Morgan Rogers - f**ked off to Chelsea

[Monty]

He seems like a nice young man. I wish him hattricks in 7-3 defeats.

[ChicagoLion]

Not sure he would be better off with those murder ball merchants, at least Chelsea try and play.

I get that and Alonso might be the messiah.
But as an organisation, Chelsea are all over the place.
It’s not like they needed a Rogers type player when you look at the squad deficiencies.

No I get that, I'm just digging at the Islington's answer to Sam Allardyce's Bolton.

With you all the way mate, I am glad he hasn’t gone there, because he is probably exactly what they need.

[algy]

Not sure he would be better off with those murder ball merchants, at least Chelsea try and play.

I get that and Alonso might be the messiah.
But as an organisation, Chelsea are all over the place.
It’s not like they needed a Rogers type player when you look at the squad deficiencies.

No I get that, I'm just digging at the Islington's answer to Sam Allardyce's Bolton.

Sometimes I wish there was a little emoji laugh button on here, there's some properly funny posts and it doesn't feel worth doing a reply with just a laughing face emoji thing in.  SE, Brazilian Villan, Dogtanian, yourself, ... a few others regularly make me chuckle.

But then after thinking that, I almost instantly also think that one of the many reasons I don't like facebook etc is that they have exactly that type of functionality, so people don't actually properly engage with things and it makes everything about getting daft emojis rather than saying anything whatsoever insightful.

Not sure where I'm going with this.  I'll just end it here

[Meanwood Villa]

Not sure he would be better off with those murder ball merchants, at least Chelsea try and play.

I get that and Alonso might be the messiah.
But as an organisation, Chelsea are all over the place.
It’s not like they needed a Rogers type player when you look at the squad deficiencies.

No I get that, I'm just digging at the Islington's answer to Sam Allardyce's Bolton.

Sometimes I wish there was a little emoji laugh button on here, there's some properly funny posts and it doesn't feel worth doing a reply with just a laughing face emoji thing in.  SE, Brazilian Villan, Dogtanian, yourself, ... a few others regularly make me chuckle.

But then after thinking that, I almost instantly also think that one of the many reasons I don't like facebook etc is that they have exactly that type of functionality, so people don't actually properly engage with things and it makes everything about getting daft emojis rather than saying anything whatsoever insightful.

Not sure where I'm going with this.  I'll just end it here

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[Brend'Watkins]

The BBC has just talked about his move to Chelsea. They mentioned he had won something or other with Man City, mentioned Middlesbrough had sold him for £1 million, but did not bother to mention who Chelsea had signed him from!

The same on their web site. Man City academy, he was there for 2 years!! They even managed to mention ManU in the same article but no mention of Villa or how Unai has improved him. It’s a woeful article.

[Legion]

I hope he starts the season for them with the same form he had for us at the start of last year's.

[Hookeysmith]

I saw a report where he was quoting the 5 reasons he wanted to go to Chelsea

Did not see  A FUCKLOAD OF MORE MONEY was not part of it 

I am in our Northampton office today and as soon as i walked in the resident Chelsea dipshit asked "So Rogers then, any good?"

I replied we have sold better for less  - then mentioned Jack

The twat did not ask me anything else

[eamonn]

The BBC has just talked about his move to Chelsea. They mentioned he had won something or other with Man City, mentioned Middlesbrough had sold him for £1 million, but did not bother to mention who Chelsea had signed him from!

The same on their web site. Man City academy, he was there for 2 years!! They even managed to mention ManU in the same article but no mention of Villa or how Unai has improved him. It’s a woeful article.

Get Sexual on the case.

[kippaxvilla2]

As Count Binface said last week about Newsnight.  The BBC is now just a souped up podcast that offers very little insightful journalism - particularly on the sports side these days.

[PeterWithesShin]

Chelsea sign £117m Rogers - what will he bring?

It was a well-planned operation involving figures across the club and resulted in Rogers being signed in under 48 hours.

The deal was underpinned by the strong relationship between Chelsea co-owner Eghbali and Aston Villa owner Nassef Sawiris, with the agreement being finalised on Saturday afternoon, shortly before Rogers took to the field in England's bronze-medal victory over France.

After the deal was agreed, Arsenal were offered the chance to match the bid but they informed Villa they were committed to their lower valuation and were willing to let him join Chelsea on those terms.

They will now consider alternative targets, including Paris St-Germain's Bradley Barcola and Bournemouth's Junior Kroupi.

Although Chelsea had tracked Rogers for more than two years, the clubs had previously discussed a potential deal during the 'Profit and Sustainability swaps' of 2024.

One option explored was Nicolas Jackson reuniting with his former Villarreal manager Unai Emery, before Ian Maatsen moved to Villa Park and Omari Kellyman joined Chelsea.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cy8enwn2xq4o

[eamonn]

If Chelsea had been tracking him for "more than two years" why didn't they buy him when we did i.e two and a half years ago? Could have saved themselves £100m...

[BoVillan esq]

Morgan!!!!wtf have you done? this one will be really interesting to watch and see how this pans out.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Rogers is a fool. He should have stayed for another season and got himself a move to a big club. At that price and that long a contract, he's trapped at Chelsea for the rest of his career.

[Beard82]

I struggle to think of many players who left Villa and there career got better.  Barry, Milner, Young.. 

50 / 50 chance he'll be on loan at some club in 24 months.  A lot will depend on how good a coach Xavi is.

[Stu]

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