Chelsea Transfers

[Styl1994 188]

11 minutes ago, Jason said:

It's bad for business anyway. 

The time to get Koulibaly was in 2016 or 2017

[blu35_army 551]

How about Thiago Silva? is he free transfer right? maybe we can use him in short term 1/2 years....

[Styl1994 188]

Imo our squad in a ideal world 

GK: Onana, Forster, 3rd homegrown goalkeeper 

RB: Azpilicueta, James 

CB: Zouma, Tomori, Gabriel, Christensen/Rüdiger 

LB: Chilwell, Maatsen, Azpilicueta 

CM: Kovacic, Kante, Loftus-Cheek, Gallagher, Mount, Gilmour, Havertz 

RW/LW: Pulisic, Ziyech, Hudson-Odoi, Werner, Havertz, Mount 

ST: Abraham, Werner, Giroud, Havertz 

This squad would give us so much tactical flexibility 

[Pizy 18,368]

I just realized that Koulibaly is only a month older than VVD. I for some reason thought Van Dijk was a few years younger than he is. CB's can often remain very good well into their 30's and I doubt VVD drops off any time soon. So maybe Koulibaly is actually worth the big money even at 29? 

God knows we need a quality CB who can dominate physically.

[killer1257 3,282]

I just realized that Koulibaly is only a month older than VVD. I for some reason thought Van Dijk was a few years younger than he is. CB's can often remain very good well into their 30's and I doubt VVD drops off any time soon. So maybe Koulibaly is actually worth the big money even at 29? 
God knows we need a quality CB who can dominate physically.

Koulibaly costs 80 Mio. +. I don't think that is worth it

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[Special Juan 27,421]

There's talk of KK every single season and nothing happens.

[Vesper 28,765]

1 hour ago, Pizy said:

I just realized that Koulibaly is only a month older than VVD. I for some reason thought Van Dijk was a few years younger than he is. CB's can often remain very good well into their 30's and I doubt VVD drops off any time soon. So maybe Koulibaly is actually worth the big money even at 29? 

God knows we need a quality CB who can dominate physically.

Not a chance. His buy window has passed. 

[Pizy 18,368]

Not like there are many options. Some of the names I see posted here like Varane are literally impossible.

Not sure I can stand another season of shitting bricks every time the other team gets a corner or set play inside our half. Even shit teams have entire game plans centered on winning set plays against because we're so poor at defending them! That can't continue next season.

[Tomo 21,733]

While I'm not atall defending our CBs (I'm not convinced even Rudi is good enough and the only one who potentially is long term is Fik) our current issues are running a lot deeper. Two years ago City pissed the league with worse CB options for half a season.

I think the fact we are still not properly coordinated with our pressing (something Werner and Ziyech will help with considerably) and Kepa doing his Claudio Bravo impressions for a lot of the season are even bigger problems at this minute.

[Vesper 28,765]

6 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Not like there are many options. Some of the names I see posted here like Varane are literally impossible.

Not sure I can stand another season of shitting bricks every time the other team gets a corner or set play inside our half. Even shit teams have entire game plans centered on winning set plays against because we're so poor at defending them! That can't continue next season.

Varane has only been mentioned by me (cannot speak for others) in regards to a swap involving Kante, and I always preface that with the caveat that it is extremely unlikely. It looks like Kante has no chance of being sold, so bye bye to any remote shot at Varane.

There are other WC centre backs out there whom we could make runs at, especially if we put the ludicrous Chillwell and Koulibaly valuations (so £80m to £90m) as a budget.

Romagnoli (left footer and the least expensive), Skriniar, José Giménez, de Ligt (swap for Jorginho + Emerson), and Marquinhos are the WC ones who have even a remote possibility of perhaps being pulled.

Stefan de Vrij (last year I will recco him due to age, we should have bought him years ago) is a slight step down from those but still a MASSIVE improvement over anything we have.

Many other younger ones too.

[Fernando 6,451]

1 minute ago, Vesper said:

Varane has only been mentioned by me (cannot speak for others) in regards to a swap involving Kante, and I always preface that with the caveat that it is extremely unlikely. It looks like Kante has no chance of being sold, so bye bye to any remote shot at Varane.

There are other WC centre backs out there whom we could make runs at, especially if we put the ludicrous Chillwell and Koulibaly valuations (so £80m to £90m) as a budget.

Romagnoli (left footer and the least expensive), Skriniar, José Giménez, de Ligt (swap for Jorginho + Emerson), and Marquinhos are the WC ones who have even a remote possibility of perhaps being pulled.

Stefan de Vrij (last year I will recco him due to age, we should have bought him years ago) is a slight step down from those but still a MASSIVE improvement over anything we have.

Many other younger ones too.

I'm wondering if atlético is low on funds we can buy from them. They will take the money. 

[Vesper 28,765]

8 minutes ago, Fernando said:

I'm wondering if atlético is low on funds we can buy from them. They will take the money. 

Perhaps, and AC Milan are fucked financially. We are mad to not be in there after Romagnoli. Our CB's and Kepa (I assume we do SOMETHING at LB) are a disaster waiting to happen. Lampard is deluded if he thinks we can win the league and/or CL with them. Even Rudiger worries me now. Our set piece defending is close to the worst in the EPL. Madness.

[Alabama 1,992]

Rogmanoli seems hellbent not to leave Italy....

I would rather try and test Atletico resolve by offering them 70m for Gimenez....

[BXL70 396]

My view:

Players with contract not to be renewed

Pedro, Willian

Around: 10 $m+ saved per year.

Players to sell

Batshuayi, Emerson, Barkley, Christensen, Zouma, Zappacosta, Bakayoko, Moses, Drinkwater.

Around 120 $m+ as sales values

+ potentially Jorginho who did not convince to compete at the highest level.

Players to buy as priorities

Experienced central back and left-back; the new John Terry, or the equivalent of Virgil Van Dijk / Joe Cole.

Kai would be welcomed but not at the cost of selling Kante.

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[Special Juan 27,421]

Bats, Emerson, Barkley, Bakayoko, Moses, Zappacosta and Drinkwater to name a few can raise good funds, plus save hugely on wages. These are hangers on, simply not good enough for us.

This is why I think we have still got two signings left, Chilwell and possibly Havertz

[MoroccanBlue 5,296]

8 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Bats, Emerson, Barkley, Bakayoko, Moses, Zappacosta and Drinkwater to name a few can raise good funds, plus save hugely on wages. These are hangers on, simply not good enough for us.

This is why I think we have still got two signings left, Chilwell and possibly Havertz

Your satisfied with the clowns we have at CB?

[Fernando 6,451]

14 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Your satisfied with the clowns we have at CB?

Is best we can do for now. 

Might take another season to compete, but we are going in the right direction. 

[MoroccanBlue 5,296]

Just now, Fernando said:

Is best we can do for now. 

Might take another season to compete, but we are going in the right direction. 

How exactly? We are no better at defending than where we were exactly one year ago. 

This is a coaching aspect. I even remember under Ancelotti, we were awful at defending set pieces.