BREAKING: Sky sources: @ChelseaFC and @FCBarcelona continuing talks over transfer for Willian after Chelsea rejected bid in excess of £50m. #SSN

lmao wtf barca

[ParisUnited] Chelsea do not wish to negotiate for Kanté until the new manager is appointed, 15m/year salary proposed to the player by PSG

Holy fuck almost 300k per week

[Di Marzio] Chelsea have contacted Real Madrid about Kovacic

Nicolas #Higuain, brother and agent of Gonzalo at @SkySport: "We are not in talks with Chelsea. He wants to respect his contract with Juventus, would be great to see Higuain and Cristiano Ronaldo playing together again". #CFC #Juventus

Interesting to note that Real Madrid buys a star performer after every World Cup.

2002 Ronaldo
2006 Cannavaro
2010 Ozil
2014 James
2018 ???

Which is still entirely within his right to "not want to leave" as he is under a contract. If the club wants him gone then he is entitled to a compensation for termination of his contract.

Yes Conte obviously wants the money but he is also honouring his contract. Can't blame players for not honouring their contracts if clubs can't do the same, it goes both ways.

This post has been edited by Cloud0890: Jul 9 2018, 09:35 PM

Not impressed by Brazil Willian, judging from this World Cup at least. He had perhaps one game that he could say he played well but he looked really poor in the others. Douglas Costa outshone him in the group stages as a supersub and would've taken his starting place if not for injury.

Exactly. A 29 year old who's turning 30 in a month, inconsistent as fuck, undermining the manager in public, too much player power by forming a clique with his Brazilian mates.

Chelsea should absolutely bite Barca's hands off if they come back with a 60 million bid.

Indeed it is. Good guy Barca. Taking PSG's money and distributing it to Dortmund, Liverpool and now Chelsea.

Revealed: the inside story of Antonio Conte's Chelsea downfall
By Matt Law

It was the 10 days last summer during which Chelsea could not get in touch with their head coach that the relationship between the club and Antonio Conte was terminally eradicated.

And there has been some sense of revenge about the way in which the Blues left Conte in the dark over his future after May’s FA Cup final success, even allowing him to return for the start of pre-season training on Monday.

There were few congratulations from on high after Conte’s team beat Jose Mourinho’s Manchester United at Wembley.
Instead, there was largely silence that lasted until the inevitable was finally conveyed after he had taken training on Thursday.

Some sources still believe Conte was last year considering an offer from Inter Milan, when he did not pick up the telephone, return messages or respond to emails. Whatever the exact reasons behind it, Conte’s disappearing act sent Chelsea into a state of panic and convinced them he wanted out.

Peace talks were hastily arranged and a new contract was eventually signed as a reward for winning the Premier League title. But, tellingly, there was no extension. Nobody could be sure Conte would not pull a similar trick again and Chelsea did not want to be liable for more than one year’s money if, as has transpired, they decided to sack the Italian.

It was not just Chelsea who had become suspicious, however, as Conte also lost faith in his employers during a summer in which he felt none of his main targets were signed. Conte wanted Romelu Lukaku, Alexis Sanchez, Alex Sandro and Virgil van Dijk, but by the time Chelsea returned for pre-season on July 10 last year Lukaku had joined Manchester United instead and the Blues’ only outfield signing, Antonio Rudiger, was not ready to start training after playing in the Confederations Cup for Germany.

With a Premier League trophy to use as a bargaining chip against club policy, Conte felt empowered to take on his employers. He warned people their jobs were on the line and that they would see ‘the real Antonio Conte’ if he did not get what he wanted. He is still rated as one of the best coaches the club has ever employed, but there is a feeling that Conte’s judgement became clouded at key points by an obsession to prove he was right.

There was bemusement from within the squad when he called a pre-season meeting to supposedly welcome Chelsea’s new signings and introduced Paolo Vanoli and Davide Mazzotta, who had joined his backroom staff. For a short while nobody knew whether or not Conte was being serious, but it quickly became clear that he was underlining the fact there were no new players for him to show off. Former technical director Michael Emenalo is believed to have been in the room for Conte’s joke that highlighted the gap that was already developing between the 48-year-old and his board.

Of course, one player who had not been part of the pre-season meeting was Diego Costa, who effectively went on strike in Brazil after being informed he was no longer part of Conte’s plans over text message. That move went down spectacularly badly inside the Chelsea boardroom, as Conte had acted without their approval and had risked damaging Costa’s value. The message was also forwarded throughout the Chelsea squad, who were astonished that the club’s top scorer in their title-winning campaign could be treated in such a way – even though he had been causing problems since rowing with Conte last January.

More difficulties with members of his squad surfaced during the season, as Conte dropped David Luiz after the Brazilian was perceived to have questioned his tactics during a stormy inquest in which Kenedy was given a dressing down for yawning. Injuries contributed to his absence, but Luiz only played five times after the thrashing in Rome, which took place in October and Kenedy was loaned out to Newcastle United in January.

The 5-0 victory over Stoke City on December 31 meant that, despite all the angst, Chelsea finished 2017 in second place in the Premier League and still in all of the cup competitions. But tensions boiled up again during a January transfer window in which Conte wanted the Blues to back him with bids for Sanchez and Sandro, both of whom he believed were available.

He had not spoken with anybody more senior than Emenalo, who left Chelsea in November, between August and December, and his requests were unsurprisingly ignored. In the end, he had to be content with Olivier Giroud, Emerson Palmieri and Ross Barkley. Conte had nothing against Giroud, who proved to be a shrewd addition, or Emerson, but felt that, while United were pushing the boat out for Sanchez, Chelsea were trying to strengthen from the substitutes’ benches of Arsenal and Roma.

Once January passed and the transfer window had shut, Conte once again cut himself off from his employers and serious consideration was given to making a change after the embarrassing defeats to Bournemouth and Watford. Rather than sack him mid-season and land themselves with a huge compensation bill, Chelsea decided to see if they and Conte could ride out the storm together.

But any hope of Champions League qualification was effectively eradicated by the successive defeats to Manchester United and City, when Conte’s tactics were widely condemned, along with his use of Eden Hazard as a false nine. Hazard had been prepared to sacrifice himself for the supposed greater good up to that point, but sometime after the City loss the Belgian was pulled aside by Conte and had his commitment questioned. Chelsea have desperately been trying to convince Hazard to sign a new £300,000-a-week contract, but word quickly got round that he was becoming annoyed by his head coach and it showed on the pitch.

More fall-outs were to follow, as Conte dropped Rudiger for giving a television interview in which he appeared to question the team’s approach and the former Juventus coach screamed at his squad that they were all “s***” during half-time in the Premier League victory over Southampton, in which Chelsea came back from two goals behind. The FA Cup final success over United provided some consolation, but not even that could mask the disharmony in the background as Willian posted a picture on social media of the squad celebrating with carefully placed trophy emojis to hide Conte. Luiz and Willian would have never played for Chelsea again while Conte was in in charge and there is every likelihood others would have been frozen out as well.

In his post-match press conference at Wembley, Conte repeated seven times ‘I can’t change’ which pretty much told Chelsea everything they needed to know and had Roman Abramovich reaching for the reset button once again - even if it took some time for him to press it.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2018/0...impression=true

Di Marzio: Conte likely to take legal action for the firing, which will either be through Courts or FIFA.

From today Antonio Conte is no longer the coach of Chelsea: the manager was removed from his post.

The English club fired him for just cause, and consequently does not believe they have to pay Conte the penalty agreed in case of exemption. The reason? Some behaviours that the Club would not have considered adequate (such as the messages to Diego Costa before the farewell of the Spaniard).

Moreover, not only Conte but also the members of the Italian manager's staff were fired during the day.

Thus, a legal battle is expected between the parties: now we will go to competent seats, we will see if the matter will be submitted to FIFA or through Courts.

Well what if I tell you they haven't, by some accounts at least.

Sky Sports are reporting Chelsea are refusing to pay off Conte and Conte is prepared to bring this to court.

Question is who would take Morata, maybe Milan will revive their interest. Juve was said to be interested but after signing Ronaldo there's no chance of Morata going back there now.

Alisson is said to be a prime Sarri target too.

Chelsea now apparently ahead in queue because Madrid and Liverpool aren't willing to pay over 70M for him.

Depends if you can sell Courtois to Madrid and if you do, how much? If you can get ~£50M for him, spending another £10-20M for Alisson makes more sense.

He worked as a banker in London for some years before becoming a full time coach. I'm sure his English is decent enough, probably a little rusty.

Rugani
Pedulla : Rugani-Chelsea, 45 million pounds! Meeting with Juve between tomorrow and Wednesday

Morata
[Di Marzio] Milan's management currently in London to discuss Morata but are also in contact with Higuain, who would accept a move to Milan. Napoli are a team to watch for Morata.

Alfredo Pedullà: Mirabelli and Fassone are currently in London to negotiate Morata.

Boga
[Di Marzio] Sassuolo reach agreement with Chelsea for the transfer of Jeremie Boga for €3m

Hazard
[Pedulla] Real insists for Hazard, but Chelsea raises the price more and more

Higuain
[Alfredo Pedullà] Higuain to Chelsea FC: transaction between 54 and 57 million pounds. Summit in the coming days. Also for Alisson (Liverpool competition)

Alisson
[Alfredo Pedulla] Future of Allison will be decided by Friday. Close race between Chelsea and Liverpool. Chelsea need to have agreed deal by then otherwise will keep Courtois

Alessandro Austini: Update on Alisson: Liverpool still ahead of Chelsea, Real pulls out

Courtois
Pedulla: Before allowing Madrid to buy Courtois, Chelsea intends to secure Alisson's signature.

Golovin
Confirmed: #Chelsea remains ahead for #Golovin and wants to close in 48-72 hours. #Monaco is trying, but for now he is chasing

This post has been edited by Cloud0890: Jul 17 2018, 08:36 AM

Long term contract, Courtois could go on a free next year.

[Pedrosi] Chelsea and CSKA have agreed terms for a deal to sign Aleksandr Golovin. Player has rejected Monaco offer. No Juve advance. Golovin will be a new Chelsea midfielder.

Chelsea willing to let Thibaut Courtois leave but Eden Hazard not for sale, says Guillem Balague