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Valerie said:
I've given up trying to keep track of the kids we've signed  :sad:  Surely many will start their Chelsea career in the development squad?
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🤣🤣 It is crazy. Winger after winger. Probably none of them will ever play for our first time team. Or maybe the end goal is to play 

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Bob stark said:
😆😆😆🤣🤣🤣

This is just hilarious. 
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Funniest thing is his prolific output ... I get that he is young, and set records for youngest player blah blah blah, but I'd love to know what our scouts and recruitment team are seeing in a winger with 5 goals in 129 appearances for Santos. especially when they've already signed Hutchinson, Mudryk, Madueke, Sterling, Jackson, Nkunku, Moreira, Matos .... plus we still have CHO, Anjorin, Vale, Ziyech ... and I bet even Leo Castledine will turn out to be a better attacking midfielder than at least half of them LOL. 

Wingers are the new left backs I guess ... 

 
Sexyfootball said:
Funniest thing is his prolific output ... I get that he is young, and set records for youngest player blah blah blah, but I'd love to know what our scouts and recruitment team are seeing in a winger with 5 goals in 129 appearances for Santos. especially when they've already signed Hutchinson, Mudryk, Madueke, Sterling, Jackson, Nkunku, Moreira, Matos .... plus we still have CHO, Anjorin, Vale, Ziyech ... and I bet even Leo Castledine will turn out to be a better attacking midfielder than at least half of them LOL. 

Wingers are the new left backs I guess ... 
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What concerns me is that this team seem to be trying to prove the rationale of part of the reason they were brought in, seeking out young emerging talent, by paying decent sized fees for young players that little if anyone is competing for.

When it comes to the negotiations with established senior players, most with representation that has been around the block for a while, either deals collapse or they trundle on forever. I'm sure taht isn't the case but it certainly seems that way currently.

Ironically, one young player purchased that i do think may well be a massive star in the future, Carney, may well get swamped with countless others that won't make it and be forgotten here, leading to pointless loans and the inevitable departure to make a name for himself elsewhere. Hope I'm wrong.

 
WhiteWall said:
What concerns me is that this team seem to be trying to prove the rationale of part of the reason they were brought in, seeking out young emerging talent, by paying decent sized fees for young players that little if anyone is competing for.

When it comes to the negotiations with established senior players, most with representation that has been around the block for a while, either deals collapse or they trundle on forever. I'm sure taht isn't the case but it certainly seems that way currently.

Ironically, one young player purchased that i do think may well be a massive star in the future, Carney, may well get swamped with countless others that won't make it and be forgotten here, leading to pointless loans and the inevitable departure to make a name for himself elsewhere. Hope I'm wrong.
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Jury is well and truly out on Winstanley and Stewart - simply too early to tell whether anything they have done thus far will bear fruit at this point. We do still seem to be following the pattern of buying high and selling low (or free) that was well-established under Roman.

I agree on Carney. I'm hoping that Chukwuemeka and also Casadei have a really good USA Tour and impress Pochettino enough to keep them around and play them.

From what little I've seen of them, they look far better prospects than, say, Andrey Santos to me (who I also hope does well btw)

 
Sexyfootball said:
Funniest thing is his prolific output ... I get that he is young, and set records for youngest player blah blah blah, but I'd love to know what our scouts and recruitment team are seeing in a winger with 5 goals in 129 appearances for Santos. especially when they've already signed Hutchinson, Mudryk, Madueke, Sterling, Jackson, Nkunku, Moreira, Matos .... plus we still have CHO, Anjorin, Vale, Ziyech ... and I bet even Leo Castledine will turn out to be a better attacking midfielder than at least half of them LOL. 

Wingers are the new left backs I guess ... 
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🤣🤣🤣

If you list them, it sounds even more ridiculous. But you got to catch them all

 
Sexyfootball said:
Funniest thing is his prolific output ... I get that he is young, and set records for youngest player blah blah blah, but I'd love to know what our scouts and recruitment team are seeing in a winger with 5 goals in 129 appearances for Santos. especially when they've already signed Hutchinson, Mudryk, Madueke, Sterling, Jackson, Nkunku, Moreira, Matos .... plus we still have CHO, Anjorin, Vale, Ziyech ... and I bet even Leo Castledine will turn out to be a better attacking midfielder than at least half of them LOL. 

Wingers are the new left backs I guess ... 
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I mean, when you put it like that it does look mad 😂

On the other hand, Matos, Hutchinson and Moreira where all free transfers. Seems likelt that they're investments that will simply go into the development squad or on loan with an ambition to sell them on in the future. 

CHO/Ziyech are being sold by the looks of it. Anjorin might as well, while a loan is still an option - just as Vale seems to go out on loan.

I can't imagine Jackson or Nkunku being played as wingers. This leaves us with Mudryk, Madueke and Sterling as out-and-out wingers.

Pulisic is gone. Ziyech is pretty much gone. We've only really replaced them with Mudryk and Madueke.

At the same time we've said goodbye to Mount, Felix and Havertz in the offensive positions. Nkunku and Jackson can't cover all of them IMO...

 
and aother day sails past with little or no activity. No movement on Caceido, no movement on Lukaku. I think these two are essentially stopping anything else from happening for us at the moment. Seems all very reminiscent of the f*ckery with Barca from last summer. Raphinha, Dembele and Kounde taking up weeks to get nowhere

 
Won't be a popular opinion of course but could do a lot worse than Maguire, either on loan or permanent - can fill in for W Fofana or Badiashile and has something to prove. As it stands we're in dire straits in terms of squad depth/experience.

 
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Let's see if this gets any traction in the upcoming days, if it does happen it's going to be comedy gold to a few cynical shed enders on here who have defo not drunk any of the Clearlake Kool Aid  !

 
WhiteWall said:
We'll see. Would anyone really be surprised if it happened. Christ let's hope not.
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Lukaku 2 seasons ago, Koulibaly and Sterling last season, all 3 players I have never been a fan of, we signed them all. So no, I wouldn't be surprised if we signed the biggest joke of them all.

 
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the special one said:
Won't be a popular opinion of course but could do a lot worse than Maguire, either on loan or permanent - can fill in for W Fofana or Badiashile and has something to prove. As it stands we're in dire straits in terms of squad depth/experience.
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We couldn't really do any worse,Fofana with one leg is twice as good as Harry..have you watched him?

 
the special one said:
Won't be a popular opinion of course but could do a lot worse than Maguire, either on loan or permanent - can fill in for W Fofana or Badiashile and has something to prove. As it stands we're in dire straits in terms of squad depth/experience.
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Personally I can't ever see Fofana being fit enough, for long enough. It seems every time he takes the field or training he is getter one step nearer his next lengthy lay off. 

Therefore we need to discount him totally for now. If he can get fit and stay fit he can be pencilled in as the eventual Silva replacement.

We need to get a proper CB and I'm sorry much as I like him I don't see it being Chalobah. Personally I would go for Aymeric Laporte as I think he could be got for a reasonable fee. Marquinhos, if we haven’t queered our pitch with PSG too much. Upemecano if he has lost confidence at Bayern. Somebody like this anyway.

 
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