Blues Forever

From reddit mainly. I have't visited their forums yet.

Yeah Everton fans are more than happy if they can get £50m from Gordon. They don't rate him that highly.

Inter is waiting for Chelsea to clarify their stance on letting Chalobah leave on loan before making any final decisions on defensive signing.

Javi Galan is Barcelona’s Plan B that is gaining strength due to the difficulties in getting Alonso. Barca feel they can get Galan for around €10m - €12m, even though his release clause is €18m.

Sassuolo, Spezia, and Empoli are interested in Ampadu.

Of course not, but many ppl just assumed they would be another body in midfield.

Nope, we linked and signed Chukwuemeka and Casadei but both are more like no. 8 rather than a DM. Even De Jong himself isn't really a DM. The genuine DM like Tchouameni and Kamara got snapped fast by other clubs before we can even act.

Matt Law and Nizaar Kinsella have spoken about our interest on Tchouameni and Kamara in the past. As for Bissouma the link came from Nathan Gissing (cfcnewspage) who is now working for Di Marzio. As i have said here many times the delay during takeover process have fucked us this window, we missed out many players because of that.

Tchouameni, Kamara, Sangare, Bissouma, Rice in June and then all went quiet until suddenly we are going for De Jong this month.

Again if £100m is enough to get him then why City, United, and us so far didn't try to bid him? We are even willing to match United's bid for De Jong around £72m.

But they will, they have leverage with Rice still has 2 + 1 years left. If not other clubs like City or United would already done that.

Yes it is, you are basically comparing £24m vs £150m. You think we will blew more than half of our budget for Rice alone when we also need at least 2CBs, a backup wing back, and 2 attackers as well? £150m for Rice is basically a fuck off price from West Ham.

The delay during our takeover process has really fucked us this window. We missed out on several players like Tchouameni, Raphinha, Kamara, and Jesus because of this.

Tuchel is trying to address that, hence why we are linked with De Jong, Sangare, Tchouameni, Kamara, and Rice. Both Tchouameni and Kamara already off to other clubs, Rice is given unrealistic price by West Ham, and so our only choices are either De Jong or go for cheaper option in Sangare.