Increased Costa Living - The Transfer Thread

I'm a huge believer in Conte, and I'm starting to lose faith that he will be here next season. It just seems the club is set in its way of doing business and Conte thought he would get more say in regards to the transfers then he actually is.

I can't see any manager I rather have at this club currently aside from Pep, then Antonio Conte.

 

I miss Emenalo

 

Pep would leave in a month if he was offered Barkley, Drinkwater and Carroll

 

Start saying your goodbyes. He wont be here next season.

 

I would love to see Jardim here as the next manager. He has shown he can integrate youth well and play attractive football at Monaco. Would be a good option with a more limited budget than we are accustomed to imo, and I'd be seriously surprised if he wasn't on the board's shortlist when the time comes. I'd also love for Conte to stay mind you, but Jardim may work better with the setup we seem to be going for

 

West Ham: We have some magic beans.

Chelsea: Where are they?

West Ham: We gave them to Andy Carroll and he's currently living above a dental office.

Chelsea:


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football...west-ham-signing-andy-carroll-permanent-deal/

 

His length at each club seems to mesh well with our system, too.

2003–2008 Camacha
2008–2009 Chaves
2009–2011 Beira-Mar
2011–2012 Braga
2012–2013 Olympiacos
2013–2014 Sporting CP
2014– Monaco

 

Seriously? I saw it was just a loan till the end of the year.

 

2 posts up a link re: permanent

 

Remember the time we laughed at Pool for paying 35M for Carroll.

 

******** our board is dumb

 

Which was our money to begin with as we funded the deal from the Torres transfer.

 

We kind of don't have a board. It's Roman and the advice of advisors.

Emenalo: Gone.
Guy Lawrence: New chief executive. He doesn't pick players.
Marina Granovskaia: She cuts through the crap to get deals done. She doesn't pick targets.
David Banard: Transfer administrator; he doesn't pick targets
Bruce Buck: Money. He doesn't pick targets.
Conte: Just a manager. At most, he gives suggestions.
Eugene Tenenbaum: Roman's right hand. Doesn't pick targets.
Roman: He owns the whole lot. He likes to pick players. But I reckon he doesn't do that much, but he does say yea or nay. And he's not yay'ing Alexis Sanchez's pay package at 29 years old.

Roman, Buck, Eugene, Marina are basically the board. Maybe together they target players. Maybe they outsource it. I don't know. It's crazy. And no one asks.

 

Being linked by Di Marzio with Emerson Palmieri. Left back at Roma. Been out for a while with a knee injury but was sought after by Liverpool and Juventus once upon a time. Also been called up to Italy (don’t think he’s made an appearance though) and is only 23. As long as he’s <£30M sounds like a realistic one actually. Not cup-tied in CL because of his injury I’m pretty sure

 

Can we get a bit of a reality check here?

In the last 3 seasons we've been crowned champions twice whilst having a positive net spend on both occasions (right?). Meanwhile, it has taken City 300 mil to get properly situated and United, despite their huge expenditure, still can't get it right.

From a fiscal point of view, well, our board has done pretty brilliantly. Idiots or clueless? Farthest thing from it. Apparently they're a whole lot smarter than anyone else's in the Prem.

The only truly idiotic thing they've done is allow Matic to go to a direct rival. That plus trusting Jose Mourinho to have all the power over our player transfers upon his return that Conte wishes he had.

They seem to be trying to balance improving the team but also not getting held for ransom on players. Barkley is a great example of this. The money is quite obviously there. The narrative that it isn't is nonsense. We've seen plenty of failed bids, almost all failing because the asking prices are absurd.

 

The fact that no one knows or asks is beyond scary.

 

Indeed Everton have spent money well. They had one of the best wing play before Koeman bought 3 CMs/CAMS last year and tried to centralize their play.

 

Agree with this.

The cloudy nature of transfers really makes it hard to place blame. If we're blaming an imaginary board, we should also blame them for letting Salah and De Bruyne leave, regardless of whether we think Jose wanted them gone - or that they asked to leave.

Still, at the time, we made a profit on both.

 

Do you mean buying Walcott at 29 and on the downward slope of his Newcastle-bound career is a good buy?

I think Everton bringing in Keane, Klassen, Gylfi, and Pickford were great. Koeman was pretty terrible, but also they didn't come close to replacing Lukaku.

 

I have a feeling most Chelsea Twitter fans want the squad I currently have in FIFA18, which I must say, is fun to play.

My starting XI (I play the attacking 4-3-3). Anyone want to figure out the real life wage structure for a roster like this? LOL.

Courtois
Kimmich, Azpilicueta, Rudiger, Kuzawa
Kante, Saul
Asensio
Pulisic, Morata, Hazard

Bench:
GK: Cabalerro
D: Zouma, Hysaj, Ampadu, Funes Mori
M:Lo Celso, RLC, Pasalic, Hudson-Odoi, Brandt, Baker, Avijaj, Piazon
F: Abraham, Rodrigo

LOL. With 100m in the bank ready to buy Timo Werner.

 

If real life Bakayoko was as good as FIFA 18 Bakayoko we would be close to 1st!

 

Haha, what? Everton have spent their money on old slow players, and are paying the price.

 

I missed this article back before Christmas. Our head international scout, Scott McLachlan, has been temporarily taking over Emenalo's spot since he left for Monaco.

"McLachlan is working closely with Granovskaia and is already drawing up transfer plans for the January window"

I'm assuming that this is a very collaborative effort without much of anyone's identity stamped on it.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/12/24/chels...lacement-michael-emenalo-7183104/?ito=cbshare

 

Now Palmeiri is someone to be excited about if he recovers his pre-injury form.

Matt Law

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Update on left-back Emerson Palmieri. Chelsea want to take him on an initial loan because of injury problems. Roma want between £22m and £26m. Negotiating to be done... #cfc

 

Would be a very good signing at those prices imo. From what I understand he has basically been recovered since sometime in December but has been out of favor due to Kolarov's good form. He was one of the best full backs in Serie A for the latter half of last year