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Fikayo Tomori

PloKoon13 said:
Yep, officially confirmed:

https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2021/06/17/tomori-to-join-ac-milan-permanently

I'm quite disappointed with this as I rate him very highly. This also leaves us with Silva (who is 36 this year) and Zouma as our only capable back-four centre backs. Christensen, Rüdiger and Azpilicueta (when not at full-back) are all back-three specialists and Guéhi only has senior experience in a back three. Guess we'll be playing that going forward?
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Who do you think has a higher ceiling? Tomori or Guéhi?

 
I am gutted he's gone. I think Frank got it wrong in letting him go, and the club made a mistake in allowing AC an option to buy, although I did read somewhere that Tomori himself insisted upon said clause.

Good luck anyway Fikayo.

 
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Good luck Tomori!

I believe he could play a part in our team, but I'm happy for him to play regularly and at Milan.

Another academy player, playing with us since 9. Always welcomed here!

 
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He was actually top class with AC these past few months, I cant stress how good he's been. He was generally very good for us too, although there were the odd mistakes here and there. It was clearly a mistake for us to sell him, or at least for that cheap, and I don't know why it got so bad between him and Super Frank.

Either way hope he goes on to do well, good luck to the kid. 

P.S. Both him and his father have come out in the last few days with lovely words for the Chelsea Fans

 
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I’m surprised by his treatment really. I don’t remember too many mistakes by him and he seemed largely reliable. 

 
I'm upset we sold him cheap and didn't have a buy-back clause included. We can't keep everyone, whether it's a local lad or not. We have done a poor deal, provided he keeps up the form, probably one of the Manchester team will buy him for 50-60M in a year's time, then it looks like another KDB situation.

 
It's done and dusted so there is no point in me crying over it but.....

Silva is not a long term option, Kurt is a worry for me, I just always see a rick in him. Tomori the little I seen of him looked as if he was well worth investing a bit more time in.

If he is good enough or potentially at the very least we've made a balls of it. I dont see the point in developing academy players if the majority of the time we loan them out, buy in experienced players to occupy their positions and them sell them because there is no place for them.

All the best to Fikayo and his family, he seems like a humble man who has not bad mouthed the club or thrown digs along the way, good luck to him.

 
Carloseyebrow said:
I dont see the point in developing academy players if the majority of the time we loan them out, buy in experienced players to occupy their positions and them sell them because there is no place for them.
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Income. 

We've just made up to £30m on a player. Keep churning that out year on year and it's a good source of income for the club. 

Connor Gallagher is being linked with a move to Palace for £15m so if that happened we'd have banked almost £50m on player sales from our academy that can then be reinvested into the first team. 

 
I 100% get your point, I just don't get the bigger picture.

I'm thrilled to see us more recently using our academy regardless of why we had to. So we sell Tomori for £30 million (maybe it's Euros) just my opinion but I think he is worth more to us as a player to develop, particularly alongside Silva than that amount of money, which we now have to spend in excess of to buy in a player to replace Silva and Tomori.

I'm sure Tuchel has his reasons, and he has just guided us to champions league victory so I'm not as qualified as him to make assertions.

 
Carloseyebrow said:
I 100% get your point, I just don't get the bigger picture.

I'm thrilled to see us more recently using our academy regardless of why we had to. So we sell Tomori for £30 million (maybe it's Euros) just my opinion but I think he is worth more to us as a player to develop, particularly alongside Silva than that amount of money, which we now have to spend in excess of to buy in a player to replace Silva and Tomori.

I'm sure Tuchel has his reasons, and he has just guided us to champions league victory so I'm not as qualified as him to make assertions.
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Tomori was gone with the buy out clause before Tuchel even stepped foot in Cobham.

 
Carloseyebrow said:
I 100% get your point, I just don't get the bigger picture.

I'm thrilled to see us more recently using our academy regardless of why we had to. So we sell Tomori for £30 million (maybe it's Euros) just my opinion but I think he is worth more to us as a player to develop, particularly alongside Silva than that amount of money, which we now have to spend in excess of to buy in a player to replace Silva and Tomori.

I'm sure Tuchel has his reasons, and he has just guided us to champions league victory so I'm not as qualified as him to make assertions.
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Bigger picture being that on one hand you will have the odd sale like this which pays for the academy and can be reinvested elsewhere. 

On the other hand you have genuine talent that comes through and is likely to serve the club at top level for 10+ years... Aka Mount / James / Christensen. 

Chelsea run their academy impeccably and I don't think they have ever sold a player from the academy in regret. Sad about Tomori perhaps but not like we have just sold Mount for £20M to City... 

 
Great to see Tomori get a permanent gig at a big club. Says alot that he is being picked over Romagnoli, who I think was the captain of Milan. Wish him all the best.

I'm not too worried, but it would have been nice to see what he could do under Tuchel. He seemed to play well in the back three in 2019-20.

 
Tomori played more outfield minutes than any other player at Milan during their title winning season.

We've fully pulled a Salah/De Bruyne level error here

 
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Tomori played more outfield minutes than any other player at Milan during their title winning season.

We've fully pulled a Salah/De Bruyne level error here
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No doubt one of our rivals will buy him in the years ahead too.

 
forbzy said:
No doubt one of our rivals will buy him in the years ahead too.
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Unless Milan quickly disappear back to the depths of the last decade I highly doubt it. A Milan in the UCL are not selling their star assets.

 
Argo said:
Unless Milan quickly disappear back to the depths of the last decade I highly doubt it. A Milan in the UCL are not selling their star assets.
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Yea, especially under Maldini, he’s serious about Milan being back in the big time, this is not going to be a repeat of 2011. New Milan stadium set to be ready for 2024/2025, the new ownership has virtually wiped off the debt now too, so no need to offload anyone unless it’s stupid money.

 
Argo said:
Unless Milan quickly disappear back to the depths of the last decade I highly doubt it. A Milan in the UCL are not selling their star assets.
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Some of that depends on the player. But he seems very happy in Milan and hopefully it stays that way.

A few years ago I was hoping that Tomori and Guehi would be a future CB partnership for us and maybe even England. But we let both go. At least we hopefully have a sensible buy back clause in place with Palace for Guehi. Maybe bring him back in a couple if years if he continues to progress.

 
I think Tomori was probably the best of the academy defenders we sold off. Or at least the one most capable of breaking into the first team. How we ended up with Sarr as fourth choice and sold Tomori is a bit of a mystery. I think we're a bit screwed with centre backs. Losing both Rudiger and Christensen at the end of this season is very poor planning. Are two replacements even enough given that Silva is 38 and Azpi might be leaving as well? It's a crazy situation to be in.

 
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