Arsenal may have made a mess of the Morgan Rogers transfer, but they can, and will, move on from that pretty quickly. Rogers, meanwhile, is now stuck with a seriously career-damaging move to Chelsea.
The England international has been on a brilliant trajectory up to now, having made his breakthrough in the Championship with Middlesbrough to then earn himself a move to the Premier League with Aston Villa.
From there, Rogers hasn’t looked back, being named PFA Young Player of the Year for 2024/25, and then playing a starring role for Villa as they won the Europa League last season.
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The next logical step up would have been a club like Arsenal – the reigning Premier League champions, Champions League finalists, a team who have slowly rebuilt themselves the right way, through stability and patience under the same manager for almost seven years.
Instead, he’s left Champions League football at Villa Park for a team that finished 10th last season and who are now in their sixth full time manager since Arteta took over at Arsenal.
Morgan Rogers to Chelsea could be career suicide
It’s not an exaggeration to say that Rogers may well have chosen career suicide here. Chelsea are nowhere near the force they once were, with a muddled project under Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali that is yet to bring success despite vast amounts of spending on one signing after another, as well as the noted frequent managerial changes.
| Chelsea record signings | Transfer fee | Club |
| Morgan Rogers | £117m | Aston Villa |
| Enzo Fernandez | £106.8m | Benfica |
| Moises Caicedo | £100m | Brighton |
| Romelu Lukaku | £97.5m | Inter Milan |
| Kepa Arrizabalaga | £71.6m | Athletic Bilbao |
| Wesley Fofana | £70m | Leicester City |
Yes, things look a bit more promising for now, having hired a more proven manager in Xabi Alonso, but who knows if he’ll still be there in 12 or even six months’ time? And yes, Rogers looks an exciting signing who arrives with a lot more experience at the highest level than some of the Blues’ recent purchases.
But is it enough? This squad still lacks a proper goalkeeper, the defence is far from top four standard, Enzo Fernandez wants to leave, and Cole Palmer has suffered a drastic drop-off in form in the last year or so.
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Perhaps Arsenal just wouldn’t pay up, taking the decision out of Rogers’ hands, but this all looks hugely unfortunate for him, as a supremely talented player has trusted probably the most chaotic of the traditional ‘big six’ clubs for this next crucial stage in his development.
Chelsea are behaving like a small club with cheap digs at Arsenal
First there was the infamous dig at Arsenal after the Champions League final, for which they later apologised, and then there’s the very deliberate Rogers quote about joining ‘the biggest club in London’, as per Chelsea’s official site.
Chelsea fans themselves must be sick of this after the team’s lack of recent success – focus on yourselves rather than your rivals.
For all the fans and media pundits alike seem to take some special joy in mocking the Gunners when they slip up, over-celebrate, or *checks notes* put together a successful set-piece routine, it’s hard to imagine the north Londoners ever engaging in such classless social media antics like this in the pursuit of clicks and rage engagement.
Whatever justifiable issues there were with Roman Abramovich’s ownership of Chelsea, you could at least look back then and say they were a proper football club. This current Chelsea is more like a weird recruitment experiment trying to pull the wool over their supporters’ eyes by taking pot shots at their rivals and attempting to live off their past glories.
Chelsea are a disaster. Rogers’ arrival doesn’t change that. And fans shouldn’t fall for it.
I dont think it that way, Roger has chosen the right club that fits his style of play and a club that has won champions league twice and club world cup twice and you never know he might win EPL with chelsea next season
I do have a bridge i would like to sell you
Bro as a chelsea fan it is an omen to laugh at your neibhor. Arsenal has been beating us since 2016. We must not panic
Bought the champions league and cheated to do it!!! S0eak factually please. Your titles are fraudulent….. FACT!!!!!
Retard
Mark, I mark you wrong.
Rogers is going to chelsea with both of his legs.
He is not going there to borrow Cole Palmers legs whereby is one is playing the other is waiting for those legs. Every team have styles of play.
Don’t be conservative in your thinking.
Cry more gooner!!
You remember that the main problem that chelsea lacked last season was a left winger where they deployed Neto, injuries and red cards but on top of that chelsea played nice games and even they deserved to finish in top 4 had it not been of injuries
Are you really going to blame injuries whilst having one of the most bloated squads in the league?
Yah! I think i am right there, you have to understand that in the team we different players who deliver differently than others to the best, like you cant compare Estevao`s style of play with Gittens and so the moment Estevao got an injury you could not bring in Gittens and expect to deliver like Estevao.
Mark Brus, calm down.
it’s football and football is also a form of entertainment. social media dig is normal and I don’t think Chelsea needed to apologise for that.
A club that finished 10th secured your favorite signing from you, that’s a message if you know it.
So astounding, we were very lucky there, No risk! no gain!, No spending! no getting best players!
On the issue of a shortstopper, you have talked of a sensitive thing there but it is not too late. Good enough chelsea board has started earlier in the transfer window, but I think even if they will not manage to bring in a new goal, we have Penders and you remember Sanches was chasing and glove with Raya despite his late downfall which i think it was due to frustration.
You should know that ” form is temporary but class is permanent ” that’s why Rogers chose Chelsea over Arsenal.
have a cup of tea mate, braavo
Every PL team has a maximum squad registration of 25 players.
All this bloated squad narrative is false.
The only problem with Arsenal fans is that they forget that they dont know how to win champions league tittle and that is why they make a lot of noise
OK, so you had financial doping and won a few trophies .. what is the size of your trophy cabinet overall, despite the obscene expenses?
Now that Arsenal caught up with deliberate austerity to sensibly finance their new stadium, when was the last time Chelsea was above them in the league, despite all the obscene spending every year ?
Arsenal has class that tacky chelsea can never catch up with in deades and not even if they spend a billion every season.
You’re just biased… I can see your hate for chelsea.. You said chelsea has not won any major trophy. Have. you forgotten the Europa league conference and the Club world cup? Tottenham are spending big what do they show? Realmadrid is spending what have they won ever since Mbappe joined? Arsenal has spent how many years to win Premier league and reach champions league final? Mancity has almost paid the same amount for Anderson who won nothing and it’s ok for you!!!!!!!
“Home of trophies” lmao.
Let me know when Chelsea have won half as many English League titles as Arsenal and we’ll talk again.
And btw, justbeacause Arsenal wouldn’t pay way over the odds for Rogers, it doesn’t actually mean they “made a mess of it”, it just means Chelsea are so desperate they’ll pay anything to try and drag themselves back into contention with the top clubs.
Arsenal have themselves to blame on this Rogers deal, or failure to land him. The foot dragging is too much. The same scenario is playing out in Bruno Guimares deal, if Chelsea hijack it again, nobody should blame them. I am an Arsenal Fan to the core, but Chelsea is not stopping us from buying any player of our choice…
Mark you left out Mudryk the one that Chelsea outbidded Arsenal for…86mil leaving Arsenal to scramble for a consolation signing in Trossard for 27 mil..and how did that turn out…an astounding success to say the least..three years on Trossard can still fetch 17 mil. Not up mention Kepa bought by Chelsea for 72 mil and sold to Arsenal for 2 mil..a 70mil loss. Chelsea’s transfer business is all over the place…
Mark Brus=Imbecile
People saying Arsenal have themselves to blame are being funny. I would have been quite upset if Arsenal had paid more than 80m for him, when we already have his favourite position covered. I don’t even rate him as a winger.
Arsenal is a very classy club with more sense than money.
You talked of club value, did you mention chelsea`s club value and if not make us know. And If arsenal is a classy club why Roger snubed them for chelsea despite them overing champions league? Here is the answer “Roger knew that even if he goes there to win it will be day dreaming”
Rogers went for the money, as most players do when choosing chelsea. Remember Murdryk .. LOL.
Rogers was Arsenal’s to refuse and we refused even to pay 100m. So, I am not sure how you think this is a win that you paid 117m for him when Arsenal would not offer more than 80. Your tacky club paid almost 50% more than Arsenal was willing to pay. That’s the bit I find most amusing.
I just keep on asking my self that when are some people who I dont know their name going to win club world cup if they are staggering at winning champions league. CWC is only for clubs who have won champions league I WONDER
LOL. Club world cup is a meaningless competition no one takes that seriously .. it’s just like community shield.
Stop going on about it.
The leverage Chelsea had with obscene spending is over, and other teams have caught up now financially. Even Real Madrid’s money doesn’t guarantee anything these days.
What does it mean to have the higher number of cabinate trophys and yet you cant afford to buy a player of Rogers carliba. What if someone more than him, for example if Kvaratskhlia or Dembele at £150m is said to be on sale now now, which club will take him between Chelsea And Arsenal?
Chelsea finished 10th. No European football. Still took Arsenal’s No. 1 target.
And instead of asking why Arsenal couldn’t get the deal done, we’ve got a full-blown think piece here explaining why Chelsea are supposedly obsessed.
If you’re explaining why losing your top target is actually a win, then frankly, you’ve already lost.
Big clubs sign players. Everyone else writes excuses.
Cry more 😘
Guys don’t foget that this Rogers’ deal may in near future remind us the exact CC of Mudryk deal the one that Chelsea outbidded Arsenal for…86mil. Had an extravagant expenditures bring joys and success on football pitch Chelsea FC were not at where they are these days. Same is true for Tortoiseman Hotspurs. Huge sum of transfer deals are always waxed with endless chaos. They have got no plan, the listen the trash talks of transfer media speculatives…like wow Arsenal is gonna sign so and so, then clueless chelsea fc’s sports finance men rushesout to buy the said player associated with Arsenal’s name. They no nothing about what will gonna happen tomorrow or they don’t even consult with their head coach. They buy player just for sake of buying. They did before and sill doing it. why on earth that the club want sucessed sell Cucurella and go all out to buy Rogers with double pmt of the former? At this time Cucurella is far more important than Rogers. Pointless business. The time will tell us everything.
Guys don’t foget that this Rogers’ deal may in near future remind us the exact CC of Mudryk deal the one that Chelsea outbidded Arsenal for…86mil. Had an extravagant expenditures bring joys and success on football pitch Chelsea FC were not at where they are these days. Same is true for Tortoiseman Hotspurs. Huge sum of transfer deals are always waxed with endless chaos. They have got no plan, the listen the trash talks of transfer media speculatives…like wow Arsenal is gonna sign so and so, then clueless chelsea fc’s sports finance men rushesout to buy the said player associated with Arsenal’s name. They no nothing about what will gonna happen tomorrow or they don’t even consult with their head coach. They buy player just for sake of buying. They did before and sill doing it. why on earth that the club want sucessed sell Cucurella and go all out to buy Rogers with double pmt of the former? At this time Cucurella is far more important than Rogers. Pointless business. Only time will tell us everything.
Goons, let me make you know that we the blues is a very wise club just as me last year when i got 200m, I invested on important things that will forever earn me income inspite of when that chapa will get over. Remember that we bought Estevao just at 29m yet in two years to come he will be at 200m something ArseGuners will scratch there heads OVER if they just here about, they will totally not manage apart from clubs like Real, City, Barca, PSG and Saudi Clubs only.
Can you just mention one player that you gunas can offload at 100m to boost finance in need to bring in world class players if u are classy. You are talking of Modryk as big, remember he`s tied to a long term contract untill 2032 and very soon he will be back in action, but you sold trossard at just 15M yet he is a world class player Saka will go as a free agent. Who are you going to sale at 100M, Gojyokereres value depreciated to around 40M from 73M.