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He's quite clearly a very good player, great technique and passing but lacking the experience to develop the off the ball stuff. I can see why we took the punt and he we picked a better loan destination things might have gone differently.

I hope we put in a buy back clause though, if he develops the mental side of his game he will be a top player.
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He is the one player I reckon could be brilliant if he puts it all together. Can’t blame him for it not working out here, club never had a plan.

 
He is the one player I reckon could be brilliant if he puts it all together. Can’t blame him for it not working out here, club never had a plan.
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Thought he did well in Maresca's pre-season ... certainly baled him out in two of the games with late goals to secure draws against Wrexham and Inter Milan.

I was surprised when he wasn't part of the squad for the season after that. I guess what counted against him was not being bought for a large enough fee or with any personal intervention from Eghbali in the "negotiation" !

Good luck to him at Burnley anyway.

 
Caiceido, Fernandez, Santos, Lavia, Essugo even as a rotation he’d be looking at a substitute role in menial competitions.

Transfer makes total sense.

 
Caiceido, Fernandez, Santos, Lavia, Essugo even as a rotation he’d be looking at a substitute role in menial competitions.

Transfer makes total sense.
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Is Essugo better though? I don’t think so. He is just the new flashy thing, we could have saved the money and brought back Ugochukwu from loan instead in Jan.

 
How much did Ugochukwu go for anyone know the fee. Got to be more than £23m we paid?

 
Is Essugo better though? I don’t think so. He is just the new flashy thing, we could have saved the money and brought back Ugochukwu from loan instead in Jan.
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He is. We have found a younger version of Caicedo (wont say he will be just as good), who if it doesn't work out here for us he will absolutely go for more money than we paid. He is also deputy to Caicedo so he will be learning the trade. People cant have Caicedo, you can bet the next best thing will be of value to many clubs.

 
He is. We have found a younger version of Caicedo (wont say he will be just as good), who if it doesn't work out here for us he will absolutely go for more money than we paid. He is also deputy to Caicedo so he will be learning the trade. People cant have Caicedo, you can bet the next best thing will be of value to many clubs.
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Are you sure? He has been loaned for half a season to a relegated Portuguese team, came back wasn’t deemed good enough for a squad role, loaned out again to a relegated La Liga team.

Well he will need to get games and see loads of mins to develop. Caicedo is 1st name on the team sheet, so bar the Cup games & CL against low opposition I can’t see where the mins will come from. Baleba at Brighton is the next big midfielder, and the closest to Caicedo.

 
Are you sure? He has been loaned for half a season to a relegated Portuguese team, came back wasn’t deemed good enough for a squad role, loaned out again to a relegated La Liga team.

Well he will need to get games and see loads of mins to develop. Caicedo is 1st name on the team sheet, so bar the Cup games & CL against low opposition I can’t see where the mins will come from. Baleba at Brighton is the next big midfielder, and the closest to Caicedo.
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I do agree with Baleba, however we are not looking at Essugo as the next Caicedo for us. He is just that profile, thats all. He is good enough to fill shoes a couple of games, meanwhile increasing his value for profit in the next year or two. We have Lavia and Santos who are the replavements.

Baleba will cost north of £90m, not many clubs can afford that, so him being in the market has no effect on what we will sell Essugo for.

Fans need to realize our model which has replaced Roman Abramovich bankrolling us. We do not buy every player for our squad. The ones good enough get to be in our squad, the rest are flipped for profit. This is what we all need to understand as fans.

 
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I do agree with Baleba, however we are not looking at Essugo as the next Caicedo for us. He is just that profile, thats all. He is good enough to fill shoes a couple of games, meanwhile increasing his value for profit in the next year or two. We have Lavia and Santos who are the replavements.

Baleba will cost north of £90m, not many clubs can afford that, so him being in the market has no effect on what we will sell Essugo for.

Fans need to realize our model which has replaced Roman Abramovich bankrolling us. We do not buy every player for our squad. The ones good enough get to be in our squad, the rest are flipped for profit. This is what we all need to understand as fans.
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I think we're all aware of the atrocious plan by now, one where we actually spend like Roman , rack up over half the debt that took Roman 19 years to rack up... but Roman took Chelsea from never ever winning the PL to Champions 🏆 in his 2nd season..

Fans need to realise that our owners took THAT club and slammed us into reverse.

And I'm sick.of everyone seemingly now being more invested in our accounts than our football team and looking forward to our Account Book being paraded around the stadium. 📓📓📓📖📖📖📗📗📗

 
I think we're all aware of the atrocious plan by now, one where we actually spend like Roman , rack up over half the debt that took Roman 19 years to rack up... but Roman took Chelsea from never ever winning the PL to Champions 🏆 in his 2nd season..

Fans need to realise that our owners took THAT club and slammed us into reverse.

And I'm sick.of everyone seemingly now being more invested in our accounts than our football team and looking forward to our Account Book being paraded around the stadium. 📓📓📓📖📖📖📗📗📗
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If this window continues as it’s been going then the club might well parade the books around the stadium.

 
If this window continues as it’s been going then the club might well parade the books around the stadium.
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😂 They won't be parading BlueCo and HoldCo's books around the stadium !!

 
I think we're all aware of the atrocious plan by now, one where we actually spend like Roman , rack up over half the debt that took Roman 19 years to rack up... but Roman took Chelsea from never ever winning the PL to Champions 🏆 in his 2nd season..

Fans need to realise that our owners took THAT club and slammed us into reverse.

And I'm sick.of everyone seemingly now being more invested in our accounts than our football team and looking forward to our Account Book being paraded around the stadium. 📓📓📓📖📖📖📗📗📗
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No idea why you are so angry about it. Some of us have an interest in finances and find this exciting, why is this so wrong? We are doing great both financially and building our team.

Win - Win for all fans and club.

 
No idea why you are so angry about it. Some of us have an interest in finances and find this exciting, why is this so wrong? We are doing great both financially and building our team.

Win - Win for all fans and club.
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Doing well financially?? See below 😂 And ou don't build a team by constant, never ending player trading every season . Guess what ? They actually bought an elite club with no debt. .

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"CHELSEA'S owners have lost £1billion over the last two seasons despite the club posting profits.

The Blues are controlled by chiefs Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali via parent company 22 Holdco Ltd."

 
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