Great point. Kovacic has been very good, but even at his best can't replace Kante.
Kante has also missed their pre-season tour to US because he didn't get vaccinated. So may take even longer to get back to match fitness once the season starts.
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Transfers Summer 2022 Transfer Thread.
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Kante has also missed their pre-season tour to US because he didn't get vaccinated. So may take even longer to get back to match fitness once the season starts.
I think we are already seeing the start of the future for Chelsea - targeting players like Sterling and Ake, which will enable City to reinvest.
That never would have happened before......they are essentially abandoning any chance of catching City and winning the PL
But he is not a £30M player, no way.
Monstrous? No.
A very good one? Yes
On our level? No way - levels below us like the chav punks they are.
I'd be worried if they got Lewandowski. He'd be such a monumental upgrade on Lukaku/Werner that you could see their points tally getting a huge hike from that. But last I checked he was holding out for a Barca move anyway? Going from Bayern to Chelsea would be a bit underwhelming.
No issue with this. Mo Salah got 350k p/w and so should Kane.
If Spence is 20-25m, Sess was 30m and peeps here think nothing of shopping Winks around at 20m.... Then why not?
Ziyech is probably being sold to AC Milan, so atm they're front 3 is out of 6 choice: Sterling, Werner, Havertz, Pulisic, Mount, Odoi.
There is a lot of quality in that 6, but they don't have a great goalscorer like Son/Kane, or a great dribbler like Raphinha.
They'll be quite reliant on Reece James for extra goals, I hope teams find a way to neutralise him.
I think they will sign another CB, probably Kounde if de Ligt chooses Bayern. Bear in mind Silva will also be a year older as well as trying to replace Rudiger. So at best their CB situation is stagnant.
I wouldn’t say far stronger. Kante was excellent for the first half of the season and Rudiger was absolutely incredible. De Ligt and Slavic at their very very best replace declining Kante and leaving Rudiger, Lewandowski obviously upgrades Lukaku, that would be their point of difference but I don’t think we should be shitting ourselves playing them. There will be scant if any difference in quality next season player wise other than Chelsea might still have a bit more depth than us should we not get at least another top CB and top CM along with a RB.
Go back a season and Chelsea were well ahead of us. Even Liverpool have issues with Mane going, it’s City that I don’t see us getting near.
Lewa would be a total game changer for them, the only issue I could see there is where Havertz would play because they've been deploying him as essentially a false 9. But he's a top 3 striker in the world alongside Kane/Benzema.
They'd have hugely upgraded LW in Sterling, gone up about 10 levels in terms of upgrading CF & then probably maintained their level at CB/CM. We won't need to be scared of anyone under Conte but that would be a very strong Chelsea team.
Lewa specifically wants to leave Bayern to go to Barca I think.
If Chelsea do get another striker it would be Ronaldo, but I'm not sure United would sell to them.
Yeah that was my understanding. Really don't see Lewandowski wanting anything to do with that mob, he wants the Barca move.
Ronaldo would be a bit meh. I'm not as anti him as many on this forum but he's another like Lukaku who isn't particularly good in the build up, and for a Tuchel side that's an issue.
Either the greasy one goes to the Chavs and inhibits their system or he stays at United and goes full-toxic...... Win/win.
Deja vu...
Not losing to them twice* would have seen us overtake them last year.
(In the league. I know we lost to them every time last season.)
Which weekend?
I started it.
Look, normally at this stage we'd be panicking about our transfers not being good enough.
Instead we've had a great window so far, and in my opinion have overtaken Chelsea and extended our gap to Woolwich as they've not had comparatively good summers. Nothing wrong with analysing that imo.
There's a Chelsea thread mate.