Chelsea Transfers

[ZAPHOD2319 3,929]

This might be an unpopular view as many here really like Sancho, but I think we would get much better goal production from signing Werner. Not sure that is possible as Werner wants to be with Klopp.

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34 minutes ago, Tomo said:

I don't believe he will make a career long decision based on six games.

I think it's very possible we can convince him over United even if they get 4th over us (and vice versa), I'm a lot more worried about Real/Barca entering the fray as i don't fancy our chances of beating them to it even if we win the CL.

Anyway atleast we've covered ourselves against the prospect of missing out on Jadon. Don't get him and we have the quality plan B here already, get him then Ziyech can play as a midfielder/#10, win win.

YEah you just never know, but having CL can only be to our advantage, its a plus. Yup def have a quality player in Ziyesh if Sancho falls away. I dont think RM will go for him, looks like they will go all in for Mbappe, and Barac have done some bad business recently, paid alot for the likes Coutinho and Dembele and all failed so far, they wont pay 100 plus for another winger, but yes if they were to go for him then its likely lights out.

14 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

 

I'm sure Sancho will cost more than 100 million. 100 million is just the starting price, if you like. And Dortmund can sort of play the long game if they want to - wait till the after the Euros and potentially drive up Sancho's price even further if he were to perform well in the tournament. 

Yes, im counting on 120 or around that.

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6 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Hard to find a bad word against us signing Hakim around other forums, it's actual envy if anything.

Redcafe is fuming as fuck lol

[ZAPHOD2319 3,929]

6 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Hard to find a bad word against us signing Hakim around other forums, it's actual envy if anything.

I found this one striking for all the grief our board is given. It is in the Ziyech thread at RedCafe.

 

We should have just employed Chelsea's board and saved ourselves a ton of cash. They have got some serious good deals over last 10 years. The money they got for Ramires n Oscar too was mouth watering. We struggle giving away our surplus players. 

[killer1257 3,282]

8 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Hard to find a bad word against us signing Hakim around other forums, it's actual envy if anything.

Only bad words can be found in this Chelsea forum haha. People don´t realise what a player we signed

 

[Superblue 6,333]

10 minutes ago, Iggy Doonican said:

I don't watch any European football at all I've zero interest in it so my question is this is Sancho that good and worth spending possibly our whole transfer budget on one player in the Summer ?. I've seen him play for England and he looks ok nothing to suggest he's worth £100 million quid though.

I'd love us to buy Sancho because the potential looks there for him to become an absolute world beater and he's already putting up very strong numbers in one of the top leagues.

However blowing the bulk of our budget is hugely risky because a big chunk of the deal is based on potential. Much the same way as PSG brought Mbappe, we're betting on Sancho to continue getting better and that isn't a given.

We already have Pulisic and CHO who are similar style wide players, similar age and huge potential upside. I think the Ziyech signing, if he can replicate his Ajax form over here, is intelligent because he's a different type of player and adds more options and variety moving forward. 

I'm starting to think that rather than trying to find a replacement for Hazard (i.e. a world class attacking creative player), I think we'd be better served using a bigger portion of our budget on another striker to compete with Tammy. There isn't a glut of top drawer strikers out there and so we could well be in the same boat as Sancho, in looking at a younger one who could develop into a world class striker but they could cost quite a bit of money.

The whole thing purely depends on what our budget is? If it's say £200m plus anything we raise through sales then splashing £100m+ on Sancho could well be 'doable' alongside strengthening some key areas. However if we're looking at £150-200m in total for this summer than buying Sancho and Ziyech doesn't make sense as it will leave us very little leftover for other areas of the squad, especially left back, another striker and potentially goal keeper.

[Tomo 21,685]

1 hour ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

I found this one striking for all the grief our board is given. It is in the Ziyech thread at RedCafe.

 

We should have just employed Chelsea's board and saved ourselves a ton of cash. They have got some serious good deals over last 10 years. The money they got for Ramires n Oscar too was mouth watering. We struggle giving away our surplus players. 

Said it before and will say it again, for all the critisism our board get (some legit, some not) they would look world class stood next to Woodward and co.

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1 hour ago, Tomo said:

Said it before and will say it again, for all the critisism our board get (some legit, some not) they would look world class stood next to Woodward and co.

As shitty as our board are, utd's are worse. A big cub really needs footballing folks at the helm. Woodwork is a glorified accountant ffs.

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34 minutes ago, Atomiswave said:

As shitty as our board are, utd's are worse. A big cub really needs footballing folks at the helm. Woodwork is a glorified accountant ffs.

Two turds floating in the pool.

[DDA 9,570]

Anyone saying anything negitive about this unbelievable signing is simply hating for the sake of hating. 

Excellent stuff from the board. 

I cant hey my head around the price paid. 

 

[Special Juan 27,111]

I want to see us build on this and secure a LB, keeper and a top quality CF.

[Iggy Doonican 4,186]

So we're signing a midfield player who's team got to the semi-final of the Champions League lets hope he's not another Bakayoko !

Not a serious post so please don't give me pelters 

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1 hour ago, DDA said:

Anyone saying anything negitive about this unbelievable signing is simply hating for the sake of hating. 

Excellent stuff from the board. 

I cant hey my head around the price paid. 

 

And that is exactly what rival fans say about this....they just cant get around how the fee is this low. Thanks a bunch Ajax.

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Jase 43,479]

5 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

I found this one striking for all the grief our board is given. It is in the Ziyech thread at RedCafe.

 

We should have just employed Chelsea's board and saved ourselves a ton of cash. They have got some serious good deals over last 10 years. The money they got for Ramires n Oscar too was mouth watering. We struggle giving away our surplus players. 

Some United fans on Redcafe are cursing the fact that they didn't go for Ziyech and they will probably not get Sancho while some Chelsea fans aren't happy that we bought Ziyech because that would probably mean we won't go after Sancho.  

[OhForAGreavsie 5,776]

13 minutes ago, Jason said:

Some United fans on Redcafe are cursing the fact that they didn't go for Ziyech and they will probably not get Sancho while some Chelsea fans aren't happy that we bought Ziyech because that would probably mean we won't go after Sancho.  

Some United fans have a more realistic view of the world than some Chelsea fans.

[King Kante 1,340]

Ziyech is a good signing and for the price, I cannot see this one going too wrong. The only real question over him is his ability to adapt to the PL which is valid. As a transfer no one should be anything but happy. 

However, as a squad we're still in seriously bad shape. At this moment in time, I have the following players as dead wood: Kepa, Willy, Zouma, Emerson/Alonso, Barkley, Pedro, Giroud, Batsh*t. Whereas, I also expect Willian to leave and I reckon a £80m+ bid takes Kante. 

That leaves us needing about 8-10 signings over the next few windows. Lets see how this all plays out before we start making out that the board are some sort of transfer masters. 

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1 minute ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Some United fans have a more realistic view of the world than some Chelsea fans.

I have a feeling Sancho head back to City when they lose Sane or PSG if they lose one of Neymar or Mbappe.