Chelsea Transfers

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3 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

I think someone like Diogo Costa is likely a GK we consider.

he is one the only 3 (along with Oblak and Mamar) that I have said to pick one and buy

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21 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I warned!!!!!!

we could have gotten £60-80m for him after the CL win

Frankly, I don't understand this argument a whole lot. 60-80m is hardly irrelevant outside of ffp rules, which again seem irrelevant to the most successful club in the world atm.

How to measure the technical advantage of what Kante can produce on the pitch? how to put a price on it? How much do we gain by getting one more game from him, where he outruns everyone else in midfield and gets us to the next stage in CL? I don't think it's a simple thing esp for a club with owners with deep pockets and lack of ideas.

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7 hours ago, Cosmin said:

https://twitter.com/FabrizioRomano/status/1671524483658645506?s=20

So you're telling me that Arsenal want to get rid of this guy because of his legal issues and Saudi clubs are ready to offer them €40m?

Nah, something is fishy there! 😜

Partey is meh

cray cray the amount of rep he gets from some here

he had 3 good seasons (2017/18 especially) at Atletico (the other 2 he missed a tonne of games) but that was in their defence uber alles system

the bloke is now 30yo and has only played more than 40 games in a season 3 times in his entire career, all at Atletico Madrid

Edited June 21, 2023 by Vesper

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Good, fuck off already.

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6 hours ago, Johnnyeye said:

Can you imagine back in the day, Keane, Neville, Vieira, Henry,  Gerrard, Carragher, Terry, Lamps, Drogba, etc… after a decisive crunch game laughing and hugging opposing players. Game has gone soft

they HATED each other , which is proper club football

they did respect each other's quality, which is proper too

I hate the inter-club fraternisation level now

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Hope this is a joke.

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Just now, TheHulk said:

 

just make it 45m to 50m euros (£39-43m)

IF he blows up and becomes great at Inter, then for an HG CB, its fair market value for the EPL

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32 minutes ago, Clockwork said:

I think someone like Diogo Costa is likely a GK we consider.

I'm a little cautious. 

I like his characteristics as a player but bursting into tears over his near mistake at the world cup is a massive red flag for me.

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Disappointed in the likes of Mount and Havertz who seem to be bailing on the club at the first sign of struggle. It's pretty clear that there is a longer term plot at the club to build a younger squad to grow and develop together, and in both circumstances they could have fallen into the bracket of still young and long term, but two of the more experienced players within the group that could have assumed more leadership and direction on the squad. 

The press briefings from both player's camps that they will not be signing new contracts whilst the club are in the middle of transfer negotiations is very poor in my opinion but unfortunately the way things are nowadays. I'm just glad the club is sticking to its guns with both players to get a valuation deemed acceptable and not take a feeling of being short changed. If we can get anything like £60m upwards for each then I think both will overall represent good deals for the club.

On one hand I'd have had no problem keeping either within the squad next season, but on the other hand I don't believe either is a "game changer". They are completely different circumstances to the likes of Salah and De Bruyne who never got the opportunities here before both left. Mount and Havertz have had 4 and 3 years respectively in the Chelsea first team and whilst both have produced moments, neither has been able to find a consistency to their game and as a result, a regular and healthy output of an end product. If either goes on to be a bigger success somewhere else then so be it because I'm unsure if that would happen here.

Ultimately both are part of a wider problem at the club in recent years of inconsistency which has prevented us getting anywhere near a title challenge lasting past Xmas.