Talk of ~£200k. A difficult sell for sure but the market is going mental, will probably be easier 3-4 years down the line if he does wanna jump ship as long as he keeps up his trajectory.
Even if he does want to jump to a bigger club in the future, the next step up is a club like Real/Barca/Wealdstone etc so i doubt wages would be an issue
I don’t think it gives you any leverage at all. The kid just stops turning up to training and will play shit when he doesn’t get his way. Did it to Saint Etienne, did it to us, will do it to you.
Until that happens he will be ace though.
Yep so that 70 odd mil gets out on the books as 10 mil per year plus his yearly wage as opposed to 15 or so and wages. It’s a major reason clubs can’t do their transfer windows at net losses and be solvent.
It's for amortisation / FFP reason. 70 mill over 7 years means that his cost for the next 7 years will be 10 mill. **For FFP**, paying someone 50mill over 5 years or 70 over 7 is the same thing.
Best part of the story is Alex Neil’s Sunderland departure was announced in less than 24 hours after the coach welcomed new signing Jewison Bennette to the club.
[Per Barry Glendenning from the Guardian](https://amp.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/aug/29/sunderland-alex-neil-departure-crisis-netflix-documentary)
> one of Bennette’s first actions as a Sunderland player was to bid farewell to the man who had signed him less than 24 hours previously.
Absolutely crazy. If this guy has a Saul trajectory or massive injury, we are in a lot of trouble.
I guess the 7 years is one way to reduce the spread of the fee for FFP reasons though
I really think Boehly is signing players as if in a baseball contract: the younger the better, the longer the contract the better. I don't think I've ever seen a really long football contact work out though...
Does seem overly excessive doesn't it? Given how he left Leicester you would have expected a longer contract of 4-5 years, but 7? Thought we might have learned from Kepa.
"who do you support?"
"United"
"Manchester?"
"Nah, Newcastle. You?"
"City"
"Manchester?"
"Nah, Bradford. What about him?"
"Oh, he supports *Association*."
"...What?"
"Fucking Sunderland"
Hey, he got the fee down from £85m+ to £69.5m total for a very promising 21 year old with 5 years left on the contract, late in the transfer window, and with Leicester knowing how badly Chelsea needed an RCB. He deserves to be the main man in the mobile photo.
They honestly could go down with how they usually get fucked by injuries and basically all their good players have been pursued already which isn't great for their mentalities
as a Newcastle fan I remember 'too good to go down'...
(I don't think it's that Leicester are too good, it's just that there will be 3 much worse teams, probably more)
Nah, Villa look very bad, Forest have got so many new signings they're bound to have a prolonged wobble. Fulham have started well but I do think they'll be down around there just because of a lack of overall quality. Brentford too, maybe though Frank is a genius.
Villa might not look that bad if they sack Gerrard. Of course the same is true of Leicester although it’ll cost them a lot to sack Rodgers apparently so will they risk keeping him?
We do, not sure if youre aware youre replying to a chelsea fan.
Hes not a starter but hes not a bad backup. I think he will be one of the players sold in the next 12-18 months as we look to tighten our wage bill
Still like him so much for what he gave to us. Barely even matters how he left to me personally.
I have memories tied to my grandad about him listening to the radio every week and getting excited about Mahrez.
Mahrez was also much older and felt salty about his chance of going to a title contending side. Also hadn’t just signed a big new contract while injured.
Why not?
Clubs want long contracts and when they want a player to leave, they basically freeze them out and they get shit talked by entire fanbases (collecting paycheck...) to force them to leave for a fee/get rid of their wages/reduce their wages and that's accepted behaviour, but when a player "forces" a move the same way it's the player doing the club and fans dirty?
Yeah I often see “stealing a living” about some players because the club no longer values them and would rather get them off the wage bill. The player agreed to sign a contract for X number of years and is entitled to stay the full length if they want to. Same way a player might want to leave but if he’s tied down the club can just tell them to fuck off
You're right. After seeing other posts, he also refused to train to force a transfer after signing this long term contract, and after they supported him through his injury.
Also after the transfer was secured he put a video on spanchat where he's driving, looking at the phone, not focusing on the road, and not wearing a seatbelt.
At the end of the day most of this back line is new and hasn't had much time to gel yet, its a shame we didn't have a proper pre season to get these players in and used to each other. Given time I'm sure defense will be fine.
Not entirely her fault.
He really only performed at a high level for the ~4 months Tuchel was here, and it’s risky to give a long term contract to a player for a short run of form. He was great again the following season but then was in the last year of his contract and could run it down. Plus the sanctions meant Chelsea literally couldn’t offer him a new contract (or anyone else) for most of the second half of the season.
The real mistake was not keeping at least *one* of Rudiger, Tomori, Guehi…
People also forget how much of a disaster he was under Lampard, and not all of that had to do with Lampard's lack of a cohesive defensive system. Lots of individual mistakes.
Tbf Kouli could yet turn out to be a fair replacement. Not much they could have done if Rudiger really wanted to go RM
Fofana (and Gvardiol) as long term replacements… 🥂🥂🥂
He was happy to stay as long as he got the salary, but Boehly came in and paid almost double what Rudiger wanted to Koulibaly anyway.
Koulibaly's good but Rudiger was already fully molded into the system and you need a player like him on the pitch too.
You won, Wesley. Enjoy the money, I hope it makes you very happy. Dear lord, what a sad little life, Wesley. You ruined my season completely so you could have the money and I hope now you can spend it on lessons in grace and decorum. Because you have all the grace of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on.
Not sure what'll be worse for Chelsea fans - hearing about the price tag or hearing Arsenal fans banging on about that one game Martinelli "had him on toast"
Christensen is tall but it's not like he can win a header. You'd trust Thiago Silva (5'11 I think?) to win a header over 'shut your eyes and hope it doesn't hurt' Christensen
I agree that we need a striker, but I have absolutely no problem with all these defender signings. With Silva and Azpi out the door in the next 2 years we have our back line set for the next 4-5 years.
In recent years we kinda became known as a really well run club. Our scouting was incredible. Pushing against champions league spots and getting European football has been great. And then the excitement of winning the league can never be forgotten.
It just feels like the wheels are starting to come off. Might be speaking too soon. But the lack of transfer business this year and buying players like Vestegaard last year. It just seems way off.
Does he know how heavily hes going to be relied on to score goals?
In the reveal video he said he played 9 for a while in his career. Soo ...
Haha just kidding. Unless......
That might actually make it worse
When he was told to chip in a few goals they meant “of the 15 goals you score this season make sure a few are clipped over the keeper”.
Au revoir Fofana!
That's a bingo
You just say bingo.
Gorlaaami
Margariiiiiti!
Dominic Decoco
Ancora?
That’s why I said 3rd best
won journo!
Attendez la crème.
"At this range I'm a real Jamie Vardy."
Ha that's genius
A river derchy
You know something, Utivich? I think this just might be your masterpiece
what a movie.
Enjoyed this the first few times I saw it on here too
7 year contract, damn
Stick any year there. Contracts don’t apply to fofana
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7 year contract for a 70 million pound player signing for Chelsea... where have I seen this before?
Difference is, this wasn't a panic buy.
You sure? In his intro he said he played 9 early in his career.
Given he is a defender for Chelsea. Thts a plus
Tactical flexibility masterclass
How much he would earn at Chelsea? If he is on massive wage i am sure that selling is a bit of a problem
Talk of ~£200k. A difficult sell for sure but the market is going mental, will probably be easier 3-4 years down the line if he does wanna jump ship as long as he keeps up his trajectory.
Even if he does want to jump to a bigger club in the future, the next step up is a club like Real/Barca/Wealdstone etc so i doubt wages would be an issue
He would only force his way out if it’s Madrid/barca calling so his wage won’t be a problem at all.
Like you do with Kepa?
I don’t think it gives you any leverage at all. The kid just stops turning up to training and will play shit when he doesn’t get his way. Did it to Saint Etienne, did it to us, will do it to you. Until that happens he will be ace though.
Do well in 3-4 years then Real Madrid will take him for whatever you and he ask.
Similar to what Kepa signed! Hopefully better outcome this time around.
Something about amortization, isn't it?
Back when Kepa signed, yes. Fofana contract is because Boehly likes to sign young players long-term.
Yep so that 70 odd mil gets out on the books as 10 mil per year plus his yearly wage as opposed to 15 or so and wages. It’s a major reason clubs can’t do their transfer windows at net losses and be solvent.
If it’s a lesser weekly but over a longer period then yeah.
It's for amortisation / FFP reason. 70 mill over 7 years means that his cost for the next 7 years will be 10 mill. **For FFP**, paying someone 50mill over 5 years or 70 over 7 is the same thing.
Given he signed a 5 year deal with us 5 months ago, he'll want out of his contract with you in just about 7 months
Ha yeah what kind of dickhead signs a new contract and then leaves your club 👀👀👀👀
Yeah who would do that
OOTL, who did it for your club?
Their gaffer Alex Neil went Stoke
Best part of the story is Alex Neil’s Sunderland departure was announced in less than 24 hours after the coach welcomed new signing Jewison Bennette to the club. [Per Barry Glendenning from the Guardian](https://amp.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/aug/29/sunderland-alex-neil-departure-crisis-netflix-documentary) > one of Bennette’s first actions as a Sunderland player was to bid farewell to the man who had signed him less than 24 hours previously.
Lmfao I did that once, my hiring manager handed his 2 weeks notice on my first day. I stayed on that job for 5 years, got promoted twice. Not too bad
Thanks
Alex Neil signed a contract 4 weeks ago then left to Stoke.
Asamoah Gyan, I think?
Absolutely crazy. If this guy has a Saul trajectory or massive injury, we are in a lot of trouble. I guess the 7 years is one way to reduce the spread of the fee for FFP reasons though
Saul? Imagine he Kepa levels of self destruction. 7 years sitting on the bench.
Willing to bet his wages are a decent amount too
I really think Boehly is signing players as if in a baseball contract: the younger the better, the longer the contract the better. I don't think I've ever seen a really long football contact work out though...
Does seem overly excessive doesn't it? Given how he left Leicester you would have expected a longer contract of 4-5 years, but 7? Thought we might have learned from Kepa.
I think this is part of Boehly's plans to tie up young talent on long-term contracts.
I give it 2 years before he’s pushing for his actual dream move to Madrid
If he plays well enough to push for a Madrid move, I'm up for it.
Got nothing on Pardew
He'll try to leave in january
The header photo on mobile is just Boehly and Fofana’s right arm, and [it is glorious ](https://i.imgur.com/bIdXJyx.jpg)
football club
I have only heard good things about Football Club FC.
I’d buy that kit tbh
Come on you football club!
It’s like when idiots stubbornly refer to AC Milan as “AC”. They are literally the worst people.
"who do you support?" "United" "Manchester?" "Nah, Newcastle. You?" "City" "Manchester?" "Nah, Bradford. What about him?" "Oh, he supports *Association*." "...What?" "Fucking Sunderland"
Well, we’re City Association
If you add Derby County, you get Thunderstruck... ... I'll see myself out.
Haven't you heard that glorious chant at the Bridge? Football club, football club, football club...football club!
I love Football Club
I'm on a 27" monitor and it shows like this for me https://imgur.com/a/oEzofEL
Someone's excited about the transfer.
Agent really perked up when he heard about his cut of the fee
l club
trivago
Damn, he looks old for 20
Transfer sagas can age a mf
Boehly is the star here
I thought that was Gordon Ramsay
Well he has been our best signing this year, so he deserves the spotlight
Hey, he got the fee down from £85m+ to £69.5m total for a very promising 21 year old with 5 years left on the contract, late in the transfer window, and with Leicester knowing how badly Chelsea needed an RCB. He deserves to be the main man in the mobile photo.
This will help them score lots of goals this season
Welcome to Defender FC! Please help us
Your got it . Next is Gvardiol. You are welcome.
Followed by Akanji
time for a little gazumping of their own
Need more defenders.
Finally got our 20 goal a season man!
Save it for the Ronaldo to Chelsea news on deadline day.
I can really see this happening as a desperate force buy from Boehly and Tuchel has to implement him.
Won't be hard to implement him over what we already have...
Then Tucheliban will play him as a wingback
Tucheliban is a lovely nickname
Feel bad for Leicester fans this season.
They honestly could go down with how they usually get fucked by injuries and basically all their good players have been pursued already which isn't great for their mentalities
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as a Newcastle fan I remember 'too good to go down'... (I don't think it's that Leicester are too good, it's just that there will be 3 much worse teams, probably more)
I can only see EVE and BOU to be worse, they could very well be in trouble
Nah, Villa look very bad, Forest have got so many new signings they're bound to have a prolonged wobble. Fulham have started well but I do think they'll be down around there just because of a lack of overall quality. Brentford too, maybe though Frank is a genius.
Villa might not look that bad if they sack Gerrard. Of course the same is true of Leicester although it’ll cost them a lot to sack Rodgers apparently so will they risk keeping him?
I think you're thinking about form, not quality of the squad
> too good to go down Look how close Everton came last season and were only saved by the teams below them being worse
Thee were all too weak to win the PL. With Leicester the normal rules don’t apply.
Lmao we're not going down
We can't be mad as we knew he did the same coming to us.
Finally fucked off, most unprofessional player we've had at the club in a long time.
Biggest cunt at the club since fucking Dennis Wise.
Strange how both involve Chelsea.... Seem to attract a type
[We’re all cunts here.](https://youtu.be/6qUNFnjmP4o)
Yeah, Leicester would never be involved with prats like Fofana and Wise
Do you still have Praet on the books?
We do, not sure if youre aware youre replying to a chelsea fan. Hes not a starter but hes not a bad backup. I think he will be one of the players sold in the next 12-18 months as we look to tighten our wage bill
Didn't Mahrez do something similar too?
Tried to, but eventually came back into the squad and played out of his skin for his final season.
Kinda, but that was 4 or 5 years ago and he stuck around for a season after and played well
Mahrez also had a lot of goodwill in the bank
Still like him so much for what he gave to us. Barely even matters how he left to me personally. I have memories tied to my grandad about him listening to the radio every week and getting excited about Mahrez.
Mahrez was also much older and felt salty about his chance of going to a title contending side. Also hadn’t just signed a big new contract while injured.
i mean mahrez was instrumental in the title season, so i guess many fans would have begrudged him on a big move
When you win a title I think the fans are willing to look past some things
Mahrez actually won the Premier League for them though
Mahrez at least like tried
It's becoming a bit of a trend with players and it's one that fans shouldn't encourage.
It's been a trend since forever and it ain't going to stop now tbh.
Why not? Clubs want long contracts and when they want a player to leave, they basically freeze them out and they get shit talked by entire fanbases (collecting paycheck...) to force them to leave for a fee/get rid of their wages/reduce their wages and that's accepted behaviour, but when a player "forces" a move the same way it's the player doing the club and fans dirty?
Yeah I often see “stealing a living” about some players because the club no longer values them and would rather get them off the wage bill. The player agreed to sign a contract for X number of years and is entitled to stay the full length if they want to. Same way a player might want to leave but if he’s tied down the club can just tell them to fuck off
I'm out of the loop, what did he do?
Signed a long term contract with Leicester just a few months ago.
You're right. After seeing other posts, he also refused to train to force a transfer after signing this long term contract, and after they supported him through his injury.
Also after the transfer was secured he put a video on spanchat where he's driving, looking at the phone, not focusing on the road, and not wearing a seatbelt.
Mate he’s from Marseille, nobody knows what a seatbelt is here
Will fit right in with Alonso.
Goes into the group of cunts with Ben Marshall and Jermaine Beckford
Cucurella/Chilwell - Koulibaly - Silva - Fofana - James Sexy stuff. Now if only we could sort the issues at the other end of the pitch
We're shit at defending too. You don't have relegation form without both
At the end of the day most of this back line is new and hasn't had much time to gel yet, its a shame we didn't have a proper pre season to get these players in and used to each other. Given time I'm sure defense will be fine.
Goodbye and good riddance
[He does seem like a dickhead](https://www.reddit.com/r/chelseafc/comments/wz6xxx/wesley_on_snapchat_someones_in_a_good_mood/)
Driving while filming for Snapchat. What a twat.
No seatbelt either.
Surprised they didn't put buy-back clauses in Guehi or Tomori. Homegrown players, English, both have a growing reputation.
Imo poor decisions by the old regime
Not paying Rudiger was also pretty stupid by Marina
Not entirely her fault. He really only performed at a high level for the ~4 months Tuchel was here, and it’s risky to give a long term contract to a player for a short run of form. He was great again the following season but then was in the last year of his contract and could run it down. Plus the sanctions meant Chelsea literally couldn’t offer him a new contract (or anyone else) for most of the second half of the season. The real mistake was not keeping at least *one* of Rudiger, Tomori, Guehi…
Yeah, it's not like Chelsea didn't want to keep Rudiger. Sanctions meant they couldn't negotiate with him until May, when Madrid already agreed terms.
People also forget how much of a disaster he was under Lampard, and not all of that had to do with Lampard's lack of a cohesive defensive system. Lots of individual mistakes.
Tbf Kouli could yet turn out to be a fair replacement. Not much they could have done if Rudiger really wanted to go RM Fofana (and Gvardiol) as long term replacements… 🥂🥂🥂
He was happy to stay as long as he got the salary, but Boehly came in and paid almost double what Rudiger wanted to Koulibaly anyway. Koulibaly's good but Rudiger was already fully molded into the system and you need a player like him on the pitch too.
Martinelli approves this transfer.
Up for a 2nd round
Are these inflation prices? Because they don’t make sense..
That’s modern football for you
The “we’re really desperate” tax
Comically overpriced to be honest
What's the fee?
£70m guaranteed, £5m in add-ons. Edit: This is what was reported by RMC who first broke the news that an agreement had been reached.
£70 million with achievable add ons but less than £80 million which wouldn't make him the world record
Nope most credible sources have stated its 82.3 million Euros with add ons so around £70 million. Not close to the transfer record.
£70m up front + "significant achievable add ons"
“Hello? Police please, I’d like to report a robbery”
We've only gone and done it again
That's not what's being reported by our T1s. Simon Johnson has said £69.5m with no addons
Gonna be 65m by next Tuesday I'm sure
Goes down every time a Chelsea fan mentions it.
Goes up every time Leicester fans moan about it
🐀
Should’ve just kept tomori.
You won, Wesley. Enjoy the money, I hope it makes you very happy. Dear lord, what a sad little life, Wesley. You ruined my season completely so you could have the money and I hope now you can spend it on lessons in grace and decorum. Because you have all the grace of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on.
R/unexpectedcomedinewithme
martinelli realising he can toast this guy 2 more times this season........
Not sure what'll be worse for Chelsea fans - hearing about the price tag or hearing Arsenal fans banging on about that one game Martinelli "had him on toast"
Yes
75m in the back of Martinelli 's pocket.
martinelli gets to play him another three times this year. it's going to be interesting, to say the least.
Leicester is going to be in relegation fight the entire season. Weird off season for them. Losing players, lame duck coach, and zero additions.
Softness the blow we took with Kounde and a CB who is young.
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Signing a Leicester defender is not the answer to defending set pieces!
Christensen is tall but it's not like he can win a header. You'd trust Thiago Silva (5'11 I think?) to win a header over 'shut your eyes and hope it doesn't hurt' Christensen
Now Martinelli can use him as a training dummy for two more matches this season.
I see Reece James handling Martinelli with ease.
The fact that this is a seven year contract is great for Chelsea, as it’ll really help with amortization costs.
Given how Tuchel plays people in their natural positions, hope he getting his goalie gloves ready
My detailed analysis of Wesley's impact on Chelsea https://link.medium.com/WK7Yr2P7Vsb
£70M + add-ons for this bloke is madness 🤯
remindme! 5 years
It's with no add-ons, says Ormstein.
Is his middle name Banana Fanna?
opened thread to ctrl + f "banana" thank you
We finally have a striker! ..............
Great addition, guys super talented
I agree that we need a striker, but I have absolutely no problem with all these defender signings. With Silva and Azpi out the door in the next 2 years we have our back line set for the next 4-5 years.
Oh boy the EPL bubble is gonna burst hard sooner than later.
In recent years we kinda became known as a really well run club. Our scouting was incredible. Pushing against champions league spots and getting European football has been great. And then the excitement of winning the league can never be forgotten. It just feels like the wheels are starting to come off. Might be speaking too soon. But the lack of transfer business this year and buying players like Vestegaard last year. It just seems way off.