Chelsea Transfers

[nyikolajevics 2,821]

1 hour ago, Vesper said:

LB options (IF CuCu leaves) who are actually even remotely available and who would come here perhaps (Calafiori would not)

the ones in bold will be so hard

Nico O'Reilly 
Alphonso Davies 
Nathaniel Brown
Antonee Robinson ? (turns 29yo in August so very likely too old for BlueCo) 
Davide Bartesaghi 
Dayann Methalie  
Kauã Prates  Dortmund just signed him for this summer

 

 

 

How about Barco?

[Vesper 30,975]

Just now, nyikolajevics said:

How about Barco?

I see him much more as a MFer

but sure, he could fill in at LB if need be

LB is VERY light position-wise in terrms of REAL quality LBs who will actually want to move, and who will come here (especially if we have no CL)

and all those will have all or most of the 10 to 12 'Big Boy' clubs chasing them

Of the clear top 3 I listed

Nico O'Reilly  (1.93m)

Alphonso Davies (1.85m)

Nathaniel Brown (the one I would try to go for first, BUT so so many clubs want him) (1.76m, he is the only sub 6 footer (under 1.83m) on this list)

only Brown is at a selling club

 

Then you have a big drop off (at least for NOW as 3 of the 4 listed below are youth)

Antonee Robinson would have been perfect 5 or so years ago, but now he turns 29yo in only 3 months (1.83m)

Davide Bartesaghi of AC Milan is deffo a 'BlueCo' type of buy (20yo, tall,same height as Nico O'Reilly, and pacy) BUT he has every top 6 to 8 club drooling (1.93m) over him

Dayann Methalie of Toulouse FC is also tall and pacy, and is also 20yo, and is less costly, less coveted (atm) so he is proably the one BlueCo move for (1.88m)

Kauã Prates (turns 18yo in mid-August so JUST makes the age cut-off for the summer '26 window) is off the board, as Dortmund just signed him for this summer (1.84m)

 

Diego Moreira of Strasbourg would be a wild card, he has exploded as a LeftMFer since he left us and is a left-footer. He just still needs work defensively.

 

the other non-listed TOP top LBs are all unavailable AND/OR would never come here now, atm, or, in Balde's case, are too injury-prone IMHO

 
Nuno Mendes best LB on the planet by far
Álvaro Carreras (why would he leave Real madrid for us?, plus I really do not tate him as high as many do)
Alejandro Balde (doesnt want to leave Barca, BUT they are sick of his injuries. That said, they will want BIG money probably)
Riccardo Calafiori  (main place he would leave for is back to Italy, Inter most likely, or perhaps Real or Barca. No way he comes here)
Federico Dimarco  (doesnt want to leave Italy and I cannot see him coming here, plus, like Carreras and Balde and Lewis-Skelly (Myles NOW, after his regression) I just do not rate Dimarco all THAT much) 
Jorrel Hato (already Chels)
Myles Lewis-Skelly (has regressed a lot and also openly said he does not want to play for Chels, he absolutely wants to stay at Arse, especially IF Calafiori leaves)
Lewis Hall   (he is pissed we sold him, he would be PERFECT to replace CuCu)  
Ian Maatsen   (another pissed-off ex Chels)
Andrea Cambiaso turns 27 in February '27, and says IF he was to leave Juve, he wants a CL club for sure, plus Juve want cray money for him
Theo Hernández is too old now for BlueCo (basically same age as Antonee Robinson at Fulham), plus is making insane Saudi money, plus has always been suspect defensively, especially for the EPL

 

El Hadji Malick Diouf  might be worth a look

but

pass (in most cases HARD pass) on many other LB big names:

    
Milos Kerkez 
Rayan Aït-Nouri 
Patrick Dorgu 
Destiny Udogie 
Djed Spence  
Ferdi Kadıoğlu     
Carlos Augusto 
Tyrick Mitchell 
Carlos Romero   
Adrien Truffert
Gerard Martín
Maxi Araújo 
Neco Williams
Vitaliy Mykolenko 
Alejandro Grimaldo 
Matteo Ruggeri 
Leif Davis
Ryan Sessegnon 
Lucas Hernández 
Quilindschy Hartman (still has not FULLY recovered from a terrible injury)
Maximilian Mittelstädt  
Miguel Gutiérrez  
Caio Henrique  
Mathías Olivera 
Rico Henry 
Pervis Estupiñán  
Renan Lodi 
Fran García 
Angeliño 
Oleksandr Zinchenko
Luke Shaw