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I have to admit that it's been a very long time since I felt Nate had Chelsea chances. In fact, I have been suggesting it would be best if he was allowed to leave.To be fair to the lad however, his preseason form has not come out of the blue; he was good in Austria, but he was brilliant in Toulon. Fingers crossed that this is an indication of where his game is now and not just a misleading patch of form.

Except that might mean we also had them last year in which case 10th would have been completely out of the question and so Antonio might not even be here.

Just to add that, in those videos he also carries the ball really well. As I commented earlier, he looks to me like he could also be effective as a DM. Indeed, unless I'm misremembering, I think someone said that he has plyed DM at times. At the €60m reported last week, I'd start to loose interest but at the €45m suggested this morning I'd have no hesitation. In comparison, Victor Lindelof looks very ordinary to me.

Last season it was mainly Jay Dasilva and Kevin Wright who has now been released.

No he wasn't. He was, mainly, very good in the first half of the title season but he was, mainly, average or worse, in the second half and has remained so since.

I don't suppose the player would choose Everton over Chelsea. I'm certain however that his agent will keep the possibility of joining Everton open as long as possible in order to encourage Chelsea to maximise their contract offer. Of course the agent may also be keeping the possibility of a move to Chelsea open only to encourage Napoli's new contract offer. Let's hope not. Let's hope that only half of this agent's tongue is forked. ?

See, you are not a stupid person.

I have read many of your posts. You are not a stupid person and I won't change my mind just because you sometimes post stupid things like this.

Which just proves my point that, just because a player declares publicaly that he wants to move, it does not mean that he will.

As Jose said, "Last year (meaning 2013/14) there were some players I wanted to sell." My suspicion is that Napoli will sell but they appear to have a bidding war going and they will milk it for all it is worth. Spurs, on the other hand, did not want to sell. Not to Chelsea anyway. Just beacuse a player wants to move, it does not compel the club that owns his registration to do business. They have options.

Modric wanted to leave Spurs for west London. Didn't happen.

Thank you Leif. Will you help me with something please? Why is this idea so popular no matter how often it is refuted? Napoli will not name a price. Like all negotiators finding themselves in a strong position, they believe that naming a price only puts an upper limit on what they might be offered. Instead they will just sit tight refusing any, and all, offers until they believe they have wrung the highest possible bid out of the market. Then, and only then, will they decide if they want to accept that offer. When will they know for sure that they've got the best offer they'll get? That's up to them but around about tea time on deadline day they might start to believe that interested clubs have gone as far as they will. Meanwhile, any offer made today will automatically be rejected as Napoli just ride this thing and see how far it takes them. Napoli own the registration of a player they like, one they are perfectly happy to keep. They have him contracted for three more years on a wage they can afford and they do not need the cash a transfer might generate. There is no downside for them here so it's their party and their tunes. If we want the prize we just have to dance their dance.

I've read this self-contradictory post and you clearly do not know how things work.You also do not know what offers Chelsea have, or have not, made to Napoli but you feel free to criticise them for not doing it anyway. You are confused.

Next month I celebrate my 50th anniverary as a Chelsea fan. I've learned a few things in that time. Do you imagine the club does not want to support this manager, as you put it? Is that what you think? Given that it is not possible for you to think that, do you suppose they are doing anything less than their best to offer that support? They know the constraints, financial and otherwise, and they know the options they have within those. You don't know any of that yet you insist that the club are wrong anyway. All I'm wanting you to accept is that the club knows the problems and wants to fix them. If they choose a particular player that you and I might not, then we'd be dissapointed but no two people, fans or professionals, would always assess players in the same way. I would never in a million, million years have signed Torres but Carlo wanted him. Someone has to decide, it was Carlo's job and so he made his choice. Consider this, if you were in charge at Stamford Bridge, somebody else would be on here moaning about the choices you were making. The world is real, not ideal.

But what is that amount? There is no amount. If you name an amount you just put a limit on what you can get. Clubs in Napoli's position don't ruin their negotiating stance by doing anything so stupid unless they have to because there is a clause or they urgently need to sell the player. Instead, they just sit tight and turn down all bids till the end of the market. I don't know if we have bid €40m for Koulibally or not but if we have it will certainly have been turned down Why don't you get it? Have you just started following football? You sound like you may have.

Do you genuinely believe the stuff you post? How exactly do you imagine the club should have acted in order to sign Koulibally two weeks ago? What should we have bid?

CFC, of course, are not going to forget it come what may and I hope you won't either. Indeed, on the asumption that you are suffering from the same bug as the rest of us, you won't be able to even if you want to. What is it going to take to get some people thinking straight on this? The club wants the same thing we do. If it was a simple matter of bidding for the players we want, blowing every other club out of the water with the deals we offer and bringing in all of our targets we'd do it. Every club in the world would do it if it was that easy but I don't need to tell anybody here that it isn't that easy. If I told you I thought that was how the market works you'd all call me an idiot. The reality is that we are not the biggest beasts in the transfer market. Even if we offer the biggest fees some clubs turn us down, even if we offer the biggest contract some players turn us dowm. Have I said anything that everyone doesn't know already? Of course I haven't so why do I have to read posts like this everyday?

That article is nearly ten years out of date. Of course we aren't dominant. Have they just noticed? In any case we were never truly dominant. We had the biggest budget for a few short years but we were never able to attract the very best players. Right from the start of the Roman era the pattern was established where clubs fleeced us for top prices but never quite sold us the top players. CFC officials have been dealing with the reality of Chelsea's transfer position for a long time. They know the score and so do most of us here.

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Nothing wrong with your English. Mine on the other hand...

You sound very convincing, probably because you are convinced. Edit: I'm going to learn to read one day.

In that case I'm going to have to come clean. I defended Costa when people were poo pooing our rumoured interest in him and would have liked us to sign him but I'm on the other side of the Gomes debate. If he's a great sucess at Barca I'm going to be one of the ones people are laughing at.

Nice that's he's stepped up a level. His Jupiler League performances did not suggest he is a Chelsea player in the making however. Meanwhile, maybe there is something in all of those Granada are the new Vitesse stories.

Dembele was top of my summer transfer wish list. How Dortmund got him for so little is beyond me. There is no way we'd have been asked for anything less than €40m. I don't recall reading how much was bid but I do remember Dembele saying he turned us down last summer.