No matter how badly we need a striker, spending over £20m on a striker who is 33 and his last season in England was poor, is just poor, poor business. Not also that, Barcelona are struggling financially and still have not registered all their players. These factors should be used to our leverage. This is also a stop gap signing. We keep mugging ourselves off honestly. They also got him for a free from Arsenal and suddenly for Barca to have a cheek to get him on a free then within a few months sell him for £25m is is poor business. If this is true, then whoever is giving the greenlight to these deals needs regular checking on the levels of intoxication.

Edited August 18, 20223 yr by STATS

Hey it doesn't matter whether barca got him for free or paid 100 million. what matters is what his market value is today. In theory we face competition from ManU although not in reality. If someone gives you a car, maybe you inherit it, is it worth zero? No of course it bloody aint. 

I really don't care about paying Barca I do care about doing well this season and the only reason I would care about Todd's money is if FFP meant that buying Auba impacted our ability to buy a better striker next season. 

Just not convinced this guy has what is needed anymore. He never really had a good touch for tidy intricate football or is that strong at holding up play. Against the park buses we face most weeks Broja and havertz feel like better fits, until the ‘right guy’ becomes available. As someone above said I’m a bit fed up of stop gaps 

Breaking : Chelsea have tabled a £22m bid for Aubameyang. (@gerardromero)

It’s up to Aubameyang now, stay or leave Barcelona, same with Frenkie, next week he must decide to take a cut or leave. (@gerardromero) #CFC

 

Hot days!

 

7 hours ago, ducavis said:

We are reported to have bid €27m for Aubameyang today. Seriously what is wrong with us.

Todd's losing the plot...seriously.  Unless he thinks he can bin some dead wood players out the door, or win a couple of trophies to pay for him this is nuts.  I mean sometimes they do this here in NA where they will trade / sign a high profile veteran player knowing that its only going to be a season or two thinking that he will win them a championship...maybe Todd is doing that with PEA.   

We do need a proven striker. Havertz and Broja isn’t enough. We scraped through against Everton and didn’t kill the game vs Spurs. 
 

Same old story. We need more up front. 

51 minutes ago, CFCCAN said:

Todd's losing the plot...seriously.  Unless he thinks he can bin some dead wood players out the door, or win a couple of trophies to pay for him this is nuts.  I mean sometimes they do this here in NA where they will trade / sign a high profile veteran player knowing that its only going to be a season or two thinking that he will win them a championship...maybe Todd is doing that with PEA.   

we took giroud, we took drogba back we took higuain we took Eto'o. Its hardly the first time ffs. Look at barca they just took Lewi.

2 hours ago, STATS said:

No matter how badly we need a striker, spending over £20m on a striker who is 33 and his last season in England was poor, is just poor, poor business. Not also that, Barcelona are struggling financially and still have not registered all their players. These factors should be used to our leverage. This is also a stop gap signing. We keep mugging ourselves off honestly. They also got him for a free from Arsenal and suddenly for Barca to have a cheek to get him on a free then within a few months sell him for £25m is is poor business. If this is true, then whoever is giving the greenlight to these deals needs regular checking on the levels of intoxication.

But is it a poor deal if he becomes integral in us winning trophies over the next couple of years? Admittedly it does seem like we're paying too much for a player Barca got for free but there's a massive scarcity of good strikers out there that are available that have scored goals at the top level.

Also, Barca don't need to sell Aubameyang while they're doing these dodgy tv right/merch deals.

All in all Tuchel wants someone who's proven he can goals playing for him and Aubameyang fits that bill. 

4 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

But is it a poor deal if he becomes integral in us winning trophies over the next couple of years? Admittedly it does seem like we're paying too much for a player Barca got for free but there's a massive scarcity of good strikers out there that are available that have scored goals at the top level.

Also, Barca don't need to sell Aubameyang while they're doing these dodgy tv right/merch deals.

All in all Tuchel wants someone who's proven he can goals playing for him and Aubameyang fits that bill. 

The one thing is that Tuchel at some point worked with Aubame and it was a great time for both. The problem is that it was a long time ago and it's impossible for us to play like Dortmund in Bundesliga. I'm not against this move, if Tuchel wants this guy he should get him but on paper Tuchel should have been able to get the best out of Werner and Havertz and it's just not happening... Somehow I can't imagine Auba in our shirt at all, I'll believe in it when I see him scoring for us.

3 hours ago, STATS said:

No matter how badly we need a striker, spending over £20m on a striker who is 33 and his last season in England was poor, is just poor, poor business. Not also that, Barcelona are struggling financially and still have not registered all their players. These factors should be used to our leverage. This is also a stop gap signing. We keep mugging ourselves off honestly. They also got him for a free from Arsenal and suddenly for Barca to have a cheek to get him on a free then within a few months sell him for £25m is is poor business. If this is true, then whoever is giving the greenlight to these deals needs regular checking on the levels of intoxication.

Didn't we spend £18m on an aged Giroud and that turned out pretty well. 

He was poor in his last sesaon at Arsenal because of his fall out with Arteta, that whole Arsenal team was poor then. Since then he's been to Barca and scored 11 in 17 in the league, we're crying out for an striker with that output. the service is there we just need that fox in the box. This seems like a very low risk, sensible deal.

Worth signing just to enjoy the hat trick he's going to get against Arsenal 🙂 

1 hour ago, ozboy said:

we took giroud, we took drogba back we took higuain we took Eto'o. Its hardly the first time ffs. Look at barca they just took Lewi.

Yes we've done it before but not for £22million.  £10-12 million plus his wages I would understand. 

Chelsea have a meeting planned this afternoon with Barcelona and representatives of Pierre Emerick Aubameyang. It could provide the breakthrough in talks:

Chelsea confident latest offer for Aubameyang will be accepted. They are yet to discuss personal terms with him with a meeting scheduled later today. As reported yesterday, Xavi has told Aubameyang he’s part of his plans. Tuchel also spoken to Aubameyeng & convinced he’ll move.

On a minor note I don’t think Auba  is playing at the World Cup which I see as an advantage. Could be wrong of course. 

I’m not convinced but what gives me some hope is TT previous connection with him. Just don’t let him wear #9

3 hours ago, STATS said:

No matter how badly we need a striker, spending over £20m on a striker who is 33 and his last season in England was poor, is just poor, poor business. Not also that, Barcelona are struggling financially and still have not registered all their players. These factors should be used to our leverage. This is also a stop gap signing. We keep mugging ourselves off honestly. They also got him for a free from Arsenal and suddenly for Barca to have a cheek to get him on a free then within a few months sell him for £25m is is poor business. If this is true, then whoever is giving the greenlight to these deals needs regular checking on the levels of intoxication.

👏.. & that is the manager but hey he gets his signings

15 minutes ago, CFCCAN said:

Yes we've done it before but not for £22million.  £10-12 million plus his wages I would understand. 

We spent £18m on Giroud so with inflation etc. its pretty much the same and Auba is much better than Giroud. Don't really see a negative to this deal if he's only on a 2 year contract. 

I don't like this at all. Way too much money. Old player. Attitude problems. Helping out Barcelona. Lots of bad points and I can't see many good ones.

As long as it’s not a massive contract length wise then get him in. We can’t go through another season drawing games 1-1 at home. Fed up of seeing them games. 

3 hours ago, Adamrb said:

Just not convinced this guy has what is needed anymore. He never really had a good touch for tidy intricate football or is that strong at holding up play. Against the park buses we face most weeks Broja and havertz feel like better fits, until the ‘right guy’ becomes available. As someone above said I’m a bit fed up of stop gaps 

While I understand the sentiment, they are not better fits because they are inferior goal scorers. His touch was good enough to score loads for Arsenal and Barcelona which says enough - those teams control possession and face as many parked buses as we do. Premier league proven, still quick and hungry for goals - what's not to like. We are all fed up of stop gaps but they're inevitable if there are no viable alternatives.

Why can't we do an Italian job and get him on loan for £10m with Barsa paying half his wages?

I’d definitely take Auba, we badly need a striker. I’d prefer Giroud but hey.

I don't understand how people think auba is a good idea. Depay would have been much better for us. The minimum requirement for our st is he need to comfortable to be the extra guy in possession. He need to keep moving to the left and right to maintain possession. Auba does not want to do this. 

 

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46 minutes ago, venom2011 said:

While I understand the sentiment, they are not better fits because they are inferior goal scorers. His touch was good enough to score loads for Arsenal and Barcelona which says enough - those teams control possession and face as many parked buses as we do. Premier league proven, still quick and hungry for goals - what's not to like. We are all fed up of stop gaps but they're inevitable if there are no viable alternatives.

Lukaku scored goals but at the detriment to the pressing we need to make our system work. Does a 33 year old auba have the right attitude to relentlessly press from the front?

The market is certainly thin though as you say. Just hope it’s max 2-year contract