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Benoît Badiashile joins Chelsea

SydneyChelsea said:
Keen to see how he'll go. We don't have anyone remotely aerially dominant (it's Koulibaly's surprisingly big weakness), so Badashile could be a huge boon. 

I think Gvardiol is a good defender but I'm unconvinced he offers anything different to Fofana and co.
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According to @BordeauxBluehe is so incompetent he can barley tie his own shoelaces so don't get your hopes up.

 
Oh I like this one!  He has pace to burn and physically the game is easy to him.  In the above clip he has all the time in the world on the ball, as lets face it PSG forwards have no interest in pressing.  But he seems composed - perhaps the one we should have gone for in the summer over Koulibaly. 

 
So he’s another central defender, is that right? Presumably a long term replacement for Sliva/Koulibaly. 

 
We have to replace Silva.   Great to give this guy half a season to ease in. Potentially Benny, Fof, Trev, koulibaly, and Colvill for 2-3 spots. 

 
Agreement made with Monaco Benoit will join us for around £30-35m. From the sounds of this lad he might be a real gem. I'm glad we're going for a name less known it's about time we found someone instead of signing the usual household names that eventually flop.

 
Luca Vialli said:
I'm guessing we've lost Gvardiol to another team if this one is happening so quickly?
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The prioritization is Enzo Fernandez getting the bulk of our funds for this fiscal year. Gvardiol, now after the World Cup, is priced in the 9 digits. 

Stewart and Vivell are confident in Badiashile's abilities to translate into the Prem. Something avid Ligue 1 supporters disagree with, but I suppose this will be a testament to how good our new recruitment team is. 

 
He does have 106 Ligue 1 performances under his belt, and a total of 147 senior career starts.  It makes you wonder why another PL team has not snapped him up already, but the French do have a habit of turning out some very good young defenders.  Fingers crossed he is the next and adapts to the PL well. 

 
“BREAKING: Benoît Badiashile to Chelsea, here we go and confirmed! Full agreement with AS Monaco for €38m fee, add-ons are included 🚨🔵 #CFC

French centre back will complete his medical tests on Monday — he’ll sign contract until June 2029.”
 

6.5 year deal. Let’s hope he turns out good otherwise we’re stuck with him. 

 
That is the problem with these long contracts. If the player doesn’t work out then we’re lumbered with them. 

 
JM7 said:
“BREAKING: Benoît Badiashile to Chelsea, here we go and confirmed! Full agreement with AS Monaco for €38m fee, add-ons are included 🚨🔵 #CFC

French centre back will complete his medical tests on Monday — he’ll sign contract until June 2029.”
 

6.5 year deal. Let’s hope he turns out good otherwise we’re stuck with him. 
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Todd loves 7 year contracts huh

 
Sconnie Blue said:
Helps with FFP. 

For Badiashile, £5m is only accounted on the books as a transfer expense for 2023. 
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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.

 
Luca Vialli said:
I'm guessing we've lost Gvardiol to another team if this one is happening so quickly?
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Getting Gvardiol is not guaranteed especially after his performances at the WC. Expect city or madrid to lump big money for him if they fail to win the league this season. We've learned from last season when we went into panic mode and spent 140 mill combined on Cucu and Fofana because we didn't act in time to replace Rudiger and Christensen. 

 
PhilH930 said:
He does have 106 Ligue 1 performances under his belt, and a total of 147 senior career starts.  It makes you wonder why another PL team has not snapped him up already, but the French do have a habit of turning out some very good young defenders.  Fingers crossed he is the next and adapts to the PL well. 
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Probably why other PL sides did not touch Baka....

Just see what @BordeauxBluehas said of him. If he is right this won't be a good move. Hopefully the normally very reliable BB is well off the mark here.

 
Nick05 said:
Getting Gvardiol is not guaranteed especially after his performances at the WC. Expect city or madrid to lump big money for him if they fail to win the league this season. We've learned from last season when we went into panic mode and spent 140 mill combined on Cucu and Fofana because we didn't act in time to replace Rudiger and Christensen. 
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Yea, it’s quite mad how mistakes from the Roman era got repeated within a few months of the new ownership. The Fofana deal is a carbon copy of the Kepa deal, panic, insane fee and lack of due diligence. 

 
ozboy said:
Other than being fit and available to play, and proven at International level. Fofana so far is a total and literal crock. Hope he comes good of course, but no longer counting on it.
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He was likely crocked by our mismanagement so we only have ourselves to blame.

Proven at international level means nothing. International football is lower Championship quality at best, despite its profile. 

 
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