mkh 603 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Behind the scenes, Alejandro Garnacho to Chelsea is “very very advanced, and very active” (@FabrizioRomano) bigbluewillie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkh 603 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Brentford closing in on deal to sign Dango Ouattara (23) from Bournemouth. £42.5m deal, reports (@JacobsBen) 😵 Fernando, James, Stats and 2 others 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mário César 1,287 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 5 minutes ago, mkh said: Behind the scenes, Alejandro Garnacho to Chelsea is “very very advanced, and very active” (@FabrizioRomano) LOL he says always the same mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,233 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 10 hours ago, mkh said: BREAKING: Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart + recruitment chiefs Joe Shields and Sam Jewell have signed contract extensions that commit them to the club for the next SIX years. (@MattLaw) Chelsea co-sporting directors Paul Winstanley, Laurence Stewart sign new contracts https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6553098/2025/08/14/paul-winstanley-laurence-stewart-Chelsea-contracts/ Chelsea’s co-sporting directors, Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart, have signed new contracts at the club. Co-director of recruitment Joe Shields and director of global recruitment Sam Jewell have also signed fresh terms until 2031. The quartet all started their roles at Chelsea following the takeover by the Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital-led consortium in May 2022. Stewart and Shields joined from Monaco and Southampton respectively in October of that year, with Winstanley and Jewell moving across in November 2022 and February last year respectively. The new regime at Chelsea had already spent more than £1billion on player transfers ahead of this summer window, with fans and pundits often critical after the significant turnover in the playing squad resulted in 12th- and sixth-place finishes between 2022 and 2024, a period which saw four head coaches lead the men’s team before Enzo Maresca was appointed last summer. What You Should Read Next Chelsea’s co-sporting directors were hired for the long term and that is how they will be judged Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley are the subjects of fans' anger but they are key components of Chelsea's plans for the future Optimism has shifted around Chelsea after Maresca guided the west London club to a fourth-place finish and triumphs in the Conference League and Club World Cup in 2024-25. Chelsea have continued to spend with the signings of Joao Pedro, Jamie Gittens, Jorrel Hato and Liam Delap for around £240m this summer, while bringing in just over £200m in sales. As well as the playing staff, Stewart and Winstanley have overseen a period of change in Chelsea’s recruitment operation since their arrival, with around 20 new hires across the scouting and data teams alone. There was also leadership change in the academy following the departures of the long-serving Neil Bath and Jim Fraser in the summer of 2024. Glenn van der Kraan then joined from Manchester City in the role of academy technical director. Winstanley and Stewart also led the process to replace Emma Hayes as Chelsea Women head coach in 2024 alongside head of women’s football Paul Green, with Sonia Bompastor recruited from Lyon, as well as overseeing the then-world record signing of Naomi Girma from the San Diego Wave in January. Chelsea start the new Premier League campaign on Sunday at home against Crystal Palace, while Bompastor’s side begin their Women’s Super League title defence against Manchester City on September 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mkh 603 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Chelsea rate Benoit Badiashile very highly and a lot of people I speak to at Chelsea who have seen this guy train, see his demeanour and work ethic think he’s a signing who’s slipped under the radar a bit. (@JacobsBen) 🫥🫥 TheHulk, Blue Armour, James and 4 others 1 5 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoroccanBlue 5,385 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 4 minutes ago, mkh said: Chelsea rate Benoit Badiashile very highly and a lot of people I speak to at Chelsea who have seen this guy train, see his demeanour and work ethic think he’s a signing who’s slipped under the radar a bit. (@JacobsBen) 🫥🫥 Literally the Bakayoko of CBs. Fragile mentality. mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHulk 2,487 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 5 minutes ago, mkh said: Chelsea rate Benoit Badiashile very highly and a lot of people I speak to at Chelsea who have seen this guy train, see his demeanour and work ethic think he’s a signing who’s slipped under the radar a bit. (@JacobsBen) 🫥🫥 Needing to pay the journalists to suck your own shit signings. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James 5,333 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 52 minutes ago, mkh said: Behind the scenes, Alejandro Garnacho to Chelsea is “very very advanced, and very active” (@FabrizioRomano) He repeats himself over and over again! 😅 Vesper and mkh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,233 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 49 minutes ago, mkh said: “very very advanced, and very active” (@FabrizioRomano) sounds like a termite infestation better call Anticimex mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,233 Posted August 14 Share Posted August 14 Liverpool reach agreement to sign Giovanni Leoni from Parma https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6552813/2025/08/14/liverpool-transfers-giovanni-leoni/ Liverpool have reached an agreement with Parma to sign defender Giovanni Leoni. The Premier League club will pay a fee in the region of £26million (€30m) plus add-ons for the 18-year-old Italian youth international. The player has been given permission to travel to Merseyside to agree personal terms and undergo a medical, which is expected to begin on Thursday. The club’s plan is for Leoni to be immediately integrated into the first-team set-up for the upcoming season with any suggestion of a loan move completely ruled out. Leoni only joined Parma last summer and went on to make 17 appearances, including 14 from the start, in Serie A, as the newly-promoted club finished 16th. He has been capped by Italy’s Under-19 side, and was contracted to Parma until summer 2029. Liverpool have been looking for defensive reinforcements since selling Jarell Quansah to Bayer Leverkusen last month with the move for Leoni in conjunction with the pursuit of Marc Guehi from Crystal Palace. “The clubs have agreed a deal but he hasn’t signed for us yet. The moment he signs for us, I can go into more detail,” head coach Arne Slot said of Leoni in his press conference on Thursday. “And the other one is of course (Guehi) the answer you always get from me. He’s not our player. Unfortunately he was the captain of the team who we lost against last Sunday. If you want to have any talks about him you should go to Palace, to (Oliver) Glasner and ask him his opinion about him.” Slot only has two fully fit central defensive options at his disposal ahead of the Premier League opener against Bournemouth on Friday in Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate, although Joe Gomez has returned to training after an Achilles injury. The Premier League champions have enjoyed a busy summer with Florian Wirtz and Jeremie Frimpong arriving from Bayer Leverkusen alongside Hugo Ekitike from Eintracht Frankfurt and Milos Kerkez from Bournemouth while the club maintain an ongoing interest in Newcastle United’s Alexander Isak. mkh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,233 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 Konate wants to go to Real. Real says they will only pay Pool £17m to £21.5m (€20m to €25m) now, or they will jusat take him for free in 10 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor 2,728 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 Pool might just keep him. Worth having him and trying to go again vs 20 mil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbluewillie 1,930 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 Manchester City are considering hijacking Chelsea's move for RB Leipzig's 22-year-old Netherlands winger Xavi Simons. (Talksport), external Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milan 17,959 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 ^ Defibrillator for Pizy please! Reddish-Blue, xPetrCechx, Vesper and 1 other 1 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! TheHulk 2,487 Posted August 15 Popular Post! Share Posted August 15 Blue Armour, We Hate Scouse, Vesper and 2 others 2 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mário César 1,287 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 4 hours ago, bigbluewillie said: Manchester City are considering hijacking Chelsea's move for RB Leipzig's 22-year-old Netherlands winger Xavi Simons. (Talksport), external This is a shit source we need more sources to confirm that lets wait Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero 1,875 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,959 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 18 minutes ago, Nero said: A sane recruitment team would immediately drop the Garnacho pursuit and go for a quality CB as quickly as possible. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nyikolajevics 2,703 Posted August 15 Share Posted August 15 2 minutes ago, Pizy said: A sane recruitment team would immediately drop the Garnacho pursuit and go for a quality CB as quickly as possible. I don't believe negotizing for Garnacho takes 8 hours working time from Monday to Friday. Boards tend to hold several conversations simultaneously. If we don't sign a CB it's because we don't want/don't have money/fail negos with the targets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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