Facundo Buonanotte

[James 5,398]

Chelsea is pleased to announce Facundo Buonanotte has joined the club on a season-long loan move from Brighton and Hove Albion.

Twice capped twice by Argentina, Buonanotte arrives at Stamford Bridge and will strengthen our attacking options in a campaign that will see the Blues compete across four fronts.

'I’m very happy to join Chelsea,’ said Buonanotte. 'It’s a great opportunity for me and I’m just looking to add as much to the squad as possible, help the team and help the staff.’

[nyikolajevics 2,775]

Two days ago:

"Of course, I’ll get the opportunity to play in the Champions League for the first time"

 

Ouch

[Blue Armour 4,625]

6 hours ago, nyikolajevics said:

Two days ago:

"Of course, I’ll get the opportunity to play in the Champions League for the first time"

 

Ouch

Wow. You'd think the player and/or his agent would have confirmed these things ahead of time.

Unless the club pulled a fast one on them. Wouldn't surprise me.

[DDA 10,115]

Strange… 

[Reddish-Blue 2,615]

11 hours ago, nyikolajevics said:

Two days ago:

"Of course, I’ll get the opportunity to play in the Champions League for the first time"

 

Ouch

Wonder if it's anything to do with the List A, List B requirements. 

You only get 25 players if you have 8 locally trained players and from what I can see, we only have 6....does Garnacho count as association trained? 

Sanchez, Jorgensen, Cucurella, Tosin, Badiashile, Colwill, Hato, Chalobah, James, Gusto, Fofana, Fernandez, Palmer, Gittens, Essugo, Santos, Caicedo, Neto, Delap, Joao Pedro, Guiu, Estevao, Garnacho.

I'm guessing we only have 6 locally trained players and that leaves the remaining 17 as non-local. 

[Reddish-Blue 2,615]

5 hours ago, Blue Armour said:

Wow. You'd think the player and/or his agent would have confirmed these things ahead of time.

Unless the club pulled a fast one on them. Wouldn't surprise me.

This actually makes alot more sense as to why we didn't proceed with the Simons deal, maybe we didn't have a free spot for him 😆

Much easier to tell a player who came for a cheap depth loan "hey you didn't make the UCL squad, focus on PL & Cup" 

[Thor 2,788]

I actually think he will suprise a bunch of people. 

He is one of the guys that whenever I watched him play always impressed me. Neto was that guy before we bought him too. 

[Mário César 1,404]

55 minutes ago, Thor said:

I actually think he will suprise a bunch of people. 

He is one of the guys that whenever I watched him play always impressed me. Neto was that guy before we bought him too. 

me too

I saw some leicester games and I liked what I saw

[Vesper 30,706]

I deffo rate him over Julio Enciso

[OhForAGreavsie 6,113]

I think the lad at least has a chance because of his technical excellence. It's not that this automatically qualifies players for Chelsea, it's that players should not be recruited unless they have that quality. It's an entry level requirement.

Now we have to find out why Buonanotte struggles for minutes at his parent club. Youth and inexperience, which would be fine, or inability to turn his quality into consistently effective contributions, which would be a deal breaker of course.

Even if the move does not work out I might give the sporting directors a pass this time. Buonanotte arrives on a low-cost deal, without built-in future obligations. The lad is basically here on trial and his talent justifies that. If he fails then I think the directors were still right to give it a shot. Only if he succeeds, might I question them for failing to back their judgment and secure him at a lower cost. If we find ourselves negotiating with Brighton after a successful 'trial' they will be demanding their usual fee of an arm and two legs.

Edited September 9, 2025 by OhForAGreavsie

[nyikolajevics 2,775]

Wonder why he wasn't issued squad number yet.

[Special Juan 28,502]

He is going back to Brighton and he is going to Leeds, loan until end of the season

[OneMoSalah 9,014]

Another stupid signing then but good job we are cutting the loan short & he is going to play elsewhere.

Makes no sense for a 20/21 year old loan signing to sit on the bench & rarely play at any level.

Wonder what crackpot reasoning was behind the initial move then? 

[nyikolajevics 2,775]

Well, thanks for everything I guess.. Weird signing with weird ending, but he wasn't so bad after all. I felt he should have played more when Palmer was unavailable. Garnacho, Neto, Gittens are running/shooting tools, Estevao is like a one-man-army, creating everything for himself.. Buo was pretty much the only player of ours who was looking to create chances for the strikers. 

[Special Juan 28,502]

Like someone said, it was just another bizarre and crazy addition. He has hardly played, when he has hasn't really offered anything and the amount of stupid additions this board make, they make more stupid decisions than real quality additions.

Sign it off as another shite attempt from the board at bringing in a player that offered fuck all 

[Mário César 1,404]

1 hour ago, Special Juan said:

Like someone said, it was just another bizarre and crazy addition. He has hardly played, when he has hasn't really offered anything and the amount of stupid additions this board make, they make more stupid decisions than real quality additions.

Sign it off as another shite attempt from the board at bringing in a player that offered fuck all 

Chelsea lost the race for Xavi Simons and instead chose to sign yet another young prospect with “potential,” on loan, supposedly to add depth to the squad. This decision perfectly sums up everything that is wrong with the club’s current direction. Rather than prioritising proven quality and immediate impact, the board keeps gambling on raw profiles, piling up projects instead of building a coherent team. Squad depth is meaningless if it comes at the cost of ambition, clarity, and competitiveness at the top level.

 

 

 

[ZAPHOD2319 4,879]

TBH, Im glad they didn't spend the money on Xavi. 1 goal and 3 assists and he disappears on the pitch in a lot of games. He also seems to be a defensive liability. 

[Mário César 1,404]

1 hour ago, ZAPHOD2319 said:

TBH, Im glad they didn't spend the money on Xavi. 1 goal and 3 assists and he disappears on the pitch in a lot of games. He also seems to be a defensive liability. 

That’s not the point. The issue is that management thought Facundo was a good option to rotate and keep the level up.

another young project player that need to play in a lower level to grow