Agree with this, but you don’t think about one major factor of the transfer. The money.
The whole sum, including the agents fee and the transfer sum, will be about 150 million pounds in total.
Even if Chelsea sold some players last summer they can’t afford him considering they also need to buy a st, lb, cb and a gk.
They also made a operational loss of about 100 million last year. Sure they can afford him if Roman digs deep in his pockets, but that does not seem to be his opus moderandi any more.
I just don’t see it.
That loss was mainly down to lack of CL revenue. We'll have that this year. 173m we made in the summer just gone, add on Pasalic for 12m, Morata for 54 (goes this summer to atletico permanent) take away say 40 for Ziyech. Still left with a large chunk. Then you add on potential prize money etc. Drinkwater, Bakayoko, Moses, Giroud, Pedro, Willian, possibly Alonso, Baba Rahman, Kenedy, Zappacosta etc all will probably go this summer. Think Batshuayi might, too
I think this might be the summer where Roman does dig deep again, too. Sounds a little optimistic maybe; but he might be willing to back Lampard heavily after 2 windows of nothing and for what Lampard did for the club. People may argue he didnt in January, but when do clubs ever go crazy in January realistically? Hope more than expectation. Was clear our plan of attack for January was a loanee, only if Giroud went.
But my original post was mainly to say IF we agreed a deal, the factors i mentioned about his personal choice, family, London will be in his thinking. The notion from some posters that if Utd dont get him, we certainly wont is just wrong. Being a fan of ours wont make him sign, of course, but the other stuff will come into it, and certainly be considered. I just cannot understand how people think it wont.