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Welcome Lesley Ugochukwu

We seem to be signing some good young players, so I'm confident Les will be decent too. 

Still not entirely comfortable with spending so much on loan players, while we have holes in our squad anyway. 

Would rather have a top keeper, and a partner for Enzo than 3 or 4 players tearing up in a different league on loan.

 
big blue said:
CHO is on massive wages with 12 months left. We either sell him cheap, or try get more money and the have to subsidise his wages for a season. 
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I find it baffling Fulham are in for him. Cannot see him delivering for them 

 
Zeta said:
We are spending so much on these random players. 20m here, 25m there. It adds up. 
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Certainly does. Probably holding firm on a longer term strategy that some come thru and others have good resale value. 

 
This is the long term project the club wanted so the sooner fans accept that the easier it will be for you ladies and gents. 

I rather this than spending what is considered standard amount of money now for us whenever we go in for a half decent player who’s had one good season. Every clubs wants £65+ million now from us.
Didn’t some fans always moan why we aren’t finding uncut diamonds yet when the club does try and do that some fans are moaning.

I could only imagine the uproar had we signed Kante from France he would’ve stood a chance with some fans.

 
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could be the next Camavinga

Rennes youth academy is excellent 

 
Gordon Bennett said:
Or we sell him for what he's worth and don't subsidise his wages. £15m fee is reasonable. 
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Teams are bidding £4m. You might think he is worth £15m, but if no one is prepared to pay that, especially if teams are having to offer him slightly higher wages, then that is his price. 

I'm sure the club would love £15m for him!

 
TheCeleryKing said:
Chelsea have agreed a deal to sign Rennes midfielder Lesley Ugochukwu. The deal is for a permanent signing. Chelsea have reached an agreement worth around €27.5m for the 19-year-old. A medical is scheduled for the next 24 hours.
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probably paid in 27 years 

 
The only reason we are payingso much for him now is that he would be one of the two DMs we want in Chelsea first team squad. Maybe a back up to Caicedo if we get him or anyone else. No way we are spending so much on a player we would loan to Strasbourg. Either that or his ceiling is so high that we are prepared to pay a premium on him now than to risk waiting until he has a breakout season and prices beyond our reach

 
d-one said:
The only reason we are payingso much for him now is that he would be one of the two DMs we want in Chelsea first team squad. Maybe a back up to Caicedo if we get him or anyone else. No way we are spending so much on a player we would loan to Strasbourg. Either that or his ceiling is so high that we are prepared to pay a premium on him now than to risk waiting until he has a breakout season and prices beyond our reach
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to be fair Santos and Casadei have proven to be great talents and have significantly risen in value since we bought them. 

 
WhiteWall said:
It does make me laugh that we view our guys as emerging talent specialists finding all of these pearls in the back of beyond. We're paying 20m- 30m a time on unproven kids that haven't even played real senior football. Of course we are signingbtgem, we're paying 10m more than anyone else is interested in paying
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Well, signing this guy might mean that we might not be able to sign Caicedo, he might be our alternative. Moreso, the reason we are going so far to Rennes, and not allowing everybody to know about the players we want to sign is because our rivals will all of a sudden be interested in the players we want, and they may buy the player with more money. 

So, it's best not to make too much noise about the player we want to buy. Every player is costly in the market today, so no need to be complaining about the amount we buy players.

The only problem is the amount we sell our own players. It's all partly due to the attitude of Chelsea fans. I read here someone saying he doesn't think CHO will play well for Fulham. Even Willian said he wants CHO to come to Fulham because he is a good player. When you do not support your players all through the season, and you say they are not good, you are going to sell them at cheap prices.

So we shouldn't come here and be complaining that we sell our players cheaply.

 
WhiteWall said:
Okay, so the counter argument to that is who are we outbidding then. This latest signing played in 26 matches last season in Ligue 1. 1,328 minutes. His Trasfermrkt value is stating €9m. These figures are always low, but we paid what €25m. Apparently there were other clubs interested, Apparently. Did anyone else bid for him?
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To be fair we didn't even know that Chelsea were interested him until today and now he's signed. As someone else mentioned Transfermarkt valuations aren't exactly reliable, Colwill is valued at €35m on there and that wouldn't be enough to buy his left leg.

 
big blue said:
We seem to be signing some good young players, so I'm confident Les will be decent too. 

Still not entirely comfortable with spending so much on loan players, while we have holes in our squad anyway. 

Would rather have a top keeper, and a partner for Enzo than 3 or 4 players tearing up in a different league on loan.
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This. 

 
If West Ham & Brighton were circling this guy then the fee makes sense, I suppose if we don’t land Caicedo, Ugochukwu gets a baptism of fire in his place, rather than going out on loan. Part of me does want to replicate the way City back down from deals when it gets too high but.. we are not exactly in City’s position of strength and subsequently the position to act in that way… (in regards to Caicedo).

 
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Just been watching a highlights video on YouTube and it seems to be half full with fouls. This is in the French league.

 
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