Chelsea Transfers

[Special Juan 27,148]

Need to go get Ronaldo

[Special Juan 27,148]

New official bid for Gordon has been received by Everton 40-45m

[shrenshah 186]

The kid looks like a young Gareth Bale from his YT videos.

20-30mn would have been ideal but seems about ok at 40mn considering English tax and Boehly tax (seems to want to buy at whatever the cost at the fear of missing out) 

[shrenshah 186]

14 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Need to go get Ronaldo

Against Spurs, all we lacked was a finisher, we would have won the game by a decent margin had we got Ronaldo on top in place of Havertz

[Superblue 6,344]

2 minutes ago, shrenshah said:

Against Spurs, all we lacked was a finisher, we would have won the game by a decent margin had we got Ronaldo on top in place of Havertz

But would Ronaldo have contributed in the ways that Havertz did in pressing Spurs from the front and not allowing them to get their foot on the ball. The chances we were creating and possession and territory we enjoyed were as a result of pressing Spurs high and not letting them out. 

We saw last season with Lukaku in the team how much that side of our game can fall apart when just one person isn't doing it.

Havertz can't live off that side of his game and not improve his goalscoring and expect a long career here but on the same token I don't think this idea of just having someone there to finish chances and offer nothing else is as straightforward as it seems because it impacts our ability to dominate a game and create chances. 

[Superblue 6,344]

26 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

I wonder if they are employing the Dodgers approach to youth prospects? They try to buy up as many youth prospects as possible and send them to minor league teams for development. Most will be sold and never play for the Dodgers.

I think that's definitely something to consider with regards to some of the players in the 16 - 18 age category we've hoovered up this summer and paid small fees for. If they don't make it here, the expectation will be that we can manage their early career to develop into someone deemed as a good player for a middling Premier League team who will be prepared to pay a few million or more for down the road. The risk-reward ratio is very much favoured towards us on this one.

But the Carney and Slonina deals don't fall into this bracket, and neither does Casedei. The money invested in these deals makes the margin for error much smaller. There has to be a much higher degree of confidence in these deals that they will materialise into very good players and really that level of investment should be made on the expectation rather than hope they'll "make it" at Chelsea.

[maxlev 45]

27 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

New official bid for Gordon has been received by Everton 40-45m

Skysports reports that is the first bid after discussions btw Chelsea and Everton for the last 5 days.

[Special Juan 27,148]

Matt Law said it's rejected

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[Pizy 17,969]

£45m bid for Gordon. 😳😳😳

What’s more insane, us bidding that amount or Everton rejecting it? 

[Johnnyeye 7,417]

reeks of desperation

[ZAPHOD2319 4,053]

They want a few of our players that are not getting minutes.

[Alabama 1,992]

Everton please keep rejecting the offer...

[shrenshah 186]

lets give them back Barkley and add Batshuayi + 10-20mn on top...we have a deal

[Strike 7,045]

1 minute ago, shrenshah said:

lets give them back Barkley and add Batshuayi + 10-20mn on top...we have a deal

They are interested in Broja, Gallagher

[Pizy 17,969]

More and more reports everyday that CR7 is still desperate to leave United. Tbh, I’d have him for one year without hesitation over giving Auba a 3 year deal or whatever he’d get. We don’t want to saddle ourselves to a 34 year old striker who has had character issues before on huge wages. If Auba bombs this season we wouldn’t be able to get rid of him.

CR7 could come in, get us 12-15 PL goals, a handful of important CL goals which he’s desperate to score, and then retire to LA Galaxy next summer.

[shrenshah 186]

1 minute ago, Strike said:

They are interested in Broja, Gallagher

Doubt we will let go of Broja, he is the only striker we have.

Gallagher might be allowed to go, but I so hope he doesnt.

Batshuayi and Gilmour can be sacrificed i guess with a lot of cash

[YorkshireBlue 2,917]

45m for this fucking fraud. Fml!!!