Bernard N Y Burgesson

City is a far richer club than chelsea have been even though it hurts to admit it. They got those players by paying extra bucks which we couldn't do to be honest. they where more or less the china in that era. And just to make it clear non of the teams in the epl are richer than the chinese clubs. If they where to be ranked for wealth we wouldn't be in the top 10 clubs. i do like the image that chelsea have as a rich club but honestly we can't sign some of the players and pay some of the wages the likes of Man U, real madrid and mancity are paying

Like arsenal is to Ozil and Sanchez

dont compare drogba era to now. back then chelsea didnt have a reputation and were building one. Back then drogba is the best we could get. So yea we had to manage. Post champions league era we are now qualified to chase the likes of morata, Mbappe, Dani Alves and we are qualified to land people like hazard and even pedro. So we won't tolerate such nonsense from costa. Its high time we treat some of our players like how we treat our coaches by sacking them when needed

a question to think about How many teams in europe are chasing costa 1=AC Milan not even atletico since they are looking at lacazette. Atletico said their door was open to him but i know they would rather pay 50m+ for Lacazette than pay 30m for costa. how many times do you go to youtube and if you are a football person get recommended videos on Costa Thats how shitty he is and has been but we just managed. It hurts that chelsea have to pay so much for lukaku thats all but i see it happening to people like lewis baker, traore, solanke ....................... since chelsea decide to use their system of not selling with buy back options. Even the rich teams like real madrid, barca, and man city do so.

how many of you would agree with me that chelsea should not sell Bertrand Traore but give him a chance rather than to buy Mahrez. The guy look better to me than mahrez. I feel he can also help now that hazard will not start next season for the time being. He has been great to watch the few times i have seen him. I didn't even know how good he was until the game against Man U. Very similar to Zaha.

thats true. i dont know why its just the striker position thats seem important

yea second that we need a natural like conti

that exactly what pep would do. Like madrid and barca do to each other

for people who say Lukaku is not an upgrade to costa are joking around . He might not be the upgrade we are looking for but he is an upgrade to costa

i know this is the wrong place to bring this up but i feel chelsea hve made a mistake with solanke.

No He playes against six while morata plays against 2 in spain and about 4+ in juventus

look at this. See how low costa's arieal ability is. Read somewhere on this platform that lukaku is as bad as costa in aerial duels.

people enough with the Costa and lets talk about other issues like wingbacks and DM's and CM's and CB's would you prefer to have a new striker and keep the rest of the positions as it is. I would be more comfortable with no striker but improvements in defence midfield and wingback positions

I didn't know Andreas Christensen is that good himself. It would be nice to have him to rplace cahill Sorry for posting in the wrong topic

THat 90m+ dream has been destroyed by Costa himself

if you want to convince yourself who to get as a striker between morata and lukaku ask yourself this question. if Mancheater united where to sign any of them before we did, which manchester would you fear the most? is it the one with Morata or the one with lukaku? Personally i wanted morata because i felt Conte wanted him so he knew what he was going to do with him but then this question popped up and i changed my mind because there are so many teams in the League who can handle players like Morata but not quite so with Lukaku. The teams with the Harry Kane's the Lukaku's the Ibra's and the Costa's have their players averageing 20 goals. strikers like Firminio, Aguero Rasford or let me put it this way "link up play strikers" are finding it more difficult to score. Why do you think Man u didnt have Morata as their plan B but rather Lukaku simply because he is EPL PROVEN. Yes i worry too that if he arrives and is shit like POGBA am going to have to endure all the teasing and embarassment that comes with buying a player you once rejected. I cant see a striker who is able to score a hattrick against Osasuna do same against Sunderland or Sevilla do same against West Brom. Just cant see that happening Many on this platform say lukaku can play against top teams. Lets do some math, there are 6 top teams in the epl of which we are one of them. So every season we have 10 difficult games that is 30pts for the season. Leaving us with 28 winnable games making 84pts for grabs. So with Lukaku who bullies small teams as to what people are saying can give us 84pts at least. Since football is a team game we should say that the remaining 30pts will not be totally lost because the other 9 outfield players can win them for us. This is a solution for those who worry that he can't play big games. teams like west brom can't be broken by link up play strikers and since more of such teams are present in the league we find chelsea in who would you rather have. My opinion is I would rather we have Lukaku and keep Bats too. LETS SOAK THIS IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so does it mean the dream for 75m+ for costa is over. that hurts cause would have been rich enough with oscars money to buy huge in the tranfer window. disadvantage to us

striker comparisons defender comparison CAHILL, VAN DIJK, BONUCCI, LUIZ. CHRISTENSEN DM comparison BAKAYOKO, POGBA, KONDOGBIA, MATIC, KANTE LB/LWB comparison MARCOS ALONSO, BABA RAHMAN, GHOULAM, ALEX SANDRO, MENDY RB/RWB comparison MOSES, DANI ALVES, ADAMA, AZPILI, CONTI midfield comparison KANTE, NAINGGOLAN, TOLISSON, VERRATTI, KEITA These are comparison of players we have been linked to over the season and the players we already have. Players we have also loaned and are expectedto return to the first team are also involved. Can give us a fair idea of what chelsea should be looking for.

https://t.co/8aboQ62B4N Bayern to sell costa and sanches

Many dont send 40+ kids on loan every season

i think players are afraid to come to the bridge because of our ruthless but successive formula of "a season of poor form = 4yrs of your young career on loan to as many as 6 different teams in different countries. I feel like chelsea make too many enemies with this. Just imagine Salah playing against us then De Bruyne now Solanke and Cuadrado possible Bertrand traore, Baker, Tammy, Kenedy, Nathan not to forget Van Ginkel. Put yourselves in their place such a bright future you have and someone attempts to destroy it but doesnt work and you get to the chance to beat the hell out of those people, well i know for such if it were me, you gonna regret the day you met me. Do we expect chelsea to be attractive to the likes of Mbappe, Dembele(celtic)(Dortmund), Morata, Tollisso, and any other long term solution? NO. All we gonna get is 29- 35 year olds probably worse than Juventus average age knowing very well, that would not get you anywhere in england with so many fixtures, might work in the Serie A but not the EPL.

I hope Ake would be intergrated into the team next season and possibly Cahill faded out like JT.

feel sad for willian i think he should have stayed on instead of bringing costa

and Ake deserves first team play from now on

conte is great at his tactical game