Chelsea Transfer Banter

07 Jun 2025 15:38:26
Looks as though Gyokeres will be going to United as is Cunha. Mbeuma from Brentford a possibility as well. Not quite sure how they will affod even the first two given financial situation but presumably will sell Garnacho. and Sancho and Rashford among others?

07 Jun 2025 16:01:46
Man U aren’t as skint as SJR tries to make out just an excuse for his cost- cutting exercises. Whether we like it or not Man U are a big club. They will have to sell. I just hope we’re not stupid enough to go for Garnacho.

07 Jun 2025 21:30:54
Think you're right about United and SJR Jimbo.

07 Jun 2025 07:39:03
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06 Jun 2025 07:39:03
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05 Jun 2025 12:39:58
Watching the Trevor Chalaboa interview at the England training camp. He comes across as a well spoken and educated young man. Very impressive.

05 Jun 2025 13:08:40
He is a true professional Tom and a credit to our academy.

05 Jun 2025 17:14:10
Credit to our academy I must say a shame to the club because they wanted to kick him out a shame he is a good servant.

05 Jun 2025 17:56:57
Totally agree Dehli.

05 Jun 2025 17:59:00
The plus is they realised there mistake got him back and played him. His form since his return has earned him an England call up.

Whoever believed that Disasi was better than him needs a check up!

05 Jun 2025 19:24:31
Tom, I think the whoever is the SDs.

05 Jun 2025 19:41:48
Along with a lot of fans on this site who described TC as “average. ”.

05 Jun 2025 20:04:25
Trev has to stay . He proved his class second halve of the season. Need to shift Disasi, Fofana and possibly Badiashille over him. I would definitely keep Tosin though he’s definitely becoming a fan favourite amongst my Chelsea mates.

06 Jun 2025 00:12:29
Chalobah is great player his brother played for the club too back in time he was good aswell I don't know why the club wanted him to go I think it is for the transfer rules and to make a profit because at the end of it there was too many money spent so the club wanted to make a profit to make the spend less.

06 Jun 2025 07:24:00
Chalobah is a decent player but he is not top class; there are other CBs at the club who I would let go before him though. In fact, there are no English CBs who are top class which will be a problem for TT.

06 Jun 2025 15:49:26
Jimbo agree with your post although I think Colwill will be top class very soon

Tom B Trevor is better than average but I don't see him in a Premier League winning defence if every one is fit Fofana and Colwill would be my starting CB's.

06 Jun 2025 16:12:45
seymns, I agree with you about Colwill had a bit of a mixed season but has a lot of potential. He can live up to that next season in the Champions League.

06 Jun 2025 16:54:03
Big Trev would be a keeper for me as a squad player but as Jimbo and others have said he is decent but not a starter, our best partnership is Fofana and Levi followed by Tosin and Levi and our best defensive displays backed this up. keep all 4 of them plus the incoming Mamadou Sarr and spend big on a wide player who can score and assist.

06 Jun 2025 17:25:03
I think you are all doing TC a slight disservice but time will tell. LC came back to form when it mattered.

06 Jun 2025 20:18:24
Not at all Tom, I clearly said I would keep him but my first choice partnership would be Fofana and Levi. What would your first choice partnership be?

06 Jun 2025 21:22:35
RPD, my first choice partnership is based on Fofana going on loan go six months. So, LC and TC would be my starting partnership.

My view is also clouded by EM still preferring the IFB and I think TC is the best right sided defensive option for that formation.

04 Jun 2025 19:18:05
For those fans liking a laugh (we all need one) can I suggest going to the happy hammers site.

I always believed it was just the spuds fans who are deluded.

04 Jun 2025 20:29:23
Tom

If you are referring to Kudus, I had yo laugh, I thought at one point they were hoing to ask for Palmer plus cash.

04 Jun 2025 21:43:56
Bill, amongst all my giggles I was also hoping the quote that Potter wants to sign Disasi might have some truth.

They can have Sterling, maybe Chilly and Broja.

If I was them I would ask to loan George and Pinder.

05 Jun 2025 09:29:32
I seriously can't believe some of the sites I read on here.

06 Jun 2025 18:58:49
Kudus, £85 million, what are the West Ham board smoking? I sometimes think some of these rumours are circulated to to push me over the edge.

04 Jun 2025 17:24:31
Today I received my CFC invite to renew my ST. Although I am grateful that the club (unlike some clubs) have retained its OAP concession, I am not happy about how it appears the supposed 4% increase (average increase £3 per game) has been applied to children and OAP tickets.

As far as I can see these age groups have in fact had approx a 15% increase to its ST prices.

Of course I may well have miscalculated but I have asked the club to explain its rationale. I will keep you updated on there response.

04 Jun 2025 20:27:55
Tom

Not having a dig, I guess when we lose a FOS for most of the season and have a stadium attendance capicity that's behind a number of the top sides and others, the club have to get funds from other areas and normally that means fans.

04 Jun 2025 21:21:48
Bill, I can’t really have a pop at the club because they have kept concessions but unless I’m going crackers (probably) it’s the concessions and cheaper area tickets that are paying the biggest percentage increase. To me that doesn’t seem right.

I have probably got it wrong but I have asked the FAB to explain there maths and logic as it was them who advised the owners on ST pricing.

05 Jun 2025 08:26:17
Tom, how times have changed when I was a kid you paid around 3 bob at the turnstile. If someone had said to me in the future you will get in using a phone I would have said” F**k off, I’m not carrying a telephone around it’s to bulky and where do I plug it in”.

05 Jun 2025 08:59:05
Jimbo, I’m not happy with the ticketless/ mobile yet either. So, I’ve also asked what the club intends to do about friends and family using a ST?

05 Jun 2025 09:00:50
Jimbo, in the back of my mind I seem to remember getting into the bridge as a child for 10d. That’s about 5p in today’s money.

05 Jun 2025 10:58:32
Tom apparently there is a digital ticket workshop at SB in July. You raise valid points about phone tickets also what happens if the phone runs out of charge or it is lost/ stolen and you haven’t had a chance to replace it. To be fair this is not a Chelsea thing it comes from the PL and I think we are early adopters.

05 Jun 2025 12:23:01
Jimbo, I think they also hinted that exceptions might be granted under certain circumstances but what those circumstances might be, who knows!

04 Jun 2025 15:05:53
Hoping that Paul Canoville makes a full and speedy recovery from his current illness. ?.

04 Jun 2025 17:32:21
Sorry to hear Paul C is ill Tom. I read his biography Black and Blue - goid title too! -and was impressed with how he handled and won over the racist boo boy CFC fans of the time. Difficult life he had on many fronts.

Hope he recovers from. latest hardship.

04 Jun 2025 20:30:13
Really good professional, hope he gets better soon.

03 Jun 2025 09:32:13
With the news that Jadon Sancho will not be joining on a permanent basis and Noni is up for sale with George likely to go on loan and doubts remaining over Mudryk that suddenly leaves just Neto as an out and out winger. Palmer prefers to play as the 10 as does Willian Estevao although both of those can play wide right. Nonetheless 5 or 6 players will be needed to cover those 3 positions so I'm now thinking we will either bring 2 wide players in or 1 out and out winger plus another striker who can also play wide, unless the plan is to use Jackson there?

03 Jun 2025 09:56:46
RPD, is that official about Sancho?

03 Jun 2025 10:07:50
According to reports in The Guardian Tom.

03 Jun 2025 11:17:53
RPD, that’s a shame but I think it’s right that we are moving the players towards PRP.

03 Jun 2025 11:36:56
According to reports Sancho wouldn't budge on wages, we will either keep Noni or buy the odd winger.

Would like to of kept him but important not to break the wage structure.

03 Jun 2025 11:46:17
Jackson can also play as a winger. I thought he looked much better in the games where he has done that.

03 Jun 2025 11:55:38
He would of been a useful squad player but nice to see the club sticking to their principals on wages. I think the owners had their pants pulled down when TT demanded "experienced" players and through poor advice bought the highly "experienced" Sterling, Koudibally and Abeamorongwrong on crazy money which is what the "experienced" players demand. I much prefer this model and let the team grow together and gain "experience" along the way.

03 Jun 2025 13:44:09
Yes Jackson can. play as a winger or on left if front two if that part of a formation.

03 Jun 2025 13:45:42
PS I predictably don't think Sancho has made best career decision re holding out for high wages rather than being part of CFC.

03 Jun 2025 13:53:03
Wage structures are useful in the age of PSR etc. However, hoping a team will grow together depends on the ability of the players, coaches etc. Top class players will expect higher wages. You don’t just get your pants pulled down by paying high wages; making poor signings is just as bad. Sancho is a prime example: why on earth did we loan him with an obligation to buy?

03 Jun 2025 13:55:45
It’s not a good look for the player or selling club when you pay NOT to sign a player! haha.

03 Jun 2025 14:18:19
I think we didn't pay a loan fee and Utd paid half his wages so the £5 m is like a loan fee in reverse

On the utd pages someone said he is on £300,000 a week at that wage you get to £5M In 16-17 weeks.

03 Jun 2025 14:19:07
Jimbo, we did negotiate a get out clause albeit apparently £5m. Given he won’t change his current salary package, that clause now seems ok.

I assume someone did ask him when the loan started “would you be willing to negotiate a new remuneration package. ”

Going forward I wouldn’t sign a single player that didn’t except PRP.

03 Jun 2025 15:30:40
Tom, whatever the financial implications are I am glad that he is going back to Man U. Amorim will be pulling his hair out.

03 Jun 2025 15:39:47
I totally agree Tom and this performance related pay model is the way forward in my humble opinion.

03 Jun 2025 17:11:08
As I understand it the so called £5m fee we are now paying Utd for not taking up our option is more about us not paying them a loan fee. It’s also been said that we only paid 50% of his salary. In my opinion we got our money’s worth from the deal.

If he doesn’t want to except CFC’s performance related pay structure that’s up to him.

As far as I know he has acted professionally at all times while at CFC. It could well be that the latest Utd manager may well get some performances from the lad.

He goes with my best wishes and thanks.

03 Jun 2025 19:07:47
People are surely not serious that Jackson can play as a winger? Playing wide and playing as a winger are two completely different things. Jeez. No.

04 Jun 2025 10:25:03
Apparently Jackson played as a winger early in his career and Poch played him out wide on left with Nkunku more central successfully in his preseason before Nkunku injured and never quite as impressive again forbus at least.


I'm think modern formations systems and tactics allow much more flexibility in terms of positioning but it is true of course that we've been playing Jackson main striker and often up there on own.

03 Jun 2025 07:54:21
We are now being strongly linked to Hugo Entike. To be honest he wasn't on my radar as I believed he was going to Liverpool or Utd.

I can only remember seeing him play one game and he wasn't brilliant but I spent a considerable amount of time checking him out last night and he does look useful.

Quick enough, with a good first touch and works hard. I hate to say this but a more aggressive version of Havertz springs to mind.

Anyway, I would love to know what you guys think about him and maybe if you have time Ed you give us your opinion on the lad?

03 Jun 2025 10:08:52
Entike would be a wonderful signing Tom but I think Liverpool are in for him?

03 Jun 2025 11:31:03
We generally win out on that score if the player has a choice! haha!

03 Jun 2025 11:39:43
Ed001, do you have an opinion about Entike’s ability?

{Ed001's Note - Hugo Ekitike you mean? Before now I wouldn't have been all that impressed, but last season he was excellent. The question is whether it is a flash in the pan or if he genuinely is that good?}

03 Jun 2025 12:24:50
Ed, yes I do and thanks so much for your opinion.

03 Jun 2025 13:46:45
Thanks Ed001 would you go for Gyokeres instead if an option?

{Ed001's Note - no, the reason Gyokere is still there is because he lacks acceleration. I am not sure he is suited to the Prem. Though he did well at Coventry, so maybe he could. Hard to be sure, but Ekitike looks to have much more potential.}

03 Jun 2025 13:47:36
But yes I agree that Elitike impressed last season.

03 Jun 2025 07:39:03
{Ed's Note - Jimbobred has posted a new article entitled, Tweaking The Manchester United Squad

02 Jun 2025 17:54:20
Just looking at the Chelsea website. The regular transfer window opens on 16th June and ends on 1st September. That's going to drive me nuts. I think it's far too long.