Chelsea Transfers

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4 minutes ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

Wearing his Chelsea gear to sign for another team.

Old picture. Can’t be so much light in Milano at that hour.

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

2 hours ago, Vesper said:

You would be one of the first ones whingeing about their injuries and age, gobbing on about why didn't we sell them, so spare me the contrived poutrage.

Sorry, just calling it like I see it.

I am far from perfect, but I am sticking to my multiyear calls to drain the swamp and rid ourselves of deadwood and players who do not want to be here. 

The window just opened, we have world class execs now, and I am going to tryst the process. The only thing so far I have the sadz over is missing out on Ugarte, as I have come around to him aftwr watching a lot of game footage.

I think (for CMF & DMF) that he and either Barella or Caicedo would have great buys to put with Enzo.

Well thats absolutely horseshit. I mean everytime somebody mentioned selling Kante for the last 2 years I’ve basically questioned why the fuck would we do that but if you say so 🤣

The strategy of selling Kovacic to the best team in Europe and letting Kante go for nothing, irrespective of if they were part of the “swamp” as you put it (seems to be this impression that Mount is also a money grabber, Havertz is something else despite many who will slag him probably wanted rid of him for almost 1 season now, Kova is that bla bla bla) or whatever else and not having made any midfield signings prior to doing so is pretty risky. But trust the process…. sure. Because the last 2 windows worked out so well. 

Yes ok there is a chance yet that we could get Caicedo, or we could get Veiga but with the other clubs sniffing around - it is a pretty big if I would say.

Even more so considering the fact that based on the Ugarte deal alone which you mentioned (I agree should of closed the deal as he was ideally someone who could have been the perfect foil for Enzo), we should probably be worried that if 2 or 3 big clubs make moves for Caicedo or Veiga, whats to say our proposal is as good as the others? PSG basically came in and said well Chelsea are offering this, we will give you this then we pulled out. If United or City or Arsenal come in, with CL football on offer, with better packages, what do you really expect to happen?

Its not rocket science - we needed to get these wheels in motion ages ago but we fucked about with that clown Potter being here for too long then a caretaker manager before taking what felt like 6 months to appoint anybody after speaking to Poch (twice, once after Tuchel and once after Potter), Enrique and Nagelsmann. 

We will be either really lucky and get one of those 2 and then end up with some alternative 85th choice or get neither, and have to get the 85th and 86th choices. And these players, Rice, Caicedo, Veiga, whoever signs these will really define how the window goes for certain teams. One of them being us.

But as long as the wages are lower, we will win the spreadsheet championship… 

Edited June 28, 2023 by OneMoSalah

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1 hour ago, Mário César said:

At first it will hurt to see so many players in rivals, but then it will pass.

Players come and go, and the club stays. That's the most important thing.

Only true if they don't perform and don't improve.
kante is one thing (not a terrible outcome all things considered and suppose the club physios know more about his actual condition than I do), Kova understandable and at least we know we got him at this peak--although I think he might still have a few years left at his peak.
Mount and Kai will be risky due to their age and the fact that they be playing for PL rivals. The whole situ would've been a lot better had they gone elsewhere.

Consider the non-negligible chance that they both perform well for Arsenal and United, both of which will likely compete for more than we will, and every single signing we get this season turns out to be lackluster? Remember the praise Bakayoko got when signed, or Cururella more recently? Time will tell.

Edited June 28, 2023 by robsblubot

[Laylabelle 9,534]

2 minutes ago, robsblubot said:

Only true if they don't perform and don't improve.
kante is one thing (not a terrible outcome all things considered and suppose the club physios know more about his actual condition than I do), Kova understandable and at least we know we got him at this peak--although I think he might still have a few years left at his peak.
Mount and Kai will be risky due to their age and the fact that they be playing for PL rivals. The whole situ would've been a lot better had they gone elsewhere.

Consider the non-negligible chance that they both perform well for Arsenal and United, both of which will likely compete for more than we will, and every single signing we get this season turns out to be lackluster? Remember the praise Bakayoko got when signed, or Cururella recently. Time will tell.

Considering how our signings turned out the season just gone surely this year won't be quite the same and who we sign will have a impact rather then flop and fade into the distance....due some luck lol

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11 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

 

Sounds reassuring 👀

[NikkiCFC 8,285]

37 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

Well thats absolutely horseshit. I mean everytime somebody mentioned selling Kante for the last 2 years I’ve basically questioned why the fuck would we do that but if you say so 🤣

 

And we lost him for free. Do you think what he gave us last season or two is worth more than potential fee? But Kante is not much of a issue for me there are better examples. 

People would complain about board how stupid they are to let Rudiger and Christensen go for free and now in same situation with Kovacic and Mount when they have one year left on contract you still whine how letting them go is mistake while club is doing only logical thing by taking 80-90m pounds for them. Alternative is to lose them for free next summer plus they don't want to stay. So basically club cannot do good either way with some of you. 

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I'm so afraid about tomorrow and potentially fucking up Mount sale over a few millions. Maddison with one year left on contract just moved for 40m and we got Sterling last summer for 47.5m. Asking for 65m is just greedy. 

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1 minute ago, NikkiCFC said:

I'm so afraid about tomorrow and potentially fucking up Mount sale over a few millions. Maddison with one year left on contract just moved for 40m and we got Sterling last summer for 47.5m. Asking for 65m is just greedy. 

If this happens we're fucking retards, but least his fanboys will continue to delude themselves he is the English Messi.

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£65m for Casper. I don't have any qualms about that, and he makes a rival weaker in the process.

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Over 10 years I guess.

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1 hour ago, Laylabelle said:

Considering how our signings turned out the season just gone surely this year won't be quite the same and who we sign will have a impact rather then flop and fade into the distance....due some luck lol

Did you just say that things couldn't possible get any worse? 😅

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