Summer Transfer Window 2023

[Lineker]

 

 

 

 

[Szumi]

Well, at least Jude isn't going to Man City.

[Twist]

Have the PSG fans turned on Messi because of the WC final result or is there more to it than that?

[Szumi]

1 hour ago, Twist said:

Have the PSG fans turned on Messi because of the WC final result or is there more to it than that?

He's also a scapegoat because of how awful PSG have been in 2023. Pretty much everyone but Mbappe is getting booed by PSG fans. Galtier is definitely getting sacked, Messi is leaving, and if they can find someone silly enough to pay for Neymar, they will can him too.

[DFF]

Imagine the quality of the full squad you could have with the money you pay for just Messi and Neymar. 

[Colly]

1 hour ago, DFF said:

Imagine the quality of the full squad you could have with the money you pay for just Messi and Neymar. 

Depends, is it Todd Boehly making the signings?

[Naitch]

I'd actually be interested in Neymar at Chelsea if we can get rid of like 4 other attacking players first, ideally including Sterling, but neither of those are likely to happen. It can't be any more chaotic and abysmal than things are right now.

[Lineker]

 

 

[stokeriño]

34 minutes ago, Naitch said:

I'd actually be interested in Neymar at Chelsea if we can get rid of like 4 other attacking players first, ideally including Sterling, but neither of those are likely to happen. It can't be any more chaotic and abysmal than things are right now.

I mean if our club's goal is to continue spending all the world's money ruining high-profile attackers one by one, it fits.

(P.S. "It can't be any more chaotic and abysmal than things are right now" - YOU SHOULD KNOW BETTER THAN TO SAY THIS)

[Naitch]

@stokeriño Maybe I just want to see Neymar playing in the Championship for the 24/25 season 

[Gazz]

Chelsea are an interesting thought exercise in how many of their first team squad they're going to have to get rid of, and how many of those are going to have to be massive money-losing write offs.

A glance at Wiki tells me that come 1st July, they will have 41 first team players on their books, assuming Felix and Zakaria aren't signed or and no loans either way are extended.

Keep	Borderline	Sell	Loan?
Badiashile	Kepa	Aubameyang	Slonina
Enzo	Kovacic	Pulisic	Hutchinson
Silva	RLC	Bettinelli	Hall
Kante	Mount	Mendy
Chalobah	Gallagher	Sterling
Mudryk	Azpi	Ziyech
Broja	Havertz	Koulibaly
Chilwell	Cucurella	Rahman
James	Ampadu	Sarr
DD Fofana	Maatsen	Bakayoko
Chukuwuemeka	CHO	Lukaku
Madueke
W Fofana
Colwill
Gusto
Santos

[METALMAN]

I think next year is Baba Rahman’s year.

[Colly]

I hadn't even realised they'd sold Kenedy.

[The Lusophone]

Kenedy.

[METALMAN]

I can’t believe Gael Kakuta has been on Chelsea’s books since 2009. Bizarre.

[DFF]

2 hours ago, Colly said:

Depends, is it Todd Boehly making the signings?

Let's assume its somone sensible. 

 

So no. 

1 hour ago, Gazz said:

Chelsea are an interesting thought exercise in how many of their first team squad they're going to have to get rid of, and how many of those are going to have to be massive money-losing write offs.

A glance at Wiki tells me that come 1st July, they will have 41 first team players on their books, assuming Felix and Zakaria aren't signed or and no loans either way are extended.

Keep	Borderline	Sell	Loan?
Badiashile	Kepa	Aubameyang	Slonina
Enzo	Kovacic	Pulisic	Hutchinson
Silva	RLC	Bettinelli	Hall
Kante	Mount	Mendy
Chalobah	Gallagher	Sterling
Mudryk	Azpi	Ziyech
Broja	Havertz	Koulibaly
Chilwell	Cucurella	Rahman
James	Ampadu	Sarr
DD Fofana	Maatsen	Bakayoko
Chukuwuemeka	CHO	Lukaku
Madueke
W Fofana
Colwill
Gusto
Santos

Sterling, Ziyech and Koulibaly all feel like it'll be dependent on who the new boss is and can they get the best of them. I think Ziyech the most likely to actually move on of the three. 

A new manager might also try and keep Lukaku.

[stokeriño]

The problem with half of that Sell list is that no one will actually buy them.

[FLiam]

Yeah, Chelsea are going to have a lot of trouble offloading players this summer. Too many are on huge salaries and teams won’t want to pay a big fee plus salary. Wouldn’t surprise me if they ended up having to pay players to leave like we did a few years ago.

[Naitch]

43 minutes ago, FLiam said:

Yeah, Chelsea are going to have a lot of trouble offloading players this summer. Too many are on huge salaries and teams won’t want to pay a big fee plus salary. Wouldn’t surprise me if they ended up having to pay players to leave like we did a few years ago.

And, by following a similar trajectory, we too can finish 2nd to Man City in a couple of seasons' time.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

There's no way we still have Baba Rahman, surely.