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and also when I read this news about the dismissal of tuchel and the hiring of Graham Potter, I even thought: "why didn't they choose another coach?" but then I started to think better and I think the logic behind this hiring is in the fact that Graham Potter knows the premier league, he has experience playing against all premier league teams so it's easier for him to pick up chelsea and be able to create a good strategy to get good results because he knows all the premier league teams and the fact that he left well in a premier league team is already a good thing. whereas if they had hired an outside coach who is not a coach of a premier league team he would have had difficulties to adapt immediately


if they hadn't fired tuchel then chelsea would be losing points constantly, look at last season, you could clearly see that chelsea was going downhill, and this season things haven't changed, on the contrary things just got worse in a way so close that they stayed no more control, I think it was the right decision

In the coming window we shall see if Chelsea still have interest in getting Ronaldo to wear the blue shirts. Ronaldo is aged now but I still have much faith in him and believe with the right environment and right energy around him he still has a season or two to perform and I also believe he will improve the squad and strengthen Chelsea's attack especially now that they have Aubameyang and Sterling in the team.

Man United always buy players at too high a price, so it's not the first time I've seen Man United buy players too expensive. Harry Maguire and
Jadon Sancho are other examples of players Manchester United bought for too high a price. Antony is indeed a good player, it is proven that
Antony made a big contribution when he played at Ajax. But the price of 100 million euros is too expensive for Antony, I agree with you Antony
should be 50 million euros. That's because Man United's management moved slowly at the start of the transfer market this summer,
Man United started to be very active at the end of the transfer market when it was about to close.

Whereas since the arrival of the Ten Hag, actually Ten Hag has entered Antony's name in the list of players he wants, but Man United's management
only moved when the transfer market was about to close. So it's only natural that Ajax raised Antony's price very high, even though I believe that
if Man United made an offer for Antony at the beginning of the transfer market, Ajax would release Antony at a price of around 50 million euros.
Man United were too focused on chasing De Jong at the start of the summer transfer window this year, which in the end they failed to get De Jong.

I doubt if Chelsea will have interest to sign christiano Ronaldo  after signing Aubameyang. Ronaldo will cost Chelsea more to buy. Aubameyang is a good striker that Chelsea can really on,  but if Chelsea still have interest of signing Ronaldo it will also be nice to have two good strikers in the team, I know Ronaldo will appreciate the offer to leave Manchester United because that has been what he  is craving for.
The sack of Tuchel was a shock to Chelsea fans, Chelsea made a wrong decision to sack him.

Its just a silly transfer though. Im not saying that Antony is a bad transfer but the amount is just silly, he is not worth more than 50 for sure. Ajax is literally trying to hike as high as they can because they know Ten Hag will sign him whatever the cost and business wise, Ajax did a great job though. Its interesting that he scored on his debut though but being consistent is totally the main point of signing a 100 million player

Cheapest because he had a releasing clause, also his price is way higher than 60m if you consider the fee.

the price for him was

Haaland 75 million for the release clause
plus 10 bonus
plus 30 million fees to agents...

For a total of 115m€ way far from the 60.




Also that is an inaccurate list at all, for example DeLigt has been sold for 67m +10m in bonuses for a total between 67 or 77 m€ if the bonus will mature.

These are the top transfers in the summer so far. Even though Haaland seems like the cheapest transfer among them he is the player who has made the biggest impact so far as well. His contribution to Manchester City has been very impressive already at the beginning of the season. He is compared with Nunez of course but for now there is no meaning in comparing these two. Because Nunez still doesn't play an effective game for Liverpool. If he can't even take Firmino's place in the starting eleven then there is no need for any comparison I believe.

Antony is another very interesting transfer as Manchester United will have spent 100 million euros in total with bonuses. He has a big responsibility to show a solid performance as people are following him closely. Manchester United like to spend an insane amount of money for a player. If Antony doesn't satisfy the expectations this season then they will be in a big loss (in terms of not only money I mean).

Chelsea spent this much money for a defender while they had bigger needs. Fofana is a good defender but I don't know if he will be really worth paying this amount later on. They could have used this money for a big transfer to solve their scoring issues for example. They have signed Aubameyang but I'm not sure if this will be enough.

You are wrong, Graham Potter was very successful in bringing Brighton to end the season at number 9 last season. A total of 12 wins, 15 draws and 11 defeats are statistics which are still much better than Everton and Aston Villa. But Graham Potter has no experience at a big team like Chelsea, but the real challenge is just beginning.

Basically the Chelsea squad is better than Brighton, so Graham Potter has the opportunity to bring his team to play well from the next match. Unfortunately we have to be a little patient to watch the match because this week there will be no match after all the matches have been postponed. So Graham Potter was in training camp to get to know his players better.

As you can imagine, adjusting to the new strategy of the new coach will not be an easy task for the team.
As a matter of fact, Aubameyang was here because Tuchel was the coach, but Tuchel is no longer the coach.
I hope that the new coach will not see this as a burden, but rather as a chance to bring out the best in each player and will do everything in his power to achieve this.
You know, there are not enough good strikers in Chelsea's squad to make the team successful. As a result, I believe Aubameyang is going to be an important player for Chelsea in the future.
In addition to that, I think that he should be given enough playing time in Chelsea as well. I am curious to know what approach the new Chelsea manager is going to take when it comes to dealing with these issues.

Based on experience Thomas Tuchel is definitely much more experienced than Graham Potter
Tuchel has several times handled big clubs from various leagues such as Dortmund, Paris Saint-Germain, and last Chelsea. While  Graham Potter, I see Chelsea as the only big club that Potter has ever worked for. So obviously the two are on a different level

Regardless, Chelsea have taken action and we will just have to wait and see how effective Chelsea's actions are to sack Thomas Tuchel.

Yes of course it is a huge task for him and huge gamble from Chelsea as well but right now Chelsea has trusted him now. We will just have to wait and see about that. I am not gonna compare Tuchel and Potter but like I said earlier lot went down behind the scenes and I think lot of disagreements, arguments happened between owner and the manager which resulted to Tuchel sack.

Lot of discontent will surface if Potter fails as Chelsea also had Pochetinno as option.

what i understand is that Potter previously managed an underperforming team, and if he did not do well with that team
he wouldn’t have anything to worry about because everybody knows that he does not have enough resources anyway

he will be expected to perform at a higher level when working with Chelsea because he will have a lot more and more efficient resources at his disposal
so if he is not able to bring about positive results with Chelsea he will be held accountable, if he cannot produce better results than Tuchel, then he is not doing any good at all

You don't hear much about it, but what would Ronaldo think about this now? He was open to a transfer to another club, but no one could pay his salary. So he had to stay at United, not because he wanted to. When does his contract expire? I don't think the situation will change in the winter when we have another period when players can be bought. He won't be making a lot of minutes at United because Antony plays there and doesn't disappoint. Perhaps he should consider moving back to Real Madrid, nowhere has Ronaldo been more successful than at Real Madrid.

I doubt just how experienced Graham Potter is. Is he more experienced than Tuchel? He was the coach of Brighton for the last 3 years. I don't think Brighton performed very well. Last season though Brighton was in the top 10 of the points table. But in the two previous seasons, they finished 16th and 15th. Chelsea management has signed a 5-year contract with Graham Potter. Personally, I don't think Graham Potter will be able to strengthen the Chelsea team much.

Ronaldo would sign with Chelsea i think instantly if they just call him. He wants more playing time plus to play in champions league. Aubameyang for me is a bad move for Chelsea and once he starts playing bad he will just be another bench player like in his previous clubs

I don't think you're moving in the right direction about Chelsea, couple of things you've said are completely correct but in the aspect of midfielder's, they ( Chelsea ) has nothing to right home about asides Kovacic.
If I was coach, I'd stick to three man defense,  Azpilicueta, Either of Fofana/ Thiago Silva, and Koullibaly. Recce James, Kovacic, Callahger and either of Ben Chiwell/ Marc Curerella ( Graham Potter will want to make good use of Marc Curerella once again ) then, upfront, would be, Raheem Sterling, Aubameyang and Kai Harvertz. Both Jorginho and  Loftus Cheek are fringed player's, they should work on contract terminations as they offer less to the Club. I'm no Chelsea fan though. Kepa also should be given a chance, so Mendy knows he can be replaced, he cost Chelsea the game against Leeds United.

If you look at the few seasons he has had with Brighton he is actually cold handed and this is definitely something good for Chelsea but when the expectations are overstated it is also not very good and he could also be like Poche at PSG in the end because it can be considered this is a team. First major for Graham Potter.
But hopefully this goes well because Todd is sometimes not as simple as imagined.

Wolves have had sasa as their main striker this season but unfortunately he got injured in his debut game, losing Sasa forced Wolves to look for another striker and to be honest I didn't think that Wolves choice was Diego Costa, after leaving Atletico Madrid, I never again heard about his and  I thought that he had retired, but it was quite surprising if Wolves finally brought one of  striker have high-temper back to premier league, I think signing Costa is a gamble for wolves at the moment considering Costa age which is a bit old and also his performances has drastically decreased during this time.

Well some may think that Potter had to work out with more teams before getting into managing big teams , I think that it is his unique way of managing which has earned him manager spot for team such as Chelsea. Yes, obviously they had options of Zidane and Pochettino but I think they wanted to give chances to someone who is managing a team very well with not much resources. I honestly admire the way Potter has managed Brighton and I think he can manage a team very well but managing a big team is a big and a heavy challenge. Chelsea is taking a risk here but if it turns out well then I think he will manage Chelsea very well.

A very good time for Galatasaray and Turkish as now they have few big names in soccer for next season even their good time is already over but still they can do very good for their new club and Turkish League which is right now under good development and looking for better marketing and big names which give them good value.

Galatasaray which were badly down in last season were looking for few better options which give them better results in this season, so now they have good opportunity where they can do much better even now they can go for top four which is not easy challenge for them but with these quality players now they have chance for staying at good position.