Just now, Barrettinator said:

Every new deal in the Boehly era bar maybe Sterling and Koulibaly seems to be 6-8 years. Absolute genius meal.

If they turn out to be good enough then yes. If not, that’sa lot of loans

Quite nice of Boehly and co to wait till after the game to leak this out. Can't say I'd have been that gracious myself. I'd have leaked it 15 mins to kickoff.

1 hour ago, azpi28 said:

okay so that is 

100 million pounds fee

10 in add ons

10% sell on

lifetime free rides on London Eye

one free cruise provided by MSC Cruises

a meet and greet with the LA Dodgers

Mr Boehly's watch 

and a fiver from @Scott Harris

 

You forgot the Rolos

1 minute ago, Adamrb said:

If they turn out to be good enough then yes. If not, that’sa lot of loans

I think I read somewhere the wages are performance related so it looks like they have every base covered. We've had flops before so not too worried.

Feels like Essien mk2 is joining the club. Really like this type of player 

As far as the structure of the deal itself, we got absolutely RINSED by Brighton and we have Liverpool to thank for that. But in the end, it won't matter if he reaches his potential.

1 hour ago, SimonH said:

Can I have the last one Mr Harris 🧐😋😂

Sorry, but it looks like Brighton want all of them.

Edited August 13, 20232 yr by azpi28

BREAKING: LIVERPOOL END UP AS FIRST CLUB TO WIN A TROPHY WORSE THAN THE COMMUNITY SHIELD. 'WE MADE THEM PAY MORE' CHAMPIONS 2023

 

Let's go and get Lavia now. I'm also a little nervous about Broja. So little news about him. I hope he is okay but I would probably take a more experienced striker alongside Jackson and loan Broja just because of the injury he's had.

23 minutes ago, Zero said:

 

It was the Rolos

1 minute ago, Scott Harris said:

It was the Rolos

I had some curly wurlys in reserve to get this deal done, glad they weren't needed......because now I can eat all the curly wurlys. 

I don't forsee any more HUGE transfer windows for us in the near future. Looks like we're mostly set, bar a few tweaks.

1 minute ago, dkw said:

I had some curly wurlys in reserve to get this deal done, glad they weren't needed......because now I can eat all the curly wurlys. 

I would hold off on eating them. We may need them to get the deal for Lavia over the line.

7 minutes ago, Barrettinator said:

I don't forsee any more HUGE transfer windows for us in the near future. Looks like we're mostly set, bar a few tweaks.

It would appear that way.  Still think a GK and Attacking mid or striker will happen down the road.  Jackson and Broja should get their chance, but there is something supplemental in that area.

Caicedoooooo

Mental that a few days ago we were dead set on him joining Liverpool. 
 

Enzo and Caicedo. Wow. 

36 minutes ago, Barrettinator said:

Lads, sit back and enjoy the tears from RAWK

https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=354122.52320

The coping mechanism is hilarious but it also shows football fans across all teams are quite similar 🤣🤣

14 minutes ago, Barrettinator said:

I don't forsee any more HUGE transfer windows for us in the near future. Looks like we're mostly set, bar a few tweaks.

Pretty much this clubs getting a squad that only needs a tweak here or there moving forward but all our players will be able to be here for 5 years minimum.

 

Essentially another loophole we seem to have exploited. So essentially, for UEFA, the armotisation starts next season, since we aren't in Europe this year. Which just gives us one extra year (23/24) to spread that payment without falling foul of UEFA's new rule. I have no idea if this played into their thought process but it gives us even more wriggle room payment wise. Brilliant.

The tears on BBC news, Liverpool forums, everywhere……. This is amazing. 

2 minutes ago, El regreso said:

Pretty much this clubs getting a squad that only needs a tweak here or there moving forward but all our players will be able to be here for 5 years minimum.

Yep. We've needed a complete squad rebuild for a while now. We're back to that 2005-2010 period where we just made one or two signings here and there to complement the squad. Midfield rebuilt, attack rebuilt, defence rebuilt as well.

2 minutes ago, Barrettinator said:

 

Essentially another loophole we seem to have exploited. So essentially, for UEFA, the armotisation starts next season, since we aren't in Europe this year. Which just gives us one extra year (23/24) to spread that payment without falling foul of UEFA's new rule. I have no idea if this played into their thought process but it gives us even more wriggle room payment wise. Brilliant.

Thank you. Clever/

1 minute ago, Barrettinator said:

Yep. We've needed a complete squad rebuild for a while now. We're back to that 2005-2010 period where we just made one or two signings here and there to complement the squad. Midfield rebuilt, attack rebuilt, defence rebuilt as well.

Pretty sure all focus as  of now will be getting Lukaku, Ziyech, CHO and Sarr off the books. Add to that a few loans then maybe be can bring in the last 2 or so to finish the squad. It’s a good time to be a Chelsea fan for sure 

Tip my hat to Boehly/Eghbali for pulling through on this.

Shame we ended up paying 20 million more than we had to but we can only thank ourselves for that really. 9 year contract is insane, surprised Caicedo's agreed to that tbh. Whatever he's on now could be considered cheap for a player of his calibre in 3-4 years.

1 minute ago, SimonH said:

Pretty sure all focus as  of now will be getting Lukaku, Ziyech, CHO and Sarr off the books. Add to that a few loans then maybe be can bring in the last 2 or so to finish the squad. It’s a good time to be a Chelsea fan for sure 

I genuinely forgot we still had Sarr on the books. A genuinely pointless signing tbh. But we should be able to 70m from those 4 players. I actually hope we keep Gallagher. Consider how deep City's defense and midfield is. There's no reason we can't have similar depth. Enzo, Caicedo, Lavia, Gallagher, Chukwuemeka is a genuinely potent midfield. Great to have for next season when we'll be in Europe too and the season after that when we'll be playing in the CWC (I'm allowed to dream).