Topic: Premier League Prediction Thread 2021/2022 - page 651. (Read 774785 times)

Chelsea currently has a fat squad to compete next season and that is actually a good thing but also very bad in my opinion, with the many choices of players currently available, of course Enzo Maresca has many choices in building the team and determining their main line up in next season, but on the other hand, there will be many players who may not get enough playing time at Chelsea, which will indirectly make the internal condition of the team unstable because of the desire of each player to play.
Chelsea currently has 44 players in their squad and just imagine how confused Enzo Maresca will be to determine their main players next season considering that each player has different qualities and performance in the squad, most of Chelsea players are young players and I dont know why do I think Chelsea should need to add there are several older players in their line-up next season to stabilize experience and stamina.
In several pre-season matches we saw that they were not able to show good play and performance, so many fans doubted the quality of the players that Chelsea currently has.

Unfortunately, its not difficult for Chelsea to sign Victor Osihmen after both manager have their each influence between Antonio Caonte want to sign Chelsea's players Romelu Lukaku and Enzo Maresca want get Osimhen.
Both of them have out by their manager from regular team with Lukaku withdrew from main squad and he must get training with the junior team, Osimhen get the same with Lukaku after Antonio Conte not using him in last several pre season matches.

I don't think problem if Chelsea reach agreement deal for selling Romelu Lukaku to Napoli and other side Napoli will easily sell his players Osimhen to Chelsea, but several days left before first Premier League match its make difficult for Chelsea if want getting Osimhen and he need time get more adapting well under Enzo Maresca tactician.

Let's see how the Osimhen rumors develop from now because the official season will start soon and we also need to see how much Chelsea wants to bring this player to the Premier League. In addition, Osimhen is also being targeted by other teams so Chelsea must be able to handle this more quickly and if Chelsea are very willing to let Lukaku go to another team like Napoli, I think it will look more like a player swap between Lukaku and Osimhen for both teams.

Even though I think the sale of Gallagher is a bit pointless, I'd like to also state that not every coach finds every player to be good. From our perspective, Gallagher was good, but that was under Pochettino. Maresca's style of play probably does not suit Gallagher and vice versa.

But Chelsea's transfer business so far has been an absolute joke. It's the third season of them trying to buy a shit ton of players who are not even proven. If they spent money by buying PL-proven players, it would have been understandable, but their business model is very confusing. They are giving players 8-9-year contracts for financial rules, but how is that a proper business? Chelsea is in shambles.

I don't think so. There are definitely offers for Osimhen, but if the team doesn't find those offers sufficient, they have the right to reject them. I think Osimhen wants to go to Chelsea because he has said in the past that he wants to play in the Premier League. Now is the right time to make that wish come true. I think he will play for Chelsea.

I would like to see Gallagher to stay in Chelsea than moving and Joao Felix appears to replace Gallagher. Joao Felix after a big transfer to Atletico Madrid, several seasons there and some loan transfers, so far has failed to show his ability at world class level. Premier League is a tough league where there are many physical fights that are not matched with physical strength of Joao Felix.

Chelsea will take very high risk to bet that Joao Felix will succeed with them in Premier League. Some seasons ago, they bet with Alvaro Morata and failed, Joao Felix is a similar case and Chelsea will need to look at recent seasons of the player, failed case of Morata to deeply think of this possible transfer.

It is not about Osimhen being an African player that's causing the bargain. Each club want to do business in a manner that it won't be a burden to them in the future. Chelsea as a club are doing everything possible to cut down their wage bill. Since the American owners took over at Chelsea, you have seen how their transfer policies has been. They are bringing players that are not earning very high. Osimhen signed a new contract with Napoli before the start of last season and this made his wage to go up as well as his transfer fee. So Chelsea are just trying to find a way to see how they can make this deal happen in a way that it won't be a problem to them. I think there are other issues we don't know regarding Osimhen with Napoli, that's making clubs not to go for him. Sometimes i use to think that if it is only money that is the issue here, PSG wouldn't have pulled out of the deal to sign him, because PSG has money.

Osimhen is a great striker and he has performed tirelessly earning him the price tag to which I think 80-100 million is fashionably cool. I agree that if he was from Europe and a European best player the sentiment would have driven his price high but that's entirely a discuss for another time. On the other hand, is Osimhen actually ready to come Chelsea or it's just his club Napoli that are frustrating other efforts to have him move to another club other than Chelsea? Because from all indications Antonio Conte wants Lukaku in his team and this is bound to be easily done with Osimhen move to Chelsea. More like an indirect swap with some reduced fee. To me such deal is purely a ridicule to an African best player and if that's the case Osimhen should reject it.

If they get a suitable offer, maybe Chelsea will let go, it's just that Atletico Madrid doesn't dare to take action for a purchase like this. When the contract ends, maybe Chelsea can apply for a new contract so that he doesn't leave for free and will make Chelsea disadvantageous. For Atletico Madrid, maybe for a player of his class, it is still quite high so they have to consider it or maybe they are looking at Kante as an option.

Talking about age, it might be true that recruiting Gallagher is much better than Kante, but if we talk about experience, it will be different in the short term. Because Kante has so much experience in dealing with pressure and he is much more prepared in everything. Of course age is not ideal for the long term so Atletico have to think long term and vice versa with Chelsea who are currently preparing for the season in the Premier League.

It seems Chelsea is still thinking twice about whether to sell or keep Gallagher. The latest news said that if Chelsea told Gallagher to go back to Cobham, and to join in the training session of club.



But as per Romano said above, it seems both parties are still exploring a way to get a new agreement. But i've seen this same tweet like 19 times on X. And hopefully, this deal will collapse.


It's probably due to the PSR rules. Selling Gallagher will give them full profit upfront. This is what they seek.

I'd liked to call them like a kid that played a football manager.

I don't think so, Napoli management must immediately sell Osimhen if they don't want Osimhen's market value to continue to decline.
We can see that last season Osimhen's performance declined which caused his market value to decline and if it looks like Osimhen is no longer wholeheartedly playing with Napoli and the new Napoli coach has said that he wants to include Lukaku in his plans for Napoli's front line which means Conte doesn't really need Osimhen so I think selling Osimhen would be better for both of them, it would be good for Osimhen's future career and also good for Napoli.

There is quite a lot of news about Osimhen's transfer now, because there are several teams interested in bringing him in but have not yet found a match with the price offered by Napoli management and for Lukaku's transfer I think it's a little easier for Napoli because Chelsea has not included Lukaku in their team's plans for next season.

Chelsea currently has 13 forward players including Lukaku who still hasn't gets his number on his jersey so total Chelsea has 14 players at their front lines and now they want to gets Osimhen and just like i said before i still don't understand about Chelsea behaviour this summer because why they still buy more players although they have 41 players into their squad and i was wondering why Chelsea didn't focusing to gets Osimhen rather than buying non experience players because in my opinion Osimhen transfer is more effective than buy those players

About Osimhen transfer the scenario is Chelsea offering Lukaku as part of the deal plus some money so this method makes Chelsea will not spend a lot of money to buy Osimhen but this news is still not certain because there was no official statement about the agreement so this transfe potential will be failed too and Osimhen moved to other clubs instead of Chelsea

This is true and Chelsea really suffered from this and I think this is the reason we need more defenders but the Ironic thing is that 42 is too much while we're still expecting 2 more before season ends though others will be sold or loan-out, this has always been the issue of Chelsea but this time it's worst and annoying from the fact that some of these youngsters was bought with some sort of big money to join the academy whereas before it was often our Cobham players making it this much, for sure less gaming time foe many.

There's also the chance of the coach having it difficult to pick players and also FFP from the fact that many of these players where bought with a huge fee while they opt to sell some good quality players to cover up the debt my notably now is Chalobah who ought to at least remain at least from the fact that the pre season showed how Chelsea defence is on the drain and if there's injury we can't just rely on Benoit who obviously is not really doing well than Chalobah now.

Osimhen's contract with Napoli expires in 2026. Perhaps this is why Osimhen is not showing much interest in selling Osimhen this season. As Osimhen is very talented player. And one of the most important players in Napoli's squad is Osimhen. Perhaps this is why the Napoli management will not sell Osimhen before finding a suitable replacement.

However, Napoli management may finalize the deal with Chelsea. I saw several such news yesterday. Napoli coach Antonio Conte needs Lukaku. And since Lukaku is with Chelsea now, maybe that's why Osimhen is destined to end up in the Chelsea squad. And Lukaku we will see with Napoli next season. However, there is no definite information about what decision the Napoli management will take.

Maybe he is Enzo Maresca a genius but it is difficult for him with so many players currently stocked at Chelsea I doubt he can see or choose his best starting XI and I think what the Chelsea owner did was wrong by buying so many players without knowing the problem where they have weaknesses and where their strengths are and I think the Chelsea owner did not give any space in this transfer for their manager it all depends on the will and desire of the Chelsea owner and I think Enzo will find it difficult to make all this a failure for himself because his figure was shining again when he was at Leicester and now with what Chelsea are doing I think he will fade and the Chelsea owner does not want to know about that.

Seeing Chelsea at the moment is very controversial with the many players they get and they refer to young players and of course this is the good and bad side for a manager who can't handle what the owner wants and I don't think Enzo Maresca has long time there with what happened in pre-season I think he is quite struggling to get this team up of course his journey will be the same as Pochettino.

Inexperience or not, Arteta is doing the work well. Y'all want overnight success? Arsenal degraded to level that would require time to build. Chelsea and Manchester United is going through same, and within the last 4 years or so they got experienced managers and nothing has changed.

Arteta made the club a challenging team and attractive to players to sign for. He doesn't have want it takes to get those medals.
That He's a good manager worthy of the job is factual. That Arsenal need to win trophies is also factual. It's disingenuous to still be talking about time  and patience, when He's had ample time.

I think the  longer he stays at Arsenal, the better the team becomes. If the club had wanted a quick result, they would have appointed a world Class coach.

Every manager has a view of the team that he coaches and probably understands the need for players as a step to make the strength stronger.
That's why there are players that are sold and there are players that are bought every time when the transfer market opens.
But sometimes the management doesn't give the manager the freedom to determine the players that they want to buy so it doesn't work out well.

Chelsea made a big player purchase last season and generally the players they bought were quite expensive for the class of players.
This was clearly a less than optimal purchase so they have to try to make the necessary purchases this season.

After Chelsea's ownership transferred to Boehly, I felt that the actions that Chelsea always took did not make sense. Starting from changing coaches almost every season and also selling players who have excellent performance. So if it continues like this, I'm sure Chelsea will not experience significant progress, even though currently Chelsea seems to have a lot of money and is buying a lot of other players. However, as you said, if the players Chelsea buy are not of good quality it will certainly be a waste for Chelsea even though the players are expensive. The reason is that currently Chelsea has bought 8 new players to their squad. I also don't understand what Chelsea will do with that many players, because currently Chelsea already has more than 40 players in their squad.

Apart from that, talking about Gallagher, who is reportedly going to be sold by Chelsea in this transfer market, I am also confused about why Chelsea wants to sell him. However, as we know, Gallagher's performance at Chelsea was very good so it would be better for Chelsea not to sell the player. However, from the news that I know, the reason Chelsea will sell Gallagher is said to be because the squad that Chelsea has is very large. Therefore, Chelsea will sell Gallagher in this transfer market. However, in my opinion, this reason is not strong enough to sell Gallagher. Because if it is true that the reason is because there are too many Chelsea players, Chelsea should only sell players who are more worthy of being sold, and not sell Gallagher who has good performance. So in essence I also really don't understand the situation that is happening at Chelsea at the moment.

In signing new football players in every season, they are need to be a balance on the quantity and the quality. In fact sometimes quantities even considered better than quality in football. You can get all the quality players and become unlucky that 60% of your quality players get injured in the middle of the season, what will you do as a coach?

I think this is the reason that Chelsea is signing so many players, so that in the times of injury or unavailability, there will be players to stand in. In fact in a team you have only the quality players and they are sure of their sport in the team, there might likely be no competition, challenge and improvement among players, because they know that they are shirt is secured. But when many players are signed, it will introduce the spirit of competition among the players to fight for Jersey and that will improve the overall performance of the team. Also consider the importance of squad depth.

Well ion the contrary, i don't think Chelsea doesn't understand the effects of having quality players only, I think it's mainly them wanting to make some needed reshuffling in the team and I believe their coach has got a strategy where in the players signed will fit in and those sold weren't fitting in maybe, so basically they have got something which they are up to and they know much better so we can't be concluding already from this end until the season begins it will become much clearer and we get absolutely parameters for judgment.