Chelsea Transfers

[NikkiCFC 7,944]

58 minutes ago, Tomo said:

 

The big red flag though is only one title in eight years for the club the size of River

That's horrible. Don't follow their league but from where is hype in the first place coming from with these results?

[Costa19 858]

1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

That's horrible. Don't follow their league but from where is hype in the first place coming from with these results?

This is some comments from Reddir regarding Gallardo.

- ”As a Boca fan, we had better players so we were more consistent along the year, but River had Gallardo and that gave them a huge advantage in the Libertadores/Sudamericana and even the Argentina Cup. Plus River constantly sold the players he helped to develop.

And 1 Libertadores is worth like 10 league titles for us”

- ”Exactly. One of Gallardo's merits is reinventing his team each year after losing players, and keep them performing at the highest level.”

- ”So in premier league/european terms he won the equivalent of an Europa League, 2 Champions Leagues, 3 FA Cups, one league, and taking over 3 years after River was relegated for the first time in its history.”

Managing River Plate is NOT like managing Brighton. Their fans are fucking nuts and the pressure is crazy.

But there is alot of question marks aswell like how quickly can he learn to speak english and integrate in to European football etc. 

 

[Gundalf 804]

The only Gallardo I want is this one:

[Vesper 28,795]

1 hour ago, Gundalf said:

The only Gallardo I want is this one:

1972 Lamborghini Miura P400 SV/J

 

 

Edited April 11, 2023 by Vesper

[Pizy 18,368]

The talk with Bellingham with Liverpool out of the way is that Real Madrid are favorites. But they have Valverde, Tchoameni, and Camavinga as their young, future midfield already. All are under 25 and have been projected as future world class players. So how does spending £120m or more on another young midfielder make sense?

I guess if both Kroos and Modrić go there’s room, but there’s no indication of that happening. They already have to shuffle Camavinga and Valverde around to strange positions because their midfield is loaded.

[Cosmin 2,484]

20 minutes ago, Pizy said:

So how does spending £120m or more on another young midfielder make sense?

I wouldn't want us splashing 120m on Bellingham either, especially since he seems to be a colossal cnut. 

I'd rather go for Lavia, as I think we can grab him for 40-50m this summer, especially if Saints get relagated. 

13 hours ago, Costa19 said:

This is some comments from Reddir regarding Gallardo.

- ”As a Boca fan, we had better players so we were more consistent along the year, but River had Gallardoand that gave them a huge advantage in the Libertadores/Sudamericana and even the Argentina Cup. Plus River constantly sold the players he helped to develop.

And 1 Libertadores is worth like 10 league titles for us”

- ”Exactly. One of Gallardo's merits is reinventing his team each year after losing players, and keep them performing at the highest level.”

Sounds like a great option for Monaco, Dortmund or Benfica. Not Chelsea. Whoever we appoint should be able to develop younsters AND manage players who are already proven to be world class. 

Edited April 12, 2023 by Cosmin

[MoroccanBlue 5,297]

I like that Ugarte fella more so than Lavia. 

[Vesper 28,795]

12 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

I like that Ugarte fella more so than Lavia. 

Ugarte is too often rash. Needs to sort that ASAP.

[Vesper 28,795]

https://football-observatory.com/IMG/sites/b5wp/2022/wp417/en/

Issue number 417 of the CIES Football Observatory Weekly Post presents the percentage of minutes played by footballers who had not yet turned 20 in domestic league matches played over the last five years by 1,168 clubs in 76 leagues worldwide. Denmark’s Nordsjælland crushes the competition with a record percentage of 37%.

Slovakia’s MŠK Žilina and Septemvri Sofia of Bulgaria complete the podium, followed by two Venezuelan clubs (Mineros de Guayana and Deportivo La Guaira), as well as RSC Anderlecht. Uruguay’s Defensor SC are the third highest ranked non-European team, ahead of another Venezuelan team, Monagas SC, and Ecuador’s Independiente del Valle.

Borussia Dortmund leads the way among the teams currently in the big-5, ahead of Stade Rennais and FC Barcelona. In terms of the number of U20 players lined up in domestic league matches since 1 April 2018, the Romanian side FCV Farul tops the table with 45 footballers, while Paris St-Germain (28) heads the rankings in the five major European championships ahead of Bologna (22).

Edited April 12, 2023 by Vesper

[TheHulk 1,855]

 

[TheHulk 1,855]

 

[DH1988 1,273]

On 10/04/2023 at 20:37, TheHulk said:

I thought Boehly can at least use his connections to get us better commercial deals but looks like he sucks at everything.

Commercially I’m not concerned, Americans do know how to market and generate income in every feasible way in that sphere, not to generalise but over my career, just my opinion. 
 

regarding Felix, what a special talent, yes, talent, still, a talent, unfinished, still. Therefore anything above £60m I’d be unhappy with, if we had either of the coaches we’ve seen I’d be happy putting stock in those candidates to bring something out of the player, and others. Take Grealish as an example, Villa he was the big fish, special talent, now he’s being guided by Pep, started horrifically to be honest, as expected. After some patience he’s blooming now and City reap the rewards. Pep commands just so much respect, as a player, as a manager, has he had iffy appointments? Sure, but as a player I’d be listening to every word and we’ve lacked that sadly, because it’s not only listening, it’s having a deep respect for who you’re listening to.

[DDA 9,690]

Whatever happens, do not sign Joao Felix... I'm starting to think he's all hype and we have Nkunku coming in... a similar player who can actually score goals.

[HEREIAM 83]

There’s only room for one of Mount, Havertz or Felix, I would get rid of all three.

if Kante is staying then Kova has to go, both RLC and Gallagher needs to go, Chuka needs to stay, Cucu and Azpi need to leave, wide players Mudryk hasn’t been given a fair chance so he stays, CHO get rid off

Up top I think Lukaku will stay and get rid of Auba

[Vegetable 830]

17 hours ago, DH1988 said:

Commercially I’m not concerned, Americans do know how to market and generate income in every feasible way in that sphere, not to generalise but over my career, just my opinion.

+1 to that. We were on the rise brand-wise "recently" and although our recent performance isn't necessarily the helping hand in negotiations (however exposure deffo is there, just not very positive), I wouldn't really be concerned about our marketing potential. 

And the Three, oh well, they were pretty much first to attempt to fuck us over when UK government decided to boost their theatre around Abramovitch, so I guess we can do more reliable. 

[Mário César 975]

tbh I think we need to sell kovacic

and you what you think?

[Fernando 6,455]

We need it Caicedo in the winter, instead of spending on Mudryk

[Vesper 28,795]

18 minutes ago, Fernando said:

We need it Caicedo in the winter, instead of spending on Mudryk

I dont trust Brighton anything. We have been burnt to a cinder fishing in those southernly waters too often.