Winter Mercato - 2026

[Sleeping Giant]

Corriere: Chelsea have tabled a €60M offer for Milan winger Rafael Leão.

SOLD.

Bro is not worth 60M but yeah who cares if it is true. Question is who can we get? I would go for Lauriente and Chiesa.

[reza]

Assuming we are building from youth, very big assumption for sure, we can use any exit money like Leao's to bring in Schjelderup type players.

[Sampinjon]

We're going to wait for WC to be over (because Leao will "explode" there, so why sell now for 60, when you can later for 80), then after the explosion we'll be happy to get 40

[reza]

*In my opinion* we should be at peace with Milan being bad sellers, we have been like that forever including Berlu and Maldini times. Random loans and buybacks still make me roll my eyes but 'big' sales, I think I don't care.

[Kris forever]

*In my opinion* we should be at peace with Milan being bad sellers, we have been like that forever including Berlu and Maldini times. Random loans and buybacks still make me roll my eyes but 'big' sales, I think I don't care.

We sold crooked Kaka and Sheva at the right time for the right price. Problem those times was how we replaced them.

[reza]

We sold crooked Kaka and Sheva at the right time for the right price. Problem those times was how we replaced them.

I think overall we could have and could do a lot better managing the squad, not always about the big money ones either, I would include players like Ely and Cristante who could have been handled better and then sold for more than they did, not mentioning the famous Bosmans...

I am not sure how his status is after the friendly red card but a World Cup winger who is playing on the left side of Ronaldo can easily be 'marketed' better. How many can name this left winger who was 22 years old when he was worth 40?

   

[nefremo]

It says right in your screenshot that his name is "Kevin". So that took the guess work and "knowledge" out of the equation. 

[reza]

It says right in your screenshot that his name is "Kevin". So that took the guess work and "knowledge" out of the equation. 

You see how old I am?

Try not to look near the top of the screenshot lol

[Sampinjon]

We sold crooked Kaka and Sheva at the right time for the right price. Problem those times was how we replaced them.

"Right price" maybe in terms of how much you should pay for a player, but market operated (still is) on unrealistic prices. Chelsea was paying same amount of money for "nobody's", especially nobody's comparing to Shevchenko. It's like selling Aston Martin for same money others are selling Toyota's and Hyndai's. It makes one pretty much a bad seller if not even an idiot.

[Arildonardo]

"Right price" maybe in terms of how much you should pay for a player, but market operated (still is) on unrealistic prices. Chelsea was paying same amount of money for "nobody's", especially nobody's comparing to Shevchenko. It's like selling Aston Martin for same money others are selling Toyota's and Hyndai's. It makes one pretty much a bad seller if not even an idiot.

I think you might be wrong.

At the time when Chelsea bought Shevchenko he was their most expensive signing ever. And the most expensive transfer of all that season (according to Transfermarkt).
Players like Ibrahimovic, Aguero, Van Nistelrooy, Tevez went for less the same season. Players like Torres, Robben, Ribery, Henry went for less even 1 year after.
If I'm not wrong Chelsea did not sign anyone more expensive until 4 years later when they signed Torres from Liverpool.

At the time when Real Madrid bought Kaká he was the most expensive player in history, only to be well beaten by Cristiano Ronaldo later that same summer.
He went for approximately twice as much as players like Benzema, Xabi Alonso, Mario Gomez, Tevez that same season.

But I can agree that it hurt at the time and that I felt we should have got even more for them, of course.