Vesper 30,161 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Report: Chelsea Favourites To Sign Brazilian Midfielder Andrey Santos Chelsea are reportedly the favourites to sign Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos. https://www.si.com/soccer/Chelsea/transfer-news/report-Chelsea-favourites-to-sign-brazilian-midfielder-andrey-santos After missing out on Endrick to Real Madrid, Chelsea are keen not to let the same thing happen again when it comes to the pursuit of Brazilian midfielder Andrey Santos. Chelsea have interest in Santos and are reportedly pulling ahead of the pack in the race for the player. A deal could be agreed as early as January if Chelsea are to push for it. The Vasco Da Gama midfielder has a market value of €5million at the minute. According to Matt Lawton of the Times, Chelsea are emerging as the favourites in the race for Vasco Da Gama midfielder Andrey Santos. Chelsea's interest has been evident for a number of weeks now, and they could make a move for the midfielder in January. The new recruitment plan at Chelsea is to identify and sign young players that can strengthen the squad, and Andrey Santos has been identified as one of those players that could boost the team. Chelsea are not alone in their interest, with Liverpool, Manchester City and Newcastle United all sharing the same interest in the midfielder. The Blue's will be hoping to land this one after missing out on Endrick, with the Brazilian citing hesitation on the financial side of things as the reason he did not want to join Chelsea in the end. Andrey Santos' signature will require Chelsea to be a bit more trigger happy with their funds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashishi 148 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 28 minutes ago, Vesper said: So, Fofana is injured AGAIN (and looking like a bust as time rolls by, although it is not yet etched in stone) AND Gvardiol will likely not be leaving Leipzig until summer 2024 AND we have no clue as to what is going on with Thiago AND Colwill certainly is not stepping up so................................ we need to buy 2 CBs ASAP choose a left-footer Evan Ndicka Piero Hincapié Gonçalo Inácio and (unless we can somehow pull Skriniar) also a right footer who can play RB as well Mohamed Simakan (now that Gvardiol likely stays he will be an easier pull) None of those look like superstars to me. Feel like we will pay for choosing fofana over Gvardiol over the coming years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashishi 148 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 https://metro.co.uk/2022/12/20/Chelsea-jorginho-walks-out-of-interview-after-question-about-his-future-17968955/ He avoided the question so I feel like he will leave if he gets a better offer. Not the worst thing in the world IF we can find an anchor for our midfield. He was also asked play, bench sell Modric, Bellingham, Jorginho and he said play Modric, bench Bellingham, sell himself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,161 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 (edited) 38 minutes ago, Hashishi said: None of those look like superstars to me. Feel like we will pay for choosing fofana over Gvardiol over the coming years. there are hardly any 'superstar' CBs out there, certainly not ones who are available, other than MAYBE Skriniar, who I did list, if he doesn't renew, and of course Gvardiol as for Gvardiol this past summer, we offred €90m and RB said no the Fofana STUPID buy was in addition to that deal, not because we failed (Fofana is a right footer) Koulibaly panic buy is a better comparison and btw, those 4 I listed are all between 20 and 23 years old, so lots of upside look at the top 25 CBs (in terms of valuation) on T-Markt who am I missing? I have discussed them all in depth since I joined the board almost 5 years ago Kimpembe maybe (as he is a left footer too), BUT we would only get 2 sub 30yo seasons out of him if he buy him in 2023, and he doesn't want to leave PSG (would you atm, unless it was for Real?) as they only need a couple WC or near WC midfielders and another CF to have a MONSTER club for the next season or 2, and they are also the leaders for Skriniar IF he doesn't renew Pau Torres? (another left footer) I don't rate him that much, he lacks pace, and makes errors too often in terms of positioning, plus he doesn't like overly physically play (hello EPL), and in that he is typical La Liga CB Edited December 20, 2022 by Vesper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashishi 148 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 2 minutes ago, Vesper said: there are hardly any 'superstar' CBs out there, certainly not ones who are available, other than MAYBE Skriniar, who I did list, if he doesn't renew, and of course Gvardiol as for Gvardiol this past summer, we offred €90m and RB said no the Fofana STUPID buy was in addition to that deal, not because we failed (Fofana is a right footer) Koulibaly panic buy is a better comparison and btw, those 4 I listed are all between 20 and 23 years old, so lots of upside look at the top 25 CBs (in terms of valuation) on T-Markt who am I missing? I have discussed them all in depth since I joined the board almost 5 years ago Kimpembe maybe (as he is a left footer too), BUT we would only get 2 sub 30yo seasons out of him if he buy him in 2023, and he doesn't want to leave PSG (would you atm, unless it was for Real?) as they only need a couple WC or near WC midfielders and another CF to have a MONSTER club for the next season or 2, and they are also the leaders for Skriniar IF he doesn't renew Pau Torres? (another left footer) I don't rate him that much, he lacks pace, and makes errors too often in terms of positioning, plus he doesn't like overly physically play (hello EPL), and in that he is typical La Liga CB No I think your point is right. There just isn't a plethora of available superstar CBs atm. Fofana ( especially for his price) and KK were stupid buys but we needed to fill squad space after Rudiger and Christensen. We desperately need colwill to step up or we will be overpaying for 2 more CBs with maybe some potential but definitely not the elite tier than Gvardiol falls into. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashishi 148 Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Maybe an unpopular opinion: We should have signed Casemiro as a stop gap DM to help us transition into 433 this year. He would have chosen us over Manure for CL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 2,698 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 You guys really need to chill on calling Fofana a bust. Life isn't just black and white - guy came here and unfortunately suffered an injury. Plenty of guys in sports that suffered terrible injuries early on who went on to be men of steel and never got injured throughout their career after early setbacks. He is clearly very talented too. DDA and chef 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,161 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 1 minute ago, Thor said: You guys really need to chill on calling Fofana a bust. Life isn't just black and white - guy came here and unfortunately suffered an injury. Plenty of guys in sports that suffered terrible injuries early on who went on to be men of steel and never got injured throughout their career after early setbacks. He is clearly very talented too. before his injury here, but post bad Leicester injury, he clearly had lost a step before we bought him he fell far off my lists due to that bad injury before the Leicester injury he was very high on my lists, but I want to see two years post bad injury before I recco someone again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,161 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Hashishi said: Maybe an unpopular opinion: We should have signed Casemiro as a stop gap DM to help us transition into 433 this year. He would have chosen us over Manure for CL. hell no! £70m for a 31yo (in two months) DMF? PASS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 2,698 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 19 minutes ago, Vesper said: before his injury here, but post bad Leicester injury, he clearly had lost a step before we bought him he fell far off my lists due to that bad injury before the Leicester injury he was very high on my lists, but I want to see two years post bad injury before I recco someone again He is 21 building his confidence back up. It isn't going to happen overnight, and not like he is 100 games in here showing the same thing. He was getting better and better in his performances before his latest setback. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,161 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 12 minutes ago, Thor said: He is 21 building his confidence back up. It isn't going to happen overnight, and not like he is 100 games in here showing the same thing. He was getting better and better in his performances before his latest setback. Time will tell but atm I remain unconvinced. I think it has a substantial chance to go down as a truly shit buy. I truly hope not. I have a solid track record here predicting systemic risk, both short term and on longer range event horizons on a multivariate number of stress points, both player-related and also bigger picture, whole club structures. I warned back during the Skripal poisoning affair that it was time for Roman to sell the club, as he was likely to be banned by the Home Office from obtaining a visa renewal (and that would cock up the new stadium) and was at true risk, down the road, of having the club seized, due to his close ties to Putin. I was laughed at then by some. We all know how that ended. 😒 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 Vivell has been announced, expecting him to be injured in the coming days Vesper, OhForAGreavsie, laura90 and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,161 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 hell no to Alexis Vega he is utter dregs averages 5 goals per season in totally shit Liga MX mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,161 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 no to Weston McKennie not good enough mkh and chelsea_4_eva 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,161 Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 meh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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