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It’s a massive amount for any club in a summer window. Even if PSG or Madrid spent 300 odd mil in a month people would be like “damn, that’s a fuck load”
The fact Chelsea have done this in Jan is just fucking outrageous
They sealed the deal yesterday, and were out on the golf course today, out of reception. Meanwhile, ChatGTP spawned a few dozen Twitter accounts and just spouted absolute rubbish for the past 36h.
So many of our (Chelsea) fans claiming a Yank has been ruining the team since Potter’s arrival. As I’ve said from the beginning - Todd is not spending this amount of money to get anything less than silverware and gold.
With a squad like this, we absolutely have to start winning. If we don’t, Todd will find someone who can.
Summer window can still turn out pretty good really. Sterling and Fofana have been alright and if Cucurella can continue his good form and become a solid starter/role player he'll be cool too. Only bad deal could be Koulibaly but even he could turn it around. As for the 18-20 year olds we signed, I like all those deals but jury is still out of course.
Sterling hasn't been good enough given his age, TBH. He was supposed to be good now—and he hasn't been.
Fofana and Cucu were overpays but ~fine.
Koulibaly has been a bad buy too.
Apparently Cucurella was dreadfully sick for a while and lost a bunch of strength. If he plays like his recent form from here on out, he'll prove to be more or less worth his fee.
Koulibaly was an overpay, but they can't all be winners.
Sterling, it's too soon to judge. I think he's suffering from the toothlessness of the rest of the attack. Look for him to find chemistry with more aggressive-minded players like Mudryk before judging.
How much do they get from this transfer? I wonder if he would've got a big transfer if he was still playing in Argentina and had the World Cup that he had. Or was he just not going to be selected for the World Cup if he was still at River?
Around 35 million.
He was probably going to be selected for the World Cup if he was still in River (Julian Alvarez won the Copa America when he was still at River, also Armani went to the World Cup and he is still at River), but the transfer would have been way lower because the whole country kinda sucks on economic terms, so it would have been impossible to compete against any contract they would offer to Enzo.
I hope so man. Everyone will be licking lips to see this signing of ours flop big, understandably, so I hope he can do well if not justify the big fee fully. We also lacked a good passer for years now. He could help us alot if he lives up to his hype.
This is the best business ever done for a player in Argentina period, with or without negotiating. No team has ever gotten over 40 million dollars for a player here.
World Cup keeps giving Argentina more wins. Could it be a sign & 30 years from now books get written about how that month in 2022 changed the world...
Or maybe not.
also played in Benfica.
he is still in shape, playing futsal in the Andorran league, and he participated recently in Piqué's King's League. it was a pleasure to see him play together with Aimar again in Benfica, years after they left River.
my favourite player. I'm a Benfica fan since the 80s and I just love intelligent players. there were several but I kept track of his whole career and was extremely happy when he joined us. I wish he had more success in our club.
my late puppy was named Pablito in his honour.
The tea leaves were obvious this morning Enzo not traveling then the Benfica director looking for a replacement then the briefings they put out about it’s off the signs were there that negotiations were being done and the deal would be completed
Todd Boehly madness^^^tm is just starting.
This will be Chelsea's 8^th signing of the winter window, spending around £290 million.
River Plate also reportedly had a 25% sell-on clause, they're going to be rolling in it tonight.
This is pure Football Manager logic. "I made a save at the start of the window, let's just see how these players get on. We can always reload."
Insanity.
€120 million for a player you guys bought for €10 million 6 months ago is an absolute joke. Chelsea could potentially turn into United (coming from a United supporter) where clubs know that they’ll pay ridiculous fees so will hike up the price for them.
Plus, how many players sold for £100m+ actually performed after the sale? Coutinho, Dembele, Felix all didn’t. Plus, extending out transfer fees after 5 years is going to be banned. If these players Chelsea buy don’t perform, they could have shot themselves in the foot.
I watched that match, commentators at one point stated that statistically speaking, more often than not, those who do that end up leaving, Darwin did the same before moving on to Liverpool, for example
What does kissing the badge mean?
I always took it as a gesture of love or great admiration for the club. Doesn't mean unconditional loyalty.
Enzo can love Benfica and still pick what's best for his career. Both can be true.
As a Benfica fan I'm ok with his exit. We don't need the money but we will also be okay without him because we have good depth to cover that role.
500m (610m minus the 110m they spent on Koulibaly, Sterling and Auba) on a new starting 11. Literally a new starting line-up (one player per position for a 4-3-3)
* Slonina
* Gusto-Fofana-Badiashile-Cucurella
* Fernandez-Chukwuemeka-Santos
* Madueke-Datro Fofana-Mudryk
I feel like it’s two fold - handcuffs small and medium sized clubs from competing and gives an excuse to owners of the big clubs when they decide they don’t want to invest anymore.
Nah united is nearly in breach of FFP. The key is to just have really rich owners who don’t leverage the club. So United, barca, Bayern, real all don’t count
Because they give 7 year contracts. So on paper that means that this transfer will cost 120/7=17m every year plus whatever his annual wage is. However this does complicate transfers a couple years down the line as these transfers will still be lingering by then
I hope you guys still win the league and go deep into CL. Really crappy to lose a player of his caliber without time to replace him when you're having such a good season.
This surely is a record in the January window. What, around 300m? Absolute madness.
I’m sure they’ll give him a 10 year contract with an option for 50. FFP is working great.
Not gonna lie, kinda jealous of Chelsea fans, club got a 1.5B debt just wiped out and then 600 million spent just this year in transfers, i mean, what can you even say, i know they are within FFP rules but should this be allowed? a single club spending basically the same as a whole league? (Bundesliga), doesn't seem fair, but congrats.
All us footballing accountants who qualified 10 hours ago want to know if they used a factoring company to get around the fact they can’t amortise the fee for a buyout clause or if it was a release clause all along
He doesn’t know what pressure means. Most players are terrified of wearing the Argentina jersey and this guy came in having barely ever played for the NT and won the WC Golden Boy award. He doesn’t understand context I think
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the longest meeting is finally over
12hrs of negotiations apparently
How much has Chelsea spent this window? It's got to be an astronomical amount.
208m euros before this so 328m euros total
Good lord, that's a massive amount for most clubs in the summer window, let alone the winter window.
It’s a massive amount for any club in a summer window. Even if PSG or Madrid spent 300 odd mil in a month people would be like “damn, that’s a fuck load” The fact Chelsea have done this in Jan is just fucking outrageous
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Hey don't forgot the Jorginho money. Hazard and Jorginho single-handedly paid for this transfer window.
The fall window 😭
He’s edited it now lol
Because leaf fall down
12 hours of negotiations to pay the release clause they asked for from the beginning. Art of the deal
60! No 61! No 63! *6h later* Fine! 120! Okay dea- But in 12 payments No 11? No ...
😅
You are the man himself?
must be, impossible to tell a lie on the internet
that is true.
No they paid 40M upfront and the rest in 6 installments.
Surprisingly, it’s still actually going on
They've been chilling with pizza since about 4pm watching people having meltdowns on twitter laughing
They sealed the deal yesterday, and were out on the golf course today, out of reception. Meanwhile, ChatGTP spawned a few dozen Twitter accounts and just spouted absolute rubbish for the past 36h.
Rui Costa, Todd Boehly and co were probably just playing tournament on FIFA. that’s why it took so long
Winner got Enzo for sure
I hope they get some good food after.
People thought Chelsea's spending would end after Abramovich's departure, it's gone up 3 fold lmao
So many of our (Chelsea) fans claiming a Yank has been ruining the team since Potter’s arrival. As I’ve said from the beginning - Todd is not spending this amount of money to get anything less than silverware and gold. With a squad like this, we absolutely have to start winning. If we don’t, Todd will find someone who can.
The summer window was bad, TBF. Winter window has been good tho—esp since Vivell and co have input instead of Boehly playing sporting director
Summer window can still turn out pretty good really. Sterling and Fofana have been alright and if Cucurella can continue his good form and become a solid starter/role player he'll be cool too. Only bad deal could be Koulibaly but even he could turn it around. As for the 18-20 year olds we signed, I like all those deals but jury is still out of course.
Sterling hasn't been good enough given his age, TBH. He was supposed to be good now—and he hasn't been. Fofana and Cucu were overpays but ~fine. Koulibaly has been a bad buy too.
Apparently Cucurella was dreadfully sick for a while and lost a bunch of strength. If he plays like his recent form from here on out, he'll prove to be more or less worth his fee. Koulibaly was an overpay, but they can't all be winners. Sterling, it's too soon to judge. I think he's suffering from the toothlessness of the rest of the attack. Look for him to find chemistry with more aggressive-minded players like Mudryk before judging.
Damn, and Koulibaly had been hyped with different clubs for so many windows... Did not see this coming
Feels like he's just a step too slow at his age. It's just not working out as we hoped.
How…. Many players can one even register?
3 in cl, Means that one out of mudryk, badiashile, felix and enzo wont play cl with chelsea
Badiashile probably.
Really? Are there enough defenders to rely on?
It's less "we have enough defenders" and more "Felix HAS to play" thanks to the loan terms
We have Silva, Koulibaly, Chalobah, and Wesley Fofana (likely coming back from injury soon)
No, but fuck defense
Easily leave out Badi even though he's been great. If Fofana is back we'll be good and I'm alright with K2 in the CL.
Also means he can play in league and help with rotations.
Do we gain any spots for jorgi/ziyech transfers?
Nope. You get 3 changes.
Nope. As of round of 16 a club can register a maximum of 3 new players
Boehly: what if we take 12 new spots and stretch it over 8 seasons?
Ask Nottingham Forest
They're not in Europe
I believe they're in England
And I believe Brexit means Brexit
River is signing Mbappe now.
Who needs Mbappe when you have Pablito Solari?
Who needs Pablito when you have Salo El Gladiador Rondón 🫡
How much do they get from this transfer? I wonder if he would've got a big transfer if he was still playing in Argentina and had the World Cup that he had. Or was he just not going to be selected for the World Cup if he was still at River?
Around 35 million. He was probably going to be selected for the World Cup if he was still in River (Julian Alvarez won the Copa America when he was still at River, also Armani went to the World Cup and he is still at River), but the transfer would have been way lower because the whole country kinda sucks on economic terms, so it would have been impossible to compete against any contract they would offer to Enzo.
Let's gooooo. We eating thanks Chelsea
You make more money by the sell of a player you don't even have anymore than we do selling 6-7 good players. Fucking hell I hate everything
jajaja tampoco es que nos pasa seguido. de 7 que se nos iban 5 eran con el pase en su poder. Una desgracia
We really are millionaires ;)
Ahora a repatriar a Julian
Hay que traer a Messi, le falta una libertadores y la 5ta esta cerquita 👀
Passive income 🔥
Next time I'm watching football highlights YouTube ads: Want to make millions without lifting a finger?? Here's 2 easy steps to get rich quick!
Yeah but easy to misunderstand when the directions begin with purchasing young Argentine boys.
Atleast one other club's fans are happy with us lol.
You’ll be really happy too believe me. Enzo is different.
I hope so man. Everyone will be licking lips to see this signing of ours flop big, understandably, so I hope he can do well if not justify the big fee fully. We also lacked a good passer for years now. He could help us alot if he lives up to his hype.
Friendship ended with Benfica. Chelsea is our new best friend!
This was the best news of the day. Thanks Chelsea.
Trickle down economics finally working as intended
Has any club done better business from not having to negotiate?
This is the best business ever done for a player in Argentina period, with or without negotiating. No team has ever gotten over 40 million dollars for a player here.
World Cup keeps giving Argentina more wins. Could it be a sign & 30 years from now books get written about how that month in 2022 changed the world... Or maybe not.
Brito: Con Enzo me hice la cancha😎
Amazing business you guys did here … Benfica should become your second team from now on
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1st or 2nd. Saviola to Barcelona in 2001 was around €35m.
That’s a name I haven’t heard in a LONG time
also played in Benfica. he is still in shape, playing futsal in the Andorran league, and he participated recently in Piqué's King's League. it was a pleasure to see him play together with Aimar again in Benfica, years after they left River.
Pablo Aimar was my fucking jam
my favourite player. I'm a Benfica fan since the 80s and I just love intelligent players. there were several but I kept track of his whole career and was extremely happy when he joined us. I wish he had more success in our club. my late puppy was named Pablito in his honour.
If you count that we paid 14M euro already plus 25% of 120M now, that's 44M. So #1 PS: love Saviola and Aimar
Don't forget to add a couple mill for formation rights, it's supposed to be close to 50 total
Insane fee for the time
fell to my knees in the middle of Lidl
Just watched a guy fall on his knees in my local Lidl
How did he fell? Lidl by Lidl... I'll see myself out
Your Lidls are still open?
They are usually open until around 9 or 10PM here. Depends on the location.
Dreams can be buy
Wow this move came out of nowhere, can’t believe how quickly it’s come together
Yep, surprised how little drama was involved
We move in silence
Like Kronk with Kuzco in the bag
My F5 key can finally rest.
Holy shit
Thought it was dead with how long it's taking
It was dead, then it was revived, then was dead again, and revived again, and dead, and revived... And it actually happened
"This parrot is (not) deceased"
The tea leaves were obvious this morning Enzo not traveling then the Benfica director looking for a replacement then the briefings they put out about it’s off the signs were there that negotiations were being done and the deal would be completed
It’s over. It’s finally over
And That's because the Transfer Window is about to close...
Todd Boehly madness^^^tm is just starting. This will be Chelsea's 8^th signing of the winter window, spending around £290 million. River Plate also reportedly had a 25% sell-on clause, they're going to be rolling in it tonight.
Holy shit :(
You can’t just throw a bunch of superstars on the pitch and call it a team, as we’ve already learnt. I wouldn’t worry just yet.
We won 2 champions leagues with that attitude
Lol fair point Sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit
congrats, hes the best young midfield talent i can remember in my lifetime coming out of argentina
Todd Boehly is making Roman Abramovich seem like he was a cheapskate
Scenes when it’s revealed Abramovich *is* Boehly
I've never seen anything like how Boehly has spent
Mbappe and Neymar in the same window was nuts. Also Galactos I and II were absolutely crazy. But all these signings in 1 window is way up there.
Especially when you consider none of these players is exactly “best of the best”. We are gambling hard on everyone hitting their potential.
This is pure Football Manager logic. "I made a save at the start of the window, let's just see how these players get on. We can always reload." Insanity.
This whole situation was an absolute joke. Well.... hope he does well but I'm butthurt he didn't even do a full season for us
Is he worth 120m?
Simple answer? No. But I guess today's market is in such a state that people think it's normal to give these values for a player
€120 million for a player you guys bought for €10 million 6 months ago is an absolute joke. Chelsea could potentially turn into United (coming from a United supporter) where clubs know that they’ll pay ridiculous fees so will hike up the price for them. Plus, how many players sold for £100m+ actually performed after the sale? Coutinho, Dembele, Felix all didn’t. Plus, extending out transfer fees after 5 years is going to be banned. If these players Chelsea buy don’t perform, they could have shot themselves in the foot.
Rosebud; Rosebud; Rosebud; Rosebud; Rosebud; Rosebud; Rosebud; Rosebud; Rosebud; Rosebud; Rosebud; Rosebud;
motherlode > rosebud but also did you know if you put a ! it would repeat the cheat code? So you could do mothoerlode;!;!;!;!;!;!;!;!
wow this is a game changer
Wait did Chelsea sign a sled???
What a mad saga lmao, Enzo kissing the Benfica badge for the cameras after the deal ‘fell through’ just looks even funnier now.
I watched that match, commentators at one point stated that statistically speaking, more often than not, those who do that end up leaving, Darwin did the same before moving on to Liverpool, for example
Bruh who does stats on players kissing badges lmao
No one, it just sounds cooler when you say “statistically speaking”
KissxG
xK. Expected Kiss.
What does kissing the badge mean? I always took it as a gesture of love or great admiration for the club. Doesn't mean unconditional loyalty. Enzo can love Benfica and still pick what's best for his career. Both can be true. As a Benfica fan I'm ok with his exit. We don't need the money but we will also be okay without him because we have good depth to cover that role.
HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!
They really spent 300m in January transfer window alone damn
I read chelsea has spent nearly half of the entire epl spending for this January so far. Nuts
Dude, since Boehly came in we've (according to Sky) spent more than the top 5 leagues in Europe *combined*
€328.50m this window, assuming it's the full buyout clause. And if they used a Factoring Co., it's even more.
And didn’t they spend 300m in summer? So 600m in 1 season? What the hell
It will be €620m after this signing.
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Lmfaoooo fucking hell I don’t even think I’ve done that in FIFA
Would be great if this didn’t get past the deadline now just for one last twist
Fax Machine shenanigans????
Boehly better have brought the secretary and their office on the plane to avoid these shenanigans
I think I'd end it on the spot but before I do would have to giggle at the absurdity
Wow they finally did it
Hehe, nice. River Plate is, once again, millonario.
Over a half a billion pounds spent in a single season. Just crazy.
500m (610m minus the 110m they spent on Koulibaly, Sterling and Auba) on a new starting 11. Literally a new starting line-up (one player per position for a 4-3-3) * Slonina * Gusto-Fofana-Badiashile-Cucurella * Fernandez-Chukwuemeka-Santos * Madueke-Datro Fofana-Mudryk
That team looks like ass honestly
120m euros apparently. Crazy money but fair play
A 600% profit in 6 months. Might as well create an app to invest in football transfers with those sort of returns
400% since they will give 25% to River Plate, so they will receive 90M€. Still incredible business though.
Incoming Lui Costa r/wallstreetbets gain porn post
Not financial fair play tho
Financial fairplay is a joke, most top clubs don't have to play by the rules, only smaller clubs lol
It only benefits the super rich clubs like Chelsea, city, PSG
I feel like it’s two fold - handcuffs small and medium sized clubs from competing and gives an excuse to owners of the big clubs when they decide they don’t want to invest anymore.
And Madrid, Barca, Bayern. Don't forget the legacy clubs who people somehow feel have the moral right to be successful as opposed to the noveau riche.
Nah united is nearly in breach of FFP. The key is to just have really rich owners who don’t leverage the club. So United, barca, Bayern, real all don’t count
No, it's very financially fair. Actually, so financially fair that UEFA are scrambling to change the fucking rules around it.
Please somebody explain me like I'm 5 years old how these guys didn't break every financial fair play rule possible
Because they give 7 year contracts. So on paper that means that this transfer will cost 120/7=17m every year plus whatever his annual wage is. However this does complicate transfers a couple years down the line as these transfers will still be lingering by then
Enzo fernandez contract as chelsea dt 2045
Fiorentina about to pay for FFP violations
Did I miss something?
A frequent joke on this sub whenever an English club spends big, a random Serie A club will be sanctioned for FFP Edit: grammar
So that's why our billionaire owner prattles on about how FFP is the reason he's spending $0 on transfers.
Would love to be a fly on the wall watching club executives literally running around the office to get everything printed and signed as I type this
How much does River get for this? Ez money
32 million euros I think
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I'm sure this has been a roller coaster for Benfica fans, holy shit.
A terrible one yes, 2 hours before the market closes and we're stuck with Chiquinho on the midfield. Kill me
Have you heard of your god and saviour Paradella? We can offer you a couple of midfields.
The absolute worse case scenario. Now we can’t sign an adequate replacement in time.
I have been refreshing Fabrizio twitter every 10 min hoping it wouldn’t go through. But it did 🥺
Our season down the drain with a single move 1 hour before the transfer window closes.
I hope you guys still win the league and go deep into CL. Really crappy to lose a player of his caliber without time to replace him when you're having such a good season.
Can't take any more turns with this saga
More money spent than all clubs combined
This was such a wild ride
Those mfs that said it wasn’t going to happen deleting their comments as we speak.
Jack Grealish is a free elf!
This is huge for River. We still have %25. Holy fuck.
This surely is a record in the January window. What, around 300m? Absolute madness. I’m sure they’ll give him a 10 year contract with an option for 50. FFP is working great.
Think before Enzo Chelsea were already at over double the January record, now it’s over triple
600m spent in less than 7 months, wow
ROM BOMB
Ahhh, the old feeling of hating Chelsea... it's returning.
Not gonna lie, kinda jealous of Chelsea fans, club got a 1.5B debt just wiped out and then 600 million spent just this year in transfers, i mean, what can you even say, i know they are within FFP rules but should this be allowed? a single club spending basically the same as a whole league? (Bundesliga), doesn't seem fair, but congrats.
Chelsea back to ruining football.
All us footballing accountants who qualified 10 hours ago want to know if they used a factoring company to get around the fact they can’t amortise the fee for a buyout clause or if it was a release clause all along
For $120m this dude's gonne be put under the microscope for every touch lmao. Massive pressure.
The strategy is to sign a full team of $100m players so no single player can be put in the spotlight. Spread the pressure out among the squad
He doesn’t know what pressure means. Most players are terrified of wearing the Argentina jersey and this guy came in having barely ever played for the NT and won the WC Golden Boy award. He doesn’t understand context I think
"Pressure? What pressure? Pressure is poor people in the world trying to feed their families. There is no pressure in football" Enzo, maybe
If Chelsea do this shit in the summer window too then I’m out
I highly doubt it, it shouldn't be possible and I don't think there's a loophole that could change that
Bellingham 28 year contract
Slightly beside the point but is this a Turkish airlines ad? Fab making that momey