Chelsea Transfers

[Pizy 19,326]

I think the club were fine getting any decent fee for Werner. The only way we were ever going to get big money for him was if some other PL club came in for him which didn’t end up happening. 

We’re probably just happy to get his £290k per week or whatever it was off our books.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,976]

1 minute ago, Pizy said:

I think the club were fine getting any decent fee for Werner. The only way we were ever going to get big money for him was if some other PL club came in for him which didn’t end up happening. 

We’re probably just happy to get his £290k per week or whatever it was off our books.

The wages are a significant calculation in FFP. With the amount of spending the club is doing, it becomes a real factor. We will probably see more players selling under valued to clear the wage bill.  

[Superblue 6,372]

The problem with these deals is that so much gets leaked from multiple sources to try and make the buyer look like they're striking as good and cheap a deal as possible and the seller to look like they're getting a good transfer fee and selling as high as possible.

The base fee seems to be going up and down at will but I would assume that with the bonuses the total of the deal would be close to £25-30m.

[Superblue 6,372]

3 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

The wages are a significant calculation in FFP. With the amount of spending the club is doing, it becomes a real factor. We will probably see more players selling under valued to clear the wage bill.  

Definitely shouldn't be underestimated how big it is to get two of the biggest earners off the wage bill this coming year when they've been two of the biggest under achievers last season.

The other high earner I believe in that top tier bracket is Kante and he could well be gone this time next year too.

[Jype 6,398]

7 minutes ago, Mário César said:

he had 3 years left of contract

a feed around 30M would be OK but not 20M....

very little money for him.

Three years left on a £270K/wk deal which is a lot higher than he deserves based on his performances over the last two years. Even the highest paid players at Leipzig are on half of that so even if Werner accepts a wage cut they'll probably still have to offer him a high signing fee to join them. They simply can't afford to pay a high transfer fee and pay Werner high wages as well.

The transfer fee is said to be 20M€ with bonuses taking it up to 30M€ so depending on how those bonuses are structured it might still be a decent enough total fee. These reports are from the German journalists who broke the news first, let's wait to see what the likes of Law and Ornstein say on the fee.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,976]

 

[Pizy 19,326]

My heart just skipped a beat when I saw Ornstein tweet “Chelsea have reached verbal agreement with….” 🤣

I thought it was going to be Fofana or De Jong but it’s just about Malang Sarr. Which tbf is almost as exciting!

[Jype 6,398]

8 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

The wages are a significant calculation in FFP. With the amount of spending the club is doing, it becomes a real factor. We will probably see more players selling under valued to clear the wage bill.  

Yep. Looking at the list of released players and the players who are about to leave there will have been very sizeable cuts to the wage bill of last year.

Lukaku, Werner, Rüdiger, Christensen, Saul and Drinkwater all gone with the likes of Batshuayi, CHO, Ziyech, Barkley, Alonso, Emerson, Kenedy, Sarr, Kepa potentially still to go if the club can find takers for them. That's already £1.1M a week saved in confirmed departures (though Lukaku only on loan) and should all of the rest go as well it's another £900K a week removed.

Even if some of the deals involve some kind of salary compensation or some of the players end up staying the figures will still very likely add up to total savings of at least £75M a year in salaries alone, let alone the savings in removing future amortisation costs.

[Artandur 939]

15m euros for Sarr is decent, lets hope he plays enough for it to trigger

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[Strike 7,825]

Nice profit if it works out

Edited August 8, 2022 by Strike

[Pizy 19,326]

5 minutes ago, Artandur said:

15m euros for Sarr is decent, lets hope he plays enough for it to trigger

It’s more than decent, it’s exceptional. Signed on a free, was utterly atrocious as a footballer, could sell for €15m profit.

That deserves a round of applause.

[Jype 6,398]

2 minutes ago, Pizy said:

It’s more than decent, it’s exceptional. Signed on a free, was utterly atrocious as a footballer, could sell for €15m profit.

That deserves a round of applause.

Let's not applaud yet.

Could still easily end up going the 'Bakayoko' route that Monaco just chooses not to play him in order to avoid the purchase obligation.

But at least that's one less deadwood to clear out for now. 

Edited August 8, 2022 by Jype

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

1 hour ago, Blues Forever said:

 

Interesting, Sky Germany report such a low figure.

The original sky sport are quoting 25.3m pounds (30m euros) + add ons. Sounds more authentic.

https://www.skysports.com/transfer/news/12691/12667973/timo-werner-rb-leipzig-agree-deal-to-re-sign-forward-from-Chelsea-reports-sky-in-germany

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[ulvhedin 526]

Current Chelsea squad, all players apart from Chukwuemeka, Colwill, Lawrence and loaned GKs have at least one senior team appearance. 

Positions are fluid, let me know if i missed someone.

GK:	Eduard Mendy	Kepa	Bettinelli
LWB:	Chilwell	Cucurella	Alonso	Emerson	Kennedy	Baba Rahman	Lewis Hall
CB:	Silva	Koulibaly	Chalobah	Azpilicueta	Malang Sarr	Ampadu	Miazga	Xavier Simons
RWB:	James	RLC	Dujon Sterling
MF:	Jorginho	Kante	Kovacic	Gallagher	Gilmour	Barkley	Chukwuemeka
Att:	Havertz	Mount	Raheem Sterling	Ziyech	Pulisic	CHO	Broja	Werner	Batschuayi	Vale	Sonsup Bell
On loan (most notable):	Lukaku	Bakayoko	Anjorin	Maatsen	Colwill	Henry Lawrence
	Slonina	Bergstrom	Cummings

[Jype 6,398]

"New Chelsea owner Tod Boehly personally called Frenkie de Jong several days ago. The Dutchman listened and reiterated his desire to fulfill his contract with Barça. Despite the no, Chelsea keep trying."

I don't get why both United and Chelsea seem so insistent on going after this guy when it's always been clear his heart is in Barcelona and he's desperate to stay there even though they continue to treat him like shit.

We saw first hand how quickly it turned sour with Lukaku who hadn't wanted to leave Inter in the first place so do we really want to see if we can make it happen again with another player who's reluctant to sign? Frenkie might be a lot more talented as a footballer than Lukaku but if the attitude is not right to begin with he will never reach his best level and even some minor setbacks can quickly snowball into a big problem.

[YorkshireBlue 3,348]

15 minutes ago, Jype said:

"New Chelsea owner Tod Boehly personally called Frenkie de Jong several days ago. The Dutchman listened and reiterated his desire to fulfill his contract with Barça. Despite the no, Chelsea keep trying."

I don't get why both United and Chelsea seem so insistent on going after this guy when it's always been clear his heart is in Barcelona and he's desperate to stay there even though they continue to treat him like shit.

We saw first hand how quickly it turned sour with Lukaku who hadn't wanted to leave Inter in the first place so do we really want to see if we can make it happen again with another player who's reluctant to sign? Frenkie might be a lot more talented as a footballer than Lukaku but if the attitude is not right to begin with he will never reach his best level and even some minor setbacks can quickly snowball into a big problem.

That entire tweet sounds like BS

[Last Sicarius 610]

If Frenkie wants stay we should leave it. 80mln for player who dont want to leave is to high. We seen how it ended with similar case like Lukaku.

[Tomo 21,754]

4 minutes ago, Jype said:

"New Chelsea owner Tod Boehly personally called Frenkie de Jong several days ago. The Dutchman listened and reiterated his desire to fulfill his contract with Barça. Despite the no, Chelsea keep trying."

I don't get why both United and Chelsea seem so insistent on going after this guy when it's always been clear his heart is in Barcelona and he's desperate to stay there even though they continue to treat him like shit.

We saw first hand how quickly it turned sour with Lukaku who hadn't wanted to leave Inter in the first place so do we really want to see if we can make it happen again with another player who's reluctant to sign? Frenkie might be a lot more talented as a footballer than Lukaku but if the attitude is not right to begin with he will never reach his best level and even some minor setbacks can quickly snowball into a big problem.

I don't buy for one second that Lukaku didn't want to leave Inter, he was happy as larry in his early games and interviews. This shit with him started when he realized he had a fight on for his place instead of having it handed to him.

As soon as he's dropped for Dzeko (Inzaghi's style is possession based so he won't last the season as a starter) his "love" for Inter will disappear into the night aswell.