4 hours ago, hawkster said:

It says in the papers £34m ,price dropping soon we'll be paying them to take him ffs ...too low

It says on the beeb, villa and spurs offered closer to 50mil but clearlake don't want to sell to a Premier league team and agreed the 34mil for athletico instead.

"Chelsea are understood to prefer the sale to a club outside of English football so have opted to accept a lower bid, rather than the £45m being discussed with Aston Villa in June."

Edited August 1, 20241 yr by Simplymo

10 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Think we need to wait and see how this plays out. We don't know what Villa offered him nor do we know what Atletico will offer him. Gallagher clearly wants long term commitment here, or the biggest deal elsewhere. All power to him. 

Gallagher getting a 2+1 year extension whilst earning the same amount of money as Caicedo + Enzo has him among our top earners until he enters his prime years. I wouldn't necessarily consider that "forcing him out" which has been the notion this entire year. I'd go as far as saying the club are doing their part for a player the sporting directors don't even rate. Protecting his value whilst paying him what he deserves in terms of contribution. 

 

This does sound reasonable. 2+1 year extension. But then the other top earners are on these 7 year contracts. So that is odd.

I would like him to stay, but the reality is we have already bought his replacement.

The price? I would rather we get a lower price and he goes to Spain. I don't want to see him playing for a 'steaming pile of Tottenham'.  Galler is clearly worth 50million quid. +

8 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Think we need to wait and see how this plays out. We don't know what Villa offered him nor do we know what Atletico will offer him. Gallagher clearly wants long term commitment here, or the biggest deal elsewhere. All power to him. 

Gallagher getting a 2+1 year extension whilst earning the same amount of money as Caicedo + Enzo has him among our top earners until he enters his prime years. I wouldn't necessarily consider that "forcing him out" which has been the notion this entire year. I'd go as far as saying the club are doing their part for a player the sporting directors don't even rate. Protecting his value whilst paying him what he deserves in terms of contribution. 

 

Therein lies the issue. Dumb and Dumber must have hated Poch's appreciation of Gallagher. And quite likely one of the reasons Poch decided the place wasn't for him. 

1 minute ago, TheCeleryKing said:

This does sound reasonable. 2+1 year extension. But then the other top earners are on these 7 year contracts. So that is odd.

I would like him to stay, but the reality is we have already bought his replacement.

The price? I would rather we get a lower price and he goes to Spain. I don't want to see him playing for a 'steaming pile of Tottenham'.  Galler is clearly worth 50million quid. +

The lower price relates to the destination: outside the PL. Within the PL it would be higher.

I'll be gutted if / when Conor leaves. 

Is a player of his skill-set and ability easily replaceable? 100% yes. But he was a lot more than that. Been with us since he was a kid, loaned out 4 times but came back and bled blue and gave everything and you could tell it meant so much to him when he was given the arm-band. That sort of character is not so easily replaceable and having already lost Silva, I feel we can ill afford to lose him (even though I am a fan of KDH).

Disgusted with how this has been handled and how Gallagher has been treated by Clearlake & Co, but it's exactly what you expect from them. Will always support CFC (The Team), just hate the people that now run it.

 

10 minutes ago, dermott said:

The lower price relates to the destination: outside the PL. Within the PL it would be higher.

Yes, Obviously. Which is strange capitalism in itself - the 'English' tax.

My guess is Gallagher will be back playing in England after a couple of years in Madrid. Although I hope i am wrong. I hope Conor is a great freaking success and that we regret selling him.

5 minutes ago, TheCeleryKing said:

I hope Conor is a great freaking success and that we regret selling him.

You hope we regret selling him? 😕

I mean I wish Gallagher nothing but the best (which I am confident he will find at Atletico) but so long as his success doesn't conflict with ours. 

I am at the stage now, tbh, that i don't believe any of the speculation that comes from the club either any more. Nothing since that Roddy bloke came in has been on the level. All of this stuff and more appears to be misinformation put out to gloss over and divert from what is really going on in the club. It is PR spin on overdrive. 

I suspect the Villa thing fell out of bed because we tried to do some sort of trade for Watkins after the Maatsen - Kellyman thing, and that didn't happen, so they have added some spin now, when in reality Gallagher would be perfectly entitled to tip them bollox, sit on his hands until December and then sign a pre contract agreement as a free agent. For what reason i don't know but i find everything associated with the club lately is malodorous

3 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

You hope we regret selling him? 😕

I mean I wish Gallagher nothing but the best (which I am confident he will find at Atletico) but so long as his success doesn't conflict with ours. 

It shall not conflict with ours.

We are selling him. I hope he has a freaking great career. His loyalty to our club is without question. I think we are already regretting selling him.

6 hours ago, Bob stark said:

Yes

Well, I am not sure that's a smart deal for us, or in the clubs best interests.

41 minutes ago, Simplymo said:

It says on the beeb, villa and spurs offered closer to 50mil but clearlake don't want to sell to a Premier league team and agreed the 34mil for athletico instead.

"Chelsea are understood to prefer the sale to a club outside of English football so have opted to accept a lower bid, rather than the £45m being discussed with Aston Villa in June."

So the BBC are at it now as well eh?

So a year after Mounts sale to United and Kovas to City they don't want Conor to go to a PL side?

Or is it Conor does not want to go to Spurs or Villa? Yeah think it is that.

10 minutes ago, nonotnowjim said:

Well, I am not sure that's a smart deal for us, or in the clubs best interests.

Not even sure why you replied. 

13 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

I guess the only way to know is if it comes from him, which is unlikely seeing as footballers love to give nothing answers.

He would’ve had to sign an NDA, Clownlake love them!

1 hour ago, Simplymo said:

It says on the beeb, villa and spurs offered closer to 50mil but clearlake don't want to sell to a Premier league team and agreed the 34mil for athletico instead.

"Chelsea are understood to prefer the sale to a club outside of English football so have opted to accept a lower bid, rather than the £45m being discussed with Aston Villa in June."

Are the BBC now intentionally making stuff up? It's been reported since Jan of 2023 that the club have accepted bids from Everton, Spurs, and now Villa for Gallagher. They have no aspirations of selling Gallagher outside of the league. They are only now doing so because Gallagher has rejected every offer. 

Honestly so stupid especially when you consider where Havertz, Mount, Hall, and Kovacic ended up. 

4 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Are the BBC now intentionally making stuff up? It's been reported since Jan of 2023 that the club have accepted bids from Everton, Spurs, and now Villa for Gallagher. They have no aspirations of selling Gallagher outside of the league. They are only now doing so because Gallagher has rejected every offer. 

Honestly so stupid especially when you consider where Havertz, Mount, Hall, and Kovacic ended up. 

They left the part about clearlake "accepting" those bids so maybe they took the quote from our PR dept. Which is strange in itself as the beeb will always try to make us look bad.

Even the information about the offers made to Conor suggest that nothing was put on the table for him until June. By then we had supposedly shopped him out to other Premier League clubs. Seems like the offer on the table was shortish term with the aim to increase any value we might get when selling him. Not really surprising that he turned it down. As he gets closer to the end of his current contract, any bidding club is going to be a stronger position. Which explains the lower price being quoted with Athletico.

He has turned down 3 contract offers 1 yesterday 

we agreed a 56m sale to villa he refused 

started more games than anyone last season 

what does he want ? 
what is the club to do let him go on a free ?

He wants to be paid more than the club have so far offered. Why would a Chelsea boy want to go to Villa? Conner makes 50K a week, David Fofana is on 200K a week, let that sink in. A player that is not even good enough to make our squad makes 4 times what Conner does.

A lot of PR is being put out by the club so it doesn’t look bad on them! I’m sure they said the same about Mason!

Time to turn your back on Chelsea, Conor! Go play Champions League football and f**k these clowns!

6 minutes ago, Scott said:

He wants to be paid more than the club have so far offered. Why would a Chelsea boy want to go to Villa? Conner makes 50K a week, David Fofana is on 200K a week, let that sink in. A player that is not even good enough to make our squad makes 4 times what Conner does.

David Datro Fofana? He doesn't make £200k a week mate, someone's got that wrong somewhere. 👍

4 minutes ago, Mod said:

A lot of PR is being put out by the club so it doesn’t look bad on them! I’m sure they said the same about Mason!

Time to turn your back on Chelsea, Conor! Go play Champions League football and f**k these clowns!

I mean if Mount was their decision it would have been the best decision they've made by some distance, even over signing Palmer, Christo and Gusto.

It wasn't however, Mason joined up to the same company that moulded David Beckhams imagine and within months becomes United's number 7, that's not a coincidence.

10 minutes ago, Argo said:

I mean if Mount was their decision it would have been the best decision they've made by some distance, even over signing Palmer, Christo and Gusto.

It wasn't however, Mason joined up to the same company that moulded David Beckhams imagine and within months becomes United's number 7, that's not a coincidence.

Mason was forced out the club in the same way, to the extent that Frank was instructed not to play him! Enzo would’ve had the same briefing about Conor!

If anyone was Mason, they would’ve done the same thing and made a few phone calls up norf’

1 minute ago, Mod said:

Mason was forced out the club in the same way, to the extent that Frank was instructed not to play him! Enzo would’ve had the same brief about Conor!

If anyone was Mason, they would’ve done the same thing and made a few phone calls up norf’

Don't buy it sorry. I'd agree Gallagher and Chalobah don't want to leave but I think Mount had that move to United months in the planning, if not years.

Couldn't care for PR articles either way, I'd prefer to look at actions and all of Mount's suggests he had the move he wanted, from joining Beckhams company, the soulless goodbye to the fans he prerecorded months in advance to calling Old Trafford special on his first day there.

But let's say it wasnt his call, surely us not having 6 years (minimum) of what looks to be a burnt out footballer on unmovable wages is a good thing? (And that's before we factor in the fact we replaced him with arguably the best player in the league). He looks a massive shadow of the lad that broke through under Lampard let alone the UCL winner under Tuchel.

2 minutes ago, Argo said:

Don't buy it sorry. I'd agree Gallagher and Chalobah don't want to leave but I think Mount had that move to United months in the planning, if not years.

Couldn't care for PR articles either way, I'd prefer to look at actions and all of Mount's suggests he had the move he wanted, from joining Beckhams company, the soulless goodbye to the fans he prerecorded months in advance to calling Old Trafford special on his first day there.

But let's say it wasnt his call, surely us not having 6 years (minimum) of what looks to be a burnt out footballer on unmovable wages is a good thing? (And that's before we factor in the fact we replaced him with arguably the best player in the league). He looks a massive shadow of the lad that broke through under Lampard let alone the UCL winner under Tuchel.

They forced Mason's hand and pushed him that far! He was pissed at the club and lost his love for Chelsea long before people realised with the recorded stoic video! The fans were just collateral damage to him by then! The same is now happening with Conor and Big Trev! See the pattern yet!

7 minutes ago, Mod said:

They forced Mason's hand and pushed him that far! He was pissed at the club and lost his love for Chelsea long before people realised with the recorded stoic video! The fans were just collateral damage to him by then! The same is now happening with Conor and Big Trev! See the pattern yet!

I guess we'll find out soon but I'd put good money on their goodbye posts/videos being significantly closer to Silvas level than Mounts.

Mount was supported through a drastic decline in ways I've only seen done to the same extent with Mourinho (in 15/16), he absolutely should have done better when it came to the fans.