Chelsea Transfers

[whats happening 1,525]

forget kounde, get pavard, he is better imo

[Pizy 18,360]

Perhaps if we had bought him when he was extremely keen early in the window before Barca sold their souls for quick money he’d have been here long ago. Or had we not wasted time chasing the vastly inferior Aké for 2 weeks.

Has a big club ever put in TWO nearly £60m bids for players and had them both scuppered like this? By the same club within the span of a week?

This would make us look so terrible.

[Alabama 1,992]

6 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Perhaps if we had bought him when he was extremely keen early in the window before Barca sold their souls for quick money he’d have been here long ago. Or had we not wasted time chasing the vastly inferior Aké for 2 weeks.

Has a big club ever put in TWO nearly £60m bids for players and had them both scuppered like this? By the same club within the span of a week?

This would make us look so terrible.

Tuchel to blame for this...how in hell we were in for Ake initially is beyond all the complex logic the most brilliant logician can ever imagine....

[ZAPHOD2319 4,466]

 

[Superblue 6,370]

At the start of the transfer window it seemed that the general opinion across this forum was that Kounde was overrated and a waste of money if we were to buy him. Now we've explored other options and then decided to go back to him but may not get him, the forum has a meltdown like we're losing Maldini.

I personally haven't been against Kounde. I see aspects of his game that can flourish and besides his height, weaknesses in his game that can be coached out of him or that will improve with maturity. The price is steep however, and I can fully understand the club looking at alternatives to him.

If we don't get him, I just hope we don't panic buy someone. @Vesperput a list on here last night of centre backs remaining on the market and bar maybe Skriniar and Gvardiol, none stand out to me as worth pursuing. I'd rather just rely on Chalobah developing and playing more regularly next season in that role, or target a right wing back to allow James to play more regularly in the back 3.

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,466]

This is the most muppet madness I have seen. At least we are not dealing with the FdJ drama. There is no plan B for Man Utd.

[Last Sicarius 610]

Just now, ZAPHOD2319 said:

This is the most muppet madness I have seen. At least we are not dealing with the FdJ drama. There is no plan B for Man Utd.

Do we have plan B?

[ZAPHOD2319 4,466]

Just now, Last Sicarius said:

Do we have plan B?

We have several, the other aspect is we have Colwill. We have options.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,466]

 

News about Koundé

 The Frenchman finally travels to Lagos with the team.

 It was his decision not to exercise alone.

 The negotiation with Chelsea is still hot.

[Pizy 18,360]

Chalobah is a solid player who can come in as a rotation option against lesser opponent, in earlier round cup competitions, or if someone better is injured. He is not yet good enough to be an undisputed starter for a team with title ambitions.

This “don’t buy anyone an just stick with what we have” stuff sounds nice, but it’s basically just giving up on doing anything special this season.

[Superblue 6,370]

So long as Tuchel is prepared to use them and show faith in them in a similar way to what he did last year with Chalobah, I'd happily see them improve the squad depth.

We have to move away from just buying for seemingly the sake of it. If better players are available next summer, we have to learn to show patience and put ourselves in the frame for those players next summer. The perfect example of this in recent times is buying Lukaku instead of waiting to throw our name in the hat for Haaland (not taking the sanctions into account).

We've signed two quality players so far. If the stars don't align then we potentially have the likes of Broja, Colwill, Gallagher, Ampadu to come in this season and make an impact. It's not as doom and gloom as people are making out. If Arsenal or Spurs were signing the latter players they would be happy and knowing our fans, we'd be having a fit because they're being active in the market. We're fortunate that we have some promising talents who could make an impact in the team this season having gained experience last year. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,291]

14 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

News about Koundé

 The Frenchman finally travels to Lagos with the team.

 It was his decision not to exercise alone.

 The negotiation with Chelsea is still hot.

Absolute bollocks. 
 

He joined the team because he’s waiting on Barcelona the fucking cunt. This is genuinely Raphinha 2.0. 

[Superblue 6,370]

7 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Chalobah is a solid player who can come in as a rotation option against lesser opponent, in earlier round cup competitions, or if someone better is injured. He is not yet good enough to be an undisputed starter for a team with title ambitions.

This “don’t buy anyone an just stick with what we have” stuff sounds nice, but it’s basically just giving up on doing anything special this season.

Chalobah started both cup finals against Liverpool and helped to keep a clean sheet across 4 hours of football against arguably the best attacking team around.

Not sure about how his skillset would work in a back 4, but as a RCB in a 3 I definitely feel he has the ability to play regularly.

I think this coming season the target realistically is top 4 and to keep building. Anything better than this would be a welcome bonus.

[chelsea_4_eva 1,157]

I would bet on our academy boys to do a job better than some of our fringe senior players.

[Pizy 18,360]

The going to join up with Sevilla thing not effecting our negotiations sounds like horseshit. If the deal was super close to Chelsea he could join up with us and not miss more than a couple of days training.

He’s doing a Raphinha and biding time for Barca to put together a bid.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

🚨 Barcelona wanted Kounde to travel with the rest of the Sevilla team to Portugal, which now counts as a very significant gesture from the player. Chelsea not too happy with the decision. @gerardromero #Transfers 🇫🇷 https://t.co/AblHKCeGpM

[milka 3,344]

These Spanish morons will get him  i can  feel it .

Which means that we will be going  to  Josko Gvardiol / Kimpembe 

Edited July 21, 2022 by milka