Lako42
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Not really a glowing endorsement. Hence him being worth £50m despite not being that good.
Like I say, if he was Portuguese nobody would be impressed with Chilwell, he wouldn't be on any top 6 teams radar.
Confirmed Transfer Chilwell to Chelsea
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Not really a glowing endorsement. Hence him being worth £50m despite not being that good.
Like I say, if he was Portuguese nobody would be impressed with Chilwell, he wouldn't be on any top 6 teams radar.
FOX Franks
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Where have Chelsea suddenly got the big bucks from anyway, weren’t they supposed to be building a new ground or something?
FOX Franks
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I mean it’s not peanuts is it really. Name another left back who has sold for similar?
Blue Maniac
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Alan Rogers cost about that didn’t he?
full backs in the same ball park. Shaw £30m 6 yrs ago which is easily £50m now, Mendy £52m, Wan Bissaka £45m.
Blue Maniac
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Especially if you’re comparing their relative Portugueseness. Ricardo miles ahead.
Graz
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We would've got a hell of a lot more for Kante if he hadn't had a release clause.
Chilwell is better than Maguire IMO but centre back and Maguire's profile and World Cup I think drove that fee up.
popillius
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I don't understand this 'Chilwell is better than Maguire' nonsense. At what? Tiddlywinks? Car shitting? He certainly isn't in the same universe as Maguire in terms of being able to actually defend. He may be better going forward but that's incomparable because Maguire is a centre back and his job is to defend not run up the pitch with the ball before failing to do anything productive with it. Some might say that defending should be Chilwell's primary job as well; Chilwell obviously disagreed.
big_mac4824
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Hopefully we will see new signings shortly I wish him well. How many players have we made a loss on over the past 5 years? I think we have made more on our players than we have lost?
Blue Maniac
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Imagine how much better off we’d be if we hadn’t spent all that money on Slimani, Musa, Kapustka, Ward, Silva, Benković, Kramarić etc. We could afford to give Matty James a nice 50-year contract extension.
FOX Franks
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I think we’re understating the impact of this, folks. Losing Chilwell isn’t going to have a positive impact on squad morale and there aren’t many other excellent options out there.
This is going to be hard work.
Chilwell may not be perfect but he has definitely improved.
This is going to be hard work.
Chilwell may not be perfect but he has definitely improved.
popillius
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Time will tell. Chelsea may suffer more than we do.
Joe_Fox
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I wonder who Maddison will room with now? It was obvious "our" Ben and Madders were close, so maybe it will unsettle "our" J-Madz more than most. Vulnerable target now transfer wise, so good that he just signed a new contract in terms of getting a decent price if he does get picked up by one of the "big" boys like Manure or Chelski.
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Blue Maniac
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Jesus Christ
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