Chelsea Transfers

[Nero 1,838]

Just now, whats happening said:

get pavard and a new reliable winger/striker and we are good to go.

 

Bayern fans treat him like we treat Alonso.

That's everything what you need to know

[YorkshireBlue 3,122]

10 minutes ago, whats happening said:

get pavard and a new reliable winger/striker and we are good to go.

 

Come on Mate pass it over! We all want some of that your smoking Pavard? Fuck sake lol 

Edited July 24, 2022 by Kong

[whats happening 1,525]

ok, then lets get van dijk 🙄

[YorkshireBlue 3,122]

10 minutes ago, Hermione said:

Get Dest and Memphis while at it as well and were good to go... in conference cup.

U crack me up haha

[Superblue 6,370]

The one thing I'm guessing from this window that can be thrown at Boehly and he's learning a hard lesson about is just how different transfers are in football compared to American sports. 

In NFL especially, you're always getting top players move to some of the worser teams in the league if they're willing to pay them.

I wonder if he thought it would be much easier to get Raphinha, Kounde, etc by coming in and outmuscling teams with money. There has to be more than that when it comes to football, it's not just one league and one title being competed for, and there's a much greater feeling in football for players to play for the likes of Barca and Madrid, compared to say playing for the Packers or 49ers in the NFL.

[Vesper 28,708]

5 minutes ago, whats happening said:

get pavard and a new reliable winger/striker and we are good to go.

 

are you counting Pavard as a CB (he sucks there btw)?

And, as we are likely getting gazumped by Barca over Kounde

if we roll with just the CB's we have

and add no one new there

we are likely in deep shit unless Colwill blows up huge

 

[Vesper 28,708]

2 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

The one thing I'm guessing from this window that can be thrown at Boehly and he's learning a hard lesson about is just how different transfers are in football compared to American sports. 

In NFL especially, you're always getting top players move to some of the worser teams in the league if they're willing to pay them.

I wonder if he thought it would be much easier to get Raphinha, Kounde, etc by coming in and outmuscling teams with money. There has to be more than that when it comes to football, it's not just one league and one title being competed for, and there's a much greater feeling in football for players to play for the likes of Barca and Madrid, compared to say playing for the Packers or 49ers in the NFL.

yank baseball is a much better comparison, especially as Boehly is more baseball oriented

but overall, yes, agree, yanks almost always purely chase money (until they age a bit, and want a ring), plus teams are MUCH MUCH more fluid in terms of standings

a great MLB team can almost instantly go to shit, same for most NBA teams (look at the LA Lakers for massive ups and downs) and also NFL sides

they also have no relegation fears at all

[Vesper 28,708]

1 hour ago, Alabama said:

So long we go after the likes of Skriniar and Gvardiol

I see nothing to say we will pull either one

next year, assuming than £43m release clause in 2023 is legit, the bigger clubs will likely pull Gvardiol from us

and, as we speak, PSG is lumbering towards pulling in Skriniar now

Edited July 24, 2022 by Vesper

[Alabama 1,992]

2 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I see nothing to say we will pull either one

next year, assuming than £43m release clause in 2023 is legit, the bigger clubs will likely pull Gvardiol from us

and, as we speak, PSG is lumbering towards pulling in Skriniar now

It's now or never....go hard after Gvardiol pay RB the extra cash...

[whats happening 1,525]

17 minutes ago, Hermione said:

Get Dest and Memphis while at it as well and were good to go... in conference cup.

funny how no one wanted kounde two weeks ago, and now theres nearly a riot here because he picked barca over us. 🙄

[whats happening 1,525]

15 minutes ago, Vesper said:

are you counting Pavard as a CB (he sucks there btw)?

And, as we are likely getting gazumped by Barca over Kounde

if we roll with just the CB's we have

and add no one new there

we are likely in deep shit unless Colwill blows up huge

 

we are getting extremely picky here. no one is good enough seems like.

 

pavard could play both cb and rwb. surely has to be better than azpi now

[Magic Lamps 11,653]

7 minutes ago, whats happening said:

funny how no one wanted kounde two weeks ago, and now theres nearly a riot here because he picked barca over us. 🙄

Nah I still don’t want him and don’t mind him going elsewhere but the club failing at securing targets is setting a dangerous precedent, framing a narrative that our project is not enticing & our executives being pushovers 

[OhForAGreavsie 5,890]

46 minutes ago, whats happening said:

funny how no one wanted kounde two weeks ago, and now theres nearly a riot here because he picked barca over us. 🙄

To be fair I think people are unhappy about us failing to secure our transfer targets, not about who the players are.

[Vesper 28,708]

The CB landscape atm is bleak, as removing Kounde, Skriniar, and Gvardiol from the board leaves a serious drop-off for both now and 2023

the 4 in bold are the only ones ever considered (now or in the past few years) top class CB's, and ALL 4 have huge issues

italics non-bolded are good enough now to come, just not top rated ever

more than a few of these will also be gone I am sure, as well

Alessandro Bastoni   lefty (doesn't want to leave and has regressed a bit, Skriniar leaving and de Virj ageing makes his exit highly unlikely)
Pau Torres lefty (not sold on him, Barca or Citeh may well go for him now, this window)
José María Giménez (far too often injured and too expensive, plus next summer will be his last window where you get a full sub 30yo season out of him, which is key for the money he would cost)

Stefan de Vrij  (if he was 25 26, 27, then hell yes, he would be TOP of thsi list, BUT he turns 32yo in the middle of next season, 2023/24) 

Presnel Kimpembe lefty (not a bold for me, and apparently doesn't want to come here, but I WOULD take him now, for sure)

Merih Demiral   (decent, solid CB, we should be at least looking at him)
Evan Ndicka  lefty (decent, solid CB, we should be at least looking at him)
Robin Le Normand (decent, solid CB, we should be at least looking at him)

Wesley Fofana (2023 and beyond only)
Gonçalo Inácio   lefty, very young, super technical, huge potential
Jurrien Timber (2023 and beyond only) another shorty, but he is now taller than Kounde at least

Edmond Tapsoba stagnating a bit, needs to step up
Benoît Badiashile lefty. needs to show more, but he is HUGE, 1.94m, and fairly pacey, not much of a motor though
Gianluca Mancini doubt he will leave Roma, and he has a crazy temper, way worse than Rudiger's
Pierre Kalulu   (can play RB too) 
Nico Elvedi    stagnating
Manuel Akanji    seems soft
Matthias Ginter    ageing, he turns 30 in middle of next season
Roger Ibañez (I know many do not rate him at all, but we shall see what he does this season, he still has bags of talent) 
Thilo Kehrer  overall a meh
Odilon Kossounou  very young
Castello Lukeba  lefty very young
Maxence Lacroix (ONLY if he massively rebounds from a pretty poor 2021/22)
Abdou Diallo lefty (can play LB too)
Piero Hincapié   lefty very young
Adam Webster
Max Kilman
David Carmo lefty 1.96m
Min-jae Kim (likely off to Napoli)
Attila Szalai   lefty

then finally two youth I really like the potential of

Armel Bella-Kotchap very young BUT deffo one to watch, massive upside, could be a Rudiger clone
Ilya Zabarnyi   very very young, huge upside
 

Edited July 25, 2022 by Vesper

[Vesper 28,708]

52 minutes ago, Alabama said:

It's now or never....go hard after Gvardiol pay RB the extra cash...

That is likely the only way it will happen, BUT will we dump £70-80m or so on a 20yo 1.85m CB with a total of only 29 Big 5 league games under his belt?

[Vesper 28,708]

58 minutes ago, whats happening said:

funny how no one wanted kounde two weeks ago, and now theres nearly a riot here because he picked barca over us. 🙄

I for one am not rioting over Kounde at all

its the utter lack of other much needed signings

we have missed out on an insane amount of class, quality players and the positions are truly drying up, as I have been meticulously keeping a running tally of for all of you

[DDA 9,689]

Fuck it... Full faith in Colwill/Chalobah from here on out.

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