Chelsea Transfers

[Strike 7,477]

Shocking deadline day to be honest. Underwhelmed by all 3 potential signings to the point I'm hoping some fax shenanigans helps us avoid them.

[xPetrCechx 13,569]

🔵 | Denis Zakaria: 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐆𝐎!

Denis Zakaria to Chelsea, here we go! Total agreement reached with Juventus as revealed earlier. Loan deal agreed, personal terms also approved. 🚨🔵 #CFC

Exclusive news confirmed. Medical ongoing in Italy. ✅

[milka 3,390]

 From De Jong to Alvarez to Zakaria 😂  The Chelsea way 

[Pizy 18,864]

Juve fans on their forum don’t seem to rate him at all. 😩😩😩

Fuck sake, man. 

[Strike 7,477]

1 minute ago, xPetrCechx said:

🔵 | Denis Zakaria: 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐖𝐄 𝐆𝐎!

Denis Zakaria to Chelsea, here we go! Total agreement reached with Juventus as revealed earlier. Loan deal agreed, personal terms also approved. 🚨🔵 #CFC

Exclusive news confirmed. Medical ongoing in Italy. ✅

Giving major Saul flashbacks. Even though Zakaria is athletically better, I really worry we've signed a player unable to pass out of midfield, cannot handle being pressed.

[YorkshireBlue 3,265]

How is it that if we sign depay, that would be the best signing of the day lol which means we won't sign him.

[Duppy Conqueror 1,528]

Overall pretty happy with what we’ve done in the window..considering the take over happened and we don’t have a DoF in place yet.

the ones we have overpaid for are good players.signed on longterm deals.

Nice injection of talented youth.

signings that could go either way are reasonably priced.

best of all we have seen that Boehly is a quality owner.

 

[blahblahblah 73]

Just now, Strike said:

Giving major Saul flashbacks. Even though Zakaria is athletically better, I really worry we've signed a player unable to pass out of midfield, cannot handle being pressed.

Can jorginho handle being pressed? I thought the best way to completely nullify us was to man mark jorginho and pressurise him leading to mistakes and stupid chips in the box.

[Alabama 1,992]

Lots of crybabies herein...

Boehly first season in charge....made very good signings and potentials for addition of future star signings...

[YorkshireBlue 3,265]

This zakaria reminds we alot of yaya.

[Last Sicarius 610]

Zakaria has many injuries he seems like Kova. In his 4 months in Juve has over 40 days out... very bad move

[Strike 7,477]

Just now, blahblahblah said:

Can jorginho handle being pressed? I thought the best way to completely nullify us was to man mark jorginho and pressurise him leading to mistakes and stupid chips in the box.

We forget he was outstanding just a year ago. Was the UEFA player of the season. He was a key part of a Champions League and Euro winning midfield and could handle being pressed by almost any team - City, Liverpool, Real. The worry is the athleticism, which was not really great to begin with, has tailed off now

[Pizy 18,864]

Think we can cross Depay off. Currently still training with Barca according to Fab.

[YorkshireBlue 3,265]

Bats to Nottingham forest

[Superblue 6,372]

26 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

I mean you get what you deserve. Midfield was a glaring issue for years and it was made incredibly apparent last season. Completely ignored by Tuchel. 

Strap in lads. Going to be a loooooooooooooooong season, particularly when, not if, when Kovacic and Kante aren't available for the majority of it. 

It is a difficult one because although the centre back position was obviously a need with the players that moved on, we did need to try and improve that spine in the team with a midfielder and a striker. In all honesty though, the market hasn't really been there this season for either position. Maybe Bissouma early in the summer should have been considered but at that point everyone was fit and so far Bissouma can't even force his way into Spurs midfield.

I think in Sterling, KK, Cucu and Fofana we've bought in 4 players who were clearly high up the list of targets in their respective positions. Without knowing for sure, I would assume the likes of Rice and Bellingham are high up our list of midfield targets and they're not available this summer. How many times have we filled a void in the squad regardless of the market's quality and ended up regretting that decision for the next few seasons? I've mentioned before but City wanted Kane last summer. When it didn't happen they waited for Haaland. When Liverpool wanted Van Dijk they waited until the next window to sign him when they were told no. We have to start thinking along the same lines and show some patience in rebuilding the squad as it won't just happen overnight. 

Tuchel probably felt that getting a full pre season into Kova and Kante might just be what they needed. He possibly thought that Gallagher would also be more suited to the pivot than he's shown so far. Maybe he thought Carney was better and more ready than perhaps he feels now. Circumstances change and ultimately whilst it's late in the window, I'm glad at least we're trying to band aid an area on the pitch that needs support but without committing ourselves to something that could impact us looking at a top midfield option next summer. 

5 years ago we bought Drinkwater and Zappacosta on transfer deadline day. £60m just chucked in the bin. Whilst Zakaria, Auba and Depay don't fill me with joy, they're low risk for the club at this moment and at a time when we've done pretty well this summer at moving a number of players on who needed to be moved on. We don't need to add back to that pile with some more panic buys with a longer term impact.