Kalidou Koulibaly

[nono 791]

What a nightmare this is especially considering how our rivals went and did their business well and early, despite having already finished quite some distance ahead of us last season.

[RuudiGullit 112]

Mustafi to Le Arse is as good as done...

It's this guy or no one and I think it's going to be no one... 

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

I'm afraid Chelsea fans will kill themselves over this.

[Unionjack 7,531]

2 hours ago, It's too big said:

When the hell did this lad become "world class", can I ask? Never heard of him before this season, now all of a sudden he's blown up. At 25 years old it seems odd his name hasn't been touted around before now considering the market for defenders isn't huge. I hope he isn't another Mangala or Otamendi - rated highly after one season and then looks average in the Premier League. 

But that can be said about alot of players that have great 1st seasons in the PL. We bought one ourselves.

2 minutes ago, Hybrid Angel said:

I'm afraid Chelsea fans will kill themselves over this.

Nah we just take it out on Pikeys.

[Pizy 17,860]

2 minutes ago, Hybrid Angel said:

I'm afraid Chelsea fans will kill themselves over this.

Better to get it over with now before dying a slow, painful death by Cahill/Ivanovic. 

[Gilvorak 3,734]

Are our fans really slagging off the board for not paying £50m for a CB that's only had 1 great season?

Otamendi went for £32m last season, Hummels £30m this year, we're already overpaying by A LOT. Anyone claiming we've left it late is insane, we've been heavily linked with him since MAY!!!!

 

£50m is what you pay for forward players. I'll be upset if we let De Laurentiis bend us over when we could steal Mahrez from Leicester for that amount.

[Blue_Fox_ 2,086]

21 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Better to get it over with now before dying a slow, painful death by Cahill/Ivanovic. 

I fear for Antonio  He's staring down the mouth of madness.

[J.F. 1,484]

16 minutes ago, Gilvorak said:

Are our fans really slagging off the board for not paying £50m for a CB that's only had 1 great season?

Otamendi went for £32m last season, Hummels £30m this year, we're already overpaying by A LOT. Anyone claiming we've left it late is insane, we've been heavily linked with him since MAY!!!!

 

£50m is what you pay for forward players. I'll be upset if we let De Laurentiis bend us over when we could steal Mahrez from Leicester for that amount.

And u would pay £50m for Mahrez who also only had 1 great season?  

[Despiadado.Maleante 1,046]

4 hours ago, Chelsea Legend 11 said:

The real joke is a guy who can say this still supports the club and shows up on message boards daily.  The joke isn't on you, it is you!

Supporting a club doesn't mean you have to believe everything going on is perfect...

[LukakutoStamford 779]

5 hours ago, RuudiGullit said:

Spurs will never sell him. He's too important for them.

 

And we should just swallow our mistakes and recall Christensen. 

I know but Alderweireld went for 11.5 million pounds last summer and most here wanted nothing to do with him.

[Hostedenis 556]

18 minutes ago, LukakutoStamford said:

I know but Alderweireld went for 11.5 million pounds last summer and most here wanted nothing to do with him.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing... Honestly, no one expected he would turn into one of the, if not the best defender in the bpl last season. I'd like to see if he can keep it up this season, but I'm a fan of his (I don't rate Vertonghen that highly though).

But complaining that we could've had him for 11.5m pounds doesn't get us anywhere. With that logic, we could've not bought Torres from Liverpool, gotten Pogba when United let him go by probably offering 3m (twice what Juve paid), Ronaldo from Sporting Lisbon and many other players... Hindsight is 20/20 they say, but of course that's assuming the players would turn out to be as good as they are now because they would've followed a different trajectory through their lives (different coaches, managers, trainings, teammates, ...) but let's not get too deep here 

 

 

[Unionjack 7,531]

1 hour ago, Gilvorak said:

Are our fans really slagging off the board for not paying £50m for a CB that's only had 1 great season?

Otamendi went for £32m last season, Hummels £30m this year, we're already overpaying by A LOT. Anyone claiming we've left it late is insane, we've been heavily linked with him since MAY!!!!

 

£50m is what you pay for forward players. I'll be upset if we let De Laurentiis bend us over when we could steal Mahrez from Leicester for that amount.

And tell us how Mahrez will help our bloomin defence.

I really can't see the problem.

We are in dire need of a good CB.

Theres a chance that we might be able to solve our problem what do we do?

Answer - We do all we can to buy that player.

We have and will be making money from selling players we apparently dont need  so its obviously going towards players we need.

I asked earlier just what we are doing with this extra TV money thats supposedly put teams onto an equal footing. IF we supposedlly were a rich club before the TV money rise then we should be at least that much richer now.

If we dont buy the standard of players we need to get ourselves on a more equal footing with the 9 teams ahead of us then we shall be playing to much less crowds against lower divison teams in our big new shiney stadium.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

1 hour ago, Despiadado.Maleante said:

Supporting a club doesn't mean you have to believe everything going on is perfect...

Ya you're right it means criticizing their every decision.

 

[Hybrid Angel 2,130]

2 hours ago, Gilvorak said:

Are our fans really slagging off the board for not paying £50m for a CB that's only had 1 great season?

Otamendi went for £32m last season, Hummels £30m this year, we're already overpaying by A LOT. Anyone claiming we've left it late is insane, we've been heavily linked with him since MAY!!!!

 

£50m is what you pay for forward players. I'll be upset if we let De Laurentiis bend us over when we could steal Mahrez from Leicester for that amount.

And you assume we're in a situation to be so nitpicky about our CB options? I don't mean to say we should be daft and go buy the first CB available, but it should be clear as day that Koulibaly is by far the best available option on the market and we shouldn't be afraid to overpay a little for a CB given the fact we have such bad defenders in our current squad. We simply cannot risk to miss out on Champions League again.

[LukakutoStamford 779]

1 hour ago, Hostedenis said:

Hindsight is a wonderful thing... Honestly, no one expected he would turn into one of the, if not the best defender in the bpl last season. I'd like to see if he can keep it up this season, but I'm a fan of his (I don't rate Vertonghen that highly though).

But complaining that we could've had him for 11.5m pounds doesn't get us anywhere. With that logic, we could've not bought Torres from Liverpool, gotten Pogba when United let him go by probably offering 3m (twice what Juve paid), Ronaldo from Sporting Lisbon and many other players... Hindsight is 20/20 they say, but of course that's assuming the players would turn out to be as good as they are now because they would've followed a different trajectory through their lives (different coaches, managers, trainings, teammates, ...) but let's not get too deep here 

 

 

Sure, but I certainly had him above Cahill and did mention that was top notch at Southampton so let's not make it out that he was some numpty playing league 1. He was a good buy last summer. 

The problem is the board has gone with a boom or bust strategy and has done nothing to fix the back line. There's no guarantee that Zouma will be suitable either.

 

[nono 791]

Although I don't really have high hopes it would be funny if the deal has been long agreed and Napoli are just looking for replacements. All the news we've been hearing has been from second rate papers/journalists.

[nono 791]

1 hour ago, Unionjack said:

And tell us how Mahrez will help our bloomin defence.

I really can't see the problem.

We are in dire need of a good CB.

Theres a chance that we might be able to solve our problem what do we do?

Answer - We do all we can to buy that player.

We have and will be making money from selling players we apparently dont need  so its obviously going towards players we need.

I asked earlier just what we are doing with this extra TV money thats supposedly put teams onto an equal footing. IF we supposedlly were a rich club before the TV money rise then we should be at least that much richer now.

If we dont buy the standard of players we need to get ourselves on a more equal footing with the 9 teams ahead of us then we shall be playing to much less crowds against lower divison teams in our big new shiney stadium.

I don't think we are winning the league this season irrespective of whether we sign Mahrez or a CB. However signing Mahrez means he doesn't go to a rival next season and we can get a CB next year when we're in the Champions League and then compete on all fronts.

[Alabama 1,992]

At this rate i dont care about strikers or central midfielders....all I praying for dis guy or any other quality central back and a left back....I fear for AC cos if those signings are not made....we gonna struggle for 10th position...