Can he play on the right ?
Mykhailo Mudryk / signs 8.5yr deal at Chelsea
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I hope Chelsea buys Declan Rice for 120M next. Perhaps us, Arsenal and City should register our interest in Declan first
Actually insane. Nobody (thus far) even looks close to a hit, either.
From what I've heard from people who have seen more of Nkunku is that he's not great on the wing and is more of a second striker. Since we've come back from the WC we've played 4atb in both matches with Mount and Havertz in sort of free roles to roam anywhere (probably where Nkunku would be), and Sterling has played on the right wing in both matches. He was actually decent against Bournemouth until James went off injured, then the whole teams level dropped.
He's been massively underwhelming though. Maybe I haven't watched enough of City in recent years but I expected him to atleast be able to dribble past defenders, he can't even seem to be able to do that now. This is the main thing we have lacked since Hazard left. Our attack is stale with no one capable of providing a bit of magic, so I can see why we'd be after players like Leao or Mudryk.
His contract is up in 2024 and there's no signs of him signing a new one (and nor should he want to or the club be offering him one). One good spell post lockdown but largely the same as the others.
Yeah Sterling at his best for City was an off the ball guy who had great movement to get into goal scoring chances and cause havoc in the box, but he wasn't a creator or a Hazard type. He was the guy to receive the final passes (or just someone to lay it off to another guy).
6 months ago, he said he only wanted to join Bayer Leverkusen and we discussed whether €20M was too much for him
Terrific talent. Whoever signs him can consider himself lucky, I think.
And for him personally it would have been better to join Leverkusen rather than Arsenal or Chelsea for crazy money to (mostly) sit on the bench.
Chelsea is s club it's not possible to like. No class whatsoever
What's the issue with Chelsea here ?
Arsenal don't own him. This guy is on the market and Chelsea are throwing their hat, more precisely financial weight, into the ring. Plus, their forward options are painfully out of form or are just not up to the required consistent level they're aiming for.
Arsenal don't own him. This guy is on the market and Chelsea are throwing their hat, more precisely financial weight, into the ring. Plus, their forward options are painfully out of form or are just not up to the required consistent level they're aiming for.
Yep same here, always was my first signing on FM.
They ruined football!!
Think it’s more so that Chelsea don’t actually want him, it’s more they don’t want Arsenal to have him.
Their scouting system, it seems, to be just go bid for whoever anyone else wants and blow them out the water as some kinda big dick competition
coincidental that as news of Leao wanting and is close to renewing with milan, that chelsea suddenly ready to splash on this kid.
feels kinda nice that milan got chelsea to retreat... not many have been able to do that recently. feels even better that leao prefers us.
feels kinda nice that milan got chelsea to retreat... not many have been able to do that recently. feels even better that leao prefers us.
I didn’t say it was fake, I said it was more Chelsea don’t want Arsenal to have him more than they actually want him - if you catch my drift
Or they realise that their wing options are dreadful and want to add a talented youngster to bolster their options?
Rice is so obviously going to end up at Chelsea. He's welded to Mason Mount off the pitch. It'd be his wet dream to follow him around there too.
I mean, if this is true which I'm still not convinced about (the Romano 'news' could easily be coming out of Shaktar's end which means quite an obvious ulterior motive) then i would wager it's because one of our primary targets (Rafael Leao) is by reports about to sign a new deal at his current club.
If it was that straight forward we'd have Bellingham (best mates with James) and Sancho (best mates with CHO).
And then barca step in to take him off chelsea
The Rice-Chelsea link seems pretty ironclad. Would be a surprise if he ends up anywhere other than Chelsea at this point.
6 months ago, he said he only wanted to join Bayer Leverkusen and we discussed whether €20M was too much for him
Terrific talent. Whoever signs him can consider himself lucky, I think.
So he’s not this lifelong Arsenal fan who has only been scouted by Arsenal and no one else then? I’m shocked
This guy is a HUGE talent!! I love eastern european players ! They work hard and have some amazing talent!! Chelsea and Arsenal will be lucky to have him. Who ever lands
Dont know why they persist on asking for Antony money, they both dont play in the same position aswell.
Its very difficult to find right wingers, left winger are available in quantity but not right wingers so they anyway come at a premium.
In any case I can see him going to Chelsea now that they have decided to play football manager for real.
Its very difficult to find right wingers, left winger are available in quantity but not right wingers so they anyway come at a premium.
In any case I can see him going to Chelsea now that they have decided to play football manager for real.
Unless Mudryk himself pushes for Arsenal and only Arsenal, I think Chelsea will land him as they're more likely to meet Shaktar's demands. Shame. I hope Arteta has other targets as we desperately need more attacking options. The Newcastle game was a perfect example - we had no creative/attacking options from the bench.
Seems obvious that Arsenal are his first choice, guy is twerking mad for us including that interview with Zinchenko's Mrs, but Shakhtar are quite right to try an instigate an auction as they are obviously looking after their own self interests.
If Arsenal come close to what Shakhtar want them I can see them perhaps taking the players consideration in view, but if they don't and Chelsea do 'blow Arsenal out the water' then he'll join Chelsea. I certainly don't think it Arsenal or nothing for the lad.
It will be funny if Chelsea end up with a mishmash of players who are assembled with no rhyme or reason beyond trying to weaken their rivals
I'm really curious where this narrative is coming from that we're seemingly after Mudryk only because Arsenal wants him too.
Since Hazard left we've been crying out for wingers who have the ability to take on opponents 1v1 and the fact we don't seem to have such players has been a major factor as to why our attacking play has become as toothless as it has.
When teams defend deep, as they often do against us, you need players who can produce a moment of magic to create some space behind the lines and it's become clear the likes of Havertz, Pulisic and Ziyech aren't capable of that and instead of taking players on they usually just recycle the ball back to the midfielders or look for an overlapping run from a full-back to pass the ball to. The latter often works when we have a top player like James bombing forward but not so much when we have to rely on the tired legs of Azpilicueta. Ideally you'd want the winger to be capable of dribbling past opponents on his own or look for a pass behind the line to the full-back or striker, depending on the situation, but now that we're crippled with limited options on how to attack it can get very predictable and easy to defend against.
Pretty much everyone who's watched us in the last few years has seen these problems with their own eyes and like to mock us about our shite and unimaginative attacking play but as soon as we try to go for a player in a different mould in hopes of getting that 'x-factor' it gets ridiculed too. The main target has been Rafael Leao of Milan but now it started to look like we're not going to be able to pull that one off so we've began focusing on other alternatives.
I don't think it's this player in isolation. I think it's this player in addition to what you've bought and are intending to buy over a season.
You've had a change of ownership, a complete change of football structure, change of manager, bought several players in the summer that haven't been big hits so far, and looking to similar in the winter. You're looking to take spending to another level not seen before under Roman or the Sheikhs so far. Also some of the moves are perceived as trying to hijack moves after clubs have done some legwork to get it down the line.
There's obviously some method in what you are trying to do, but the saying method within the madness is perhaps the perception that's coming across to everyone, and that's why many mention the Boehly playing Football Manager comments, and I think that will filter in the game as well as to us fans outside.
There will be arguments for Nottingham Forests spending in the summer for instance, but this just comes across as like that only to a lesser degree in terms of quantity of player, but a higher degree in terms of spend.
The way Arsenal have been chasing him I hope Chessy get him.
Chelsea is an interesting option for any player. It is a big club located in london and the club is investing a lot of money in the squad. I personally don't think Mudryk want Arsenal only. Arsenal just probably his preferred choice among the interested clubs back then. Edu is very unlikely to pay 100m euro for his service.
If that's the case then I'm even more confused.
Of the players we've brought in I think only Cucurella was 'hijacked' after another club (City) had done some groundwork before us and now we're looking to do a similar feat with Mudryk if you guys fail to land him. Other than that the signings of Fofana, Sterling, Koulibaly, Badiashile and all the youngsters (Slonina, Chukwuemeka, Casadei, Santos, Datro Fofana) we essentially had a free run to get and there was no element of 'copying your class mates homework' to any of those deals. Same for Nkunku who will join in the summer.
We're definitely in the process of a larger squad overhaul having failed to perform in the EPL for the last 5-6 years with lots of players who are either getting old (Azpi, Silva, Kante, Jorginho) or just otherwise not all that great (strikers, Pulisic, Ziyech etc.) so a lot of money is being spent and on multiple players. The plan is obviously to spend big in the short term in hopes of being competitive again sooner rather than later.
Usually such a rebuild would be done piece by piece over longer period of time but if the money is there to be spent and the club already know the positions it needs spending on, why wait any longer than necessary? There's also an argument that with the rise of Newcastle and their Saudi money time is of the essence and we can't really afford to miss out on the top end of the table for too many years in a row while trying to rebuild the squad. If/when United and Liverpool also get new wealthy owners and start spending on what are already very decent squads, there's a very real risk of getting left behind which can be difficult to bounce back from. So yeah, if the money is ready and available it's perhaps better to go big now and then cut back on the spending when the squad is completed than do it gradually over the years.
No hard feeling as there are a lots of players available in the market. Mudryk is an interesting player but I just don't think 100m euro for him represent good value to Arsenal anymore when Gakpo cost Liverpool somewhere between £35m and £45m.
They are not a big club. They had a brief successful period, but it's over.
Yeah I definitely agree that this guy doesn't seem worth Shakhtar's asking price and I hope we won't spend that much on him either. Maybe I'm a bit old fashioned but I think a 100m€ signing should represent an already established world class talent, not a guy from a minor league with a couple of decent seasons under his belt. Who knows maybe Mudryk will go on to prove himself as a world class player but he's certainly not there yet, and players with a much more proven track record have failed to live up to the expectations at the elite clubs.
I was merely responding to the claims that nobody in our club can identify transfer targets themselves and only go after ones who've already been targeted by rivals, which quite simply isn't true. Sure there can sometimes be an overlap when an interesting player is on the market and teams are competing for the same targets but it doesn't make whoever makes their move first any more special.
That can't be true for any EPL club, let alone Chelsea. For Mudryk or any promising young players, it is normal to have competition for their service. For the price Shakhtar asked for, I would rather go for Zaha or Thuram. You can buy 3 quality players to improve the squad for €100m.
You'll probably know more than me but was there not rumoured ones in the summer that you didn't get like Raphinha, Jesus and Richarlison that were being reported at the time?
Richarlison was nothing more than an enquiry or whatever you call a phone call asking about a player’s availability. Same with Jesus. Don’t think Chelsea seriously tried to sign him. Raphinha though, definitely.
Anyway you spin our last two windows. It is not a good look for the new owners.
Sad day for football when Ukrainian teams are demanding €100 million euros for their players. It is bad enough that Portuguese teams quote that as the starting price for any hyped-up star from that league, and we've seen with ourselves and ajax recently, but no player who hasn't shown a significant body of work in Europe's top 5 league or the champions league should be going for that much.
I cannot wait until the bubble bursts.
I cannot wait until the bubble bursts.
More injuries for Chelsea, Daddy Boelhy about to splash it all on him
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