Chelsea Transfers

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17 hours ago, DDA said:

Would love Yildiz here but Juve will surely do their upmost to keep him. Such a shame. He’s an absolute baller.

coin flip between Yıldız and Rogers

would LOVE either one here

Rodrygo a cunt hair behind those 2, the more I ponder it

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18 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

1. We want Hato and Simons. 

2. Both desperate to join us. 

3. Ajax and Leipzig selling clubs. 

Where is the danger of failing?

from other big boy clubs

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16 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Every once in a while I post about my amazement that all pro footballers aren't two-footed. The fact that Yildiz is puts him at the top of my new winger wish list.

Huijsen being ambipedal was a huge plus for me at CB as well

but

Real Madrid came calling 😕

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6 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

 

£40m and it is bye-bye

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11 hours ago, Strike said:

If this is what it takes to end the Garnacho rumours, I’m all for it

Alejandro Garnacho Is Worse Than You Thought.

 

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Just now, Vesper said:

£40m and it is bye-bye

For him and Sterling i'd be happier with.

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1 hour ago, TheHulk said:

He wanted to leave that's why they sold him, also he could've gone to Bayern but he rejected them to go back to Leipzig.

He wanted to leave because he couldn't break into their team?

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Just now, Duppy Conqueror said:

For him and Sterling i'd be happier with.

I will do a dance if we get £20-25m for Sterling AND not have to pay anything more salary-wise (hello KSA)

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5 hours ago, Pizy said:

From being linked to Chelsea, Liverpool, and Bayern to David Moyes’s Everton. Yikes! Surely he can do better than that?

 

you all will think me daft

BUT

do not sleep on Everton this season if they get their targets into the fold

not saying they will be top7 or 8

but they may well be a decent club

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I had to watch a couple of full matches Simons played last season. Mehn he is strikes the ball cleanly. 

As for Estaveo, how is he able to generate regular accurate long range shots with his tiny legs.

Gittens, Simons, Estaveo, Palmer, Delap, Pedro all have ability to shoot accurately outside the box. Opponents especially low blocks are in for a shower next season. 

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5 hours ago, Thor said:

Fofana will be a stud. Everton getting a bargain if it goes through. 

Lyon have really jacked up their price for him after they won their appeal

they went from  wanting £24.9m including add-ons (which is when I was all BUY BUY BUY)

to now wanting around £40m, including add-ons

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5 hours ago, Bluepower777 said:

Doubt very much that amount, clubs are not willing to pay much for rejects not that they all are. 

I think they meant £300m total, counting other players sold as well

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5 hours ago, LAM09 said:

He'll be a guaranteed starter and if all goes well, he won't be there long with all eyes on him in the Prem.

Seems like a smart move on his behalf, tbh.

and he gets to break in that superb new stadium

[NikkiCFC 8,516]

BlueCo continue to spend big. So impressive. So ambitious. 

 

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4 hours ago, LAM09 said:

Rogers & Yildiz are far more appealing to me.

agree

Malick Fofana at £40m or so is no long 'steal' territory

Rodrygo is in 3rd place

then Simons in 4th

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lol at spuds

 

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https://www.record.pt/futebol/futebol-nacional/liga-betclic/benfica/detalhe/benfica-prepara-se-para-desistir-da-contratacao-de-joao-felix?ref=HP_DestaquesPrincipais

benfica are no longer interested in joao felix

Chelsea demand made them give up of the deal 😞

loool seems that al nassar are trying to buy felix 

Edited July 26, 2025 by Mário César

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9 minutes ago, Mário César said:

https://www.record.pt/futebol/futebol-nacional/liga-betclic/benfica/detalhe/benfica-prepara-se-para-desistir-da-contratacao-de-joao-felix?ref=HP_DestaquesPrincipais

benfica are no longer interested in joao felix

Chelsea demand made them give up of the deal 😞

From €127m star to €20m flop - the remarkable rise and fall of João Félix

https://www.transfermarkt.com/from-euro-127m-star-to-euro-20m-flop-the-remarkable-rise-and-fall-of-joao-felix/view/news/457478

Most players typically welcome the opportunity to thrust their profile into the public limelight when they make a transfer from one club to another, but few would begrudge João Félix from avoiding such attention when he inevitably leaves Chelsea in this summer’s transfer window. Because, much like his entire career to date, the Portuguese forward’s time at Stamford Bridge has largely been one of frustration and failure. And, once again, Félix has struggled to live up to the hype or indeed the transfer fee that was placed on him. 

According to reports in Portugal, the 25-year-old talent is set to return to Benfica in a deal that would see the Liga Portugal club pay €20 million for 50 percent of the forward’s “rights”. Should Benfica ultimately pay the full €40m to make the move permanent, it would take the total transfer fees paid for Félix over the course of his career to a staggering €236m - placing him above Ousmane Dembélé (€220m) and behind only Cristiano Ronaldo (€247m), Romelu Lukaku (€369m) and Neymar (€400m) on the list of players that have had the highest amount of transfer fees spent on them over the course of their careers. 

Indeed, when we flick through the pages of Félix’s career we can see that it has been one dominated by big moves and the player struggling to live up to any of them. For example, in 2019 the young forward swapped Benfica for Atlético Madrid for an astronomical fee of €127.2m - which remains the fifth biggest transfer fee ever paid for a player in the history of the sport. However, Félix certainly didn’t live up to that fee by any means and as we can see in the timeline of his market value, after it quickly shot up to a career high of €100m it began to then steadily fall as his performances for the Spanish side offered little to suggest that he was worth the hype. By the time Félix departed the club to join Chelsea on loan in January of 2023, his market value had halved to just €50m. And it was only going to continue going down. 

Despite a much-heralded move to Barcelona promising a restart for the Portuguese star, it did little for his market value as it continued to drop. And by the time Atlético were prepared to finally cash in on Félix in the summer of 2024 his market value had dropped to €30m. Although the fee Chelsea ended up paying for Félix was less than half that paid by Atleti five years prior, it still hung around the forward’s neck like an albatross. And since then he’s struggled to even live up to a relatively paltry fee of €52m. 

As we can see in the graphic above, which shows the player’s goals and assists in league competitions over the course of his career, Félix’s fundamental problem has been an inability to perform in Spain, England or Italy as well as he did in Portugal. Injuries have certainly played their part. Ankle injuries ruled the forward out for much of the 19/20 season and then again in the 21/22 campaign when he missed a total of 20 games. However, that doesn’t excuse the fact that the forward has typically averaged around half the goal contributions he achieved in his final season at Benfica in each of the following six seasons. 

As such, a move back to Benfica perhaps makes perfect sense for Félix. Despite the astronomical fees spent on him and the best attempts of no less than four of Europe’s biggest clubs, the Portuguese forward has simply failed to be the player he promised to be when he left his home nation in 2019. Maybe, once European football has moved on and the limelight is firmly behind Félix, he can get back to doing what he did so well in Portuguese football for the club that turned him into a world star.