Chelsea Transfers

[Superblue 6,372]

5 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

Sure as hell Sarr will stay now because we don't have anyone who could play the LCB apart from him and Rudiger.

I don't see any reason why Kounde or Christensen can't fill in for Rudiger in the LCB role. 

If the Kounde/Zouma deal goes through it'll be a group of Silva, Christensen, Rudiger, Kounde and Azpi for the back 3 and then if required James can slot in there too.

[MoroccanBlue 5,375]

Adding Silva's injury prone nature, it should be good. 

[Tomo 21,751]

Maguire went from playing RCB at Hull to LCB for England and as already said Cahill adapted to it relatively comfortably.

Fairly certain any of our CB's bar Silva can play that role.

[Blues Forever 1,232]

5 minutes ago, Jas said:

Excluding Zouma, having 6 CBs feels rather overkill. 

Not really, if we are using the back three.

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

12 minutes ago, Jas said:

 

Zouma has among lowest wages in team. 

[Jase 43,479]

1 minute ago, Blues Forever said:

Not really, if we are using the back three.

Still overkill, unless you're telling me that Tuchel is gonna rotate them endlessly. And Superblue has pointed out the names to fill in at CB.

7 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

If the Kounde/Zouma deal goes through it'll be a group of Silva, Christensen, Rudiger, Kounde and Azpi for the back 3 and then if required James can slot in there too.

Plus, if we sign Rice, then he's also another option for the CB spot if we're really down on numbers.

[Jase 43,479]

4 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Zouma has among lowest wages in team. 

What's low for us may be high for Sevilla. 

How much has Kounde been earning there? 

[Pizy 18,848]

So our most likely team this season will be:

 

 

Think that’s a team that will be extremely dominant with the ball as well as extremely athletic and pacey. But we’ll still have to worry about goals. Getting so few from all 3 CM’s will continue to be an issue.

[Fernando 6,585]

2 hours ago, Jype said:

That doesn't seem too outrageous, and if the fee was 30M€ up front+ 5M€ add-ons then even better. Hopefully that will be enough for Sevilla.

Basically that would mean the club traded Guehi, Tomori and Zouma for Koundé and got almost 20M€ cash on top. 

Yah that is good business. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,375]

36 minutes ago, Jas said:

What's low for us may be high for Sevilla. 

How much has Kounde been earning there? 

More than Zouma. Almost twice more….

[Jype 6,398]

32 minutes ago, Jas said:

What's low for us may be high for Sevilla. 

How much has Kounde been earning there? 

Reports on Kounde's current wage range from around 50-70K / week. Their highest paid players make around 100K/wk.

Zouma at the moment should be around the same (some reports £50K/wk) so I don't really see how that would be a huge problem for Sevilla unless Kurt is looking for a big pay rise to 'downgrade' clubs.

[Hashishi 148]

8 hours ago, We Hate Scouse said:

Interesting to see his aerial duels won compared to the others, especially with the current concern about his height.

At the same time, these are feather weight aerial duels in la liga. His stats are better than Varane last season, and he is only slightly worse than Ben White at defending. Konate sucks. We got the better deal than Utd, Pool and Arse.