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this broke last night and its true under this system he wont play unless palmer or Rogers gets an injury or suspension, and these owners would sell him for 100m to anyone FootballTransfersEstevao ready to explore shock Chelsea exitChelsea winger Estevao Willian could explore a possible transfer when the January window opens if he continues to receive limited first-team opportunities at Stamford Bridge.

I could have sworn he had 4 injuries already

More along the lines of 4 steps forward and a stepped on a Lego moment

Neither of those players are likely to be more Premier League ready than Essugo may or may not be. Which actually makes it more surprising that BlueCo didn't try, in fairness. He had a single injury in his senior career at 20, how is that 'injury-prone'?

If the player didn't want to come, he wouldn't have bothered to do a last minute medical

Essugo is also injury prone

Ah f**k I thought this was tonight!

I think boos are pretty universal

Or if you think he isn’t ready, bought Samir El Mourabet who Chelsea rejected a €35m bid from Leipzig from, and sell Essugo to them. Chema Andreas who is billed as the next Rodri literally moved on the last day of the window for €22m, and Alonso is reportedly a fan. There were options for us in the market.

Arsenal have been largely outplayed by us in every game for the last two years but come away with the result, usually through a red card and/or set piece goals. Perhaps its time for the reverse.

And how will Monaco bail themselves out now? Camaras agent has since come out and said he won't be moving to Turkey or Saudi, and is staying at Monaco. So will Balogun agree to go to those countries? Or Portugal? It would be amusing, albeit never going to happen, if those 3 markets refused to deal with Monaco for how they acted with us, Everton and their two players.

I understand Chilwell and letting them pre-borrow Ahanor, but giving them Disasi...?

100%, the interview is of course his idealised version, but reading it a bit critically you can absolutely see he that is the case and he is trying to now pin it on Balogun for turning it down, and minimise Camara's disappointment at staying. It's pretty obvious they came back to us when Balogun initially fell through and they needed a big sale. I'd go so far as to say that we probably could have reasonably felt like we were doing them a favour by not demanding a lesser price given their desperation. In the end, Scuro fumbled it badly, their club is going to face serious consequences if they can't flog someone to Turkey or Saudi by the end of the week, and they have two pissed-off players. He should get the sack for it. We were naive and dumb for relying on it, as well.

Yeah I don't buy his version that we were basically stalking the situation and were on him like flies on sh*t when the Balogun "medical issue" came up. Far more plausible this Scuro panicked and came to us to bail them out, only to go back on it when he thought he could shift Balogun again, which was his boards and managers preferred option.

He is absolutely the type to "forgot my wallet" at the counter

It seems painfully likely that City are unable to be found guilty in a substantial manner, probably to the extent of questioning whether PSR is enforceable or not.

1 year deal not a bad deal. Lets see if Chelsea are really playing this down.

Yes you can, as long as you don't ask him to do build up stuff (receiving ball with back to goal under pressure).

In fairness, you could remove both knees and he'd still be just as mobile

This squad would have won back-to-back-to-back Champions League titles from 2020-2022

No, in fairness, Scuro has fronted the media and outlined a statement (transcript) His initial words were taken out of context and it was only one Twitter moron (Ben Jacobs) who made up that Liverpool 'contacted' Monaco and asked them to wait. There's no evidence to support this, in fact it sounds like Jacobs has merely exaggerated the obvious fact that many clubs were interested in signing him either this season or next. It's clear Chelsea were the only ones making a concrete bid this season. Scuro even admits that Chelsea had been pursuing it for 10 days, but Monaco were unwilling to sell unless Balogun fell through. The saga is entirely Monaco's fault, but we are also to blame for leaving it so late in the window and not protecting our own interests. Fernandez wasn't the CM we needed or were trying to replace, it was Santos. We got distracted by having to fire-sale a bunch of players and Sanchez and then pursued a target we knew was unlikely unless certain circumstances fell into place. Overall, though, it is not going to be a huge problem.

Despite my earlier posts I will concede that we arguably should have been actively pursuing a CM as soon as Santos left and Scott/Wharton were clearly impossible. It's the consequence of having to sort out sales and loans for an army of unwanted players and leaving the opportunity to do so right to the last minute. It may have been the right decision to prioritise the sales/loans of all those players but if we didn't buy them in the first place, we wouldn't have that problem.