1 hour ago, nonotnowjim said:

yep - a stupid decision, and one that is on Maresca for not integrating him into the team.

Just stupidity beyond belief for a club chasing a champions league position. Our decisions look more like those becoming of a club in steady decline like everton, not us.

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by ALTE

2 hours ago, ALTE said:

Has felix gone or not? If he goes then things get alot worse, one less tricky option to change a game, 

When has he ever done this, I cant remember a single game where he has changed it, either from starting or of the bench. He meanders through most of them on the fringe, nice little touches here and there but with very little actual impact.

Edited February 4, 20251 yr by dkw

14 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

Well, put this another way, we no longer have Felix on the bench, we now have 30 million pound Dewsberry-Hall on the bench - is that the genius of Maresca?

KDH has the same amount of assists as creative maestro Joao Felix for Chelsea (including Felix's loan spell) in less than half the minutes. 

We're comparing sh*t with sh*t. 

 

1 hour ago, dkw said:

When has he ever done this, I cant remember a single game where he has changed it, either from starting or of the bench. He meanders through most of them on the fringe, nice little touches here and there but with very little actual impact.

He scored the 6th goal against wolves once though!

More yellow cards in his career than assists lol 

6 hours ago, ALTE said:

Has felix gone or not? If he goes then things get alot worse, one less tricky option to change a game, and more importantly one less to cover injuries to the likes of neto sancho and palmer. I will be furious if hes gone too. 

Don't think we'd notice either way.

Really, has he gone or not? He isn’t on any media site lists of our outs that I’ve seen, but his wiki says he is at AC Milan on loan and a few other online articles suggest he’s gone.

Just now, Snedger said:

Really, has he gone or not? He isn’t on any media site lists of our outs that I’ve seen, but his wiki says he is at AC Milan on loan and a few other online articles suggest he’s gone.

Really odd that no-one has confirmed this. Same for Amougou transfer as well. 

CFC web pages still have Felix on the first team page and not in the loan section. Literally everyone else that was loaned has already been moved to the loan section, including Disasi which went through very late, 

One thing I did see in the Italian media is that the loan fee is given as £2m up front, with another £2.5m of potential add ons for qualification for Champions League (they are currently 8th, so possible but unlikely) plus winning a trophy (they are still in the CL and the Coppa Italia - Italian domestic cup), so talk of us having covered his amortisation costs for 2nd half of the season is a little premature !

 

7 hours ago, nonotnowjim said:

yep - a stupid decision, and one that is on Maresca for not integrating him into the team.

Having to pretend that Félix is in any way a useful player is probably the most unfortunate part of your Jackson polemic.

49 minutes ago, PloKoon13 said:

Having to pretend that Félix is in any way a useful player is probably the most unfortunate part of your Jackson polemic.

Not at all - I liked Felix, because he offered something to the team that others didnt. The vision, confidence and ability to pick a pass and make things happen. He is a silky footballer, whose control, vision and passing is up there with the best we have in the squad. 

The issue has been, and has always been, consistency and end product.  If other players (Sancho, Mudryk, Neto, Madueke, Jackson and Nkunku) had all been playing consistently well, and delivering an end product, then I could understand the reluctance to play Felix.  However all of those players have been patchy (at best) and I think Felix has enough natural talent to warrant a prolonged run out.  He didnt get it, and now he is gone. Fair enough - but I maintain that on footballing ability, he was one of the best we had.

Confirmed now by the club that he's gone on loan to AC Milan.

Ciao Joao

Just a reminder we gave this guy a 7 year contract and he's already out on loan within 6 months. 

8 minutes ago, Remodez said:

Just a reminder we gave this guy a 7 year contract and he's already out on loan within 6 months. 

1 hour ago, nonotnowjim said:

Not at all - I liked Felix, because he offered something to the team that others didnt.

Lies, we have several others who can fill the "nonsense unnecessary flicks that accomplish absolutely f**k all" quota, mostly your mate Jacko.

Joao Felix on Milan move: "It's a chance for me to find a home. After two loans, Chelsea and Barca, I needed to stay permanently in one place“

Doesn’t come across as the brightest, it is a 6month loan. 

7 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Joao Felix on Milan move: "It's a chance for me to find a home. After two loans, Chelsea and Barca, I needed to stay permanently in one place“

Doesn’t come across as the brightest, it is a 6month loan. 

I thought you were taking the piss with those quotes. He actually said that? Swear he said that 6 months ago 😂

5 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I thought you were taking the piss with those quotes. He actually said that? Swear he said that 6 months ago 😂

It does rather sound like a quote lifted from when he signed for us, and mis-applied to his latest loan move ... 

 

 

1 hour ago, nonotnowjim said:

I liked Felix, because he offered something to the team that others didnt. The vision, confidence and ability to pick a pass and make things happen. He is a silky footballer, whose control, vision and passing is up there with the best we have in the squad. 

lmao probably the least creative midfielder in our squad, including KDH. 

36 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Joao Felix on Milan move: "It's a chance for me to find a home. After two loans, Chelsea and Barca, I needed to stay permanently in one place“

Doesn’t come across as the brightest, it is a 6month loan. 

Whether or not he really said that, surely at some point in time he will take stock and look for the cause of all that being shunted from club to club within himself?

 

No? 

43 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

He actually said that? Swear he said that 6 months ago 😂

He'll be back. :0)

It will be third time lucky for Mr.Felix at Chelsea.

 

 

He's absolutely sh*t. Money shot flies off of camera every time. 

Only a Saudi coub would oay the 60mill we asked for him. So if you qants a permanent home best he get Mendes working on that.

1 hour ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

lmao probably the least creative midfielder in our squad, including KDH. 

I know you don't - and many others also don't. And that is fine. I think you are wrong. And that is fine too.

1 hour ago, dkw said:

Lies, we have several others who can fill the "nonsense unnecessary flicks that accomplish absolutely f**k all" quota, mostly your mate Jacko.

When Wacko does any of these (and means it!) then we can talk.....