Chelsea Transfers

[NikkiCFC 8,300]

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 30,119]

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 30,119]

 

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. 🤪

[We Hate Scouse 10,326]

1 hour ago, Blues Forever said:

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

Also worth noting that Deco is his agent.

[Muzchap 8,966]

59 minutes ago, We Hate Scouse said:

Also worth noting that Deco is his agent.

Great player he was 👍

[King Kante 1,643]

14 hours ago, Jas said:

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.

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

Well the thing with Werner was that everyone knew about the buyout and hardly anyone linked us. He was apparently nailed on for the Dippers. Ypu could add Pulisic to the list of discreet deals (also with Dortmund), Kepa (who was tracked for months if you believe the club; I don't on that one), Kovacic was also quietly done. If you go back further you have examples like Bosingwa who had no links at all then was announced on the website one day. 

So, yeah, I would say, when compared to other clubs were discreet (when placed in the context of world football industry.)

 

 

[King Kante 1,643]

12 hours ago, Hashishi said:

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. 

Personally if we're going for a young CM I'd rather we just roll with Gallagher for CM4 and try and get Bellingham in a year or two. If not Gallagher then get someone like SMS who can actually score goals and provide assists from CM. In my opinion, with a 3atb system the need for a DM is limited (only reason I buy the Rice rumours is because he can also play CB.)

Edited July 7, 2021 by King Kante

[DH1988 1,348]

Gallagher is very underrated, don't feel he's ready to be included though, he would be far better off going to another PL team for another year - Just not a relegation dog fight.

[Jase 43,479]

3 hours ago, King Kante said:

Well the thing with Werner was that everyone knew about the buyout and hardly anyone linked us. He was apparently nailed on for the Dippers. Ypu could add Pulisic to the list of discreet deals (also with Dortmund), Kepa (who was tracked for months if you believe the club; I don't on that one), Kovacic was also quietly done. If you go back further you have examples like Bosingwa who had no links at all then was announced on the website one day. 

So, yeah, I would say, when compared to other clubs were discreet (when placed in the context of world football industry.

We were linked with Pulisic before we signed him and Kepa was more of a panic buy.

Either way, for every discreet transfer you mentioned there, there's always one that is public knowledge and we know negotiations are taking place. 

[Jype 6,398]

4 hours ago, King Kante said:

Well the thing with Werner was that everyone knew about the buyout and hardly anyone linked us. He was apparently nailed on for the Dippers. Ypu could add Pulisic to the list of discreet deals (also with Dortmund), Kepa (who was tracked for months if you believe the club; I don't on that one), Kovacic was also quietly done. If you go back further you have examples like Bosingwa who had no links at all then was announced on the website one day. 

So, yeah, I would say, when compared to other clubs were discreet (when placed in the context of world football industry.)

The most out of the blue transfer was definitely Marko Marin. Obviously that one didn't work out in the slightest but he was still a somewhat highly rated young player with 3-4 years of Bundesliga experience, played CL football for Werder Bremen and was even in the Germany squad for the 2010 World Cup. No transfer rumors whatsoever and then one day while the season was still going (like March-April) the transfer was announced on the club's website.

Of last years transfers Ziyech was also a discrete one. The first time we heard of it was when the Dutch media told everyone it was a done deal and after that it didn't take long for both clubs to announce it too.

[Styl1994 188]

If we can’t get Haaland which of these options would you want or maybe 2 

lukaku 

Ings 

Schick

Isak 

Moffi

 

[Blues Forever 1,232]

4 hours ago, King Kante said:

Well the thing with Werner was that everyone knew about the buyout and hardly anyone linked us. He was apparently nailed on for the Dippers. Ypu could add Pulisic to the list of discreet deals (also with Dortmund), Kepa (who was tracked for months if you believe the club; I don't on that one), Kovacic was also quietly done. If you go back further you have examples like Bosingwa who had no links at all then was announced on the website one day. 

So, yeah, I would say, when compared to other clubs were discreet (when placed in the context of world football industry.)

 

 

In the recent years i can only think about Luiz, Kepa, and Ziyech. The rest including Werner, Pulisic, Kovacic are hardly discreet.