I think bajcetic should do with a few mars bars too. Some kids look like grown men at 16 or 17 and fizzle out early and some look so skinny.
remember seeing Tom Huddlestones debut for Derby and calling "bollocks" when the commentator said he was 16
Very smart, lovely lad. Good footballer who didn't quite make it so chose a different route which is just as much a part in the modern game. I'm sure you're not going to denigrate it, or him.
Half the kids seem to have loans lining up as well like Chambers to Wigan or mcconnell to hull or danns to Plymouth. It'll be interesting to see what's left as a 25 man squad by the season start.
Superb little footballer. Slot was impressed with him but sees him as needing to grow more physically before he's ready for the PL.
It's time again to discuss the thing chelsea seem to think doesn't actually affect them No not ffp, the actual rules of the premier leavue and uefa champions league, namely the 25 man squad 17 foreign players over 21 4 club trained players over 21 (cl only) 4 association trained plauers over 21. foregn players 1. Alisson 2. Robertson 3. van dijk 4. Konate 5. tsimikas 6. Endo 7. Macallister 8. Gravenberch 9. szoboszlai 10. Diaz 11. Gakpo 12. Jota 13. Nunez 14. Salah 15. 16. 17. Association players 1. Carvalho 2. Pitaliga? 3 4 club trained 1. kelleher (right now) 2. jaros* ( I think he makes this) 3. Trent 4. Jones 5. Van den Berg ( start to see the issue?) 6. gomez U21. Elliott, bajcetic, quansah, bradley, davies Real. Kids, McConnell, danns, koumas,.Gordon, nyoni, nallo.(not.even sure some.of these meet the rules for b list in Europe due to time at club surplus: Williams Phillips Beck Morton (now over age so would have to be registered as senior player) So this looks like we have space to sign 3 foreign players and will be thinking about culling hg numbers a little as Elliott and Bradley will graduate to seniors soon We have lost adrian, matip and thiago so this explains the scope for more foreign bodies. Unfortunately for morton he might get this season if very lucky but he's in direct competition for a squad place with 3 real senior options in quansah, bradley and Elliott in future years. I think a lot of our young players (not kids) are being judged by their ability to full in the b list or if they are over the threshold and are being seen as seniors. Trent, kelleher, Jones and gomez are the real seniors. Next year bradley, quansah and Elliott will all join them so we are rammed full of club trained players and some inevitably fall out then. Now there's no maximum that says you can only have 8 but it just goes to show how things are going. When you look through the squad now and see endo and tsimikas they really stick out like sore thumbs and you have to start questioning if the club should carry those types or carry morton amd carvalho types forward. The 17 players max really must be the very very best you can muster if you want to compete imo.
No excuses unlike last year. It was obvious at a certain point we couldn't buy unless someonw left then. Now there's a fairly clear ability to buy the right player if they become available. Gk alisson, kelleher, jaros, pitaluga, davies Rb: trent, bradley Lb: Robertson, tsimiaks (needs work now) Rcb: quansah, konate, gomez Lcb: vvd van den Berg (hmmm) Cm x2: Endo, bajcetic, macca, Jones, gravenberch, morton, McConnell. (Balance issues) Acm/10: szoboszlai, Elliott. Lw: gakpo, diaz carvalho (2 of these are hitting real top career form) St: nunez, Jota Rw: salah (same old issue here) We need a top midfielder to go with macca, maybe one will step up bit it won't be endo. We might have an issue shortly at lb. We will have an issue at rw shortly, we all know it. We probably have an issue shortly at lcb. The work never stops. There's a real opportunity for young players to grab a shirt and a real opportunoty to just go really target class. We simply don't need another endo or another tsimikas.
Talk of a 6 coming in from outside the PL so there's one spot filled. Angelo Stiller been mentioned. I think Hughes has good contacts in Italy, possibly Spain and Portugal too. Calafiori sounded a good fit but think he's going to Arsenal.
Only seen 45 minutes of him, in the euro final when he replaced Rodri, Very little to go off tbf, but they did not miss Rodri.
Updated. The war chest has been updated. I make it 27.5mil now. Anyone know what the compensation for slot was?
So we should knock off that much from the transfer fund too. I presume all of the ex coaches resigned and got no golden handshakes but we won't know for a while
