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All Summer Transfer talk here

Let's hope it's a good one

[han2503]

Difficult to sort out easily such a messed up situation. It's not a simple renewal, but a delegation of authority from Gazidis and Elliott to Maldini. In addition, Paolo wants reassurance on the budget. He's tired of scavenging for players, and he thinks a team that just won the scudetto and wishes to improve should increase their spending.

I totally agree with him on this matter. But Elliott are the owners until RedBird take over, and RedBird themselves wish to pursue the same philosophy.



Forget about Bremer and forget about Inter. If we couldn't sign Botman then we won't sign Bremer either. Acerbi's name being thrown around ( (IMG:style_emoticons/default/puke.gif) ) alongside Thiaw and some other nobodies. Also, Romagnoli's renewal is being considered again.

But these are things they knew ahead of time before the change of ownership went through

I don't know, it just seems careless to leave this until the last minute when you have a management team that has been so effective and the new owners are obviously on the same page with wanting to keep them on. Then I don't see what the problem is.

Paolo is not asking for City/PSG type budgets FFS. Just something decent to work with and more say. That is a no-brainer if you are serious about advancing the project.

If we could get him on loan then excellent, otherwise I wouldn't spend 25m on a 29-year-old.

Ziyech would do great in Serie A. And perfect for us in that he's an AM/RW. I don't think this it would be 25m but close to it. The loan + option formula gives us a chance to see how influential he could be on the team without sinking a lot of money in the deal

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But these are things they knew ahead of time before the change of ownership went through

I don't know, it just seems careless to leave this until the last minute when you have a management team that has been so effective and the new owners are obviously on the same page with wanting to keep them on. Then I don't see what the problem is.

Paolo is not asking for City/PSG type budgets FFS. Just something decent to work with and more say. That is a no-brainer if you are serious about advancing the project.

I think the change in ownership negotiations overshadowed the issue of Maldini and Massara's renewals. But in my opinion they should have been offered new contracts as early as January given their excellent work.

The problem is that Paolo has established some demands that Elliott does not seem to want to satisfy. Like full authority when signing players and an ideal budget. In my opinion, this has been the nucleus of negotiations in the past month. Paolo does seem to have Cardinale's backing but not so much Elliott's. They never had a good relationship when you really think about it.

What would be an ideal budget? For me it would be 100m, easily. Or at least 75m like last summer. Anything less is hypocritical. I mean, Botman alone cost 40m to Newcastle. How are we expected to compete with that?

Ziyech would do great in Serie A. And perfect for us in that he's an AM/RW. I don't think this it would be 25m but close to it. The loan + option formula gives us a chance to see how influential he could be on the team without sinking a lot of money in the deal

It'd have to be at least 24m because that's how much Ziyech weighs on Chelsea's books right now. And English clubs rarely take on losses on disposal.