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Benoît Badiashile joins Chelsea

I’m a fan

also had him on fm in a Stoke City game where I only conceded 8 goals in a Championship season, he was brilliant 

 
drjonesy1994 said:
Glad I’m not the only one who uses FM as a judge of how good a player is 😂
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It was in the 2019 version and he was still only 17 or 18, and you could get him from Monaco for around 5 million pounds and he would always turn into a top defender 

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This is 2020

 
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Do we trust our scouts or BordeuxBlue? Cos he wasn't impressed.

 
mwblue10 said:
Todd and team must think they’ve figured something out there. From a financial standpoint it makes sense. Buy young promising players, who may be expensive, but amortize it out over 6-7 year contracts. FFP is probably not even an afterthought with that model.

When you factor in that the contracts are also reportedly performance incentivized then I think that limits the downside for Chelsea if the player doesn’t pan out. If they don’t perform, their pay doesn’t increase and that makes them easier to offload later in the contract.
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Everyone seems to be forgetting what happens if a player on a long term contract, & a fat contract turns out to be a bust like Bakayoko or Sarr. 
 

Hypothetically you sign Badiashile for £35m and you give him a 7yr contract, bump his wages from £10k/w to £90k/w (we all know Boehly loves flashing the cash). If he is a success, you will only need to amortise £5m on the books annually. Now if he is a bust, you are screwed. You will need someone to either take him off your hands or keep loaning him out hoping he improves enough to be brought back into the team, or you can sell him. The problem with loaning him out is you need someone to pay at least a £5m loan fee, & cover all or a large chunk of his fat £90k/w wages. 
 

Now apply that to  a £120m player on a 6yr contract who you have bumped his wages from £40k/w to £200k/w. We just need to pray none of them is a bust.

 
Not watched much, but not a big fan. Very raw, looks like he has an erratic mistake in him, however Saliba has transitioned well at arsenal, so hopefully so can Badiashille. Not better than Colwill for me though.

 
I suppose we can move this to general now. Welcome Benoit, never heard of you before you were linked to us. Which is a good thing following our track record of signing big names and them being underwhelming. 

My predication (or perhaps more hoping) he will be a good signing, perhaps helping us play closer to what Potter wants whether that's a mix of a back 3 or 4. Or a flat 4 moving forwards

 
Good luck to him but at this rate it won't be the least bit surprising if Colwill goes on and develops far better. 

Just seems the way things are going. 

 
For a 21 year old left footed CB i really don't understand why we haven't used the money elsewhere and just used Colwill though. The planning by us is beyond ridiculous.

I imagine on the back of this either Colwill or Koulibaly leaves in summer. My money is that we're stuck with KK though.

 
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