2 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

Douglas Luiz back to Villa on loan with no obligation.

Not arsed about that given we now have a manager who plays Santos correctly. Still feel we may need an extra body in the squad as I want James to stay at RB.

Honestly hilarious we can predict their every move at this rate.

So if we cut through the club bullsh*t and media briefings to these 'in the know' social media commentators our business at this final week of the transfer window is as follows:

• Signed - Yisa Aloa (17 yo signed signed for our academy from cash strapped Sheff Wed)

• Sold - Leo Castledine (Loan at Huddersfield cut short and sold to Middlesbrough for a "six figure sum")

• Loan Returns In - Kiano Dyer, Teddy Sharman-Lowe, Caleb Wiley (UK loans with no alternatives yet), David Datro Fofana, Aaron Anselmino (International loans with no alternatives yet)

• Loan Returns Out - Facundo Buonanotte

I'm not sure if I have missed anyone but that is some stellar moving and shaking by our Sporting Directors. Its times like these that these guys really earn their corn. Bit like the set piece coach who's only attacking corner routine is get Reece Jsmes to dink it to the near post.

Perfect window to bring in 2 good CB, sell off Disasi, Badiashile, tons of youth we don't need and cut off Sterling.

Our SD won't do any of that though

3 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

So if we cut through the club bullsh*t and media briefings to these 'in the know' social media commentators our business at this final week of the transfer window is as follows:

• Signed - Yisa Aloa (17 yo signed signed for our academy from cash strapped Sheff Wed)

• Sold - Leo Castledine (Loan at Huddersfield cut short and sold to Middlesbrough for a "six figure sum")

• Loan Returns In - Kiano Dyer, Teddy Sharman-Lowe, Caleb Wiley (UK loans with no alternatives yet), David Datro Fofana, Aaron Anselmino (International loans with no alternatives yet)

• Loan Returns Out - Facundo Buonanotte

I'm not sure if I have missed anyone but that is some stellar moving and shaking by our Sporting Directors. Its times like these that these guys really earn their corn. Bit like the set piece coach who's only attacking corner routine is get Reece Jsmes to dink it to the near post.

£1m to be exact.

6 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

Bit like the set piece coach who's only attacking corner routine is get Reece James to dink it to the near post.

hush, don't tell everybody! Loose lips sink ships.

We need - in my humble opinion - an experienced CB - we have some decent young CBs already and we have Chalboah who is a great squad player to have (though maybe not a first teamer). We just need that CB. For me that CB would be Bastoni - soon to be a very ancient 27. left sided CB - but he can play on the right. He can hit a long pass forward.

Chelsea 'close in on double transfer' with Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City to miss out

Chelsea are reportedly set to win the race for an exciting double transfer.

(DONT GET TO EXCITED)

Rangers left-back Ashton Scally and Hearts midfielder Boyd Fraser are the players in question, according to The Sun. Both aged 15, they have reportedly attracted the interest of several Premier League clubs over the course of this season.

Chelsea, however, are in pole position to snap up the duo after beating the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and City in the race for their signatures.

I think that means we're throwing much more money at it than the other teams were prepared to pay.

3 hours ago, Ajbod said:

I think that means we're throwing much more money at it than the other teams were prepared to pay.

One of the biggest shifts for Cobham in the mid-2010s was moving away from expensively acquired talents from other academies, to actually bringing through local players from junior age groups. We paid (relatively) a lot of money for kids like Kakuta, Christensen, Gokhan Tore, the Musonda brothers etc. versus the generation that spawned Mount/Abraham/Tomori/James/Chalobah/Gallagher etc.

It looks like the new owners are reverting to the same strategy that we had under Emenalo.

21 hours ago, SydneyChelsea said:

One of the biggest shifts for Cobham in the mid-2010s was moving away from expensively acquired talents from other academies, to actually bringing through local players from junior age groups. We paid (relatively) a lot of money for kids like Kakuta, Christensen, Gokhan Tore, the Musonda brothers etc. versus the generation that spawned Mount/Abraham/Tomori/James/Chalobah/Gallagher etc.

It looks like the new owners are reverting to the same strategy that we had under Emenalo.

Wasn’t Christensen the highest paid youth in the world when we signed him?

I remember figures of 8-10 grand a week being mentioned.

On 28/01/2026 at 12:00, Caps_Lock_King said:

Chelsea 'close in on double transfer' with Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City to miss out

Chelsea are reportedly set to win the race for an exciting double transfer.

(DONT GET TO EXCITED)

Rangers left-back Ashton Scally and Hearts midfielder Boyd Fraser are the players in question, according to The Sun. Both aged 15, they have reportedly attracted the interest of several Premier League clubs over the course of this season.

Chelsea, however, are in pole position to snap up the duo after beating the likes of Arsenal, Liverpool and City in the race for their signatures.

With a name like Ashton Scally, surely he is destined for Liverpool?

So once again, they spent all month pump faking every single target, only to sign no one. Carbon copy of last January.

Can’t wait for the PR spin on this one. Let’s all remember last years.

“Happy with our players. We did the ground work to strengthen in the summer”.

7 hours ago, Sconnie Blue said:

So once again, they spent all month pump faking every single target, only to sign no one. Carbon copy of last January.

Can’t wait for the PR spin on this one. Let’s all remember last years.

“Happy with our players. We did the ground work to strengthen in the summer”.

And everyone talking about the players that are going as if these will be simple done deals. The only player to leave beat them hands down and they had to pay him off.

45 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

And everyone talking about the players that are going as if these will be simple done deals. The only player to leave beat them hands down and they had to pay him off.

truth is we rarely sell anyone surplus its usually a half hearted loan and often the loan is to ourselves at Strasbourg, amazing how they get away with it.

The only real consequences are -

buying up to the limit re PSR, from such a healthy budget position to reach our limit is crazy for the dross we have.

and to also max out on the loan limit in terms of number of players, trapping ourselves in a musical chairs type scenario. bonkers.

Edited February 2Feb 2 by OTL

2 minutes ago, OTL said:

truth is we rarely sell anyone surplus its usually a half hearted loan and often the loan is to ourselves at Strasbourg, amazing how they get away with it.

Look at Tyrique George. Can't even sell a player when we have no margin to cover. Laughable

Our transfer activity as of this morning from Sky Sports

Caleb Wiley - Watford, loan recall

Kiano Dyer - Volendam, loan recall

Yisa Alao - Sheffield Wednesday, undisclosed

Out

Raheem Sterling - released

Leo Castledine - Middlesbrough, undisclosed

Facundo Buonanotte - Brighton, loan recall

others under consideration/ completing shortly

Tyrique George to Everton

Axel Disasi to West Ham

M Sarr in from Strasbourg

Anselmino in and out to Strasbourg

Datro fofana in and out to Strasbourg

Idrissi to Milan

Are our two SDs really going to serve this up to Eghbali in their monthly report?

who is idrissi?

11 minutes ago, Zeta said:

who is idrissi?

exactly. just seen his name 18year old in our youth set up (i think) going to Milan. permanent.

1 hour ago, OTL said:

Our transfer activity as of this morning from Sky Sports

Caleb Wiley - Watford, loan recall

Kiano Dyer - Volendam, loan recall

Yisa Alao - Sheffield Wednesday, undisclosed

Out

Raheem Sterling - released

Leo Castledine - Middlesbrough, undisclosed

Facundo Buonanotte - Brighton, loan recall

others under consideration/ completing shortly

Tyrique George to Everton

Axel Disasi to West Ham

M Sarr in from Strasbourg

Anselmino in and out to Strasbourg

Datro fofana in and out to Strasbourg

Idrissi to Milan

Are our two SDs really going to serve this up to Eghbali in their monthly report?

£1m.

12 minutes ago, dermott said:

£1m.

They will probably put this in the key achievement section.

Busy old day. SDs need to take a breather after the pressure of today

10 minutes ago, WhiteWall said:

Busy old day. SDs need to take a breather after the pressure of today

rushed off their feet....fax machine overheating...

they are probably putting together a "Loan Template" for the hoards of players they cant sell.

Edited February 2Feb 2 by OTL

1 hour ago, WhiteWall said:

Busy old day. SDs need to take a breather after the pressure of today

All 5 of them LOL

This garbage is hilarious, seriously

Chelsea were offered £7m from Real Mallorca, were they fck.

This bloke got injured playing in the Turkish third division, from an high challenge from a fking mountain goat. £7m offer, get the fck...lol

Stoke City are set to sign exciting teenage winger Ato Ampah from Chelsea in a permanent deal.

Stoke will land the England U20 international for an undisclosed fee, pending completion of a medical.