Chelsea Transfers

[milka 3,393]

Well he obviously push for this transfer 

[Pizy 18,956]

Jeez, we really going to spend our entire summer budget on the defense? 

[OhForAGreavsie 6,078]

10 minutes ago, Strike said:

 

30-35 mil for Walker-Peters? I swear they rip you off once they hear Chelsea's bidding

Transfer fee inflation over the last 24 months is staggering. It seems that the price to any top club, for any player under 28 with more than a year remaining on his contract, starts at £60m these days. In that context £30m-£35m seems positively reasonable but of course it's a ludicrous amount of money. The only way we can avoid getting caught in the overspending trap is to walk away but when we do that the board gets screamed at. 

Edited August 2, 2022 by OhForAGreavsie

[MoroccanBlue 5,385]

3 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Jeez, we really going to spend our entire summer budget on the defense? 

Considering it is the backbone to our system thriving, understandable.

 

[Strike 7,502]

Just now, MoroccanBlue said:

Considering it is the backbone to our system thriving, understandable.

 

Its overkill. With Cucurella £ 50m, Gvardiol/Fofana 70m, Dumfries/Walker Peters 30m, Slonina, 12m - total spending goes to £ 240m + and nearly 200m of it on defence.

[MoroccanBlue 5,385]

Just now, Strike said:

Its overkill. With Cucurella £ 50m, Gvardiol/Fofana 70m, Dumfries/Walker Peters 30m, Slonina, 12m - total spending goes to £ 240m + and nearly 200m of it on defence.

Is it overkill?

Last season we saw an inexperienced Chalobah prone to errors at the latter end of the season. 

We saw arguably the worst CB to ever put on a Chelsea kit in Sarr who was a calamity waiting to happen. 

We saw Azpilicueta prone to errors towards the latter end of the season given he can't keep up with the pace of the game anymore. 

We saw Alonso being Alonso whilst Chilwell was out of the esason. 

We saw James overplayed and injury stricken. 

 

For me, this has to happen. 

[Superblue 6,372]

If the prices are comparable, which is the better target Dumfries or Walker-Peters?

 

[Pizy 18,956]

Just feels like we can find a quality backup RWB for a hell of a lot less than £30-35m.

[Strike 7,502]

1 minute ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Is it overkill?

Last season we saw an inexperienced Chalobah prone to errors at the latter end of the season. 

We saw arguably the worst CB to ever put on a Chelsea kit in Sarr who was a calamity waiting to happen. 

We saw Azpilicueta prone to errors towards the latter end of the season given he can't keep up with the pace of the game anymore. 

We saw Alonso being Alonso whilst Chilwell was out of the esason. 

We saw James overplayed and injury stricken.

For me, this has to happen. 

I like the signings and agree we need them but a 200m rebuild with 1 attacking signing and no change in midfield?

[LAM09 7,062]

23 minutes ago, Strike said:

 

30-35 mil for Walker-Peters? I swear they rip you off once they hear Chelsea's bidding

Shop overseas. This EPL inflation is a joke and we shouldn't have any part in it.

[Superblue 6,372]

13 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Transfer fee inflation over the last 24 months is staggering. It seems that the price to any top club, for any player under 28 with more than a year remaining on his contract, starts at £60m these days. In that context £30m-£35m seems positively reasonable but of course it's a ludicrous amount of money. The only way we can avoid getting caught in the overspending trap is to walk away but when we do that the board gets screamed at. 

I really hoped that the covid situation and playing games for such a long period behind closed doors would go some way to correcting the transfer market and bringing prices down but like you said it's gone the other way and unfortunately teams continue to be prepared to spend the money.

 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,182]

Focus on Cucurela and Fofana, make do with what the options we have now RWB, buy Livramento next year for £38.

[whats happening 1,622]

why would livramento come back, just to sit on the bench

[MoroccanBlue 5,385]

9 minutes ago, Strike said:

I like the signings and agree we need them but a 200m rebuild with 1 attacking signing and no change in midfield?

Not sure if there is anyone realistically available in attack that improves us. 

De Jong is a possibility but obviously we are not going to address everything in one window. Best to address the actual backbone of our system. 

[Pizy 18,956]

Feels like we’re going the City route of having starting quality players on our bench at every position which would be nice if we can pull all these moves off. Except City have the ability to rotate their whole attack without a substantial drop in quality whereas we can’t.

[MoroccanBlue 5,385]

4 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Feels like we’re going the City route of having starting quality players on our bench at every position which would be nice if we can pull all these moves off. Except City have the ability to rotate their whole attack without a substantial drop in quality whereas we can’t.

And vice versa their defence. 

When Dias and Cancelo are out of the team, they struggle. 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,182]

13 minutes ago, whats happening said:

why would livramento come back, just to sit on the bench

With the amount of games we play, he will get plenty of gametime.. just not first choice. Although that could change since we are looking for someone that could challenge James for that spot and I feel he has previously shown he is up to it, we just need this season to see if he is still at that same level atleast after his injury.

[OneMoSalah 8,886]

Good to see people who have complained about us not having proper backup/competition for Chilwell and Reece James for maybe 2 seasons are now complaining because we are looking at signing some decent backup/competition for these players (although hopefully not KWP). I mean we are likely going to be letting Alonso and Azpilicueta go (apparently if we can replace them they are free to go), do yous want us to have no back up RB/RWB and LB/LWB?

This whole speculation “oh we’ve spent this or will spend this on defenders” or “the budget this, the budget that”, those discussions are pointless unless any of you are Todd Boehly or anyone else involved with the ownership 😂 who knows how much we will spend this summer? 

I mean first folk complained we didn’t sign anybody for however long, now its we are potentially buying too much defenders… what next, we haven’t signed another attacker? Or central midfielder? Or that we haven’t moved to a new stadium? Or don’t have a kit deal with brand X Y or Z? Fucking hell, cheer up, I for one am incredibly optimistic that we will be seeing a few more faces in the door yet. I don’t think the new owners are going to just replace what we’ve lost, I get the feeling there will be a few upgrades on certain players also. 

Edited August 2, 2022 by OneMoSalah

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[Superblue 6,372]

Apparently Spurs have a buy back on Walker Peters.

I don't know the exact mechanics and legalities of doing a deal but I would assume just the mere presence of a buy back leaves Southampton somewhat restricted to what they can ask for in a transfer.

If they ask for too much, what would stop the buying club like Chelsea having a discussion with Spurs to buy the player back and flip him over to us for a couple of million extra?