Unionjack

I'm not normally a worrier and usually well laid back about transfer season but mate I cant help being a tad shakey about this season. Its not like theres limitless time. Bloomin US thing is in less than 3 weeks. I can just see us last day panic buying after selling players from our already very small squad. If I was in charge of our transfers I'm sure I would have laid all the groundwork well before silly season started ready to just sign papers. I know its not as easy as that but surely theres gotta be plans pre made not just a list of people we are looking at..

So far this transfer season is a load of old tosh. More talk about goings than good comings

Well if he fancys a house exchange he can have my little flat down sunny Coldharbour Lane and I'll move to cold Spain.

Fuckin hard life being a professional footballer. Its not one big piss up, taking loadsa nice gear and shagging everything in sight. Not if you're a Muslim of course. In these times a contract isn't worth the paper its written on. Sign a 5 year deal and the next season youre off somewhere new. There was a time when a mans word was his bond but it just seems like contracts dont mean a thing now.y

A big problem that we have is the size of our squad. Or should I say the lack of size of our squad. At the start of last season we had what? 22 lads. Already this is small. Mou said in a few interviews early season that he enjoyed having selection problems. Yet we know that we could ourselves name the starting 11 most weeks. There was only 1 position last season that I really had no problem of which of the 2 started and Im sure we can all guess who they were. IMHO we have serious problems concerning depth and all it takes is a couple of untimely injuries (like we knw sods law will happen) and we will be up shit creek. So its not only the 1st team that needs upgrading in places we have to look at. I dont see why we shouldnt TRY to get as good an alternative for each position as we can. If it means 1 is going to have a hissy fit not liking being 2nd best then hes got to try bloody harder to be a starter or piss off.

Tell ya what we should do. Sit back and do fuck all. Bring all the kids in and make a complete bollox of the year we had this season (even if we had one of the luckiest years I've known). But that wouldn't matter because we would have kept in line with the FFP. We are a wealthy club and alot of clubs would kill to be in our position. We should be looking to upgrade and progress as much as we can and if we might have to overspend to get world class players so be it. So forgive me if us being linked with alot of wannabes and hasbeens doesn't fill me with alot of confidence ---- so far. OK I admit it I'm an impatient sod!

I know its only the DM but be great to have a 'Catherdal of Football' eh! http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3143769/Chelsea-owner-Roman-Abramovich-unveil-Stamford-Bridge-expansion-plans-club-aim-increase-capacity-60-000.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Whereas Id love to see 2 or 3 of their lads in Chelsea Blue next season I wouldn't miss Filipe.

So youre telling me we have got no chance at all to manage Chelsea by a massive forum poll?? WTF am I bothering for then?

And I think this is 1 reason we need to look at our defence as Bane gives us a problem with that. Putting Dave back on the right makes much more sense seeing how Eden has progressed defence wise lately

I like Filipe I bet hes a nice lad. I do think he offers more offensively than he does in defence tho. If we can use him in anyway IF a Griezmann deal is possible then why not if the lads determined to leave and as it seems he doesn't have Mous trust.

Its all BS headlines designed to make us news hungry ijits go click mad on every media site we can find.

We aint done too bad with the business we have had with them upto now. I'm still hoping we will get Griezmann.

I'm fuckin dying for that 1st save he makes against us and clean sheet. See how many of you wish him the best of luck then. Me I hope he fails abysmally.

Not so sure about that bruv. Hes already kissing Gooner arse by saying he WANTED to join them before he went to Rennes but he couldn't get a work permit. Then Chelsea 'happened'.

I dont mind a player having a bit of an ego or some sort of psychotic tendencies as long as they have the skills to go with it (see Costa lol) And I do think him joining backup with lads he has played (our current lads and Falcao) with will settle him in quicker. But we should be glad Ramos isn't coming. Imagine that raging ball of fury - how many reds is he going to see?

He would be a very good player for us I think.But so many links to different teams wtf knows where he will end up. Not with us I'm Pretty sure. Winegar tits says he doesnt want or need him and hes had a medical at united. So he will probably end up in Spain.

It could make me dribble down my leg IF we managed to get him AND Griezmann. In fact those 2 would make getting Falcao a reasonable idea. Having them all together again would give them all a buzz I'd have thought. So Ive got everything crossed.

If we could just bottle his spirit,essence,character to splash on the academy lads that would help them and us alot. It might create some friction between the ones with a Mrs but we could live with that eh!

I'm a believer that if a players good then he will stand out no matter where he is playing and he just hasn't. I do wonder tho if he had been under the same manager for awhile instead of the revolving door we had for a few years might have made a difference, Or if he had gone on loan to Wigan like he originally wanted would have helped?

Me I'd love him to come. Is he a 20 goal plus a year lad? Well maybe not directly but the excitement he would create both on and off the pitch would more than justify £40mill + Oscar to me. But we Chelsea lot love the pain of banging our heads into The Bridges walls (and Gooners noses).

The thing is that these young Brazillian lads aren't too bad at all. And if we was a mid table club we would probably do worse than putting them into the rota and its just a shame we cant keep them for 2/3 years till they get some more experience and taken a few knocks. Also if it is to believed Utd were really after him so we may just have got ourselves a buy.

Tho I do probably agree with you I think coming together as a team is more important than great individuality. I would add 2 or 3 more to those as ones I;d like to keep I wouldn;t mind if we could upgrade any of the others. Not necessarily get rid of them cause they would be great as alternatives, but i do think we would could be better.

Which would be a shame seeing him go to waste at a mid table at best lately club. And Id have thought maybe IF that was the point of his decision then maybe Klopp staying there would have been a reason to sway him to stay. Me, I'm more cynical and think its about the money. I just find it strabge how we were linked with him on an hourly basis for such a long time and now we dont see Jack.

Bit strange that hes dropped right out of the media this transfer season. Ive not seen him 'linked' with anyone. I was sure he only re signed a contract for a bung from Dortmund so they could raise his buy out fee.