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Noni Madueke

Mirth

TambourineMan He's now no longer in our best XI after two years and a problem for us to deal with. We're not an oil club, we can't carry a £280k a week player on the bench but we will have to because we're Chelsea's bitch

I don’t know about that - he’s going to play a lot more than you think. Including with Gyokeres.

TambourineMan

Mirth in place of who?

Mirth

TambourineMan I’m not saying he’s nailed on for the first 11 but he’ll get 50 appearances next season easy. I can see instances where we play Havertz and Gyokeres against a low block, for instance.

Maybe we’ve paid too much for him but City have done the same with so many squad players that contributed to their titles and Havertz has a 1 in 2 record. It’s not really a problem unless you’re Kronke’s accountant

lorddulaarsenal

Who says Havertz is no longer a first teamer?

TambourineMan

lorddulaarsenal who does he displace?

RocktheCasbah

TambourineMan what the fuck does William Gallas, signed 19 years ago, have to do with anything these owners have done? Seriously mate.

TambourineMan No one really complained about Jorginho (revisi those threads if you don't believe me).

Not true. James got so fed up of trying to explain why the signing wasn't as bad as everyone thought, he decided to leave you all to it.

TambourineMan If it does, I've got a Fiat I need to sell that I think you might be interested in.

I don't drive. Soz.

TambourineMan

RocktheCasbah

It's about a pattern of behaviour. Chelsea have consistently gotten the better of us over the last 20 years, on and off the pitch.
I don't know who James is and what he did doesn't matter to me when there is a thread that contradicts him (whoever the fuck he is). Stop revising history - here's the thread https://onemoreinthetolly.com/forums/d/4836-jorginho. Largely positive and majority acknowledgement that it was a pragmatic deal.

Edit: found 'James' in the Jorginho thread. Didn't look this drove him out at all.

You sure? It's blue and only 50% above market value.

flobaba

USArsenal I went to watch highlights of games Chelsea has played against us recently where he started. Even the 5-0 spanking we handed them. NM was involved in the few positive moments they've had. Good crossing, beating his man (Tomiyasu!) down the line, good ball progression.

A bit overpriced, sure. But there's a player in there. And he's coming in as back up. The narrative against him is silly.

Qwiss

TambourineMan interesting read that.

JazzG

TambourineMan here's the thread https://onemoreinthetolly.com/forums/d/4836-jorginho.

From that thread

JazzG He’s a Elneny upgrade rather than a Partey one. I think he’ll be alright for us, he’s a good player. Past his best probably but he’s an intelligent player and think he will do a job when needed.

We are one of the most compact sides in the league, especially when Zinchenko comes into midfield. So we should be able to help mask his mobility issues.

This is why you people should trust me 😆 He actually turned out better than I thought he would, watching Jorginho showed me how we needed someone like him rather than Partey, he more aesthetically pleasing on the eye but we played more compact and better with Jorg, his passing not as expansive but he made better choices with the ball. Which is why I think Zubimendi will be a big success for us.

RowJimmy

TambourineMan
Who displaces him? Not Gyokeres.

invisibleman18

TambourineMan as things stand he's currently the striker (unless Merino continues) which makes his signing a poor piece of business for the money. I'm not convinced that there's anything coming after Madueke. For the outlay it feels more likely he's it IMO.

tazmania

By your definition @TambourineMan, Brentford pulled a fast one on us too.

We're signing players from local London clubs. Water is wet.
This signing is stupid but it has little to do with us being Chelsea's bitch.

TambourineMan

tazmania what's my definition? because what we do with Brentford has zero correlation with what we've been doing with Chelsea.

We went to Brentford and signed their no. 1 and captain for a combined £40m. We've paid Chelsea £115m for two of their reserve players (and made one of them our best paid player at the same time). Where's the correlation?

RowJimmy

TambourineMan
Everyone we're signing this summer with the exception of Zubimendi is depth. Which is what we were lacking.

TambourineMan

RowJimmy this does not make sense when the first XI is not good enough to go the distance. We should be improving the first XI and relegating the guys replaced into depth positions. That's what the best teams do.

TambourineMan

Mirth It is a problem if we want to go for a game changer but can't because Havertz is blocking. It is a problem because it becomes a reference point in negotiations for other squad members. It is a problem because it makes him unsellable. Look what not caring about wages has done to Man United.

His wages are a problem.

RowJimmy

TambourineMan

I think we have the best XI in the league. We ran out of gas and got injuries because of lack of depth. And our excessive number of draws and late concessions is similarly a depth issue, not a starting XI talent issue.
Maybe Rodrygo displaces Martinelli. That's it. IMO.

Mirth

TambourineMan nah, that's just your vendetta.

Havertz's isn't stopping us from signing a game changer - as evident by our activity this summer nor is Arteta looking to sell him. Arteta loves the guy. When Arteta wants to move someone on, he freezes them out. Having Havertz and Gyokeres is actually a fantastic outcome.

Also, for the record, Havertz wasn't a squad player at Chelsea - he started 30 out of the 36 games he was available for in his final season.

Gazza M

RowJimmy we looked stale last season without the injuries. blaming our struggles last season on a lack of depth feels like a dangerous misread

lorddulaarsenal

RowJimmy yeah I think we can only really upgrade on Martinelli in the first eleven as everyone else is top tier.

Ofcourse players like Mbappe and Vitinha would improve us but they ain’t available

Meatwad

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6410733/2025/06/08/england-andorra-madueke-chelsea-transfer/

Unsurprisingly, Madueke was named England’s player of the match.

“He was maybe over the course of the match the most dangerous, the most active,” Tuchel said of Madueke via England’s official website. “I could feel his hunger and the desire and determination to do the plan. He was one of the few who met the expectations.”

Madueke started the game against Andorra on the left wing, but then switched to the right flank after Crystal Palace’s Eberechi Eze replaced Cole Palmer in the second half.

“Right and left are the same for me, so I don’t really mind,” Madueke said of the tactical change. “I’ve been playing on the left for Chelsea in the last five or six games of the season, so right and left are all the same.

“You just have to try and beat your full-back and be positive. That’s my game. That’s what I go to every game trying to do, trying to create for my team, and it came off a lot of times.”

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