season — rightly — and that has bred neuroses throughout their team. Kovac is dealing with fearful, inhibited players, some of whom seem preoccupied with not making mistakes.

Whether because of his age, his personality or simply because he has not been at the club long enough, Chukwuemeka has not been infected by that willingness to hide in plain sight. After the Freiburg game, he told reporters with a shrug that he “hadn’t really thought about his performance in the first half” and that he had just played by feel.

Also speaking in Breisgau, Adeyemi described his new team-mate as a “chilled out guy, a street footballer”, with Pascal Gross also praising Chukwuemeka as “a superb footballer” who “plays with great confidence”. Sebastian Kehl, Dortmund’s sporting director, admitted that while “Carney is still not at 100 per cent, he is always capable of making a difference”.

 

Chukwuemeka tussles with Union Berlin’s Tim Skarke in February (Ina Fassbender/AFP via Getty Images)

Within this context, it’s easy to see Chukwuemeka less as a midfielder and more a heavy dose of vitamin B. Someone capable of jolting Dortmund to life with changes of rhythm, but also being more generally restorative and beneficial to the squad’s mood. Having a player to whom the game comes so easily rarely hurts. Especially not at Dortmund, where it has often looked so, so hard this season.

Still: 135 minutes. These are big conclusions to draw from so little playing time.

Furthermore, unless Dortmund requalify for the Champions League next season, it is difficult to imagine how they might afford the fee of around €50million (£42.9m; $54.7m) that would make Chukwuemeka’s loan permanent. At the moment, he is due to return to Chelsea even before the FIFA Club World Cup starts in June.

Rather like the situation with Jadon Sancho and Ian Maatsen last season, who were so good on loan in the second half of the season but ultimately out of financial reach, it’s perfectly possible that Borussia Dortmund and Chukwuemeka will both be starting again in the summer.

They work together and they seem to need each other. Whether they can stay together is another matter entirely.

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https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/jadon-sancho-Chelsea-man-utd-35017630

Chelsea are ready to pay Manchester United to get out of their obligation to sign Jadon Sancho, it has been claimed. The on-loan star made a fast start to life at Stamford Bridge, but his output in recent months had put a permanent deal in jeopardy.

Under the terms of their loan deal for the winger, a Premier League finish of 14th or higher would require the Blues to fork out up to £25million to sign Sancho permanently. However, the agreement included a clause whereby they could pay United a seven-figure sum to back out.

Sancho has three goals and five assists for Chelsea this season, but none of either since January 4. He also set up two goals in a Conference League win against Heidenheim in November, but wasn't able to contribute a goal or assist in the 83 minutes he played across two knockout legs against FC Copenhagen.

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1 hour ago, TheHulk said:

 

Osimhen & Isak 🙂‍↕️