Kalidou Koulibaly

[Blues Forever 1,232]

 

[Vegetable 787]

This gets far less publicity than it deserves. Hope he will do great here and have a good time of his career.

[YorkshireBlue 2,825]

How long have we waited for this guy to finally wear our shirt!!!!

[DDA 9,570]

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[manpe 10,855]

Welcome! Just what we needed. 🙂

Koulibaly is one of only a few CBs that could have replaced Rüdiger and not be a downgrade. My biggest worry is how will he adapt coming from Italy, but looking at how defenders tend to excel at Chelsea, I worry about that much less than if he was an attacker. All the stories about his mentality and leadership indicate that he will get on just fine here.

I'm liking how our backline is looking - a nice mix of experience and youth, quality, physicality, hunger, leadership... Just need to get one more CB and a RB to complete it.

[ahmedou 128]

MAMA AFRICA

[Special Juan 27,103]

Love this signing but the introduction of him on the site was laughable

[Vesper 27,310]

6 hours ago, Kong said:

How long have we waited for this guy to finally wear our shirt!!!!

I have wanted him here since mid season 2014/2015, when he showed, after the Genk to Napoli transfer (a steal for them at only around £7m), that he was indeed a Big 5 league level beast CB

he should be going into his 8th season with us

 

look at that 2015/16 disaster team's (10th place!) CB's

their ages then are listed

he would have made a MASSIVE difference starting then

 

what disastrous summer and winter transfer windows that season too

pure dogshit, save for Pedro, and to a far lesser extent, Asmir Begović

£23.4m for Baba! that is closing in on £29m now in mid 2022 quid due to inflation over the past 7 years

https://www.officialdata.org/uk/inflation/2015?amount=23400000

[Magic Lamps 11,449]

32 minutes ago, Vesper said:

I have wanted him here since mid season 2014/2015, when he showed, after the Genk to Napoli transfer (a steal for them at only around £7m), that he was indeed a Big 5 league level beast CB

he should be going into his 8th season with us

 

look at that 2015/16 disaster team's (10th place!) CB's

their ages then are listed

he would have made a MASSIVE difference starting then

 

what disastrous summer and winter transfer windows that season too

pure dogshit, save for Pedro, and to a far lesser extent, Asmir Begović

£23.4m for Baba! that is closing in on £29m now in mid 2022 quid due to inflation over the past 7 years

https://www.officialdata.org/uk/inflation/2015?amount=23400000

Tbf we tried to sign him really hard but the poison dwarf was reluctant so we unearthed his Senegal teammate djilobodji. We even made a profit on him 

[Vesper 27,310]

26 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Tbf we tried to sign him really hard but the poison dwarf was reluctant so we unearthed his Senegal teammate djilobodji. We even made a profit on him 

I recall one of those past attempts we supposedly offered £58m from the start, but it turns out Marina tried to lowball the poison dwarf with a ludicrous £38m initial offer, which enraged him and he ended up telling us to fuck off when we actually met his initial price later on.

[King Kante 1,296]

How good is K2? I'll be honest and say whenever I have seen him (this has been limited) he has reminded me a bit of what I term a 'hipsters' idea of a great player. By this I mean he does everything in the good to very good range, but because he physically looks like a top CB, his good/very good play gets made out to be world class. 

Is this fair or is he genuinely world class? 

[Vesper 27,310]

8 hours ago, King Kante said:

How good is K2? I'll be honest and say whenever I have seen him (this has been limited) he has reminded me a bit of what I term a 'hipsters' idea of a great player. By this I mean he does everything in the good to very good range, but because he physically looks like a top CB, his good/very good play gets made out to be world class. 

Is this fair or is he genuinely world class? 

genuinely WC

[bigbluewillie 1,805]

OK

So when I said sign him 3 years ago, you amongst many others said no!

What's changed?

[Vesper 27,310]

3 hours ago, bigbluewillie said:

OK

So when I said sign him 3 years ago, you amongst many others said no!

What's changed?

me?

I wanted him so so bad years ago

 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,142]

Love his attitude. Hopefully he can kick on and do well here!

[Strike 6,961]

 

 

[chelsea_4_eva 1,142]

2 hours ago, Strike said:

 

 

Reece proper blue through and through. Future Chelsea captain.

[Bren 41]

Only watched the first half of the Arsenal game but I caught Koulibaly's highlights. I thought he looked pretty good from what I saw; optimistic about him!