DeanoAustin
Jimmy McCormick
I have not seen him have a good game for Chelsea (but admittedly didn't see him in the bundesliga).
If he signs for 60m plus it looks like another insane huge money sale for Chelski to go with Oscar / Hazard / Luiz to PSG or potential trash going to Saudi for inflated fees.
Paying what they did for Jesus and Zinchenko made sense because of how they did in the league and paid off immediately but this one just doesn't stack up.
Taking a step back it does seem like most of the top level clubs are happy to deal with anyone but we have all these embargos with everyone, I'm not an anti Levy poster in general but it does seem like we've not made friends with clubs who will likely have players we could use. Maybe it's an oversimplification but it seems like we have a lot of enemies whilst other clubs are doing each other favours.
I'm okay with that. Traditionally, those clubs have come in and taken our top players. I can't think of (m)any occasions in the last 30 years we got a game changing signing from any of the top clubs. However, they've had quite a few from us.
I don't think there are many clubs that won't deal with us anyway. Woolwich obviously but then Everton and Liverpool or City and United don't deal with each other either. Chelsea won't and that's in our interest and likewise United seem very reluctant to trade with us. The latter two seem to be down to Levy so that's one in the win column for him IMO.
I reckon we could buy from the likes of City if we'd offer the fees they want.