Chelsea Transfers

[prime adriano 26]

Not going for wharton was a collosal mistake...

I'd still go for it though. Midfield is terrible without caicedo

[Vesper 30,538]

On 05/12/2025 at 01:27, Vesper said:

not sure if the books would still balance UNLESS we sell players as well

In terms of left-footed CBs, here the only ones remotely available (in January or, more likely summer 2026 and some are CRAZY hard pulls, like my number one/number two CB want on the planet, Alessandro Bastoni, the other number one/two want being the now NOT at all available ambipedal Dean Huijsen, who went to Real Madrid and THAT just so fucked us this season, but hey, no club can compete with Real if they WANT a player badly) that I rate:

10 veterans, in 2 tiers , plus a 17 (18yo in February) youth

  
Alessandro Bastoni 
Murillo  
Alessandro Buongiorno    
Jarrad Branthwaite (but is out until the end of January with a bad hamstring injury, so no way we would buy him in January)
Castello Lukeba   

then

Gonçalo Inácio 
Nico Schlotterbeck (will probably either renew with Dortmund or will go to Bayern)
Sven Botman 
Evan Ndicka 
Konstantinos Koulierakis  

plus the 17yo:

Honest Ahanor (EVERY 'Big 20' or so team on the planet wants him, some more than others, he is the best under 18yo CB prospect playing at Sr team level in Europe atm IMHO)

So, The Athletic says we will NOT make a move for Murillo in January, nor in the summer. The reason given tells you all you need to know about us buying any quality left footed CBs.

They said that the club will NOT buy Murillo BECAUSE HE IS STARTING QUALITY.

In other words, we are going to roll with Colwill (next season) and Badi for lefty CBs, with Hato as lefty backup option (unless he is loaned out).

Also.....

Be prepared to be profoundly disappointed for Joel Ordóñez or any other truly class right footed new CB, as we already bought Mamadou Sarr and have Anselmino coming back from loan as well (unless Dortmund buy him for the price we will demand, which is highly unlikey as they are the archetypal 'big but cheap as fuck' German club.

The same goes for GKer, as Penders is very likely to come here in the summer, so forget Maignan, Kobel, Diogo Costa, Guillaume Restes, etc etc.

Finally, the same goes for CF, as we have Emegha already coming in, so forget dreams of Osimhen, Lautaro, Julián Alvarez, Marcus Thuram, or even (more speculative than proven vets) Pio Esposito or Samu. Kane would never come here.

As it stands, we simply have to sell multiple players (especially Nico) to even make a play for the crazy expensive Wharton (or even Elliot Anderson, etc), the one BIG name we may still move for.

MAYBE, IF we sell enough players and give up on Wharton (and all other expensive MFers), we might make a play for Kenan Yıldız (who is my number one winger want) BUT Juve will want insane money for him, likely Wharton level money.

Bottom line, the board is going to enrage many people there next 2 windows.

 

[Vesper 30,538]

Speaking of Emegha, as Delap looks to be out for a long time and we have crazy issues at CF (zero chance we bring back Nico), we should at least try and bring him in this January, and sell Guiu to Strasbourg.