DavidEU

Cute.

Any details? Loan or permanent? Fee? Word on twitter is Ba and Marin both joining them on loan.

Good signing?

Yeah I found it weird too! Can't find the original source of the tweet, but this is a repeat. I'm sure I didnt hear it from the source stated here. (AS)

Sergi Dominguez or Di Marzio said that hes turned down offers from Qatar and China (I think its them 2) on higher money but Jose has offered him a player-then-coach deal here, which he prefers. Fuck knows how true that could be.

He does get a fair few bits right about Chelsea. But gets a lot wrong too.

As a free agent, maybe hes just deciding to have a couple of extra days and weeks of holiday.

£15.9m. I'd take that.

If you didn't say cousin, that looks like the most thoughtful checking out of someone ever.

He actually played 4 of the preseason games in USA last summer. And he played the two games in USA against City after the 2013 season. But yeah, back to Costa guys.

http://metro.co.uk/2014/07/13/romas-mehdi-benatia-wants-to-move-to-chelsea-and-play-for-jose-mourinho-4796369/ Metro saying that GdS are reporting that Benatia wants to move to Chelsea. Never seen much of this guy, what do people think?

Depends how much prize money they are able to reinvest from winning La Liga and getting to the CL final I guess. Isn't the distribution of TV money in Spain changing quite dramatically this season or something too? But they've bought for big price tags before so I wouldn't be surprised to see them do it again. Turan, Mandzukic and Rodrigo is an interesting front 3 for sure and they'll give every side in La Liga a tough job. Oblak and Siqueira are really good replacements for Courtois and Luis whilst the rest of their defence and midfield should be the same as before. I think they'll do well again next year.

"Cellino is so suspicious of the number 17 that he had the seats at his former club, Cagliari, taken out and replaced with 16B." They're a disaster waiting to happen this season.

Absolutely, and I think they've signed good players. But, having won the title for the first time in what was it, 18 years? To then go and lose the three forward players that delivered it must be gut wrenching for a football fan. Heard they're pretty close to signing Rodrigo from Benfica who will be another good option for them.

Defensively? Wasn't he at some fault for the Marcelo OG vs Croatia and the Matip goal vs Cameroon? I don't want to be one of the guys constantly slagging David off but the constant bad moments of defending aren't irregular. He seems to make some sort of mistake in every game.

I'd be quite surprised if we don't see some developments with this one by Friday 5pm. Would imagine Jose would want him on board by the time the European friendlies begin and preseason intensifies. We'll end up paying the buyout clause for sure.

Because the kids poor form over the last seven months is probably due to pure exhaustion. Rushing him back isn't going to help anyone. I remember Mata had a similar situation 2 years ago having had the Euro U21 tournament in 2011 and the Olympics and Euro 2012 a year later, practically playing 2 years non stop. Di Matteo chose to give him an extra week or so off in September. -- Gotta feel sorry for Atletico fans, they've ended up selling their three strikers from last season as Adrian Lopez has now joined Porto. Going to be very interesting to see their starting 11 next season.

Good luck, Andre. Come home a world champion!

Whatever happened to the rumours of Paulo Ferreira coming back to work as one of Joses assistants?

The PSG fans must have gone from delight to absolute fear over the past 30 days over this guy.

If World Cup players are getting three weeks off (as they have previously), then we could see Cesc, Azpi, Torres and possibly Costa at some point this week. They were eliminated 20 days ago.The one player I could see having longer than the rest is Oscar, if its true hes played 156 games in two years then give him an extra 7-10 days.

I get both impressions of him quite strongly to be honest. Hes proper Chelsea but hes come across as a dick on twitter more than once...

I bought this book yesterday.

With a bench of Caballero, Sagna, Demichellis, Fernando, Milner, Dzeko and Negredo. Pretty strong.

No.