Chelsea agree £117m deal for Morgan Rogers
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Chelsea reach verbal agreement with Aston Villa to sign Morgan Rogers. Bid of £117m accepted by #AVFC & being finalised. 6+1y contract, medical Monday. #AFC interested but 23yo attacker wanted #CFC; Xabi Alonso instrumental 🚨 @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/639...
Mark L54So three teams get sanctioned by UEFA for breaching their spending rules. Two of them Villa & Newcastle are seemingly having a fire sale whilst Chelsea can continue to spend like its going out of fashion How does this make sense
Steve Jackson32Genuinely feel sorry for Villa. Call it out David, I dare you. In order for teams to be allowed to progress they must sell their best players to their rivals. Reminder: Villa finished 6 places ahead of Chelsea. #AVFC #NUFC
Louis Cook 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇲🇳 🇰🇬 🇧🇯 🇮🇪 🇬🇧18Great business for Villa, I like Roger’s but that price is bonkers.
breadandr0ses.bsky.social17Chelsea vastly overpaid for a player another club wanted? Color me shocked
Liam11We will get him on loan next summer
wfergal.bsky.social10Imagine wanting Chelsea over Arsenal.....tells me enough about his decision making and mentality. Off with him
Orbinho10710 goals and six assists for £117m. One goal involvement every 205 minutes last season. Pretty sure this is a bullet dodged at that price.
Richard Buxton21A penny for the thoughts of the people that claimed Everton were ‘ruining the market’ because they paid £35M for Richarlison
Aston Villa Review16My word, that is many money.
Sam Tighe10Huge figure. Villa getting ~£100m of it after Boro take their cut (sell-on)
Matt Black8The word hijack strangely absent from this update. Would usually also include ‘only’ wanted. Also noticeable the weeks of media shite that precedes NUFC transfer dealings didnt occur. 👀
Count Podface (iainham iainspur)8I remember when £15M for Alan Shearer was a big deal and a world record
Nick7All this has to catch up with Chelsea at some point. Has to.
Mitch🦦6BRADLEY BARCOLA, WELCOME TO THE ARSENAL
Tom Hunter6It does continue to fuck me off that we had to sell Elliott Anderson for less than he was worth even then in order to meet FFP rules meanwhile Chelsea can seemingly spend as much as they like every year with no consequences
Caesar Flunk6I’m actually a bit annoyed that it wasn’t us who bid this for him, if only to see several thousand Villa fans spontaneously combust with rage…
Pretty funny to see WSL fans moaning about London City Lionesses spending about £10m in total expenses when the parent companies of their rivals are doing shit like spending £117m on a transfer fee for Morgan Rogers
William Pike II6It’s so weird. When I found out about London City, I thought they were really cool and easy to root for, but there are whole subreddits dedicated to hating on everything they do!. Of course billionaires are evil, but also Kang is doing the one thing I’d do if I had that kind of money.
Sophie Lawson4If I speak about some of the creative accounting over the years from some WSL teams
🚨🔵 BREAKING: MORGAN ROGERS TO CHELSEA, HERE WE GO! Club to club agreement reached today with Aston Villa to anticipate Arsenal official bid. £117m proposal has been accepted, as @David_Ornstein reported. Agreement done with Morgan Rogers on personal terms until June 2032. 🫱🏻🫲🏼
Kev Lawson47Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Villa having to sell their highest value asset despite trophy & Euro qualification. I rate Emery & Manzambi, but you have to hope you get it right and it works instantly, to maintain momentum. System is rigged.
PvS16Maybe I will live to regret this, but I am extremely fine with Arsenal not signing this guy at this price
Kev MUFC2So that’s now 4 of England’s 5 starting midfielders from Wednesday’s semi final who cost over £100mil but are apparently completely incapable of keeping hold of the ball or dictating the tempo of the game. The other being Barcelona’s new £70mil signing in Anthony Gordon. Absolutely madness!
King of the potato people2Mental. Chelsea are everybody’s mug. In this market I think even I’m worth about £40m. #nufc
Spurs Masochist2I'm here to give THFC credit for being so active early in the transfer window to cause Chelsea to panic and grossly overpay for a player.
Basketball Fan, of the Sixers being so back!2What's the point of selling your club's soul if you aren't even going to use the dirty money to overpay for decent players? #nufc
Paz2É muito fácil ser jogador inglês
What £117m buys you these days. (Image via @thetransferflow.bsky.social newsletter from April).
Mark S2To be fair, Andrew, it's worked SO WELL so far for Chelsea... ahem...
Hassinator2i think radars are notoriously dull viewing for AMs. rogers is really good. i'd very much hoped we'd buy him last summer and thought it was on the cards. alonso clearly going three at the back and playing two 10s. annoyed here; i really want us to get acheampong but he will be perfect as their RCB.
~€138m for Morgan Rogers is a wild fee. Once again, Chelsea seemingly playing over the odds for a player they *think* a rival club are desperate to sign.
Stefan Bienkowski16According to Transfermarkt data, Chelsea have spent €1.83b on 53 players under the Boehly/Clearlake ownership. 14 of those players have since been sold. The balance on those 14 deals is ... €49.1m in the red. Any galaxy-brain idea that they'd be selling young stars for huge profits is nonsense.
DelMcG3Other Premier League sporting directors within earshot of Todd Boehly:
#avfc .... But why Chelsea? Makes no sense, they are a basket case and not even in Europe... www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
bluewhaleshit.bsky.social2Poor Morgan what the fuck is he thinking! Thats a 50 percent chance to tank your carreer signing!
Dixie Normous1I'm guessing #avfc stipulated British transfer record or no sale, Chelsea only ones willing?
David Reid1Crazy money. Why Chelsea? They'll pay him a load and they have a manager who might stick around for longer than 9 months. Interesting to see what your lot do with the windfall.
New: Chelsea reach verbal agreement to sign Morgan Rogers from #AVFC. An offer of £117million has been accepted, with personal terms in place on a six-year contract. @david-ornstein.bsky.social for @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/639...
Eddie Robson11So-called "transfer guru" Fabrizio Romano has been insisting all summer that Rogers would be going to Arsenal. #avfc
Enough Of That Now8Why does anyone want to sign for that absolute clownshoe of a club? Enjoy getting paid twice as much for playing half the games for three managers a season, hope it's worth sacrificing your England place for
Is Morgan Rogers that good? He always seems good to me, but maybe a £60m player, not £117m! Also, wtf is going on at Villa?! #lufc
@seanlufc.bsky.social4It staggers me how they can keep spending this kind of money all the time.
Jon Crossland2It's one of those Villa - Chelsea deals. Nudge Nudge wink wink.
Glos' White2PL and English mark up Good player but if he was a different nationality the fee would be 60m
theangrymop.bsky.social2Aston Villa seen them coming 😂😂 #lufc
Andy Moran1World Cup assist in semi-finals = another 40 million. Madness.
Rich Holmes1No player is worth £117m. But that's a different conversation.
