Noni Madueke is well known by Potter and his recruitment staff - he was on their radar last summer with Brighton whilst Christopher Vivell had an interest in him at RB Leipzig. A deal could be worth around £35m.

(Adrian Kajumba)

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Levi Colwill’s defensive positioning directly up against Salah and his build-up play. Masterclass.

Levi Colwill vs Liverpool:

• 100 touches
• 87 passes (most)
• 93% pass accuracy
• 2 chances created
• 2/3 long balls completed
• 8 recoveries
• 0x dribbled past
• Clean sheet

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Following Chelsea's injury crisis in attack, it even led them to enquire about signing Michail Antonio on a cheap loan. The offer was rejected as West Ham do not want to loan Antonio out.

[via Jacob Steinberg]

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Don’t say anything, just laugh

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A crucial midfielder to add on top of this and we're set to go !

COYB!
#letssaveourseason

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Pray we lose to Palace, God knows we might wake up to Mbappe the next day.
Do not underestimate Boehly!

(CfcDubois)

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FireSide

Declaration

Mudryk is a beast,

Believe you me After Mbappe and Haaland, Mudryk is next.

We will have got ourselves a super player.

Mudryk will be as big and may be even bigger than Hazard.

This deal will be the best we will have ever done in ages if it goes through..

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What are we cooking 🔥 .I've never been gassed up so much.

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Chelsea will have filled their PL registrations after signing Mudryk. So anyone else coming in will mean someone sold or unregistered for the last part of the season.

(Nizaar Kinsella )

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Lost to Man City, got Felix.
Lost to Fulham, got Mudryk.

Now, Lose to Palace, Enzo. 👀
Then lose to Liverpool, Mbappe.😯
Get relegated, Messi. 🤯

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Back to the real world..

Azpilicueta, Koulibaly & Chalobah vs Palace’s front 3 tomorrow...

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🚨 Chelsea FC co-owner Behdad Eghbali and director of global transfers Paul Winstanley literally flew into Antalya today, did the deal, and then took Mudryk back with them on their private jet. No messing. Medical is tomorrow.

(Lyall Thomas)

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Crystal Palace to launch new transfer bid for Chelsea’s Conor Gallagher.

Gallagher is still committed to making it at his boyhood club and that may be the biggest obstacle to progress for Palace.

[Alan Nixon]

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To answer some questions on how Chelsea are able to spend so much.

1. Roman made Boehly x Clearlake sign a contract to spend £1.5 billion on the squad. This, also includes an agreement that dividends cannot be taken from the club for 10 YEARS.

🔗 Maxwell Ndhlovu

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2. On spending, simply put amortization. By signing u21 players on 7yr deals, Chelsea are able to spread the cost. Eg, "IF" they sign Mudryk, according to FFP, only 40 million will appear on this years books. Whilst the balance is played over 7 years.

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3. For Chelsea fans saying how can we spend 100 on Mudryk but not Enzo. Paying a transfer fee, eg 100m for Mudryk, is different from a release clause. transfer fee means spread costs(less than 10m a year x7). A clause is paid at once, meaning 120m on the books.

That would put Chelsea on the wrong side of FFP, meaning we get charged, a transfer ban or even a UCL ban.

IMO, Benfica demanding 120m for a player who they signed for 12m 5 months ago is absurd. They have no guarantee clubs will come with a similar offer in the summer.

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Or if he will still have the same hype as post WC

They chose to embarrass Chelsea in the media rather than negotiate. Benfica never wanted to sell so saying pay the RC is a way of fending off clubs, it worked.

Chelsea have found a workaround to FFP, whilst onlookers complain

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Chelsea are yet to concede a goal in the first half of a home #PL match in 2022/23 ✋

They're on a run of nine games, which stretches back to last season

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14 - Mykhailo Mudryk has been directly involved in 14 goals in just 12 appearances in the Ukrainian Premier League this season (7 goals, 7 assists), the most of any player, contributing to a goal every 65 minutes on average. Prized.

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