Gavin Bazunu

J89 wrote: ShamtheRam wrote: J89 wrote: It's a Chelsea fan with a podcast and writes online articles that has thrown out the rumour. Probably only coming up because the head of academy recruitment that left City last summer to join Southampton as head of senior recruitment started working with Chelsea back in October. Explains why Southampton paid a lot of money for academy players this summer. That's good enough for that god awful tracker page. As far as rumours go it's a very easy one for anyone to throw out too. What he said was "Southampton goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has become a popular choice in the Chelsea recruitment team, my sources tell me." Like I would expect Bazunu to be popular as the lad who signed him for Southampton and worked with him at City's academy is now co-director of recruitment and talent. And I blocked that tracker page as they talk some amount of sh*te. People think Kenny's Kids is bad but wouldn't surprise me if the lads now doing the tracker page also do the Irish Propaganda Twitter page.

I did some checking, and found this entry on Philips'(the podcaster) substack account, which appears to be the source of the rumour: https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-chelsea-eyeing-saints-stopper

I thought it sounded familiar, so I searched the archive on the substack account, and found that Phillips also reported Chelsea's interest in Bazunu in October.
https://siphillipstalkschelsea.substack.com/p/sources-lukaku-bazunu-and-mckennie/

So, I'd take it with a pinch of salt.

Edited by tetsujin1979 - 14 Feb 2023 at 2:10pm

ShamtheRam wrote: J89 wrote: It's a Chelsea fan with a podcast and writes online articles that has thrown out the rumour. Probably only coming up because the head of academy recruitment that left City last summer to join Southampton as head of senior recruitment started working with Chelsea back in October. Explains why Southampton paid a lot of money for academy players this summer. That's good enough for that god awful tracker page.

As far as rumours go it's a very easy one for anyone to throw out too. What he said was "Southampton goalkeeper Gavin Bazunu has become a popular choice in the Chelsea recruitment team, my sources tell me."

Like I would expect Bazunu to be popular as the lad who signed him for Southampton and worked with him at City's academy is now co-director of recruitment and talent.

And I blocked that tracker page as they talk some amount of sh*te. People think Kenny's Kids is bad but wouldn't surprise me if the lads now doing the tracker page also do the Irish Propaganda Twitter page.

J89 wrote: It's a Chelsea fan with a podcast and writes online articles that has thrown out the rumour. Probably only coming up because the head of academy recruitment that left City last summer to join Southampton as head of senior recruitment started working with Chelsea back in October. Explains why Southampton paid a lot of money for academy players this summer.

Bazunu is struggling this season. I have said already I think he might have in hindsight made the jump a year too soon. 

Edited by kevin100 - 13 Feb 2023 at 8:03pm

The O'Shea wrote: John Nice wrote: The O'Shea wrote: Badgersboys9 wrote: Linked with a 300m move to Chelsea to replace Mendy. Are we sure it's not Crawley he's being linked with? The experts on here have assured us he's way off Premier League standard. I'm a fan of bazunu and think he will become an excellent keeper in time, but tbf to his critics on here, his stats this season dont make for great reading, no point pretending otherwise.   2022-2023 Big 5 European Leagues Advanced Goalkeeper Stats (players) | FBref.com His stats for the season can only be viewed in the context of  1) Being the youngest starting keeper in the league by a distance (and indeed, one of the youngest ever). 2) Playing in a very poor team with a woefully porous defense. These are clearly consequential factors that any scout for a big side would be taking into consideration.

John Nice wrote: The O'Shea wrote: Badgersboys9 wrote: Linked with a 300m move to Chelsea to replace Mendy. Are we sure it's not Crawley he's being linked with? The experts on here have assured us he's way off Premier League standard. I'm a fan of bazunu and think he will become an excellent keeper in time, but tbf to his critics on here, his stats this season dont make for great reading, no point pretending otherwise.   2022-2023 Big 5 European Leagues Advanced Goalkeeper Stats (players) | FBref.com

Edited by The O'Shea - 13 Feb 2023 at 7:22pm

Badgersboys9 wrote: Linked with a 300m move to Chelsea to replace Mendy.

Badgersboys9 wrote: Linked with a 300m move to Chelsea to replace Mendy.

dangere_here wrote: Sounds like an ideal job for Big Mick if Blackpool give him the heave ho