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Re: Chelsea Football Club Thread Part II | Welcome, Liam Delap! 

Post#61 » by stormi » Thu May 29, 2025 7:35 pm

Baseline81 wrote:LOL... two weeks ago you were cooling on Delap, and even made a joke to me about Liverpool having to settle for him.

Today, stormi is trying to convince himself Delap will be the "closest thing to Drogba" as one of those tweets says.


Look, there's no point being a Negative Nancy now that he's joined the club.

He has some interesting traits and looked like Edin Džeko at youth level with Palmer and Lavia.

Brings ball striking off both feet, high level ball carrying and seems to have a decent leap, surely he can score some goals for us.
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Re: Chelsea Football Club Thread Part II | Welcome, Liam Delap! 

Post#62 » by stormi » Thu May 29, 2025 7:38 pm

Also seems to have that cひnt factor about him.

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I remember in Enzo's debut season we went to Old Trafford under Lampard and got piped 4-1.

Moment in the game when we were down 3-0, an incident happens around Kepa and Enzo is the only one that steps up and shows any sort of heart while he gets swarmed by red shirts and everyone else walks away. We were limp and defeated and I was sick to my stomach watching it happen.

Another reason why I want(ed) Joao Pedro as well. I want an unlikeable squad with heavy character. Cucurella, Colwill, Lavia, Caicedo, Enzo and Reece James definitely have that competitive tick about them. You aren't winning anything without it.

Khusanov was having a rough debut and Jackson was helping him up and giving him a back pats.

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Delap has some Vardy x Diego Costa psycho within him.
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Re: Chelsea Football Club Thread Part II | Welcome, Liam Delap! 

Post#63 » by Baseline81 » Thu May 29, 2025 7:40 pm

stormi wrote:Look, there's no point being a Negative Nancy now that he's joined the club.

He has some interesting traits and looked like Edin Džeko at youth level with Palmer and Lavia.

Brings ball striking off both feet, high level ball carrying and seems to have a decent leap, surely he can score some goals for us.

I understand what fandom entails, however, you can still be honest about some of the moves your club makes.

For instance, I knew from the start the likes of Balotelli and Lambert were never going to make it.
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Re: Chelsea Football Club Thread Part II | Welcome, Liam Delap! 

Post#64 » by stormi » Thu May 29, 2025 7:45 pm

Baseline81 wrote:
stormi wrote:Look, there's no point being a Negative Nancy now that he's joined the club.

He has some interesting traits and looked like Edin Džeko at youth level with Palmer and Lavia.

Brings ball striking off both feet, high level ball carrying and seems to have a decent leap, surely he can score some goals for us.

I understand what fandom entails, however, you can still be honest about some of the moves your club makes.

For instance, I knew from the start the likes of Balotelli and Lambert were never going to make it.


I've flip flopped on Delap all season, he's not a Jhon Duran or Samu Omorodion level of I saw the talent at first glance and needed them at my club but he's also not someone I'm going to write off before he's kicked a ball for us.

Also another player I've flip flopped on this season.

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It's at the point where I'd pay the £20m to keep him at the club simply for the fact that he looks up when he dribbles. Although I still don't feel like he has the requisite athleticism to be a high end winger in the league, keeping Sancho while expelling the cancers of Madueke and Neto is the correct decision.

Rebuild the winger room from the bottom up and hope and pray that Estevao and Geovany Quenda can be long term solutions for us.
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Re: Chelsea Football Club Thread Part II | Welcome, Liam Delap! 

Post#65 » by stormi » Thu May 29, 2025 10:17 pm

Conspiracy that popped in my head, because I just can't wrap it around signing both Delap and another higher profiled CF with Jackson still kicking about.

We're going to do a PSR deal with Villa for Morgan Rogers.

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a) Strong connection between Nicolas Jackson and Unai Emery

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b) Phasing out of Ollie Watkins

Nearly sold in Jan to Arsenal ++ benched for an OOP Rashford in key games down the stretch incl PSG (H) & (A) in the UCL

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c) Reputable links of tangible interest all season long

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d) Villa's PSR issues continue

Fuelled more intensively by the missing out of UCL football, wage structure is completely broken. I've seen it theorised that they could sell 4-5 players but they might not be interested in gutting the entire squad vs replacing one player they found in the Championship // faith in Monchi



e) Rogers is ex-City

like Palmer, like Lavia, like Tosin, like Delap, like Sancho and like Nico O'Reilly who we tried to get in January. Ties to Joe Shields.


It's a low level conspiracy, but just one I'm keeping my eyes on incase we do sign another striker in the transfer market that would command immediate minutes.
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Re: Chelsea Football Club Thread Part II | Welcome, Liam Delap! 

Post#66 » by stormi » Thu May 29, 2025 10:31 pm

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transfer links go brr

going to take a window hiatus until something is confirmed

competitive football again in only 18 days due to the Club World Cup, makes me exhausted just thinking about it
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Post#67 » by Baseline81 » Thu May 29, 2025 11:38 pm

From what I have read, it appears as if Aston Villa and its GK Martinez will be parting ways. If that happens, the Villains PSR issue will be removed. That's not to say your theory of a swap of Jackson and Rogers doesn't happen...

Note if it does, Chelsea is getting the better end of the deal.
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Post#68 » by Baseline81 » Thu May 29, 2025 11:41 pm

stormi wrote:
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transfer links go brr

going to take a window hiatus until something is confirmed

competitive football again in only 18 days due to the Club World Cup, makes me exhausted just thinking about it

I could certainly see a scenario where the one remaining of Ekitike and Pedro (after Chelsea has signed one) could be in play, depending on the price, for Liverpool.

There have been Pedro links to LFC. As you know, I do not believe he's the goal-scoring forward the club needs. If Wirtz wasn't an option, I may have been more open to such a transfer.
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Post#69 » by Baseline81 » Thu May 29, 2025 11:51 pm

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Post#70 » by stormi » Thu May 29, 2025 11:58 pm

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stormi wrote:
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transfer links go brr

going to take a window hiatus until something is confirmed

competitive football again in only 18 days due to the Club World Cup, makes me exhausted just thinking about it

I could certainly see a scenario where the one remaining of Ekitike and Pedro (after Chelsea has signed one) could be in play, depending on the price, for Liverpool.

There have been Pedro links to LFC. As you know, I do not believe he's the goal-scoring forward the club needs. If Wirtz wasn't an option, I may have been more open to such a transfer.


Pedro's all around game might be attractive to a club like Liverpool that want the share of production all across the front-line. Especially with Wirtz coming in and Salah there, JP would do a lot of the dirty work and link play.
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Post#71 » by stormi » Fri May 30, 2025 12:05 am

Baseline81 wrote:From what I have read, it appears as if Aston Villa and its GK Martinez will be parting ways. If that happens, the Villains PSR issue will be removed. That's not to say your theory of a swap of Jackson and Rogers doesn't happen...

Note if it does, Chelsea is getting the better end of the deal.


Will take multiple sales.

Bailey and Martinez minimum (both linked to Saudi) and that isn't factoring in the fact that Villa need to also add quality & buy a replacement keeper as priority if Dibu goes. They relied heavily on desperation loan talent to bring them back into the UCL conversation during the second half of the season.

Infeasible that they could reinforce without an impact sale like Rogers or a Jacob Ramsey that would give them wiggle room to strengthen a depleted squad.

Just my hypothesis.
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Re: Chelsea Football Club (II) | Welcome, Liam Delap! 

Post#72 » by stormi » Sat May 31, 2025 7:14 am

My king.



Don't need or want another striker, unless you're talking a second striker hybrid. I want Delap starting MW1, let Jackson fight for his spot and then ship him out summer of 2026 if it's stagnant or he fails to impress.

Don't need more than three signings on top of Delap. Especially with all of the returning loanees.

Winger, CB, Cucurella back-up.
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Post#73 » by Baseline81 » Sat May 31, 2025 3:54 pm

stormi wrote:My king.



Don't need or want another striker, unless you're talking a second striker hybrid. I want Delap starting MW1, let Jackson fight for his spot and then ship him out summer of 2026 if it's stagnant or he fails to impress.

Don't need more than three signings on top of Delap. Especially with all of the returning loanees.

Winger, CB, Cucurella back-up.

Nigerian pop star Peter Okoye (Psquare) has assured Chelsea fans that he and Super Eagles legend John Obi Mikel are still working behind the scenes to bring Victor Osimhen to Stamford Bridge, following the striker’s historic season at Galatasaray.

Dear @ChelseaFC fans, last summer, both @mikel_john_obi and I made every effort to secure the signing of @victorosimhen9 for Chelsea, including engaging in a three-way call right up until the transfer deadline. I want to reassure all of you that we remain steadfast in our pursuit and will continue our efforts this summer. Fingers crossed.

https://www.pulsesports.ng/football/story/fingers-crossed-psquare-promises-chelsea-fans-hes-working-with-super-eagles-icon-mikel-obi-to-get-osimhen-2025053109594201873
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Post#74 » by stormi » Sat May 31, 2025 5:31 pm

Baseline81 wrote:
stormi wrote:My king.



Don't need or want another striker, unless you're talking a second striker hybrid. I want Delap starting MW1, let Jackson fight for his spot and then ship him out summer of 2026 if it's stagnant or he fails to impress.

Don't need more than three signings on top of Delap. Especially with all of the returning loanees.

Winger, CB, Cucurella back-up.

Nigerian pop star Peter Okoye (Psquare) has assured Chelsea fans that he and Super Eagles legend John Obi Mikel are still working behind the scenes to bring Victor Osimhen to Stamford Bridge, following the striker’s historic season at Galatasaray.

Dear @ChelseaFC fans, last summer, both @mikel_john_obi and I made every effort to secure the signing of @victorosimhen9 for Chelsea, including engaging in a three-way call right up until the transfer deadline. I want to reassure all of you that we remain steadfast in our pursuit and will continue our efforts this summer. Fingers crossed.

https://www.pulsesports.ng/football/story/fingers-crossed-psquare-promises-chelsea-fans-hes-working-with-super-eagles-icon-mikel-obi-to-get-osimhen-2025053109594201873


Honoured that his dream is to play for my club, but Osimhen and his cronies can stay far FAR away.

Way too much noise and drama around his name. Not the right dynamic for the youngest squad in PL history.
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Post#75 » by stormi » Sat May 31, 2025 11:14 pm

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Post#76 » by Baseline81 » Sun Jun 1, 2025 12:12 am

stormi,

Found this an interesting watch. In it, Ben Jacobs discusses Chelsea's transfer plans.

He states, despite reports in Germany that the Blues are proceeding with Ekitike, it's not his understanding. He's a target, but now with Delap signed, they'll pause and focus on a right-footed LW. Also claims there's a lot of games going on in Germany. Frankfurt wants €100m and is trying to drum up a bidding war between Chelsea and Liverpool to get maximum valuation.

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Post#77 » by stormi » Sun Jun 1, 2025 5:50 am

Baseline81 wrote:stormi,

Found this an interesting watch. In it, Ben Jacobs discusses Chelsea's transfer plans.

He states, despite reports in Germany that the Blues are proceeding with Ekitike, it's not his understanding. He's a target, but now with Delap signed, they'll pause and focus on a right-footed LW. Also claims there's a lot of games going on in Germany. Frankfurt wants €100m and is trying to drum up a bidding war between Chelsea and Liverpool to get maximum valuation.



Ben Jacobs is a serial waffla, his name and/or his opinions are hereby BANNED from my thread going forward.

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Post#78 » by Baseline81 » Mon Jun 2, 2025 11:58 am

Apparently, even Boehly won't pay the fee Frankfurt is asking.

Chelsea like Eintracht Frankfurt’s Hugo Ekitike but see him as too expensive at £84m.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/02/chelsea-weighing-up-50m-bid-for-borussia-dortmund-jamie-gittens
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Post#79 » by stormi » Tue Jun 3, 2025 1:42 am

Baseline81 wrote:Apparently, even Boehly won't pay the fee Frankfurt is asking.

Chelsea like Eintracht Frankfurt’s Hugo Ekitike but see him as too expensive at £84m.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/jun/02/chelsea-weighing-up-50m-bid-for-borussia-dortmund-jamie-gittens


We're not Liverpool, constantly overpaying agents and desperate to break world record transfer fees every third window or so.
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Post#80 » by Baseline81 » Tue Jun 3, 2025 12:29 pm

stormi wrote:We're not Liverpool, constantly overpaying agents and desperate to break world record transfer fees every third window or so.

Hmm... let's see who was first, shall we?

You guessed it... Chelsea.

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