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Aurelian Tchouameni

Chelsea clearly need another midfielder. Don't get fooled  by yesterday's Palace as they will likely be in the relegation zone this year. 

Use the proceeds of the Abraham AS Roma as a part of the financing to acquire Tchouamen or Carnavinga. Both are young and dynamic midfielders which is a glaring need at Chelsea. 

 
TheGreatestGame said:
Chelsea clearly need another midfielder. Don't get fooled  by yesterday's Palace as they will likely be in the relegation zone this year. 

Use the proceeds of the Abraham AS Roma as a part of the financing to acquire Tchouamen or Carnavinga. Both are young and dynamic midfielders which is a glaring need at Chelsea. 
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Agreed! Not sure about Camavinga (probably R.Madrid bound in his mind already) but with Gilmour gone I'd bet big money on a midfield signing - unfortunately I don't have any. Not sure if Koundé could play the Kanté role to some extent but one of the two players you've mentioned would help us tremendously. Would be almost a flawless squad imho with the perfect balance.

 
My sense is we need midfielder more than defence but I am not Tommy T and not a clue how to choose between Tchouameni and Kounde. Money,ability, personality, chelsea need, so many criteria. 

 
3 midfielders for 2 spots for 60+ games season sounds insane to me. We have no one better than Gilmour now if we consider Ampadu, Chalobah, James and (Mount) for that 4th choice. Mount is wasted there IMO. 

 
In theory there is Ross barkly. Not a theory I subscribe to. 

 
Barkley was on an unofficial transfer list. Not sure how reliable that is. 

 
Whether it's Rice or Tchouameni, one thing is clear and obvious: we need an extra central midfielder. I think my preference would be Rice over Tchouameni currently. The primary reason for that would be due to Rice's experience in the PL and I've watched him. On Tchouameni, I haven't really seen any of his games and I'm not going to watch some cherry picked youtube video. However, the things I have heard about Tchouameni is very promising and exciting. But, you know that last midfielder we got from Monaco was "promising" young central midfielder as well.

I know the price for Rice - ha! rhymes apparently make me giggle - is definitely steeper and a reason for some to not want to get him and I understand that. I think that if the club and Tuchel believe that Rice is the answer, then we should go get him and work on driving that price down, which I'm sure Marina will.

 
Barkley was not even giving a Jersey number this season so he has zero chance in this Chelsea team again. What I believe we need most urgently is an attacking midfielder that can make defense splitting passes during out counter attacks. For all the industry of Kovavic,  the tenaciousness of Kante, and the orchestrating skills of Jorgi boy, our midfield seriously lacks a Fabregas like player who can play a correct final ball during a counter attack or a defense splitting pass. Against Crystal Palace, we kept playing the balls to be wings because we had no one to either take the ball thru the middle or make a pass. Chalobahor Kounde if we get him can take some work load off Kante so i do not think a replacement for Kante is the most important thing right now. I wish we get some one like Pjanic (he is 31  on 115k per week) desperate to leave with no offers, if we can negotiate him down to like 70 - 90k or Eriksen from Inter, if the Italian law prevents him from playing their league again.  We need players like this more than defensive minded guys

 
chiefBlueCFC said:
Whether it's Rice or Tchouameni, one thing is clear and obvious: we need an extra central midfielder. I think my preference would be Rice over Tchouameni currently. The primary reason for that would be due to Rice's experience in the PL and I've watched him. On Tchouameni, I haven't really seen any of his games and I'm not going to watch some cherry picked youtube video. However, the things I have heard about Tchouameni is very promising and exciting. But, you know that last midfielder we got from Monaco was "promising" young central midfielder as well.

I know the price for Rice - ha! rhymes apparently make me giggle - is definitely steeper and a reason for some to not want to get him and I understand that. I think that if the club and Tuchel believe that Rice is the answer, then we should go get him and work on driving that price down, which I'm sure Marina will.
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Tbh, we bought the wrong promising young central midfielder from Monaco

 
I’d rather wait a year for Rice rather than sign this guy now. He’s only had 1 good season, we should buy Kounde instead who is a proven centre back with high potential.

 
Well I’ll be dissed for this but I wonder if we mightn’t get tanguy ndombele cheap. I watched him for Lyon and I reckon Mourinho ruined him at Spurs. Don’t think he would start but good bench cover that plays much the same style as kova. However maybe he has long term injury issues, probably an even more stupid than usual idea. 

 
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dansubrosa said:
I’d rather wait a year for Rice rather than sign this guy now. He’s only had 1 good season, we should buy Kounde instead who is a proven centre back with high potential.
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Tchouameni will cost about 1/3 the price of Rice. He is also a much better overall player compared to Rice. Chelsea has plenty of midfielders  who have limited offensive skills such as Rice. There is a clear need for a starting midfielder to move Kovacic to the bench. Tchouameni for $30 million makes sense for the current Chelsea team. 

dansubrosa said:
I’d rather wait a year for Rice rather than sign this guy now. He’s only had 1 good season, we should buy Kounde instead who is a proven centre back with high potential.
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Tchouameni  is a great option at the price. Capped 4 times for France and played at every age level for them. Three seasons in League 1 with his best season last year. Almost the perfect age to come in as understudy. Almost certainly get the money back if it doesn't work out, and by today's standards its not that much money. Gives us options and insurance in a season where we can push for the title. 

Its increasingly obvious how risky it will be relying on kante playing say 30 games this season. Cover is required.

 
It is clear that Chelsea needs another midfielder for the rest of the 2021-22 season. Someone like Gallagher or Gilmour would be great if there was an out clause in their respective loan agreements. However that is not likely which brings me back to Tchouameni. Chelsea could a quite him and extend Ruudiger and still have money left  over vs trying to acquire Kounde. Get it done, Marina. 

 
Tchouameni is in a completely different class to Saul right now. Tchouameni was  very strong for France last night, athletic, quick, good on ball, worked hard all game. 
 

franlkly much better than Gilmour at this point because of his physical presence. You don’t get into the French starting 11 in a big game that easily. 

 
ozboy said:
Tchouameni is in a completely different class to Saul right now. Tchouameni was  very strong for France last night, athletic, quick, good on ball, worked hard all game. 
 

franlkly much better than Gilmour at this point because of his physical presence. You don’t get into the French starting 11 in a big game that easily. 
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This^^^ He could learn a lot playing with Kante and eventually take one of the #6 positions. His size, strength, athleticism and toughness would be a great addition to the Chelsea up. Sign him in January and let him finish the season with his current club. 

 
He's a great talent and his value is only rising. I think that next summer we should try to sign him and Kounde, 21 and 22 years old and then we don't need to worry much about transfers.

 
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