Don't think Chelsea fans understand how good a signing Valentin Barco really is.

Young Ligue 1 Player of the Year nominee, with Doue, Bouaddi, Joao Neves and Zaire Emery.

Expecting a promising start to his Chelsea career 💎

Dont you think Chelsea should’ve made significant progress on at least one target by now?

I don’t know if it’s just me but after the season we had we should be moving with the speed of Madrid with our signings. What’s stopping us?

Cape Verde were in a group with Ghana and Egypt at AFCON 2023. They won the group with 7/9 points. No other team got to 4 points.

They’ve been decent for a while

Who are you more excited to watch at Chelsea next season?

(Via CFCDan_01)

Caicedo has been playing as a No. 8 for his country. Averaging 3.50 chances created per 90.

Do you fancy Caicedo as an 8 instead of a 6?🤔💭

‼️Blackburn and Swansea City are interested in signing Chelsea youngster Kiano Dyer this summer.

[Via Football League World]

Maxence you are next 🫵🔵

Xabi Alonso wanted Palestra, and he got his man

Hope he’s aware that the expectations only rise if he’s getting all the players that he wants

May the board continue to back him properly this window 💙

Basically confirms we are building towards a back 3 team?

We still wait for more to see whether we also want to build a team that also plays a back4 or not. Will be interesting to see.

Doubt we’ll chase a LWB because that spot is for Neto/Quenda.

Colwill. Fofana. Lacroix.

Xabi Alonso’s dream back three? 👀💙

Three days later and our first signing is secured

When i speak, Todd listens🫵

Two full Premier League seasons and he missed only one Premier League game in each season. 70 starts out of 72 games.

That’s the kind of injury record we need

Palestra was also crowned Serie A’s fastest player for 2025/26, taking home the Frecciarossa Speed Award.

📊 27.96 km/h average sprint speed — the highest in the league
🥈 Ahead of Napoli’s Hojlund (27.92 km/h)
🥉 And Fiorentina’s Dodô (27.77 km/h)

It’s his average speed throughout the season. The engine never drops off.

Caicedo is moving absolutely crazy this World Cup. He went from anchoring the midfield to dictating everything, breaking passing records, and now he’s randomly on corner and free-kick duty for Ecuador? He’s literally doing everything except playing in goal.

(Via Rahman Osman)

Arsenal are serious about defending that PL title 🤯😳

🚨⚪️ Marc Cucurella on playing with Vini Jr: “I do NOT care if he doesn't track back, or doesn't help defensively”.

“Let him stay fresh ALL GAME so he can score goals, I will do ALL THE DIRTY WORK for him”.

😳😳😳

How many midfielders have come up against Caicedo and bossed the midfield?

The Caicedo test is EXTREMELY difficult to pass

Let's see how Chelsea keeps up with these superteams in the market.

In Alonso we trust ☝🏻

Declan Rice — £105m

Enzo Fernandez — £110m

Caicedo — £116m

Florian Wirtz — £116m

Elliot Anderson — £116m

How many have been able to live up to their price tag?

FireSide

#Palestra

I'll be blunt and direct. And say what most people think or have seen but dont say it out of fear of being called names or be seen as stupid.

This market is controlled and managed by PR Guys and bought off Influencers that push certain narratives to suit certain purposes.

They say this guy is an Alonso choice but I will only believe that when I hear Alonso himself say that.

The only reason why I have kept off discussing this guy is because I want to trust its the managers choice. And Alonso would be smart enough to know what he would want to do with him. And that is worth trusting.

Even though to me he looks more like our SD's PR covered gimmick buy.

To be honest, the only thing I like about him is his dribbling technique and lunged runs. More like lite version of Lewis Hall.

Everything else stinks.

I would only trust the SD's when Alonso confirms he sanctioned his acquisition.

Otherwise this one I am sitting out until the day the kid himself proves me otherwise.

Fear PR Gimmicks and trust only your eyes and judgement. So far 99.9% of the signings I warned against proved me right.

And this one scares me too.

Imagine adding Palestra, Lacroix and Xhaka in one window.

That's improving the pace, height, power, personality and physicality of the squad.

We mean business this summer.

[Via Vince]

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