Chelsea Transfers

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18 hours ago, James said:

Is it right Chelsea won’t get the full £9.4m? Only half of that (£4.2m) because the 25% sell-on is on Ipswich’s profit, not the whole £37.5m fee. 

I have seen many outlets claim if is 25 per cent of the total fee, but then many claim it is 25 per cent of the profit

so no clue atm

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3 hours ago, erinblue said:

1st I've heard of him leaving this window!!!

because it is a made up quote 

 

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2 hours ago, mkh said:

Chelsea have rejected a loan offer with an obligation worth north of £15m for Carney Chukwuemeka.

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fuck Dortmund, those cheap twats

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[Pizy 18,909]

Both Carney and Nkunku are very injury prone. So again, we should not be agreeing to loans with options for these guys. They get injured as usual while on loan and miss large parts of the season and the clubs won’t activate the buy clauses. Then we have more players next summer who are a massive pain in the ass to move on once again.

Any loan we do MUST have mandatory buy obligations. 

[Mário César 1,265]

this probably will be accept 

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Chelsea ‘need a central defender’ after Levi Colwill injury, says Enzo Maresca

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6555194/2025/08/15/Chelsea-transfers-defender-maresca/

By Cerys Jones
Aug. 15, 2025

Enzo Maresca believes Chelsea “need a central defender” after Levi Colwill suffered an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear that will see him ruled out for most of the season.

Colwill, 22, sustained the injury towards the end of Chelsea’s first session after returning at Cobham ahead of the new campaign in the first week of the month.

“You know how important Levi has been for us last season, for the way we want to play,” the Chelsea head coach said at a news conference on Friday. “We said many times that we are able to create chances and to attack in the right way, if we are able to build in the right way. Levi was a huge part of our build-up and now he is out.

“We are trying to find a solution internally, but the club knows exactly what I think and we will see what happens.

“I think we need a central defender.”

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Chelsea have several central defenders in their ranks — Tosin Adarabioyo, Benoit Badiashile, Trevoh Chalobah and Wesley Fofana, with Josh Acheampong also featuring there in pre-season and new signing Jorrel Hato having previously played there for Ajax — but Maresca believes it will be hard to replicate Colwill’s role, as a left-footer in the middle of a back three, in the way his side build up.

“We build with Levi in the middle,” Maresca said. “Last year, we played 64 games and we played 64 games with Levi and Tosin. Now Levi is out, the only one that can do that job well is Tosin.

“Also we have players that unfortunately, like Wes or Benoit, they have in this moment some problems and this is the reason why I said that the club knows exactly what I think about central defenders.”

Chelsea have so far signed Liam Delap, Joao Pedro, Jamie Gittens and Hato this summer, with Dario Essugo and Estevao joining up with the squad after pre-agreed transfers. Maresca’s side open their season with a home game against Crystal Palace on Sunday.

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6 minutes ago, Mário César said:

this probably will be accept 

£17m is a fucking joke

and it starts out as a loan so does little this year to help sort our balance sheets now

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I’m going to assume that there IS a scouting team pouring over the data for CB’s in case there’s a “market opportunity” late in the window. 

But if it happens my bet is that it’s an inexpensive older player who’s more of a 1 season stop gap. If Xavi and Garnacho come in surely we won’t have the ability to then go out and spend 60m+ on a top CB.

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4 minutes ago, Mário César said:

 

 

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4 hours ago, TheHulk said:

Dortmund taking the piss, block them.

Didn't you called idiots people who put 40m clause for Carney last summer as it is too low? We'd be happy to get 25m now. 

 

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These guys are delusional.

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6 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Didn't you called idiots people who put 40m clause for Carney last summer as it is too low? We'd be happy to get 25m now. 

 

Yeah as if I can predict a player is injury prone, guy has all talent in the world to be a 80-90m player other things holding him back.

And if we didn't get KDH last season who knows we might've raised Carney value if he got the chance to play instead of him.

I also have a feeling we got better offers for him from other clubs but Dortmund told him to say he only wants them and now they taking the piss trying to lowball us.

Edited 16 hours ago by TheHulk

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17 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

 

In his twitter he didnt said that the bid was rejected 

[Pizy 18,909]

I get the club trying to hold out and get as much money as they can as any business would. But the\is late in the window there’s a real danger of being too stubborn/unrealistic and having the interested clubs turn elsewhere. Then we’re winter stuck with unwanted players or forced to panic deal right at the deadline for much worse terms than we could’ve received earlier. 
 

 

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I read somewhere this morning we were discussing reintegrating Veiga back in the team with the decision to be made by Maresca, hope it's true.