Other clubs' transfers

[AyeDubbleYoo]

Not sure Chelsea are building a super team like. They’re assembling a lot of footballers who only went there for money. 
 

There’s more to football than just spending. 

[The College Dropout]

25 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Not sure Chelsea are building a super team like. They’re assembling a lot of footballers who only went there for money. 
 

There’s more to football than just spending. 

It’s a helluva a lot of depth and quality.  It’s the reason they’ve finished above us for 2 seasons mostly due to having so much more quality in depth which really counts towards the end of the season.  
 

They won’t win the CL or the league.  Bur they can cope comfortably with the amount of games for the squad to requalify. It’s the number of games - especially through winter that stopped Villa finishing top 5. 

[Infinitely Content]

27 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Not sure Chelsea are building a super team like. They’re assembling a lot of footballers who only went there for money. 
 

There’s more to football than just spending. 

The players they sign are not that impressive imo. Delap, Pedro, Gittens joining Madueke, Neto and Jackson. Only Palmer is a proper top player of all of those. I'd have Barnes and Gordon over the majority of those players named. Isak obviously miles clear of them all. They just have strength in numbers but still fairly tame 11v11.

[AyeDubbleYoo]

18 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

It’s a helluva a lot of depth and quality.  It’s the reason they’ve finished above us for 2 seasons mostly due to having so much more quality in depth which really counts towards the end of the season.  
 

They won’t win the CL or the league.  Bur they can cope comfortably with the amount of games for the squad to requalify. It’s the number of games - especially through winter that stopped Villa finishing top 5. 

Yeah fair enough. But if they won’t win the league or CL then they’re basically still competing in roughly the same area as us. Despite signing hundreds of players. I just don’t think I’d call that a super team. 

[The College Dropout]

16 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

Yeah fair enough. But if they won’t win the league or CL then they’re basically still competing in roughly the same area as us. Despite signing hundreds of players. I just don’t think I’d call that a super team. 

Fairs.  We’re actually better than them. But we run out of legs and bodies. 
 

There’s a good chance they improve again and get 74+ points. Don’t rate Maresca mind.    

[Stottie]

Chelsea seem determined to not do it the easy way, which would be to buy a top top striker.

If you have an effton of money, my advice would be to not have a defensive midfielder as your and pretty much the league's record signing.

Buy a twenty goal a season striker. If you can afford Caicedo, Enzo, and Mudryk (sp?), all 100M plus?, you can afford better than Joao Pedro, half of whose goals were pens.

[joeyt]

 

 

[alexf]

He's always looked quite useful whenever I watch him. 

[Whitley mag]

Good player would be happy if we ended up with him.

[GeordieDazzler]

Looked decent in the euros but very much the definition of a mixed bag for Lyon 

[Ben]

Chelsea again the little tinkers.

[CallumG6]

“To do some selling first.”

 

Fucking groundbreaking journalism there. 

[black_n_white]

Hasn’t stopped them before why now? He’ll go there too.

[Whitley mag]

1 hour ago, Ben said:

Chelsea again the little tinkers.

Sell what though, flower show, pensioners, can’t be fucking players surely they’ve only got about 60 ?

[Ben]

Must be nice having a working transfer department 

[r0cafella]

1 minute ago, Ben said:

Must be nice having a working transfer department 

47m GBP. 

 

Makes me think we are going to delay buying a cb. 

[SUPERTOON]

1 minute ago, r0cafella said:

47m GBP. 

 

Makes me think we are going to delay buying a cb. 

Surely not, that would be a poor decision.

[STM]

15 minutes ago, r0cafella said:

47m GBP. 

 

Makes me think we are going to delay buying a cb. 

 

Why? 

[r0cafella]

3 minutes ago, STM said:

 

Why? 

Because Guehi looks unlikely and Diomande who is believed to have a real high ceiling is good for a reasonable fee. 

 

I don't think we can do, top CB, top rw, rotation attack and Trafford with our budget personally. 

[STM]

Just now, r0cafella said:

Because Guehi looks unlikely and Diomande who is believed to have a real high ceiling is good for a reasonable fee. 

 

I don't think we can do, top CB, top rw, rotation attack and Trafford with our budget personally. 

 

Diomande going to Palace has nothing to do with us. 

 

Nobody knows what we can/cant spend.

[r0cafella]

4 minutes ago, STM said:

 

Diomande going to Palace has nothing to do with us. 

 

Nobody knows what we can/cant spend.

He has been linked with us in the media, of course it might mean nothing. 

 

Yes, nobody knows exactly what we can spend but I don't anticipate us spending 200m do you? 

[STM]

1 minute ago, r0cafella said:

He has been linked with us in the media, of course it might mean nothing. 

 

Yes, nobody knows exactly what we can spend but I don't anticipate us spending 200m do you? 

 

We signed Lewis Hall on loan. We could easily do a deal like that. We can also sell players. Which im sure we will. We dont need to spend 60m on every position.

 

Whether we were linked with Diomande in the past or not is irrelevant. We clearly didn't want him and I can't think for a second its because we dont want a CB.

 

If you want to put stock in media reports you could lean on every local journalist saying that CB is one of our priorities, or lean into us trying to sign Guehi last year, or enquiring about Scalvini.

 

Guehi is going to Liverpool FWIW. Id rather we didn't even entertain that one anymore. Towards the end of the window we will sign a CB.

[r0cafella]

1 minute ago, STM said:

 

We signed Lewis Hall on loan. We could easily do a deal like that. We can also sell players. Which im sure we will. We dont need to spend 60m on every position.

 

Whether we were linked with Diomande in the past or not is irrelevant. We clearly didn't want him and I can't think for a second its because we dont want a CB.

 

If you want to put stock in media reports you could lean on every local journalist saying that CB is one of our priorities, or lean into us trying to sign Guehi last year, or enquiring about Scalvini.

 

Guehi is going to Liverpool FWIW. Id rather we didn't even entertain that one anymore. Towards the end of the window we will sign a CB.

I don't, as you said yourself we don't know anything hence me speculating if we will not fill ever hole and take some strategic risks. 

 

This is a discussion forum after all. 

[STM]

Just now, r0cafella said:

I don't, as you said yourself we don't know anything hence me speculating if we will not fill ever hole and take some strategic risks. 

 

This is a discussion forum after all. 

 

Well speculate positively. 

[r0cafella]

Just now, STM said:

 

Well speculate positively. 

I call things how I see them, positive or negative doesn't come in to for me. 

 

I've been saying for months no such PSR scramble would be occuring this summer in the league and what do you know...