You know what's gonna happen, we'll haggle over small margins right up until deadline day and then end up paying the money.

The Chelsea board must think people are still glued to their screens watching the drama unfold right until the last minute like 10 years ago.

Personally I'd rather seal the deal early and get them on the training pitch ASAP.

This trying to save a few pennies right up until the last minute doesn't excite me one bit and IMO puts even more pressure on the player when the long drawn out transfer saga comes to an end.

Take the Caceido saga, we didn't even save any money in the end, we only sprung into action when Liverpool tried to gazump us, then straight away the focus was on him and he gave away a penalty against West Ham on his debut giving the media a field day.

Most of the time there is no need to have this "race against time in getting the deal sheet to the FA before the windows closes".

We should learn our lessons because not every signing is gonna handle the transfer saga and pressure as well as Caceido did.

33 minutes ago, dansubrosa said:

Chelsea have increased their offer for AC Milan’s Mike Maignan to £18M.

[via @DiMarzio]

This is so f**king stupid. Just bring Petrovic back and play him. These directors are clowns.

In other news, we are selling goalkeepers. . .Marcus Bettinelli’s from #CFC to #MCFC could be done very quickly. Chelsea happy to agree terms in time for him to join Man City in time for Club World Cup.

So does that demote Sanchez to 3rd choice then? 👀

Edited June 9, 20251 yr by Sconnie Blue

21 minutes ago, Sconnie Blue said:

So does that demote Sanchez to 3rd choice then? 👀

If Maignan signs, then they'll sell Petrovic I think, followed by one of Sanchez and Jorgensen, depending on who they can get an offer for first (don't think either will be that easy to shift, but some media noise that Potter/West Ham want Sanchez) . Whichever one stays is the #2.

Possibly then one of the youngsters as third keeper ?

Ideally should be Mike no1 and petrovic No2 but then the directors would look stupid bringing in Jorgensen so I believe he would be no2 and they would sell petrovic for book profit when in reality I feel between Jorgensen and petrovic, petrovic is better

4 hours ago, TheCeleryKing said:

In other news, we are selling goalkeepers. . .Marcus Bettinelli’s from #CFC to #MCFC could be done very quickly. Chelsea happy to agree terms in time for him to join Man City in time for Club World Cup.

Not sure if "selling " will have any effect at all. Bettinelli will go for virtually nothing I reckon, the release of Beach and Campbell will save us nothing in real terms and even Bergstrom is only on 7,500 pw.

If Maignan comes I think it will be MM deputised by Jorgensen. If we don't land him it will probably be Petrovic and Jorgensen. And the worst case scenario is Sanchez and Jörgensen which is a possibility too I think.

With Maignan we'd get masses of leadership and experienced which in short term at least this squad needs. Being French it is also good for Fofana and Badiashile. I think actually Badiashile could benefit a tons of it. I think there is a player there.

49 minutes ago, evissy said:

If Maignan comes I think it will be MM deputised by Jorgensen. If we don't land him it will probably be Petrovic and Jorgensen. And the worst case scenario is Sanchez and Jörgensen which is a possibility too I think.

With Maignan we'd get masses of leadership and experienced which in short term at least this squad needs. Being French it is also good for Fofana and Badiashile. I think actually Badiashile could benefit a tons of it. I think there is a player there.

Fear is he can’t handle the intensity of the PL. Onana looked world class at Inter, and has been awful at Utd. Serie A is an average league, Maignan is also injury prone.

Wait till Maignan has to deal with the jostling, pushing and blocking that comes with corner kicks.

8 hours ago, Scott Harris said:

This is so f**king stupid. Just bring Petrovic back and play him. These directors are clowns.

That should be our final offer IMO, Milan are being twats. It’s like they forgot we accepted low fees for Pulisic and Giroud.

There’s Tomori and Loftus Cheek as well, so you’d think the very least they can do is be fair to us.

If they want any of our deadwood players in the future we can tell them to f*ck off.

46 minutes ago, ducavis said:

Fear is he can’t handle the intensity of the PL. Onana looked world class at Inter, and has been awful at Utd. Serie A is an average league, Maignan is also injury prone.

Wait till Maignan has to deal with the jostling, pushing and blocking that comes with corner kicks.

Yes I agree with the intensity. However he just showed why he is so good against Germany. I guess Jorgensen has his chances then as well.

The injury proneness is a bit exaggerated I think. They went over that in a Chelsea podcast. I don't remember the numbers.

2 hours ago, evissy said:

If Maignan comes I think it will be MM deputised by Jorgensen. If we don't land him it will probably be Petrovic and Jorgensen. And the worst case scenario is Sanchez and Jörgensen which is a possibility too I think.

With Maignan we'd get masses of leadership and experienced which in short term at least this squad needs. Being French it is also good for Fofana and Badiashile. I think actually Badiashile could benefit a tons of it. I think there is a player there.

Who’s Fofana? 😂

13 minutes ago, 2211 said:

Who’s Fofana? 😂

You might recognize him from his most natural position below

Looks in doubt this deal from what I've seen.

Seems crazy to me that we have identified Maignan as a player we want, obviously he would be coming in as 1st choice keeper, but we are reluctant to even pay what we did for Jorgenson or even a Kellyman this time last year.

Certain deals i can understand us holding our ground, but whether pay £12m or £20m for Maignan its still a good deal.

Would've been nice to get him in for club world cup.

Just now, big blue said:

Looks in doubt this deal from what I've seen.

Seems crazy to me that we have identified Maignan as a player we want, obviously he would be coming in as 1st choice keeper, but we are reluctant to even pay what we did for Jorgenson or even a Kellyman this time last year.

Certain deals i can understand us holding our ground, but whether pay £12m or £20m for Maignan its still a good deal.

Would've been nice to get him in for club world cup.

Apparently the deadline is at 7pm tonight. So if nothing happens by then, I guess it’s over.

Watch Maignan become the best goalkeeper in the world next season 🤣

3 minutes ago, dansubrosa said:

Apparently the deadline is at 7pm tonight. So if nothing happens by then, I guess it’s over.

Watch Maignan become the best goalkeeper in the world next season 🤣

It needn't be over if this short transfer window closes, as there is still the regular summer window to open. Damn.

Imagine if we pull out for the sake of a few million and then we have to try and convince the goalkeepers we already have here that we wasn’t serious about buying Maignan and we have always had total faith in you.

Good luck with that one.

BREAKING: Mike Maignan to #Chelsea is OFF.

[via @FabrizioRomano]

Or you can see it so we weren't willing to be held ransom for him. We liked his profile but weren't ready to break bank for him.

Take it like you want.

From what others have said, he’s not a massive upgrade so is it really worth overpaying for him?

Edited June 10, 20251 yr by JM7

15 minutes ago, JM7 said:

From what others have said, he’s not a massive upgrade so is it really worth overpaying for him?

What would be a massive upgrade though?

What message does that send to the existing goalkeepers?

We felt Maignan was good enough to come in as 1st choice, even if it meant upsetting the current goalkeepers, but then we pulled out over a few million, which on the scale of our spending is a drop in the water.

Oh well at least no one pulled our pants down for £5m.

16 minutes ago, JM7 said:

From what others have said, he’s not a massive upgrade so is it really worth overpaying for him?

And this is one of the many things that pisses me off of the current owners. They keep buying cheap-notsocheap players that are not a clear upgrade to what we've got. Why do they even try to get Maignan if he's not a solid option for the near future?

I'm glad they didn't overpay for him, but it is just because of his age. Had he been 20 yo and they'd have gone overboard for him.

Hilarious turn of events !

We all well know our owners/sporting directors are a bunch of incompetent muppets and this is just more fuel on the fire LOL

Petrovic should get his chance at FCWC. Let’s see how he fares with Maresca ball.

Absolutely fine with this deal being off. Going off last season alone Petrovic is a better player. So why waste money?