Chelsea Transfers

[ZAPHOD2319 4,818]

A lot of chatter about Barkley going to Everton.

 

[NikkiCFC 8,323]

We are among clubs that made contact with his agent.

 

[Pizy 18,911]

Another winger who is awesome once in a while but extremely disappointing more often than not. In other words, the Chelsea Special.

The only wide attacker we should be thinking about is Chiesa next summer. And he’s probably impossible.

[MoroccanBlue 5,382]

42 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Another winger who is awesome once in a while but extremely disappointing more often than not. In other words, the Chelsea Special.

The only wide attacker we should be thinking about is Chiesa next summer. And he’s probably impossible.

Need a midfielder. Our whole system under Tuchel was born due to the limitations of our midfielders. Bissouma ran circles around them tonight. 
 

Not getting Tchouameni last summer is looking more and more ridiculous by the day. He signs for another club we may as well wear a red nose. 

[Vesper 30,181]

17 hours ago, Pizy said:

Part of me doubts that the club will go all out in January for a super expensive, long term starter LB like Theo. He’s the sort of player who you get when you don’t have a first choice LB as he’s far too good to be a rotation option. Chilly will come back eventually and if he’s able to return to his top class level then what would we do if we had he AND Theo on our books?

This is why Digne or Dest make more sense. They are both really solid but can coexist and still be reasonably happy with big competition for their place.

Theo is far better than Chilwell. Makes no sense to not make the move. Citeh have multiple starting level fullbacks.

I refuse to settle. Settling is what gets us in positions like we are now.

[Strike 7,489]

18 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Theo is far better than Chilwell. Makes no sense to not make the move. Citeh have multiple starting level fullbacks.

I refuse to settle. Settling is what gets us in positions like we are now.

Yes, I agree. Time to be bullish and not consider how Chilwell feels when he's back fit. When Chilwell comes back eventually, he has to earn his place.

[Vesper 30,181]

yikes!!!

Chelsea confirm £145.6m loss as pandemic and transfer business bites hard

The club has published its accounts for the most recent financial year

https://www.football.london/Chelsea-fc/Chelsea-confirm-1456m-loss-pandemic-22601429

 

Chelsea made a post-tax loss of £145.6million for the financial year ending in June, with the club pointing to the pandemic’s impact and a decreased profit on player sales in their latest accounts.

Roman Abramovich's club made a profit of £39.5million a year previous.

 

Overall turnover jumped by £29million to £416.8million, mostly thanks to a boost in broadcast income, but matchday revenue was obliterated owing to most of last season taking place behind closed doors and there was a knock-on impact to commercial income.

Edited December 30, 2021 by Vesper

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[NikkiCFC 8,323]

2 hours ago, Vesper said:

yikes!!!

Chelsea confirm £145.6m loss as pandemic and transfer business bites hard

The club has published its accounts for the most recent financial year

https://www.football.london/Chelsea-fc/Chelsea-confirm-1456m-loss-pandemic-22601429

 

Chelsea made a post-tax loss of £145.6million for the financial year ending in June, with the club pointing to the pandemic’s impact and a decreased profit on player sales in their latest accounts.

Roman Abramovich's club made a profit of £39.5million a year previous.

 

Overall turnover jumped by £29million to £416.8million, mostly thanks to a boost in broadcast income, but matchday revenue was obliterated owing to most of last season taking place behind closed doors and there was a knock-on impact to commercial income.

Crazy that you win CL, finish summer transfer window around zero and still record big loss. And UEFA wonder why clubs want Super League.

[Jype 6,398]

4 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Crazy that you win CL, finish summer transfer window around zero and still record big loss. And UEFA wonder why clubs want Super League.

Last summer's transfer window was not included on the accounts for year 20/21. The previous year of heavy spending (around -190m€ net) was included in the amortisations.

Would assume the next one is much better when matchday income has (so far) returned to more or less normal and transfers for the 21/22 season are included, when there have been sales of around 160m€ consisting mostly from academy players who had zero amortisation value to begin with.

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,182]

So theres a big possibility that we're gonna lose Andreas, Rudi and Azpi all on free.. We need to shop for a whole new defence lol

[lucio 5,418]

Retain Christensen at least 

[Superblue 6,372]

I would have expected a few weeks ago that Rudiger would be the only player we'd lose but it's now looking more and more likely that Christensen and Azpi could move on too.

It's far from ideal that we'll need to replace 3 first team players automatically before we even look at improving a squad which has shown in recent weeks it needs refreshing.

I can see the club moving for one of the players who's contracts are expiring this summer like Sule or Ginter and I wouldn't be surprised if Tuchel looked at recalling Colwill next season as a left footed centre back. That would probably leave us with needing one big centre back signing then to go with the above and Silva and Chalobah (bearing in mind Silva will be 38 next season though, he can't go on forever no matter how good he is).

I feel with the system and Tuchel's coaching that any decent/good centre back would look significantly better. You only have to look at how much better Azpi, Rudiger and Christensen look in a back 3 compared to a back 4 (even going back to Conte's days). I would be more inclined to be spending money on (a) wing backs, (b) an attacking upgrade on the likes of Pulisic and Ziyech and (c) a dominant midfielder to take over long term from Kante.

[Vesper 30,181]

3 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Crazy that you win CL, finish summer transfer window around zero and still record big loss. And UEFA wonder why clubs want Super League.

We were over £50m to the good net-wise on transfers when all inbound and outbound transfer fees and loans were taken into account.

[Vesper 30,181]

1 hour ago, chelsea_4_eva said:

So theres a big possibility that we're gonna lose Andreas, Rudi and Azpi all on free.. We need to shop for a whole new defence lol

 

plus these also expire in June, 2022

Edited December 30, 2021 by Vesper

[Superblue 6,372]

14 minutes ago, Vesper said:

We were over £50m to the good net-wise on transfers when all inbound and outbound transfer fees and loans were taken into account.

Aren't these figures based on the previous summer spending?

I think the deals last summer come into effect next time.

[Vesper 30,181]

2 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

Aren't these figures based on the previous summer spending?

I think the deals last summer come into effect next time.

no that was adding up just action in the summer window, I kept a very detailed track of it all

[Vesper 30,181]

FUCK 🤬

Reece injury

Reported by The Athletic it could see him unavailable until well into the New Year, with healthline.com reporting:

Typically, partial tears heal in 4 to 8 weeks, while complete tears take about 3 months. You should start to feel better with regular physical therapy and lots of rest.

[Jase 43,479]

4 minutes ago, Vesper said:

FUCK 🤬

Reece injury

Reported by The Athletic it could see him unavailable until well into the New Year, with healthline.com reporting:

Typically, partial tears heal in 4 to 8 weeks, while complete tears take about 3 months. You should start to feel better with regular physical therapy and lots of rest.

Just throwing this suggestion out there - Kieran Trippier, anyone?