Just now, just said:

I'm trying to think of any scenarios where I would pick Sterling, Ziyech or Pulisic ahead of him.

Nope, can't think of any. 

That's my take on it as well. If it wasn't for the longer term commitment in him I'd probably add Mudryk to that list as well

54 minutes ago, g3.7 said:

He should also do this in white text on a black background. Just so we know he means it. 

Completely agree - ideally with the words 'We go again' thrown in there somewhere. 

5 minutes ago, just said:

I'm trying to think of any scenarios where I would pick Sterling, Ziyech or Pulisic ahead of him.

Nope, can't think of any. 

What you saying just, sell them and buy Felix you mean?

Boehly wanting to sign Felix permanently sums up exactly what's wrong with him and his advisors. 0 sense and knowledge about how to manage your financial resources. 

What happened to buying low and developing. All we've seen is high financial outlays with very little resale value

1 hour ago, LongtimerLurker said:

Boehly wanting to sign Felix permanently sums up exactly what's wrong with him and his advisors. 0 sense and knowledge about how to manage your financial resources. 

What happened to buying low and developing. All we've seen is high financial outlays with very little resale value

Yup, maybe he will sell Colwill and Mount to be able to buy Felix. Would very much be a case of selling the crown jewels to buy the pillow.

I'd sooner use the Felix money to pay Mount to get him in form again!

Atlético Madrid fear that Chelsea will send João Félix back without any interest in signing him. His performances are concerning. Atleti would be more than happy for a fee of around €80m for Félix.

- @PacojoSER via @atletiuniverse

— Simon Phillips (@siphillipssport) April 19, 2023

39 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Atlético Madrid fear that Chelsea will send João Félix back without any interest in signing him. His performances are concerning. Atleti would be more than happy for a fee of around €80m for Félix.

- @PacojoSER via @atletiuniverse

— Simon Phillips (@siphillipssport) April 19, 2023

I bet they would. He is basically to them what Lukaku is to us.

The part for me that's the most cringe is I bet Boehly looks at Felix and thinks we'll give him ~£200kpw and poor MM can't even get above £170/180kpw. I'd much rather send Felix back invest in a Striker, DM and a new GK.

Sign Mason to a new deal and then offload all of the dead wood in the squad. People said Felix would be an upgrade on Kai, say what you want about Kai he's not always consistent but even played as a Striker (not his natural position) he offers more in goals and assists than Felix in his best position. 

I wouldn't be opposed to him staying if its below £60m but even that seems like a luxury buy for no reason. That being said he's not played under an elite attack manager so who knows his ceiling not to mention we've only seen him play under average managers here at Chelsea too. I don't know how good he can be, but he's not shown enough to warrant €80-100m

There are some rumours that we are trying to work out a player/cash deal for Felix with Cucurella going to Madrid. Could be rubbish of course.

1 hour ago, forbzy said:

There are some rumours that we are trying to work out a player/cash deal for Felix with Cucurella going to Madrid. Could be rubbish of course.

Hopefully is. Don't need to get rid of one rubbish player to replace him with another.

2 hours ago, forbzy said:

There are some rumours that we are trying to work out a player/cash deal for Felix with Cucurella going to Madrid. Could be rubbish of course.

Wouldn't be the worst idea in the world.  We have cover for Cucurella with Colwill coming back (Levi can play left back as well as centre back), and also Maatsen, and I'd back a more attacking manager like Nagelsmann to get a better tune out of Felix than Simeone and Potter have. Cucurella will be pretty hard to shift though I think ... 

I don't follow much European football and was baffled to find out this week that Atletico paid €127 million for this guy. Considering they want to recoup most of that, I'd give this one a swerve. He's looked good at times, nice technique, but I think we'd come to regret it if we bought him.

3 hours ago, bluedave said:

I don't follow much European football and was baffled to find out this week that Atletico paid €127 million for this guy. Considering they want to recoup most of that, I'd give this one a swerve. He's looked good at times, nice technique, but I think we'd come to regret it if we bought him.

Shaping Mount for Felix would be up there with swapping Drogba for Lukaku, of Hazard for Sterling.

All the talk / rumours about comings and goings should be put aside until our new manager decides.

 

Lukaku + 30/40m for Felix?

Other way round. Should be Lukaku for Felix and 30m

2 hours ago, dansubrosa said:

 

Lukaku + 30/40m for Felix?

swapping sh*te for sh*t.

How about we wait for Nagelsmann and Pochettino first?

Imagine either of them walking into a team blindsided and seeing three attacking mids in Felix, Mount and Nkunku. How do we utilize them?

3 hours ago, dansubrosa said:

 

Lukaku + 30/40m for Felix?

Would rather keep Lukaku, and that is saying something. At least Rom occasionally puts the ball in the net.

15 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Shaping Mount for Felix would be up there with swapping Drogba for Lukaku, of Hazard for Sterling.

Putting Mount up there with Drogba or Hazard is hilarious. Being 'props Chels' doesn't put you up there with our best ever players. Quite frankly even putting Mount up there with Felix in terms of ability is a stretch.

Edited April 21, 20233 yr by timetowaste

3 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

Putting Mount up there with Drogba or Hazard is hilarious. Being 'props Chels' doesn't put you up there with our best ever players. Quite frankly even putting Mount up there with Felix in terms of ability is a stretch.

Felix never in his life performed at a level we saw Mount at in 2021. 

I've been heavily critical of Mount the past year and a half but I wouldn't touch Felix if it meant Mount goes the other way. 

22 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Felix never in his life performed at a level we saw Mount at in 2021. 

I've been heavily critical of Mount the past year and a half but I wouldn't touch Felix if it meant Mount goes the other way. 

Mount isn't a bad player and played well at times under Tuchel when we had a well structured team. We've asked Felix to come into the most disorganised Chelsea team that we've had in decades and asked him to perform miracles.
 

We've all seen how awful Mount has been over the best part of the last calendar year but what I'd say puts Felix above him is he is genuinely exciting to watch. Felix is definitely not the finished article, his shooting and decision making needs work but that was never going to improve under Potter or Lampard. I can see why we wouldn't keep Felix because we have Nkunku coming, but if it was a situation where that wasn't happening and we had the choice of keeping Mount or Felix I think it would be nuts to keep Mount.

41 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

Putting Mount up there with Drogba or Hazard is hilarious. Being 'props Chels' doesn't put you up there with our best ever players. Quite frankly even putting Mount up there with Felix in terms of ability is a stretch.

Point I was making was how big a downgrade the swap would be, not that Mount is in the same league as Hazard or Drogba.

6 minutes ago, timetowaste said:

Mount isn't a bad player and played well at times under Tuchel when we had a well structured team. We've asked Felix to come into the most disorganised Chelsea team that we've had in decades and asked him to perform miracles.
 

We've all seen how awful Mount has been over the best part of the last calendar year but what I'd say puts Felix above him is he is genuinely exciting to watch. Felix is definitely not the finished article, his shooting and decision making needs work but that was never going to improve under Potter or Lampard. I can see why we wouldn't keep Felix because we have Nkunku coming, but if it was a situation where that wasn't happening and we had the choice of keeping Mount or Felix I think it would be nuts to keep Mount.

Disagree.

I've seen enough of Felix at Chelsea, along with his spells at Atletico and Benfica, to suggest he's simply a flashy player on the ball but has zero end product and offers very little in terms of press. If an attacker offers very little in terms of pressing or defensive contribution, they must have end product to counter balance their lack of defensive contribution. Felix offers neither so what's the point?