Chelsea Transfers

[Reddish-Blue 2,513]

1 hour ago, Thor said:

Great window.

You don't set an outgoing transfer record in a season without getting rid of a shit tonne of deadwood. 

Somehow people are saying Arsenal had a better window than us:

- Give me Pedro over Gyokeres

- Garnacho is better than Noni

- No one here wanted Hincapie but now that he has signed he is good. Pfft. Hato was the better choice.

- Essugo is a fantastic backup. 

How much do you rate Eze and Zubamendi? For me - both average and I'd never take Eze here. We brought in Estevao, Delap and Gittens. 

I'll take our window considering we sold more, are in the green this transfer window and can spend more next season. 

Until Garnacho actually plays for us, we won't know if he's better than Noni.   Noni was more than serviceable on the wing, a bit frustrating at times but we'll never forget that game where he decided to rip Wolves apart. 😆

Zubimendi is a class midfielder

Arteta shouldn't have any excuses this season, expecting them to push Liverpool all the way for the title this season, he's got GK + defense + midfield all sorted and even managed to splash the cash on Eze and Viktor. 

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Chelsea striker David Datro Fofana’s loan move to Charlton Athletic has collapsed. The deal was not able to be done in time.

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[Thor 2,744]

1 hour ago, DDA said:

Most of it. 

Mate you’re just a sappy downer. That’s not on me. 
 

Breaking the outgoing transfer record clearly means we got rid of a lot of shit. You want everything gone in one swoop? Show me a team that’s done that. 
 

People on here upset City got Cherki acting like it was a stroke of genius when we get Garnacho who is statistically better, and you make us sound like mugs. You just have no perspective and don’t care to try to have any. 
 

We have a team that’s won the CWC and outperformed the CL winners. They’re doing okay as we’ve also shored up a lot of areas. 

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1 hour ago, TheHulk said:

"Great window"

If it were up to you we would overpay for everyone. 
 

Enzo who you loved and we clearly overpaid for is the weak link out of our midfield/front bunch. 
 

You lot overreact like teenagers on here. 

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2 hours ago, Laylabelle said:

Yeahhh it worked for them last year..

How boring. I just want us to get near..or least go all the way to Wembley and win. Hopefully can least manage that!

A penny for Klopp's thoughts. All those years there on a shoestring budget to seeing them spending record amounts.

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41 minutes ago, Thor said:

If it were up to you we would overpay for everyone. 
 

Enzo who you loved and we clearly overpaid for is the weak link out of our midfield/front bunch. 
 

You lot overreact like teenagers on here. 

Yeah like these experts who overpaid around 15-20m for Gittens, who didn't get a CB and GK despite saddling the club with bang average CBs and GKs and now telling the coach to make due with what he has.

They maybe overpaid for Enzo but he was sought out after shining and winning the biggest trophy in the world, it was the right decision to go for him and when he will get sold I doubt we will making a big loss if any at all on him, he was a top talent.

Even Madueke made more sense gave us a leeway to get a profit on him or at least get our money back with the price we paid, there is no such thing with Gittens it's top dollar for someone incredibly raw.

For the money they paid for Gittens and Garnacho we probably could've convinced Juventus to sell Yildiz, yeah we wouldn't have a back up but right now we have 2 players who aren't exactly best of the best in that position.

Edited 7 hours ago by TheHulk

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1 hour ago, Thor said:

Mate you’re just a sappy downer. That’s not on me. 
 

Breaking the outgoing transfer record clearly means we got rid of a lot of shit. You want everything gone in one swoop? Show me a team that’s done that. 
 

People on here upset City got Cherki acting like it was a stroke of genius when we get Garnacho who is statistically better, and you make us sound like mugs. You just have no perspective and don’t care to try to have any. 
 

We have a team that’s won the CWC and outperformed the CL winners. They’re doing okay as we’ve also shored up a lot of areas. 

‘Sappy downer’ … interesting…

I’m not negative for the sake of being negative. If the board didn’t do idiotic moves in the market or if the owners didn’t shape every decision based around making profit, I wouldn’t be as frustrated as I am watching it.

If you are soo easily pleased, acting like that CWC was actually a huge deal when in reality it was nothing more than a glorified pre-season tournament. Nice to say we have won everything but let’s not act like it was a CL ffs.. it’s embarrassing.

Also, couldn’t care less about making record sales… i don’t know why fans pay any attention to what profits the club are making..  you all act like you’re University graduates in accounting. What’s that all about? It’s football.. the game is about winning matches.

Edited 7 hours ago by DDA

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12 hours ago, Strike said:

Not enough quality in attack to overwhelm teams 

We were called Palmer FC last two seasons. We just won 2 PL games without him by scoring 7 goals. 

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3 minutes ago, DDA said:

‘Sappy downer’ … interesting…

I’m not negative for the sake of being negative. If the board didn’t do idiotic moves in the market or if the owners didn’t shape every decision based around making profit, I wouldn’t be as frustrated as I am watching it.

If you are soo easily pleased, acting like that CWC was actually a huge deal when in reality it was nothing more than a glorified pre-season tournament. Nice to say we have won everything but let’s not act like it was a CL ffs.. it’s embarrassing.

Also, couldn’t care less about making record sales… i don’t know why fans pay any attention to what profits the club are making..  you all act like you’re University graduates in accounting. What’s that all about? It’s football.. the game is about winning matches.

Looks like that CWC did more harm than good for us, didn't made us change targets at all, owners can hide behind it for a while now and a good chunk of the fanbase will believe them blindly but the giant elephant in the room is still there

- no front shirt sponsor yet (even if they get one in soon I'd expect it to be some record sponsorship given how much they wanked around saying they waiting for the right conditions and how much shade they threw to Roman)

- no news on stadium yet

- spent over 1.5B and the squad still has massive gaps to fill, maybe by the time they hit 2.5B we won't have such glaring weaknesses like GK and CB.

[NikkiCFC 8,366]

11 hours ago, Pizy said:

He looks completely useless up there. Like a fish out of water. 

Yet our record with him leading the line is 4 0 0 if you add Nottingham last round previous season which was also false 9 with Neto it's 5 wins in 5 games. 

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16 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

We were called Palmer FC last two seasons. We just won 2 PL games without him by scoring 7 goals. 

5 set piece goals from the 7. (I'll still take that though, we have looked deadly from corners and if Arsenal can win games that way, why not us.)

We still need to better from open play. Hopefully Palmer returning, can bring that back. 

[NikkiCFC 8,366]

11 hours ago, TheHulk said:

Hopefully humble this dirty fraud when we play Bayern in a few weeks.

Hopefully new red card. 

[Strike 7,522]

30 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

We were called Palmer FC last two seasons. We just won 2 PL games without him by scoring 7 goals. 

West Ham didn't show up. I wouldn't read anything into that game. We've struggled vs Fulham and Palace. 

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6 minutes ago, Strike said:

West Ham didn't show up. I wouldn't read anything into that game. We've struggled vs Fulham and Palace. 

When Arteta was struggling and was winning with set piece...you all hail him as the second coming of Guardiola....now matches against big teams he is still struggling to score...I dont want to score and win our games that way...I want us to be better especially in open areas...but gas lighting our attack especially now we have new faces bar Neto/Palmer at the infant stage of the season is not the way to go....

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40 minutes ago, Phikom said:

When Arteta was struggling and was winning with set piece...you all hail him as the second coming of Guardiola....now matches against big teams he is still struggling to score...I dont want to score and win our games that way...I want us to be better especially in open areas...but gas lighting our attack especially now we have new faces bar Neto/Palmer at the infant stage of the season is not the way to go....

Nobody has been praising Arteta for playing like Stoke.. where did you pluck that load of old bollocks from?

Edited 5 hours ago by DDA

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1 hour ago, TheHulk said:

 

Looks like that CWC did more harm than good for us, didn't made us change targets at all, owners can hide behind it for a while now and a good chunk of the fanbase will believe them blindly but the giant elephant in the room is still there

- no front shirt sponsor yet (even if they get one in soon I'd expect it to be some record sponsorship given how much they wanked around saying they waiting for the right conditions and how much shade they threw to Roman)

- no news on stadium yet

- spent over 1.5B and the squad still has massive gaps to fill, maybe by the time they hit 2.5B we won't have such glaring weaknesses like GK and CB.

I forget to mention the insane amount of money spent and not 1 established World Class player was bought with that money. Do fans not realise how crazy that is … ?? To gamble over 1.5billion on talents that maybe will or maybe wont make it… which let’s face it… around 75% haven’t made it and that’s why we have been able to make soo many sales. We have been selling off Cobham graduates and bang average players that were suppose to be the next big thing. 

[NikkiCFC 8,366]

Sterling's priority is clearly to collect those 350k per week for the next two years and retire because nobody is taking him after 2 years without playing football. He is still just 30, could play somewhere for 5,6 more years regularly but for way less money. 

350k for the next two seasons is around 10m more than let's say 100k per week next 5 years. Plus without any effort. I think he just did financial calculation and gave up on his career. 

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2 hours ago, DDA said:

‘Sappy downer’ … interesting…

I’m not negative for the sake of being negative. If the board didn’t do idiotic moves in the market or if the owners didn’t shape every decision based around making profit, I wouldn’t be as frustrated as I am watching it.

If you are soo easily pleased, acting like that CWC was actually a huge deal when in reality it was nothing more than a glorified pre-season tournament. Nice to say we have won everything but let’s not act like it was a CL ffs.. it’s embarrassing.

Also, couldn’t care less about making record sales… i don’t know why fans pay any attention to what profits the club are making..  you all act like you’re University graduates in accounting. What’s that all about? It’s football.. the game is about winning matches.

You know exactly why the club, and therefore its fans, have had to pay attention to making a profit on a section of our transfer activity.

I'm sure you watched at least our matches in the CWC so I don't understand the basis for your, "glorified preseason tournament", claim. Teams gave their all in every game, coaches picked their top XIs, none rotated for the sake of it, fans whose tradition is for loud passionate support produced some of the loudest most passionate support imaginable. Not a single team invited to take part, refused. Some fans and ex players of unqualified teams cried and coped by pretending not to care but two of the world's truly great clubs, Barcelona and Liverpool, gave the game away by begging for invitations despite failing to qualify.

Your attitude towards the CWC is out of step with its reality.

Edited 4 hours ago by OhForAGreavsie

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2 hours ago, Strike said:

West Ham didn't show up. I wouldn't read anything into that game. We've struggled vs Fulham and Palace. 

I wouldn't say we struggled against Fulham, they came with energy and gave it a go with King + Muniz up top. 

Considering no Palmer and no real target up front with Delap going off very early and George being sent on as a runner, thought we did alright. 

Our next 6 games will tell us whether we'll be fighting for top 4 or not.  Hopefully Palmer is back and Garnacho is up and running on the wings. 

Brentford away, United away, Brighton home, Liverpool home, Forest away and then Spurs away (november). 

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1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

Sterling's priority is clearly to collect those 350k per week for the next two years and retire because nobody is taking him after 2 years without playing football. He is still just 30, could play somewhere for 5,6 more years regularly but for way less money. 

350k for the next two seasons is around 10m more than let's say 100k per week next 5 years. Plus without any effort. I think he just did financial calculation and gave up on his career. 

Guessing there will be a mutual termination next season between the club and Sterling. 

Maybe something like Lukaku who agreed to lower his demands to get a permanent move to Italy.