Chelsea Transfers

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🗯💥Werder Bremen centre-back Karim Coulibaly has attracted concrete interest from Newcastle United, Chelsea, Napoli and Marseille, according to Bild.

Talks are already said to be taking place, but no offers have yet been submitted for the 18-year-old.

 

✅️💪🔥Moises Caicedo when asked about Real Madrid:

"I have a contract with my club and I want to become a legend there".

(@plazacasals via @elchiringuitotv)

Edited Tuesday at 16:13 by mkh

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Can already tell the Enzo transfer stuff is going to be a distraction from now until the summer.

I’m already over it. If somehow after all this talk he stays and is happy then I’m fine with it. But if he forces himself away I won’t mourn in the way I would with Caicedo or Palmer for example. 

In a vacuum, if we can recoup what we bought him for from Madrid then I’d do it without much thought. But with these guys doing the recruitment who knows where they’d turn to replace him. That’s the only scary part about letting Enzo go.

If Madrid do indeed sign Enzo I’m going to assume that means they decline to bring Nico Paz back as has been heavily rumored. He’d be a great Enzo replacement for us. Him + Barco would be awesome.

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Elliot Anderson and Bruno Fernandes’ stats are insane

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Everton (my add: and Nottingham Forest) exploring legal options over lack of sporting sanctions against Chelsea

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/mar/25/everton-exploring-legal-options-over-lack-sporting-sanctions-against-Chelsea

Everton are exploring a possible legal challenge against the Premier League for its handling of Chelsea’s undisclosed payments sanction.

The club are understood to be preparing to write to the Premier League requesting a formal explanation for its failure to take any sporting sanctions against Chelsea, with their legal options also being considered.

Chelsea were fined £10.75m and given a suspended transfer ban by the ­Premier League last week after ­reporting £47.5m of hidden ­payments to agents and players made over a seven‑year period, a ­punishment the rest of the top-flight clubs regarded as lenient.

Executives from ­several clubs have contacted Richard ­Masters, the Premier League chief executive, and the chair, ­Alison ­Brittain, ­asking for ­clarity on the terms of their agreed settlement with Chelsea, with Everton con­sidering taking matters further.

Everton feel particularly aggrieved as they were docked eight points ­during the 2023-24 season for two separate profit and ­sustainability regula­tions breaches, whereas sporting sanctions do not appear to have been considered in the Premier League’s punishment of Chelsea.

Everton could also still receive a further punishment as a result of their PSR breaches as they are the subject of a compensation claim from Burnley, who demanded £50m at an arbitration hearing last autumn on the basis that they were relegated from the Premier League during the 2021-22 season, when Everton were found to have breached PSR.

Nottingham Forest are also unhappy with the Chelsea ­sanction as they were docked four points in 2023‑24 for a PSR breach.

­Forest ­officials are understood to have held talks with Everton this week about ­joining forces to challenge the ­Premier League, but have yet to come to a firm ­decision.

As a first step, the two clubs are likely to write to the Premier League ­requesting a formal ­explanation for Chelsea’s punishment and the process behind it, a move that would have some ­support from other clubs.

There are concerns throughout the top flight that the Chelsea ­decision could set a precedent before the verdict on Manchester City’s 115 charges of ­breaching financial fair play. City deny those charges.

Arsenal and Totten­ham, along with Manchester United and Liverpool, instructed lawyers to reserve their right to sue for compen­sation two years ago if City are found guilty in a case being heard by an indepen­dent tribunal, rather than the Premier League itself, as in the Chelsea case.

The Premier League is believed to have explained Chelsea’s punishment on the grounds that it felt it would have been unable to secure a conviction without their co-operation, so negotiated from the outset.

Chelsea’s current ownership of Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly reported the offences, 36 ­undisclosed payments between 2011 and 2018 which helped the club to buy ­players such as Eden Hazard, Nemanja Matic, David Luiz, Willian and ­Ramires, which they discovered during the negotiations to buy the club from Roman ­Abramovich four years ago. As a result the new ­owners received a £150m discount from the sale price agreed with ­Abramovich to cover any related future liabilities, and the ­Premier League will be paid from those funds.

Everton and Forest are both ­taking legal advice, with any challenge likely to be based on claims that the Premier League has been inconsistent in applying its own rulebook.

There is no mention of the concept of “sporting advantage” in the Chelsea ­judgment despite the fact that the club won eight trophies, ­including two Premier League titles, during the period when the payments were made. The Everton and Forest PSR judgments, in contrast, make repeated references to the ­sporting advantage accrued from their overspending. Everton and Nottingham Forest declined to comment.

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Let them waste money on a legal challenge, stupid fucking idiots.

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💥🔵Chelsea have sought direct contact with Köln’s Sporting Directors Steidten and Thomas Kessler, to reaffirm their interest in their 19-year-old winger Said El Mala.

(Sport Bild)

 

🗯🔵Chelsea are lining up a swoop for another teenage wonderkid after tabling an offer for Marseille’s 16-year-old winger Said Remadnia.

(Simon Barlow)

 

✅️🔵Dastan Satpaev to get chance to stay in Chelsea first team for 2026/27 season with Liam Rosenior excited for his arrival, via their NT head coach.

Edited 11 hours ago by mkh

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Sounds amazing.....rolls eyes

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Chelsea will absolutely look at Antonio Silva for £15m

I smell an opportunity....

https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/Chelsea-will-absolutely-look-at-antonio

Chelsea bloody love a good opportunity, don’t they? Well, they may well get one this summer.

Antonio Silva for £15m anyone? Apparently that is a possible scenario for the summer.

Florian Plettenberg from Sky Germany reported:

‘António Silva could move in the summer, although SL Benfica want to extend his contract beyond 2027.

‘The market is being explored, and there is also concrete interest from Bundesliga clubs.

’Estimated price valuation: around €15-25 million.’

So, around £15m in sterling.

That’s very cheap for such a player. Chelsea will absolutely look at this situation, I know that without even checking in on it.

Silva has been on our defender shortlist for some time and they have even made recent approaches for him. They’ve been scouting him heavily for at least two seasons now, and he’s a player that they like.

He also fits their ‘project’ as he’s only 22-years-old, and signing him for such a tiny fee would present HUGE profit margins when they sell him in the future at whatever point that might be.

His current contract expires in 2027, so I imagine that is why he might be so cheap. Although, it smells of a new contract coming if I’m completely honest.

Silva is a decent defender, he has a lot to like about him. But I’m not sure he really cries out ‘this is what we need to get back to the top’ though…

I do like him though. He has leadership, can be dominant, 18 caps for Portugal so fairly decent experience now, and he certainly has a bit about him at just 22.

Thoughts?

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Never mind Eden Hazard, Chelsea haven't replaced Diego Costa, Thiago Silva, Nemanja Matic, Petr Cech, and MANY more....

We could go on all day

https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/never-mind-eden-hazard-Chelsea-havent

Chelsea have some decent players in our squad right now, let’s be clear about that. Some of these players have the potential to become world class stars.

However, the problem is what is missing from the squad alongside the average squad fillers we have been signing.

I saw an article this week with Liam Twomey of The Athletic saying that Chelsea have never replaced Eden Hazard. And of course, that is correct. But there are so many other key players we’ve had over time that we have failed to replace, and of course, that’s not all on the current owners as many of these could have and should have been replaced much sooner.

“Hazard would not always contribute a decisive goal or assist for Chelsea,” Twomey wrote.

“He would, however, more often than not be in uncontroversially the best player on the pitch in a Premier League match, and the unequivocal focus of attention for both teams as long as he was out there.”

He added that Chelsea got £100m for his sale, but “have still never managed to replace his unique genius.”

How do you even replace Eden Hazard? He was one in a million. I think the closest we got was our interest in Rayan Cherki. And no, before anyone says anything, I’m not saying he is another Hazard or anything. But he’s the kind of flair difference maker we don’t have in our squad and has that similar maverick style about him that Hazard had. But yes, I agree, we haven’t replaced Hazard. Maybe Estevao Willian will be spoke about in the same breath in years to come, but he’s still young, still learning, and has a way to go yet.

Chelsea lack a presence up top, and a presence at the back. We haven’t replaced Thiago Silva, and we haven’t replaced Diego Costa. We also haven’t replaced Petr Cech. Wow, that’s going back a long way to find our last consistently top keeper over time. Edouard Mendy was there for a bit but not long enough. Others have come and gone. Thibaut Courtois would have been the one but he got itchy feet.

We don’t have any dominant defenders like Silva. Joao Pedro could come close to being our next big thing up top. But he still doesn’t quite have the presence that Costa and Didier Drogba had. We need more of an aerial presence in both boxes.

And in midfield, we’ve still not replaced Nemanja Matic. Yes, Moises Caicedo is a great interceptor, but it’s still not the dominant and physical 6 that Matic was. It’s the presence in there that we still lack. This is NOT a criticism of Caicedo, I just still think he’s more of a box-to-box centre midfielder rather than a restricted 6. I still think we lack that type of midfielder in our squad with a real physical presence.

Did we replace Ashely Cole with Marc Cucurella? Some will say yes, maybe. Others will say not even close. Cucurella has been decent, but he’s not been on the same level as Cole, let’s be honest.

Legends are rare, and the game changes. So profiles change, tactics change. We have to take that all in to account here and not expect to ever create carbon copies of Chelsea teams that have been successful in the past. But to me, it’s more about presence; we lack their presence and what they bought to the squad. We lack their quality over all. We cannot replace a whole team of our best ever players, that’s unrealistic and impossible. But we should be looking at some of these players and the attributes they had, and looking to bring that in again.