Vesper 30,164 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Chelsea are reportedly preparing a surprise move in the transfer market involving Manchester United loanee Jadon Sancho but their long-term plans could take a different turn entirely. The Blues are looking to keep Sancho at the club by activating the option they have to buy him permanently this summer from Man United. According to GiveMeSport, Chelsea intend to trigger their purchase option to sign Sancho permanently after his loan stint ends. However, the Blues’ strategy is not focused on keeping the winger, they are already considering selling him immediately to turn a quick profit. Chelsea’s hierarchy appear skeptical about his long-term fit at Stamford Bridge. Their decision seems driven more by financial opportunity and they are ready to use Borussia Dortmund’s interest in him to sell the player in order to make financial benefit. In addition to selling Sancho, Chelsea are simultaneously stepping up their pursuit of Borussia Dortmund’s highly-rated winger Jamie Gittens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,164 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 16 hours ago, mkh said: Gregor Kobel and Chelsea are in close contact – the transfer poker is gaining momentum as in a hot poker right up our batty crease Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amad_diallo 17 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 14 hours ago, Vesper said: I have repped him for years here, so it isnt like I am some 'late come, jump-up deh bus' gyal Oh no vesper I would never imply that 😜 you're always on your A game when it comes to football You're very passionate might I add 😀 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyikolajevics 2,697 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 8 hours ago, Pizy said: These are all strikers who will be after £250k per week or more. I think the days of Chelsea paying these kinds of wages for new signings are over under these owners. High transfer fees are no issue with Clearlake as we’ve seen. If Roman still owned the club then Osimhen would 100% be a Chelsea player. We’d probably go and get Alisson or Ederson as our new keeper as well. This ownership will pay huge fees for players (Caicedo, Enzo, Lavia, all these expensive teenagers etc) but ONLY if they will accept modest wages relative to those transfer fees. Like if Osimhen could be had for 75m + £150k per week I think they’d do it. But he apparently wants double that from a PL club. Isak is impossible for under £150m most likely. Lautaro is their talisman and is probably unloveable as well. He’s also surely on massive wages or would be in order to move. Gyokeres is probably only possible if we finish in the UCL AND if Arsenal/Liverpool/whoever else don’t go for him. So with all that in mind, that leaves us with gambling on a much lesser striker and hoping they develop. Top players have top agents, they will negotiate top salary for them. Yes, we can buy 18 year old kids and wait them to be superstars, but then they need contract upgrade aswell, or we'll lose them. We just need to be consistent and stick with our men. We gave players 280-300k per week like Lukaku Sterling and Chilwell, and then just suddenly axe them and loan them or let them rot on the stand lose their value. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milka 3,393 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 (edited) If you don't pay the wages on top players so stop with these bullshits about time and project this is not football project . Already 3 years and you can't see any football logical decision with ambition reason . With Abramovich top 4 was bare minimum with these clowns top 4 will be trophy some epic achievement . Barcelona, what time did they need when 80% of their squad is from La Masia, they are fighting for the treble in their second season, and we are talking nonsense . Clownlake out . PSG , Barcelona are football projects with ambitions top coaches , elite youngsters , expirience around them Chelsea is not football project everything is PR to shut the fans . Edited April 29 by milka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,897 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 I think these owners are absolutely desperate to avoid another Lukaku/Sterling/Koulibaly. Older players on monster wages who will be incredibly difficult to move on if they don’t work out. Vesper, Mhsc and mkh 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mhsc 1,097 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 1 hour ago, nyikolajevics said: We just need to be consistent and stick with our men. We gave players 280-300k per week like Lukaku Sterling and Chilwell, and then just suddenly axe them and loan them or let them rot on the stand lose their value. Are you suggesting we should have kept playing those 3? Or that them being dropped / shipped out was either sudden or inappropriate? Its hard to imagine that's what you're saying because these guys are all woeful but I don't know how else to read what you wrote. In the meantime we'd pay them full salaries to do fuck all in our squad (as well as taking up a spot for someone that might do something useful, or even worse actually put them in the XI and lose games because of them) instead of getting another club to help pay for them? We'd be bankrupt in no time and have no money at all for bringing in the players we need? That would basically be the death of our club and we'd be struggling in midtable all season again. There was nothing sudden about axing them - they were shit for a LONG time and got a lot of opportunities, way too many opportunities tbh - we need to be more ruthless not less ruthless. Obviously the Lukaku situation is what it is with his behaviour, and he got less chance than the rest as he effectively forced his way out and intentionally suicided his career. At their peak in a past life they were all Chelsea quality but none of them is even close in the last couple of years. This summer we need to clear out the deadwood aggressively again, another bomb squad and we get rid of them as fast as we can, if we can. Nkunku will join the pile too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,489 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 3 hours ago, nyikolajevics said: Top players have top agents, they will negotiate top salary for them. Yes, we can buy 18 year old kids and wait them to be superstars, but then they need contract upgrade aswell, or we'll lose them. We just need to be consistent and stick with our men. We gave players 280-300k per week like Lukaku Sterling and Chilwell, and then just suddenly axe them and loan them or let them rot on the stand lose their value. It was the wrong call to give them big wages. It was the right call to axe them and change our operation. We have a decent core despite BlueCo's horror business - James, Cucu, Caicedo, Enzo, Palmer, Neto, Jackson are people I'd be happy to build around. Just get a GK, 2 CBs and a couple of attackers who can finish. Many of the rumors I'm hearing about the upcoming summer are sounding good to me - links to Huijsen, Guehi, Gyokeres/Delap/Sesko + Estevao Willian joining. Blue Armour, nyikolajevics and Mhsc 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,050 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 5 hours ago, nyikolajevics said: Top players have top agents, they will negotiate top salary for them. Yes, we can buy 18 year old kids and wait them to be superstars, but then they need contract upgrade aswell, or we'll lose them. We just need to be consistent and stick with our men. We gave players 280-300k per week like Lukaku Sterling and Chilwell, and then just suddenly axe them and loan them or let them rot on the stand lose their value. Will we upgrade them, though? If Palmer regains his form, he'll be after £300k+ by the end of next season. I've been saying this for some time - our model screams "feeder club". Until we win something major or sign someone of elite calibre, my mind won't be swayed. 4 hours ago, Pizy said: I think these owners are absolutely desperate to avoid another Lukaku/Sterling/Koulibaly. Older players on monster wages who will be incredibly difficult to move on if they don’t work out. There was talk about Osimhen being viewed as "old" by those within the club last season. If 25 is seriously too old, we might as well be content with struggling to qualify for European competitions. Edited April 29 by LAM09 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyikolajevics 2,697 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 27 minutes ago, LAM09 said: Will we upgrade them, though? If Palmer regains his form, he'll be after £300k+ by the end of next season. I've been saying this for some time - our model screams "feeder club". Until we win something major or sign someone of elite calibre, my mind won't be swayed. Feeder clubs also can earn (limited) success, but then we should stop buying players like Sterling, Koulibaly, Nkunku, Neto, whom we were never going to make profit of, and stop damaging values like Benchy or Chalobah. When I feel bad about our businesses, I think of Juventus selling Huijsen to Bornemouth and buying Lewis Kelly for higher amount. Other clubs make insane businesses too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,050 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 35 minutes ago, nyikolajevics said: Feeder clubs also can earn (limited) success, but then we should stop buying players like Sterling, Koulibaly, Nkunku, Neto, whom we were never going to make profit of, and stop damaging values like Benchy or Chalobah. When I feel bad about our businesses, I think of Juventus selling Huijsen to Bornemouth and buying Lewis Kelly for higher amount. Other clubs make insane businesses too. I've yet to see a feeder club with a league title or CL in recent years. Dortmund have reached two CL finals, lost them both. Chocked on the final day to give Bayern the league title two seasons ago and haven't won it for over a decade. We as a club have had a history of competing with the best, winning the biggest trophies around. Our participation in the CWC is prime example of that. Sterling and KK were bought during the first window. A lot has changed since then. If anything, we've enhanced Trev's transfer value by recalling. The large majority of business has involved youngsters who are "projects" rather than WC stars. Estevao is the only one who might be seen as the exception, 12 months from now. How can you honestly take comfort from other clubs when we are loaning out the likes of Lukaku & Sterling, paying more than half of their wages in the process? 😄 Edited April 29 by LAM09 nyikolajevics 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoroccanBlue 5,381 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Perfect example is Liverpool. They have their most influential players on high/competitive wages, yet I think they rank 5th on total wages. It is possible. Vesper, Blue Armour and Mhsc 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,489 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 (edited) 2 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said: Perfect example is Liverpool. They have their most influential players on high/competitive wages, yet I think they rank 5th on total wages. It is possible. and they signed no one last summer - when they didn't need to. Keep the powder dry for when there's a player they really like on the market. Every summer it feels like BlueCo has data guys putting out pie charts and bar graphs of the best young defender/midfielder/winger and then make bids for 25 players convinced they are all upgrades. Just last summer - Sancho, Felix, Jorgensen, Tosin, Omari, KDH, Wiley- what a waste of a summer. None of them are going to be around soon and we are making a loss on almost all of them except Tosin Edited April 29 by Strike Fernando and Blue Armour 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHulk 2,437 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHulk 2,437 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 I read only us and PSG would be willing to get him and loan him back another year, United not so much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,164 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 1 hour ago, Strike said: and they signed no one last summer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,489 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 29 minutes ago, Vesper said: Total of 33 mins on the pitch in their league win Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,489 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 Dodgy source but I'd go for him this summer if it is doable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LAM09 7,050 Posted April 29 Share Posted April 29 39 minutes ago, Strike said: Dodgy source but I'd go for him this summer if it is doable They made a move for Felix in Jan, so a swap+cash deal could be feasible. Another former City player to go with Gittens, Delap, etc. mkh, OneMoSalah and Reddish-Blue 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoroccanBlue 5,381 Posted April 30 Share Posted April 30 That River Plate lad is ridiculous. mkh, kexik and Reddish-Blue 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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