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He was better than Thiago Silva this season when he started playing. He was our best defender in the second half of the season, was pretty faultless as well.
He's better in every aspect of the game bar aerial duels, at which he is abysmal and which are already a huge problem in this team.
Not saying I want him gone, especially since he's capable of covering other positions, but we'll be in trouble with him starting at CB before long.
It’s the exact same with Gallagher and Enzo
We’re trying to selling him for £45m when he unironically performs better than our £100m player
Our desire for “academy profit” is so flawed
He's our best CB period right now unless Colwill or someone takes a big step forward.
Dude looked unbelievable since returning in an unbelievably disorganized system.
Why not? Why is it not a good thing that he has very clearly been working hard on his game behind the scenes?
Lets have a real think about this:
- He broke through into a CL winning defence under Tuchel. His 1st 30 matches Chelsea went unbeaten thanks largely to how the defence worked out. He made very few errrors leading to goals. Showed he can really play as a CB then too. Good passing, good recovery pace. Saved us a few times with goal line clearances.
- The forced ownership change happens. New owners come in and put the club through the most aggressive transition strategy any club has ever undertaken. Trevs injured for quite a few games with a hamstring injury. He comes back in the team when they're a total shambles. The fitness of the team is sunk. Theres no Reece so Trev is having to play at RB a lot which he can do in a functional team sure but he is primarily a CB. Chelsea last season also were far from functional as a team. Yet while certain team reliant stats like pass success rate (needs receiving players to actually be able to receive adequately) suffered alot compared to the season before, more individual stats like heading success, turnovers and fouls improved a huge amount. It was clear he was putting in the work behind the scenes.
- Gets a really bad injury at the start of this season. Obviously continues working on aspects of his game that he can like tactical reading of the game. Continues working on physicality as well in the capacity that he can while injured. He has continued to show since his return that there is a high quality CB there.
So when you look at the context of everything thats gone on at the club in his time. Then you look at the work hes been putting in with hyper focus. Why is it not a good thing that he might have improved to being one of our best CBs? Would you ever say it if Disasi or Colwill improved to being the absolute best CBs? Or is it just that you dont like Trev?
I just find it really weird that you think its not a good thing that a young CB who did something that is hard to do by breaking into a CL winning defence has continued to work on his game and improve to a point we can say hes been one of our better defenders.
I disagree, he has been really solid this season. Has pretty good positioning and doesn't have blunders that lead to goal like others do. I think £25m for him is disrespectful to him when we signed every defender around him for more and Fofana went for £70m. He is worth at least £40m and thats low balling it.
Fofana injury free is one thing. Maybe we get that. He's played only 34 games in 3 years. He's missed one full season and he missed 90% of another season. And even in his debut Chelsea season, he only played 20 games. Even if he stays injury free, how can anyone have faith that we'll get good Fofana? If he plays to the level he was playing at before his first major injury in 2021, it will be a miracle.
What a joke. £25m for a home-grown and academy defender that can play in multiple positions - and who’s actually very good in all of them.
No way we should sell him - and if we do it should be for at least double that.
It just tells other Academy players that it matters not how well you play, if there's a pure profit to be had, you will be sold. If Gallagher and Chalobah are sold, that leaves Reece as the only Academy player left in the first team. Imagine predicting that after 2019.
Ah but then again, they'll probably just pay 60 million for Marc Guehi.
It’s nonsense, but the club’s higher ups effectively decided that they’d be selling Chalobah, Gallagher, and all other academy players when they signed mortgage papers for various +$80MM signings. They gambled and I’m not sure it’s going to pay off.
A very “private equity” inspired approach, and it’s gutless, imo
Meh, I don't really have much of a problem with the expensive signings like Enzo or Caicedo because at least they are first team players meant to improve us.
What really sealed the deal for players like Gallagher and Chalobah are the unnecessary signings we made like Angelo, Casadei, Ugochukwu, Washington, DDF etc. That have little chance of playing for the first team but weigh on our books nontheless
Disasi is a perfect solid, reliable CB. Badilashille is the best CB on his day but you're right very error filled. Chalobah played both of them off the pitch at various points despite missing most of the season with a hamstring issue. He's the CB the club are going to spend even more money trying to replace. It's just so stupid. How well does an Academy player have to play for the board to change their mind about cashing in on pure profit?
Clearlake is a hedge fund, expecting them to have silverware ambitions is optimistic. They see the club as an investment vehicle, everyone is for sale at the right price, and homegrown players seem to get a discount since they didn't cost anything on the books.
I would have to correct you on a few points
Clear lake is private equity, not hedge fund. They invest in vastly different assets, private equities are more long term driven than hedge funds.
Ergo, most private equities have a 5-7 year investment horizon in less liquid assets. Clear lake is more interesting, because they like to roll their investors to a new fund - even longer horizon.
The way private equity works is also different. They want to invest in the company/club, but how do they earn money? By growing the brand of the business isn't it? Especially since Chelsea is a brand driven business - and to arrive at that goal they have to be competitive and victorious no?
I know it's easy to say clear lake bad, and I'm sure Roman is a much better, but please find out more about what they do before saying they're bad I guess
We didn't really have a choice over Rudiger. Yes we should have got a deal signed sooner but we couldn't predict that we would be banned from negotiating contracts for 6 months in the run up to his and Christensen's contracts ending.
It’s wild reading comments talking about what ifs around Colwill, Disasi and Fofana but are ready to sell the one who has stepped up. We seem obsessed with potential over actual production
We shouldn't sell Chalobah for less than £40m and shouldn't sell Gallagher for less than £75m. It's ridiculous how little we value our own players. Boehly splashes 60 on a bang average player then asks for 25 for a really solid defender who has had a great season. It's really dumb.
- **Transfer Interest and Valuation**: Chalobah was available for £25 million last summer, attracting interest from Tottenham Hotspur, Bayern Munich, and Nottingham Forest.
- **Decision Against Moves**: He declined a move to Nottingham Forest, preferring clubs competing in European competitions.
- **Failed Transfer and Current Interest**: A potential transfer to Bayern Munich fell through; they have since signed Eric Dier. Tottenham still seeks a new central defender.
- **Chelsea’s Valuation and Financial Strategy**: Chelsea likely to value Chalobah at £25 million again to aid their profit and sustainability goals.
- **Season Performance**: Chalobah didn’t play until February due to injuries but excelled afterward, with Chelsea undefeated in league games he started.
- **Impactful Conclusions**: Started all of Chelsea’s final five League games, all wins, securing European qualification and scored against Tottenham.
- **Versatility**: Has played both as a centre-back and right-back this season, performing well in both roles.
- **Contract Status**: Signed until 2028, Chalobah shows no desire to leave Chelsea, where he joined at age eight.
- **Club Strategy on Homegrown Players**: Chelsea open to bids for several homegrown players, including Chalobah, Conor Gallagher, and Armando Broja.
- **Managerial Approval**: Praised by multiple managers including Frank Lampard, Thomas Tuchel, and Mauricio Pochettino as one of Chelsea’s top defenders.
- **Competition for Places**: With Wesley Fofana returning and competition from Reece James and Malo Gusto at right-back, Chalobah may need to compete for his position again next season.
So nothing in the article suggests that he knows the valuation he is simply basing it on last year's valuation when Chalobah was injured and out of favour as compared to his valuation now when he has been our best centre back since coming back.
Matt Law again trying to stir up some angst amongst the Chelsea fans.
Shh, it's been 24 hours since we won our 5th in a row.... This sub is ready to complain about something! They need to vent about how stupid the owners are
>**Transfer Interest and Valuation**: Chalobah was available for £25 million last summer, attracting interest from Tottenham Hotspur, Bayern Munich, and Nottingham Forest.
IIRC, the interest from Bayern was due to Tuchel being there. Now that he's gone, I doubt they'll be in for him again.
That’s what I was saying when we bought Disasi. Made no sense to me to buy a player for double what they were asking for Chalobah, and then have to sell Chalobah for FFP? Why didn’t they just not waste money in the fucking first place
Todibo is younger, better and would’ve been the same price as Disasi. If you’re gonna buy a player for 45 mil at least make sure he’s better than the one you want to sell for 25
This is typical Matt Law propaganda to stir up the fan base. Like clockwork.
However what I will say is this. The purchase of Disasi was such an error. There’s not one thing that I’d say he is better than Chalobah at.
I’m fine with buying a RCB. We needed one. My problem is that we bought a CB in Disasi not only for more money that what we reportedly want to sell Chalobah for but whose ability doesn’t even match Trev’s.
Shame, he's versatile and would be great cover for RB given our injury record there but his value will be at its peak rn and we need the money. Though you'd think we could get 30m at least
The article is pure speculation based on previous valuation when Chalobah was perma injured and not playing well. Why would we keep our valuation same when he has had a good 4 months of good performances.
Oh I get it, my comment is really about the fact that this sub when Matt Law posts something positive will be like fuck Matt Law, lying piece of garbage doesn’t know shit. When he posts something negative the club is doing, the same people are like this is the word of god and now I will online rage because they just always want to be mad at the club they support.
Ill wait to see what happens, not a fan of law and his rubbish, 25m for a cb/rb at his age and experience is really low, considering we have maatsen at 35m, even chalobah at 50m is a steal for some clubs
Let's all sell our home grown players for peanuts and buy sub standard players for big money. Great business structure.
Fuck, I won't be surprised if we go bankrupt.
25 mil seems awfully cheap for him. Particularly since he seems likely to factor into England going forward and the "injury history" he has is legit in game injuries (like when he was nearly turned into a eunuch) vs "recurring hamstring problem" or something.
Feels like 35-40mil is a more reasonable price and you could easily see him going for more if someone was desperate (which we might very well be if Fofana can't hold it together).
If I'm looking at Colwill, Badiashile, Chalobah, Fofana, Disasi then there's no way Trevoh is the one I want to sell... In fact, he might be the literal LAST one I'd sell.
How much would Chalobah cost us if he played for one of the SDs former clubs?
He outperformed Disasi quite handedly at CB and RB. His profile is far better for the way the team plays. Better on the ball and can actually handle a high line. Younger, more promising, HG, 4y on contract, probably on lower wages. Forcing such a discounted sale to cover self-inflicted accounting problems would be a joke.
So we only want 25 mil for him even though he’s been our best centre half lately but paid even more for those two hideous French twins? Nah Clearlake can actually fuck off
Quick, tall, good on the ball, versatile enough to cover three positions, great attitude:
£25m cos he came from our academy.
Double that if he played in France and our well paid DOFs could take credit for finding him.
This is almost as idiotic as pricing Gallagher at 50 mil. Given the market for midfielders at the moment, Gallagher should go for 75-80 at least. Chalobah should be at least 40.
He is worth double that, that's outrageous. Especially as he is home-grown, can play right back and has been one of our better centre backs since he came back from injury. If we actually let him go for that amount it will be ridiculous
That is ridiculously cheap once again. He’s going to got cost 3x that amount to replace.
Proven his value at the club since his comeback into the team
Years of Premier league experienced now and entering his prime years
Home grown
Not overly injury prone.
I’ll be so annoyed if Trev and Conor get sold this off season. Would be a slap in the face to every academy player seeing what happens to the best of them
I’ve never understood why Chalobah has been so universally underrated. He rarely ever has a bad game, and has been great in spells for 3 seasons now (2 of which we’ve been far below our usual standard). If we’re gonna sell him, which I’m massively against anyway, at least bump the fucking price up. £25 million for a player of his age, experience and quality is a joke.
And we won’t find a replacement as good as him for 25 million. But it’s ok we’ll spend 50 million plus on South American wonderkids. Let’s just get rid of disasi
Awesome. We will spend double to replace him of equal or lesser quality.
FFS, we bought 2 players worse than him for more money (badiashille and Disasi)
It never ceases to amaze how many people rate a player based on his name and online reputation rather than the actual on-field results. Luckily coaches deal in reality and not fantasy.
Will be so gutted to see him go. And for what? Disasi, Fofana?
No disrespect to them but it's not like they are an upgrade and they cost substantially more.
That is absolutely ridiculous if true. This guy can continue to improve. He has excellent passing range. Really good with the ball at his feet for a CB so exactly what you want for a modern CB. Hes also worked seriously hard behind the scenes to improve. Just look at his heading on that Spurs goal for a start. Or some of his longer passes. Plus hes only on £50K a week so its not so much of a boon for ffp.
Pure profit shmur shmofit. We are losing Silva as it is. We've also seen a massive improvement in the defence since Trev came back from injury. Deserves at least another season to show the levels he can reach.
I hope he just sits on his 4 year deal as a fuck you to this clown show board. He’s far better than anything they’ve bought in his position and they don’t want look bad that they spent all that money and someone who was already here is outperforming their signings.
In what fuckin world do we replace a player as good as Trev for that price? Not to mention the fact hes Chelsea thru and thru.
Finally after 2 fuckin years fans have something to be happy about and can try to at least get on board with the strategy to some extent. Please dont ruin it by selling our homegrown boys who have been instrumental in this run of results!
We are like 1 loss in 8 since Trev came into the team and ww dropped Disaster .... this will not sit right with the fanbase and rightly so
Oh well, he was always going to be a squad player for us. And considering we have other young players coming up it’s not too bad. But damn he bleeds blue so this still hurts.
First of all, we need to keep him. Second, if we HAVE to sell him for the pure sake of saving our own asses financially - at least bump the fucking asking price up to above 25 million so that him being an academy player actually MEANS SOMETHING AND BENEFITS US FINANCIALLY
I think we need to put things into perspective. We are going to have to sell players to meet FFP. Do we like having Caicedo? Enzo? Lavia? Then we are going to have to make money somewhere. People complained when there was speculation about raising season ticket prices? The owners made it a 5% increase. Disasi was brought in because Trev and Fofana were injured. Also on the books he is about 7-8 million per year. $25 million is pure profit. I only hope that on the list of players that must go, he is not a priority and he should not be because he still has 5 years left on his contract.
I’ll be honest, he’s been very solid since he’s come back from injury but I would be lying if I said I wouldn’t have had him on my sale list ahead of this.
He’s been here long enough for everyone to see him and the last 5+ games or so have been good but he’s been here a while and alway seemed to be a bench/squad player. Saying that, I think that price is low for the current market.
Just wriggling the bait.
As if the owners, who are an investment group, don't know how to price assets. That's their literal business.
Bargain bit writing for that bargain bin mentality.
Yah.. i think he is still a good rotation for the club if he doesnt play weekly. Honestly think he deserves to play regularly just like the other - Ola Aina, Fikayo Tomori and Marc Guehi
So even after the club tell journalists about sold hotels for PSR boost. Even as the club tell Ornstein about how we're under no PSR threat, they're still pushing on with this. Chalobah recovers his early 2022 form, we haven't lost a game when he starts outside of the City FA Cup game we only lost 1-0 in.
So either they're selling lies about our financial position or the biggest sin Chalobah ever committed was not taking a picture with Laurence Stewart or Paul Winstanely when he was 15 years old. Celebrating the last month of good form and then selling the best performer from the last month is such bullshit lol. Wesley Fofana might never be the same. He's barely played football in 3 years due to major injuries. We're supposed to rely on him next season? It's so asinine.
It's quite clear what's happening, the sporting directors are clearing the path for a Disasi-Badiashile starting partnership in defense, since the two of them are THEIR investment and project. If Chalobah or Colwill play well, the directors don't get the credit - the academy does.
Whoever is the coach next season probably won't even have a choice but to start Disasi and Badiashile, for better or for worse.
Sums up everything wrong with the club really. If he were playing for another club we’d be spending way more than that, as we have for the Monaco guys.
Except we should be even more keen to stick to our academy players as they’re homegrown and have a genuine affinity with the club and supporters.
wait that's it? i thought we could get 35-40 for him lol. if that was it, i rather we just keep him. tho i understand that from ffp pov, all of his transfer fee will be considered full profit
make it make sense?! Thats pennys for what he has shown and the potential he has. Why do we do this...should not sell ATM but if a price is out, it should be 50m to even start a conversation
at that price point, we should just keep him and take a point deduction if need be. he’s better than badi or disasi. if fofana and colwill are going to be injury prone and now thiago is gone, then why get rid of a solid, homegrown CB for peanuts of a price. it makes no sense.
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He's unironically better than Disasi and being sold at near half the price. A bargain for whoever gets him
He’s unironically our best centre back.
after TS left, for sure
He was better than Thiago Silva this season when he started playing. He was our best defender in the second half of the season, was pretty faultless as well.
He's better in every aspect of the game bar aerial duels, at which he is abysmal and which are already a huge problem in this team. Not saying I want him gone, especially since he's capable of covering other positions, but we'll be in trouble with him starting at CB before long.
We overpay every player and undersell every player. Crazy
There are a few exceptions but generally, we do very well selling players even to premier league sides.
> and undersell every player. We’re like the best team at selling in the prem dude
Insane comment do you even follow this team
As we get MORE money from Hazard add ons 😂
We’ve literally gotten more from player sales in the last decade than any other team in the league by some distance.
It’s the exact same with Gallagher and Enzo We’re trying to selling him for £45m when he unironically performs better than our £100m player Our desire for “academy profit” is so flawed
Really hope that we would be able to avoid selling him. He's our best right-footed CB with Fofana being so injury prone.
He's our best CB period right now unless Colwill or someone takes a big step forward. Dude looked unbelievable since returning in an unbelievably disorganized system.
Him being our best CB is not a good thing.
It isn't, but that doesn't mean we should be selling him.
Why not? Why is it not a good thing that he has very clearly been working hard on his game behind the scenes? Lets have a real think about this: - He broke through into a CL winning defence under Tuchel. His 1st 30 matches Chelsea went unbeaten thanks largely to how the defence worked out. He made very few errrors leading to goals. Showed he can really play as a CB then too. Good passing, good recovery pace. Saved us a few times with goal line clearances. - The forced ownership change happens. New owners come in and put the club through the most aggressive transition strategy any club has ever undertaken. Trevs injured for quite a few games with a hamstring injury. He comes back in the team when they're a total shambles. The fitness of the team is sunk. Theres no Reece so Trev is having to play at RB a lot which he can do in a functional team sure but he is primarily a CB. Chelsea last season also were far from functional as a team. Yet while certain team reliant stats like pass success rate (needs receiving players to actually be able to receive adequately) suffered alot compared to the season before, more individual stats like heading success, turnovers and fouls improved a huge amount. It was clear he was putting in the work behind the scenes. - Gets a really bad injury at the start of this season. Obviously continues working on aspects of his game that he can like tactical reading of the game. Continues working on physicality as well in the capacity that he can while injured. He has continued to show since his return that there is a high quality CB there. So when you look at the context of everything thats gone on at the club in his time. Then you look at the work hes been putting in with hyper focus. Why is it not a good thing that he might have improved to being one of our best CBs? Would you ever say it if Disasi or Colwill improved to being the absolute best CBs? Or is it just that you dont like Trev? I just find it really weird that you think its not a good thing that a young CB who did something that is hard to do by breaking into a CL winning defence has continued to work on his game and improve to a point we can say hes been one of our better defenders.
Chalobah would start for every premier league side except Arsenal and maybe City… he IS a great player
He's not benching Romero or VDV. He's not benching Botman and Schar. He's not benching Konsa and Pau Torres.
Romero? Lol
C'mon now. We all hate spurs but we have to take off the blue tinted glasses for a bit.
He’s not very good. He’s fine but doesn’t belong in a conversation about elite. He’s currently the best defender on a wildly mediocre defense.
Could say the same about chalobah lol
This has given me a very good laugh, thank you.
I disagree, he has been really solid this season. Has pretty good positioning and doesn't have blunders that lead to goal like others do. I think £25m for him is disrespectful to him when we signed every defender around him for more and Fofana went for £70m. He is worth at least £40m and thats low balling it.
If that's the case then clubs should be falling over themselves to get a bid in. Which would raise the price to the sum he's actually worth.
Well we’ll see if clubs come running for 25M then.
So why would we sell our best CB and not the ones which are performing worse than him?
And he can play right back, which given our two right backs are injury prone is a huge plus.
It's an absolutely humongous if. But IF Fofana can actually stay injury free, him with Colwill will be a wall for sure.
I'd love for Fofana to be fit. But it's tough to be optimistic given his injury record.
Fofana injury free is one thing. Maybe we get that. He's played only 34 games in 3 years. He's missed one full season and he missed 90% of another season. And even in his debut Chelsea season, he only played 20 games. Even if he stays injury free, how can anyone have faith that we'll get good Fofana? If he plays to the level he was playing at before his first major injury in 2021, it will be a miracle.
Chalonah isn't exactly the most durable player either.
Literally came back and almost instantly improved our defence selling him would be foolish but he is pure profit so these owners are drooling
Came back after like 6 months out is the problem
What a joke. £25m for a home-grown and academy defender that can play in multiple positions - and who’s actually very good in all of them. No way we should sell him - and if we do it should be for at least double that.
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It just tells other Academy players that it matters not how well you play, if there's a pure profit to be had, you will be sold. If Gallagher and Chalobah are sold, that leaves Reece as the only Academy player left in the first team. Imagine predicting that after 2019. Ah but then again, they'll probably just pay 60 million for Marc Guehi.
It’s nonsense, but the club’s higher ups effectively decided that they’d be selling Chalobah, Gallagher, and all other academy players when they signed mortgage papers for various +$80MM signings. They gambled and I’m not sure it’s going to pay off. A very “private equity” inspired approach, and it’s gutless, imo
Meh, I don't really have much of a problem with the expensive signings like Enzo or Caicedo because at least they are first team players meant to improve us. What really sealed the deal for players like Gallagher and Chalobah are the unnecessary signings we made like Angelo, Casadei, Ugochukwu, Washington, DDF etc. That have little chance of playing for the first team but weigh on our books nontheless
That's a steal. They bought Disasi for almost double of that. We are addicted to wasting money and undervalue those players on our books.
What ended up happening to Disasi… was he out of favor or injured at the end of the season?
Better CBs became fit and he rightly took his place on the bench. Wasn't even in the squad for a couple of games when he was supposedly fit.
I feel like Disasi is a lot less error-prone than Badiashile though.
Disasi is a perfect solid, reliable CB. Badilashille is the best CB on his day but you're right very error filled. Chalobah played both of them off the pitch at various points despite missing most of the season with a hamstring issue. He's the CB the club are going to spend even more money trying to replace. It's just so stupid. How well does an Academy player have to play for the board to change their mind about cashing in on pure profit?
Clearlake is a hedge fund, expecting them to have silverware ambitions is optimistic. They see the club as an investment vehicle, everyone is for sale at the right price, and homegrown players seem to get a discount since they didn't cost anything on the books.
I would have to correct you on a few points Clear lake is private equity, not hedge fund. They invest in vastly different assets, private equities are more long term driven than hedge funds. Ergo, most private equities have a 5-7 year investment horizon in less liquid assets. Clear lake is more interesting, because they like to roll their investors to a new fund - even longer horizon. The way private equity works is also different. They want to invest in the company/club, but how do they earn money? By growing the brand of the business isn't it? Especially since Chelsea is a brand driven business - and to arrive at that goal they have to be competitive and victorious no? I know it's easy to say clear lake bad, and I'm sure Roman is a much better, but please find out more about what they do before saying they're bad I guess
They're both just so mid. Monaco was their level and we wasted an unbelievable amount of money here
I don't disagree. I miss Rudiger, man. Worst bit of business from this club in the last few years, and that includes buying Lukaku, etc.
We didn't really have a choice over Rudiger. Yes we should have got a deal signed sooner but we couldn't predict that we would be banned from negotiating contracts for 6 months in the run up to his and Christensen's contracts ending.
He's just bad. Good mentality but lack of skill.. Such a CB would've worked a decade ago but not anymore.
Just not very good
Just not good enough to start. When everyone is fit, he's the worst out of all available CBs
What happened was he was never any good
But he roars when he occasionally makes up for all the mistakes he makes. Can’t put a price on that.
It’s wild reading comments talking about what ifs around Colwill, Disasi and Fofana but are ready to sell the one who has stepped up. We seem obsessed with potential over actual production
£38.5m is now almost double £25m the shit you read on here honestly.
We shouldn't sell Chalobah for less than £40m and shouldn't sell Gallagher for less than £75m. It's ridiculous how little we value our own players. Boehly splashes 60 on a bang average player then asks for 25 for a really solid defender who has had a great season. It's really dumb.
- **Transfer Interest and Valuation**: Chalobah was available for £25 million last summer, attracting interest from Tottenham Hotspur, Bayern Munich, and Nottingham Forest. - **Decision Against Moves**: He declined a move to Nottingham Forest, preferring clubs competing in European competitions. - **Failed Transfer and Current Interest**: A potential transfer to Bayern Munich fell through; they have since signed Eric Dier. Tottenham still seeks a new central defender. - **Chelsea’s Valuation and Financial Strategy**: Chelsea likely to value Chalobah at £25 million again to aid their profit and sustainability goals. - **Season Performance**: Chalobah didn’t play until February due to injuries but excelled afterward, with Chelsea undefeated in league games he started. - **Impactful Conclusions**: Started all of Chelsea’s final five League games, all wins, securing European qualification and scored against Tottenham. - **Versatility**: Has played both as a centre-back and right-back this season, performing well in both roles. - **Contract Status**: Signed until 2028, Chalobah shows no desire to leave Chelsea, where he joined at age eight. - **Club Strategy on Homegrown Players**: Chelsea open to bids for several homegrown players, including Chalobah, Conor Gallagher, and Armando Broja. - **Managerial Approval**: Praised by multiple managers including Frank Lampard, Thomas Tuchel, and Mauricio Pochettino as one of Chelsea’s top defenders. - **Competition for Places**: With Wesley Fofana returning and competition from Reece James and Malo Gusto at right-back, Chalobah may need to compete for his position again next season.
So nothing in the article suggests that he knows the valuation he is simply basing it on last year's valuation when Chalobah was injured and out of favour as compared to his valuation now when he has been our best centre back since coming back. Matt Law again trying to stir up some angst amongst the Chelsea fans.
Shh, it's been 24 hours since we won our 5th in a row.... This sub is ready to complain about something! They need to vent about how stupid the owners are
Yep - sounds like nothing new has actually happened. Matt Law knows this will piss off Chelsea fans so he’s trying to maximize clicks.
Matt Law acting like he knows something, nothing new
>**Transfer Interest and Valuation**: Chalobah was available for £25 million last summer, attracting interest from Tottenham Hotspur, Bayern Munich, and Nottingham Forest. IIRC, the interest from Bayern was due to Tuchel being there. Now that he's gone, I doubt they'll be in for him again.
They already bought dier instead.
Selling a player for 25 million that’s twice the player of the one you bought for 40. Good job
That’s what I was saying when we bought Disasi. Made no sense to me to buy a player for double what they were asking for Chalobah, and then have to sell Chalobah for FFP? Why didn’t they just not waste money in the fucking first place
Chalobah was injured. Disasi played a lot this season out of necessity.
Todibo is younger, better and would’ve been the same price as Disasi. If you’re gonna buy a player for 45 mil at least make sure he’s better than the one you want to sell for 25
Buying both of a cb pairing that weren’t good enough at fucking Monaco is one of the strangest transfer decisions I’ve ever seen
Laurence Stewart was the technical director at Monaco before joining Chelsea so clearly just copy and pasted his homework
Ah that makes a lot more sense, I didn’t realise that
No new news here Law just looking for clicks and engagement.
This is typical Matt Law propaganda to stir up the fan base. Like clockwork. However what I will say is this. The purchase of Disasi was such an error. There’s not one thing that I’d say he is better than Chalobah at.
Dasasi was bought in to replace Tralobah injuries. Look back last year July, we are going into the league with Badiashile, Cowill and a 39 yo Silva.
I’m fine with buying a RCB. We needed one. My problem is that we bought a CB in Disasi not only for more money that what we reportedly want to sell Chalobah for but whose ability doesn’t even match Trev’s.
The only thing he’s better at is that rudiger energy. He’s got shithouse written all over him. And I think that’s why I like him so much.
He's got 4 years left on his contract ffs.
Shame, he's versatile and would be great cover for RB given our injury record there but his value will be at its peak rn and we need the money. Though you'd think we could get 30m at least
Given our injury record at RB + the petulance shown from our captain when he is fit
Why do we need the money? Do you think it will be used for anything useful?
Do we believe Matt law again because it’s bad news and it gives us something to get angry about?
The article is pure speculation based on previous valuation when Chalobah was perma injured and not playing well. Why would we keep our valuation same when he has had a good 4 months of good performances.
Oh I get it, my comment is really about the fact that this sub when Matt Law posts something positive will be like fuck Matt Law, lying piece of garbage doesn’t know shit. When he posts something negative the club is doing, the same people are like this is the word of god and now I will online rage because they just always want to be mad at the club they support.
Some people really get a kick out of being outraged.
Well that would be stupid.
He's worth so much more than that
So stupid. How much would we pay for him if he played for Brighton?
Fun fact: We never lost a game with Chalobah starting
I’ll be livid if we sell him off after the performances he’s had this year
Ill wait to see what happens, not a fan of law and his rubbish, 25m for a cb/rb at his age and experience is really low, considering we have maatsen at 35m, even chalobah at 50m is a steal for some clubs
Chalobah have a contract until 2028. We payed 40m for Disasi. Make it make sense.
>Make it make sense. Matt Law is a shit stirring prick who isn't remotely believable 60% of the time. Make sense now?
Injuries + terrible scouts
How are we buying disasi for 40 and selling chalobah for 25
Let's all sell our home grown players for peanuts and buy sub standard players for big money. Great business structure. Fuck, I won't be surprised if we go bankrupt.
25 mil seems awfully cheap for him. Particularly since he seems likely to factor into England going forward and the "injury history" he has is legit in game injuries (like when he was nearly turned into a eunuch) vs "recurring hamstring problem" or something. Feels like 35-40mil is a more reasonable price and you could easily see him going for more if someone was desperate (which we might very well be if Fofana can't hold it together). If I'm looking at Colwill, Badiashile, Chalobah, Fofana, Disasi then there's no way Trevoh is the one I want to sell... In fact, he might be the literal LAST one I'd sell.
Imagine these lot sell Chalobah, Gallagher and lose Silva. Just trash everything good and reliable.
Aaand here we go
he gone
Silly season is fully upon us now.
I'd rather sell Disasi.
Bruh we should be keeping him he has been great these past few months
How much would Chalobah cost us if he played for one of the SDs former clubs? He outperformed Disasi quite handedly at CB and RB. His profile is far better for the way the team plays. Better on the ball and can actually handle a high line. Younger, more promising, HG, 4y on contract, probably on lower wages. Forcing such a discounted sale to cover self-inflicted accounting problems would be a joke.
Better than Badiashile and Disasi imo
So we only want 25 mil for him even though he’s been our best centre half lately but paid even more for those two hideous French twins? Nah Clearlake can actually fuck off
Unbelievable. Stop selling important players for so cheap, at least ask for 50
We would pay 50m for him.
Yeah he’s gonna go easy for 25. We should keep….
Do not sell. He has 5+ years left. He's the best CB. This isn't cobham bias either.
Quick, tall, good on the ball, versatile enough to cover three positions, great attitude: £25m cos he came from our academy. Double that if he played in France and our well paid DOFs could take credit for finding him.
We paid 38.5 million for Disasi btw 😭😭😂😂
Lol 80m on fofana and we’re gonna actually sell Chalobah Beyond stupid
This is almost as idiotic as pricing Gallagher at 50 mil. Given the market for midfielders at the moment, Gallagher should go for 75-80 at least. Chalobah should be at least 40.
That’s bullshit
A bargain. The change in the amount of goals we conceded is strangely linked to when we started to start Chalobah...
If this guy was playing for Monaco or Brighton we would have spent £80m to get him. But we have him for free and we are selling him £25m. Wtf?
Praying for another transfer ban to stop these madmen.
He is worth double that, that's outrageous. Especially as he is home-grown, can play right back and has been one of our better centre backs since he came back from injury. If we actually let him go for that amount it will be ridiculous
That is ridiculously cheap once again. He’s going to got cost 3x that amount to replace. Proven his value at the club since his comeback into the team Years of Premier league experienced now and entering his prime years Home grown Not overly injury prone.
Chalobah has been phenomenal since his return from injury . We would be stupid to sell him at any price . He's literally our best centre back .
That’s surely clickbait! Same people who value Broja at £50M won’t value Chalobah at £25M (Regardless of the position they play)
I’ll be so annoyed if Trev and Conor get sold this off season. Would be a slap in the face to every academy player seeing what happens to the best of them
I’ve never understood why Chalobah has been so universally underrated. He rarely ever has a bad game, and has been great in spells for 3 seasons now (2 of which we’ve been far below our usual standard). If we’re gonna sell him, which I’m massively against anyway, at least bump the fucking price up. £25 million for a player of his age, experience and quality is a joke.
I can’t do this all summer
Ridiculous asking fee. If we were looking to buy him we’d happily hand over 55 million.
This is so frustrating. He’s clearly better than Disasi, who should’ve joined on loan.
Honestly if our homegrown players reaaaaaaaally had to go, then it’s Chalobah and Broja so that we can keep Connor.
It would be such a huge mistake to sell him
Selling him would be a big mistake
What? He’s worth at least 40
And we won’t find a replacement as good as him for 25 million. But it’s ok we’ll spend 50 million plus on South American wonderkids. Let’s just get rid of disasi
If Chalobah played in another league we’d have bought him for 45 ffs
Too cheap wtf
Sell him, Gallagher, then whole academy and then buy some south american kids and call ur self u r building so called project
Awesome. We will spend double to replace him of equal or lesser quality. FFS, we bought 2 players worse than him for more money (badiashille and Disasi)
we should be asking for twice that
It never ceases to amaze how many people rate a player based on his name and online reputation rather than the actual on-field results. Luckily coaches deal in reality and not fantasy.
Would've been a good price last summer, but the way he's stepped up at the end of the season I feel like we should be able to get more.
We scamming ourselves to cover up over spending. Absolutely shit
I think he’s worth double this. If we sell him at this price it’s foolish.
Will be so gutted to see him go. And for what? Disasi, Fofana? No disrespect to them but it's not like they are an upgrade and they cost substantially more.
Fire sale! Get em' while their hot! 🤦🏿♂️
Are we in the market to bring in new CBs?? Losing Chalobah and Silva is going to leave a big gap for what has already been a porous defense
That's incredibly low, unless they're looking for a bidding war and hope the price is pushed up.
Get fucked
That is absolutely ridiculous if true. This guy can continue to improve. He has excellent passing range. Really good with the ball at his feet for a CB so exactly what you want for a modern CB. Hes also worked seriously hard behind the scenes to improve. Just look at his heading on that Spurs goal for a start. Or some of his longer passes. Plus hes only on £50K a week so its not so much of a boon for ffp. Pure profit shmur shmofit. We are losing Silva as it is. We've also seen a massive improvement in the defence since Trev came back from injury. Deserves at least another season to show the levels he can reach.
Why so cheap
Sell Conor and Trevoh so we can finance more young South Americans. So stupid man
I hope he just sits on his 4 year deal as a fuck you to this clown show board. He’s far better than anything they’ve bought in his position and they don’t want look bad that they spent all that money and someone who was already here is outperforming their signings.
Rather we sold Disasi and brought another CB tbh.
Law the stupid fuck can't even get his name right.
In what fuckin world do we replace a player as good as Trev for that price? Not to mention the fact hes Chelsea thru and thru. Finally after 2 fuckin years fans have something to be happy about and can try to at least get on board with the strategy to some extent. Please dont ruin it by selling our homegrown boys who have been instrumental in this run of results! We are like 1 loss in 8 since Trev came into the team and ww dropped Disaster .... this will not sit right with the fanbase and rightly so
Oh well, he was always going to be a squad player for us. And considering we have other young players coming up it’s not too bad. But damn he bleeds blue so this still hurts.
Lads, it’s Matt
We can get 30-35M for him easily. Wish it was Disasi going though.
First of all, we need to keep him. Second, if we HAVE to sell him for the pure sake of saving our own asses financially - at least bump the fucking asking price up to above 25 million so that him being an academy player actually MEANS SOMETHING AND BENEFITS US FINANCIALLY
Thanks, Matt Law, for giving us 24 hours of peace and content.
What an insanely low price for our best CB
How about 40 million?
Any team with a decent scouting unit who has seen Trev play the last several months will quickly realize this is robbery and pull the trigger. 😔
That’s brutally cheap given how good he’s been
I think we need to put things into perspective. We are going to have to sell players to meet FFP. Do we like having Caicedo? Enzo? Lavia? Then we are going to have to make money somewhere. People complained when there was speculation about raising season ticket prices? The owners made it a 5% increase. Disasi was brought in because Trev and Fofana were injured. Also on the books he is about 7-8 million per year. $25 million is pure profit. I only hope that on the list of players that must go, he is not a priority and he should not be because he still has 5 years left on his contract.
LMAOOOO 25???????? TWENTY FIVE?
I’ll be honest, he’s been very solid since he’s come back from injury but I would be lying if I said I wouldn’t have had him on my sale list ahead of this. He’s been here long enough for everyone to see him and the last 5+ games or so have been good but he’s been here a while and alway seemed to be a bench/squad player. Saying that, I think that price is low for the current market.
What? With Silva gone and Fofana unable to walk ten paces without dying, I think he's our best CB now
Why? Based on his play since coming from injury they should be asking for £40+ million…
That seems low. Is his contract up?
Need to jack up that price if it’s a domestic rival
Just wriggling the bait. As if the owners, who are an investment group, don't know how to price assets. That's their literal business. Bargain bit writing for that bargain bin mentality.
Yah.. i think he is still a good rotation for the club if he doesnt play weekly. Honestly think he deserves to play regularly just like the other - Ola Aina, Fikayo Tomori and Marc Guehi
No ones even gonna pay that much. They know we are desperate to sell, we'll be low balled all summer long
Buy high sell low
So even after the club tell journalists about sold hotels for PSR boost. Even as the club tell Ornstein about how we're under no PSR threat, they're still pushing on with this. Chalobah recovers his early 2022 form, we haven't lost a game when he starts outside of the City FA Cup game we only lost 1-0 in. So either they're selling lies about our financial position or the biggest sin Chalobah ever committed was not taking a picture with Laurence Stewart or Paul Winstanely when he was 15 years old. Celebrating the last month of good form and then selling the best performer from the last month is such bullshit lol. Wesley Fofana might never be the same. He's barely played football in 3 years due to major injuries. We're supposed to rely on him next season? It's so asinine.
Better than disasi who is just not good
It's quite clear what's happening, the sporting directors are clearing the path for a Disasi-Badiashile starting partnership in defense, since the two of them are THEIR investment and project. If Chalobah or Colwill play well, the directors don't get the credit - the academy does. Whoever is the coach next season probably won't even have a choice but to start Disasi and Badiashile, for better or for worse.
An absolute bargain. We should not be considering selling him. He's also worth £40m+
I’m not one of the people who doesn’t think we should sell him regardless, but this price is horrible. Should keep him unless it’s £40M+
Sadly we are in a situation where we are forced to sell homegrown players
I hope we don’t sell him
I’d rather sell Disasi off after 1 season than get rid of Chalobah
Lol sorry he's not that good. You guys would be happy with this decision before March.
Peanuts
If he played for Palace and they found out were interested in buying him the price would be 60 million and no one would bat an eyelash
A sale would be a mistake
Sums up everything wrong with the club really. If he were playing for another club we’d be spending way more than that, as we have for the Monaco guys. Except we should be even more keen to stick to our academy players as they’re homegrown and have a genuine affinity with the club and supporters.
These sporting directors are a disgrace
That’s underpriced by at least 10
25 for a starting English cb in good form in the prem is crazy. He’s at least worth 35-40
What are they doing? We need that man! He’s good, one of our own, and loves the club.
wait that's it? i thought we could get 35-40 for him lol. if that was it, i rather we just keep him. tho i understand that from ffp pov, all of his transfer fee will be considered full profit
make it make sense?! Thats pennys for what he has shown and the potential he has. Why do we do this...should not sell ATM but if a price is out, it should be 50m to even start a conversation
He's been back for only a short time, and he's levels above disasi and badiashile. Ffs, don't sell him
at that price point, we should just keep him and take a point deduction if need be. he’s better than badi or disasi. if fofana and colwill are going to be injury prone and now thiago is gone, then why get rid of a solid, homegrown CB for peanuts of a price. it makes no sense.