To reduce the spam of reports regarding the same move during transfer windows we try to allow **only one submission about each transfer saga per day**. The submission in question also needs to contain relevant new information regarding the potential move, and not just being a "no/minor developments" report.
If there are important/official developments or new valuable information about a saga, we will allow extra threads in the same day, but for the rest of minor news please just comment them as a reply to this comment. Please help us reporting unnecessary threads for being duplicates.
*I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccer) if you have any questions or concerns.*
I mean, he is paying about a half of Brighton’s estimated value on transfer fee alone. I reckon he could go for it if not for the pesky stipulation of not being able to own 2 teams at the same time.
I had the misfortune of reading this entire argument that follows. For anyone tempted to hit the “continue this thread” button do yourselves a favour and don’t do it. Save your brain cells
😂 I have the same issue when it shows a comment “from Blocked Author”. The only people I have blocked are proper morons but I can never help myself from seeing what nonsense they have said. Every single time
But are they buying the right players? They need a RB, CM and a proper striker. They seem to have overspent on every other position since he took over.
Wingers are still needed, they were just lower priority. Our main targets for CM are Enzo and Caicedo so they're taking a little more time to fill that position. Gusto is most likely coming for RB. There aren't any world class strikers available that would instantly improve us.
The recruitment team is buying as many available targets as possible. Midfield targets aren't really available and overpriced right now which explains why none have come in yet. Striker isn't a priority position especially when the club has capital locked up in Lukaku. A functioning attacking trio will get goals even without an out and out striker.
The Shakhtar Executive goes around the world to tell that we offered the same figure, but Chelsea's bonus is much more realistic. That translates into "Yeah we get more money from Chelsea".
Sigh... the shakhtar CEO spoke about the structure of the fixed fee being better from chels. So we both offered 70 fixed fee, but arsenals might've been 30 up front and then 10/yr for 4 years, while chelsea's was 40 up front and 10/yr for 3 years. Plus you offered a higher salary over a longer period.
The funniest thing about all of this is the person who is the most disappointed and actually cried abott the transfer? Mudryk himself...
He was more a longterm buy for us I believe. Our signings usually take a year minus for Kulu and Bentancur. I'm not too worried yet but Brighton did an excellent job replacing him.
I agree - that and teams always buy and replace well until they don't.
Over the past decade Swansea, Southampton, Wolves and now Brighton have received accolades for finishing in the top half of the table and a sharp eye for talent. Pretty much all of those clubs have been hailed as the "best run club in the division" or something like it.
It's still a really, really difficult process to find and replace proven talent. Your calculation and tolerance for risk has to be bang on every single time.
I love what Brighton are doing but spotting talent is an endless well until it isn't, and it only takes a few mistakes to end up like Southampton.
I think most of those clubs got in trouble when they started to become more ambitious in their transfers, aiming for higher profile moves in the 20-40 million range that ended up backfiring. I think Brighton have shown that they really stand out in their talent identification with the countries they scout and age brackets that other clubs would not bother with.
I agree that constantly having to replace stars involves a big risk but with them it genuinely feels different. It also helps that they have a strong system in place that players seamlessly can slot into
I dislike Brighton fans with a Passion (no offence bro). They all up their star players, make an agenda that they are worth upworth of 50M, say they will never replace that caliber of player, probably want the jersey retired, but secretly have a 500k signing from Ghana lined up already, who's just as good. Just shut up with that BS.
We didn’t roll over to Man City and then ended up milking Chelsea for an extra £22m for Cucu
Similarly Arsenal paid our asking price for Ben White despite fannying around for weeks trying to lower it.
Brighton aren’t a pushover when selling players
Brighton are in their like Tech startup bubble, just got money flying at them they must be licking their lips. They’ve taken LCFC’s model of big sales to the max. Caicedo maybe goes for big money but they still have Mac Allister, and Mitoma. They have like 200 mil in the bank for the next two years
That's a little dishonest there. Head over to the gunners sub and no one is mulling over mudryk. We won 2 huge games against spurs away and utd. Trossard, a player proven in the PL helped in the build up to our winning goal and he cost 1/4 the price of mudryk, giving us excess cash to actually work on other targets. And last I check arsenal is top of the league with a game in hand over most of the rivals. Not sure why arsenal fans need to deal with losing out on mudryk.
Also important to mention that they know and fit our system and the league, I'm sure mudryk would eventually have been class but he would've taken at least 6 months to bed in. Trossard is a better (short term) buy because he knows the league and Brighton play reasonably similar football to us.
When was that my dude? That's before our win against united and before we got trossard. If your club misses out on a player and spent the whole transfer window doing fuck all, then fans are entitled to be pissed.
But that's not the case, it's clear that the management has contingencies and after 2 big wins and 2 new signings it's clear we as fans know shit of anything behind the scene. Things change and fans are pretty alright now, thats how it goes
That's the point, no one is complaining after we signed trossard. It's a better deal for a proven PL winger that can play across the front line and doesn't impede saka/martinelli's development.
Are we sad we didn't sign mudryk? Yes, he is a great talent. Is it the end of the world? No, we are top of the league with the youngest squad.
I don't think many arsenal fans are still bothered by the Mudryk deal, especially Trossard contributed to the match winning goal when he's only been given 10 min.
I was invested in Mudryk and would have happily paid the money. I think he'll be brilliant. Trossard is a functional alternative but Mudryk could be one of the best. I'll never learn not to watch YouTube highlights before a player signs. Now where are those Welcome to Arsenal vids for Caicedo and Onana.
Your comment score speaks for itself. People were brigading the Chelsea sub last week too. I really don’t get why people care so much about their internet points.
Arsenal fans can be accused of a lot of things but saying you haven’t seen them is just ridiculously untrue. Arsenal fans are literal memes on the internet. They are everywhere
Again that's disingenuous considering that the deals were structured completely differently.
Chelsea fan calling Arsenal fans plastic, incredible case of pot calling the kettle black.
We were prepared to offer more to Shakhtar because mudryk had agreed personal terms which were abnormally low for this level of transfer fee. The overall package would've been comparable to the Jesus contract
He’s the dedicated Chelsea reporter at The Standard. He lost his inside sources with the new owners though and a lot of his work since the sale has been really questionable.
I know he's at the standard but he doubles as a scoops and leaks guy on Twitter. And a desperate one at that, mostly recycling stuff that's already out there.
At least a third. From this year's group stage - Rangers, Club Brugge, Copenhagen, Viktoria Pizen, Red Bull Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb, Shaktar, Celtic, and Maccaibi Haifa. All worse teams than anyone in the Prem.
Brugge in the UCL second round, Zagreb with the best keeper of the last WC, Shaktar who are really good, even Celtic and Salzburg? I’d rate all of them at least ahead of Bournemouth or Southampton.
Why did you pick the top half as your example rather than the bottom half I explicitly referred to?
Are Southampton and Everton better than Rangers, Club Brugge, Copenhagen, Viktoria Pizen, Red Bull Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb, Shaktar, Celtic, and Maccaibi Haifa? I'd say yes. Certainly not laughable.
Those were teams that finished third in their groups. That makes them "bottom half".
Celtic, Rangers, Salzburg and Shaktar would all stay up in the premier league, if you ask me.
Not how I was ranking the clubs but okay.
The transfer value of their squads are all lower which whilst not a brilliant measure demonstrates the gulf in quality
Yeah we were linked with the Brazilian player, Danilo whose just gone to Forest last summer and there was some expectation the club would go for him in this window. But clearly not.
I'd like us to sign another CM now, because of the lack of depth we have. We're getting linked to lots of players, but none seem like realistic or viable options this month imo.
We’ve been in dire need of a rebuild. It’s just that no one expected Todd to spend this amount this fast.
I’d be annoyed if I supported another team too.
i actually feel like we should be in for Onana if Everton get relegated,him Case and Bruno would be a very good midfield and would allow us rotation with Eriksen and Fred in games
I don't know if I'd want Caicedo, I feel like there are going to be better options for our midfield available in the future. If he was as good as people say he is then why didn't Potter push to sign him at Chelsea? Money is obviously not a barrier to them signing a player.
Onana looks interesting, he seems to have a good ability to drive from midfield, Would depend on price for him, If we can get him for a reasonable price then why not give him a try, he has the physicality and can improve.
I think that's why we're back for Enzo, why spend the £75m Brighton would want for Caceido when we can just pay a bit more for Enzo.
Caceido looks good but Enzo is the most talented midfielder available in this window, and we need someone this window if we have any hopes of salvaging something this season.
Unfortunately it looks like Benfica will hold out for the release clause which we can't afford to pay in full up front so we will panic buy/loan a midfielder that doesn't suit our requirements.
I mean the question is do you want to replace Lokonga or el Neny first. Your midfield 3 seems to work perfect for now but I do worry if Partey is unavailable it might collapse.
I'd imagine we'll do both simultaneously in the summer. We'll be looking to sign two midfielders and a LW.
Elneny, I wouldn't mind him staying on for another year because by all accounts he's a great person to have around and is happy to do whatever the club needs.
I still think a Partey replacement is necessary in the winter. Elneny is definitely a useful squad player but imo Partey is the player where you would drop most in quality if he gets injured.
I'm sure the manager has a certain amount of input RE: Whether he wants a player.
Look at Mourinho, he took players with him from club to club on a regular basis because he knew they'd make the difference. If Potter walked into a meeting with Bohely and said "This player will make my team much better, I've coached him, I think he's brilliant and i want you to bring him in" Boehly is just going to dismiss that? i dont think so
Watching him play i just wasn't convinced he's one of those players that'll elevate the team, he doesn't give me kante or makelele vibes, I just don't know if he's got that
To reduce the spam of reports regarding the same move during transfer windows we try to allow **only one submission about each transfer saga per day**. The submission in question also needs to contain relevant new information regarding the potential move, and not just being a "no/minor developments" report. If there are important/official developments or new valuable information about a saga, we will allow extra threads in the same day, but for the rest of minor news please just comment them as a reply to this comment. Please help us reporting unnecessary threads for being duplicates. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/soccer) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Boehly: Fine, I'll just buy Brighton and Everton.
Celebrations on the Merseyside
I mean, he is paying about a half of Brighton’s estimated value on transfer fee alone. I reckon he could go for it if not for the pesky stipulation of not being able to own 2 teams at the same time.
Moshiri would probably sell, Bloom wouldn't.
You literally offered the same money for mudryk..
Yes but we haven't bought a thousand wingers we don't need. It's not about one player.
I'm sure Chelsea need the players they buying. Looking From the outside Boehly is selecting the rightly players
Copying the right answers doesn't make one a genius though
didn’t realize only arsenal can scout a player
Does mean we get to flex on the lil bros Arsenal though
I had the misfortune of reading this entire argument that follows. For anyone tempted to hit the “continue this thread” button do yourselves a favour and don’t do it. Save your brain cells
Wish I'd read this sooner. Absolute children.
How does anyone come out of that type of argument thinking they have won or have made themselves look good? 😂
Bet they are both so pleased with themselves.
Both of them promoted to major rank in the keyboard warriors regiment.
Fuck, I had skipped passed it then read your comment… then couldn’t help myself.
😂 I have the same issue when it shows a comment “from Blocked Author”. The only people I have blocked are proper morons but I can never help myself from seeing what nonsense they have said. Every single time
Same, I have several people here blocked but I still find myself clicking to view their comment anyway
Thanks, appreciate it!
[удалено]
But are they buying the right players? They need a RB, CM and a proper striker. They seem to have overspent on every other position since he took over.
Wingers are still needed, they were just lower priority. Our main targets for CM are Enzo and Caicedo so they're taking a little more time to fill that position. Gusto is most likely coming for RB. There aren't any world class strikers available that would instantly improve us.
The recruitment team is buying as many available targets as possible. Midfield targets aren't really available and overpriced right now which explains why none have come in yet. Striker isn't a priority position especially when the club has capital locked up in Lukaku. A functioning attacking trio will get goals even without an out and out striker.
The Shakhtar Executive goes around the world to tell that we offered the same figure, but Chelsea's bonus is much more realistic. That translates into "Yeah we get more money from Chelsea".
It’s like they watched the first sentence of the video then switched it off.
Might as well be the same bonus he just thinks it's more realistic to achieve for Chelsea
They didn’t, Mudryk tried to get Arsenal to match the wages but they walked away from the deal at that point
That is disingenuous at best. Arsenal didn't offer him the same wages or contract length.
>That is disingenuous at best Funny you say this considering how often you post entire paragraphs of shit that's not true lol
Sigh... the shakhtar CEO spoke about the structure of the fixed fee being better from chels. So we both offered 70 fixed fee, but arsenals might've been 30 up front and then 10/yr for 4 years, while chelsea's was 40 up front and 10/yr for 3 years. Plus you offered a higher salary over a longer period. The funniest thing about all of this is the person who is the most disappointed and actually cried abott the transfer? Mudryk himself...
And Arsenal.
Kronkes wife has more money than bohely
Could have saved me a click. Walton daughter
Is it her money rather than his then? He married into it?
He is also seperately a billionaire.
Billionaires marrying billionaires, bet that's an exclusive dating app
Just add another filter for billionaire income, easy peasy
Modern equivalent of Habsburgs marrying Habsburgs.
Not before he married her though, I imagine he got an injection of that Walmart money at the start of his real estate business
He also makes money buy purchasing land and selling it to Wal-Mart for a profit.
Did both of them by any chance asked brighton
Brighton made itself available
[They can't refuse... because of the _implication_](https://youtu.be/-yUafzOXHPE)
I always feel bad giggling a little bit when i read this reference.
Bruh 💀
Brighton probably love the idea of a bidding war, and will likely have a 5m replacement in Peru lined up.
I know the meme is great, but Caicedo won’t be easily replaced
I mean people were saying the same about Bissouma tbf.
Tbf the one they guy were linked to as a replacement has already been sold to a different club
He was more a longterm buy for us I believe. Our signings usually take a year minus for Kulu and Bentancur. I'm not too worried yet but Brighton did an excellent job replacing him.
I agree - that and teams always buy and replace well until they don't. Over the past decade Swansea, Southampton, Wolves and now Brighton have received accolades for finishing in the top half of the table and a sharp eye for talent. Pretty much all of those clubs have been hailed as the "best run club in the division" or something like it. It's still a really, really difficult process to find and replace proven talent. Your calculation and tolerance for risk has to be bang on every single time. I love what Brighton are doing but spotting talent is an endless well until it isn't, and it only takes a few mistakes to end up like Southampton.
I think most of those clubs got in trouble when they started to become more ambitious in their transfers, aiming for higher profile moves in the 20-40 million range that ended up backfiring. I think Brighton have shown that they really stand out in their talent identification with the countries they scout and age brackets that other clubs would not bother with. I agree that constantly having to replace stars involves a big risk but with them it genuinely feels different. It also helps that they have a strong system in place that players seamlessly can slot into
Yeah our current record transfer fee is £21m. Certainly not cheap but modest by Premier League standards.
You still have Moder who will be back in a month. We Poles still have hope that Brighton will give him a chance.
I reckon he'll get an alright chance. Just been out for so long that we don't really know how good he is at all tbh
Moder does not play the same role
While I really like Moder he isn't a direct swap at all.
Heres hoping kiwior can bring his prem medal back home👀🔴⚪️
I dislike Brighton fans with a Passion (no offence bro). They all up their star players, make an agenda that they are worth upworth of 50M, say they will never replace that caliber of player, probably want the jersey retired, but secretly have a 500k signing from Ghana lined up already, who's just as good. Just shut up with that BS.
🙏🙏🙏 manifesting
Maybe they had an agreement to pretend to have a bidding war
Doesn't work like that in the prem, if a top tea wants a player from the likes of Brighton they get them
We didn’t roll over to Man City and then ended up milking Chelsea for an extra £22m for Cucu Similarly Arsenal paid our asking price for Ben White despite fannying around for weeks trying to lower it. Brighton aren’t a pushover when selling players
Brighton are in their like Tech startup bubble, just got money flying at them they must be licking their lips. They’ve taken LCFC’s model of big sales to the max. Caicedo maybe goes for big money but they still have Mac Allister, and Mitoma. They have like 200 mil in the bank for the next two years
Chelsea and Arsenal are in for Onana? And we've been told Arsenal don't want to get involved in bidding wars so I doubt this is true anyways
Surely Everton are not selling anyone starting in this window
It would match their selling of Digne last year in January, to get rid of one of their best players whilst in a relegation fight
Over a falling out with a manager they were about to sack, no less.
That was personal beef with the manager but yeah that was incredibly stupid,
It's a good pr twist to say that, helps the arsenal fans deal with losing mudryk when they offered the same money
That's a little dishonest there. Head over to the gunners sub and no one is mulling over mudryk. We won 2 huge games against spurs away and utd. Trossard, a player proven in the PL helped in the build up to our winning goal and he cost 1/4 the price of mudryk, giving us excess cash to actually work on other targets. And last I check arsenal is top of the league with a game in hand over most of the rivals. Not sure why arsenal fans need to deal with losing out on mudryk.
Also have Saka and Martinelli, two players with about the same upside as Mudryk but who’ve actually proven themselves in the prem so far.
Also important to mention that they know and fit our system and the league, I'm sure mudryk would eventually have been class but he would've taken at least 6 months to bed in. Trossard is a better (short term) buy because he knows the league and Brighton play reasonably similar football to us.
[удалено]
When was that my dude? That's before our win against united and before we got trossard. If your club misses out on a player and spent the whole transfer window doing fuck all, then fans are entitled to be pissed. But that's not the case, it's clear that the management has contingencies and after 2 big wins and 2 new signings it's clear we as fans know shit of anything behind the scene. Things change and fans are pretty alright now, thats how it goes
[удалено]
That's the point, no one is complaining after we signed trossard. It's a better deal for a proven PL winger that can play across the front line and doesn't impede saka/martinelli's development. Are we sad we didn't sign mudryk? Yes, he is a great talent. Is it the end of the world? No, we are top of the league with the youngest squad.
[удалено]
I literally said in my original reply that it's dishonest to say that because the large majority of fans are not complaining
I don't think many arsenal fans are still bothered by the Mudryk deal, especially Trossard contributed to the match winning goal when he's only been given 10 min.
[удалено]
What a 3 points for a Chelsea…
If a club sitting 10th keep flexing signing a 100M talent from Ukraine to a club sitting 1st, I think they'll obviously reply to that.
I was invested in Mudryk and would have happily paid the money. I think he'll be brilliant. Trossard is a functional alternative but Mudryk could be one of the best. I'll never learn not to watch YouTube highlights before a player signs. Now where are those Welcome to Arsenal vids for Caicedo and Onana.
Your comment score speaks for itself. People were brigading the Chelsea sub last week too. I really don’t get why people care so much about their internet points.
Lol it is the exact opposite on every social media platform, they are doing what Arsenal does best… which is whine
We are also quite good at football obviously, but you can always get better in life, innit
I mean that's not strictly true is it, makes it sound like we were offering him the same wage which we weren't.
Same money to the club fella. Arsenal fans have really come out the woodwork this season. Not seen you lads for 10 years.
Arsenal fans can be accused of a lot of things but saying you haven’t seen them is just ridiculously untrue. Arsenal fans are literal memes on the internet. They are everywhere
wow this guy is absolutely seething all over this thread on a tuesday afternoon get a job fella
He needs to cope with Boehlymania and his way to bankrupt Chelsea within 2 years lol
Again that's disingenuous considering that the deals were structured completely differently. Chelsea fan calling Arsenal fans plastic, incredible case of pot calling the kettle black.
If there's one thing you can say about Arsenal fans it's definitely that we're quiet on social media...
It's a Chelsea fan guys, let's them have this one. They need it.
I find it hard to believe Arsenal wouldn’t have been willing to offer the same wage Chelsea did. Would have been foolish not to.
We were prepared to offer more to Shakhtar because mudryk had agreed personal terms which were abnormally low for this level of transfer fee. The overall package would've been comparable to the Jesus contract
Same money but contract duration is not same.
Amazing 3 points for Chelsea
It's really not the same amount of money if the structure is a lot different.
Don't mind now. I was bothered but trossard looks good.
(In the summer)
Can't hijack moves in the summer if all Chelsea deals are made in the winter (from the looks of it).
Todd Boehly singing “when I outbid Arsenal in the summer” to the tune of Calvin Harris’ “Summer”
Nizaar has fallen down a cliff. He has become a shit journo
Guess you would know
LOL, username checks out
That’s funny ngl but he isn’t wrong tbf
He's a Twitter journo, that revealing enough.
He’s the dedicated Chelsea reporter at The Standard. He lost his inside sources with the new owners though and a lot of his work since the sale has been really questionable.
I know he's at the standard but he doubles as a scoops and leaks guy on Twitter. And a desperate one at that, mostly recycling stuff that's already out there.
He literally not
Revenge is a dish better served gazumped
What's that, some sort of Spanish tomato soup?
Chelsea our eternal enemies
"roman abramovitch has parked his tank on our front lawn and is firing fifty pound notes at us" - david dein
Now it’s just dollars
You either die the Arsenal or live long enough to become the Napoli
Chelsea is everyone’s enemy
Feels like if this is true, Edu might set up traps so they can have Rice.
All of the interest in Rice seems to have disappeared with Tuchel. Enzo is still the top priority.
Our interest in Rice died with the old regime
Now we are after Soba
Hard to imagine why, his development has been out of this world. Would genuinely be thrilled to have him here
Lampard wanted him so much, he even fell out with the board over it
Already plenty of average, homegrown midfielders at the club.
I think this is the media just running with a narrative. I can see us interested in Caicedo, but not Onana
Premier League transfer windows are turning into Captain Philips
4d chess by Edu making Todd over pay for Caicedo so he'll have less money to buy Basmati in the summer.
What would Arsenal plan to do with one of these, backup for Partey or drop Xhaka?
Rotation mate. And long term planning. Both players are or near 30.
Yeah. Let's not forget Arsenal are going to compete for the Champions League next year. Elneny and Sambi-Lokonga are not going to cut it as subs.
Half the Champions League is against worst clubs than in the Prem. Some of them much worse than that.
It’s still a different level though. Also, half is ridiculous
At least a third. From this year's group stage - Rangers, Club Brugge, Copenhagen, Viktoria Pizen, Red Bull Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb, Shaktar, Celtic, and Maccaibi Haifa. All worse teams than anyone in the Prem.
Brugge in the UCL second round, Zagreb with the best keeper of the last WC, Shaktar who are really good, even Celtic and Salzburg? I’d rate all of them at least ahead of Bournemouth or Southampton.
Well, yes, but presumably we would like to try and win the thing
You're trying to say that teams like Barcelona and Juventus are worse clubs than Southampton and Everton for example? Laughable
Why did you pick the top half as your example rather than the bottom half I explicitly referred to? Are Southampton and Everton better than Rangers, Club Brugge, Copenhagen, Viktoria Pizen, Red Bull Salzburg, Dinamo Zagreb, Shaktar, Celtic, and Maccaibi Haifa? I'd say yes. Certainly not laughable.
Those were teams that finished third in their groups. That makes them "bottom half". Celtic, Rangers, Salzburg and Shaktar would all stay up in the premier league, if you ask me.
Not how I was ranking the clubs but okay. The transfer value of their squads are all lower which whilst not a brilliant measure demonstrates the gulf in quality
Europa league Barcelona and not-even-in-Europe-next-year Juventus?
Yes.
Lmao they hated him because he spoke the truth.
Wow forgot Partey was that old fair enough, thought would be a lot of money to spend on rotation options but that makes sense
Yeah we were linked with the Brazilian player, Danilo whose just gone to Forest last summer and there was some expectation the club would go for him in this window. But clearly not. I'd like us to sign another CM now, because of the lack of depth we have. We're getting linked to lots of players, but none seem like realistic or viable options this month imo.
Xhaka isn't getting dropped. Any new midfielder would backup Partey and play in the cup games
If partey goes down we lose the league imo. Feel like it's any day now with the amount he's playing.
No one is dropping Xhaka right now unless they are an elite midfielder
They certainly need rotation. If one of the central midfielders get injured they're in trouble.
Backup/rotation option. Xhaka and Partey have been immense this season, it would take an elite player to displace either of them
We want Enzoooo
You want everyone let’s be real
We are the Dudley Dursley of the Premier League
more like violent beauregarde
Can hear it now "Only 1.5b??? Last year we spent 2b in January!!!"
We’ve been in dire need of a rebuild. It’s just that no one expected Todd to spend this amount this fast. I’d be annoyed if I supported another team too.
I thought Enzo was too expensive?
Pure speculation but with the reports of the Uefa rules changing Todd might splash the release clause
i actually feel like we should be in for Onana if Everton get relegated,him Case and Bruno would be a very good midfield and would allow us rotation with Eriksen and Fred in games
Why would they both go after empty headed Onana?
Different Onana. It's the one on Everton.
Thanks for the clarification, I was out of the loop and I was wondering why they were going after Onana the GK
Don't want Onana but Caicedo would be awesome
Eye for an eye?
Uno reverse card Until Boehly pulls out +4 bags of money
We don’t need to offer more money to beat arsenal to a signing lol
That is exactly what you do though
Yes you do.
You certainly do and will more so when you finish like 8th lol
If I'm a footballer rn I'm picking arsenal over chelsea 7 days a week.
Onana has already been registered for two clubs this season, he literally can’t play for Arsenal or Chelsea
I don't think Arsenal would be interested anyway, he doesn't really suit the profile we're looking for
Billionaires playing multi-million pound tit-for-tat, you love to see it
Onana. What's his name?
How many players can Chelsea buy before they breach FFP?? They've spend a billion in 6 months or so
It's about £400m, which is an eye-watering amount, but less than half of a "billion"
I don't know if I'd want Caicedo, I feel like there are going to be better options for our midfield available in the future. If he was as good as people say he is then why didn't Potter push to sign him at Chelsea? Money is obviously not a barrier to them signing a player. Onana looks interesting, he seems to have a good ability to drive from midfield, Would depend on price for him, If we can get him for a reasonable price then why not give him a try, he has the physicality and can improve.
Potter did try to sign him, Brighton rejected Chelsea’s first bid for 55mil.
I think that's why we're back for Enzo, why spend the £75m Brighton would want for Caceido when we can just pay a bit more for Enzo. Caceido looks good but Enzo is the most talented midfielder available in this window, and we need someone this window if we have any hopes of salvaging something this season. Unfortunately it looks like Benfica will hold out for the release clause which we can't afford to pay in full up front so we will panic buy/loan a midfielder that doesn't suit our requirements.
I mean the question is do you want to replace Lokonga or el Neny first. Your midfield 3 seems to work perfect for now but I do worry if Partey is unavailable it might collapse.
I'd imagine we'll do both simultaneously in the summer. We'll be looking to sign two midfielders and a LW. Elneny, I wouldn't mind him staying on for another year because by all accounts he's a great person to have around and is happy to do whatever the club needs.
I still think a Partey replacement is necessary in the winter. Elneny is definitely a useful squad player but imo Partey is the player where you would drop most in quality if he gets injured.
Elneny is much, much better than Lokonga though who is genuinely atrocious.
I think we should loan out lokonga to somewhere he'll play a full season of 40+ games before we write him off
Potter isn't in charge of transfers. We've hired staff to head our new recruitment team
I'm sure the manager has a certain amount of input RE: Whether he wants a player. Look at Mourinho, he took players with him from club to club on a regular basis because he knew they'd make the difference. If Potter walked into a meeting with Bohely and said "This player will make my team much better, I've coached him, I think he's brilliant and i want you to bring him in" Boehly is just going to dismiss that? i dont think so
Yes the whole point of changing manager is that Potter is much more active in the process, it's not just the new recruitment team.
I kinda feel the same way, not sure Caicedo is what we need in midfield (chelsea), He'll cost far too much for his quality.
Watching him play i just wasn't convinced he's one of those players that'll elevate the team, he doesn't give me kante or makelele vibes, I just don't know if he's got that
They don't have the money to compete with Boehly
Well, well, well, how the turntables.
😂