It's official.

 

20 hours ago, Is good blues said:

Couldn’t agree more 

So two clowns.

Quite surprised how quickly this has come about. No loan fee apparently ... 

Assuming Lukaku and Ziyech leave soon as well, this would leave Chilwell as the only player left in the squad that Roman paid a fee for !

Quite incredible transformation of almost the entire playing staff ... certainly unprecedented at any big club I would think ?

1 minute ago, Sexyfootball said:

No loan fee apparently ...

What the f**k?

This makes no sense from a Chelsea perspective. Now we have to sign ANOTHER keeper. And then we still might get Kepa back in the summer if RM don't want him, and we'll be stuck with 3.

Surely there has to be a loan fee otherwise wtf is the point. Real madrid wont want him once their number one is back so its not leading to a permanent transfer.

We had both Bayern and Real bidding for the guy and we end up getting zero loan fee and zero obligation to buy, for our first choice keeper.

Christ almighty. Sheer incompetence.

Even if there is no loan fee, Real Madrid will be paying his wages of course. Probably a fair bit of money saved there if you get a cheap goalie for free.

Pochettino might think he's not someone you want part of the group and then you might want to get rid of that player, even if its a financially poor deal.

Personally, if a player refused to be subbed off in a game, I'd never play him again. Can't have players with that attitude if you want to build a good team or a dynasty.

Really weird transfer this is if there's no loan fee and no replacement lined up.

5 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Really weird transfer this is if there's no loan fee and no replacement lined up.

Gets £10m of wages off the books this year but we should have been able to get a decent loan fee too.

Perhaps they consider Bergstrom is ready to be #2 ?

Or even #1 if Sanchez continues like he started LOL

48 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Quite surprised how quickly this has come about. No loan fee apparently ... 

Assuming Lukaku and Ziyech leave soon as well, this would leave Chilwell as the only player left in the squad that Roman paid a fee for !

Quite incredible transformation of almost the entire playing staff ... certainly unprecedented at any big club I would think ?

In 04/05 we only had Terry, Cudicini and Gudjohnsen left from 00/01.

3 minutes ago, Argo said:

In 04/05 we only had Terry, Cudicini and Gudjohnsen left from 00/01.

That's 4 years vs 1.5 though ! 8 windows vs 3 ... 

I don't see anything about a loan fee (not mentioned) in the Madrid sport newspapers (As, Marca) but As mentions that there's no option to buy. In any case, we're removing a hefty salary from the books for this season.

12 minutes ago, RMH said:

I don't see anything about a loan fee (not mentioned) in the Madrid sport newspapers (As, Marca) but As mentions that there's no option to buy. In any case, we're removing a hefty salary from the books for this season.

Still going to have £10m or so of his original transfer fee on the books though. Would have been nice to offset that at least partially with some sort of loan fee. 

2 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

Still going to have £10m or so of his original transfer fee on the books though. Would have been nice to offset that at least partially with some sort of loan fee. 

I agree with you, and we had the upper hand in here.

17 minutes ago, RMH said:

I don't see anything about a loan fee (not mentioned) in the Madrid sport newspapers (As, Marca) but As mentions that there's no option to buy. In any case, we're removing a hefty salary from the books for this season.

DOn't know if it's right or not, but on reddit it was posted that it was just £1m loan fee.

3 minutes ago, RMH said:

I agree with you, and we had the upper hand in here.

Hopefully we've got a first refusal option on Tchouamenai or Valverde as part of the deal (should they be available at some point)

Makes 0 sense. Now we have to pay big money to get another keeper in. 

And by the way, why exactly did we sell Mendy? How is Sanchez considered a better GK than him? I am confused.

10 minutes ago, reparto corse said:

And by the way, why exactly did we sell Mendy? How is Sanchez considered a better GK than him? I am confused.

Sanchez has resale value, would be happier fighting for number 1 spot, and wanted to be here. 

I don't think I could easily say whether Sanchez or Mendy is the better keeper. Both seem about par to me 

I reckon with the haste that this was pushed through there was a money stumbling block for the Caicedo deal and that removal of £10m of wages fixed it, hence why we have moved as quickly as this.

1 hour ago, bisright1 said:

Sanchez has resale value, would be happier fighting for number 1 spot, and wanted to be here. 

I don't think I could easily say whether Sanchez or Mendy is the better keeper. Both seem about par to me 

When you look at the amount of howlers Sanchez produced last season Mendy`s suddenly look much less problematic. In fact Sanchez seems to struggle in the same areas Mendy struggled in.

Passing the ball, decision making when leaving his line resulting in penalties or easy goals, random lapses in concentration.

 

Edited August 14, 20232 yr by reparto corse

No loan fee is a bit strange but good to get his huge wages off the bill for a season, I’d bring in someone like Keylor Navas for a season until we can find a more permanent alternative.

2 hours ago, reparto corse said:

And by the way, why exactly did we sell Mendy? How is Sanchez considered a better GK than him? I am confused.

Maybe because of stuff like this?

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1485126388965858/

Edited August 14, 20232 yr by just