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2 minutes ago, Remodez said:

He's not raw so that's probably what you are missing. He's already a very complete player at such a young age but he's certainly not going to help with our goal scoring.

If you are excited by Paez or Estevao then I see no reason why you shouldn't be excited about Quenda.

A 17 year old in his first season is always "raw" in my book ? How can he be otherwise ?

He's obviously not a complete player as he has several weaknesses to his game, and his output is light years lower than Estevao, and even he is a gamble. Paez I am not expecting much. Hopefully they all turn out good,

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    2 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

    A 17 year old in his first season is always "raw" in my book ? How can he be otherwise ?

    He's obviously not a complete player as he has several weaknesses to his game, and his output is light years lower than Estevao, and even he is a gamble. Paez I am not expecting much. Hopefully they all turn out good,

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    I assumed you meant raw in terms of ability, not experience.

    Aerial duels naturally a weakness due to this height I didn't think that one needed to be brought up. Finishing I mentioned already, hope it gets better with age but no doubt a major weakness of his at the moment. Tackling I guess? He's so high up the pitch so I can see how it can be very weak when he's chasing back and commiting fouls rather than being in position to make a favorable tackle. As a winger in our system I would imagine this wouldn't be an issue. Defensive contribution I have no idea how that's measured as he's got good work rate, maybe does try to press too much and ends up going alone at times like Connor did for us instead of with the team so I guess that knocks his stats down.

    2 minutes ago, Remodez said:

    I assumed you meant raw in terms of ability, not experience.

    Aerial duels naturally a weakness due to this height I didn't think that one needed to be brought up. Finishing I mentioned already, hope it gets better with age but no doubt a major weakness of his at the moment. Tackling I guess? He's so high up the pitch so I can see how it can be very weak when he's chasing back and commiting fouls rather than being in position to make a favorable tackle. As a winger in our system I would imagine this wouldn't be an issue. Defensive contribution I have no idea how that's measured as he's got good work rate, maybe does try to press too much and ends up going alone at times like Connor did for us instead of with the team so I guess that knocks his stats down.

    I hope he turns out to be a good signing, but I find it really hard to get excited about signing yet another young player for a huge fee, in a position we don't need, when we have gaping chasms in the side at striker, goal keeper, central defence and left back, which it appears we continually fail to address ... I'd also prioritise a physical goal-scoring central midfielder to play with Caicedo instead of Fernandez, but you have to pick battles you can win LOL

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    3 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

    I hope he turns out to be a good signing, but I find it really hard to get excited about signing yet another young player for a huge fee, in a position we don't need, when we have gaping chasms in the side at striker, goal keeper, central defence and left back, which it appears we continually fail to address ... I'd also prioritise a physical goal-scoring central midfielder to play with Caicedo instead of Fernandez, but you have to pick battles you can win LOL

    I understand the skepticism but seeing as these kind of signings are not going to stop, if we are going to be spending big money on youth then these are the sort of players we should be aiming for.

    Hopefully we get a much needed first team improvements to supplement signings like these.

    Managers and players speak of him really highly, I've added his assist against Man City from earlier this season as well. He looks looks very direct with good vision and has very good crossing/passing, but don't worry, Maresca will do his best to train that out of him.

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    Liverpool scouts have been huge admirers of Essugo’s performances this season and pursued a deal for the young midfielder. Negotiations for a €22m transfer fee was no obstacle for the Reds who viewed Essugo as the ideal understudy to Gravenberch. Liverpool offered €50k per week to Essugo and were prepared to sign a five year contract to secure his services. Chelsea then put an insane offer on the table giving a six-year contract to Essugo worth €100k per week

    That is ridiculous if true. He currently earns less than £10k/w

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    8 minutes ago, ducavis said:

    Liverpool scouts have been huge admirers of Essugo’s performances this season and pursued a deal for the young midfielder. Negotiations for a €22m transfer fee was no obstacle for the Reds who viewed Essugo as the ideal understudy to Gravenberch. Liverpool offered €50k per week to Essugo and were prepared to sign a five year contract to secure his services. Chelsea then put an insane offer on the table giving a six-year contract to Essugo worth €100k per week

    That is ridiculous if true. He currently earns less than £10k/w

    He’s a baby Caicedo

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    23 hours ago, ducavis said:

    Liverpool scouts have been huge admirers of Essugo’s performances this season and pursued a deal for the young midfielder. Negotiations for a €22m transfer fee was no obstacle for the Reds who viewed Essugo as the ideal understudy to Gravenberch. Liverpool offered €50k per week to Essugo and were prepared to sign a five year contract to secure his services. Chelsea then put an insane offer on the table giving a six-year contract to Essugo worth €100k per week

    That is ridiculous if true. He currently earns less than £10k/w

    I imagine this is similar to when we beat Liverpool to Caicedo and Lavia and they started saying we were paying them £250k a week.

    2 hours ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

    Great, now we have:

    Caicedo

    Santos (Caicedo Jnr)

    Essugo (Baby Caicedo)

    Amougou (Fetus Caicedo)

    I was actually beginning to worry that we didn't have enough teenagers no one had heard of before. Glad the board addressed the issue!

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    Chelsea make initial contact for Roma’s Mile Svilar

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    ROME, ITALY - FEBRUARY 22: Mile Svilar of AS Roma celebrates after victory in the penalty shoot out following the UEFA Europa League 2023/24 knockout round play-offs second leg match between AS Roma and Feyenoord at Stadio Olimpico on February 22, 2024 in Rome, Italy. (Photo by Paolo Bruno/Getty Images)

    March 19, 2025

    Serie A side Roma could be fighting a battle to keep Mile Svilar and Chelsea have made initial contact for the goalkeeper.

    A host of Premier League clubs have been linked with the Serbian and Chelsea have emerged as the latest candidate for the player.

    Marco Conterio has reported that while a renewal for Svilar seemed done some weeks ago, that isn’t quite the case. His entourage wants a wage of €4 million per season and that has left talks stagnant, even if Roma want to secure the goalkeeper for the long-term future.

    There is major interest form multiple clubs in Europe, with Chelsea having expressed their interest and have made exploratory contact with his entourage. Quite the same applies to Bayern Munich.

    So far, Roma’s offer has been lower than €4 million per season but as things stand, the player’s demands have not lowered and things could not get messy.

    https://www.getfootballnewsitaly.com/2025/chelsea-make-initial-contact-for-romas-mile-svilar/

    With all these 17 and 16 year olds we are buying,cough cough.

    Does that mean we are only going to get really serious about winning premier league in 2026 or 2027 ?

    When they have all blooded in if that’s the term.

    I have to say I don’t watch football much anymore am I getting too old to care or is it because of CFC owners?

    I think I know the answer to my own question and it’s quite disturbing 😳

    1 hour ago, Jah Blair said:

    With all these 17 and 16 year olds we are buying,cough cough.

    Does that mean we are only going to get really serious about winning premier league in 2026 or 2027 ?

    When they have all blooded in if that’s the term.

    I have to say I don’t watch football much anymore am I getting too old to care or is it because of CFC owners?

    I think I know the answer to my own question and it’s quite disturbing 😳

    The answer is no because all of those players would have been sold for break even or marginal profit, except for Palmer and maybe one other lucky gem. In 2027 we will have another load of over priced wonderkids with bags of potential.....that will also be flipped.

    Of course there will be a reducing number of kids and it will become harder and harder to make money off them, because the players with real talent wouldn't hinder their careers at a puppy mill like ours, leaving us with average kids that will have over inflated price tags.

    15 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

    The answer is no because all of those players would have been sold for break even or marginal profit, except for Palmer and maybe one other lucky gem. In 2027 we will have another load of over priced wonderkids with bags of potential.....that will also be flipped.

    Of course there will be a reducing number of kids and it will become harder and harder to make money off them, because the players with real talent wouldn't hinder their careers at a puppy mill like ours, leaving us with average kids that will have over inflated price tags.

    What really gets me is Maresca’s system looks like it’s quite complicated and I’d imagine a more experienced set of players might make it work better.

    Young players make more mistakes and don’t always truly understand what a manager is asking from them especially off the ball. IMO that’s why the chaos ball we played before Maresca got his size 6 and a halfs into the squad worked far better for the squad we have.

    He’s the wrong manager for this squad of players. I’ll have no issue retracting that statement if he turns it around but I don’t think it’s going to happen.

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