Chelsea rumours 2

09 Jul 2024 22:09:14
Evening ed002, are we still interested in Victor Roque? Know he hasn’t played much at Barcelona but we tried hard last summer and think he/ his agent are angling for a move away? Many thanks =].

{Ed002's Note - Vitor Roque (S) PSG, Chelsea and Barcelona fought over him last summer with Barcelona winning out. Now his time at Barcelona is over with his agent telling Deco the player wants to stay but others are wanting him gone - and he will depart in the summer; something his agent now accepts. His agent does not want the player to go on loan. Will be offered in exchange for a Chelsea player, but that will be rejected. Fiorentina may offer an option. Spurs might well be approached but the player will resist. Prior interest of Milan and Arsenal has moved on whilst Manchester United will not want to pay the €45M Barcelona are looking to recover. Napoli might provide an interesting solution. His options may be down to joining Inter Milan, who will likely want a loan to buy deal of some sort, Napoli, Juventus as a Moise Keane replacement or Porto. Porto offer an interesting option of an exchange for Pepe who Barcelona see as a good replacement for departing Joao Felix. If the difference in valuation can be reconciled, then a move to Porto may suit everyone. A loan to Inter if Barcelona cannot recover the money or get a suitable player in part exchange would otherwise become viable.}

10 Jul 2024 07:40:02
So Roque, after being scouted, and targeted by Chelsea and PSG and Barcalona, is now a target of Porto or Napoli, great work from your agent, hero to xero, best you have a conversation with your manager!
So many potential superstars end up nothings because of their agents!

09 Jul 2024 10:28:48
Hi Ed,

Hope you're well? Are we interested in Karim Adeyemi?

{Ed002's Note - Karim Adeyemi (LW/S) Versatile forward who has not regained his form since moving to Dortmund and has been rather inconsistant. Prior interest of Atalanta fhas gone. Offered to Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool but each has preferred options. A wildcard might be Juventus as cover.}

10 Jul 2024 13:11:50
Thank you Ed, as always we're linked with every man and his dog!

{Ed002's Note - I missed Arsenal out as well.}

08 Jul 2024 18:05:39
Ed002 are athletico in talks for gallagher? Could we try and sort a deal out for omirodion?

{Ed002's Note - Chelsea has other targets.}

08 Jul 2024 17:55:38
Ed002
Is it true that Athletico Madrid are interested in Conor Gallagher?
Many thanks.

{Ed002's Note - There is a huge amount of interest.}

08 Jul 2024 23:17:43
No surprises there. No shortage of suiters for a quality player who's been our best cm and captain. Will be very sad to see him go.

09 Jul 2024 10:12:11
How about he signs a new contract then, he is the one that can put all this to bed.

I still believe he will walk free end of the next season.

09 Jul 2024 11:54:50
How about he receives an offer commensurate with his age, experience and status as an England international and captain.

09 Jul 2024 12:16:58
Kdrog, how do you know he hasn't had just that? are you privvy to the offer made to him?

09 Jul 2024 12:27:59
Do you know he hasn’t?

Ed told us some time ago that the club had made him an offer. He is fully entitled to reject that offer and if he wants he can see out his contract and leave for free at the end of the season.

09 Jul 2024 12:29:14
I should have added that as virtually every player in the squad is playing better than Sterling they should all be getting more than him! hahaha.

09 Jul 2024 12:30:02
Again you don't know what has been offered to him. Maybe it's already what he is worth but he wants more.

What would your limit be.
£100k £150k £300k £400k.

09 Jul 2024 13:31:53
And how do you all know he's been offered a competitive salary?
He's made it very clear he wants to stay so it's a simple task to make him a competitive offer.
The truth is the club were planning to cash in on him and until he prospered under Poch and would still prefer that option if the price is right.
You have only to take note of blowing £19m on the Villa kid to see the strategy if indeed it can be called that.
Why you lot would trust the clubs version of events God knows.

09 Jul 2024 13:56:27
I think its pretty obvious chelsea aren't offering him a competitive salary. Hence why he is leaving and will sign for a club who offers him that competitive salary.

It's fine that him and chelsea disagree on value, I'm just dissapointed chelsea have and continue to sign players worse than him.

09 Jul 2024 14:01:06
Yet again you use phrases such as “truth” and “trust” as if you are some sort of oracle of fact.

09 Jul 2024 14:06:14
Sorry that post was sent to soon.

Ed has been referenced as saying the club have made CG an offer.

The club have made no comment and I’m not aware of the player making any comment other than him reportedly saying “he wants to stay. ”

So, it’s not a question of any supporter having to “trust the clubs version” because there is no club version.

09 Jul 2024 14:44:47
Standard, what is a competitive salary? Is it the same as Enzo, Chuka, Palmer, Lavia, Ugo or Caicedo?

I may well be wrong but I think it’s more of a problem of the new owners paying some players to much.

Personally I would only pay players a base salary with the majority being performance related.

I also believe that the club has offered CG a contract as per the Ed quote. If CG doesn’t think it’s enough he doesn’t have to sign it. I don’t want him to leave but I’m fed up with the saga and can I also add, if the club don’t value the player as much as fans or as much as he values himself it doesn’t make them wrong or bad people.

09 Jul 2024 14:52:26
Tom, I think Ed002 said Chelsea have made Gallagher a “reasonable “offer. However, that is beside the point, you are right there is no point arguing that I should be paid the same as someone else where each player has individual contracts negotiated by agents. Things change, the club aren’t handing the kind of wages they were a couple of years ago.

09 Jul 2024 15:24:52
Jimbo, you are spot on mate. I’m not sure what “reasonable or competitive” means in the terms of contract offer but my guess is not one singe poster has a clue either.

In some people’s eyes the club should just give him a package that he can get elsewhere. The problem with that method of “non negotiation” doesn’t take into account that all clubs needs are different.

09 Jul 2024 16:49:45
Again how much should he be paid. Should he be paid as much as palmer, sterling, enzo.
I have no idea how much they are paid neither do I know how much they have offered Connor.
In my opinion they all get paid enough so if he wants to stay as you have said why has he not signed. The only answer is he values himself more. Which brings back the original question how do you know he hasn't been offered £300k but wants £310k so what would your limit be to pay him ?.

09 Jul 2024 22:01:53
Hey jsfinchy just ignore them mate. They love to troll.

10 Jul 2024 09:34:18
The club holds the exclusive rights to make contracts offer for the players and obviously don't value cg as much as he value himself. The club has a process and it's absurd a player will demand parity with other players just because he enjoyed a sustained injury free season. In the beginning, I expected cg to be coming from the bench but lavia was never fit. cg for all the headless run around, doesn't effect the team in a desired impact expected of an AM . I would think CC is better suited than cg. Would have been better but for injuries. Maresca knew about it with KDH. Many of us think cg was one of our outstanding players last season because many were injured or played through injury. Remember we had a midtable performance throughout the season.

07 Jul 2024 18:14:54
Ed's please put me out my misery are we still trying for William's and oshimen just due to me reading so much that we are but if not am going to stop reading things

Thanks.

{Ed002's Note - Nico Williams (LW/RW) Young Basque winger and brother to Inaki who has eased himself in to the first team over the last two seasons. Terse response from the Spanish U21 set up (along the lines of "he does not score many goals for an attacker") when told he was changing his allegiance to Ghana, like his brother - and that led to him changing back to Spain. There was plenty of interest in him so a contract extension and buy out clause were awarded to the player at the start of 2022 and again in December 2023, pricing him out of a move to Barcelona plus a significant signing on fee, plus wages of €350k per week - but they remain interested although they need to sell before buying so must prioritise. Likely to be preferred to Luis Diaz who may find himself struggling for options. The player has made it clear he wants to move to Barcelona but the club say he is happy and wants to stay. Seen as far more affordable than Khvicha Kvaratskhelia or Rafael Leao for PSG. The Aston Villa coach wishes to be reunited and they will push for a deal in the summer but he may opt to stay for a year or two more after signing a new contract. Looked at by numerous Premier League clubs including Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Arsenal as well as Barcelona and Real Madrid. Chelsea are put off by the attitude, wages being asked for and he is not first choice but an advisor is still pushing Chelsea to make a bid. Arsenal may bite and make an offer and Newcastle offer a wildcard option. Should get the move he wants to Barcelona.

Victor Osimhen (S) Napoli made it clear to Chelsea who enquired in 2021 that even €100M would not buy the player - but they do maintain an interest and he was first choice but they are looking elsewhere after not getting a warm response from the player - but some at the club are still confident he will sign - and Napoli are interested in Lukaku. Al Hilal may well have offered Napoli the huge fee they were looking for, but that may not suit the player just yet. Real Madrid could look to him as an option to Haaland but Madrid would want to offer players in exchange and ideally they would want to wait another year. He signed a new contract and, at the behest of his agent, included a release clause. Arsenal had a preferred option but are less confident that he will sign and see the price of Osimhen as too high - but they might try to offer Smith-Rowe as part of the deal - but Napoli want to keep things simple. PSG have him on a list of potential Mbappe replacements and they are looking at a LW and a S to minimise the impact of Mbappe departing - but their focus is on a high-end goalscoring LW initially. If Manchester City were to lose Haaland, he would be an option but it won't be this summer. Manchester United interest has gone. Liverpool are not an option. There will be a return from Michael Emenalo with a very good offer. If he stays another year in Naples it means they may need to sell Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. Chelsea may return with the offer of Lukaku and some cash - but will no longer pay the full release clause.}

08 Jul 2024 20:27:38
Was there anything with Chelsea / Khvicha Kvaratskhelia or is that a non starter, not likely, can’t remember if there was some sort of swap deal with him too mentioned.

07 Jul 2024 15:44:22
We seem very keen on Samu, maybe taken our top priority option, although there's a lot of talk of Napoli lowering value to draw offers?

07 Jul 2024 21:18:12
I thought AM had given a hard no on Samu?

08 Jul 2024 07:33:49
I did too, it is only few on Twitter saying we’re still trying with athletico so could be rubbish to be fair.

07 Jul 2024 10:45:34
Any chance of an update on what centrebacks might be leaving on loan or even sold? We seem to have quite a few.

{Ed002's Note - It is not worth the problems that come with explaining.}

07 Jul 2024 10:54:57
Ok ED02, I understand. Thankyou anyway.

05 Jul 2024 16:30:23
I just saw we are signing Nelson Viega from Fc basel accoeding to F. R
Anyone else hear that.

05 Jul 2024 17:32:42
I think that was his dad.

05 Jul 2024 17:51:04
Renato veiga, all I’ve read is, versatile, goes under radar as his a good player, started if left back and at Basel has played in midfield. Ed, would veiga be our option instead of calafiori?

06 Jul 2024 15:19:13
I’d check his birth certificate he looks about 40.

06 Jul 2024 18:22:38
Jimbo

It's probably him worrying about where he is going to be loaned out next season.

06 Jul 2024 20:36:22
Bill, I hope not because we may well be selling either Chilly or Cucarella to Utd.

06 Jul 2024 21:58:39
TomB, it would be a tough choice between Chilly and Cucu imo. Cucu improved towards the end of last season making the inverted FB role his own and was pretty good at RB mid season too tbf. But he was super poor his first season and who knows if he fits with Maresca’s plan as it’s usually the RB that inverts (although I don’t imagine switching to LB inverting would change much) Then we have chilly who’s on 100k~ish more than Cucu and he’s been injured a lot over the last few years. Don’t think he’s able to do the inverted role imo but may not be required to (although James is at his best imo in the attacking 3rd so my preference would be a LB inverting, also don’t think Gusto would be good at inverting either) . However, we seem to be selling off quite a lot of our academy talent and potentially will see both Gallagher and Chalobah leave this window which would leave us very short of HG players, which would only be exacerbated by Chilly leaving.

Think overall my preference would be selling Chilly and keeping either Chalobah or Gallagher or even both.

06 Jul 2024 23:10:43
Fuser, I know it’s common practice to assume a manger will carry on with a successful system he has had at any previous clubs but I’m hoping he shows some flexibility in tactics.

Carlo made changes throughout a game and Jose was a master at keeping the opinions there toes by being proactive and when needed changing shape.

Anyway, I’m really looking forward to next season. I can’t wait to see Nkunku and Lavia, fit and firing!

07 Jul 2024 09:18:16
I think Chilly should be the one to go purely due to the fact he is constantly injured.

Fuser, I think you might be right about both Chabs and CG (although I believe he will run down his contract) .

07 Jul 2024 16:48:31
So we signed this lad because we missed out on Riccardo Calafiori.

The good thing is. Arsenal will always be Arsenal. They peaked last season and won nothing. It is now all downhill for them.

Before this afternoon many of us didn’t know who Renato Viega was but since he has signed for Chelsea. He’s the best talent in the world.

07 Jul 2024 17:03:21
Celery, I’m sure we looked at him but I’m not sure we ever put a bid in for him.

I agree about Renato.

{Ed002's Note - Chelsea stepped back from Claritin because of concerns over his injury record.}

09 Jul 2024 11:56:36
Ed002, it’s good to know that the club are looking at all aspects of potential targets; injury records, attitude etc.

{Ed002's Note - Calafiori of course.}

05 Jul 2024 14:16:16
Ed002, are we interested in Wesley Gassova?

{Ed002's Note - Wesley (LW/RW) Signed a new contract with a huge release clause. Watched by Newcastle and Arsenal together with assorted Spanish and Portuguese sides including Porto. West Ham are looking to add younger South American players and have asked for scouting reports. Agent wants a foothold in England and has offered him to Chelsea, but having secured Estaveo Willian it is unlikely they would bite unless they could so something via Strasbourg. Agent has also spoken with PSG and Nice.}

05 Jul 2024 10:19:40
Ed is chiesa a player the club could see as good value for age experience and price and also versatile,

I no you mentioned the main concerns for buyers was his terrible injury record.

{Ed002's Note - No.}

04 Jul 2024 19:58:33
Hi Ed

May I ask what the plans are for Santos?

I know you've previously called him a 'potentially huge talent', which I think a lot of people would agree with.

{Ed002's Note - Andrey Santos (DM/CM) If the Chelsea owners complete another transaction a season long loan to Portugal becomes a possibility. Potentially huge talent. Barcelona, Strasbourg and Newcastle have asked about his availability on loan. DEcision will be taken after pre-season.}

05 Jul 2024 12:23:05
Morning Ed, thank you, can I ask how many CM you think will leave either permanent or loan?

It seems like we have a lot of players for those 2 or 3 positions.

Also with your knowledge, do you think we will buy another CF?

{Ed002's Note - I am not going to guess at numbers in addition to those already having left. There is interest in many of them. Yes, Chelsea are working to add another striker.}