Chelsea Transfers

[Gundalf 805]

3 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

Just red that Brighton has threatened to sue one of polish celeb-pundits at least twice, because he claimed that it was their physio's fault that Moder was out due to injury for so long. What's up with this club 🙄 

They have become so cocky and arrogant after getting to EL, nothing seen like that tbh. I mean Union Berlin will play Champions League next season and they just act as normal. Brighton think they are a big club now lol

[Mhsc 1,091]

Pys absolutely losing his mind saying we should pay 100m or whatever it takes to get Caicedo done. Gonna be hard to keep following him. 

[whats happening 1,612]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

one or two years that blows out our FFP ledger is not worth it

plus we have no CL to offer and zero guarantees we get it this season (even with Mbappe as bringing him in means we well fucked in terms of adding other players of high quality at vital positions)

sorry, I am never going to advocate a 'short term potential glory/fanboi/fangurl fappening' at the expense of burning it down in terms of a longer term event horizon predicated upon a linear upward build curve

i will start giving a shit about money and ffp when we stop bringing in players for crazy fees like cucurella, koulibaly and even mudryk. 

 

until then we should always aim and buy the best available players.

[YorkshireBlue 3,264]

9 minutes ago, whats happening said:

i will start giving a shit about money and ffp when we stop bringing in players for crazy fees like cucurella, koulibaly and even mudryk. 

 

until then we should always aim and buy the best available players.

Right that makes sense now, when you put it like that 250+ is a bargain then eh 🤷🤦

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

People say Brighton this, Brighton that... But what were our offers and why they go so slow? They said 100m, we started with 70m. Everything suggest 80-85m will do it. We are not there yet after a couple of months of negotiations. United started with 40m for Mount 2 weeks later deal agreed with 4th offer worth 60m. Why we take so much time? 

[MoroccanBlue 5,375]

Just now, NikkiCFC said:

People say Brighton this, Brighton that... But what were our offers and why they go so slow? They said 100m, we started with 70m. Everything suggest 80-85m will do it. We are not there yet after a couple of months of negotiations. United started with 40m for Mount 2 weeks later deal agreed with 4th offer worth 60m. Why we take so much time? 

Didn't Ornstein say we initially offered 60m + add ons and then a little over 70m + add ons? Assuming the recent offer was 75+5?

[bluesman2610 1,415]

Just now, NikkiCFC said:

People say Brighton this, Brighton that... But what were our offers and why they go so slow? They said 100m, we started with 70m. Everything suggest 80-85m will do it. We are not there yet after a couple of months of negotiations. United started with 40m for Mount 2 weeks later deal agreed with 4th offer worth 60m. Why we take so much time? 

Brighton want their £100m or may take a lower fee if we include Colwill - neither of those options are appealing to me. We really should walk away

[NikkiCFC 8,286]

4 minutes ago, MoroccanBlue said:

Didn't Ornstein say we initially offered 60m + add ons and then a little over 70m + add ons? Assuming the recent offer was 75+5?

 

4 minutes ago, bluesman2610 said:

Brighton want their £100m or may take a lower fee if we include Colwill - neither of those options are appealing to me. We really should walk away

Doesn't matter if we started with 60m. I am sure we will get him for 80-85m. But the point is to have a player for pre season. United have Mount because they sent 4 offers in space of two weeks. We need one month per offer. One sent in June, one in July and now weighing 3rd offer for such a long time. Just send the 85m and say this is our final offer. 

[Pizy 18,848]

While £100m is obviously insane and we should go nowhere near it, walking away from Caicedo means getting an alternative that has many more question marks. Unless that alternative is Barella.

Lavia is a fantastic talent but is still just 19 and probably isn’t ready to be an every match starter at a huge club yet. Gabri Veiga is nowhere near Caicedo’s level and would be a total gamble whether he can immediately settle in this league.

Amrabat could be a great emergency/fall back option but he’s wanted by several clubs and we’d risk losing a bidding war near the end of the window and being left with nobody.

So basically, there’s Caicedo and then a fairly big drop off in quality to every alternative.

[Special Juan 28,089]

This is us now trying to turn the focus back on Caicedo and saying "you stick that transfer request in"

We are taking our foot off the peddle and have let Brighton know it by the sounds of it, this will infuriate Caicedo and he will act.

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

20 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

This is us now trying to turn the focus back on Caicedo and saying "you stick that transfer request in"

We are taking our foot off the peddle and have let Brighton know it by the sounds of it, this will infuriate Caicedo and he will act.

Can’t see it.

He shit the bed and renewed there after what a few days after asking to leave the club in January? They won’t budge this time around either unless it suits them. 

The lad signing a new deal with no insistence on a release clause either when he had hoped to move on months later is also moronic on him and his agents behalf. 

He’s not got any other realistic options either by looks of it - so either we play ball and pay close to the £100m/give them cash & Levi. Or we go and look elsewhere/wait to next year.

Brighton hold all the cards.

Edited July 24, 2023 by OneMoSalah

[Vegetable 830]

I don't really get the endgame here - We are tip-toeing around Brighton in some crazy way. Dragging it forever want give Caicedo a reason to kick a fuss. Make final offer as United made with Mount, take it or leave it. If we actually have plan B, open the talks publicly. I am afraid that all that Tchouaméni thing was made by us, but why not to actually explore it? 85 million is money that gives some possibilities.

BTW, Brighton want Colwill AND cash for him? Rotfl. Don't get the Rice talk as well. Following this logic, we shouldn't have let Kova go for anything less than 500 million Pounds then.