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RE: Sanchez - why do people even care if he's 29, and would be getting the wages that's being mentioned? Surely it's about improving the team no? Our job as Chelsea fans is to worry about what happens on the pitch. And as it stands, there are a lot of improvements that have to be made. Sanchez would be one hell of an improvement. In fact, getting an Alexis Sanchez-esque type of player might actually encourage the likes of Hazard and Courtois to actually sign their extensions. Whether we're actually in for him or not is irrelevant, but I'm sorry, no-one can tell me that getting Sanchez would be a negative move given what we currently have at our disposal. And if you do, you're lying.

Someone post up the it’s happening gif plz.

And if that person coming in takes you on to the next level and you win firm of the year, you don't think you'd be rewarded for your efforts? It works both ways. If it's a case of not paying the wages required to attract top level talent to the club then we're done as a force. From a team happily willing to shell out the cash to now penny pinching - quite remarkable.

Exactly this. I honestly never expected this after Munich. I thought we'd consolidate and push on from what we had achieved. Players should have been clammering to sign for us. But instead we've gone on this ultra conservative approach to transfers and we've regressed back to the point where we can't compete for the best players now. People should brace themselves for a Hazard-less Chelsea next season - him leaving is a very big possibility, and I don't blame him one bit.

Have to agree with this. He came in with the agenda of turning the club into a successful one with the overall goal of winning the Champions League and succeeded.

Left Back, 2 AM’s and another Striker-all of significant quality are required. But we won’t get any of those.

Drinkwater, Barkley and now Carroll. Oh how the mighty have fallen.

Where did I say anything about paying 90m for every transfer? I just want top quality players at my club. Can I be held responsible if the likes of RLC or Tammy potentially don't have what it takes to make it at Chelsea? No. That's on them. If Musonda hasn't developed enough in the time he's been at the club to the point where he should be challenging for a place in the first team, then maybe it just isn't meant to be. Same with all the others.

Its very sad that the club are slowly trying to condition a lot of you that signing the likes of Danny Drinkwater is a good thing. You're embracing mediocrity and just shrugging your shoulders and saying "oh well." and coming up with a bunch of reasons to justify it when you know deep down it isn't the type of signing we as a club should be making if we wanting to be fighting on all fronts and competing for trophies. This was an awful window in hindsight.

Lol @ Everton signing nine players this window while we’re struggling to sign Danny Fucking Drinkwater and some random from Torino no-one outside of Serie A had heard of. Laughing stock.

What if this deal Conte signed, got him the payrise, but an agreement that he's going to leave at the end of the season and won't be strengthening the team bar the players we have signed already... No point in buying players for the coach if the coach isn't going to be there is it..... #Conspiracy

Of course you can.

Same colour being Leicester then?

You could argue that we could use the extra backup in the attacking front so we have additional cover for Haz/Willian and Pedro. I'd welcome the signing. But I agree that the WB situation is a top priority. Of which nothing will happen.

It's going to be absolute carnage if we only end up signing someone with the caliber of Danny Drinkwater today.

Not if Hellas Verona have anything to do with it....

The boards incompetence in regards to signing players is nothing short of staggering. I’m actually fuming at how this has happened again. I honestly expected things to be different this summer after what Conte achieved last season. But no-he’s been sold down the river in regards to sufficient reinforcements and we will now pay the price with a worn out squad by January.

Kante, Dave and Courtois are very good players, but they aren’t world class. Sorry to burst your bubble there.

Clement using his Carlo card to perfection here.

Well the goal is to score goals isn't it? And Mahrez is hardly slow is he?

It's a shame he's so set on wanting to go to City. But then I guess when they're offering 400k a week, why wouldn't you?

Oh please, does anyone actually think we are going to sign both Drinkwater and Mahrez from Leicester in the next 24 hours?

You are the first person that has been honest so fair play to you good man.

So what you're basically saying is that we're going to sign Drinkwater from Leicester to be this "4th choice bench option", only to get rid of him in a couple of years time to a team like Leicester because he's struggling for gametime? Remind me why we're potentially signing him again......?

How long had Drogba and Lampard been at the club before winning the Champions League though? I wouldn't expect top bracket players to sit on the bench either. I'd expect them to work hard during training to compete for a place in the starting 11 though. That doesn't mean that we have to buy sub par/inferior talent. The moment we do that, we become like Arsenal.