Chelsea Transfers

[Strike 7,249]

3 hours ago, TheHulk said:

Think everyone agrees spending that hefty fee for Gvardiol is worth it, if not in the short term in the long run, we had a chance in the summer yet the owner for some reason decided not to give into Leipzig's demands after a summer where he overpaid massively for just about everyone.

 

I saw Cucurella get skinned alive by a 16 years old guy last week but the owner had no problem overpaying for him but somehow pulled the plug on Gvardiol, what a strange person, for someone who talks about data when recruiting he seems to do the complete opposite, although maybe Cucurella will turn good at some point so far signs don't point to it.

Did we pull the plug or did Leipzig (logically) decide to wait before finalising anything?

 

Edited December 16, 2022 by Strike

[OhForAGreavsie 5,895]

7 hours ago, LAM09 said:

Didn't a certain 18 year old from Belgium say something similar over a decade ago?

It's nice to see, but I wouldn't take much from it.

Would have been fine if he was up to it as a footballer. It wasn't his talk that was the problem. 🙂 DDF is streets ahead of Rom technically so he already looks to me like someone who should be able to walk his talk better than Rom ever could.

I like DDF, and will be delighted if we bring him in. Adding the Russian lad would make it a pleasing, and very encouraging, window. Encouraging in that we'd be getting the right level of prospect, at the right end of the market. The end of the market where some instances of failure must be expected, but where failures are not financially ruinous, and where success is automatically a jackpot.

Edited December 16, 2022 by OhForAGreavsie

[bigbluewillie 1,859]

5 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

forget Fofana, he is wrecked for good. Another 80m sunk cost. 

Agree totally on this.

We somehow need to get rid of this crock.

[OhForAGreavsie 5,895]

5 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

forget Fofana, he is wrecked for good. Another 80m sunk cost.

Don't see we have any choice but to hope that the injury won't be terminal, as you fear. The real problem of course is that we should never have paid anything even remotely close to £80m for him.

[NikkiCFC 8,029]

33 minutes ago, bigbluewillie said:

Agree totally on this.

We somehow need to get rid of this crock.

Why? This is based on what? His 308 minutes in Chelsea? I'm for one very excited about him.

[Strike 7,249]

 

 

They're only now beginning work and some of them are not even in place for January.

[Fulham Broadway 16,903]

2 hours ago, Vesper said:

Cucurella was a shit buy, especiallyfor that cray price. Warned on it. He was pushed on us before last summer too and I said no then as well.

Agree. Very average, despite all the distracting dynamic hair shaking.

[bigbluewillie 1,859]

On 16/12/2022 at 07:02, NikkiCFC said:

Why? This is based on what? His 308 minutes in Chelsea? I'm for one very excited about him.

Why you ask!

You've already said it in your post, he'd hardly got his kit on before he injured his sussy knee, he's a crock a disaster in the making.

Edited December 18, 2022 by bigbluewillie

[Vesper 28,974]

56 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Agree. Very average, despite all the distracting dynamic hair shaking.

A couple of years ago I called him Sideshow Bob, lolol.

[Vesper 28,974]

57 minutes ago, bigbluewillie said:

Why you ask!

You've already said it in your post, he'd hardly got his kit before he injured his sussy knee, he's a crock a disaster in the making.

How are you feeling, m8?

Big hugz ⚽️⚽️⚽️

[Hashishi 148]

https://www.football.london/Chelsea-fc/transfer-news/Chelsea-hijack-arsenal-mudryk-transfer-25765807

We are in for Mudryk.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,514]

19 minutes ago, Hashishi said:

https://www.football.london/Chelsea-fc/transfer-news/Chelsea-hijack-arsenal-mudryk-transfer-25765807

We are in for Mudryk.

We are in for EVERYONE with Boehly! 😅

[Hashishi 148]

8 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

We are in for EVERYONE with Boehly! 😅

All we get is dregs though. I fully expect Gvardiol to reject us now for Real or City in the summer.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,514]

25 minutes ago, Hashishi said:

All we get is dregs though. I fully expect Gvardiol to reject us now for Real or City in the summer.

From a player's perspective, that would be the best choices. You are gambling that Chelsea will get to be league champs in the next few years.

[ZAPHOD2319 4,514]

 

[Superblue 6,370]

20 hours ago, Vesper said:

and that Messi move was one thing out of hundreds of other interaction all WC long, Gvardiol was immense in all games, and even Beckenbauer and Maldini got spun the wrong way many times

 

Maldini met his match the day he came up against Dennis Wise!

[Hashishi 148]

1 hour ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

Don't think we should go for this. He's been playing in a farmers league for too long. 75m is waaay too much for someone of his calibre.

[Magic Lamps 11,668]

3 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

This is so stupid. Just like Rom he is still the exact same player we sold for significantly less. We really don't learn do we.