Good luck Jo. It's been a while since we had a Portuguese in the squad

Cautiously optimistic about this move.

Hope it goes well.

Hoorah. He can’t be as bad as our current options, can he? I think I could do a better job and I’ll be f**ked after making one run up the pitch. 

36 minutes ago, big blue said:

Excited to see him play, disappointed with the overall deal, just doesnt seem to have many upside to it, unless Felix somehow is the catalyst to us making top 4, which I highly doubt he will have that impact. 

If he plays well, he will either stay at Atletico, or he will cost so much, we wont be willing to buy him with Nkunku coming anyway. 

Or he plays sh*t, and weve just wasted another £20m. 

3rd option is he does okay, and we loan him again for 12 months. 

Cant be any worse than we have already, so hopefully makes the games more bearable for the rest of the season.

Is there any evidence that Nkunku is coming. Is that deal done yet?

Not very excited to be honest, as we are still not addressing the obvious lack of strength and creativity in the midfield. But I hope that he helps us get back on our feet and I wish him all the luck here.

4 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Is there any evidence that Nkunku is coming. Is that deal done yet?

It's not been announced which makes me nervous, but all journos are saying its 100% done and signed for him to come in the summer. Still injured at the moment, so maybe they will wait until he is back playing before we get an official announcement.

12 hours ago, ozboy said:

My only comment is that from what I saw Felix was excellent in the World Cup. Looked a class player. 
 

So did Ziyech.

Give him a chance but don't expect miracles.

#11

Quality signing, I would imagine we have the first option on him to buy if all goes well.

 

 

Quality but we have been here before. Hopefully he can score a few 

Felix is an unknown quantity in many ways. He could well turn out to be an aguero or a Chris Sutton. 

There is no info on buy option. I am guessing there is none.

Can he play right back?

Interested to see how he performs in this team.

Not happy with how expensive the deal is for such a short loan with no buy option. I guess the owners were concerned a long enough run of bad results would see them needing to sack Potter so they figured Felix could help them avoid that.

On 02/01/2023 at 12:57, chiefBlueCFC said:

Don’t think it would happen, but I’d love him on 6-month loan with buy option. 

Well we got the 6 month loan, but no buy option. Hopefully this loan goes better than Saul, Pato, or Higuain

1 hour ago, Gol15 said:

#11

Reece James is best recruitment agent at Chelsea!!

11 minutes ago, chiefBlueCFC said:

Well we got the 6 month loan, but no buy option. Hopefully this loan goes better than Saul, Pato, or Higuain

Why do people keep saying 6mths? It’s a 4mth loan isn’t it?

1 hour ago, evissy said:

Felix is an unknown quantity in many ways. He could well turn out to be an aguero or a Chris Sutton. 

There is no info on buy option. I am guessing there is none.

I think I read Atletico wanted an obligation to buy and for obvious reasons we didn't want to pay a high fee for a unknown quantity. But I think we'll sign him if it works out.

I'm super excited though, wanted him ahead of Havertz as he's a different profile to the rest of our attackers. A player that demands the ball, plays with aggression and can spot a pass. Fingers crossed.

Felix should give us a taste of how Kai, Nkunku, Sterling front line will feel like. This should be a fun signing 

£10m for 14 weeks work and then he's off back to Spain for the summer with a new contract and a new manager, perfect for him and AM, absolutely perfect.

It will only be perfect for us if we go and finish top four, otherwise it's a complete waste of money and Potters time.

We could finish top 10 with what we already have, so why bother with Felix unless you are going for top 4 ?

I think this signing increases the pressure on Potter for that reason.

 

3 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

Is there any evidence that Nkunku is coming. Is that deal done yet?

He's a blue mate 100% signed done and dusted. Still awaiting official confirmation from either side, but its done. If Fabrizio says here we go you know we're in business. Was completed in December 

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34 minutes ago, Bob stark said:

Felix should give us a taste of how Kai, Nkunku, Sterling front line will feel like. This should be a fun signing 

Only happens if Felix signs permanently, but it does sound fun if Potter couldn't get us scoring with those 3 then I don't know what to tell his fanboys.

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I don't think we are getting top 4, I don't think we are getting relegated and I don't think we will be signing Felix permanently.

Given those assumptions, I would have preferred us to use the remainder of the season to blood our youngsters into the team - particularly Hutchinson.

Have we ever have a loan that worked out well?

I wonder what Potter does with Felix, with how dire our attack has been does he just play him every game from the moment he's available. Or slowly bed him in? Also is he under instructions to play him no matter what or does he still have complete freedom over team sheets. 

With such a pricey loan there's an expectation for us to get our moneys worth