Summer 2025 Transfer Window - hopes, speculation, rumours etc.

[Dave]

He was supposedly on £100k per week, Disasi on £40k - but on one of Chelsea's special long contracts which means you end up getting more in the long-run.

So Disasi gets a pay-off from Chelsea to leave, and his next club pays him more because they don't give him such a long deal.

[AGRIPPA]

Am I correct in saying Coutinho is still on our books??

[cdbearsfan]

He's still out on loan until the end of June and then contracted to us until next summer. Strong rumours today that we are negotiating ending his contract early.

[Beard82]

How long is his contract?  he hasnt played for us in 2 years - and theres still more.  Giving him a contract of that length was crazy

[tomd2103]

I think Disasi was fine at centre back, but would I pay how much they’d likely ask? Probably not.

I think he was fine at CB as well and would be a decent addition at the right price.

[Percy McCarthy]

He's still out on loan until the end of June and then contracted to us until next summer. Strong rumours today that we are negotiating ending his contract early.

As I speculated a couple of months ago, this year of unusually high revenue would be a good time to pay off Couts to help us lower the wage bill in the slightly lower revenue year to come.

[Louzie0]

He's still out on loan until the end of June and then contracted to us until next summer. Strong rumours today that we are negotiating ending his contract early.

As I speculated a couple of months ago, this year of unusually high revenue would be a good time to pay off Couts to help us lower the wage bill in the slightly lower revenue year to come.

I’ve seen the same story by Jacob Tanswell (ie: that Villa are moving him on this summer) from 2 sources on X - so it must be true! 🤞

[PeterWithesShin]

As it's the last year of his contract you'd think he'd open to taking a pay off from us and then he can get a new deal elsewhere and even more money.

[eamonn]

His injury record since he left us is shocking. He might struggle to get a club to give him a new deal. I imagine his agent will try hard to get the contract with us fully paid-up.

[brontebilly]

The "Man City debacle" where he played for less than half an hour, in the wrong position?

He looks fine at CB, I do not understand why he wasn’t used there more and Konsa at RB.

Konsa was increasingly rubbish at RB too? Ipswich away, only Maatsen at OT surpassed that car crash of a performance.

Reports from Chelsea suggested Disasi was decent at CB but horrid at RB. Not sure why Emery kept trying him there. Disasi had a nightmare at Palace at CB but that was in a complete mess of a setup so easily forgiven. Forest at home, he wasn't great at CB either but moving him to RB at half time might be a more of a worrying omen for Garcia. Emery decided pretty quickly that KN wasn't up to it and reports have us linked to yet another RB this summer.

We have been linked with Joe Gomes before, bit of a utility man but can cover a lot of positions.

[ChicagoLion]

The "Man City debacle" where he played for less than half an hour, in the wrong position?

He looks fine at CB, I do not understand why he wasn’t used there more and Konsa at RB.

Konsa was increasingly rubbish at RB too? Ipswich away, only Maatsen at OT surpassed that car crash of a performance.

Reports from Chelsea suggested Disasi was decent at CB but horrid at RB. Not sure why Emery kept trying him there. Disasi had a nightmare at Palace at CB but that was in a complete mess of a setup so easily forgiven. Forest at home, he wasn't great at CB either but moving him to RB at half time might be a more of a worrying omen for Garcia. Emery decided pretty quickly that KN wasn't up to it and reports have us linked to yet another RB this summer.

We have been linked with Joe Gomes before, bit of a utility man but can cover a lot of positions.

When Konsa plays at RB we are never exposed in the way that we often are with Cash, Cash is slightly better offensively but a couple of decent crosses a season is not enough to make up for the many games when he is a liability.
If you want solid at RB play Konsa there. We really could have done with solid at RB against Palace Manure Citeh the list goes on.
No idea what Garcia has done to be discarded.

[algy]

He was ok - but seems high fee and high wages for a backup CB who can only play CB.  Also - not convinced he is cheaper or better than Diego Carlos

His annual salary at Chelsea is apparently around 40% of what we were paying Diego Carlos. Half what we're paying Cash. About 80% of what we were paying Robin Olsen.

I'm guessing were he to move he'd probably want more. And with good reason.

Christ - how much were we paying Diego?That Gerrad rain was costly - we signed some serious big earners who were never going to play a significant role for us.

And something of a damp squib.

[brontebilly]

The "Man City debacle" where he played for less than half an hour, in the wrong position?

He looks fine at CB, I do not understand why he wasn’t used there more and Konsa at RB.

Konsa was increasingly rubbish at RB too? Ipswich away, only Maatsen at OT surpassed that car crash of a performance.

Reports from Chelsea suggested Disasi was decent at CB but horrid at RB. Not sure why Emery kept trying him there. Disasi had a nightmare at Palace at CB but that was in a complete mess of a setup so easily forgiven. Forest at home, he wasn't great at CB either but moving him to RB at half time might be a more of a worrying omen for Garcia. Emery decided pretty quickly that KN wasn't up to it and reports have us linked to yet another RB this summer.

We have been linked with Joe Gomes before, bit of a utility man but can cover a lot of positions.

When Konsa plays at RB we are never exposed in the way that we often are with Cash, Cash is slightly better offensively but a couple of decent crosses a season is not enough to make up for the many games when he is a liability.
If you want solid at RB play Konsa there. We really could have done with solid at RB against Palace Manure Citeh the list goes on.
No idea what Garcia has done to be discarded.

Konsa makes Matty Cash seem like a better version of Hakimi in possession in comparison. Konsa is where the ball goes to die when he played there, same as Disasi really. They narrow our shape completely making it easy to press us, they both also hate getting drawn out to a winger. To be fair to Cash he's quicker and frankly braver pushing out in that situation. I think Cash is a decent defender these days, credit to Emery as he was very average/rash, on the ball is his biggest issue. His trademark chop, partly tactical partly due to an iffy first touch. Something I noticed Garcia was a lot sharper on.

We had Konsa at RB v Ipswich, the Spurs collapse, Liverpool away he was shocking. For all the talk about how strong he was there in CL, I distinctly remember horror shows away at Brugge and RBL. Solid as a soft sh*te. There's a reason why Emery put a halt to it. Replacing it with Disasi wasn't one of his better decisions.

Konsa is pretty limited at CB too really. He has strong positional sense and good recovery pace. But he's frankly a bit soft, average on the ball and his form only improved when Mings was back to babysit him. I wouldn't be against moving him on this summer for a big offer.

[Mister E]

Konsa makes Matty Cash seem like a better version of Hakimi in possession in comparison. Konsa is where the ball goes to die when he played there, same as Disasi really. They narrow our shape completely making it easy to press us, they both also hate getting drawn out to a winger. To be fair to Cash he's quicker and frankly braver pushing out in that situation. I think Cash is a decent defender these days, credit to Emery as he was very average/rash, on the ball is his biggest issue. His trademark chop, partly tactical partly due to an iffy first touch. Something I noticed Garcia was a lot sharper on.
We had Konsa at RB v Ipswich, the Spurs collapse, Liverpool away he was shocking. For all the talk about how strong he was there in CL, I distinctly remember horror shows away at Brugge and RBL. Solid as a soft sh*te. There's a reason why Emery put a halt to it. Replacing it with Disasi wasn't one of his better decisions.
Konsa is pretty limited at CB too really. He has strong positional sense and good recovery pace. But he's frankly a bit soft, average on the ball and his form only improved when Mings was back to babysit him. I wouldn't be against moving him on this summer for a big offer.

that's a pretty good summary of our season from a RB perspective.

[ChicagoLion]

Konsa makes Matty Cash seem like a better version of Hakimi in possession in comparison. Konsa is where the ball goes to die when he played there, same as Disasi really. They narrow our shape completely making it easy to press us, they both also hate getting drawn out to a winger. To be fair to Cash he's quicker and frankly braver pushing out in that situation. I think Cash is a decent defender these days, credit to Emery as he was very average/rash, on the ball is his biggest issue. His trademark chop, partly tactical partly due to an iffy first touch. Something I noticed Garcia was a lot sharper on.
We had Konsa at RB v Ipswich, the Spurs collapse, Liverpool away he was shocking. For all the talk about how strong he was there in CL, I distinctly remember horror shows away at Brugge and RBL. Solid as a soft sh*te. There's a reason why Emery put a halt to it. Replacing it with Disasi wasn't one of his better decisions.
Konsa is pretty limited at CB too really. He has strong positional sense and good recovery pace. But he's frankly a bit soft, average on the ball and his form only improved when Mings was back to babysit him. I wouldn't be against moving him on this summer for a big offer.

that's a pretty good summary of our season from a RB perspective.

No stats though.