Chelsea Transfers

[Special Juan 28,764]

Can't see much activity for us today with the game right on the horizon, but can see the Noni thing happening quickly from tomorrow onwards

[ZAPHOD2319 4,950]

 

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[Strike 7,790]

On 07/07/2025 at 03:05, Thor said:

If Noni stays - you're expecting Estevao to be third choice behind him and Neto? Then you also have Cole who is starting to play there again. 

 

Doesn't make sense. We need a LW and to get rid of Noni. 

Not as a rigid third choice but would have the security of two senior wingers because Estevao is an unknown quantity. We will only know during the season how he gets on in England.

[mkh 759]

There are other names on the wishlist to replace Noni Madueke:

1. Alejandro Garnacho - Man United
2. Malick Fofana - Lyon
3. Chelsea are monitoring Ethan Nwaneri’s situation - Arsenal
4. Big admirers of Morgan Rogers - Aston Villa

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[mkh 759]

Newcastle United have joined Villarreal in the race for Chelsea defender Axel Disasi.

(via@RMCsport)

[Strike 7,790]

12 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Just get Madueke out this club and away from the squad ASAP

Don't get the Madueke hate on here. He's our first choice right winger - he's direct, only behind Doku in take-ons, has consistently improved over two years. We will be weakening the squad by letting him go, especially with no replacement in line. 

 

[Pizy 19,280]

3 minutes ago, mkh said:

There are other names on the wishlist to replace Noni Madueke:

1. Alejandro Garnacho - Man United
2. Malick Fofana - Lyon
3. Chelsea are monitoring Ethan Nwaneri’s situation - Arsenal
4. Big admirers of Morgan Rogers - Aston Villa

(@TheAthleticFC)

Lot of people seem to think Fofana is going to become a top player in the future. So imagine if we instead go ad sign Garnacho 🤢🤢🤢

Which in addition to him not being good enough for us, would have the knock on effect of handing United a bunch of money to upgrade their squad.

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3 minutes ago, mkh said:

There are other names on the wishlist to replace Noni Madueke:

1. Alejandro Garnacho - Man United
2. Malick Fofana - Lyon
3. Chelsea are monitoring Ethan Nwaneri’s situation - Arsenal
4. Big admirers of Morgan Rogers - Aston Villa

(@TheAthleticFC)

1 - Big no

2 - Project youngster. Will cost 50m +

3 - Another project 

4 - Quoted 100m. No chance even though he's good

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11 hours ago, Pizy said:

That Elanga price is crazy but I think Newcastle were starting to get a bit desperate after repeatedly missing out on other targets. I think he’s a pace merchant who had one breakout season excelling in a counter attacking style. I don’t really see any special attributes with him at all.

As for Noni going for a similar price, yes, that would be ideal. But at this point I just want to sell him before Arse change their mind and go for someone better. If that’s £40-45m with some add ons on top then fine. 

Why should the club accept a low-ball offer for a player who's good and is attracting interest?

[Pizy 19,280]

2 minutes ago, Strike said:

Why should the club accept a low-ball offer for a player who's good and is attracting interest?

I don’t see any club coming in for Noni at £50m+.

Nobody other than a PL team has that sort of money to spend on him and I highly doubt Noni would agree to go to a club that’s a big step down in terms of profile like a Forest or Villa.

So it feels like either he goes to Arse or stays. And I’d personally rather get a slightly compromised price and replace him with an upgrade than risk Arse walking away.

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42 minutes ago, Pizy said:

I don’t see any club coming in for Noni at £50m+.

Nobody other than a PL team has that sort of money to spend on him and I highly doubt Noni would agree to go to a club that’s a big step down in terms of profile like a Forest or Villa.

So it feels like either he goes to Arse or stays. And I’d personally rather get a slightly compromised price and replace him with an upgrade than risk Arse walking away.

There is no replacement in line. Makes less sense to sell for lower price when almost all reported replacements (Garnacho, Fofana, Rogers) are looking more expensive

[Reddish-Blue 2,674]

29 minutes ago, Strike said:

There is no replacement in line. Makes less sense to sell for lower price when almost all reported replacements (Garnacho, Fofana, Rogers) are looking more expensive

Not that I'm a fan of Garnacho, but the only way he gets out of United is if they lower their asking price. 

Napoli's gone for Noa Lang, so that's 1 less option for Garnacho. 

 

[Reddish-Blue 2,674]

1 hour ago, Pizy said:

I don’t see any club coming in for Noni at £50m+.

Nobody other than a PL team has that sort of money to spend on him and I highly doubt Noni would agree to go to a club that’s a big step down in terms of profile like a Forest or Villa.

I was sort of hoping that Forest would play hardball over Elanga and then Newcastle may join the bidding for Noni.    

Noni would be in the same situation as alot of our players, moving to other clubs would be a step down, even though it would be a good fit for them.  

I wouldn't be surprised if Noni's transfer fee (assuming Arsenal agree a fee for him) sort of sets the standard for Garnacho's asking price

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3 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said:

I was sort of hoping that Forest would play hardball over Elanga and then Newcastle may join the bidding for Noni.    

Noni would be in the same situation as alot of our players, moving to other clubs would be a step down, even though it would be a good fit for them.  

I wouldn't be surprised if Noni's transfer fee (assuming Arsenal agree a fee for him) sort of sets the standard for Garnacho's asking price

Seems pointless - the effort to move out Madueke (after putting in 2.5 years into growing him + when he's approaching his prime years) and bringing in Garnacho/Nwaneri/Fofana and re-starting the process. We are only weakening the first team with this change. The common sense move would be to keep him unless Arsenal stump up 55-60m 

 

 

[Mário César 1,483]

I would not bring any player to replace madueke

estevao, neto, gittssen and in a emergency pedry would be enough

[Mhsc 1,146]

36 minutes ago, Mário César said:

I would not bring any player to replace madueke

estevao, neto, gittssen and in a emergency pedry would be enough

I imagine the club will lean towards replacing him with someone of similar price as we bought him for that they can repeat the story with - another buy and flip in 2-3 years, do a competent job but probably not set the world on fire, adapt and mature with us, build up their rep / brand a bit and then off they go for some more cashflow. Got to keep this model going of flipping players regularly to cover the huge shortfall from stadium revenues / commercial deals / lack of winning things or we will start to breach all of the spending rules everywhere.

Edited July 8, 2025 by Mhsc

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We have to sell from the A list according to reports. Some of the dead wood won’t make a dent 

[Mário César 1,483]

32 minutes ago, Mhsc said:

I imagine the club will lean towards replacing him with someone of similar price as we bought him for that they can repeat the story with - another buy and flip in 2-3 years, do a competent job but probably not set the world on fire, adapt and mature with us, build up their rep / brand a bit and then off they go for some more cashflow. Got to keep this model going of flipping players regularly to cover the huge shortfall from stadium revenues / commercial deals / lack of winning things or we will start to breach all of the spending rules everywhere.

the problem is that we will already have quenda next year we will have a big problem, if we buy another extreme in this market