Chelsea Transfers

[King Kante 1,643]

1 hour ago, lluubbeenn said:

You know what, I am happy with our squad. I hope Maresca manages to keep the team spirit and we avoid the crazy amount of injuries from last season. There is a good vibe around the first team and that is essential.

We must add a number 9. Nico is ok, but we can’t leave him alone. Lukaku, Broja and Fofana are as good as gone. I am not sure if I prefer Osimhen or Duran, but we need two senior strikers minimum.

The absolute necessity of a new GK is speculative. We don’t have a keeper to win the league with, but I don’t see us winning it this season. In a good tactical setup both our keepers can get us top 4. 

If those are the options I rather buy no-one and roll with Jackson again and go False 9 with either Palmer or Nkunku when he needs a break or is injured. In fact I would also just throw in Guiu or Washington instead of buying one of those two. 

Osimhen is the lethal busted flush combination of overrated and vastly overpriced. Duran is limted and everyone should be worried about why Villa - an upward team - would seemingly be happy to sell this apprant 'very good CF' for a reasonable fee - it screams that he either isn't very good or he is an absolute nightmare to deal with - maybe both. 

[Vesper 30,225]

 

[Pizy 18,952]

I get the feeling that striker isn’t really even in our thoughts currently. The club are banking on Nico taking a big leap (which I agree with) and a combination on Guiu, Nkunku, and the attacking mids being enough to score us plenty of goals. There just isn’t that standout striker available this window that’s within reach. 

Any attacking signing we make the rest of this window will likely be a wide player. We’ll revisit both the striker and goalkeeper positions in January after we’ve had a good chunk of the season to assess whether Sanchez and Nico Jackson + Guiu are adequate. 

[Vesper 30,225]

On 11/07/2024 at 18:16, Duppy Conqueror said:

By the time his contract ends he's gonna look like Morgan Freeman...

 

[Vesper 30,225]

18 hours ago, mkh said:

Simons gone
Doué gone
Williams they don't want because of the high salary
Alvaro Valles goes to Marseille.

none of the 3 left are off the table (I agree we will not go for Williams)

that said

Valles is a very good GKer, but he is not as good as Mamardashvili

Doué we should snap up quickly

[Pizy 18,952]

Btw, what ever happened with the Anselmino deal? By all accounts that was a done deal like 2 weeks ago, we agreed to loan him back to Boca, but then we never did get an announcement or anything.

[Vesper 30,225]

12 hours ago, Pizy said:

If we’re going to bring in another wide attacker I don’t know why we’d bring in yet another young talent like this when we’ve got Estevão and Paez to come next summer

because we need a right footed LW

we need to flush Sterling with his insane £17m per season salary, and that leaves us only Muddy as right footed winger

Desiré Doué is an ambipedal LWer

Morgan Rogers is a right footed LWer

Estevão and Paez are left-footed and play on the right or the middle as a 10, same as Cole (eeek)

if we do not buy a left winger, one of them may play on the left next season

dog only knows

 

 

 

[Pizy 18,952]

2 minutes ago, Vesper said:

because we need a right footed LW

we need to flush Sterling with his insane £17m per season salary, and that leaves us only Muddy as right footed winger

Desiré Doué is an ambipedal LWer

Morgan Rogers is a right footed LWer

Estevão and Paez are left-footed and play on the right or the middle as a 10, same as Cole (eeek)

if we do not buy a left winger, one of them may play on the left next season

dog only knows

 

 

 

Surely Nkunku will be starting on the left…

[Special Juan 28,146]

Amadou Onana is off to Villa from Everton

[Vesper 30,225]

25 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Btw, what ever happened with the Anselmino deal? By all accounts that was a done deal like 2 weeks ago, we agreed to loan him back to Boca, but then we never did get an announcement or anything.

maybe it fell apart

this is a week old:

 

https://www.givemesport.com/exclusive-Chelsea-determine-aaron-anselmino-destination/

snip

"With Aaron Anselmino, Chelsea and Boca have an agreement in principle - both club-to-club, and club-to-player. The club-to-club agreement is around £14million, and the player has agreed personal terms.

"The final part that is being determined is whether he arrives at Chelsea or Strasbourg. This is a Chelsea deal, and Anselmino will remain at Boca for a minimum of six months, but it could be a year and if it isn't a full year until summer 2025, then January until summer 2025 may well be a six-month loan at Strasbourg.

"So that is the pathway that is currently being discussed. Other than that the deal is all verbally in place, and as long as there are no surprises or hitches, then that's another one that Chelsea will get done with a view to their long-term future and ultimately finding the best talents in South America."

[Pizy 18,952]

13 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Amadou Onana is off to Villa from Everton

Good signing. Villa are going to be very good again this season but I still think they take a slight step back.

[Vesper 30,225]

41 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Surely Nkunku will be starting on the left…

he is not a winger

plus until I see otherwise, I don't trust his health

[blu35_army 551]

44 minutes ago, Vesper said:

because we need a right footed LW

we need to flush Sterling with his insane £17m per season salary, and that leaves us only Muddy as right footed winger

Desiré Doué is an ambipedal LWer

Morgan Rogers is a right footed LWer

Estevão and Paez are left-footed and play on the right or the middle as a 10, same as Cole (eeek)

if we do not buy a left winger, one of them may play on the left next season

dog only knows

 

 

 

this Doue guy reminds me of Young hazards in lille,,someone who can dribble and good technique...

[Vesper 30,225]

7 minutes ago, blu35_army said:

this Doue guy reminds me of Young hazards in lille,,someone who can dribble and good technique...

the first 10+ posts on the TC board about him, going back over a year ago, were by me

been targeting him since I first watched some of his games

[Pizy 18,952]

34 minutes ago, Vesper said:

he is not a winger

plus until I see otherwise, I don't trust his health

He’s not a winger but that the only place for him in the first XI unless we use him as a false 9. If he’s fit he has to start for me and I’m hoping that injury he had last season was just an unlucky, freak injury. He’s not a guy like Reece or Wes Fofana who has had chronic injuries to the same area, right? So I don’t see why we shouldn’t be optimistic.

[Vesper 30,225]

11 minutes ago, Pizy said:

that injury he had last season was just an unlucky, freak injury. He’s not a guy like Reece or Wes Fofana who has had chronic injuries to the same area, right?

unfortunately, we bought him after a major ACL knee injury he sustained on November 15, 2022

[Pizy 18,952]

3 minutes ago, Vesper said:

unfortunately, we bought him after a major ACL knee injury he sustained on November 15, 2022

I pray he’s good, then. Game changer of a player if he stays fit for the whole season.

[Tomo 21,751]

6 hours ago, lluubbeenn said:

You know what, I am happy with our squad.

Same. Even with a massive injury crisis and a tactical dinosaur incharge we were Sterling squaring it at home vs Villa away from top 4.

[NikkiCFC 8,337]

54 minutes ago, Pizy said:

So I don’t see why we shouldn’t be optimistic.

He missed more games in one season in Chelsea than in previous career all together by that list so yeah I think it was just unlucky season for him. 

 

2 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Amadou Onana is off to Villa from Everton

 

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