Diego

As far as panic buys this isn't a bad one! Certainly better than last year!

Okay, time to whip out the positives of this move.
He provides an element of surprise from deep with his long range passing. He can dribble into midfield creating an extra man. He's still fairly quick and agile. He's a sneaky bastard who gets away with quite a lot. He likes to come out of defence to win the ball early. He's not always moonwalking. Lots of experience in domestic and international football. Provides an emergency option in midfield. Always scores a couple of goals. And to borrow a word from Captain Buggy, he's flashy.
The return of the Rollercoaster.

To be honest I trust Di Marzio more than i do our board!!!

And why do we believe those accounts??
Di marzio hasn't had an update for a while so im going to call bullshit on any reports that just keep throwing out these random numbers. 
If we were to go by all the other reports, chelsea bid £45m about 5times over the past week and every time been rejected. 

And why do we believe those accounts??
Di marzio hasn't had an update for a while so im going to call bullshit on any reports that just keep throwing out these random numbers. 
If we were to go by all the other reports, chelsea bid £45m about 5times over the past week and every time been rejected. 

And why do we believe those accounts??
Di marzio hasn't had an update for a while so im going to call bullshit on any reports that just keep throwing out these random numbers. 
If we were to go by all the other reports, chelsea bid £45m about 5times over the past week and every time been rejected. 

yeah except it's not that easy in reality when you're trying to buy a player that the player's club does not want to sell. We are operating under the idea that eventually they'll cave if we propose enough money. The problem is that according to various reports, we have been offering more and more money (reportedly up to 60M pounds) and as of now De Laurentis and Napoli have stood firm and said no. Whether they are cunning, knowing we are desperate and will keep upping our bids, or simply want to keep the player because he is important for them, is anyone's guess.
 
But to suggest the club isn't offering enough in this case is off the mark if reports are to be believed (the ones claiming we are offering between 50-60M pounds for him). The club are actually going above and beyond what we, as fans, would expect from them (i.e. bidding world record sums for a defender who's only recently started attracting attention for his play in the last year). It's not my money so if the club think they can afford to bid 60M pounds on defenders, more power to them... just hope it works and we get him

Di Marzio is love, Di Marzio is life 

And why do we believe those accounts??
Di marzio hasn't had an update for a while so im going to call bullshit on any reports that just keep throwing out these random numbers. 
If we were to go by all the other reports, chelsea bid £45m about 5times over the past week and every time been rejected. 

Di Marzio is love, Di Marzio is life 

Di Marzio is love, Di Marzio is life 

So I thought we were about to offer 60m gbp yesterday?  And today we got 58m euros rejected... How can someone still believe these "reliable" sources.

And why do we believe those accounts??
Di marzio hasn't had an update for a while so im going to call bullshit on any reports that just keep throwing out these random numbers. 
If we were to go by all the other reports, chelsea bid £45m about 5times over the past week and every time been rejected. 

And why do we believe those accounts??
Di marzio hasn't had an update for a while so im going to call bullshit on any reports that just keep throwing out these random numbers. 
If we were to go by all the other reports, chelsea bid £45m about 5times over the past week and every time been rejected. 

And stay with Terry and Cahill as main CB's? Who the fuck cares how much we pay for him, we spent 65 pounds 2 players and we still got TV money left plus tons from sponsorships

I guess the David Luiz jokes have run their course now, step up Kalidou Koulibaly  
Interestingly enough he is rated this highly in Serie A. Browsing around yesterday I saw many Serie A fans comment on how he was between 'top 5' 'top 2' and even some, not Napoli fans, that suggested he was on par with Bonnuci. I read his passing ability is actually incredible and so is capable of playing the ball into the channels for the running offensive players and he's comfortable playing it out from defence. They generally agree £60m does not match his valuation but in the days where we've seen Higuain and Pogba go for above £80m it's the cost of football's inflation. 
I'm easy on this. Though £60m will make his performances go under a microscope, it wasn't long ago City made Mangala the highest valued defender in the world and he was quickly discarded without much recourse. It's not like we don't have a billionaire financing us - even if he is financing a brand new Stadium also. 
Plus knowing the way things have gone this summer, it's probably going to be somewhere like £45-50m + Add-ons that eventually culminate close to £60m. You'd have thought we'd have an easier time with Napoli after we'd sent them Chalobah, but I guess in the grand context who is Nat to Kalidou..

And who's to say i'm not already there?! ahhh  

How hilarious, after weeks off moaning about how the board are low balling and can't finish their dinner now we look to have made a breakthrough whining about the price, unreal
Ultimately as many have pointed out our defense is vaunrable, other teams will feed on that especially as Kalidou is the best available defender in the market, so we might have to pay a bit extra on this occasion but it's how it goes.

Bet my life that we won't pay near that for him. It'll be a huge sum but not that high.
Don't care if he pans out. Hope he's got thick skin, though. The English media and supporters around the world will savage him with any little mistake he makes. 

No offense but you're easily the most bipolar poster on here.

Have a feeling...no, actually, am pretty sure that working alongside Kante is making it easier for him. Now he can rush into tackles and interceptions, knowing he has Kante behind him to clean up in case he fails.
Him and Kante together is like having a CB partnership in front of our actual CBs

Di Marzio still not reporting anything significant. I would hold out to see what he and his colleagues report first. "Calcio" "Gazetta" and all these other links seem purely guesswork and nothing sounds concrete at all. I would suspect the dealings are being kept under wraps as much as possible away from the Journalists as to not cause too much commotion. Kante and Michy signings were very similar as in regards to being wrapped up pretty swiftly, and also fairly quietly. 

Nice few minutes from him tonight 
And if you haven't already he is a must follow on twitter 
 

Nice few minutes from him tonight 
And if you haven't already he is a must follow on twitter 
 

Nice few minutes from him tonight 
And if you haven't already he is a must follow on twitter