Reddish-Blue 2,695 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 27 minutes ago, Vegetable said: Geez, just stop buying Brigthon (and similar) players, especially non-HG, buy Brighton if you want to have Brighton manager and Brighton players. This is mode of operation good for mid table, but not for top teams. How often City or Pool do this? Buying talents like Chuka is great, but those clubs will demand (rightly so) super overinflated money for their key players and it will go down as Zaha and Wan-Bissaka saga. Like buying 60 mil Alonso replacement, so far subpar to Alonso himself taught this club nothing. Pretty sure Robertson came from Hull (relegated), Henderson was at Sunderland, VVD at Southampton, Mane at Southampton, Wijnaldum from a PL relegation side, Jota from Wolves....they turned out to be pretty good for Liverpool. There is value for money signings from mid table clubs, we got Cahill from Bolton all those years ago and he turned out to be solid. Strike and Fernando 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetable 830 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 5 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said: There is value for money signings from mid table clubs, we got Cahill from Bolton all those years ago and he turned out to be solid. Sure there is, the question remains how many of those players exist. Given the situation I think we can't afford another transfer flopping and although it's only media buzz, the shift from overpaying for doubtful wonderkids to apparently trying to scavenge middle of the table is not reassuring. I don't even care that much for new incomings to be exceptional on their own, just be clinical business and solid buys that can improve as a team and it still looks like search for immediate lifeline, just somewhere else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costa19 858 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 13 minutes ago, Reddish-Blue said: Pretty sure Robertson came from Hull (relegated), Henderson was at Sunderland, VVD at Southampton, Mane at Southampton, Wijnaldum from a PL relegation side, Jota from Wolves....they turned out to be pretty good for Liverpool. There is value for money signings from mid table clubs, we got Cahill from Bolton all those years ago and he turned out to be solid. And Anelka! Oh god he was so good. What we could do right now with a playing like him.. Norfolkblue1961 and ulsterchelsea 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superblue 6,372 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 1 hour ago, turgi said: I was being sarcastic. Mind you, I won’t be surprised if we did get rid of him. Should have been a starter for Chelsea instead of buying more dead wood. Colwill was at the Bridge for Sunday's game, up in the box with Eghbali, Mudryk and Felix. From what I've read and understand, the club decided to pay the premium on Cucurella in the summer and just loan Colwill out as opposed to using him in a permanent transfer to lower the Cucurella deal. At the time I felt this was the right move, and his recent performances for Brighton would confirm this for me. I think the club will want to keep him given the youth drive they seem to have been doing. When Silva decides to leave, I think they'll view Fofana, Chalobah, Colwill and Badiashile as the centre backs moving forward in the long term at the club. I was impressed with Badiashile at the weekend, albeit it's only one game but I think Colwill could be something very special and the profile of both, I think Fofana and Colwill have the makings of a very promising centre back partnership in the future. Norfolkblue1961, Jayteezy, Fernando and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHulk 2,656 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Get fucking Enzo with the money left even if he comes in summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Costa19 858 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 3 minutes ago, TheHulk said: Get fucking Enzo with the money left even if he comes in summer. ”footyinsider247” Sounds credible.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireBlue 3,348 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 5 minutes ago, Costa19 said: ”footyinsider247” Sounds credible.. Same source is saying depay on loan to Newcastle could happen, so let's see lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhForAGreavsie 6,128 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Vesper said: the problem as I understand it is the payment to a Russian team perhaps I am wrong I'm sure that you are not wrong. I'm just saying it does not appear to be the case that uefa will prevent a uefa registered club doing business with Russia, if the club's national government permits it. Edited January 16, 2023 by OhForAGreavsie Vesper 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetable 830 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 3 hours ago, Costa19 said: The club wants to sell him, the player wants the transfer and Chelsea wants to buy him. But its impossible to pay for him and to do the transfer. Law aside, I'm pretty sure that given the situation, American Chelsea owner, sending 100 mil euro to Russia goes down great with media and even normal people. It's not happening and it's not something that upsets me personally. 14 minutes ago, Costa19 said: ”footyinsider247” Sounds credible.. Super credible, with Enzo and us selling Sterling of all the wingers. But hey, it clicks well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Costa19 858 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 1 minute ago, TheHulk said: Disappointing. He wont give us creativity. But i guess he can put some work in when we are 1-0 up against bottom table teams when we fall back Home around minute 70. Fernando 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetable 830 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Quote The challenge in January remains agreeing a fee. And Brighton will want significantly more than the £62m #CFC agreed for Marc Cucurella. 😂 It was deffo worth it, so let's throw more cash there. Quote Graham Potter likes him and knows him well. This is worrying as hell. Wasn't the promised change of style of operation was, like, having Sporting Director in place, build a vision, buy the players for the vision and choose the manager for it, that can be replaced if needed, just like most serious clubs do? It's not the same thing as "Potter picking who he likes" as this is exactly the same thing we did under Roman, except with different calibre of manager. GP having say in transfers is totally different than building a team to Potter's liking and according to media, the latter is happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,825 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 (edited) Posted already. Noise about Caicedo Edited January 16, 2023 by Strike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pizy 19,326 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 Caicedo now with the idea that a more creative, more well rounded midfielder comes in in the summer as his long term partner I’d be good with. Caicedo as our only midfield signing whilst extending Jorginho and I don’t like the move. I don’t know. If we were never linked with Enzo to begin with and we didn’t have concrete evidence that he really wanted to come I’d probably be delighted with Caicedo. But now I can’t help but be disappointed in him because Enzo is clearly superior and if it ends up being an either or between the two we chose wrong. Costa19 and Fernando 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YorkshireBlue 3,348 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 26 minutes ago, Vegetable said: 😂 It was deffo worth it, so let's throw more cash there. This is worrying as hell. Wasn't the promised change of style of operation was, like, having Sporting Director in place, build a vision, buy the players for the vision and choose the manager for it, that can be replaced if needed, just like most serious clubs do? It's not the same thing as "Potter picking who he likes" as this is exactly the same thing we did under Roman, except with different calibre of manager. GP having say in transfers is totally different than building a team to Potter's liking and according to media, the latter is happening. Course managers get involved with transfers, if we are building around our manager, which with the massive contract he got you can only assume we are, to not ask him what players he likes would be stupid. ulsterchelsea and Fernando 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jype 6,398 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 (edited) 29 minutes ago, TheHulk said: Kepa Mendy Bettinelli (association-trained HG) Silva Koulibaly Badiashile Azpi Cucurella Fofana James (club-trained HG) Chalobah (club-trained HG) Chilwell (association-trained HG) Jorginho Kante Kovacic Zakaria Mount (club-trained HG) RLC (club-trained HG) Gallagher (club-trained HG) Chukwuemeka (association-trained HG) Pulisic Ziyech Havertz Sterling (association-trained HG) Aubameyang Felix Mudryk D. Fofana That's 19 non-HG, 5 club-trained and 4 association-trained players for a total of 28. The maximum squad size is 25 so three will have to be cut for UCL. Even if we leave out D. Fofana and replace Bettinelli with an U21 academy keeper for the B list to make room, that still leaves one spot to be cleared in the current squad. For PL squad registration we're fine as Mudryk, Badiashile, D. Fofana and Chukwuemeka all still count as U21 (born after 1st January 2001). Also worth noting that a maximum of 3 new players can be added for the knockouts so any additional new signings made in the January window would be left out if we want to include all of the other new guys (Badiashile, Felix, Mudryk). Maybe if we sign a new midfielder like Caicedo or something like that, he would be more important to have in the CL squad than Badiashile? Either way it's not ideal and we can't fit in everyone. Edited January 16, 2023 by Jype Strike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegetable 830 Posted January 16, 2023 Share Posted January 16, 2023 I know Twitter journos have to eat too, but I'd still let the new signings play few games here before they are displacing anyone from CL roster. Plus, we don't know if anyone is leaving this window or not, so… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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