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13 Aug 2025 13:40:30
Saw a rumours of donnaruma looking leave psg. Are Chelsea looking to sign him or as rumoured, is man City his destination. Anyone with any useful information should please share with us here thanks.
1.) 13 Aug 2025 14:39:04
No information but god I hope not.
2.) 13 Aug 2025 14:58:51
I wasn't particurarly imprssed by his performance at CWC Tusole. He is certainly experienced, a big unit and presence in the box and can be commanding there against aerial threats but just seems lacking in a bit of nimbleness in getting down to low to shots in particular. A reason why PSG willing to let him go?
Have no idea if we're trying for him.
{Ed001's Note - his wage demands are why PSG want rid.}
3.) 14 Aug 2025 08:44:58
Looking at data Donarruma and Sanchez are very similar, so why buy Donnoruma to replace Sanchez, especially as Edd001 states, his wage demands!
The SD's see Penders as the next big thing after this coming season on loan at Strausburg, with Slonina as no2, let's see what the club decvide!
{Ed001's Note - he is not a great keeper - should have been, but has shown little real improvement since he emerged at 17. So many errors as well, no wonder they were so happy to just replace him when he demanded a pay rise.}
4.) 14 Aug 2025 08:59:12
Good info Ed001 as always and thanks for it.
{Ed001's Note - very welcome mate. Enrique doesn't like players to rock the boat and get too big for their boots. The club pays them extremely well anyway, so if they get greedy, he won't stand for it. He wants them to be team players first and foremost. He relies a lot on togetherness amongst his squad, hence them offloading all the big time Charlies and going with young, hungry players.}
5.) 19 Aug 2025 16:38:23
The whole “big = commanding in the box” thing is a false logic. Like lots of Italian goalkeepers, Donnarumma’s general approach when a ball comes in is to go deep to give himself time to react, relying on the large wingspan to help with that. It’s a question of style and choice.
Sanchez is also a “big unit” and, while Donnarumma is probably a better / more consistent shot stopper, Sanchez is a better passer of the ball under pressure. I think the same thing that rules Donnarumma out at PSG would extend to the role in a Maresca side. It makes little sense to me as a rumour.
6.) 23 Aug 2025 12:21:24
FD77, very interesting observations.
23 Jul 2025 11:38:31
There's been rumours of xavi simons to us and also Morgan Rodgers. Really don't understand what is happening and if they are actually needed.
21 Jun 2024 20:46:38
Hi Ed, sorry to bother you but olise seemed to be nailed on to join us and it's gone quite. Reports suggesting that we have pulled out of the race. Please could you please help the update on olise. maybe we will go ahead for eze . not that they are like for like players though.
{Ed002's Note - Chelsea stepped back because the did not see value for money.}
1.) 22 Jun 2024 14:09:48
Thanks for the response. I admit I have little to no knowledge of how clubs value players I wonder if I actually think he's overpriced for the reported 60m release clause. Would have liked the deal to go through. Thanks.
{Ed002's Note - Forget the £60M - it is misleading.}
2.) 22 Jun 2024 15:52:39
I was always worries about the injuries for a young player.
3.) 22 Jun 2024 18:08:50
Perhaps it was wage demand as much as or more than a factor than transfer fee?
05 Jun 2024 18:27:48
Ed are we interested in signing both olise and eze this summer. Honestly I'm confused as to which of them we really need more.
Eze could replace cg if he leaves imo.
{Ed002's Note - Try not to complicate things. It is not all or nothing.}
1.) 06 Jun 2024 10:02:01
Thanks for your response Ed. Like I said earlier, I'm torn between which of them we should sign and it's not always you see a club sign 2 players from another club in one transfer window. But I think both will help our team. I also think eze is underrated and needs a great club to shine, he's ready to step up. olise too is talented and other clubs will take him if we don't get him now.
{Ed002's Note - Chelsea has an interest in numerous players - somethimes they are from the same club.}
2.) 06 Jun 2024 10:04:13
Eze makes sense for the left wing, but olise, only 22 and is a special special player, his set pieces and deliveries with our new set piece coach, win win,
01 Jun 2024 14:10:45
Good day Ed please are Chelsea interested in signing Joshua Kilmich this summer. I think we need his versatility and leadership mentality imo.
{Ed002's Note - No.}
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04 Dec 2025 13:11:16
Tusole has written an article entitled, Chelsea's Summer Gamble Exposes Gaps in the Squad
1.) 04 Dec 2025 13:02:02
Tusole, I have read your article and large parts of it I find myself in agreement.
I have no idea what the Nationality of Delap is referring too?
I don’t recall us ever being in with a chance of signing Haaland and if I remember correctly from the sadly departed Ed02 it was the Osimhen wage demands that stopped that deal happening.
I have said many times I would have kept Jackson and Delap was not on my list of CF signings. I have never seen Pedro as a CF.
2.) 04 Dec 2025 14:47:37
Well argued Tusole, good post.
The Delap nationality question presumably referes to fact that his father Rory - couldn't Liam at least learn his long throw technique! - played for Republic of Ireland but Liam was born in England and is eligible to play for both countries?
{Ed001's Note - I doubt it is that easy, Rory grew up doing javelin throwing as a sport, developing the muscle groups and technique for those long throws.}
3.) 04 Dec 2025 15:16:59
Fascinating info on Rory Ed001 and thanks for it. Makes me wonder how other long throw in specialists gained those muscles and technique. the one I saw at CFC in my youth was Ian Hutchinson, but I have no idea how he was able to do it or learnt to do it.
It was his long throw that led to Webb;s winner in that 1970 FA Cup final replay at Old Trafford when Dirty Leeds were met by a pretty ditrty CFC on the day too. a Ref has said that today 11 red cards would have been shown if the match had been played today!
{Ed001's Note - apparently no one knew he could do it and Pulis nearly wet his pants with excitement when he suddenly launched a long throw in training!
It always annoys me that Liverpool don't make use of Gomez's long throw - scored a goal off it and then shelved it. Makes no sense to me!}
4.) 04 Dec 2025 18:29:47
That article by tusole is factually incorrect.
5.) 04 Dec 2025 20:06:40
Ed001, we would all love football to be like Brazil or Ajax in the 70s but football has moved on. If you want to be successful particularly in the PL you have to use all available tactics. That’s why unfortunately Arsenal will win the title; effective and efficient football.
The other reason is because Man City and Liverpool have dropped off. I would reluctantly prefer to watch set pieces and long throws rather than CBs passing the ball between themselves and the goalkeeper endlessly like Chelsea dished out yesterday.
{Ed001's Note - I think you should use all available avenues to score - ignoring setpieces is foolish.}
6.) 04 Dec 2025 20:18:45
I agree any legitimate way to score a goal is something that all teams should work on. I was also happy to see us try something different defensively recently. Maybe we should have tried it for the Leeds set pieces.
7.) 04 Dec 2025 20:44:19
Tusole, I mostly agree with your article. I think Tom is right we were never near signing Haaland and Oshihem’s wages were an issue. It is said that you get what you pay for and it is also true that you don’t get what you pay for: over the last few seasons we have paid significant fees for players who are not good enough and are still paying wages for some of them.
I find it difficult to gauge what the ambitions of the owners and hierarchy are and what the direction of the club is:a premier league title doesn’ t seem to be an objective. True, Liverpool have fallen off a cliff but they clearly indicated their ambition to retain the title and go for the CL. Our summer signings showed a lack of ambition.
8.) 05 Dec 2025 17:22:12
I would assume that most clubs have a degree of ambition. Only one team can be crowned champions, so all the other club’s ambitions fall short to a lesser or larger extent.
I’m certainly not a Liverpool expert. When I read there supporters posts the majority seem to lay the majority of the blame at the door if Slot. I’ve also seen some fans saying that there were too many new player signings (sounds familiar) and I’ve also seen criticism of the current tactics.
When a team doesn’t achieve what the fans expect the reactions of football fans seem pretty similar regardless of the club.
01 Dec 2025 16:00:07
Good day everyone, don't clubs have a say on the referee that officiate their matches? This is because Anthony Taylor has been controversial in all the games he had officiated that involves Chelsea.
He was petitioned at the time, but nothing happened and he has continued to do same. On all our games with him he always issued a red card against us or taken wrong decision against Chelsea and nobody is saying anything. I will no longer be watching a game where he officiate involving Chelsea anymore.
1.) 01 Dec 2025 20:43:18
It was a red card so we can't judge him on this one.
But yes in the past he has made some howlers.
2.) 02 Dec 2025 08:05:17
If that elbow in the face was by a Chelsea player, he would have been sent off and subsequently transferred to Bayern.
3.) 02 Dec 2025 08:39:37
As far as I know I do t think clubs do have a say in who officiates there games.
On this occasion it was a red card but I personally would be more than happy if I never saw him refereeing another Chelsea game but that ain’t going to happen.
4.) 02 Dec 2025 16:20:05
Don't necessarily think he is biased against Chelsea but a poor referee, The red card is given 8 times out of 10 in my opinion what didn't help Cacaido was his poor attempt to pretend he was injured they all make mistakes, but with Michael Oliver at least they are mistakes I understand.
5.) 03 Dec 2025 07:14:46
seymns, I have never bought into the idea that referees are biased against Chelsea; some are better than others and all make mistakes. As for Taylor on Sunday; we received 1 red and 1 yellow both deserved: Arsenal got 6 yellows.
11 Nov 2025 23:58:39
I saw a news recently that rudigar is out of contact at Madrid next summer and that Chelsea could consider bringing him back. Don't know if there's any one knows anything about it.
1.) 12 Nov 2025 06:22:38
Holly Molly, I hope there is no truth to that story.
2.) 12 Nov 2025 08:43:15
It’s generally never a good idea for players to come back and Rudgier would expect massive wages. Sadly though, he’s better than anyone we have at CB.
3.) 12 Nov 2025 10:24:55
I think we should let bygones be bygones with Rudiger and just enjoy the memories of when he was at top of his game for us before leaving and was out with leg injury in September . i think for several months . having alresdy had a knee op in April so having a tough time lately.
Perhaps he could be signed if on a free transfer but would not know what wages he'd be on if so or whether fact he could play left centre back plus experience and will to win he might offer would outweigh probability that injuries and age and wages and levi C hopefully fit again by end of season counts more against resigning?
4.) 12 Nov 2025 10:35:12
No chance I would take him since he jumped the ship.
5.) 12 Nov 2025 17:19:02
he didn't jump ship- we weren't able to offer him a contract, he had the right to look after himself and moved elsewhere- its a short life don't blame him for not waiting around to find out what was going to happen.
6.) 12 Nov 2025 19:07:18
Rudiger did jump ship, he made it perfectly clear he was running his contract down to get his move to Madrid. Would be a terrible signing similiar to Sterling, fortunately the owners have learned some valuable lessons and won't sign him.
11 Nov 2025 23:55:12
Really I'm afraid delap is not even as good as Jackson. The attack lost some steam without Jackson. Hope bayern don't make his deal permanent.
1.) 12 Nov 2025 06:26:40
I can’t judge how good or bad Delap is yet, he has only played a few minutes because of injury and suspension.
I wouldn’t have let Jackson go but even if BM do not take up the option I’m not sure I would want him back.
2.) 12 Nov 2025 12:19:19
I totally agree Tom.
There is no way he will come back to us.
27 Oct 2025 11:06:03
Good day all. May not be everyone's cup of tea but who else thinks that we made a mistake selling / loaning Nicolas Jackson? was a mistake and has affected us this season so far.
Admittedly, he misses chances but still one of the best performing strikers in the epl in the last few years now. I think he's other attributes that helps the team. He's a threat to defenders and makes other players better including palmer. Like jao pedro but he's not a striker and imo not good enough for our #10.
So I hope bayern doesn't make his stay permanent, so he can come back unless we are returning to bid for osihmen again.
1.) 27 Oct 2025 12:08:18
Tusole, I personally would have kept Jackson.
The problem as I understand it is he wanted to leave hence the club continually saying in the last window “they are looking for a solution. ” We have a history of not keeping players who want to leave or who do not want to fight for there place in the team.
Osimhen isn’t going to happen now. Apparently his wage demands were deemed excessive.
I hope Delap or Guiu prove to be better than both Jackson and Osimhen.
2.) 27 Oct 2025 16:01:38
I would have kept Jackson. He had demonstrated he could cope wity the physicality of playing up front in the EPL and combined well with or created space for others like Palmer to score. He did have a temperament problem and got those red cards but then discipline problems seem to be a feature of our teams recently whoever is in them. I think he was a particularly good friend with Caicedo and this seemingly endless churning over and trading in large numbers of the squad not great imho though clearly there will always be some ingoings and outgoings. But surely CFC must have set the record for ghis over last three seasons or so?!
Given that Delap missed more than three months with a knee injury last season it was a bit of gamble to rely on just him and EPL untested Pedro as strikers if Guiu not seen as ready and sent t cevleop further at Sunderland (who ppossibly didn't need him except for cup matches? ) . So if not bringing in a replacement for Jackson and ideally an EPL tested physically robust forward/ striker - perhaps the lad who went from Brentford to United or prising Semenyo away from Bournemouth if he'd come (would still like that! ) - then we should have kept NJ. But perhaps he wanted out and let's face it Bayern Munich are a bigger beast right now in European football than we are though we hope to change that in the next few years. Jackson did miss a lot of chances but he also got into gteat positions to have as many chances as he did and constantly caused opposition CBs problems. Anyway we hope that Dlkap will be nbackl soon, stay fit and fill that role. but with the need imho for us still to strengthen further in that position.
3.) 27 Oct 2025 23:36:03
I think he's a bad egg tbh, decent player but not what we needed to take us up a level, i always did say do id love to have seen jackson play lw.
4.) 28 Oct 2025 09:05:01
Pochempire, we let Jackson go who was felt could not take us to another level then we get forward in who again cannot take us to the higher level, it's called standing still.
5.) 28 Oct 2025 11:25:41
Surely you’re now making a judgement on Pedro and Delap already?
26 Aug 2025 06:54:03
Reason it appears as I have issues with the English players. Can't sterling contract be cancelled like other players. It bad enough that he's given a criminal contract with the English hype and favouritism but no club wants him. Things are just different for English players in the epl. They are given undue advantage. Whoever that was responsible for sterling for Chelsea should be made to face certain consequences.
04 Aug 2025 08:07:39
Must admit we now sell players for good prices which was the case before now. It's a positive one from the board.
04 Aug 2025 11:41:34
U wouldn't sell Jackson yet. I see another salah, debrune case with Jackson.
22 Jul 2025 10:01:08
Kiwi I'm of the opinion that we are yet to see the best of Jackson and I will hesitate in selling him just yet as he's capable of biting us in the future. Let's keep him at least for another season. My own opinion though.
17 Jul 2025 11:43:46
I have a sneaky feelings about selling Jackson now will have a similar effect like salah, debrune, etc. He's not a bad player. He only needs more work and time to finetune his abilities which naturally is bound to getting better.
For me don't sell.
06 Dec 2025 19:37:33
Seymin if by next transfer window Chelsea fail to sign a proven experience in striker and cbs, we will still not be in title challenge. If they had done that last summer we would have been in title contention this season.
We tend to praise the board for buying kids for the sake of it but they are not looking to challenge for the title. We will soon graduate to arsenal being consistent in second place waiting for a strong team to win while they wait with the excise they are in transition. Maresca will be getting all knocks when our inconsistencies are exposed but obviously he's doing his best with the inexperienced kids.
Reasons osihmen wasn't signed I will never understand. It's been speculated about murilo from forest, so the attention seeking hypocrite is at it again. Heard rudigar is out of contract at Madrid dis summer, I would bring him back.
He's inspirational and didn't like how he even left because of boely policy for kids.
Boely and Co are only interested in things that will benefit them financially but not what will make the club successful. I chose the later as a fan.
08 Oct 2025 18:01:28
He felt betrayed, no show of faith from the club.
28 Sep 2025 12:52:55
imo the new owners are the problem here. No club has ever become a heavyweight by buying and using only young players. Wenger tried it and he failed. Boely and Co want to leverage on everything roman had built at Chelsea I have been saying it that having to groom younger players is not bad but there's need to balance it with experienced and proven players to make it even better.
What we're seeing now is just a tip of what is coming. I only pity maresca because he's going to be the fall guy eventually. I expected us to sign osihmen and a few others to look to compete.
But because he's not 19 anymore they fabricated excuses about how expensive his demands were. I still don't understand why we released tiago silva to leave? Until we revisit that kiddies policy, we will remain also ran for trophies.
18 Sep 2025 22:18:29
Did I not see Lavia in training yesterday?
11 Aug 2025 17:25:59
I believe we're competing for all trophies this season.