Chelsea Transfers

[ZAPHOD2319 4,897]

Transfer windows have lost all the fun they used to be. Somewhat like getting socks and underwear for Christmas.

[Vesper 30,769]

11 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Transfer windows have lost all the fun they used to be. Somewhat like getting socks and underwear for Christmas.

[Pizy 19,155]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

Tonali is close to, if not now world class for me. A great MFer and is only 25yo, a close to perfect age for me (in terms of being a very experienced vet but not closing in on 30yo) but NOT BlueCo!

Ffs, VITINHA is older than Tonali, would we say, OMG, he is too old!!!

Here are the top DMFs and CMFs in the world, just to show where he fits in (he can play either one to a uper high level)

The ones older than Tonali are in italics. Many of the ones younger than him are only 1 or so years younger than him as well.

In order of valuation (I personally would take Caicedo over any of them, even Pedri) and also, every single CMF or DMF valued over €40m is listed here:

Pedri 
Federico Valverde 
Declan Rice
Moisés Caicedo
João Neves 
Vitinha      
Ryan Gravenberch 
Enzo Fernández  
Alexis Mac Allister 
Bruno Guimarães 
Sandro Tonali 
Martín Zubimendi
Rodri   
Aurélien Tchouaméni  
Aleksandar Pavlovic 
Tijjani Reijnders
Adam Wharton 
Elliot Anderson
Nicolò Barella
Carlos Baleba  
Pablo Barrios  
Warren Zaïre-Emery 
Eduardo Camavinga  
Manu Koné 
Morten Hjulmand  
Felix Nmecha
Scott McTominay
Frenkie de Jong
Nico González 
Angelo Stiller   
Amadou Onana

I’d take Tonali here in an instant as would every big PL club. I just cannot ever see us spending mega money like that again on a single player. Especially not in midfield after we already bought 2 £100m guys. 

Do I think BlueCo would sanction a midfielder for £50-70m? Probably. But never £100m again. Not with Andrey Santos gaining in stature.

 

[Vesper 30,769]

13 minutes ago, Pizy said:

I’d take Tonali here in an instant as would every big PL club. I just cannot ever see us spending mega money like that again on a single player. Especially not in midfield after we already bought 2 £100m guys. 

Do I think BlueCo would sanction a midfielder for £50-70m? Probably. But never £100m again. Not with Andrey Santos gaining in stature.

 

I thik the only ones on that list we would MAYBE make a move for would be

Sandro Tonali (I think he would cost £60 to 70m)
Adam Wharton 
Elliot Anderson
Felix Nmecha (maybe)

after that, going down in age I see us sniffing around (remember these are all CMFs or DMFs)

Valentín Barco (already a BlueCo player)

plus

Ayyoub Bouaddi 
Senny Mayulu (TOUGH PULL, as it is PSG)
Johan Manzambi 
Victor Froholdt 
Jobe Bellingham
Noah Sadiki 
Marc Casadó  (Barca DMF)
Kees Smit 
Nathan De Cat

plus

Kennet Eichhorn  (summer 2027, as he is too young to move until then) Bayern want him SO badly, so probably not going to happen

[Pizy 19,155]

3 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I thik the only ones on that list we would MAYBE make a move for would be

Sandro Tonali (I think he would cost £60 to 70m)
Adam Wharton 
Elliot Anderson
Felix Nmecha (maybe)

after that, going down in age I see us sniffing around (remember these are all CMFs or DMFs)

Valentín Barco (already a BlueCo player)

plus

Ayyoub Bouaddi 
Senny Mayulu (TOUGH PULL, as it is PSG)
Johan Manzambi 
Victor Froholdt 
Jobe Bellingham
Noah Sadiki 
Marc Casadó  (Barca DMF)
Kees Smit 
Nathan De Cat

plus

Kennet Eichhorn  (summer 2027, as he is too young to move until then) Bayern want him SO badly, so probably not going to happen

If Anderson and Wharton are too much I think Barco will be the guy. Would be an incredibly easy move to do I would assume.

Of course the wildcard situation is if Enzo continues this form the rest of the season and we miss out on UCL he could ask to go to Madrid. That’s the only scenario in which I could imagine us spending gigantic money again to replace him.  I could see us going for Tonali then.

[Vesper 30,769]

33 minutes ago, Pizy said:

If Anderson and Wharton are too much I think Barco will be the guy. Would be an incredibly easy move to do I would assume.

Of course the wildcard situation is if Enzo continues this form the rest of the season and we miss out on UCL he could ask to go to Madrid. That’s the only scenario in which I could imagine us spending gigantic money again to replace him.  I could see us going for Tonali then.

Good post.

I agree that you are inhabiting a sound logic area of thought.

[Strike 7,708]

 

The same window we tried to sign Alisson Becker as well

[Vesper 30,769]

11 minutes ago, Strike said:

 

The same window we tried to sign Alisson Becker as well

No, you are off by a year. That (Chels trying to buy him) was in summer 2018.

In summer 2017 Alisson was coming off a year of being the Roma backup keeper, but I so wanted him then as my Brasilian/Swedish friend in Porto Allegre (she is a huge Gremio fangirl) tipped me off about him from his Internacional (Gremio's hated Porto Allegre derby rival) days. I knew then, in 2017, that there was no chance Cuntois would renew, as we stupidly loaned him for three straight years to Aletico Madrid, and he put down roots with the city. Marina was in utter denial of this, insisting he would renew. She turned down insane money from Real that summer of 2017.

Then, in summer 2018, when Marina finally realised Cuntois was not going to renew she cocked it all up.

Tried to buy Allison but he said no, I want to be a scouser.

Then she met Atletico's €100m release clause for Oblak but he told us to piss off.

So we panic bought shit Kepa for £72m (inflation-adjusted to around £97m in February 2026 pound sterling) and panic sold Cuntois to Real for likely 2 and a half or so times LESS cash than we could have had the year before.

 

[Blue Armour 4,643]

6 hours ago, Special Juan said:

GET IN!!!

Disasi has fucked off

I got excited for a bit, and then I remembered it was only on loan.

[Special Juan 28,544]

4 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

I got excited for a bit, and then I remembered it was only on loan.

He's gone, that's all that matters right now. WHU will be picking up some or at least half his wages I hope.

Let's hope he has a few good games and they think he is prime Nesta

[Duppy Conqueror 1,582]

7 hours ago, Vesper said:

I thik the only ones on that list we would MAYBE make a move for would be

Sandro Tonali (I think he would cost £60 to 70m)
Adam Wharton 
Elliot Anderson
Felix Nmecha (maybe)

after that, going down in age I see us sniffing around (remember these are all CMFs or DMFs)

Valentín Barco (already a BlueCo player)

plus

Ayyoub Bouaddi 
Senny Mayulu (TOUGH PULL, as it is PSG)
Johan Manzambi 
Victor Froholdt 
Jobe Bellingham
Noah Sadiki 
Marc Casadó  (Barca DMF)
Kees Smit 
Nathan De Cat

plus

Kennet Eichhorn  (summer 2027, as he is too young to move until then) Bayern want him SO badly, so probably not going to happen

I want us to sign Nat De Cat just for his name.

6'4 at 17 would help give us some extra height too..

Edited 7 hours ago by Duppy Conqueror

[Duppy Conqueror 1,582]

5 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

I got excited for a bit, and then I remembered it was only on loan.

I case of we flushed the turd and can't see it but know it's lurking in the u-bend..

[YorkshireBlue 3,334]

9 hours ago, Vesper said:

How did you acquire Lilly Phillips and Bonnie blues Christmas presents? 

[mkh 699]

 

 

[mkh 699]

💥🗯Harry Hudson, Joe Shields, Glen van der Kraan, and Dan Hogan really emptied the U21 and U18 teams on the last transfer day!

Dujuan Richards will also be following soon to Leicester City.

[Strike 7,708]

10 hours ago, Vesper said:

No, you are off by a year. That (Chels trying to buy him) was in summer 2018.

In summer 2017 Alisson was coming off a year of being the Roma backup keeper, but I so wanted him then as my Brasilian/Swedish friend in Porto Allegre (she is a huge Gremio fangirl) tipped me off about him from his Internacional (Gremio's hated Porto Allegre derby rival) days. I knew then, in 2017, that there was no chance Cuntois would renew, as we stupidly loaned him for three straight years to Aletico Madrid, and he put down roots with the city. Marina was in utter denial of this, insisting he would renew. She turned down insane money from Real that summer of 2017.

Then, in summer 2018, when Marina finally realised Cuntois was not going to renew she cocked it all up.

Tried to buy Allison but he said no, I want to be a scouser.

Then she met Atletico's €100m release clause for Oblak but he told us to piss off.

So we panic bought shit Kepa for £72m (inflation-adjusted to around £97m in February 2026 pound sterling) and panic sold Cuntois to Real for likely 2 and a half or so times LESS cash than we could have had the year before.

 

Aguero refers to summer 2018 when Costa and Conte had fought and Costa was on his way out

[TheHulk 2,614]

1 hour ago, Strike said:

Aguero refers to summer 2018 when Costa and Conte had fought and Costa was on his way out

If we got him in 2018 big chance we could've got another league title with him, sad it didn't happen.

Edited 1 hour ago by TheHulk

[Vesper 30,769]

2 hours ago, Strike said:

Aguero refers to summer 2018 when Costa and Conte had fought and Costa was on his way out

Oki, sorry for the misunderstanding.

At least I gave a history of what went down with our GKer situ back then in the summers of 2017 and 2018. A series of horrible mistakes and misfortune. 😞

[Strike 7,708]

Imagine signing Aguero instead of Torres in 2011

 

[Pizy 19,155]

6 minutes ago, Strike said:

Imagine signing Aguero instead of Torres in 2011

 

Or Roman getting his ultimate dream of getting Pep and playing like Barca. We may have won 2-3 more UCL’s.