Chelsea Transfers

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Chelsea's 1st offer was €70m + add-ons. Bayern now placed a bid of €75m + add-ons that take the fee to more than €80m. It is understood - but without definitive confirmation - that the player prefers Bayern. Juve will sell to highest bidder. Awaiting CFC bid

Source: Bayern and Germany, twitter.

 

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[Pizy 18,848]

Damn shame. And then if we try to go for Koulibaly as a fallback option we’ll have to compete with Juve for him. And for a player who is already in Serie A they may be more enticing than us at his age.

[MoroccanBlue 5,375]

Looking less likely now but let’s wait and see what happens in the next couple days. 

[robsblubot 3,595]

1 hour ago, Superblue_1986 said:

I know that Sterling is quite a polarising figure but I think it's an incredibly smart move we've made to bring him in.

Firstly he's a significant upgrade in attack to what we already have, which should be first and foremost and I think his profile fits what Tuchel will want from his attackers. He makes our strongest XI stronger which in my opinion was important this summer that we could get at least 2 or 3 players falling into this bracket.

But I'm impressed with his mentality and I think it'll be a positive rub for the squad. Everything I've read and heard, he thrives from responsibility and leadership and has been a huge presence in the England set up. I think a number of our players, particularly the younger ones will gravitate towards him and can benefit from that.

If we lose Alonso and Azpi this summer, the last player we'll have in our squad is Kante with Premier League winning experience. It's been important that the group has won a couple of big trophies in the last 12 - 18 months but having a player coming from City with that mentality, desire and experience to go week after week pursuing the league will be a big coup.

 

Agreed. He's a very good footballer who relentlessly runs at defenses. Our midfield remains strong and I'm not really worried about the attack despite lacking a #9. We will have enough quality up front.

Our D however... It's going to be hard to overcome such a loss in quality. I know Andreas is also polarizing, but I think his career speaks for itself and he did play a big role for us and was involved  quite a bit of silverware.  His move to Barca only corroborates that idea and I think he will do very well in that system.

Rudiger, of course is a bigger issue: there is simply no replacement avail right now, so we will need to get creative here, like we discussed earlier on this thread.

[DDA 9,924]

Kounde and the integration of Colwill it is then? 

Who else is there?

[Alabama 1,992]

Lol...

So people here rated De Ligt so highly here...Would be glad he goes to Bayern.....

[turgi 71]

Just now, Alabama said:

Lol...

So people here rated De Ligt so highly here...Would be glad he goes to Bayern.....

You rate Chalobah higher?

[Hashishi 148]

 

Tier 2 says Munich haven't even made an offer yet. It may not be over...

 

[Superblue 6,372]

4 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

Agreed. He's a very good footballer who relentlessly runs at defenses. Our midfield remains strong and I'm not really worried about the attack despite lacking a #9. We will have enough quality up front.

Our D however... It's going to be hard to overcome such a loss in quality. I know Andreas is also polarizing, but I think his career speaks for itself and he did play a big role for us and was involved  quite a bit of silverware.  His move to Barca only corroborates that idea and I think he will do very well in that system.

Rudiger, of course is a bigger issue: there is simply no replacement avail right now, so we will need to get creative here, like we discussed earlier on this thread.

Agreed, we may have to take risks with what we currently have on our books with this.

We'll have to run the risk of Thiago Silva staying fit and at the levels he played last season despite not getting any younger.

Chalobah we have to hope kicks on again this season. There were some times he showed a raw and rash side to his game but mostly I thought was a real bright spot last season and showed more than enough promise to be counted on moving forward. His recovery pace in particular could be vital alongside Silva next season - he just needs to work on the need to use that recovery pace less often!

I think Colwill certainly has the potential this season of being the Chalobah of last and breaking out, and Tuchel may need to place faith in him to do such. Being naturally left sided will help him and in my opinion he's already miles better and more suited than Sarr. He's not going to replace Rudiger immediately, but he has the potential to long term.

We definitely need at least one centre back but I don't fancy us just buying two for the sake of it.

We do in my opinion though need wing back/full back options on both sides. If Tuchel deems Maatsen and Sterling capable then fine, but I think we may need better options than this to rotate with Chilwell and James. It's not a coincidence that our season started to nosedive when these two got crocked.

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1 minute ago, Hashishi said:

 

Tier 2 says Munich haven't even made an offer yet. It may not be over...

 

Just like Raphinha, the player is not stupid.

He knows Bayern will negotiate with Juventus and he could wait as long as he wants.