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Loic Remy was an interesting buy for Chelsea – a backup striker who was there when you needed him. We could do with a Loic Remy in the squad right now, in fact.

He’s today been speaking out about Jean-Phillippe Mateta, the Crystal Palace striker the Blues have been linked with recently, and Remy was super positive about the idea of his countryman going to Stamford Bridge:

“Jean-Philippe Mateta has the profile to thrive at Chelsea. I saw him playing in the Olympics for the French national side and he impressed me a lot. He isn’t the type of player to really impress you technically but he is always there and loves scoring goals. He is so annoying to play against as a defender. He has the right profile.”

It feels like Mateta would have been a good buy in January if we could get him at the right price – but given Palace were never going to give him up mid-season for anything less than a king’s ransom, maybe it never would have worked out.

By the time we get to this summer, we expect the club will be aiming higher.

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Joao Felix celebrates a goal for AC Milan. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)

On a similar note, there was some interesting talk on the London is Blue podcast this week about a player Chelsea shouldn’t have signed. Their guest CFCCentral laid into the Joao Felix transfer, saying he had known it was a bad idea from the start, as we all did, frankly:

“Joao Felix, I mean fool me once… I rated this Joao Felix signing a zero point something when it happened, but I think when you’ve got you hands dirty with Jorge Mendes, he pulls the strings then you dance the way that he wants you to dance.”

Well put.