Other club transfers January 2019 edition (Chelsea jiggy with higgy)

Gunner89

AS Monaco likely to conclude the signing of Cesc Fabregas next week from Chelsea, according to L’Équipe.

Gazza M

Pulisic to chelsea done. He'll stay on loan with bvb until seasons end

JazzG

Chelsea do like doing these weird transfers, he's a good player but not sure if he is £58m. Hasn't he lost his place to Sancho in the team? Surely would make more sense to try and sign him for that kind of money.

BWoolley

Suspect they are ok with the 6 month loan since Hazard will leave in the summer and he is the designated replacement.

GooneriC

Well they have their winger deal done for next summer. I am guessing Hazard is gone in the summer for big money and they will look to a striker then. Icardi maybe.

BWoolley

Hopefully this now means we can go get Lozano. Also need another winger as well - Malcom / Brandt / Guedes / Bailey / Pepe. Should be able to get that done for 80-85M of gross spend and _40M of net spend (Ozil, Mkhi out). Add to that 3 CBs and an LB for _100M with Mustafi, Chambers leaving for _40M will make it _100M of net spend for the summer. Will still leave us short a backup RB, but will allow us to then focus on 1 WC player in subsequent windows rather than being in firefighting mode all the time.

Segway

JazzG wrote:
Chelsea do like doing these weird transfers, he's a good player but not sure if he is £58m. Hasn't he lost his place to Sancho in the team? Surely would make more sense to try and sign him for that kind of money.

I think they've overpaid quite heavily here. Pulisic never impressed me very much but he's still only 20 so he has time to improve and I wonder if there's a commercial element to the deal with him being an American.

Ray

Yeah, Lozano would be a good buy, might take time to get used to the physicality of the league, but would be good long term.

Supposedly Pool are getting Fekir, another player they failed to get but made sure in the end.

Clrnc

Not fussed about Pulisic, pretty average for me.

Bring Back Kerrea Gilbert

Really hope we nab either Cahill or O'Shea.

USArsenal

Pulisic is a good player, but he also needs to operate in a specific kind of team/system to get the best out of him. Im not sure Chelsea is the right place to get that. Granted, he is only 20 and already has loads of bigger game experience.

Klaus

€64 million for Pulisic. Bloody hell. Have to think that marketing opportunities in the US are partly behind this signing.

USArsenal

I agree with that to an extent. He is good, and has the potential to be really good, but yes, part of that is US marketing opportunity.

i mean, he's built up as the next big American hope, but we've seen that so many time (anyone remember Freddy Adu?) that said, he's miles better than Adu ever was

jones

60m is absurd. He's talented but never worth that much

Bryant

JazzG wrote:
Chelsea do like doing these weird transfers, he's a good player but not sure if he is £58m. Hasn't he lost his place to Sancho in the team? Surely would make more sense to try and sign him for that kind of money.

There's no way Dortmund would sell Sancho for 64m euros. He's worth Dembele money to them now.

As for Pulisic, yeah NBC will be going crazy over here with him going to Chelsea. Might do something ridiculous like a camera following him 😆 . I think Sarri will elevate his game like he's done with previous attackers at Napoli.

Clrnc

Liverpool selling their young winger Camacho to Sporting Lisbon for 15m euros. How do they keep getting such high fees for nonsensical players?

arsedocmd

Wonder how much chelsea are gonna get for hazard. They been making good dough since oscar and Luiz and all.

Bryant

Bayern has been relentless trying to sign him.

Gazza M

he looked mustard in pre-season. could be a good buy for them

JazzG

Almost like Chelsea's first team and youth team are two different entities. Not many seem to make the crossover, very weird.