nyikolajevics 2,700 Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 9 hours ago, mkh said: ‼️ Real Betis are holding out for £35million as Chelsea step up interest in highly-rated winger Jesus Rodriguez. (Simon Jones) Hm, another "highly rated winger".. Not super excited. Muddy, Felix, Sancho, Neto (and Kellyman) are all "highly rated", very expensive and all underperforming AF.. Madueke has been our best winger for long and it is tragic as he is Shaun Wright-Phillips/Kalou level on his best days. mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,190 Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 12 minutes ago, nyikolajevics said: Hm, another "highly rated winger".. Not super excited. Muddy, Felix, Sancho, Neto (and Kellyman) are all "highly rated", very expensive and all underperforming AF.. Madueke has been our best winger for long and it is tragic as he is Shaun Wright-Phillips/Kalou level on his best days. he has one league goal this season (versus 17th place Alavés) in almost 800 (788) minutes of La Liga football total of 2 topflight goals in 1300 minutes (had another in the Conference League, in 303 minutes, no goals in 208 Copa del Rey minutes, verus 2 shit low division teams, then was completely shut down by Barca in a 5-1 rout loss) mkh and nyikolajevics 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,190 Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Enzo Maresca praises Liam Delap but says Chelsea have ‘perfect No 9’ in Nicolas Jackson https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6272040/2025/04/11/Chelsea-liam-delap-enzo-maresca/ Enzo Maresca insisted that Nicolas Jackson is the “perfect No 9” for Chelsea but said he would welcome another striker like him at Stamford Bridge as he praised Ipswich Town’s Liam Delap ahead of the meeting between the two teams on Sunday. Chelsea are among a host of Premier League clubs known to be tracking Delap, who has scored 12 goals in his first top-flight campaign and has a £30million ($39.2million) release clause if Ipswich are relegated to the Championship. Maresca knows Delap from his stint coaching Manchester City’s elite development squad in 2020-21, when Delap was in City’s academy. While Maresca would not be drawn on Chelsea’s interest in the 22-year-old and pointedly praised Jackson after Thursday’s 3-0 win over Legia Warsaw in the UEFA Conference League round of 16, he did not hide his admiration for the Ipswich striker. “In terms of numbers, he’s doing fantastic,” Maresca said of Delap. “I think he’s scored 12 (Premier League) goals already. It’s not just in terms of his numbers. The way he plays and fights and is always ‘there’. But he’s an Ipswich player. He’s an enemy on Sunday because we need to beat them, and then after the game I wish him all the best for the future. “To compare Liam with Harry Kane and Erling Haaland, it’s a bit early. But in terms of style he’s that kind of player. They are all real nines. “We also have a good nine (Jackson). He’s doing well since we started. Unfortunately, we’ve missed him (during his injury), and sometimes you need to miss players to realise how important they are. With Nico, we are a completely different team compared to when he was injured. We are happy with Nico as our striker.” Jackson has nine Premier League goals this season (Mike Hewitt/Getty Images) Asked what profile of striker Chelsea will be looking to sign this summer, Maresca replied: “My perfect number nine is exactly Nico Jackson. We already have a number nine. It’s not summer now.” Jackson missed two months of the season, from February to April, after sustaining a hamstring injury. When pressed on whether he would like to have two Jacksons in his squad, Maresca smiled and added: “If we can have a copy of Nico, it’s OK. With Nico we are a better team. Nico is the one we need. “Last season, he scored goals without penalties. This season he scored goals until he was injured. We are happy with Nico. And about next season, it’s not the moment (to talk about transfers).” Delap played a key role in Ipswich’s shock 2-0 win over Chelsea at Portman Road in December, winning and scoring an early penalty, setting up the second goal and carrying a threat with his pace and physicality in transition. Maresca is keenly aware that his team will need to control him better when the two teams meet again on Sunday. “It’s something we need to pay attention to,” Maresca said. “If you watch Ipswich, (Delap) is doing that against any team, not just against us. In the first game, he was quite good for them. We need to deal with that, and we need to do much, much better compared to the first game.” Ipswich are 12 points adrift of safety behind 17th-placed Wolves with seven matches left to play. mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Armour 4,442 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 On 09/04/2025 at 16:45, Vesper said: they bought players who were clearly going to be world class (for the most part) or already were (at least IMHO) or at minimum were rock solid It is why I said PSG was the death of Vesper's wish list examples: Gianluigi Donnarumma (signed on a free when he was 22yo) Matvey Safonov (would be our best GKer if we had him atm) Willian Pacho Nuno Mendes Achraf Hakimi Joao Neves Vitinha Khvicha Kvaratskhelia Bradley Barcola Désiré Doué Ousmane Dembélé Gabriel Moscardo (out on loan atm) Hugo Ekitiké (has exploded in value at Frankfurt, the one stupid sale they did lately) Xavi Simons (from PSV by way of Barca, sold to RB Leipzig for a huge profit) Warren Zaïre-Emery is a PSG youth product Hugo Ekiteke was someone I think you and I had talked about a couple or so years back. Would be nice to have him here now. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 (edited) 21 hours ago, mkh said: Jonathan David's current demand stands at €8 million per season (€150k/£130k per week in wages) and a signing-on fee of €10 million. ‼️ Real Betis are holding out for £35million as Chelsea step up interest in highly-rated winger Jesus Rodriguez. (Simon Jones) Chelsea are one of several European clubs monitoring Benfica's Greek striker Vangelis Pavlidis. {Record} So if true regarding Jonathon David’s wages, then that will be too much for us. Probably. And the Benfica striker? Ffs…. he has not even played 1 full season in Portugal and ok he has got 14 goals but not really an impressive league is it? Probably 10 of those 14 goals are like the lad from Sporting’s, you know where he runs 30m onto a through ball over a daft high line virtually unopposed…. 😂 If Delap scores this weekend we will probably give them £100m on the spot because thats how stupid these sporting director cunts are anyway. Edited April 12 by OneMoSalah mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkh 594 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 PSG have been negotiating with Bradley Barcola over a contract renewal, but he wants to wait until the end of the season to take a final decision. (via@lequipe) ✅️pls pls sign him 🙌 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stats 7,145 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 55 minutes ago, mkh said: PSG have been negotiating with Bradley Barcola over a contract renewal, but he wants to wait until the end of the season to take a final decision. (via@lequipe) ✅️pls pls sign him 🙌 He will sign a new contract. Prob, just wants more money. He has no reason to leave there. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,190 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 7 hours ago, OneMoSalah said: Benfica's Greek striker Vangelis Pavlidis oh, FUCK NO!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,056 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 13 minutes ago, Vesper said: oh, FUCK NO!!!!!!!! I was going to comment on it before seeing who was reporting the rumour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,190 Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 CBs we have been linked with in order of valuation bold are my targets Murillo Piero Hincapié Castello Lukeba Gonçalo Inácio Marc Guéhi Dean Huijsen Ousmane Diomande Ilya Zabarnyi Antonio Silva Tomás Araújo David Hancko Loïc Badé Cristhian Mosquera Joel Ordoñez Pietro Comuzzo Konstantinos Koulierakis mkh and Fernando 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkh 594 Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 ‼️ Strasbourg winger Dilane Bakwa could be heading to England this summer, and it might be to their BlueCo’s sister club Chelsea. (via@GraemeBailey) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDA 9,941 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 4 hours ago, mkh said: ‼️ Strasbourg winger Dilane Bakwa could be heading to England this summer, and it might be to their BlueCo’s sister club Chelsea. (via@GraemeBailey) Does he score and assist on a consistent basis??? If not, then fuck off. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,190 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 4 hours ago, DDA said: Does he score and assist on a consistent basis??? If not, then fuck off. No he doesn't score much. 4 goals in 2100 Ligue 1 minutes. He does have 9 assists though. He is a left-footed RW, and we have a tonne of them already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkh 594 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 (edited) Enzo Maresca's job is safe for now. 🚨 Full focus inside of Chelsea is on the run-in, where they can still secure CL football and lift a trophy in the Conference League, and there is NO consideration being made for yet another managerial change. (@kierangill_DM) Game Over Chels🚗😮💨🤮🤢 Edited April 14 by mkh bigbluewillie and Vesper 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkh 594 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 🚨 Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley enjoy the support of Behdad Eghbali, Clearlake’s co-founder and the most influential voice at Chelsea. 🔒 (@guardian_sport) Vesper and bigbluewillie 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,490 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 On 12/04/2025 at 17:50, Vesper said: CBs we have been linked with in order of valuation bold are my targets Murillo Piero Hincapié Castello Lukeba Gonçalo Inácio Marc Guéhi Dean Huijsen Ousmane Diomande Ilya Zabarnyi Antonio Silva Tomás Araújo David Hancko Loïc Badé Cristhian Mosquera Joel Ordoñez Pietro Comuzzo Konstantinos Koulierakis We should try and grab Huijsen since his agents are actively shopping him right now. Apart from him in this list, a physical tank at the back would be nice. Just get a Rudiger/Saliba/Gabriel type CB - the team is so shaky at the back. If we can't get any of the main targets, last resort can be Guehi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,190 Posted April 14 Share Posted April 14 38 minutes ago, Strike said: We should try and grab Huijsen since his agents are actively shopping him right now. Apart from him in this list, a physical tank at the back would be nice. Just get a Rudiger/Saliba/Gabriel type CB - the team is so shaky at the back. If we can't get any of the main targets, last resort can be Guehi after Murillo and Huijsen, my enthusiam level drops (from that list, which is only the 'realistic targets) non realistic ones I would kill for: Alessandro Bastoni Marquinhos then 2 IF they fully recover before then end of the window Bremer Sven Botman wild card Jonathan Tah (if Barca cannot sign him due to La Liga wage rules) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkh 594 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 (edited) 🚨🔵 Chelsea are closely monitoring the development of Georginio #Rutter and have added him to their shortlist for the next transfer windows. CFC The 22-y/o versatile forward is currently out with a foot injury but has had a strong season with Brighton, scoring eight goals and providing four assists. One to watch. Contract until 2028. via@SkySportDE 🇫🇷🇲🇶 🙂↕️🙂↕️ ‼️ Chelsea would be open to sell Renato Veiga in the summer if they receive a €20m offer. {Sky Sports} Edited April 15 by mkh Blue Armour and kexik 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkh 594 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 (edited) Maresca losing the dressing room… 💣⌛️⌛️⌛️ Edited April 15 by mkh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 Body language of players even before the match Sunday was pathetic. He won't be sacked the board love him bigbluewillie and mkh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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