
[Pablo San Mauro]: Instead of going for Olise, Chelsea ended up signing Pedro Neto (who still seemed like a good bit of business to me), Joao Félix, and Sancho. The following summer, Garnacho and Jaime Gittens arrived. All in, they cost 220 million. Olise, 54M.
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![[Pablo San Mauro]: Instead of going for Olise, Chelsea ended up signing Pedro Neto (who still seemed like a good bit of business to me), Joao Félix, and Sancho. The following summer, Garnacho and Jaime Gittens arrived. All in, they cost 220 million. Olise, 54M. [Pablo San Mauro]: Instead of going for Olise, Chelsea ended up signing Pedro Neto (who still seemed like a good bit of business to me), Joao Félix, and Sancho. The following summer, Garnacho and Jaime Gittens arrived. All in, they cost 220 million. Olise, 54M.](https://www.eucup.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/1775603490_duev3t9gjutg1.png)
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Wages
Olise didn’t want to join us anyways.
The fee was never the issue though. It was his wages. Same as Osimhen. Issue still remains though that if not willing to pay the big bucks, you won’t get the big boys needed.
Oh my god bro, blah blah blah. We get it.
Hairy bastards like this pop up all the time Olise has a good performance.
Yes he’s good, yes he should be playing for us but something went wrong and we didn’t sign him. Honestly so jarring
Olise did not want to us
And could you blame him
Hindsight is 20/20. Instead of signing drogba, cech and lampard we could’ve signed 5 bums
This just in, Chelsea owners buy a lotto ticket and lose, winning numbers revealed the next day.
Seriously, every club buys players, some are great, some are Mudryk. Look at Hazard Madrid. Hindsight is 20/20
Yeah, big wages can never backfire
https://preview.redd.it/dbt8v3y0lutg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=431d90e5994725feef1f351a166d596fa56d4af4
Seems like we could go back and look at nearly every transfer in every window over the past 30 years and find some other player who worked out as well or better somewhere else for less cost. That’s a fool’s game.
Of course CFC LDN would hold talks with CP FC . Look at all the kids they’re collecting
Drama post, we wouldn’t match Bayern wages.
Our strategy is clearly to buy young talent, develop them, then presumably sell most of them.
You can’t judge whether our strategy is a failure or a success this early on.
Feels revisionist since really we went in to sign palmer who positionally at the time was much more like for like with olise than any other mentioned replacement
We were never beating Bayern for Olise, thats a pipe dream.
90% of the people on this sub didn’t want him anyway, we had him twice and fumbled him both times. The first time because of our incompetence and the second because we’re cheap
You don’t understand Olises wages were too high if only we had the money to pay his wages /s
Also plays a different position to almost all those guys
Reporting for the sake of but didn’t we go from Olise to Palmer?
Yes. And Chelsea could have signed Mbappe as well for less than their overall spend. But just like Olise, he didn’t want to come to Chelsea.
I think r/chelseafc has finally put it together, big wages = big players. The sporting directors have their own agenda though.
I keep seeing Garnacho and Gittens being brought up but they play on the opposite side to Olise.