DavidEU

Way I see this:

From that video, seems like he was involved in a hell of a lot of Atletico goals last season. Still want to see him more defensively though.

Yep, thats true for sure. I think to be fair, we should be proud of the team that we've assembled over the last few years in terms of recruiting of all ages. Youth team have come on bundles, as have transfer negotiations. Not something thats really been acknowledged by the media, but I think its fair to say the majority of us lot appreciate and respect the change.

Wouldn't imagine so. Courtois was a Championship winning goalkeeping in Belgium when we signed him, despite his young age he wasn't an unknown kid.

Get it signed sooner rather than later. Make him number one, make him feel like the best goalkeeper in the world (which he must feel at the moment anyway) and then slap a 6 year contract on his lap.

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Finding a lot of space even up against the 3 centre halfs and making a few decent runs. Even if his finishing has been a bit off so far.

De Vrij fouls Costa. Penalty.

July 1 it opens, the transfers are complete but they can't be 'registered' to the club until the window opens. Its meaningless though. The official date of the window here is pretty irrelevant.

Deserves to be starting after a great season. Congrats Azpi.

Hes had a few months to prepare for it and I think he's got thicker skin. The Dutch are playing with a fairly defensive side, so if hes quiet I think it will be for that reason and not the crowd.

The terms of the clubs was agreed a while ago. The medical and personal terms hadn't been agreed at that stage.

Mikel looks likely to leave, doesn't he. Showed away to Atletico that he's still got something to offer, but looks inevitable. Wouldn't be surprised either to see MVG leave on loan.

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Thanks for three and a half memorable years, David. Been an up and down few years, with some exceptional highs. 120 minutes and smashing in that penalty in Munich on a dodgy leg will never be forgotten. I really do hope he sorts his faults out whilst playing for Paris, he's still potentially an unbelievable defender and he'll win a hell of a lot over in Paris. Good luck, Geezer.

Samuel's shaved a line down the middle of his hair for some odd reason. Looks like Simon Cowell.

Yep, agree about the Shaw opinion. Doesn't look likely now though. Maybe theres something in the John Stones rumour. Definitely something the club need to think about. Need to start finding big talents who meet the home grown rules like Barkley, Shaw, Pogba, but also need to start taking gambles on players like Stones when he was at Barnsley for a couple of million in the same way Everton have done if we're going to meet these quotas in years to come. Until then, Bertrand and Moses probably need to stay.

Think you're missing my point. Can't just fill up our squad with whoever we want and although Moses and Bertrand may not be the best players in the world, they're not the worst and they give us a bigger and stronger squad. As for JT, you can't rule him out for being 33. He was the best centre half in the league last season and it wouldn't surprise me if he is again next year.

He's sourcing himself. Just another twitter fool having a guess hoping he'll get some credit later on.

Cheers mate, that's a shame. Something along the lines of this then, I think we'd all agree now.

Get that completely, BUT, if Chelsea rely on these guys to complete our squad then we shouldn't feel pressured into selling them. Realistically, we have 3 LBs in van Aanholt, Cole, and Bertrand that could qualify as HG, so i'd imagine the club would want one of them to stay. Anyone know if Salah and van Ginkel qualify as U21s for next season? Salah turns 22 in June 2015, MVG turns 22 this December.

Do the players want to stay? Well, if they don't, it's there fault for signing long-term deals. If the clubs want or need them, which in my eyes we do, then they don't have a choice. Surely Lukaku qualifies as an U21 but not a HG. Thought you had to play in the country for 4/5 years first?

If we sell Bertrand and Moses and Cole leaves along with Frank, our only homegrown players will be JT, Cahill and now Fabregas.

I see Moses staying as a homegrown player. Won't have many left otherwise. Unless we can get a decent fee, matching what we paid for him, I think he'll stay. Same applies with Bertrand.

Its something like if you agree to pay the release clause of the player, you agree to pay an extra 30(ish?)% fee in taxes. If you pay a pound under that clause, you pay jack shit. So in this case, you'd be looking at another £10m. Its very very rare that release clauses are met.