Chelsea Transfers

[OneMoSalah 9,113]

16 hours ago, LAM09 said:

You can always live in hope, eh. I might be mistaken, but I'm sure I read something in recent months that said we'd be willing to make exceptions for exceptional talent. Rodrygo would fit that and his age wouldn't be an issue like recent top talent we've been linked with.

The rumoured transfer fee for Petrovic seems far too low unless there's clauses.

The fee for Petrovic is apparently 21.5m? Or thats the one I read. Should be biting their hands off. Unless its changed?

Rodrygo may be a top level player and has still got more to give talent wise but I still think for the 200k + he will be looking for, it is not gonna happen.

Not to mention they are talking between 65-70m as a starting point as a fee and I think that plus bigger wages makes it a bit more difficult for us perhaps. If a few clubs are actively looking at him, it would be very tough to do.

There won’t be many players who leave a good deal at Madrid for some performance based incentive shit that may total 150-200k a week 😂

It would be nice to see but isn’t the BlueCo mantra to develop top players, not buy them? 

8 hours ago, Vesper said:

as I posted days ago

his wage demands are around £198K PW

which is not extortionate at all

it's over £150K PW less than what we paying that rotter Sterling 

In this new model though, we aren’t going to break our wage structure very often.

How many players are actually earning 100k a week plus base that have been signed or renewed under BlueCo since the Chuckle Brothers were given free reign? Doubt theres many at all.

Once Sterling goes he is probably the last of any BlueCo signings who was on big money. Doesn’t necessarily mean we will look to spend 200k per week base salary just because we have free’d up £350k a week. Just look at previous seasons whilst we’ve been cutting wages. 

 

[OneMoSalah 9,113]

19 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

 

 Rodrygo here we go 🥹

We didn’t sign him for €120m in all fairness so I was sort of on the right track, was €121m 🤣

Although we did also sign Felix unfortunately. 

Edited July 5, 2025 by OneMoSalah

[Reddish-Blue 2,695]

12 hours ago, Pizy said:

United have apparently announced that Garnacho has officially asked to leave the club and won’t be reporting to their preseason training this coming week. Fabrizio again reiterates that he really wants to stay in the PL.

Chelsea, please…please no…

I just don’t know what other club would want him. 

The original deal was meant to be Nkunku going to United and Garnacho to us.  

I don't see how we keep signing attackers when we still have Nkunku's wages on the books, not to mention the likes of Carney and Sterling haven't even been sold yet. 

[Reddish-Blue 2,695]

42 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

We didn’t sign him for €120m in all fairness so I was sort of on the right track, was €121m 🤣

Although we did also sign Felix unfortunately. 

And there's no real interest in Felix....what was the point of that 'swap' deal with Atletico?  

[OneMoSalah 9,113]

2 hours ago, Reddish-Blue said:

And there's no real interest in Felix....what was the point of that 'swap' deal with Atletico?  

Shits and giggles probably 

[Marvin123 541]

2 hours ago, Reddish-Blue said:

And there's no real interest in Felix....what was the point of that 'swap' deal with Atletico?  

To get 40m pure cash flow on the books for Gallagher which we owed nothing on.

Or at least it looked that way on the books...

I'm convinced we bought this dortmund Defender also to pay part of the gittens fee from the strasbourg accounts...

[Reddish-Blue 2,695]

12 minutes ago, Marvin123 said:

To get 40m pure cash flow on the books for Gallagher which we owed nothing on.

Or at least it looked that way on the books...

I'm convinced we bought this dortmund Defender also to pay part of the gittens fee from the strasbourg accounts...

I get that, but Gallagher could have been sold to an English club for 35+ million (there was some decent interest in his services, Villa were very keen at the time). 

Same with the Maatsen deal, we buy this Villa youngster and he's yet to play a proper game for Chelsea.....all the while we don't have a backup LWB in the first team....

[Reddish-Blue 2,695]

3 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

Once Sterling goes he is probably the last of any BlueCo signings who was on big money. Doesn’t necessarily mean we will look to spend 200k per week base salary just because we have free’d up £350k a week. Just look at previous seasons whilst we’ve been cutting wages. 

Well....speaking of Sterling, there was rumors of Fulham potentially being interested in a loan for him (probably with us paying most of the wages). 

Whoever gave him that contract till 2027 should be investigated 😆

[ZAPHOD2319 4,976]

Anyone know if this was directed to Noni? Or did Maresca say it in general and they are just assuming it is about Noni?

 

[Special Juan 28,830]

Maresca said it goes for all players not being happy, but we know the way this is going don't we? Too much noise around Noni and this transfer, he is off to Arsenal and we will be better for it, especially as Maresca was asked about Kudus and he said he knew him from Ajax

[Special Juan 28,830]

Take this as you see fit but apparently Winstanley spoke with WHU yesterday and has told them to slow things down with Spurs as we are ready to give them the amount they want for Kudus and to rebuf any more bids from Spurs. The club are trying to get the maximum for Noni without putting Arsenal off as talks have sped up hugely since yesterday and all parties are sure a deal will be done.

Watch this space

[iceboy 1,051]

5 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

Take this as you see fit but apparently Winstanley spoke with WHU yesterday and has told them to slow things down with Spurs as we are ready to give them the amount they want for Kudus and to rebuf any more bids from Spurs. The club are trying to get the maximum for Noni without putting Arsenal off as talks have sped up hugely since yesterday and all parties are sure a deal will be done.

Watch this space

Are u confident that we will get this done?

[milka 3,407]

20 hours ago, YorkshireBlue said:

What LW do we have that is better than gittens? 

Is Gittens better than Madueke , Mudruk , Joao Felix , Pedro Neto ? If you want a really upgrade you go spend money and take Nico Williams or Rafael Leao . 

Edited July 5, 2025 by milka

[Thor 2,832]

2 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Take this as you see fit but apparently Winstanley spoke with WHU yesterday and has told them to slow things down with Spurs as we are ready to give them the amount they want for Kudus and to rebuf any more bids from Spurs. The club are trying to get the maximum for Noni without putting Arsenal off as talks have sped up hugely since yesterday and all parties are sure a deal will be done.

Watch this space

I'd love Kudus. 

Where would we play him? 

[Mhsc 1,150]

5 minutes ago, Thor said:

I'd love Kudus. 

Where would we play him? 

On the bench

[mkh 783]

Man United have been quoted £35m to sign Christopher Nkunku.

(@johncrossmirror)

[Mário César 1,503]

14 minutes ago, mkh said:

Man United have been quoted £35m to sign Christopher Nkunku.

(@johncrossmirror)

lol at least 40m pounds

[OhForAGreavsie 6,128]

8 hours ago, Reddish-Blue said:

And there's no real interest in Felix....what was the point of that 'swap' deal with Atletico?  

Strange, strange decision. It was always assumed that a part of the justification for the deal came through its link with Gallagher's move. Well I hope it was a massive piece of financial wizardry because, just as predicted by many here, there has turned out to be zero footballing purpose to signing Felix. Either time.

[Vytis33 1,395]

 

[Thor 2,832]

39 minutes ago, mkh said:

Man United have been quoted £35m to sign Christopher Nkunku.

(@johncrossmirror)

Seems fair for a player that does nothing.