Tom

His goalscoring numbers are good at Newcastle don’t get me wrong but he’s had a fair amount of muscular injuries and is nowhere near the goalscorer Haaland or Kane are.

Does anyone else think that this entire saga has led to Isak becoming pretty overrated?

Do not even go there

Chelsea should use the gap in quality between us and 5th right now to give players like Josh, Hato and BB a chance to be the Colwill solution. No point spending that money on Hato, keeping Badiashile, or giving Josh that contract if you aren’t going to use them in these moments.

The best course of action is just disrupt the narrative that’s in their head about it

Chelsea might need to eventually kick up a fuss about how Caicedo is reffed. The amount of times he gets called for a foul on good tackles is stupid. If you kick up a fuss, refs might be hesitant with him.

This gives you an excuse to get Guehi and then move on someone next summer

The gap between us and 5th after this transfer window is too big to dip into the market if Colwill is out long term. Just put some trust in BB and look at is as an opportunity to give Hato more PL mins than he was going to get.

If Jackson goes there with the football they play and Amorim hasn’t somehow built a magical wall in the middle of United’s midfield, I’d bet good money Jackson outscores him whilst also obviously getting more assists.

People on twitter telling me it just means they're good finishers

If Newcastle end up with Jackson because they’ve lost out on Sesko they’ve literally fallen upwards

Why should this ownership doing something the last one did remove the ability to criticise? I don’t understand

All this talk of transfers, winning and stats makes some people lose sight of the non-football ways to build connections with your club. Jackson is a flawed but great player and a great person. I want great people representing Chelsea, not just great players.

I’d love to know which brainiac is okay with going into a UCL season with Delap and Pedro as our only CF options

A quick summary of my problem with online football discussion. I’m being told by a historically positive Chelsea account that I can’t be critical of the KDH and Felix deals because “we achieved our goals” this season. You’re always accused of an internal bias instead of listened to.

The whole selling Gallagher and signing him and Felix is very high up on the list of business I’ve hated the most

From a more of a selfish perspective I desperately hope this is the last summer where we have a billion players to sell. Not even that it’s awkward because it ain’t my job, I’m just bored of the half the Chelsea transfer conversation being about outgoings.

You may as well try and loan him to see how he develops with considerable league minutes imo

There were guys on X who had him in GW1 lineups btw

(I have no idea about any regs about buy back clauses and whether they tie into fair market value, feel free to enlighten me)

I wonder how much of a pisstake those buy back clauses are

I wonder if football does anything about Saudi? Can’t imagine FIFA will (obviously). This isn’t just a Chelsea thing. They’re overpaying for everyone. They’ve waltz into the game and given every club a get out of jail card for all their bad signings.

We’re making profit on him ong

I’ve always been a big fan of this Mendes guy

Over the last two seasons, Jackson has 24 npg. That’s the same as Cole Palmer in like 700 less minutes, and more than Pedro and Delap combined. If Ekitike is 67 rising to 80 with add one. Jackson is worth the same amount.

I think there is a part here where Liverpool are just above everyone in the way they think. Every team was probably alerted to the 2 years left zone he’ll be in next summer, but Liverpool just went for it now. Very jealous of how they operate.

It’s that thing of going early that’s gonna cause frustration when most of the time it’s ideal you go early. If they don’t spend all this money, we probably have a say here if we can outbid Liverpool.

Hughes and Edwards have their masterpiece if they get Isak done

Chelsea need to stop resetting loyalty points every season. None of the countless games I’ve been to over the last few years matter because the first game of the season is a free for all between the hundreds of thousands that bought memberships.

I’m quite empathetic towards the fact that it’s hard to make a ticketing system that’s not completely infuriating, but this has to be worse than before?