Chelsea Transfers

[Special Juan 28,133]

Noni is thought to be open to joining Arsenal, fee could be 40M and us , United and Newcastle hold interest in Kudus, WHU unimpressed by Spurs bid of 50 plus 5, they would do business for 60M

[Vesper 30,119]

13 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

Rodrygo is 99.9% not coming here. His wages alone will be a stumbling block never mind a transfer fee.

as I posted days ago

his wage demands are around £198K PW

which is not extortionate at all

it's over £150K PW less than what we paying that rotter Sterling 

[Vesper 30,119]

9 hours ago, Thor said:

Gittens is better than this dude. 

I actually might agree with this

[Special Juan 28,133]

Get this Noni to Arsenal done and go for Kudus and we immediately get stronger.

[Vesper 30,119]

8 hours ago, Reddish-Blue said:

If only we could find a CB like that 😄   

 

Alessandro Bastoni 1.90m
Ronald Araujo 1.92m
Ousmane Diomande 1.90m
Ilya Zabarnyi 1.90m (very likely PSG-bound though)  
Cristhian Mosquera 1.91m
David Hancko  1.89m
Joel Ordoñez  1.88m
Jair Cunha 1.98m
Martin Vitik   1.93m

[Vesper 30,119]

 

[Pizy 18,877]

3 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Get this Noni to Arsenal done and go for Kudus and we immediately get stronger.

This is what I want to happen but I have a bad feeling we’ll sell Noni and replace him with Garnacho. Gittens will be our only LW and with Estevão likely competing with Neto on the RW and João Pedro probably competing with Palmer centrally behind the striker, Maresca may opt for another LW instead of Kudus who likes the central area. Then we’d have 2 natural players for each AM position. 

Hope I’m wrong.

 

[Mário César 1,249]

I like noni but he is too inconsistent 

[Vesper 30,119]

Who is new teenage Chelsea signing Chris Atherton?

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c873yyxq4xdo

 

It seemed only a matter of time before teenager Chris Atherton would sign for a major club. The 16-year-old forward's dream has come true as Irish Premiership club Glenavon confirmed on Thursday that he has signed for Chelsea.

Atherton made headlines in September 2022 when he became the youngest senior footballer in the United Kingdom at 13 years and 329 years old.

Indeed, he missed out on becoming the youngest senior player in the world by just 10 days, that record being held by Souleymane Mamam, who played for Togo in a World Cup qualifier against Zambia in May 2001 at 13 years and 319 days.

Having joined the Glenavon academy at four years old, the Northern Ireland Under-17 international broke the United Kingdom record when he came on as a second-half substitute for the Lurgan Blues during a 6-0 win over Dollingstown in the BetMcLean Cup.

He was a first-team regular for Glenavon throughout the 2024-25 season, scoring his first Irish Premiership goal against Loughgall in March as his club finished 10th in the 12-team top division in Northern Ireland domestic football.

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[Vesper 30,119]

Real Madrid, Xabi Alonso open to selling Rodrygo this summer

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6469414/2025/07/03/real-madrid-rodrygo-transfer-latest/

Real Madrid and their new coach Xabi Alonso are open to Brazil forward Rodrygo leaving the club this summer.

The 24-year-old made his first appearance for Madrid in 53 days in their opening Club World Cup game (a 1-1 draw against Al Hilal on June 18) but has played only 23 minutes for Alonso in their three matches since.

Rodrygo did not feature for Madrid towards the end of last season under Carlo Ancelotti and there were concerns at the club about the player sometimes lacking motivation in training, as reported by The Athletic last month. The player’s entourage have always denied this.

But it was those concerns which led to Ancelotti and Rodrygo agreeing the winger would not be called up for the Italian’s first squad as Brazil manager, for the games against Ecuador and Paraguay last month.

The player’s father (and agent) Eric Goes has complained about Rodrygo’s situation at Madrid, with the player sidelined at times because of the high-profile trio of Kylian Mbappe, Vinicius Junior and Jude Bellingham. Those complaints have not gone down well at various levels of the club. This, along with the player’s poor performances, had led Madrid to open the door to a potential sale, pending the decision of their new coach.

Alonso took charge at Madrid ahead of the Club World Cup and at that point Rodrygo’s future appeared undecided, but now sources at the club, speaking anonymously to protect relationships, have told The Athletic that Madrid and the coach agree the club will not stand in the player’s way if a suitable offer is made. When contacted by The Athletic, Madrid said they have no intention of selling the player and expect him to contribute a lot to the team in the future.

Arsenal are one of the clubs monitoring Rodrygo, and the club have held preliminary talks with the player’s representatives in recent weeks as they weigh up a move.

Arsenal’s interest in Rodrygo and other left-sided attackers such as Anthony Gordon and Nico Williams (also wanted by Barcelona and Bayern Munich) is well-established.

Their interest in Williams has cooled and any of those deals would come at a considerable cost, so in that scenario the club may need to sell to balance the books.

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What’s going on with Rodrygo at Real Madrid?

Rodrygo's future is unclear after not featuring at all in Madrid's latest Club World Cup game against Pachuca

Coaching staff at Arsenal really admire Rodrygo, who they believe could be an option on the left and right of their attack, and he has featured in discussions internally since the latter part of last season.

Madrid signed Rodrygo from Santos for €40million at the age of 18 in 2019 and he hit the ground running at the Bernabeu, scoring a hat-trick in a 6-0 Champions League win against Galatasarary in November of that year.

The attacker was a regular part of the first team since Ancelotti arrived back at the club in 2021, with starring roles at crucial moments in the two Champions Leagues won under the Italian. However, there have been persistent doubts about his consistency, with the player arguing that his natural position is on the left flank. That also happens to be the same side favoured by Ballon d’Or runner-up Vinicius Jr and Mbappe.

[Thor 2,693]

6 hours ago, Vesper said:

as I posted days ago

his wage demands are around £198K PW

which is not extortionate at all

it's over £150K PW less than what we paying that rotter Sterling 

Sterling for Rodrygo. Who says no?

 

Real Madrid get their galacticos signing! 

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

16 hours ago, LAM09 said:

You can always live in hope, eh. I might be mistaken, but I'm sure I read something in recent months that said we'd be willing to make exceptions for exceptional talent. Rodrygo would fit that and his age wouldn't be an issue like recent top talent we've been linked with.

The rumoured transfer fee for Petrovic seems far too low unless there's clauses.

The fee for Petrovic is apparently 21.5m? Or thats the one I read. Should be biting their hands off. Unless its changed?

Rodrygo may be a top level player and has still got more to give talent wise but I still think for the 200k + he will be looking for, it is not gonna happen.

Not to mention they are talking between 65-70m as a starting point as a fee and I think that plus bigger wages makes it a bit more difficult for us perhaps. If a few clubs are actively looking at him, it would be very tough to do.

There won’t be many players who leave a good deal at Madrid for some performance based incentive shit that may total 150-200k a week 😂

It would be nice to see but isn’t the BlueCo mantra to develop top players, not buy them? 

8 hours ago, Vesper said:

as I posted days ago

his wage demands are around £198K PW

which is not extortionate at all

it's over £150K PW less than what we paying that rotter Sterling 

In this new model though, we aren’t going to break our wage structure very often.

How many players are actually earning 100k a week plus base that have been signed or renewed under BlueCo since the Chuckle Brothers were given free reign? Doubt theres many at all.

Once Sterling goes he is probably the last of any BlueCo signings who was on big money. Doesn’t necessarily mean we will look to spend 200k per week base salary just because we have free’d up £350k a week. Just look at previous seasons whilst we’ve been cutting wages. 

 

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

19 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

 

 Rodrygo here we go 🥹

We didn’t sign him for €120m in all fairness so I was sort of on the right track, was €121m 🤣

Although we did also sign Felix unfortunately. 

Edited July 5 by OneMoSalah

[Reddish-Blue 2,495]

12 hours ago, Pizy said:

United have apparently announced that Garnacho has officially asked to leave the club and won’t be reporting to their preseason training this coming week. Fabrizio again reiterates that he really wants to stay in the PL.

Chelsea, please…please no…

I just don’t know what other club would want him. 

The original deal was meant to be Nkunku going to United and Garnacho to us.  

I don't see how we keep signing attackers when we still have Nkunku's wages on the books, not to mention the likes of Carney and Sterling haven't even been sold yet. 

[Reddish-Blue 2,495]

42 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

We didn’t sign him for €120m in all fairness so I was sort of on the right track, was €121m 🤣

Although we did also sign Felix unfortunately. 

And there's no real interest in Felix....what was the point of that 'swap' deal with Atletico?