Chelsea Transfers

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Chelsea have made an official offer to sign Villarreal striker Karl Etta Eyong.

 

The Blues offered the 21-year-old forward a five-year contract, until 2030, with a loan option in Strasbourg for next season to continue its progress.

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Of course he is old for us we are kindergarten not a serious club and Clownlake won't get any profit from Maignan when they sold him .

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Over and over these jokers are willing to pay silly money for unproven teenagers but when it comes to ready made, plug and play veterans we have to haggle and lowball.

Won’t pay up for Osimhen, Gyokeres, Nico Williams, etc but are perfectly happy spending tens of millions on 60 different teenagers who may never play a minute for Chelsea.

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18 hours ago, Pizy said:

Where’s our Delap announcement, Chels? 😅

They do seem to take longer these days don't they.  There's the arrival video, the photo shoot video, the interview, the sponsors' placements and real life events (like a pre-booked holiday perhaps) sometimes having to be squeezed in as well.

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18 hours ago, Vesper said:

I am going to call it

Mike Maignan is soon at Chels

no more semi critical bleeps from me

although I had other (better IMHO) targets over the past few years, he will almost certainly be a MASSIVE improvement over anything we have now (unless Penders blows up in a few years)

As long as the sporting directors have read your post here about not allowing Penders to experience a long-term loan at a desirable destination where there is a high risk of him putting down roots.

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And here come all the constant briefs on buying every teenager and his dog. This window is going to be very telling. Let’s see who we end up with by the end of it. 
 

imagine ending up with Delap, Gittens and a dead end cb after securing CL.

 

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14 hours ago, Mhsc said:

These transfers are also revealing what Maresca really thinks about our players. All year when he was talking a big game about Sanchez I was rolling my eyes because it just felt like there was no way he believed the words he was saying and was just stuck with the guy and saying anything bad would only make the situation worse so he tried to put some confidence in him to get what he could out of him while stuck with him.

Curious who else might be 'surprisingly' for the guillotine - maybe the nicer Maresca is about you the more you're in danger! (he was very positive about Malo Gusto and NJ...)

Well this would certainly be the right public stance for the manager to take.

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11 hours ago, LAM09 said:

I feel like it will have to be Jorgensen. Penders is supposedly meant to be part of our CWC squad, but it would be stupid to have him rot on our bench at a crucial time in his development.

We should be able to play him in the Club World Cup, which would count as this season. We would then still have the option to loan him out again, whether that be back to Genk, elsewhere, or even both Genk and one other club over the course of next season.

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Update #Ekitiké:

- Talks underway between @ChelseaFC and @Eintracht
- #CFC are €100m too much
- Possible: €70-80m (in two installments) + small bonuses + including @RCSA players
- #Bakwa, #Doukouré & #Nanasi are in focus

(via@AdlerNews)

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4 hours ago, Special Juan said:

Reijnders to Man City is here we go...

Does this mean they have ended their reported interest in Gibbs-white?

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3 hours ago, Special Juan said:

This club will back away based on 10M difference, yet we are paying Mudryk millions to do nothing and over paying for shite players

I don't know for sure but I would be surprised if we were contractually obliged to pay him during his ban.

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2 hours ago, Stats said:

As poster above said, Quenda is coming next season and we still don't know how much time he will need adjusting. So it is not too much wingers. We don't know what is going on with Mudryk and this season we will be using a lot more first team players as we will be in the UCL so rotation will be key. I think it would be foolish personally to get rid of him, unless we have better replacements lined up and I don't see that so far.

Agreed. Last season we were able to use squad teams in most cup games. Next season it will be a massive advantage if we are able to use a squad team in some Premier League matches. That's going to require a significant upgrade in the quality of the squad team.

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20 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Does this mean they have ended their reported interest in Gibbs-white?

Reijnders is more of a #8 I think. Cherki looks to be their Gibbs-White alternative.

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35 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

We should be able to play him in the Club World Cup, which would count as this season. We would then still have the option to loan him out again, whether that be back to Genk, elsewhere, or even both Genk and one other club over the course of next season.

I had Maignan in mind when I made the comment. We wouldn't be signing a GK of his calibre to bench him. 

If the move does actually materialise, we could certainly alternate during the group phase (providing we are in a good position).