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We have only signed 1 player, Jorginho and that is only because Sarri became the new manager.

The club that came in back to the top 4 is Liverpool and they have signed Alisson, Keita, Fabinho and Shaqiri.

But our club thinks that because we overperformed once with Conte and won the league that all we needed really was really another italian manager!

It took Spuds 20 something years to win at the Bridge and now they will be getting easy points from us, that's the one thing that will make me sad...

To top if off, Courtois is once again going to stay even if he isn't interested at all because for him this is just easy money and then he will leave us next summer, for free, as his last fu to everyone at the club.

Total failure to realise that we don't have a stable defense and a proper striker for the whole season.

 
Valerie said:
It pains me that quite a few people say we have only signed one player so far. Once again proof it's not easy being Green.

Surely that has been posted before?!
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I don't even count Green as an improvement to the first team it's like we will ever feel a difference...sure it's not easy being him or anyone for that matter but that's not the point of my frustration post lol  :wife:

 
I am certain that getting transfer business done early is the best way and was how we operated in the early years. In recent years, ever since Jose’s second coming up our transfer business has been crap. We’ve sold the wrong players and bought the wrong ones. To some extent I can find an excuse this season because of the Sarri situation, but you don’t get any extra points in the table fir having a good excuse. 

The team obviously needs strengthening. We didn’t score near enough goals last season, have the worst striker lineup in the top six, including arsenal although theirs are lacking as well. We also need a goal scoring midfielder. None of the current midfielders have a respectable goal scoring record for any club. I guess Alonso is the closest. 

Neither willian, nor Pedro can reliably get the business done and Pedro is well past his best. So we do need more. 

 
If we don't sell anyone do we really need more players? I mean Ampadu impressed me last season big time, CHO has been very impressive in the pre-season. I say give some of our talented youth the chance. Our backline is solid apart from maybe the LB position. Midfield has two very classy players in the form of Kanté and Jorginho, Barkley has been looking up in the pre-season as well. The only real signing we still need is a striker who is just a killer in front of goal. We have enough class on the wings with Hazard, Willian, CHO. Besides don't forget a lot comes down to playing style and tactics. Last season these were sh*te for a lot of players. I really believe lots of players will get a serious boost from Sarri's playing style and will be completely unrecognizable in comparison to last season. 

 
Thanks Juventus for wasting 2 weeks of our time, we will do it again next season, I bet. The GK rumours have gone dead in the past 2 days, I think Courotois may just play out the next 12 months, which I think it's going to end badly since he's already set for Madrid. We need players giving 100%, not someone who's already packed up and called the cab.

 
icecoolguy22 said:
The GK rumours have gone dead in the past 2 days,
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I've read that Chelsea has inquired about Jack Butland's price but Stoke's asking price was higher then we were going to offer. 

Pickford is apparently our preferred choice but it's unlikely Everton would sell. 

 
Gol15 said:
I don't even count Green as an improvement to the first team it's like we will ever feel a difference...sure it's not easy being him or anyone for that matter but that's not the point of my frustration post lol  :wife:
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You're frustrated? Imagine how Rob Green would feel, not even getting mentioned by you as a new signing, poor guy  :smile:

 
Zeta said:
Don't know what anyone was expecting really. Given our recent history of faffing around and then making panic buys, and the shortened transfer window this year, it's remarkable we've even signed a single player. I don't expect any others to come in now.
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yes i think we will stick with what we have now.  Won't do much in 1 week

 
I used to follow the few previous windows very intensively. Tapped "Chelsea rumours" to google search ten times a day only to find new (and interesting rumours almost every day and getting disappointed when the signings didn't happen. I haven't bothered to following this window very closely.

I don't think we will make any more signings this window. On the other hand I don't think we will sell anyone either. Were does that leave us? I think we are even a bit stronger than last season: We have signed Jorginho, a very good signing. We have a couple of youngesters (Ampady, CHO) looking much readier to PL than last year. And  I think last season we had a squad strong enough to be in the top four, we just somehow lacked to will. We have a new manageri who has done great things in developing the players he has had. So I'm not that worried about the coming season. 

 
It's been a very mixed summer for us I'll say that much. Certainly we made an absolute hash of signing Sarri/removing Conte which will no doubt cost us in the courts later. We also look like losing one of the best goalkeepers in the world for much less than his value over the next 12 months while letting the only available player of a similar standard go to a rival.

But there are some signs of green shoots. Jorginho looks a top signing and Sarri's style may invigorate some of our current players to play at a higher level.

All in all we have a squad to make top four and get back to CL next season, but as to whether we have done enough to convince Hazard that we can compete with Europe's elite again, I'd say it's unlikley barring a dramatic turn in the last week of the window. Never a boring day as a Chelsea fan that's for sure.

 
Given late arrival of half of the team because of World Cup and shorter window and new manager - I don't actually find overall lack of activity especially upsetting or surprising.

It is very reasonable for the new manager to assess the team before buying or selling players.

If it means he has to go into the season with what we have - fair enough. As long as we don't lose Courtois without an adequate replacement.

I just hope that we keep Sarri long enough for him to get a stab at a transfer window next year and make a couple of readjustments based on actually knowing the team, the strengths, the weaknesses.

 
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Ilya said:
Given late arrival of half of the team because of World Cup and shorter window and new manager - I don't actually find overall lack of activity especially upsetting or surprising.

It is very reasonable for the new manager to assess the team before buying or selling players.

If it means he has to go into the season with what we have - fair enough. As long as we don't lose Courtois without an adequate replacement.

I just hope that we keep Sarri long enough for him to get a stab at a transfer window next year and make a couple of readjustments based on actually knowing the team, the strengths, the weaknesses.
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You know that common sense has no place in this forum, right :wink: ?

 
Ilya said:
Given late arrival of half of the team because of World Cup and shorter window and new manager - I don't actually find overall lack of activity especially upsetting or surprising.

It is very reasonable for the new manager to assess the team before buying or selling players.

If it means he has to go into the season with what we have - fair enough. As long as we don't lose Courtois without an adequate replacement.

I just hope that we keep Sarri long enough for him to get a stab at a transfer window next year and make a couple of readjustments based on actually knowing the team, the strengths, the weaknesses.
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I take your point Ilya. My personal view is that in 12 months, Hazard is in the same situation as Courtois right now. With us over a barrel. Now is the time to convince him we are capable of delivering late runs into European comps.

We are right now pitching ourselves at Top 4 is good enough. That won't be good enough to get him to sign a new deal.

 
Spiller86 said:
We are right now pitching ourselves at Top 4 is good enough. That won't be good enough to get him to sign a new deal?.
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That may well be true. Or maybe not? I do, however, suspect that pitching ourselves at top 4 is what we'll be doing for the foreseeable future. We are not going to spend enough to aim higher. Those times are gone or at least temporarily suspended.

 
Ilya said:
That may well be true. Or maybe not? I do, however, suspect that pitching ourselves at top 4 is what we'll be doing for the foreseeable future. We are not going to spend enough to aim higher. Those times are gone or at least temporarily suspended.
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In that case Hazard needs to be sold now while his value is high because he won't be signing a new deal. 

Given we're not looking to do that I'm skeptical that our ambitions only extend to the top four.

 
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