Good fee for him no doubt about that. Rogers should be able to replace his goals. I don’t really mind he’s gone to be honest, but we are light in midfield now. Can’t understand why we left it to the 11th hr and then this Monaco deal falling through.

Edited 9 hours ago9 hr by Dubair

Move this thread. Get this c**t gone from our page, as well as the club lol.

Blew up in our face. Doesn't matter how much people wanted him gone, Enzo Fernandez is better than nobody, which is what we have been left with. City played our clowns and they played a blinder.

13 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

Blew up in our face. Doesn't matter how much people wanted him gone, Enzo Fernandez is better than nobody, which is what we have been left with. City played our clowns and they played a blinder.

Couldn’t risk it, nor the bad blood with City. Last season it felt like we were stuck with him, due to the fee, wages, book value left etc, and most importantly.. it wasn’t even conceivable a club would take him. Maresca to City was our miracle. Missing out on Camara is a tragedy, but if you told me ‘in the trenches’ of last season and before when this thread was blowing up match day after match day (for the wrong reasons) we would somehow manage to offload him for a record fee, but… be short in midfield until January, most of us would have taken that!

We got the money back, that's all that matters

1 minute ago, Term_X said:

Couldn’t risk it, nor the bad blood with City. Last season it felt like we were stuck with him, due to the fee, wages, book value left etc, and most importantly.. it wasn’t even conceivable a club would take him. Maresca to City was our miracle. Missing out on Camara is a tragedy, but if you told me ‘in the trenches’ of last season and before when this thread was blowing up match day after match day (for the wrong reasons) we would somehow manage to offload him for a record fee, but… be short in midfield until January, most of us would have taken that!

There was already bad blood, and it was all caused by them in the first place when they tapped up Maresca and derailed our season. Well the BlueCo twats allowed them to do it again, so f**k City. We should have told them to f**k off. I don't dislike Enzo so much that I would f**k up our season just to get him out of the club, that's absurd thinking. We have nothing at the club better than him, even with his limitations, and now we have lost his goals too.

Just now, Scott Harris said:

There was already bad blood, and it was all caused by them in the first place when they tapped up Maresca and derailed our season. Well the BlueCo twats allowed them to do it again, so f**k City. We should have told them to f**k off. I don't dislike Enzo so much that I would f**k up our season just to get him out of the club, that's absurd thinking. We have nothing at the club better than him, even with his limitations, and now we have lost his goals too.

Doesn’t look like we need his goals anymore? And at a detriment to our midfield balance with him huffing and puffing around and misplacing passes.

I still can’t believe City actually signed the guy.. when Real Madrid humbled him, and PSG couldn’t give a toss, it looked so bleak. City ACTUALLY being interested was precious, as there were no other takers (and never would have been). It overshadows tapping up Poundland-pep for me.

1 minute ago, Term_X said:

Doesn’t look like we need his goals anymore? And at a detriment to our midfield balance with him huffing and puffing around and misplacing passes.

I still can’t believe City actually signed the guy.. when Real Madrid humbled him, and PSG couldn’t give a toss, it looked so bleak. City ACTUALLY being interested was precious, as there were no other takers (and never would have been). It overshadows tapping up Poundland-pep for me.

Enzo's goals are such a furphy. 10 goals and just 4 assists is pretty good for an AM, but's a very average return for a second-striker which was essentially his role under Maresca/Rosenior.

Rogers playing in a similar attacking role adds the same stats but also with the additional ability to carry the ball on the dribble, which Fernandez cannot do.

Cherki has been known to have some serious attitude issues when things aren't to his liking. I doubt he makes it past this season with City.

5 hours ago, Zola_25Fan said:

Monaco are c**ts!!

https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/13580189/lamine-camara-monaco-pull-out-of-selling-midfielder-to-chelsea-in-lb47m-deal-after-blues-agreed-deal-for-enzo-fernandez-replacement

He didnt want to play for us so its best that he has gone. He was effective with goals and assists but wasnt a true leader and often went missing. . Weve got an excellent fee for him from the single interested party. We now have a very healthy transfer balance and a stack of options in midfield.

Reece James

Moises Caicedo

Romeo Lavia

Jordan Henderson

Malo Gusto

Valentine Barco

Reggie Watson

Madhi Jazuli

I think we should be able to struggle through till January at which time we can buy almost whoever we want if necessary. hey ho

Up the Chels.

Another way of putting it,

Out: Essugo, Enzo, Santos

In: 36 year old dressing room cheerleader Henderson.

5 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

There was already bad blood, and it was all caused by them in the first place when they tapped up Maresca and derailed our season. Well the BlueCo twats allowed them to do it again, so f**k City. We should have told them to f**k off. I don't dislike Enzo so much that I would f**k up our season just to get him out of the club, that's absurd thinking. We have nothing at the club better than him, even with his limitations, and now we have lost his goals too.

Enzo cant play where we are now light.

Him leaving and us not signing anyone to play next to Caicedo should be seen as two separate things.

Poor decision making by our sporting directors, purely on a football perspective. We have strengthened a direct rival whilst weakened our own position. Yes the money was good and the player wanted to leave but at some point or other we have start running this club as a sporting entity if we seriously want to compete. Yesterday through out a clear message that the deal)s) is more important, deadlines and bluster mean nothing. Compare that Athleti with Alvarez or even Monaco with Camara who have put their team first. An excellent window upto the last few days has suddenly put us in the same peril has last year when we was found wanting in defence and risked creating bad blood with our new coach.

6 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

Blew up in our face. Doesn't matter how much people wanted him gone, Enzo Fernandez is better than nobody, which is what we have been left with. City played our clowns and they played a blinder.

Caicedo, Lavia, Barco, RJ, Essugo, Watson, Nicole-Jazuli, Henderson

8 players for 2 positions while playing one game a week until January. At which point Palace will be relegated and we can throw our weight at a proper replacement in Wharton or get Camara on the cheap.

You’re being needlessly dramatic, getting rid of Enzo was the most important thing in this window for squad harmony.

22 minutes ago, OTL said:

He didnt want to play for us so its best that he has gone. He was effective with goals and assists but wasnt a true leader and often went missing. . Weve got an excellent fee for him from the single interested party. We now have a very healthy transfer balance and a stack of options in midfield.

Reece James

Moises Caicedo

Romeo Lavia

Jordan Henderson

Malo Gusto

Valentine Barco

Reggie Watson

Madhi Jazuli

I think we should be able to struggle through till January at which time we can buy almost whoever we want if necessary. hey ho

Up the Chels.

I should have carried on reading before posting, you’ve summed it up perfectly. People are getting emotional without realising Enzo was never able to play in the position we were looking to strengthen. Rogers has already replaced him as the 10 and we’ve got enough people to get us to January with one game a week.

9 hours ago, acaeus said:

So was Pep; he employed the same positional system everywhere he went. I don't think CM pivot for us equates to pivot in that system. Anyway, I suspect we disagree on this. 😁

There's little point speculating now—we'll see what happens.

You think Pep was a one trick pony? His Barca, Bayern and City teams are all vastly different teams and systems. Christ, he’s had about 4 different systems at City alone.

Insulting to try to say Enzo and Pep are similar in any way.

1 minute ago, All Barco no bite said:

Caicedo, Lavia, Barco, RJ, Essugo, Watson, Nicole-Jazuli, Henderson

8 players for 2 positions while playing one game a week until January. At which point Palace will be relegated and we can throw our weight at a proper replacement in Wharton or get Camara on the cheap.

You’re being needlessly dramatic, getting rid of Enzo was the most important thing in this window for squad harmony.

Reece Lavia Hendo and Caicedo only need to play one game a fortnight on average not including international breaks, i think there are two before christmas. How will we cope? 😂

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by OTL

3 minutes ago, charierre said:

Poor decision making by our sporting directors, purely on a football perspective. We have strengthened a direct rival whilst weakened our own position. Yes the money was good and the player wanted to leave but at some point or other we have start running this club as a sporting entity if we seriously want to compete. Yesterday through out a clear message that the deal)s) is more important, deadlines and bluster mean nothing. Compare that Athleti with Alvarez or even Monaco with Camara who have put their team first. An excellent window upto the last few days has suddenly put us in the same peril has last year when we was found wanting in defence and risked creating bad blood with our new coach.

Can't agree with that @charierre

Another way of looking at it is offloading a player who didn't seem very popular and could well have gone on to affect squad harmony, AND for an eye watering £125M, is a no-brainer.

And I don't see Fernandez strengthening any side. As I have already heard City fans on phone-ins say, he is no Rodri, or Yaya Toure - he is a pretty average footballer (with a big ego).

1 minute ago, All Barco no bite said:

Caicedo, Lavia, Barco, RJ, Essugo, Watson, Nicole-Jazuli, Henderson

8 players for 2 positions while playing one game a week until January. At which point Palace will be relegated and we can throw our weight at a proper replacement in Wharton or get Camara on the cheap.

You’re being needlessly dramatic, getting rid of Enzo was the most important thing in this window for squad harmony.

Essugo has gone and I dont really think Watson and Nicole-Jazuli will be considered due to their age. I still agree we have the numbers at least until January though.

In terms of quality I'm less certain, but I would have felt the same way even with Enzo here. Good player, not what we needed.

Anyways, having personally disliked Enzo for quite a long while, I am now finally free to hate him. Happy days for me🥰

2 minutes ago, Nibs said:

Can't agree with that @charierre

Another way of looking at it is offloading a player who didn't seem very popular and could well have gone on to affect squad harmony, AND for an eye watering £125M, is a no-brainer.

And I don't see Fernandez strengthening any side. As I have already heard City fans on phone-ins say, he is no Rodri, or Yaya Toure - he is a pretty average footballer (with a big ego).

City have got their man. They outbid everyone else😂, Very well done. I dont think he will be an overwhelming success, he certainly wasnt here.

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by OTL

13 minutes ago, All Barco no bite said:

Caicedo, Lavia, Barco, RJ, Essugo, Watson, Nicole-Jazuli, Henderson

8 players for 2 positions while playing one game a week until January. At which point Palace will be relegated and we can throw our weight at a proper replacement in Wharton or get Camara on the cheap.

You’re being needlessly dramatic, getting rid of Enzo was the most important thing in this window for squad harmony.

It is exhausting how overdramatic everyone is being.

Quite likely that KDH will AGAIN have a better season than Enzo Fernandez ...

Enzo really isn't any loss and it's hilarious seeing how apoplectic 90% of the City fans are at his signing LOL. Maresca tone deaf as usual ...

24 minutes ago, OTL said:

He didnt want to play for us so its best that he has gone. He was effective with goals and assists but wasnt a true leader and often went missing. . Weve got an excellent fee for him from the single interested party. We now have a very healthy transfer balance and a stack of options in midfield.

Reece James

Moises Caicedo

Romeo Lavia

Jordan Henderson

Malo Gusto

Valentine Barco

Reggie Watson

Madhi Jazuli

I think we should be able to struggle through till January at which time we can buy almost whoever we want if necessary. hey ho

Up the Chels.

This is exactly how I see it.

Enzo has talent but that is only part of the equation and his attitude and baggage is well shot off for a fee that quite simply is staggering. He is damaged goods and him going to City is almost poetic.

I would imagine that Barco will be starting in midfield on quite a number of occasions and maybe just maybe he or indeed one of the academy players may just be the answer.

We effectively will only being two central midfielders with the wide midfielders effectively being wing backs.

We can still sign free agents and yes they are free agents for reason but there are some possibilities if it’s just about legs .

12 minutes ago, bisright1 said:

It is exhausting how overdramatic everyone is being.

We won the CL with Ryan Bertrand at LW ffs I’m sure Alonso can last until January with what we have

Good riddance, and we made a profit to.

We have more than enough in midfield, can we stop being so dramatic.