January Transfers 2023 (All I Want For Christmas is….)

[nine nine nine]

Chelsea have announced the signing of Benoit Badiashile with the centre-back arriving in a £35m deal from Monaco after signing a 7-and-a-half-year contract.

Less than a £5m pa spend re FFP.😊

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[Mikus LFC]

Some long contracts being offered now. Is part of this to now help stay within FFP?

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[Chucky McChuckface]

Long (and even longer contracts) are common in baseball/basketball… protects the clubs investment longer (and in our case this side of the pond, also helps navigate FFP).

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[Luckydestiny]

Yeah that exactly what it’s about mikus, as well as locking the player down it allows a longer period for the fee to be amortised over. From accounting point of view it makes sense even without FFP I suppose but it certainly will help meet FFP criteria (which is over rolling 3 years) to have fees spread over 6 plus years.

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[Editor]

Chelsea fans, thoughts on Felix? I find it a bit strange to be honest. The only reason I can see that they would pay the £15mil it will cost for him for half a season is that it’s a last throw of the dice for a CL spot. Otherwise, I’m left wondering what the point is. As there’s no buy option, it’s not a “try before you buy” scenario. Half a good season there and he’s going to either:

1. Cost a lot of money to buy (seeing as he just renewed) or
2. He’s going to have his pick of CL clubs if he doesn’t want to go back to Atletico

If it’s a last throw of the dice for a CL spot, I get it. The fee could be paid back by future CL earnings and it becomes justified. That looks a stretch though currently and makes it a huge gamble. A gamble that arguably doesn’t fill the weakness in the squad which is scoring goals.

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[Luckydestiny]

Yeah it’s a surprise Ed, due to how similar he is in profile to most of our forward players especially havertz its hard to justify the expense but to he honest mount, havertz, ziyech, pulisic etc while all similar to felix in terms of preferred role and position,have all been very poor, and so this is trying to improve that problem not necessarily the goal scorer problem.

15m I presume is fee and wages which for half a season is extortionate, but it’s only the fee I have issue with, the term of the loan and the player himself I have no issue with to be honest, I could do with a bleeding break from havertz!

We obviously need goals but you need chances before you get goals, havertz and mount are not quick enough to see the whole picture in between the lines and they are killing us in transition.

We have so many problem’s I personally don’t care about the order in which we try to solve them, but again not too impressed with the agreed loan fee.

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[nine nine nine]

CL qualification has gone imo but Felix’s creativity could lift Chelsea up the PL.

All we need is a 30 goal a season striker alongside him now.😊

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[Adlab]

Mixed feelings about Felix. Can be brilliant and sometimes completely anonymous. But based on what I have seen from Chelsea in the last week I think he would be a useful addition but a very expensive one.

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[Editor]

I think he’ll be decent. I just wonder what the point is in getting an expensive stop gap when there is little to gain from it beyond a slightly higher league position, assuming they indeed have given up on a CL place. Wouldn’t promoting a young striker be more beneficial as there’s a potential benefit in the longer term, unlike the Felix deal?

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[Luckydestiny]

Ed, a lot of Chelsea fans have no faith on Potter and are making it known, the media has, by overwhelming majority, already decided he is doomed. Only bring it up because the only way to stop it getting very nasty before end of season is to improve performances and results. Only other way to avert it is sacking potter but that would lead to greater issues for this season.

Lots of reasons boehly to want to strengthen squad as much as possible this window even if he has already given up on top 4, which I would advise to do if he hasn’t already 😀

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[Luckydestiny]

“Wouldn’t promoting a young striker be more beneficial as there’s a potential benefit in the longer term, unlike the Felix deal?”

Not if there are no chances being created and the players picking the ball up between lines are unable to find the striker.

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[Editor]

This is very similar to what I’ve been saying. What exactly is a “winning scenario” from this move?

As fantastic as Joao Felix could be, I can understand Manchester United not making this loan move. It’s peak Ed Woodward. There is no winning scenario for Chelsea. If he bombs, they will have spent almost 15/20m on nothing. If he succeeds and finds his scoring form, great in the

— Chris Winterburn (@cmwinterburn) January 10, 2023

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[Editor]

If I was a Chelsea fan, I obviously wouldn’t be bothered. He’s potentially better than what is there so it’s irrelevant that it likely won’t pay off in monetary terms. I just can’t see any financial sense to the move but it will be interesting to see how he gets on. Had tons of promise as a youngster.

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[steveosnakeeye]

Another overrated player and glad he went to Chelsea rather than us

Chelsea seen to be using the expensive scatter gun approach to buys snd bohly is doing what we all thought Newcastle would do 🤣

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[Luckydestiny]

Simon Jordan made a good point,

Wages are wages so put them to one side as if a player is going to play for you then you’re going to pay the wages,

So now there is a 9m loan fee which seems huge for 6 months,

However if you bought a 80m player on a 5 year contract then that’s effectively 8m for every 6 months of the contract.

Sure if he is great we will be gutted not to have buy option, but if he is not we cut our ties having paid pro rata for 6 months

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[nine nine nine]

Getting Chelsea up the League has to be the main objective Felix is a quality player and won’t do us any harm in that direction. Chelsea have the 4th best defensive record in the PL creating chances and scoring goals is the problem Felix could certainly help out with the creating side of that. I’m not worried about the £9m loan fee and who knows what might happen at the end of the season. Once we have one or two of the transfers bedded in ( still 20 days to go too)and we have Chilwell and James back and possibly at some stage Kante we could be looking at a very different Chelsea.

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[threeps]

Will Felix fit the Chelsea system? You’ll soon have him and Havetz and neither are strikers, and then at the end of season they swap Felix for Nkunku who again isn’t a striker.

I wanted either Felix or Nkunku at Liverpool to take over the Firmino role before we got Nunez. But Liverpool have goal scoring wide players and at least used to press which a forward dropping onto midfield helps with.

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[Luckydestiny]

Thats pretty much spot on threeps.

I am almost sure he will be played as a 10 or false nine. Now if he does that role better than havertz or mount can then that would obviously represent an improvement from whst we have now, however as you rightly point out he needs those ahead of him to be able to take advantage of any chances he can provide and be making the types ofvruns to enable it also.

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[sean the sailor]

Felix is a huge upgrade on what chelsea have a minute. Team is in total transition. Mad injuries.

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[Luckydestiny]

Hope so Sean 🤞

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