Wonder if he will end up signing a contract extension 
Ross Barkley | Stays at Everton
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I'd suggest Conté is why these players have doubts. He doesn't seem like a stable guy and I'm not sure I'd fancy working under him if I could work under Poch or even Klopp.
Chelsea never usually have a problem getting signings done.
Chelsea never usually have a problem getting signings done.
Chelsea been getting snubbed all summer. Lukaku, Ox, Llorente, Costa, Barkley..
They must be undercutting players salary wise.
Sounds like Daniel Levy has been up to old tricks. Maybe Pochettino has given him a guarantee of first team football in his favoured position in January and maybe Chelsea wouldn't offer that
They're idiots then. Poch especially has achieved feck all so far, while Conte has won 3 in a row at Juventus then took a massive shit over the PL pretenders last season.
This sounds like something that would have happened during that Moyes era deadline day. What a horrible night that was.
Players generally love working under strong personalities like Conte. I can't think of any players (bar Diego Costa who is much more mental than Conte) who have had issues with him.
Too true only it would have been Moyes changing his mind about the player half way through the medical and not the players changing their mind.
He'd lost the faith of the blue half of Liverpool. This decision not only earns it back, it also earns him a shit load of money in the long run.
A win-win for him and his agent. Clever bit of business by the lad.
A win-win for him and his agent. Clever bit of business by the lad.
He's just lost out on any chance of playing his way into a starting place at the World Cup anyway.
I'm sure the massive signing on fee he'll get when he signs for someone on a free will cushion that blow though.
I'm sure the massive signing on fee he'll get when he signs for someone on a free will cushion that blow though.
WIll be interested to see how the Everton fans react to this, especially if he does not sign and runs his contract down.
He'll get a lot more first-team football at Everton. At Chelsea, he'd be competing a lot more players with a lot more quality. If anything, he's got a better chance of getting into the England team.
By the sounds of it he can't play till around Christmas anyway because of this injury so what's the big deal about waiting till January?
If Barkley can't handle Koeman's demands then Conte would be hell for him. Similar to when Gerrard referred to Benitez as someone who treats his players like chess pieces whereas a personality like Barkley needs / wants a more personable mentor. It doesn't mean one way is better than the other - the best period of Gerrard's career was under Benitez......but some players maybe simply just want to enjoy their football first and foremost and other things are secondary in their thinking.
Regardless of his reasons anyway - it's a bit bizarre behaviour-wise to go to a medical and then change your mind.
Maybe I'm just fecking lazy but I couldn't be bothered making a 180 at that stage.
*Half way through my medical with Burton Albion and starting to have doubts* "Feck it, I'm here now, let's get it done..."
Maybe I'm just fecking lazy but I couldn't be bothered making a 180 at that stage.
*Half way through my medical with Burton Albion and starting to have doubts* "Feck it, I'm here now, let's get it done..."
how the feck was he supposed to know that the medical would actually require some moderate running?
This collapsed deal reminds me of RvN in 2000.
Barkley is injured and perhaps didn't want to submit to the more strenuous tests that Chelsea were demanding.
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I wonder how many times a high profile transfer like this has not happened for this very same reason?
Decision making hesitation. Not surprised.
Yeah, will probably arrive together with Jadon Sancho
Well, you can't win 'em all. For what it's worth a respected ITK at Blue Moon also thought it was a done deal.
Just doing damage control for Chelsea. Law is Chelsea's media spin man. Can't at all buy that he got to the point of a medical and then it was decided "hey let's just do this in January" and why the hell would Chelsea do it in January when they could wait 6 more months and get him in on a free.
Football fans in general don't seem to be able to grasp the fact that, like most people in the world, he's free to choose where he wants to work.
Absolutely.
Because they can sign him to a precontract with a fat signing on bonus that's significantly less than the transfer fee they'd have paid to Everton. Barkley makes a lot more, Chelsea spend less, the only one who misses out is Everton.
He's most certainly not free to choose where he works, at least not until next season.
We need a transfer deadline joke collection. class.
They were checking for hernias, but his final ball let him down.
Sounds plausible.
Well along with Oxelade-Chamberlin and Diego Costa, Barkley has chosen not to work for Chelsea anyway.
No shit sherlock!
RvP?
This is hilarious. What on earth is wrong with this guy? Absolute time waster.
Whoops, sorry. Force of habit. RvN.
ChelseaWe need another World class Dutch striker to complete the hattrick
He obviously feels it would be better for his career to play at a club that is not Chelsea. Looks very likely somebody had a word in his ear about a likely move in January to a club he really wants.
There is an awful lot of info we simply dont know.
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