1 hour ago, Sexyfootball said:

#3 at Leicester ... I wonder if he'll take #3 off Alonso or perhaps go with #2 or #4 vacated by Rudiger and Christensen ?

Good luck Wesley !

Is this potentially a better signing than De Ligt I wonder ? Time will tell ... 

I reckon he will take 2 or 4 since they’re open

Can he play in the pivot

Just now, d-one said:

Can he play in the pivot

Not really, but neither can any of our other CM’s

Finally!  Really happy with this, if he develops as we think he will then he'll be an absolute beast for us for a decade at least!

Fee aside, this is a fantastic and absolutely necessary signing. Watching Dave yesterday was painful and with an aging Silva not being able to play week in and out this guy will get a lot of responsibility. Hopefully he’ll help sort out our deficiencies on defensive set pieces as well. 
 

I’d also say that the fee is less crazy after the Antony transfer. Happy that he’s not joining us with the extra expectations a world record amount would have led to. 

If Gvardiol comes as well that's our defence sorted for the next decade

With our record of signings and performances, excuse me for not having any enthusiasm for this signing. Can he really be good enough to cover for the other defenders, midfielders and keeper when we take on the likes of Leeds and Southampton? And I wonder if he can score 20+ goals a season too.

Edited August 31, 20223 yr by Snedger

Welcome to the madhouse of inconsistency, welcome to cfc

9 minutes ago, Snedger said:

With our record of signings and performances, excuse me for not having any enthusiasm for this signing. Can he really be good enough to cover for the other defenders, midfielders and keeper when we take on the likes of Leeds and Southampton? And I wonder if he can score 20+ goals a season too.

To be honest our defensive signings have always been good it’s the other end of the pitch that we struggle with big money signings 

Hopefully this defender fixes all our issues in midfield and attack!!

Very good signing of another PL proven player after Sterling and Cucurella. Too bad we missed out on Tchouameni. If we'd signed him too then it would've been just about the perfect window.

 

 

Pleased we have signed him.

2 hours ago, Nick05 said:

Very good signing of another PL proven player after Sterling and Cucurella. Too bad we missed out on Tchouameni. If we'd signed him too then it would've been just about the perfect window.

 

 

Tchouameni would have been amazing but it's not over we might just sign a DM still.

Welcome - thrilled Fofana has signed!

I understand his first training session was today.  I hope he quickly learned how to pass the ball backwards, otherwise he'll look really out of place!

Love this kid, but boy is he going to be thrown in the deep-end without a rubber ring at Tuchel's Chelsea.

19 minutes ago, just said:

Love this kid, but boy is he going to be thrown in the deep-end without a rubber ring at Tuchel's Chelsea.

Agreed. A special talent with a very bright future. The best signing we have made in this window. 

Him and James on the right is gonna be fun.

2 years ago we could have signed him for 35mill. He proved immediately he was PL ready.

1 year ago we could have signed Cucurella for 15mill, he proved immediately he was PL ready.

Our scouts should all be sacked.

4 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

2 years ago we could have signed him for 35mill. He proved immediately he was PL ready.

 

Only you could make this fantastic signing depressing! xD

2 minutes ago, Michael said:

Only you could make this fantastic signing depressing! xD

15 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

2 years ago we could have signed him for 35mill. He proved immediately he was PL ready.

1 year ago we could have signed Cucurella for 15mill, he proved immediately he was PL ready.

Our scouts should all be sacked.

Reality is he would not have got the game time.  Cucurella would have struggled also, despite Chilwells injury.  It is not an acceptable thought given how well other clubs do with lower priced talent, but Chelsea is ruthless.

I'm still hopeful Colwill comes thur, and we can play a back four of Cucurella Colwill Fofana James one day!

1 minute ago, PhilH930 said:

Reality is he would not have got the game time.  Cucurella would have struggled also, despite Chilwells injury.  It is not an acceptable thought given how well other clubs do with lower priced talent, but Chelsea is ruthless.

I'm still hopeful Colwill comes thur, and we can play a back four of Cucurella Colwill Fofana James one day!

Ah but if we scout them properly and buy them when Leicester/Brighton did and then loan them to a PL club for a year or two we devleop them that way.

We are trying with Carney, Casadei and Solenia but I would like to see them loaned to PL sides who will play them. We need to be signing these players who are good enough to start for Leicester, Brighton, Villa etc and then loaning them to such sides to develop for us and save a packet. At least that is what I would like to see us doing.

7 minutes ago, axman2526 said:

Ah but if we scout them properly and buy them when Leicester/Brighton did and then loan them to a PL club for a year or two we devleop them that way.

We are trying with Carney, Casadei and Solenia but I would like to see them loaned to PL sides who will play them. We need to be signing these players who are good enough to start for Leicester, Brighton, Villa etc and then loaning them to such sides to develop for us and save a packet. At least that is what I would like to see us doing.

Loan approach makes sense.  While from our academy, it will be interesting how Gallagher this season and Colwill in future seasons fare (different from signing top talent at lower fee, but looking at end result).

3 hours ago, axman2526 said:

2 years ago we could have signed him for 35mill. He proved immediately he was PL ready.

1 year ago we could have signed Cucurella for 15mill, he proved immediately he was PL ready.

Our scouts should all be sacked.

Just a question. How many of us here would've deemed them good enough in the first place and not want to send them out on loan if we'd signed them last season? It all looks very good when these players perform but you need to trust them and give them a chance to see what they can do. Heck our scouts did unearth gems like KdB and Salah but our management didn't deem them good enough at the time!

The sad fact is most of us want the finished product instead of taking chances with young talented players like Tammy, Tomori and Lamptey. Heck what does Billy Gilmour need to do to get a proper run in the team ? What was wrong with Levi Colwill that we send him on another loan ? We were and are f**king too attached to the big names, reputation and price tags of players like Jorginho, Havertz, Lukaku. Had they come through the academy most of us wouldn't have deemed them good enough. 

We'll keep playing premium prices in the market because we don't bother developing players and want other clubs to do the hard work for us. 

Edited September 1, 20223 yr by Nick05

Finally some good news, was dreading about the medical he was having in the US. Expect him to make a difference to our faltering defence, no pressure man.