Chelsea Transfers

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1 hour ago, TheHulk said:

Whats the chance he goes to another team and torments us.

I will rage for years IF that happens

I still am hateful AF about Tchouameni

and getting there so much about Enzo

Arsen is such a unique player, as are those other two

and the overall state of CBs on the planet atm pushed Gvardiol into that level as well

as CB levels of world class players are hallway to the insanely small group of fullbacks (12 if you REALLY stretch it, and only 6 are full-stop WC beyond argument ) currently who are WC (and one isn't even a fullback anymore)

RB - Reece James
RB - Joshua Kimmich (no longer a RB, now a DMF)
LB - Alphonso Davies  
RB - Achraf Hakimi 
LB - Nuno Mendes
LB - Andrew Robertson
RB - Trent Alexander-Arnold  (but so shit defensively)
LB - Theo Hernández (defence lately is shit, not as bad as TAA, but not nearly good enough)
RB - Denzel Dumfries (climbing, I am becoming sold on him as a WC fullback/wingback)
LB - Ben Chilwell  (when he is fully fit)
LB - José Gayà
RB - João Cancelo (but seems to play better as an inverted LB) He is struggling atm, may come off here

closing in on WC IMHO

RB - Diogo Dalot
RB - Jeremie Frimpong

Saka would be way up there IF he went full-time fullback (LB I would think) instead of a winger or RMFer

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40 minutes ago, Pizy said:

This forum is so quick to completely write off Cucu, Sterling, and Wes Fofana. I think all 3 will be very good players for us in time and in Fofana’s case I think he’ll become a world class player.

People are acting as though Cucu has been an unmitigated disaster of a player when he has really just been very mediocre just like our entire team pretty much. He hasn’t been close to a Koulibaly level embarrassment where it looks as though he’s totally out of his depth.

Cucarella isn't particularly great at anything though... he is an average player man... I want to believe he is more because we paid soo much for him and I'm open to be proven wrong but I just can't see it. If you had the choice of Cuc for 65m or Hernandez for 70m which would you go for??

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7 minutes ago, DDA said:

Cucarella isn't particularly great at anything though... he is an average player man... I want to believe he is more because we paid soo much for him and I'm open to be proven wrong but I just can't see it. If you had the choice of Cuc for 65m or Hernandez for 70m which would you go for??

The latter was invisible in the CL against us.

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1 hour ago, Magic Lamps said:

So now psg are looking to sign Theo Hernandez for only 5m more than what we paid for Cucurella 😡

what is up with their WC LB Nuno Mendes?

he is expected back in a week from a minor knock

I would take him over Theo TBH

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45 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Look like we are going to try to buy Camavinga

 

Chelsea not mentioned in article? 

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Simakan looks really good at RB (right now playing Bayern)

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49 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Look like we are going to try to buy Camavinga

 

 

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8 minutes ago, Vesper said:

what is up with their WC LB Nuno Mendes?

he is expected back in a week from a minor knock

I would take him over Theo TBH

I guess they want to roll with both

Just a rumour in German media from yesterday tho. Might be BS. I remember the point with Hernandez always was he was uber happy at Milan and hence did not want to move anyway. At least that is what he said when we inquired about him.

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13 hours ago, Magic Lamps said:

Typical Bayern to poach back a failed bundesliga export with world class potential.

Kai would definitely tear it up in Bundesliga again. Esp at Bayern every attacking player performs and scores tons vs all those poor sides. Look at average duds like Choupo Moting scoring for fun for them. They have an army of attacking talent making runs and pumping balls into the box. There is nothing like scoring vs poor defenses to get your confidence up and then deliver in the CL well rested.

Kai's struggles here are mostly down to him not having the time&space he had in Bundesliga and his frail body simply being unfit for the physicality of the PL. In Bundesliga where most defenders are comparatively weak&slow and every shove is a foul he will be well protected. He could play in his preferred second striker role for Bayern as a successor to Thomas Müller.

 

I agree he would score planty in Bayern. But they play 4231 no chance he would displace Musiala for number 10 role. If he goes there he can only play number 9. 

Edited January 20, 2023 by NikkiCFC

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2 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

I guess they want to roll with both

Just a rumour in German media from yesterday tho. Might be BS. I remember the point with Hernandez always was he was uber happy at Milan and hence did not want to move anyway. At least that is what he said when we inquired about him.

I cannot see either one accepting a part time role

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11 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I cannot see either one accepting a part time role

we should be looking at Nuno if so. I can imagine him having a higher ceiling possibly. Theo looks spectacular but the way RJ had his way with him, shoved him around at will when we played Milan really made me reconsider my eval of his defensive prowess.

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[Pizy 18,850]

Where’s the Madueke announcement? We’ve seen footage of him at Cobham already and know it’s been done all day.

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8 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Where’s the Madueke announcement? We’ve seen footage of him at Cobham already and know it’s been done all day.

There was a tweet just a few hours ago that he is doing several medical evaluations.