Him and Eze committing to Nigeria would be great.
Michael Olise
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Wants to play for France I think.
Isn’t this exactly what we’ve done with Antony this season?
Antony has 4 PL goals & 1 assist
Olise has 2 PL goals & 9 assists.
Needs to work on his defensive headers from corners!
I don't think he'll be able to make the required step-up to get out of the youth selection for France but can't fault him for believing in himself. He needs to get a good move to a top 7/8 club.
I can't think of many great French right wingers at the moment, surely he has a chance?
Very good player can pass or cross to put in a teammate and go past a player making it look easy. Has a bit of speed to get away too
He might have a chance to get in the squad but not starting 11. Not right now, anyway.
Mbappé plays on the left and then there is Dembele and Coman.
Always see him Arsenal bound one day. Not sure why.
Dembele is still only 25 and i think Moussa Diaby (23) could get in there, he can play everywhere up front. Then you have Coman (26) and Nkunku (25) back from injury. If any of these 4 are fit they are playing, no question.
It's not impossible with 3 of them having recurrent injury issues but it will be very hard.
He will earn a renewal. However his advisers and he should not allow it to be one to trap him there beyond his 25th birthday. Zaha seriously hurt his career due to such a mistake
Yes and no, he could have definitely played at a higher level but the only serious club that have been in for him in the last few years are Arsenal and they decided they’d rather pay £70m for Nicholas Pepe. Levy didn’t want to pay more than £15m for him which was never going to fly and Everton was never a serious option. Assuming he gets a good move this summer and experiences European football for a few seasons I don’t think he’ll look back on his career with loads of regret, he will go down as the GOAT of the club he grew up in the shadow of whilst hopefully winning something by the time he hangs up his boots as well. Also been paid a top wage in the meantime.
As for Olise, these are different times and the club’s model will be to sell these young talents, not hold on to them. Back when Wilf was entering his prime we just didn’t have a choice due to a lack of resources and the club not being particularly attractive to good players.
Also, we only paid £8m for Olise due to a release clause anyway so stands to reason that his agent won’t let that happen.
my point is Zaha's lengthy contract made him too expensive for serious suitors. (Not jokers like spurs). Arsenal preffered paying 70m in installments for Pepe for that reason. CP would have demanded cash up front. Its the same reason why Dortmund fled. Also don't get me wrong. CP did what best suited them. It's Zaha who made a mistake. So unless he gets a serious European playing side on a free. He will always wonder what could have been. I have always believed he (like I think Olise will become) was good enough to regularly play at UCL level.
Lovely player to watch, elegant on the ball and it is not the generic left footed right winger shot spam, clever and creative player, Palace are going to struggle to keep him and Eze, also wonder if Andersen might draw some interest with his passing ability.
Said we should go for Olise after last season before we went for Anthony. You don't always need months of scouting...some players are class and this kid had it from the beginning. He had Liverpool on toast last season when they were going for the quadruple...and it wasn't traore (wolves) toasting where he outruns everyone, he was dribbling the LB with serious skill. He is an absolute top-tier baller and I won't be shocked if Mancity pushes to sign him to replace Mahrez. And they will probably do it for something like 60m...anthony doesn't have the ceiling of this kid. We wait too long and chase the expensive players...even this summer, going for declan rice over caicedo...going for mason mount over enzo le fee, its crazy how we consistently spend huge money on players who have equals who are cheaper
We're terrible at this
Rumour is we are closing to reach agreement to sign him. Very good pl proven player.
He will be a great signing for Chelsea.
Where’s he going to play, when the Ukrainian MBappe is on the left already?
He is right winger. Will be a competition/rotation for madueke.
Spent 7 years in Chelsea's academy.
I think he will displace him pretty easily, Madueke is too unpolished.
We should have signed him!!!
Would have been a better signing than Sancho or Antony. You need wide players with pace and power in this league.
He is not a particularly quick player though, is he? Sublime technique, though!
We should have signed him instead of Antony, imo. Think his release clause was £50m too, so would have been way cheaper as well.
Please. He wasn't ready as either of them by the time we signed them.
Cracking player,
But find it hilarious that no-one seems to pick up on the fact that Chelsea pay OVER players release clauses!
Yet always find a way to say that United over pay!
But find it hilarious that no-one seems to pick up on the fact that Chelsea pay OVER players release clauses!
Yet always find a way to say that United over pay!
Quality player.
Disappointing news I thought city would be in for him with Mahrez departing. He's oke of the most promising players in the league.
Of course Chelsea are signing him. They're worse than 15 year old me on football manager.
Could be a career stagnating move with how Chelsea cycle through attackers. Lovely player though.
He’s basically another Cobham product. He was always destined to come home where he belongs.
Cracking player,
But find it hilarious that no-one seems to pick up on the fact that Chelsea pay OVER players release clauses!
Yet always find a way to say that United over pay!
Release clause sets the price, paying over the clause ensures the fee can be paid installments. Not really the same thing as overpaying...
Cracking player,
But find it hilarious that no-one seems to pick up on the fact that Chelsea pay OVER players release clauses!
Yet always find a way to say that United over pay!
Release clause is paid in one payment. The owners pay a little over the release clause and spread payments over three to four years. They are writing the checks, they can do it how they like.
The Athletic wrote an article at the backend of last year saying the £35m release clause is gone, so either Fab’s wrong or they are. I am not sure we can afford to lose him now Wilf’s gone.
He's a class player but Chelsea are actually an embarrassing club. Keep on stockpiling players. They just signed Madueke last January, signing another young player in that position is actually stupid.
At the moment Madueke is quite literally our only first team option for RW so how is it stockpiling if we get another player who can play there?
For a 4-2-3-1 formation we basically have Jackson, Broja, Nkunku, Mudryk, Sterling and Madueke for the four starting places. Six players for four spots doesn't seem like a lot to me.
As for Michael Olise, I haven't seen enough of him to say if he's actually any good. Being out injured till late September at a minimum would make signing him kind of pointless though.
Paying more than you have to, regardless whether it's spread over 3 or 4 or 8 years is overpaying.
Yes but paying 2-3m over the release clause gets the selling club 2-3m extra and it allows the buying club to split the money up into instalments, which you can't when you're straight up triggering the release clause. So yes, you're overpaying but it comes with a perk that allows the buying club cost flexibility.