Chelsea Transfers

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This with Mbappe is some terrible PR to makes Madrid pay the money now instead of taking him for free next year. Some serious game is being played.

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9 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

Brighton hold all the cards.

Except they will forcefully (?) retain unhappy key player, that they have shafted twice at this point. If he will drop his head down and kiss their badge after this instead of going ballistic on the club and agents involved, he may not be quite the Chelsea material I'm afraid. Just look what happened to Zyiech after the PSG mess-up. He couldn't be arsed much before, but he clocked out totally after this. 

[Gundalf 805]

I really dont understand Brighton in this case. Its harming their own business model. Every young player that joins Brighton and aims to go to a bigger club in the future will think twice before signing a contract extension without a reasonable release clause in it if they see how hard it is for Caicedo to actually make the move and how bitchy these cunts are and how valid handshake agreements are at this club. Hope that haunts them in the future. 

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2 hours ago, LAM09 said:

Thanks for the correction. More reason to not believe most of what you read.

I read recently that his salary was also heavily incentivized. I can't remember the exact figure, but it was 375k base salary rising up to something like 500/600k with bonuses.

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7 minutes ago, Gundalf said:

I really dont understand Brighton in this case. Its harming their own business model. Every young player that joins Brighton and aims to go to a bigger club in the future will think twice before signing a contract extension without a reasonable release clause in it if they see how hard it is for Caicedo to actually make the move and how bitchy these cunts are and how valid handshake agreements are at this club. Hope that haunts them in the future. 

As You said, they are a big club now 🤪

I don't think this stale mate was intentional actually, we for once decided to act like a serious club and stick to reasonable valuation, yet not making any concrete moves anymore and they were hoping for us giving up Colwill first and bidding war on their gem second, but all they heard back was crickets and no other club gave a toss, so not sure if they actually have any plan in place other than pathetic barking about their greatness and Rice costing 100 mil.

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1 hour ago, YorkshireBlue said:

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

okay then. lets splash like 60m euros or pounds on olise or another guy and pray for 7g+a for the season.

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15 minutes ago, whats happening said:

okay then. lets splash like 60m euros or pounds on olise or another guy and pray for 7g+a for the season.

What guarantees 250 mil M'bappe being here for a year peforms anyhow similar to what he does in farmer's league? It's not FIFA / EA footy. What if he gets injured and misses substantial part of season?  Would he even try, given he know where he is going after season and want to conserve fitness? Does he fit our tactic anyhow? We dropped any tactical regime for one player already with Lukaku and it didn't quite give us much profit. And do we need a guy holding his club hostage and acting bit like overemphasized version of Zlatan?

Football is not one man show and sum of elements is much more effective than individual talent, something we had apparently understood this season and started implementing. No need to blow it out with gamble on Mbappe, which is uttery unrealistic anyway. No serious club is paying 300+ milion for a player for single season, so it leaves only PSG and Saudis in game.

Edited July 24, 2023 by Vegetable

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Well, surprised we’ve not gone in with the final bid yet - maybe we are waiting for Caicedo to get more angry and public about this BS. Maybe the rumour that they had agreement he can leave in summer was all BS, in which case this deal is likely not happening as he’s just signed a massively long contract and they’re under no pressure to sell UNLESS that agreement was real.

Honestly just get in Lavia or another player and let’s approach this from a position of strength. The depth in MF will be good. 

[LAM09 7,043]

1 hour ago, Simon1991 said:

I read recently that his salary was also heavily incentivized. I can't remember the exact figure, but it was 375k base salary rising up to something like 500/600k with bonuses.

Ah, okay. He's probably hitting all those targets on the regular.

[Gundalf 805]