Who is the 3rd?
And there's plenty of silly Chelsea fans losing their shit over this.
Chelsea 2022/2023 | THIS IS LAST YEARS THREAD YOU NUMPTIES
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik (@Rood) and Imran (@Annihilate Now!) are here to discuss three 1-1 draws.
The first got us knocked out of the FA Cup, the next puts us in a good position in our Round of 16 Europa League game, and the latest was an actual decent performance against Arsenal at Old Trafford.
All hopes for the season now rest on the Europa League - does Amorim have the squad to win it?
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Who is the 3rd?
And there's plenty of silly Chelsea fans losing their shit over this.
Yeah no idea why people keep saying we need major surgery. We need another defender on top of Koulibaly and Sterling, but beyond that we're getting into the 'it would be nice to have' territory, no longer urgent needs.
I'm fairly calm about it, like you. We're not missing out on generational talents to Barca. We can find similar level players elsewhere, and the links to Fofana is exactly what I mean.
I kounde believe it.... I thought the deal was done last friday when Chelsea fans were on twitter roasting Brokelona all day..
Would it make people feel better if we rename the thread to Chelsealona? Trick their minds into thinking they actually signed all those players for a second?
Here's your coat mate.
I would say another wingback is a need assuming Marcos leaves (don't trust other Sterling going forward and don't trust Emerson atall) but other than that fully agree.
Forfana and Koulibaly if we can pull it off will hopefully give us the foundation to make a back 4 more often.
Was perplexed when I saw Todd jetting around Europe trying to negotiate transfers. Losing Marina, Cech and co really fecked them up.
So that's a yes?
Sterling is headed out on loan again anyway, but yeah seems like it's one in, one out with Alonso and Emerson. I don't mind that so much. Who can we buy that is good enough to play for Chelsea but also willing to sit on the bench? When you're shopping specifically for backups you usually end up with players that were never good enough to play for Chelsea to begin with.
Marina and co got us Lukaku and also couldn't get us Kounde last year.
I'm happy with Sterling and Koulibali so far.
I find it pretty amusing that Laporta is just copying Bartomeu, result will be the same imo, let's see how many levers left when they hit the buffers again in the next couple of years.
Loads of transfer aren't the answer, Utd "won the window trophy" last year, took the team that came 2nd, added Sancho, Varane and Ronaldo, look where it got them.
We need to use the academy and maybe one more defender, that's it.
Loads of transfer aren't the answer, Utd "won the window trophy" last year, took the team that came 2nd, added Sancho, Varane and Ronaldo, look where it got them.
We need to use the academy and maybe one more defender, that's it.
I mean, sure.
Weren't you linked with Lewandowski?
Towards the back end of the last season, your midfield looked like teams could walk through it, it seems the same way in preseason. You defence definitely needs major surgery especially with the players you'll still be losing and your attack doesn't have a single goal out and out goal scorer. Sterling blows hot and cold.
Agreed. Here are the moves so far:
Lukaku -> Sterling
Saúl -> Gallagher
Rüdiger -> Koulibaly
The first two I would consider big improvements and the last maybe of equal quality?
Christensen is of course yet to be replaced but another CB will definitely be brought in. Who that will be is anyone's guess after missing out on Kounde/MdL but if anything, chasing after players of that level gives me hope like you said. I didn't really rate Christensen all that highly and don't think he'll be too hard to replace with a player of similar level, although at this point the replacement won't necessarily be a big improvement either.
After getting another CB to replace Andreas any other new signing will probably depend on outgoings to make some space in the squad but I doubt the club are letting anyone go only to get a worse player as their replacement.
Our chances of any success rely on the wing-backs staying fit and Sterling-Havertz-Mount clicking in attack but at the moment I'm not too worried. Last season we got 74 points in the league with no reliable goalscorers and both wing-backs crocked for most of the season so it would have to be a big meltdown within the squad or management for the level to drop off massively. Unless the club pull of some great signings to end the window any title challenge is probably a pipe dream but so far I haven't seen anything from Arsenal/Spurs/United to make me too worried about any of them for top-4 battle.
There's still a good enough team there. Tuchel has to do more to get the best out of Pulisic and Ziyech
Ziyech will be sold for 10 mn. Werner also on his way out I think. Problem with ziyech and pulisic both when get game time and start performing they got injured and out of the team.
That s really frustrating. Manager can't able to trust them to build the team around them.
No way are the club selling him for that low. He may not have been great but surely he's still worth +20M?
His salary of £100K/wk doesn't seem too outrageous either. Maybe a little bit on the high end for Milan who are rumored to be after him the most, but with Italy's looser tax rates he'll easily get the same net salary in Italy as he does in England without Milan breaking their wage structure. They just need to pay him around the same as Origi or Giroud to afford it.
That said I think Ziyech to Milan, should it happen, will be a loan deal. Perhaps a loan fee around 5M and an option/obligation to buy next year at 15-20M.
Do we think they would have had better luck with their targets if Roman was still the owner and Maria was negotiating?
I doubt it. We failed to land Kounde last season and there was no Barca up against us then.
Rafinha also wanted Barca. The lure of them over us (especially to Brazilians) is understandable.
Would we have got Sterling and Koulibali under the old regime? Maybe, maybe not.
Certainly this summer I’d say yes. Long term it might not make much difference. Am I worried at all? Not in the slightest.
We will start the season slow, drop silly points against shite opposition and will probably battle for 4-6 place but this is a weird season with the World Cup as well and I’m prepared for it.
You may get your wish as we appear to be a looking at Joakim Maehle - I can imagine a player like that would be ideal as he can cover both sides and is good enough to play for Chelsea.
You'll have the same problem we have getting rid of these players. High age, high wage, and clubs that are interested aren't flush with cash.
Valencia have apparently told us they'll take Torriera from us as long as there's no transfer fee involved. Thats very kind of them. Betis want to pay about £4M for Bellerin, and we should feel lucky.
It's not easy at all now to sell high age with high wage for any sort of value to the continent now.
Is Fofana really attainable fresh off an extension and two weeks from the start of season?
I would have taken Fofana over Kounde in a heartbeat, but I expected the extension to be a setup for a massive sale to one of the really big clubs next year or the year after.
I would love to get excited for this, but it seems unlikely.
I would have taken Fofana over Kounde in a heartbeat, but I expected the extension to be a setup for a massive sale to one of the really big clubs next year or the year after.
I would love to get excited for this, but it seems unlikely.
It's unlikely but I like that we're going for him, but for the love of Drogba, can we confirm with the player or his agent that he actually wants to come here before we start pursuing him.
it is interesting that so many clubs are looking for striker but there is no interest in Mauro Icardi at all.
Is Colwill going to be looked at by Chelsea or is he going on loan somewhere?
Depends who we will bring in. As of now he will stay.Him,ampadu and sarr as back ups for koulibaly,Silva and chalobah.
I think he'll want first team football and he could have a breakthrough at Chelsea. I like him as a player, haven't watched Sarr to say who is better. He looks ready for Premier League
I can pretty confidently say Colwill is already much better than Sarr.
Colwill is better and only going to get much better.
Not really a mystery. He’s a dick, with more drama from his wife and has been utter shit at PSG. Who wants that at their club?
What about Belotti ?
I’d love to see him… for a rival. Undoubtedly a very good striker but there’s always a headline out of him/Wanda
Sure but at this stage if we can't find him enough minutes we need to send him on loan where he can get regular minutes. Huge potential having player like him shouldn't be wasted on bench.
At least he is childhood chelsea fan. Hope that will be enough to stop barcelona hijacking him too from chelsea.
Leicester won't give up him for less than 80 mn.
Shame we didn't get Kounde, TT cost us him i think.
Dont really see a realistic good CB we can get now.
Dont really see a realistic good CB we can get now.
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