Chelsea Transfers

[Nero 1,838]

2 minutes ago, Jas said:

It's from Daily Star...

[Pizy 18,370]

As Vesper mentioned earlier, Griezmann is on some insane wage. And he really loves living in Spain. 
 

Complete no-go there. If Barca are desperate for cash we should make an offer for De Jong. He could become world class under a top coach like TT.

[Superblue 6,370]

To be honest if La Liga stand firm on Barcelona, I just cannot see how they get their wage bill down from this position.

We may be able to loan Aguero off them next season if they're not allowed to register him.

[Jase 43,479]

6 minutes ago, Superblue_1986 said:

To be honest if La Liga stand firm on Barcelona, I just cannot see how they get their wage bill down from this position.

We may be able to loan Aguero off them next season if they're not allowed to register him.

Who else from Barcelona is on your shopping list? 😆

[King Kante 1,487]

7 hours ago, Jas said:

Starting negotiations and announcing a deal during a summer international tournament are two different things though. 

Another thing to consider is that whether the club want to blow our entire transfer budget on one player (especially when you count the agent fees, wages on top of the transfer fee) OR use the money to improve other areas in the squad this summer. We still keep seeing stories about us being linked with other players and I can't see us buying those players if we get Haaland or can't see us buying Haaland if we get those players.

No offence to those players but all but two of them were irrelevant to the first team squad. So, I highly doubt their exits make any difference at all. And loaning Gilmour out might mean we'll buy a midfielder this summer.

Who is to say that we're not negotiating? Negotiates can be kept pretty discreet and we're probably the most discreet top club. 

No, they probably don't, but the fact of the matter is we have something like 70 players so the cull has to start somewhere and normally the easiest ones to be rid of are the first to go. As for the culling, the real issue is more wages than fees, so it is kind of a case of every little helps. 

[King Kante 1,487]

4 hours ago, Alabama said:

Lukaku it is...

I'd rather bring Shearer out of retirement than spend €100m+ on fecking Lukaku. 

[Jase 43,479]

3 minutes ago, King Kante said:

Who is to say that we're not negotiating? Negotiates can be kept pretty discreet and we're probably the most discreet top club. 

Is this a known fact or what? Maybe my memory has failed me but I don't recall it being mentioned much in past years compared to now, almost as if people are trying to convince themselves something is really happening when it could be like 50-50. Last summer for instance, our pursuit of Havertz and Chilwell was public knowledge and everyone knew negotiations were taking place. 

Even if we somehow managed to not leak anything out to the media, I would be surprised if the media covering the opposing club didn't get any inkling something is happening. Some may point to the Werner transfer as something that happened out of the blue but he had a release clause and there was no need for long negotiations with Leipzig.

9 minutes ago, King Kante said:

As for the culling, the real issue is more wages than fees, so it is kind of a case of every little helps. 

Fair point but think we'll only start to feel its impact once we start to ditch the bigger deadwoods. 

[Superblue 6,370]

1 hour ago, Jas said:

Who else from Barcelona is on your shopping list? 😆

I'm thinking more along the lines of if Haaland ends up a no-go, the drop off in quality options is pretty significant and I wouldn't want the club spending big money on an alternative to their real top targets.

Therefore given Barca's position it may be an opportunity to just take a player off them on loan for a season if they're that desperate to let players go, and then we're not stuck next summer with a big money player who hasn't worked out but is preventing us going back in for our top targets.

I didn't realise Barca were paying Griezmann so much. Aguero is probably on £500k a week himself so it is probably pointless to even speculate!

[whats happening 1,526]

there is no way aguero is on 500k

[Superblue 6,370]

28 minutes ago, whats happening said:

there is no way aguero is on 500k

It was meant in a sarcastic manner. I assume he's probably on around 200k but who knows with what they're paying other players?!

[Jase 43,479]

 

[Hashishi 148]

I would be happy with signing Camavinga. He can play understudy to Jorginho and Kovacic is cover for Kante. Even better would be signing Tchomenei as well and loaning Camavinga to Germany. That would solve the midfield problem that we saw under conte. Rice is a Drinkwater in this situation. 

[NikkiCFC 7,965]

Can Paqueta play in our double pivot? Very interesting player.

[Hashishi 148]

1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

Can Paqueta play in our double pivot? Very interesting player.

I think he's a 10, as he had Casemiro and Fred behind him against Peru. 

[Vesper 28,880]

1 hour ago, NikkiCFC said:

Can Paqueta play in our double pivot? Very interesting player.

AMF/No 10 (even perhaps a winger at times) type all the way

we scouted him pretty heavy a while back

the one Brasilian MFer who is a hybrid type DMF/CMF and could perform a double pivot role is one who I post all the time

his Lyon teammate and another lad we scouted, even more so I think

Bruno Guimarães (gee mo ryesh  gee pronounced like French name Guy)

 

Edited July 7, 2021 by Vesper

[Vesper 28,880]

 

Edited July 7, 2021 by Vesper

[Blues Forever 1,232]

12 hours ago, Jas said:

Eh? Where did this come from? 

Tapsoba suddenly dropped our name in his interview. He also recently did this.

[Jase 43,479]

12 minutes ago, Blues Forever said:

Tapsoba suddenly dropped our name in his interview. He also recently did this.

One club is gonna get lucky then. 🤪