The Skipper

To be honest - Suarez has shown at Liverpool that he's willing to not be the main guy up top (i.e. Sturridge is their main goal scorer). I can see it working fine. Messi is going to be a number 10 next season with Neymar and Suarez flanking him. Neymar - Suarez Messi Iniesta - Rakitic Busquets Awesome front 6. But as you said, who knows if they'll gel?

Best front line in the world by quite some distance.

Sky are reporting £64m.

And that's why it isn't really comparable. Because when Fabregas was in London for his commercial, reputable sources in Spain were already heavily linking him with a move to Stamford Bridge, whilst we haven't heard anything reputable about Pogba in weeks. That's my point. That's why it's different.

Not at all. There has been NO reputable sources coming out about Pogba whatsoever. We might have been linked with him but none of those links were there as strongly as Fabregas'. Sure, we weren't linked until it was general news that he'd leave Barcelona for a PL club, but as soon as that news came out we were being linked with him already, quite strongly by some Spanish papers, and a few days after he was then in London doing his commercial stuff. There hasn't been a solid Pogba rumour out there for weeks. Not comparable to me at all.

A lot of reputable sources in Spain were reporting the Cesc deal, with Pogba all we've seen is a couple of photos he took with people in west London. You can't compare the two situations.

Don't rate Debuchy at all sorry. I personally think he's a downgrade to Sagna. Koscielny was one of the best CBs in the PL last season. Ask any Arsenal fan who they think is their best defender in that back line and the majority by far will say Koscielny.

LOL. That is just pure evil mate.

Seriously? A handful of people doesn't mean the whole forum...There are plenty on here that don't put Courtois in the same boat as Lukaku so you need to relax.

Only Koscielny in that back line is a truly great defender IMO. So average.

Why are people suddenly trying to shoe horn Khedira into the XI? Have I missed something?

Looks okay but isn't anything amazing. You'd expect a top club like CFC to have one of the best ones out there...

Good luck wherever you might go Ryan.

Absolute beast and level headed (unlike some others he doesn't expect to just walk into the team). Hope he stays as the 4th choice CB and makes his way up from there. He certainly is good enough. Better talent than Omeruo or Kalas IMO.

Ramires showed heart but he didn't do anything exceptional. That's why the thread remains quiet.

£35m as per BBC.

Are those that were saying his fee (£35m) was a bargain being serious? Seems like a very fair price IMO.

People are truly getting excited over an absolute non-story...

It's simple really - the whole team was built around Neymar's scoring ability - and when that's not there they look completely lost and disorganised. Neymar was brilliant in the CC = Brazil being brilliant, Neymar being quite good/ok = Brazil scraping through to the semis.

He's played 156 games (club and country) in the last two years... That's incredible.

Polish iirc.

Steadily becoming my favourite CFC player now. Top lad.

They are one of the more reputable papers in the UK but they're merely quoting the Evening Standard article.

Great signing for them.

Sanchez will definitely be important but the team will be built around Ozil. Yes Ozil hasn't been as great as usual but this is only his first pl season. I think he'll be really good next year.