Chelsea Transfers

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6 hours ago, DDA said:

Why am I seeing Man City have entered the race for Xavi?

fake news?

Hulks having a meltdown.

Lol. I goat mouth it with my post listing the only truly 'big' wingers left out there:

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6 hours ago, LAM09 said:

If you wait, you'll find out. If losing out on him meant Rogers/Yildiz were to join instead, I wouldn't be fussed about this news.

Would absolutely prefer either one over Simons, and not bothered that it probably is summer 2026 till one comes, although before Levi's nightmare, I was not adverse to dropping £75-80m NOW on Rogers.

If we do not buy Garnacho we STILL could do it.

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One less for them.

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How much Clearlake paid Romano to suck him so hard.

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Garnacho message to Man United: "Chelsea or I stay here and don't play Football for 6-12 months".

(@FabrizioRomano on DAZN)

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18 minutes ago, TheHulk said:

How much Clearlake paid Romano to suck him so hard.

I’m really trying my hardest to picture the ideal role for Garnacho in this team and I’m struggling hard. I just don’t get what the people here who want him badly see. 

He excels on the counter running the channels in behind. But we are a side that dominates possession in the overwhelming majority of games and will be playing against loads of parked buses. 

So is the plan therefor to use Gittens against opponents that sit deep where his dribbling can be put to use and then use Garnacho in the rare matches against your Man City’s, Arsenal’s, or top UCL clubs who may have more of the ball?

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13 minutes ago, mkh said:

Garnacho message to Man United: "Chelsea or I stay here and don't play Football for 6-12 months".

(@FabrizioRomano on DAZN)

we will be so happy to have him in our squad 🥰

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Get it the fuck done.

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For us we would buy Simons for the 60m or so RBL want.

For BlueCo, at the back of their minds they probably weighing up if to go for that or 3 South American virgins.

 

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22 hours ago, Vesper said:

but you have to amortise the profits, not use the gross sales totals

I thought it was reported that Chelsea have balance the cost of any players added to their European squad with sales. So amortisation doesn't come into it. I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

Their settlement agreement states that Chelsea agree “to be subject to a sporting restriction and, as a consequence, may not register any new player on its List A to UEFA club competitions unless the List A transfer balance is positive.”

To make it trickier, this cost also includes Fofana and Lavia who were not included in Chelsea European squad knockout stage of the Conference League last season, so the cost of adding them into their Champions League squad for the coming season must be taken into account.

This could explain the reluctance to make more signings, I can also see the situation where some new signings won't be registered to play in Europe.

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34 minutes ago, JFKvsNixon said:

I thought it was reported that Chelsea have balance the cost of any players added to their European squad with sales. So amortisation doesn't come into it. I'm happy to be corrected if I'm wrong.

Quadruple player sale won’t fix Chelsea’s new FFP problem as Clearlake stare down UEFA punishment

“Madueke will have made up a big chunk of that, but you also have to remember that the profit on player sales is calcualted on the player’s amortised book value, not the headline figures. So the profit on his sale to Arsenal will have been around £30m. Similarly, they will only have broken even on the Dewsbury-Hall sale, not made any meaningful profit.

“If Chukwemeka goes for £22m, as we understand is imminent, that will be an FFP profit of around £12m. For Ugochukwu, it will be about £6m. If they get £20m for Broja, that will be pure profit. But then again, none of those players were in Chelsea’s UEFA squad last year, so they will help the club with the allowable loss limit element of the UEFA’s rules, but not the provision that means they have to have a positive transfer balance. Chelsea will get there, and it has always been the plan to use players as trading chips anyway, but it means they still have work to do.“

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Tyler Dibling has the talent but is an instant Premier League return the right move for him?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6545099/2025/08/11/tyler-dibling-southampton-everton-premier-league/

When the Championship season got underway over the weekend, one of the most talented young players in the country wasn’t involved.

England Under-21 international Tyler Dibling was not injured or suspended. Instead, a player once said to have been valued at £100million was left out by new Southampton manager Will Still because he was “not in a headspace” to feature.

“There are a few players who are where they’re at in their career and making choices,” Still told ITV Sport when asked about Dibling, while also referencing Samuel Edozie and Joe Aribo, who didn’t play in the 2-1 win against Wrexham on Saturday.

Dibling, 19, is the subject of intense interest from Everton who have seen a couple of bids turned down, the latest being worth £40million ($54m) including add-ons. Southampton have made a counter-proposal of £45m plus £5m in add-ons and a 25 per cent sell-on clause, a package that might be too rich for Everton’s blood.

Everton are more confident of bringing Jack Grealish to Hill Dickinson Stadium, which is a little ironic given how much Dibling is reminiscent of Grealish at his free, flying best while at Aston Villa.

The pulled-down socks lend themselves to the comparison but Dibling is also Grealish-esque in the manner of his gliding, jinking running style. Able to beat a man with the nonchalant drop of a shoulder, there’s a bit of Chris Waddle about them, too.

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Ball-carrying is his outstanding attribute but anyone who saw Dibling often single-handedly carry a dreadful Southampton team up the field last season will have spotted how fearless, tenacious, inventive and almost impudent he was when taking the game to the opposition.

Dibling made 20 Premier League starts, mostly from the right wing but also as an attacking central midfielder, showcasing the talent that had already been evident for many years on the south coast, including when he scored a hat-trick of near-identical goals for Southampton’s B team against Newcastle in a 4-2 Premier League 2 win three years ago.

Dibling is keen to return to the top flight and has also earned admirers at Newcastle United and Aston Villa.

Even in the second tier, Dibling’s contract running until 2027 means the ball is in Southampton’s court. They will not be minded to accept anything less than a premium price for one of English football’s most exciting young talents.

The situation leaves Dibling at a career crossroads for the second time in his young career.

A couple of months after he was named on the bench for a Premier League game as a 16-year-old by former Southampton boss Ralph Hasenhuttl, Chelsea enticed Dibling to London before Southampton could offer professional terms when Dibling turned 17.

In July 2022, via a lucrative financial package that Southampton couldn’t match, Dibling moved to Stamford Bridge. However, the shy 16-year-old struggled to adapt to his new big-city surroundings and was said to have felt like “an outsider”.

By the end of August, having played just two games, Dibling returned to Southampton on reduced terms, with credit due to both clubs for facilitating the move, given the difficulties a homesick teenager was experiencing.

“You have international after international from the first team down to the under-15s at Chelsea, and it is a ruthless environment,” former Southampton B-team coach David Horseman told The Athletic in 2022. “Tyler wasn’t ready for it.”

Three years on, he looks set to move on again, but Southampton might ask whether the time is right for Dibling, who first joined their academy at eight years old, to fly the nest.

Everton and their manager David Moyes have a history of moulding, trusting and nurturing young talents, so Dibling would likely get more playing time there than he would at other top-flight clubs, such as, well, Chelsea.

But would Dibling benefit more from a year in the Championship, consistently playing week in, week out, in what is likely to be a winning team?

Dibling may be worth £40m but he is still at the very start of his professional career, with only 2,404 minutes of senior football (in the Premier League and domestic cups) under his belt, the equivalent of just 26 full 90-minute matches.

Many young English players honed their games in the second tier, not least Grealish with Villa, but also Morgan Gibbs-White, who flourished on loan at Sheffield United in 2021-22, and Mason Mount, who came to prominence during a fabulous season with Derby County in 2018-19 before winning the Champions League with Chelsea two years later.

Dibling also has plenty to improve in his game, particularly his end product.

There are still three weeks left in the window and all parties will want a solution sooner rather than later.

“Ty’s just not in a headspace and not in a place that allowed him to get on the pitch today,” Southampton boss Still said on Saturday.

“I thought that Ty wasn’t quite there and I understand it. He’s still young and there’s a lot going on, so we will see how that goes.

“If nothing happens, then he will be a part of what we want to do and be important as well, but time will tell. It’s standard transfer window stuff.”

Dibling and those around him have to work out where his potential will be maximised, a crucial decision.

“Sometimes it’s better to stay in an environment where you feel at home and where everybody does everything for you,” former Southampton manager Hasenhuttl told reporters after Dibling had returned in 2022. “There’s a reason, in England, you say the grass is not always greener somewhere else.”

Will Hasenhuttl’s words be prescient once more or will Dibling show he is ready to leave home?