Summer Transfer Thread and Gustavo Cisneros Type Rumours.

[Dante Lavelli]

Abraham or Isak to add competition up front. Thorgan Hazard and the marquee signing of Christian Pulisic to signal out intent. He’s in and out of the Chelsea team and Tuchel might want to cash in to bring his own players in.

i too think there could be good value at Chelsea.  Pulisic, Gilmor and Tammy being players that I could see them letting go.

[cdbearsfan]

They won't let Pulisic go. Firstly, he's really good. Secondly, he could help make Chelsea the biggest club in America.

[Goldie.7]

A few from this list would be great for us.

Strikers
Paul Onuachu | Stats
Sekou Koita | Stats
Alexander Isak | Stats
Sasa Kalajdzic | Stats

AM/CM/Wingers
Claudinho | Stats
Domenico Berardi | Stats
Nikola Vlasic | Stats
Matheus Pereira | Stats
Ademola Lookman | Stats

DM's
Teun Koopmeiners | Stats
Ellyes Skhiri | Stats

CB's
Willi Orban | Stats
Joachim Andersen | Stats

[TheMalandro]

I'll be surprised if we spend less than £100 million. We are making great strides all the time and nothing about our board makes me think they'll say "mid table! That'll do!".

Agree! But I love the free market!

[JuanMartinez]

A few from this list would be great for us.

Strikers
Paul Onuachu | Stats
Sekou Koita | Stats
Alexander Isak | Stats
Sasa Kalajdzic | Stats

AM/CM/Wingers
Claudinho | Stats
Domenico Berardi | Stats
Nikola Vlasic | Stats
Matheus Pereira | Stats
Ademola Lookman | Stats

DM's
Teun Koopmeiners | Stats
Ellyes Skhiri | Stats

CB's
Willi Orban | Stats
Joachim Andersen | Stats

Thought this was a championship manager link, half expected to see To Madiera on here.

[cdbearsfan]

I'll be surprised if we spend less than £100 million. We are making great strides all the time and nothing about our board makes me think they'll say "mid table! That'll do!".

Agree! But I love the free market!

Let's not fall out, now. ☹

[JuanMartinez]

Pulisic could win the quadruple with Chelsea and they would never be the biggest club in the US, Chivas Guadalajara & Club Americas will always be bigger even before we start talking about the giant European Clubs.

[Zia of Rivia]

Pulisic could win the quadruple with Chelsea and they would never be the biggest club in the US, Chivas Guadalajara & Club Americas will always be bigger even before we start talking about the giant European Clubs.

Aren't Chelsea from London?

[JuanMartinez]

Indeed they are, a previous poster alluded to them being the biggest club in “America “ if they withhold the services of Pulisic.

[Dante Lavelli]

Pulisic could win the quadruple with Chelsea and they would never be the biggest club in the US, Chivas Guadalajara & Club Americas will always be bigger even before we start talking about the giant European Clubs.

On that basis add Boca and River Plate too.

[JuanMartinez]

Absolutely Dante, Chelsea aren’t even in the top 6 supported clubs in the UK let alone the US, clown talk as usual.

[cdbearsfan]

Why are all your posts confrontational?

Chelsea are the fifth best supported club in America already according to research. You'd have to be a complete clown not to think having the pre-eminent American player might boost that standing.

Even if it doesn't, there are hundreds of millions of dollars to be made even from being one of the better supported teams over there, so don't expect them to let a potential US superstar leave.

https://www.giltedgesoccer.com/most-popular-soccer-clubs-in-the-u-s/

[dave.woodhall]

Excuse the woeful naivety, but how well supported are Real & Barca amongst the Spanish-speaking communities over there?

[JuanMartinez]

Effectively from Southern California- Texas - Miami, Real Madrid or Barcelona are all Mexican / South American natives second team - after their Mexican club side or South American equivalent.

This doesn’t even account for some of the more northern cities like Chicago that also have high Hispanic populations.

Chelsea are small fry.

[cdbearsfan]

Excuse the woeful naivety, but how well supported are Real & Barca amongst the Spanish-speaking communities over there?

Number 1 and 2 overall according to the list I linked. I've genuinely no idea if Hispanophones of, say, Mexican or Puerto Rican descent feel any particular affinity with Spain.

In any case, it is still a minority sport over there.

I've been to a few NFL games in London and can't recall ever seeing, for instance, a Chargers fan. If the Chargers get a British superstar and win multiple Super Bowls, they'd be the most popular NFL team in Britain in very little time.

So it will be with casual American "soccer" fans if Pulisic achieves similar success. Which is what Chelsea will be hoping. In any case, as I said, he's genuine quality. They'd be mad to let him go, commercial reasons notwithstanding.