Pizy 18,897 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 We will struggle even against bottom half sides without our two wingbacks. I seriously don’t know how we salvage this season unless we buy this month. And talk of recalling loanees doesn’t fill me with confidence either. These players already weren’t good enough (Kennedy, Baba, Emerson). And the youth players like Sterling aren’t ready for a team fighting for and in the CL. Extremely difficult position for the club because there’s zero chance they ever planned on doing anything significant in January after how amazing we looked until the last month. We looked like an absolute machine that didn’t need anything. Now we are decimated and in danger of free fall. But clubs who panic buy in January can really screw themselves by overpaying for average players. Very anxious to see what we do. Vesper and bigbluewillie 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warning_Hazard 156 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Contracts ending on these players: Kylian Mbappé Centre-Forward 23 Paris SG Ligue 1 £144.00m - Paul Pogba Central Midfield 28 Man Utd Premier League £49.50m - Paulo Dybala Second Striker 28 Juventus Serie A £45.00m - Franck Kessié Central Midfield 25 AC Milan Serie A £43.20m - Marcelo Brozovic Defensive Midfield 29 Inter Serie A £36.00m - Antonio Rüdiger Centre-Back 28 Chelsea Premier League £31.50m - Lorenzo Insigne Left Winger 30 SSC Napoli Serie A £31.50m 2 Niklas Süle Centre-Back 26 FC Bayern Bundesliga £31.50m - Andreas Christensen Centre-Back 25 Chelsea Premier League £31.50m - Ousmane Dembélé Right Winger 24 Barcelona LaLiga £27.00m 1 Andrea Belotti Centre-Forward 28 Torino Serie A £25.20m 1 Denis Zakaria Defensive Midfield 25 Bor. M'gladbach Bundesliga £24.30m - Sardar Azmoun Centre-Forward 26 Zenit S-Pb Premier Liga £22.50m 1 Boubacar Kamara Defensive Midfield 22 Marseille Ligue 1 £22.50m 1 Matthias Ginter Centre-Back 27 Bor. M'gladbach Bundesliga £21.60m - Remo Freuler Central Midfield 29 Atalanta BC Serie A £21.60m - Jesús Corona Right Midfield 28 FC Porto Liga Bwin £19.80m - James Tarkowski Centre-Back 29 Burnley Premier League £19.80m - Alexandre Lacazette Centre-Forward 30 Arsenal Premier League £18.00m - Jesse Lingard Attacking Midfield 29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,164 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 5 minutes ago, Warning_Hazard said: Contracts ending on these players: Kylian Mbappé Centre-Forward 23 Paris SG Ligue 1 £144.00m - Paul Pogba Central Midfield 28 Man Utd Premier League £49.50m - Paulo Dybala Second Striker 28 Juventus Serie A £45.00m - Franck Kessié Central Midfield 25 AC Milan Serie A £43.20m - Marcelo Brozovic Defensive Midfield 29 Inter Serie A £36.00m - Antonio Rüdiger Centre-Back 28 Chelsea Premier League £31.50m - Lorenzo Insigne Left Winger 30 SSC Napoli Serie A £31.50m 2 Niklas Süle Centre-Back 26 FC Bayern Bundesliga £31.50m - Andreas Christensen Centre-Back 25 Chelsea Premier League £31.50m - Ousmane Dembélé Right Winger 24 Barcelona LaLiga £27.00m 1 Andrea Belotti Centre-Forward 28 Torino Serie A £25.20m 1 Denis Zakaria Defensive Midfield 25 Bor. M'gladbach Bundesliga £24.30m - Sardar Azmoun Centre-Forward 26 Zenit S-Pb Premier Liga £22.50m 1 Boubacar Kamara Defensive Midfield 22 Marseille Ligue 1 £22.50m 1 Matthias Ginter Centre-Back 27 Bor. M'gladbach Bundesliga £21.60m - Remo Freuler Central Midfield 29 Atalanta BC Serie A £21.60m - Jesús Corona Right Midfield 28 FC Porto Liga Bwin £19.80m - James Tarkowski Centre-Back 29 Burnley Premier League £19.80m - Alexandre Lacazette Centre-Forward 30 Arsenal Premier League £18.00m - Jesse Lingard Attacking Midfield 29 Mbappe is 99% going to Real (arffff) Pogba is pure poison, Dembele too (atm, plus he is another Pulisic, always injured) the other ones that interest me would be Niklas Süle (IF we cannot get Kounde and AC leaves) perhaps Paulo Dybala (if he would come here, he is shedload better than Pulisic and CHO) Boubacar Kamara (very underrated young, versatile player, can play DMF, CMF, and CB) something always rubbed me wrong about Kessie, maybe I am being harsh the time to buy Brozovic was 4, 5 years ago, he turns 30yo near the beginning of next season and will have little resale value if a bust the rest are a pass for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea_4_eva 1,182 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 The only positive of losing most of our CBs are we can get ones that can play in a back 4 and 3.. although its not ideal and would be very expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 On 30/12/2021 at 23:14, Jase said: Just throwing this suggestion out there - Kieran Trippier, anyone? Guardian's Jacob Steinberg must have read my post. 🤪 Strike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,897 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Trippier is 31. The exact opposite profile of player we’d target. Even on an emergency basis like this I can’t see it. Could imagine a 6 month loan but from his perspective it wouldn’t make sense as Newcastle will likely offer him a silly 3-4 year contract with huge wages because they’re desperate for “names.” Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDA 9,937 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 10 hours ago, bigbluewillie said: 1: Who 2: And who can stroke the ball like Cruyff, yeah ok, if you find one let us know😀 3: The owner has 10 billion in the bank not the club You know what I mean lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDA 9,937 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 It was tounge in cheek when asking for somebody who can stroke the ball like Cruyff. Obviously simple sarcasm is lost on the average I.Q held amongst the simpletons of this beautiful forum. 😑 Boycie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbluewillie 1,930 Posted December 31, 2021 Share Posted December 31, 2021 Explain for a simpleton about the other two remarks Boycie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDA 9,937 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 9 hours ago, bigbluewillie said: Explain for a simpleton about the other two remarks It needs explaining? 🤔 Honestly, I can't even be assed to understand where you're going with this... All I can think about is the 97million betrayal in the form of Romelu Lukaku. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAPHOD2319 4,814 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Atomiswave 6,117 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 1 hour ago, ZAPHOD2319 said: I'll put money on that where ever Rudi and Chris go they will regret it badly. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoroccanBlue 5,380 Posted January 1, 2022 Share Posted January 1, 2022 14 minutes ago, Atomiswave said: I'll put money on that where ever Rudi and Chris go they will regret it badly. Bayern replace Rudiger with Sule it would work out I imagine. Atomiswave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted January 2, 2022 Share Posted January 2, 2022 18 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said: Digne be a decent signing for Newcastle to be fair. More his level. Plus their LB is Paul Dummet. Who is terrible. Really don’t get the Barkley links, I mean well I get it (big money to spend and an overrated English player who could have his career saved under an overrated English manager) but I don’t see what he offers them when they’ve already got midfield players who show flashes and are so inconsistent. Plus did Eddie Howe not learn anything from when he loaned in Jack Wilshere at Bournemouth? Wasn’t exactly successful. If they offer anything over 10m for him on a perm deal, we should bite their hands off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Kante 1,643 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 On 31/12/2021 at 16:36, Pizy said: Trippier is 31. The exact opposite profile of player we’d target. Even on an emergency basis like this I can’t see it. Could imagine a 6 month loan but from his perspective it wouldn’t make sense as Newcastle will likely offer him a silly 3-4 year contract with huge wages because they’re desperate for “names.” Thing is he is available and he wouldn't be that expensive plus he knows the league. Could end up similar to a Beletti type signing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAPHOD2319 4,814 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 I know it is great for negotiations to have nobody speaking about protentional transfers, and Chelsea is great at staying quiet. As a person that goes full Muppet mode during the transfer window....it kills me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magic Lamps 11,692 Posted January 3, 2022 Share Posted January 3, 2022 1 hour ago, ZAPHOD2319 said: I know it is great for negotiations to have nobody speaking about protentional transfers, and Chelsea is great at staying quiet. As a person that goes full Muppet mode during the transfer window....it kills me! While the board sucks balls doing transfers from a position of strength like demonstrated this summer (and the one in 2017, 2015, 2010, 2006 and every summer we won a big title apart from 05 and arguably 12), it is quite adept at fixing holes during times of need, so I can not see it being idle atm. The worry I have is more that we can not really trim the squad sufficiently again. I am not 100% sure but CHO is our only 21 or under player and if we not register baker or bettinelli we have exactly 25 players in the squad. So we have to get rid of someone to buy anew. and since we have most of our duds on too high wages we will struggle to offload which puts us in a terrible sales position. So we might be better advised to sell barkley first before buying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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