According to the official site we have just signed this young Portugese midfielder...
Looks promising, but hey.. That's Youtube. !

3 minutes ago, chelseablueboy said:

According to the official site we have just signed this young Portugese midfielder...
Looks promising, but hey.. That's Youtube. !

The official site has all the pace of @just marking Teddy Sheringham. We signed him months ago.

Welcome to Strasbourg.

I thought we’d already signed him and he played for us in the conference? Or was that Amuugo?

I can’t keep track with all these signings.

This is on the official site ??
He can't have been signed months ago ?? Am i going mad lol...

3 hour ago3h ago19:11

Chelsea sign Sporting youngster Essugo

Chelsea have completed the signing of Sporting Lisbon youngster Dario Essugo.

Chelsea are paying £18.5m with no add-ons.

Essugo, 20, was a regular in LaLiga at Las Palmas last season and previously broke the record Sporting's youngest-ever player.

The Portugal Under-21 international joins on an eight-year deal, until 2033.

4 minutes ago, chelseablueboy said:

This is on the official site ??
He can't have been signed months ago ?? Am i going mad lol...

3 hour ago3h ago19:11

Chelsea sign Sporting youngster Essugo

Chelsea have completed the signing of Sporting Lisbon youngster Dario Essugo.

Chelsea are paying £18.5m with no add-ons.

Essugo, 20, was a regular in LaLiga at Las Palmas last season and previously broke the record Sporting's youngest-ever player.

The Portugal Under-21 international joins on an eight-year deal, until 2033.

It was announced at the same time as the Quenda deal. Essugo to join officially this summer and Quenda next summer. This lad is meant to be part of the squad for the coming season and is meant to be going to the CWC with us.

I’d like to think he stays, and we have five options in Caicedo, Enzo, Lavia, Santos and Essugo. But that’s also as I’d like to see a 3 man midfield more often, with Palmer RW, Estevao LW, and let’s say Delap thru the middle!

But can see Essugo or Santos losing out here. Where would Essugo loan though - he’s coming from a pretty big club as it is.

Anyway, welcome! Can’t wait to see him play.

3 hours ago, PhilH930 said:

I’d like to think he stays, and we have five options in Caicedo, Enzo, Lavia, Santos and Essugo. But that’s also as I’d like to see a 3 man midfield more often, with Palmer RW, Estevao LW, and let’s say Delap thru the middle!

But can see Essugo or Santos losing out here. Where would Essugo loan though - he’s coming from a pretty big club as it is.

Anyway, welcome! Can’t wait to see him play.

He was on loan for las palmas last season and im certain he goes out on loan again.

Wouldn't be surprised if we never see him play for chelsea

8 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

It was announced at the same time as the Quenda deal. Essugo to join officially this summer and Quenda next summer. This lad is meant to be part of the squad for the coming season and is meant to be going to the CWC with us.

I thought Essugo was a new signing as well, and now I'm thinking Who the f**k is Quenda.

2 hours ago, Valerie said:

I thought Essugo was a new signing as well, and now I'm thinking Who the f**k is Quenda.

Quenda is our latest generational talent.........🙄

9 minutes ago, ALTE said:

Quenda is our latest generational talent.........🙄

Haha - indeed !

I get that he is young, but he's just played nearly 3,000 minutes for the team that won the ("weak") league and that also had a decent run in the Champions League, and with the most prolific striker in Europe alongside him ... and he's registered 5 assists LOL.

1 hour ago, ALTE said:

Quenda is our latest generational talent.........🙄

Oh dear lord, not again!

Another signing I can’t wrap my head around. He wasn’t good enough to start for Sporting so he was loaned out to Las Palmas one of the worst teams in La Liga. We have now paid £18m for him to be Caicedo’s backup. At 20yrs old and only 58 first team appearances he is clearly not ready to play regularly for a top team, he needs at least 2 seasons of top level football to get up to speed. Caicedo isn’t someone you take off at 75min, so I don’t understand where he will see game time.

A well run team won’t have made this signing, would have prioritised Ugochukwu who is a year older, and with 98 first team appearances well ahead of Essugo development wise. Seems to be a trend with the club just stockpiling players without thinking about their development.

25 minutes ago, ducavis said:

A well run team won’t have made this signing, would have prioritised Ugochukwu who is a year older, and with 98 first team appearances well ahead of Essugo development wise. Seems to be a trend with the club just stockpiling players without thinking about their development.

I can guarantee the directors have forgotten he exists. They sign a player, then a few months later they are onto the next "big thing" and couldn't give a sh*t about the last one they signed. Squad is absolutely full of them.

Another player to add to the bought to sell on for profit but will sell for a loss list.

55 minutes ago, Zeta said:

I can guarantee the directors have forgotten he exists. They sign a player, then a few months later they are onto the next "big thing" and couldn't give a sh*t about the last one they signed. Squad is absolutely full of them.

Surely sooner or later it has to become an inhibitor to further recruitment ?

They talk about developing young players but seem to have precious little appetite or patience for doing so, and zero recognition for the important role that more senior players might play in that process.

I think he’s a good player tbh.

Will help close games out and feature in the cup games I’d imagine.

13 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I think he’s a good player tbh.

Will help close games out and feature in the cup games I’d imagine.

We own so many players and have an entire youth academy that can fill that role though, we don't need to be spending another £18m on a nobody.

2 minutes ago, Ukraine Bolt said:

We own so many players and have an entire youth academy that can fill that role though, we don't need to be spending another £18m on a nobody.

I’m not in that opinion. We need a deep midfield if we want to not only compete on all fronts, but sustain champions league football. Essugo looks like a great tackler and ball winner and a player that could potentially mold into another Caicedo.

I get the idea of needing a deep midfield, but we had already signed Lavia, Ugochukwu and Andrey Santos, and beyond that there is the Cobham lads like Rak-Sakyi, Dyer and Walsh, so why we needed to go beyond even that for KDH and Amougou, and now Essugo is absolutely beyond me. Nothing to do with balanced squad-building for sure ...

2 minutes ago, Sexyfootball said:

I get the idea of needing a deep midfield, but we had already signed Lavia, Ugochukwu and Andrey Santos, and beyond that there is the Cobham lads like Rak-Sakyi, Dyer and Walsh, so why we needed to go beyond even that for KDH and Amougou, and now Essugo is absolutely beyond me. Nothing to do with balanced squad-building for sure ...

In the hypothetical Lavia doesn’t solve his injury issues, we’ll only have 3 midfielders to rely on for a League and Champions League campaign. Santos can fill in for Lavia and Enzo, whereas Caicedo has no one. Lesly is a fair shout but Essugo’s profile looks more akin to the way we use Caicedo.

We not only have to compete, we need to focus on sustaining champions league football. We’ve just seen Villa drop out and Newcastle almost bottling it under alleged better managers. It will be entirely possible we suffer the same fate if we don’t have enough quality in depth.

22 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

I’m not in that opinion. We need a deep midfield if we want to not only compete on all fronts, but sustain champions league football. Essugo looks like a great tackler and ball winner and a player that could potentially mold into another Caicedo.

Lavia. Santos. Ugochukwu. Amougou. Academy.

I think this boy has potential, that being said the team is filled with this archetype.

Clearlake is really creating a battlefield of potential and only the best survive. Hunger games and all that

4 minutes ago, Deino said:

I think this boy has potential, that being said the team is filled with this archetype.

Clearlake is really creating a battlefield of potential and only the best survive. Hunger games and all that

Rigid manager who plays a rigid system needs certain profiles. Santos and Lavia are similar as deep midfielders and Essugo has a profile akin to Caicedo imo.