Chelsea Transfers

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6 hours ago, TheHulk said:

Kovacic had no buy option either from what I remember, Odegaard also had no option and still ended up staying.

Kova did have a buy option (despite what the Sun and Marca falsely claimed a year before we bought him).

It is how we were able to perma buy Kova despite the transfer ban.

Chelsea have agreed to buy midfielder Mateo Kovacic from Real Madrid for £40.3million.

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/Chelsea-agree-to-buy-mateo-kovacic-for-ps40-3m-from-real-madrid-a4177091.html

The Blues are able to make the transfer despite being banned from signing players by Fifa for two windows due to breaching rules over the acquisition of foreign minors.

Kovacic spent last season on loan at Stamford Bridge so as long as the switch is finalised by June 30, the Croatia international won’t count as a new player because he is already registered as a member of Chelsea’s squad.

As Standard Sport reported last summer when they first acquired the 25-year-old, there was an option in place to negotiate a permanent switch.

Chelsea were having second thoughts about doing so with Kovacic struggling to make much of an impression last term, creating just two assists and failing to find the net.

 

How did Chelsea sign Kovacic when they have a transfer ban?

https://www.goal.com/en/news/how-did-Chelsea-sign-kovacic-when-they-have-a-transfer-ban/1rg32e770efg31mbkg9yc6aw15

How did Chelsea sign Kovacic?

Despite being banned by FIFA from signing players for the next 12 months until the 2020 summer window, Chelsea managed to acquire Kovacic permanently because of a loophole in their transfer suspension.

The Croatian joined the club on loan for the duration of last season and the agreement between Chelsea and Real Madrid stipulated the Blues had the option to purchase Kovacic for €45m (£40m/$51m) before June 30, 2019.

Because Kovacic's loan deal between the two clubs was signed off on before Chelsea's transfer ban was implemented in February, they can sign the player permanently without flouting the rules.

Last season at the club under Sarri, Kovacic made 51 appearances in all competitions as he helped the club to the Europa League title and a Premier League top-four finish.

Kovacic was technically purchased by Chelsea while they are without a manager, with club legend Frank Lampard set to be appointed in the role imminently.

 

Edited January 11, 2023 by Vesper

[Magic Lamps 11,692]

7 hours ago, Strike said:

Newcastle's thinking in the market has been great. Some good pickups

Not sure. Trippier, Burn, Targett and Woods are absolute pants and not exaclty young either. Imagine we had signed those players, the meltdown here would be unreal. They only struck gold with Guimaraes

On paper they are still way worse than us when everyone is fit, their squad is worth about half of ours.

But they somehow built a real team spirit and great buzz around them, so everyone plays out of their skin. They also did not lose their pace and their leaders in one window

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4 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Not sure. Trippier, Burn, Targett and Woods are absolute pants and not exaclty young either. Imagine we had signed those players, the meltdown here would be unreal. They only struck gold with Guimaraes

On paper they are still way worse than us when everyone is fit, their squad is worth about half of ours.

But they somehow built a real team spirit and great buzz around them, so everyone plays out of their skin. They also did not lose their pace and their leaders in one window

Yeah, you look at that Newcastle squad and there is still maybe 1 player of theirs I’d have at Chelsea and that’s Bruno. They really don’t have that much quality. Just extremely well drilled and everyone who was shocking last season is now somehow in the form of their lives. Basically the opposite of us.

They would comfortably be the least talented club to ever finish in the CL places if they do so this season. 

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1 hour ago, Mário César said:

enzo celebrates its goal with a gesture that seems "I will stay"

well he will not come to Chelsea

tbh don't bother me because lets face the true, 130M€ is a insane fee of money

Im happy that Chelsea will not go forward with this madness deal 

absolute, unmitigated bollocks

Enzo is a rare transformative type of player who can systematically impact the entire warp and weft of a side

he is easily worth £75 to £85m (few but the most dull of knives in the drawer would be up in arms at that price range)

so NOW you are going to label the act of dropping £20 to £30m over that range in order to beat other massive clubs to him as insanity?

We overspent £30m or so ON JUST CUCURELLA ffs

We just shit away £95m on KK (salary + fee)

just in transfer fees since 2015, we have shit away around £750m, and that could rise to 1 BILLION QUID if the Boehly buys who still can go either way go into the bin/bust category:

 

yet you are going bonkers over 20 or 30 million pounds extra spend (if it even is, but I am being generous) in regards to Enzo??? (who also would have been paid a wage FAR below what Bellingham or Rice will command, btw)

this TC board just kills me sometimes

LOLOLOL

 

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57 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Not sure. Trippier, Burn, Targett and Woods are absolute pants and not exaclty young either. Imagine we had signed those players, the meltdown here would be unreal. They only struck gold with Guimaraes

On paper they are still way worse than us when everyone is fit, their squad is worth about half of ours.

But they somehow built a real team spirit and great buzz around them, so everyone plays out of their skin. They also did not lose their pace and their leaders in one window

you are being far too harsh on NUFC

they are better than us at multiple positions:

GK, one of the CB slots (for now, let's see what Badiashile does), RB when we have no Reece (Trippier is a better fullback than Azpi is now), DMF, AMF/RWer (depending on the formastion), and CF (they have two who are better than anything we have atm)

(we do blow them away in depth though)

their best starting players

Nick Pope
Sven Botman 
Dan Burn
Matt Targett  
Kieran Trippier
Bruno Guimarães (world class)
Joelinton (reborn as a MFer)
Miguel Almirón (on fire, tracking to 20 or so league goals)
Allan Saint-Maximin
Alexander Isak 
Callum Wilson

[ZAPHOD2319 4,805]

Please, please please

 

[MoroccanBlue 5,379]

Enzo will be Boehly’s Aguero. 
 

Quote me. 

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47 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Please, please please

 

we cannot sell or even loan him until 2023/2024

fucking Barca played him 8 minutes in a game

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3 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Enzo will be Boehly’s Aguero. 
 

Quote me. 

he will someday destroy us in multiple games in the future I fear

and we have now burnt the Benfica bridge, plus look dodgy with other clubs all over

a disasterclass move by Boehly et al.

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[Tomo 21,751]

I won't pretend I've seen him play live but from what I've seen on clips, his metrics and what I hear about him signing Zakharyan is the only way (out of the realistic signings) I can even remotely get over losing Enzo anytime soon.

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2 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Please, please please

 

Probably on loan. Chelsea will pay majority of the wage, no option to buy.

[Strike 7,478]

3 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

Not sure. Trippier, Burn, Targett and Woods are absolute pants and not exaclty young either. Imagine we had signed those players, the meltdown here would be unreal. They only struck gold with Guimaraes

On paper they are still way worse than us when everyone is fit, their squad is worth about half of ours.

But they somehow built a real team spirit and great buzz around them, so everyone plays out of their skin. They also did not lose their pace and their leaders in one window

Dan Burn has been weirdly good. Trippier too. Targett and Wood are doing their bit as back-up, helps with the team spirit.

They now have positioned themselves to target a higher level of players.

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43 minutes ago, turgi said:

Probably on loan. Chelsea will pay majority of the wage, no option to buy.

he cannot move until July 1, 2023, as he has already played for 2 clubs (us and for 8 fucking minutes, Barca) this season, so we are stuck with him