Chelsea Transfers

[Clockwork 1,794]

13 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Almost every footballer on Earth would prefer to play for PEP than TUCHEL currently.

FIXED IT

[Jype 6,398]

2 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

FIXED IT

Is that supposed to be a dig at Tuchel? You won't find any manager in the world today that has more pull than Guardiola so there's no shame in 'losing out' to him.

Besides, didn't we just nab Cucurella when City had been after him all summer? Sure they weren't willing to pay as much in transfer fee as Boehly did but Cucurella could easily just have gone the route of Raphinha/Kounde and keep strict with his demands to go to a specific club and there's nothing Brighton could have done but ultimately lower their asking price to make it happen. Instead he spoke to Tuchel and was happy with our project too and ended up joining.

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[Vesper 30,091]

4 minutes ago, Jype said:

Kounde

please

I BEG of all the board

we DID NOT lose out to Barca on Kounde

we pulled the plug, got cold feet (thank fuck)

Monchi confirmed this over and over, as did the the Sevilla president, Jose Carmona

we DID, disastrously, lose out to them on both Raphinha and Dembele

[Vesper 30,091]

all these dreg buys and refused sales over the years are biting a nice 10 kilos of flesh out our arse

we are still the most complicated major club in the world (especially when the stadium situ is tossed in like a 2 billion pound hand grenade), although Barca are in more chaos atm, same for Manure I wager

[Vesper 30,091]

Bayern Munich star Leroy Sane has no desire to join Manchester United

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1651736/Manchester-United-transfer-news-Leroy-Sane-Bayern-Munich-decision

[Clockwork 1,794]

1 minute ago, Vesper said:

please

I BEG of all the board

we DID NOT lose out to Barca on Kounde

we pulled the plug, got cold feet (thank fuck)

Monchi confirmed this over and over, as did the the Sevilla president, Jose Carmona

we DID, disastrously, lose out to them on both Raphinha and Dembele

Wonder if we ever went all in on Dembele?

It doesn’t seem we were proactive at all when it comes to upgrading our attack. We randomly made a bid for Raphina when he agreed to terms with Barca for a while. Both Lukaku and Werner forced their way out, I think both of them could still be here if they didn’t make a fuss. 

 

[Vesper 30,091]

3 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

Wonder if we ever went all in on Dembele?

good question

I think we did

he can fuck off

I am more upset about Raphinha, but NOT mad at him at all, just disappointed

[ZAPHOD2319 4,801]

Barca hitting new lows and players are tripping over themselves to get there.

 

 

[Artandur 939]

9 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Barca hitting new lows and players are tripping over themselves to get there.

 

 

Why the fuck does he want to stay

[ulvhedin 525]

BTW what happened to Maxence Lacroix, for a moment there were quite a hype around him (and the fact we want him) but then all died 

[Vesper 30,091]

1 minute ago, Artandur said:

Why the fuck does he want to stay

abused wife syndrome?

🤣

 

[Vesper 30,091]

Just now, ulvhedin said:

BTW what happened to Maxence Lacroix, for a moment there were quite a hype around him (and the fact we want him) but then all died 

he had a bit of a regression, as did all of Wolfsburg, but I just mentioned him as a cut-rate price/high upside option 

[Special Juan 28,096]

Ornstein saying we are going full out for De Jong and cover his deferred salary

[Superblue 6,372]

48 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

Wonder if we ever went all in on Dembele?

It doesn’t seem we were proactive at all when it comes to upgrading our attack. We randomly made a bid for Raphina when he agreed to terms with Barca for a while. Both Lukaku and Werner forced their way out, I think both of them could still be here if they didn’t make a fuss. 

 

Given the size of the bid, I don't think the Raphinha bid was random or not much thought had been put into it.

The problem was the sanctions left us in limbo to be able to put any work into a deal for the months leading up to the transfer window. In that time Barca had put a proposal to him.

I think the club played the deal right and in the only way possible really, even at risk of being burnt. We went in and agreed a deal with Leeds which put a lot of pressure on Barca to put up or shut up and I think we were probably confident Barca couldn't get a deal done which would leave us free to get him.

Disappointed because I think he's a player that would have done very well for us and the combination of him and Sterling would have been a very good upgrade in the attacking positions. I think from a proactive standpoint the issue is there doesn't seem to be a huge amount of quality currently on the market in attacking positions and even younger players you could perhaps take a bit of a calculated gamble on would cost huge transfer fees.