Chelsea Transfers

[bluesman2610 1,423]

27 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I am surprised you did not mention Fabio Miretti over Nicolò Fagioli

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From what I seen in the more recent games Miretti has seemed to have gained favour with Allegri over Fagioli that’s why getting him would be more feasible. I heard they may be listening to offers and the boy can play.

[We Hate Scouse 10,332]

3 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

I'm still amazed how excited about Enzo some people get like he was some Jesus lord savior coming here

I know, it's crazy, he's far bigger than Jesus. 

[NikkiCFC 8,371]

No chance deal would happened if Enzo didn't push hard. 

 

Edited February 1, 2023 by NikkiCFC

[DDA 9,983]

I still haven't woken up yet...

Enzo and Joao Felix in the same fucking team and at Chelsea ??

Hahaha

Lord Bohely you fucking Legend.

[Gundalf 806]

Anyone remembering the Barca-Chelsea transfer battle in the summer? Feels like ages ago. 

Edited February 1, 2023 by Gundalf

[Pizy 18,993]

Nearly 24 hours after the transfer and still no pics of Enzo in a Chelsea shirt? 

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

 

 

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

Just now, ulsterchelsea said:

 

 

Ask and you shall receive 

[OneMoSalah 8,887]

56 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Jorginho, Werner, Cucurella. 

Cucurella and Werner top players? And specifically meant this window. The post I quoted indicated players were willing to come here now than wait to go to City in the summer yet City weren’t linked to one of the players we signed except for *apparently* Andrey Santos.

Edited February 1, 2023 by OneMoSalah

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1 hour ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

From the article

 

Letting Kovacic go? Smdh. Injuries aside he would be a starter at most top clubs. Considering offers for him would be ludicrous. Even considering offers for Chilwell would be stupid.

Why isn’t anyone reporting we will look at offers for Ruben? Getting rid of him is surely a high priority alongside Aubamayang and Lukaku. Particularly if their talking about underachieving players. 

Does the club only plan on having 4 or 5 experienced players over the age of 27 or what too….

Either way lets hope GP can do something because you cannot say he doesn’t have the tools now. 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,823]

That article is speculation. I doubt anyone at the club has said anything about Kova leaving.

[Pizy 18,993]

Kova is one of our best players. No shot that we’d consider selling him.

 

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[Vesper 30,279]

26 minutes ago, ulsterchelsea said:

Ask and you shall receive 

 

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1 hour ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

From the article

 

Thanks for all Ted but if they move Kova and Chilly ffs

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10 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

Letting Kovacic go? Smdh. Injuries aside he would be a starter at most top clubs. Considering offers for him would be ludicrous. Even considering offers for Chilwell would be stupid.

I know why there is the speculation on Kova.

Kova turns 30 at the end of next season, and his contract expires right after he turns 30, on Jun 30, 2024

That is about the most unclear case of a player's age and contract expiration as you can get, certianly within a year either way for both age and contract relative to age expiration date.

If he was 2 years younger, then sure, renew him for 4 years, as he would be 32yo old at the very end (so the age of him from now until then would be playing at age 26, 27 to just turning at the end 32 (so 31yo in reality for the last year), aka prime AF years.

BUT he is not two years younger, so the same situ yields playing time from 28, 29 now to just turning 34yo, in reality 33 for most of the last year, so 2 or even 3 pretty not prime years.

Its a real quandary.

This summer is the last you can get max or near max money for him, we all know that except for a few CFs, then the top GKers, and of course Messi/CR7 types, the value slams down when you hit 30 years of age or more, especially 31.

Some people always fight with me (not just here, lol, every where I talk about footie, real life or internet) about my age theory for football, but look at the record, I am spot on I truly feel. I also am flexible and make more exceptions now, as I now have more years of real time observation myself, and have relaxed a lot on CFs and CBs.

Look at my predictions on fullbacks and DMFs and the 30yo age barrier, and how, for instance, I called Kante's downfall (and said sell him for several years) due to predicted injures (from both age and minutes performing his style of atomic pinball of death and destruction play) years in advance.

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IF (and the only reason I would think would be he just keeps getting injured) we sell Chilwell

there are only 3 left backs I am going to accept

Alphonso Davies  (Bayern may just sell him, he is unhappy, having a bit of a drop in form, and they just bought Cancelo who plays better on the left than the right)
Nuno Mendes (but FFS, we just pissed off PSG something terrible)
Theo Hernández  (I am a bit off the boil due to his poor defence)

Borna Sosa will also surely be a target, but I worry about his defence as well

 

Edited February 1, 2023 by Vesper

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2 hours ago, bluesman2610 said:

From what I seen in the more recent games Miretti has seemed to have gained favour with Allegri over Fagioli that’s why getting him would be more feasible. I heard they may be listening to offers and the boy can play.

Juve are in shambles, I think if ever there was a good time to pull Miretti, it is now, IF we actually rate him

those 2, plus our Cesare Casadei are all similar Italian CMF's

all 3 are close in age too

Fabio Miretti Date of birth/Age: Aug 3, 2003 (19)

Cesare Casadei Date of birth/Age: Jan 10, 2003 (20)

Nicolò Fagioli Date of birth/Age: Feb 12, 2001 (21)

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🔵 Behind the scenes: Enzo Fernandez Chelsea deal almost collapsed

More details on Enzo Fernandez's record-breaking move to Chelsea

https://caughtoffside.substack.com/p/behind-the-scenes-enzo-fernandez

The Enzo Fernandez to Chelsea deal was a really mad one - many things happened behind the scenes.

It’s important to start by saying the player has been crucial. When everything started in January, the player was pushing very hard, and skipped training. When talks started again towards the end of January, Enzo remained very professional, but was praying for president Rui Costa to let him join Chelsea. The president had no intention to accept until the final few minutes of the transfer window, so Enzo was crucial.

At the beginning of January, Chelsea made a bid of €85m plus add ons for Fernandez, and with the possibility of players being included in the deal. Benfica said no, they wanted the release clause or nothing. Rui Costa was furious with Chelsea, but they were still there. Eventually they did it, they first tried €100m plus players, but Benfica again said no - €120m or nothing. So Chelsea offered €120m paid in instalments, but again for Benfica it wasn’t enough.

After a crazy 20 hours of negotiations, Benfica were still not budging. Chelsea were ready to have the player for a medical in London, but Benfica weren’t allowing it. Enzo was desperate and was pushing, and Chelsea tried again after 20 hours of negotiations from Tuesday morning to the final moments of Deadline Day, so how did they do it? The payment will be in six instalments, but with a big amount - €40m - paid up front.

Fernandez has signed a contract until 2031, there was never any issue between the player and Chelsea, the only issue was Benfica president Rui Costa. The whole Chelsea board did incredible work, all together pushing to get this signing done. It was a big fight. At one point, at around 8pm yesterday the deal was 100% collapsed, but Chelsea didn’t give up, Enzo was pushing, and the medical was eventually done after midnight. Here we go!