Chelsea Transfers

[Pizy 18,852]

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 7,474]

Nice profit if it works out

Edited August 8, 2022 by Strike

[Pizy 18,852]

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 525]

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 3,264]

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 21,751]

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. 

[Jype 6,398]

2 minutes ago, Kong said:

That entire tweet sounds like BS

Well I don't know if Boehly has called him or not but it's a 100% confirmed fact that he desperately wants to stay at Barca.