Rockape wrote:It was a shock from the very start when the deal was announced......I mean £72M on someone who was pretty much unheard of and untested. What a waste!
We're spending the same amount on Vieira and Pino, both also young and unproven.
As for Pepe, he was joint top scorer in 19/20 and barely got game time the year after. He's been made to look far worse than he is because the manager doesn't like him, and makes that clear to the world.
His numbers are on par with Werner's, yet Chelsea have gotten €25m selling him back to Leipzig, simply by not shit-talking him across Europe.
We won't get anything for Pepe because he is already persona non Grata. The club has done the same PR offensive that they did with Auba, trying to convince everyone that he's finished, while ignoring the Pepe-less clown show that had us finish behind Spurs.