The best loan deal I've seen in football since I started watching and best deal for us for someone like Jackson. I thought the same thing when I woke up this morning about Wissa - a season loan with salary covered to rescue him from Brentford.
We don't learn from our mistakes; same way we missed out on £60m Bayern offer for Odoi and sold him for less than €20m 2 years after.
Now not bidding for Simon was stupid.
Didn't you guys just sign Garnacho? Presumably he's not going to be there to warm the bench. And George or whatever his name is doesn't look too bad upfront, so why the need for another striker?
They are all wingers, but Chelsea is in the business of trading wingers. You buy them and then offload them to Arsenal next season. Still don't understand why on earth would Arsenal help them and take Madueke or why would Chelsea buy 2,3 wingers every transfer window.
Money laundering 100% and avoiding FFS, no other explanation. You know when you sign the player, your book shows it as percentage per year of contract. So if you sign 80M player on 8 year deal that shows as 10M for this year. And when you get rid of player for 60M, whole 60M goes into green for you.