Chelsea Transfers

[Thor 2,693]

David and Sesko are a big no. 

[Blue Armour 4,438]

12 hours ago, Mhsc said:

I don't think we have much choice. The club has almost no revenue other than player sales - we're pretty poor really, small stadium, years outside of CL now, not won anything in ages, lots of money sunk on bad players in transfer fee and wages. At this stage all we can afford is young people on lower salaries that we have hope to sell for similar or more money in the future.

Even if sugar daddy Boehly pours money in, we just can't balance the books in PSR at this point if we go for elite players on big wages - maybe if we do a good job offloading deadwood we can have a few to replace them, but even that is probably quite ambitious.

We are operating on a mid table clubs revenue now and have played most of our one-off PSR tricks. We need to be back into being consistently in the CL, get the stadium sorted, and get some really good sponsorship deals in - 5-10 years of work realistically. In the meantime, we have to keep our wage bill low and keep buying young players who will hold or improve their value - its the only money we get.

We're top 10 in terms of overall revenue (10th if I'm not mistaken), but I see your point.

The fact that we have fallen away so hard in all competitions in the past few years has made it worse. 

City, with even less matchday revenue (despite having the bigger stadium) trumps us on broadcasting and commercial revenue.

Commercial revenue is one that is so frustrating. We have a consortium of investors and none of them are able to get Chelsea to draw more revenue than Spurs.

[TheHulk 2,426]

40 minutes ago, Blue Armour said:

We're top 10 in terms of overall revenue (10th if I'm not mistaken), but I see your point.

The fact that we have fallen away so hard in all competitions in the past few years has made it worse. 

City, with even less matchday revenue (despite having the bigger stadium) trumps us on broadcasting and commercial revenue.

Commercial revenue is one that is so frustrating. We have a consortium of investors and none of them are able to get Chelsea to draw more revenue than Spurs.

They have continued to delay getting a front shirt sponsor with the excuse they are waiting for CL to get a better one, really curious what these clowns will do this summer.

[Pizy 18,888]

Ekitike feels to me like he’d be a lot like Jackson in that they will do a lot of really nice things, they’re great to have in your squad as a top club, but not good enough to be THE guy to lead you to the very top.

But tbf the only striker available this summer that would be that finishing piece are Osimhen and Gyokeres who are almost certainly impossible for us.
 

So with that being the case would you rather have Ekitike, Seśko, or Delap? Ekitike looks to have the highest ceiling/natural talent. Delap has the tenacity and work ethic that’s perfectly suited to the PL as we’ve seen. Seśko would surely be MUCH more of a box presence than Nico and therefor would probably do well in our setup. I don’t know which I’d prefer.

[Strike 7,483]

 

 

[King Kante 1,643]

21 minutes ago, Strike said:

 

 

This actually makes some sense. However, if Lavia stays fit I want to see more of Caicedo as the inverted RB rather than in CM. 

The situation I am looking at most with CM currently is Enzo. He is finally fulfilling his potential but Real look as if they're sniffing about and we all know what happens when they do that.

[Strike 7,483]

25 minutes ago, King Kante said:

This actually makes some sense. However, if Lavia stays fit I want to see more of Caicedo as the inverted RB rather than in CM. 

The situation I am looking at most with CM currently is Enzo. He is finally fulfilling his potential but Real look as if they're sniffing about and we all know what happens when they do that.

Real won't pay the transfer fee given they're going for free transfers and refusing to pay 50m for Huijsen. 

Only way I see Enzo going is if he asks for a move (very much possible) and Real find a way to swap one of their unhappy forwards - Rodrygo for example.  

[milka 3,392]

Why we are not in the conversation about Wirtz ?  Probably with Abramovich we would get top young players with expirience like him  but clownlake only from Brazil .

[King Kante 1,643]

1 hour ago, milka said:

Why we are not in the conversation about Wirtz ?  Probably with Abramovich we would get top young players with expirience like him  but clownlake only from Brazil .

Because Real and Bayern are his rumoured destinations - some rumours even have him telling Alonso be only wants Bayern. Even under Roman we didn't pull those type of transfers with possibly the exception of 2006 with Sheva and Ballack. Either way, Wirtz either wants to stay in Germany or has Real as an option. 

[Vesper 30,140]

1 hour ago, milka said:

Why we are not in the conversation about Wirtz ?  Probably with Abramovich we would get top young players with expirience like him  but clownlake only from Brazil .

Bild reports Florian Wirtz has declared he only wants to join Bayern Munich

https://www.bavarianfootballworks.com/2025/5/6/24424764/florian-wirtz-bayer-leverkusen-sane-bayern-munich-real-madrid-transfer-rumors-manchester-city

 

 

[NikkiCFC 8,313]

38 minutes ago, King Kante said:

Because Real and Bayern are his rumoured destinations - some rumours even have him telling Alonso be only wants Bayern. Even under Roman we didn't pull those type of transfers with possibly the exception of 2006 with Sheva and Ballack. Either way, Wirtz either wants to stay in Germany or has Real as an option. 

Signing Wirtz now would be similar to Havertz. 

[TheHulk 2,426]

1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

Signing Wirtz now would be similar to Havertz. 

Wirtz is far better than Havertz.

[NikkiCFC 8,313]

5 hours ago, TheHulk said:

Wirtz is far better than Havertz.

Easy to say that now. When we signed Kai he was the hottest prospect.

[Strike 7,483]

13 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said:

Easy to say that now. When we signed Kai he was the hottest prospect.

It was the pandemic that gave us the opening to sign Kai

[FrankLampard007 16]

10 hours ago, NikkiCFC said:

Signing Wirtz now would be similar to Havertz. 

Wirtz is Havertz 2.0. The same player Havertz was years ago. He doesnt fit the Prem. Better he stays where he is. We have no place for him. 

We need a Striker a Goalkeeper to compete. Not another midfielder oder winger. We have enough of them.