Chelsea Thread - 2022/23 | Pochettino confirmed as new manager

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Vialli98 said:
What? Arsenal put in a bid of the exact same value as Chelsea did for Mudryk, after Arsenal previously had a couple of more reasonable bid like £50m and £60 rejected. Their final bid was around the same as what we paid for him in the end.

No he's not but clearly City secured Haaland at an artificially low value. The release clause that Haaland's camp managed to get Dortmund to agree to ended up being wonderful for City but you guys were trying to get Kane for £100m the previous summer. Haaland in the current market, under normal circumstances, isn't going for £51m. He's more likely to be valued at triple that. Martinelli was signed as a literal teenager to Arsenal's development squad before they realised he was quite good. He's the equivalent of Chelsea signing Omari Hutchinson and then realising he can play for the first team.

I'm not saying there aren't good deals to be found, but just like you guys paying £100m for Grealish, United paying through the nose for Antony and Liverpool for Nunez, the market is the market and you more often than not have to overpay for popular players, especially if you're a rich club.

Anyway, this was all beside the point. Comparing 2004 prices to 2022 prices is kind of wild because you buy a whole new team filled with top talents with just £120m. These days £120m could get you max a couple of good players, maybe 4 but no genuine world class players.
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You always have to pay more for English players unfortunately, and I’m glad the Kane deal never happened. Yes, deals like Grealish, Antony or Nunez happen, but clubs don’t fill their entire windows with those kinda deals and they are rare. They’re also not a great idea even as infrequent as they are, and you can look at all those deals mentioned and see pitfalls.

You don’t have to compare to 2004, another comment suggested that thinking it would be in line and it was far from it, but pick out any season and do the same thing, Abramovic wasn’t doing what Boehly is even in recent seasons, there has been a shift.

The numbers are half of that shift and the lack of strategy hasn’t been addressed either
 
paska said:
You always have to pay more for English players unfortunately, and I’m glad the Kane deal never happened. Yes, deals like Grealish, Antony or Nunez happen, but clubs don’t fill their entire windows with those kinda deals and they are rare. They’re also not a great idea even as infrequent as they are, and you can look at all those deals mentioned and see pitfalls.

You don’t have to compare to 2004, another comment suggested that thinking it would be in line and it was far from it, but pick out any season and do the same thing, Abramovic wasn’t doing what Boehly is even in recent seasons, there has been a shift.

The numbers are half of that shift and the lack of strategy hasn’t been addressed either
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But Chelsea isn't filling the team with Mudryk kind of buys though.

These are the players signed under the Boehly ownership.

Sterling £50m
Koulibaly £30m
Cucurella £54m (this was the first genuine overpay).
Fofana £70m (also an overpay but less so considering he's seen as a top talent)
Badiashile £30m
Auba £11m
Felix £9m loan (overpay but not drastically - in fact if you extrapolate the 6 months to a 4 year deal, it's a fair fee)
Mudryk £62m (rising to £88m if we win the European cup and the title but yes still an overpay).
David Fofana £10m
Nkunku will end up costing around £55m.


That's 11 signings with 3 being an overpay, one borderline overpay and the rest being either potential bargains or just reasonable fees. People are acting like Chelsea have just gone out and signed nine £100m players when actually a lot of these fees are pretty reasonable, it just seems like a lot because there are many players signed.
 
dhruvblue said:
€45m for injury prone player. PSV will be having party tonight
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€35m actually, according Romano. He might be injury prone but if he can overcome that he’s one hell of a talent. Only 20 years old.
 
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