Chelsea Transfers

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4 hours ago, mkh said:

❗️More on Diogo Costa and Manchester City story. Jorge Mendes, is trying to find an agreement to pay under the release clause

💰 Cityzens hope to seal the deal around €40m

➡️ Portugese GK has already said yes to join Man City.

(via@Santi_j_FM)

So many good GKs we passed up on because this board was convinced of its scouting. Petrovic, Sanchez, Jorgensen - how can you have 3 attempts and not land anyone remotely solid? Especially when Costa, Marmadashvili, Raya etc were on the market. I hope they send Penders on loan to Strasbourg and sign a good GK finally. 

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3 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Huijsen is once again very young, we lack leaders and experience and this is why we are seeing us cower rather than put up any sort of fight

Sign Huijsen and one more CB with experience since the entire backline can go - Fofana/Badiashile/Chalobah

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I’d sell Colwill for Guehi + Huijsen

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8 hours ago, Reddish-Blue said:

Could it be Alonso and Wirtz moving together?  

they have (at the positions he plays)

Mbappe (forced to play CF)

Vini Jr

Rodrygo (forced to play on at RW)

Bellingham

Brahim Diaz

 

plus Arda Guler and Endrick floating about
 

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As reported, Saudi leading the race for Victor Osimhen, who wanted to move to Al-Ahli last summer.

(Ben Jacobs)

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6 hours ago, Pizy said:

Huijsen just seems like such a stupid signing/target for our current team. He’s obviously a big talent and could become a top CB in a few years but that’s just not the profile we need right now. He’s not a defender who comes in and elevates us, settles things down, and organizes the whole team from the back like a JT/VVD/Kompany/Thiago Silva. That is what we desperately need. A general at the back who takes command on the pitch.

Signing yet another kid in such a massively important position feels like malpractice. He’ll be just like Colwill has been where he can look brilliant at times but will make too many errors because he’s a kid.

We need stability and experience from whichever CB we sign this summer, not another teenager. Huijsen is the sort of CB that is the perfect signing for a club like Liverpool where he can learn alongside VVD and be gradually phased in over a season or two. Putting him next to Colwill feels like a bad idea.

Unless Maresca is planning to switch to a back 3 next season I just can’t see this going well. 

Jonathan Tah would be a great free signing, but his salary demands will be crazy and he will never come here if we do not have CL.

The clear frontrunners for him are Real Madrid (especially if Xabi Alonso goes there), Barca, and Bayern.

I disagree on Huijsen. I think he is already good to go.

Do you say the same thing about Murillo that you say about Huijsen?

Who do you think we should go for at CB?

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6 hours ago, mkh said:

❗️More on Diogo Costa and Manchester City story. Jorge Mendes, is trying to find an agreement to pay under the release clause

💰 Cityzens hope to seal the deal around €40m

➡️ Portugese GK has already said yes to join Man City.

(via@Santi_j_FM)

that would be so Chels

Citeh get a great GKer for only £34m

and we have dropped well over £200m (Kepa adjusted for inflation plus all the rest after him) and have no one (yet, Pemders may get there ina few years) remotely WC for all that dosh.

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7 hours ago, Stats said:

He won't join Arsenal, as he isn't getting in ahead of Gabriel and Saliba, who are both young and in their prime.

they are loaded at CB

all of these can play well there, all would make our team

William Saliba 
Gabriel Magalhães
Jakub Kiwior (has been superb since Gabriel went down)
Riccardo Calafiori    
Ben White   
Jurrien Timber 

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40 minutes ago, Vesper said:

that would be so Chels

Citeh get a great GKer for only £34m

and we have dropped well over £200m (Kepa adjusted for inflation plus all the rest after him) and have no one (yet, Pemders may get there ina few years) remotely WC for all that dosh.

diogo has been poor this season

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5 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Huijsen is once again very young, we lack leaders and experience and this is why we are seeing us cower rather than put up any sort of fight

 

here is a very expansive list of all remotely (Basdtoni is a pipe dream) CBs who are remotely (IMHO) near quality enough to look at

young ones are in bold (and thus I assume are ones you would not move for)

red are older CBs, vets who are 29yo and up)

who would you suggest we make a play for?

my favourites are in italics

 
Alessandro Bastoni (pipedream)
Murillo 
Piero Hincapié   
Castello Lukeba 
Bremer (as long as he is fully recovered)
Jarrad Branthwaite   
Gonçalo Inácio
Marc Guéhi 
Sven Botman  
Dean Huijsen 
Ousmane Diomande 
Ilya Zabarnyi  
Edmond Tapsoba 
Marquinhos (hard AF pull)
Giorgio Scalvini  (as long as he is fully recovered)
António Silva  
Tomás Araújo  
Jonathan Tah    
Dávid Hancko 
Cristhian Mosquera
Loïc Badé
Isak Hien   
Yann Bisseck  
Mohamed Simakan 
Nikola Milenković 
Joel Ordóñez 
Pietro Comuzzo  
Wilfried Singo 
Jakub Kiwior  
Josip Sutalo 
Konstantinos Koulierakis  
Malick Thiaw 
José María Giménez
Koni De Winter 
Gianluca Mancini 
Chrislain Matsima 
Ryan Flamingo  
Milan Škriniar 
Merih Demiral 
Martin Vitík 
Yarek Gasiorowski
Alessio Romagnoli
Mario Hermoso  

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https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-Chelsea-ask-for-conditions

Chelsea are set for another busy summer transfer window when the season comes to an end with just five league games left now.

We know that there are a number of positions that the club are looking to bring in, and they will for sure be very busy with outgoings too.

Perhaps a surprise position that the club might look to sign in is another attacking midfielder. This is likely due to the fact that both Joao Felix and Christopher Nkunku are likely to be sold or loaned out this summer, as will Carney Chukwuemeka. So that will leave Cole Palmer as the only attacking midfield option in the squad.

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2 hours ago, mkh said:

As reported, Saudi leading the race for Victor Osimhen, who wanted to move to Al-Ahli last summer.

(Ben Jacobs)

If he seriously goes over there after hitting 30+ goals, he shouldn't be considered by any top club again.

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2 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

If he seriously goes over there after hitting 30+ goals, he shouldn't be considered by any top club again.

lickrish for lucre Osimhen

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4 hours ago, Vesper said:

Jonathan Tah would be a great free signing, but his salary demands will be crazy and he will never come here if we do not have CL.

The clear frontrunners for him are Real Madrid (especially if Xabi Alonso goes there), Barca, and Bayern.

I disagree on Huijsen. I think he is already good to go.

Do you say the same thing about Murillo that you say about Huijsen?

Who do you think we should go for at CB?

Murillo is a left footed, left sided CB too, right? I know Huijsen is as well but he’s super two footed.

With Colwill here it feels weird that we’re interested in left footed, left sided CB’s. Colwill has been poor this season but I highly doubt we’re thinking of moving on. 

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13 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Murillo is a left footed, left sided CB too, right? I know Huijsen is as well but he’s super two footed.

With Colwill here it feels weird that we’re interested in left footed, left sided CB’s. Colwill has been poor this season but I highly doubt we’re thinking of moving on. 

Yes, my ideal pairing would be Murillo at left CB and the ambipedal Huijsen at right CB.

I see no reason to sell Colwill (I rate Murillo over Levi, just to be clear, at least atm), unless we truly need the cash. He will get plenty of minutes as the number 3 CB.

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https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-Chelsea-prioritise-dean-huijsen

It’s been a real day of sourced articles and transfer news from us today as we had a host of stories coming in.

If you haven’t see our stories of today yet, they should have dropped in your emails, you can visit the home page after reading this to recap.

The centre back position is another key area Chelsea are looking to sign in and improve this summer, and SPTC sources have informed us that there is a chance that we sign two centre backs.

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I am hugely in favour of signing Huijsen but also agree with those who say he is not what we need - to that I would just say its true he is not ALL we need but he is a huge upgrade on what we have so we need to go for him if he is interested asap - he would immediately become our best CB, by a mile. After that we still need to look for another CB - and ideally that person is also club captain material, at minimum they need to be an aggressive ball winner that is insane in duels with enough basic technical skill to handle modern build up play.

Colwill as our 4th best CB behind Fofana would be a much more normal and realistic progression for an academy player with obvious limitations like him. He should be out on loan still really.

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Chelsea have already activated the clause to make Jadon Sancho’s transfer from Manchester United permanently, with sources describing club figures as viewing it as a “smart investment”.

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10 hours ago, Vesper said:

https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-Chelsea-prioritise-dean-huijsen

It’s been a real day of sourced articles and transfer news from us today as we had a host of stories coming in.

If you haven’t see our stories of today yet, they should have dropped in your emails, you can visit the home page after reading this to recap.

The centre back position is another key area Chelsea are looking to sign in and improve this summer, and SPTC sources have informed us that there is a chance that we sign two centre backs.

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See lots of people on Twitter saying Tah has been really shit this season after his move didn’t happen.

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As long as Sancho is taking a huge pay cut then signing him does make sense tbh, we can loan him out for a decent fee every year to a league he can perform at a higher level in, and sell him on for FFP profit (maybe even real profit). He is not a bad squad player either to have if we want, not great but he's a pretty normal looking backup player for a top team. Could send him to Strasbourg for a year to pad his numbers and sell him on for more than we'll pay Utd surely. But that is a big IF about him willingly writing off a huge amount of his salary that we don't have much info on.