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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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06 Oct 2025 14:35:24
Who else think Jackson should never have been even loaned out at this time. I still think Chelsea should bring him back after tge loan spell hoping bayern will not push to sign him permanently. Value they say is not appreciated until it's lost.
Jackson is not the best scorer but has something as important to bring. I think Jackson makes others better.
1.) 06 Oct 2025 16:15:22
Tusole, I personally didn’t want him sold or loaned with an obligation to sell.
The problem is the player wanted a so called “solution” and I think that is not very subtle code for he wanted to leave.
If he wanted to leave, then goodbye!
2.) 06 Oct 2025 17:41:46
Was fairly ambivalent when he left and probably wouldn't want him back Delap's injury was unlucky but we have missed someone running in behind.
Strange when players go am sure we would all sell different players I would of kept Dewsbury Hall.
3.) 08 Oct 2025 18:01:28
He felt betrayed, no show of faith from the club.
4.) 09 Oct 2025 06:52:23
Tusole, that’s news to me.
I’m not sure what he or any player expects at a club like Chelsea. There will always be competition for your place and a player has to perform to keep that place.
01 Oct 2025 21:31:10
It continues to show how ineffective Chelsea transfers are under Boely and Co. Can't believe Chelsea over few seasons have spent such a whopping amount on players yet no identity and injury to one or few of the players and we are done. Our attack can't perform palmer and defense without colwill has been dross. I hate to say it but Chelsea may have truly surrendered the big club status with Boely and Co at the helm.
Though Chelsea won against Benfica but you all know we are just waiting to surrender the 3 points to Liverpool on Saturday with the team performances lately. It's like baiting life for business and when you lose you lose everything.
The Ed said they got wrong advice from someone which is even a bigger problem. They really never understood how a club is run in the first place but we're rigged in to buy the club by people who wanted Chelsea to go down.
Not being optimistic but i still hope Roman will be allowed to take over after the Russia Ukraine wars are over because our Chelsea are in a problem.
Said Jackson will have a multiplier effect on the team but most think he's not good enough and all that. Just watch the attack and realise he's missing. I know it's only a loan but I hope he returns. Delap is not better than Jackson though. Forget about all the excuses and other nonsense peddled by the club to make it look attainable.
Victor Osimhen is the target Chelsea should have got, but the club were more interested in the business of buying to sell players than the club's success on the pitch.
1.) 02 Oct 2025 05:36:00
Subject to certain conditions being met Jackson was a loan with an “obligation@ to buy so it’s unlikely he will be back at Chelsea.
Osiers a player I would have loved us to sign and as I understood the then situation we tried very hard but e could not or would not match the players wage expectations.
2.) 02 Oct 2025 09:28:41
Tom
The obligation is that he has to play 40 games which i doubt he will achieve.
I have read that BM are looking to buy Jackson but once again will put in a low ball figure, Jackson will say I'm not going back and there you have it another Lukaku situation, rinse and repeat.
Why do we not just bloody sell players outright.
3.) 02 Oct 2025 09:54:45
Bill, if BM don’t want him at the agreed we can take him back or sell him to another club.
I can see no reason to be pessimistic at this stage, particularly after he has started well for them.
As far as selling outright is concerned, we have to understand that we are not the only club obliged to conform to FFP-PSR rules.
4.) 02 Oct 2025 11:07:06
Jackson will score lots of goals for Bayern and the price to buy him is set. If they decide against it we will either sell him elsewhere or keep him and loan him at £15m a year or play him. No need to panic. He is a great asset to have on the books and nothing like the Lukaku situation.
5.) 02 Oct 2025 11:51:17
Sleep and Pedro are both better are the world class no.
6.) 02 Oct 2025 11:52:12
Delap and Pedro are both better are the world class! no.
7.) 02 Oct 2025 13:15:43
Tom, RPD, I have no doubt he will dig his heels in and say he only wants BM, similar to a certain cretin that was Lukaku.
8.) 02 Oct 2025 18:58:59
Unless BM stand bye there obligation. Unlucky.
9.) 03 Oct 2025 09:01:05
Tom
You just know it does not work like that.
10.) 03 Oct 2025 10:19:33
Bill, with all due respect you seem to get very confused between the old regime and the new one. Roman was notorious for buying his latest toy and then when it didn't work out allowing the player to dictate his next move. He had money to burn and loved to be involved. The new owners are ruthless businessmen and won't allow players to dictate. Relax and don't worry about Jackson, it will be fine mate.
11.) 03 Oct 2025 12:54:05
Jackson has just scored his first goal for Bayern and I wish him well there. Whether he has to stay or not depends I think on whether the obligation comes into force only if he starts 40 games or just puts in an appearance in 40? But Bayern management can anyway control whether they have such an obligation or not and if he wants to stay they may not wish him to play 40 games so that they can get our price down if NJ wants to stay.
To my mind we were crazy to loan/ sell him this season if we didn't think Guiu ready yet to be trusted to play many minutes if needs be or as main striker and if we hadn't signed an additional striker beyond Pedro who arguably is more of a number 10 in old money!
12.) 03 Oct 2025 13:24:12
I definitely wouldn’t have sold Jackson but it appeared he wasn’t prepared to fight for his place in the first team.
I am not expert in the BM negotiating abilities but from the little bit I have seen, they seem to crumble when it comes to the crunch.
13.) 03 Oct 2025 15:09:29
I hope so Tom.
28 Sep 2025 07:39:35
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27 Sep 2025 13:58:50
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1.) 27 Sep 2025 14:19:39
I’m not sure how we were lucky to win the CWC but I have been saying for ages that we are now a trading club.
Obviously the owners want us to win trophies and will buy players to achieve that aim. They will also sell players if they can see a significant profit. The trick then becomes how do reinvest that profit.
If I am correct and there is a continuous turnover of players, it doesn’t really bother me!
2.) 27 Sep 2025 17:00:21
It should Tom.
3.) 27 Sep 2025 17:10:35
Tusole, you are spot on and I'm afraid we have hit a poor run already.
Indiscipline is costing us dear, we are becoming Arsenal in the Wenger years with the red cards we keep getting.
4.) 27 Sep 2025 17:37:45
Bill, its out of my control and something I was aware off and warned fans about ages ago.
5.) 27 Sep 2025 18:08:45
Tom
It's always in our control, without the fan base, there is no Chelsea Fc regardless of how much money the American idiots have.
6.) 27 Sep 2025 18:35:03
Bill, there will always be fans like me who always turn up despite who the owners are!
The owners who just happen to be Americans are certainly not “idiots” but they are probably not Chelsea fans and that’s another problem!
7.) 27 Sep 2025 18:58:04
Tom
They have hired SD's who think that if they have a team of wingers, they don't need CH's, or proper strikers.
They hire a coach who is 'learning on thr job', really we are a top club not a bloody school.
Hence the term 'idiots'
Hence the idiots quote.
8.) 27 Sep 2025 19:22:35
Today’s result is no surprise ; we have been poor since the start of the season. The reality is that we are bang average.
9.) 27 Sep 2025 19:48:41
Bill, I think the SD’s have generally done a good job. I don’t see us as being long on wingers. We have just as many strikers as any other club and we probably have more CH’s than most.
When we went through a bad patch last season we came good in the end. The same posters who wanted EM sacked then want him sacked now.
I also don’t think we can consider EM who is now “learning on the job. ” That may have just about been ok last season but not anymore.
I’ve just about been spot on with my my league position predictions for the last two seasons. I will stick with my 2nd-4th for this season.
If i am wrong I will happily, as always, admit my error of judgment.
27 Aug 2025 10:55:52
It's early to get a better goalkeeper than sanchez. I mean how could you be beaten easily from a long range. We won't get as high sanchez.
1.) 27 Aug 2025 21:05:40
hes woefull and he will cost us again on many ocassions happy if we he proves me wrong but he wont.
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.
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.
04 Aug 2025 08:10:42
Has the look of César Azpilicueta from Marseille after ucl win.