Chelsea Transfers

[Mário César 1,383]

6 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

The way Maresca is carrying on with all this protection shite, both Josh and Estevao will be gone soon

yes I think he is not good enough for us but our main problem is the board

[Special Juan 28,405]

17 minutes ago, Mário César said:

yes I think he is not good enough for us but our main problem is the board

The board won't change anytime soon, the sacking of the manager will come before anything..... when it's a culmination of both being naive and stupid.

[Vytis33 1,336]

Should’ve signed Osimhen.  Haven’t had a striker opponents had to worry about since Diego Costa 

[Mário César 1,383]

1 hour ago, Special Juan said:

The board won't change anytime soon, the sacking of the manager will come before anything..... when it's a culmination of both being naive and stupid.

yes we will need to wait more 6 years for them to sell the club to a proper owner and board

we are wasting years for the club with this board

[Special Juan 28,405]

Meanwhile Marc Guehi is putting in a masterclass at Selhurst

[Blue Armour 4,595]

3 hours ago, mkh said:

Chelsea are among the clubs to have checked on James McAtee's situation at Nottingham Forest. Enzo Maresca is an admirer of McAtee having worked with the England U-21 international at Manchester City. Leeds United, Bournemouth, Fulham and Sunderland are also interested. (@kierangill DM)

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"Worked with them at Man City"

Ah yes, the most shining hallmark of any top class player. And he's a U-21 international too!

[DDA 10,065]

What baffles me the most is this stupid wage cap nonsense.. it doesn’t even make sense!!

You can get Osimhen in on his wage demands and it surely won’t be more than Garnacho, Gittens, Delap, Pedro & Jackson combined??

 Osimhen would be far more beneficial than having all the said players in the books like we currently have. 

[Pizy 19,060]

33 minutes ago, DDA said:

What baffles me the most is this stupid wage cap nonsense.. it doesn’t even make sense!!

You can get Osimhen in on his wage demands and it surely won’t be more than Garnacho, Gittens, Delap, Pedro & Jackson combined??

 Osimhen would be far more beneficial than having all the said players in the books like we currently have. 

Much as I hate it, from their POV I can understand it. At least for players over a certain age. They want to avoid another Sterling situation at all costs where we’re stuck with deadweight for years because no other club can afford his mammoth wages.

Limiting ourselves wage wise on players 25 and under is silly, though. 

[DDA 10,065]

40 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Much as I hate it, from their POV I can understand it. At least for players over a certain age. They want to avoid another Sterling situation at all costs where we’re stuck with deadweight for years because no other club can afford his mammoth wages.

Limiting ourselves wage wise on players 25 and under is silly, though. 

You have to pay the high wages to get the best players. Everyone uses the Sterling situation but it was obvious he wasn’t worth those wages and was already underperforming at City. The recruitment needed to be better and getting Osimhen in his prime was no brainer. They need to lift this wage and age cap if we are to ever compete again.

[Pizy 19,060]

2 hours ago, DDA said:

You have to pay the high wages to get the best players. Everyone uses the Sterling situation but it was obvious he wasn’t worth those wages and was already underperforming at City. The recruitment needed to be better and getting Osimhen in his prime was no brainer. They need to lift this wage and age cap if we are to ever compete again.

I agree, but now that we’ve put this structure in place it’s going to be super hard to bin it. You sign a player and put them on £200k+ (or much more in Osimhen’s case) and then you’d surely have all these players who we signed recently on “cheap” wages questioning why they aren’t on similar. Like if a top new signing is put on £200k per week players like Caicedo, Palmer, Cucu etc will quite rightly tell the club that they deserve that too. Then our wage bill explodes again.

Now, you can say “who gives a shit, it’s not my money” and in the past we would all agree. But with PSR and whatever else combined with our tiny stadium and match day revenue I don’t think we really could do away with this wage structure and comply.

Under the current circumstances we’re kind of locked in to either buying kids and praying they turn out like Palmer or Estevão or we buy good but not great senior players like your João Pedro’s, Pedro Neto’s, Garnacho’s etc who won’t demand top wages but are also not the very top level we need.

[DDA 10,065]

19 minutes ago, Pizy said:

I agree, but now that we’ve put this structure in place it’s going to be super hard to bin it. You sign a player and put them on £200k+ (or much more in Osimhen’s case) and then you’d surely have all these players who we signed recently on “cheap” wages questioning why they aren’t on similar. Like if a top new signing is put on £200k per week players like Caicedo, Palmer, Cucu etc will quite rightly tell the club that they deserve that too. Then our wage bill explodes again.

Now, you can say “who gives a shit, it’s not my money” and in the past we would all agree. But with PSR and whatever else combined with our tiny stadium and match day revenue I don’t think we really could do away with this wage structure and comply.

Under the current circumstances we’re kind of locked in to either buying kids and praying they turn out like Palmer or Estevão or we buy good but not great senior players like your João Pedro’s, Pedro Neto’s, Garnacho’s etc who won’t demand top wages but are also not the very top level we need.

Whilst I agree with what you are saying is true, it is only true if you were talking about a club that hasn’t purchased a Gazillion players. If you combined all the wages from the endless amounts of players on the books (no exaggeration), you could most probably acquire a squad of far better quality by buying less in quantity and more in quality. The bloated roster could easily be trimmed and streamlined by cutting away the fat and brining in serious ballers whilst complying with PSR. The stadium excuse is being used a lot in recent times, which may be true but they could do more to help themselves by maybe getting a FOS sponsor and spending their money in more productive ways.