Chelsea Transfers

[LAM09 7,043]

16 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Yeah, I just got done watching some footage of him at City from last season and it was VERY underwhelming. He looks like your average PL defender who you’d see at a midtable side. Nothing standout about him at all.

He’s not quick, he’s not physically dominant, he’s just average on the ball, I didn’t really see any passing range or distribution in his highlights so it must not be particularly good.  

I guess we just have to trust Tuchel’s judgement here. 

I have no idea how big of a bearing HG quota plays nowadays, but aside from that aspect, it seems like we're almost buying him for the sake of it. It's highly unlikely he'll improve, so we have to be content with the player he is now.

Koulibaly should have always been our number one CB target when assessing the available options this summer. I guess there's still time for things to change, though.   

8 minutes ago, didi007 said:

Did they pay £50m for the player????

De Bruyne cost €76.00m

Edited July 8, 2022 by LAM09

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

7 minutes ago, didi007 said:

Did they pay £50m for the player????

Tha's not even the question.

Did they buy a washed up 27 year old who has not played regularly for years and has not developed at all?

Salah and KDB were always good players, sold bc of a short-term manager and who made great progress as players. They were signed before entering their peak years and put in a system tailor made for them. Nothing of this holds for ake

[Mário César 1,246]

 

bad news...

[Pizy 18,866]

Still have no clue how Barca are paying for Dembele’s wages, adding Raphinha’s wages on top of his huge transfer fee, potentially adding Lewa’s wages on top of huge transfer fee, want Azpi + Alonso who are on big wages, and then also want Koundé who will be on big wages + big transfer fee.

For a club up to their eyeballs in debt and begging their current players to slash their wages. Economic “levers” or not, it’s all so fishy.

[didi007 69]

10 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Tha's not even the question.

Did they buy a washed up 27 year old who has not played regularly for years and has not developed at all?

Salah and KDB were always good players, sold bc of a short-term manager and who made great progress as players. They were signed before entering their peak years and put in a system tailor made for them. Nothing of this holds for ake

That's my point. Why pay £50m for a fourth choice player like Ake when you can buy Koulibaly for €30m. 

[Mário César 1,246]

we will offer money to city and they will buy a better center back than ake

no words about it

I prefer not to thinking about how we will help them

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

2 minutes ago, didi007 said:

That's my point. Why pay £50m for a fourth choice player like Ake when you can buy Koulibaly for €30m. 

Apparently bc ake can play lb (terribly), is homegrown and left footed

apparently when you check those it is irrelevant that you suck at football 

[MoroccanBlue 5,378]

Nice to know we’ll get Barca’s seconds (and I even doubt that’ll happen)

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1 minute ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Nice to know we’ll get Barca’s seconds (and I even doubt that’ll happen)

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[Mário César 1,246]

 

 

[Blue Armour 4,436]

4 hours ago, Artandur said:

No way. Rüdiger before Tuchel was just a constant cascade of individual errors, a complete liability.

Because of Lampards system. Let's not blow things out of proportion.

[Blue Armour 4,436]

4 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

This. 

People want us to integrate Colwill and have him develop, yet at the same time want a players like Kimpembe or Gvardiol who would both start the majority of the matches. Ake is a good squad player to have and it will allow Colwill to easily displace him should Colwill fulfill his potential. 

Having a poor or mediocre back line is worse than having a mediocre attacking lineup.

We are more likely to drop out of top 4 because of it.

[Blue Armour 4,436]

4 hours ago, MoroccanBlue said:

FFS let him kick a ball for us first 😂

That's what we said about Lukaku, lol

[Superblue 6,372]

1 hour ago, Duppy Conqueror said:

The only plus side for me if we signing Ake really is some of us can trawl through our attics for our Gullit wigs and might come across something more valuable.

I had one as a kid when we signed Ruud!

Will have to speak to my mum and see if it's still around in her house somewhere, I can hand it down to my boy haha.

[Blues11 213]

1 hour ago, Fernando said:

July 8th and nothing. I'm depressed, I'm not going to come back here for a while. 

I wonder if Tuchel will get fed up and leave after a bad season because we didn't help him improve the squad. We just bought duds and more duds. 

Part of his job to recruit players too. They're playing for him so if we fail this window then he deserves some blame. 

Seems like we're ready to negotiate and spend.