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Andrey Santos Signs for Chelsea

Top 4. Provided we sign a decent centre back, a decent central midfielder and don't lose any quality, Alonso can get this lot comfortably in top 4. Our best attacking players have had the summer off. Our best centre back is fully fit.

Liverpool and City have awful managers. United are doing nothing meaningful in the transfer window and have champions league football, whilst Tottenham are reliant on a bunch of new signings all clicking under a manager who has always failed to convince me.

Arsenal should run away with the title. We should be best of the rest considering no European football

This is dependent on us signing Lacroix and Wharton. Which I assume is going to happen.
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Wharton isn’t happening.

 
Behind on news today. Disappointed to read this - never really got his chance but can see us regretting this one. Could think of 8-10 players to sell ahead of Santos, although that doesn’t mean that isn’t also happening.

Just have to get used to it. BlueCo player trading model is going nowhere.

 
Behind on news today. Disappointed to read this - never really got his chance but can see us regretting this one. Could think of 8-10 players to sell ahead of Santos, although that doesn’t mean that isn’t also happening.

Just have to get used to it. BlueCo player trading model is going nowhere.
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Quite strange his entire time at Chelsea.. but in this market this looks cheap.. we signed bloody gittens and had are pants pulled down for 60 mil.. all due to gross mid management by this mob … if these fools had used some sanity and we had a decent sponsor and a decent left side we would not be here ..the circus continues.

 
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We signed a guy for £10m. He didn't excel. We sold him for £50m

He's proving the model, not disproving it.
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We signed 3 midfielders for £77m (Lavia, Santos, Essugo). Two were completely useless, one was half decent. We sold him to offset the cost of the duds we're stuck with.

 
Top 4. Provided we sign a decent centre back, a decent central midfielder and don't lose any quality, Alonso can get this lot comfortably in top 4. Our best attacking players have had the summer off. Our best centre back is fully fit.

Liverpool and City have awful managers. United are doing nothing meaningful in the transfer window and have champions league football, whilst Tottenham are reliant on a bunch of new signings all clicking under a manager who has always failed to convince me.

Arsenal should run away with the title. We should be best of the rest considering no European football

This is dependent on us signing Lacroix and Wharton. Which I assume is going to happen.
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What makes you assume Wharton and Lacroix will happen. We haven't even made a bid for them have we?

 
Based on his time here, he's decent, not great not poor overall, can't really say it's outright a bad business because 50mils is also decent for just decent player.

 
Behind on news today. Disappointed to read this - never really got his chance but can see us regretting this one. Could think of 8-10 players to sell ahead of Santos, although that doesn’t mean that isn’t also happening.

Just have to get used to it. BlueCo player trading model is going nowhere.
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Yeah, same.

I liked Santos as he looked decent at times but then also had games where he looked average and had a habit of switching off and losing his man. But as you say, we have a whole load of deadwood we need to get rid of before Santos, but then getting rid of said deadwood is probably easier said than done.

 
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What makes you assume Wharton and Lacroix will happen. We haven't even made a bid for them have we?
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We don't get told what happens until it happens. But there's enough noise about Lacroix and Wharton for me, no one else is getting them.

 
A 8 min highlight video isn’t going to sway me in 2026. He could barely get on the pitch under Maresca, I recall one good game against Burnley.

He’d a quick upturn under Rosenior which faded just as quick and then spent the rest of the season rotating between the bench and middling performances.

In an ideal world, he’d be given another season but I do think money constraints means they can’t turn a decent fee for someone who didn’t show too much.
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Not getting on the pitch under Maresca shows that he is actually a good footballer. Maresca was allergic to talent.

 
We don't get told what happens until it happens. But there's enough noise about Lacroix and Wharton for me, no one else is getting them.
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It's going to be hard to get Palace to sell two of their key players. They're a selling club, but they are smart about it. They let one go and usually wait until the next season before they let the other go. They didn't want to sell Guehi, but had no choice because his contract was going to be up at the end of the season.

 
It's going to be hard to get Palace to sell two of their key players. They're a selling club, but they are smart about it. They let one go and usually wait until the next season before they let the other go. They didn't want to sell Guehi, but had no choice because his contract was going to be up at the end of the season.
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With Santos gone, I would rather we get Wharton then Lacroix. Honestly think Wharton would be an upgrade on Santos and he is just the sort of midfielder we are crying out for.

 
Just have to get used to it. BlueCo player trading model is going nowhere.
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This is the thing, they admitted very early on that they like the idea of trading players.

I reckon even if we had just won the league they would still trade players just for the hell of it - and end up making us worse after the transfer window shuts.

 
Yeah, same.

I liked Santos as he looked decent at times but then also had games where he looked average and had a habit of switching off and losing his man. But as you say, we have a whole load of deadwood we need to get rid of before Santos, but then getting rid of said deadwood is probably easier said than done.
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The thing is for me is not so much we are losing the greatest prospect the world has ever seen but he has looked decent.

Strenghtening a "rival" (loose term considering where both teams finished last season) for a relatively low fee compared to what other Premier League teams nowadays sell for isn't smart business IMO.

Worse than that is we have sold our only reliably fit midfielder leaving us with Ussugo and Lavia.

So now we are a Caicedo injury or suspension away from having to use Reece James in midfield, and lets be honest he is frequently injured as well.

 
We are so finished.
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He asked to leave because he knew he wasnt going to start next season and United told him he would.

He's going to be their next Fred.

 
We don't get told what happens until it happens. But there's enough noise about Lacroix and Wharton for me, no one else is getting them.
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Thing with Wharton is there is no incentive to coming to Chelsea. He is already in London, Palace can give him the £150k/w he will get here, they have Europa league next season, and most importantly he isn’t tied into a ridiculous 6yr contract if he wants out.

 
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