nadavTKL
Posts posted by nadavTKL
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"His current club PSG want to renew his contract but Raiola has arrived to know what sort of price they would be looking to sell for should no agreement be reached.
Chelsea are known admirers of the player and Raiola was in London yesterday on business".
http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/eng/psg-raiola-to-paris-to-discuss-van-der-wiel-the-situation/
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Is anyone actually excited about this guy or stones or is there just a need for us to sign players to be happy? I reckon both could be good buys just not remotely excited about either transfer.
Obvously its not exciting like buying a midfielder or an attacking player, but i think people should understand that our current defenders just encouraging a very conservative approach, because they are so slow and unathletic.
Replacing Ivanovic, Cahill and eventually Terry is imo the most important thing left to do in the first XI, if we want to play more proactive football.
Playing the likes of Baba, Stones and Zouma is the step in the right direction if fans want us to play differently than the second half of last season. And i believe Jose wants it too. But it remains to be seen if Baba and Zouma/Stones will actually
get to be starters soon enough.
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He signed, should move the topic.
£5M fee btw. Every nobody (yes Romeu is a nobody) is costing £5m in todays Premier League... thats quite funny.
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There is no way he'll leave right now, when Jose is saying he's happy with his midfielders and Mikel is still here. Ramires is our 12th man, no question about that.
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Chelsea close in on stones [skysports]
You just copied it from the sky bet section on sky transfer center? its there for weeks.
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Seen Pedro plenty of times obviously, are you sure you've seen those 3 players enough? With all dou respect that Pedro came from La Mesia, he was never an excellent dribbler or even an actual ball playing winger, and it was never his strong side. Technically it was always obvious Pedro is the least skilled attacking player in Barcelona. Fekir and Brahimi can easily remind you of Hazard's ball control (even if it's not the same of course, Hazard is very special), Pedro is no where near it.Pedro is twice the player any of those three are mate.
He's hardly got the technical skill of Schurrle, Cuadrado or Salah... he was brought up playing in La Masia where there is an emphasis on close control, retaining possession and technical quality above physical qualities. He has 99 goals playing for Barca as a wide player. He is better than all of those 3 players by a country mile, there is no doubt who would make a better impact playing for Chelsea. Anyone who has seen him play knows he is an excellent dribbler, very versatile and is extremely strong with both feet to a high standard.
Pedro is not a regular starter for some time, he's 28 (not going to improve, probably won't get to his best from 2010-2011), those 3 players has future, and are hungry for success, spending 30m euros on Pedro seems just stupid for me when those players can be bought, serve the club for years, and imo add more to the team.
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I was fine with the idea of buying him at first, but it was just this desire for a new player. I feel that whatever midfield player we're buying next, he should have excellent technical abilities. No more Schurrle's, Cuadrado's, Salah's.
Getting Pedro who is another one of those technically-wise, will just be a waste of our money. We'll all want a new winger in a few months.
Fekir, Brahimi, Anderson, thats the only kind of wingers we should aim at IMO. Very skilled, can keep the ball well under pressure and dribble past players.
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How is he limited? What is Terry then? Cahill might not be world class but he is an all round quality defender. He can play, scores the odd goal (some good ones too), reads the game well. I don't see how he is a limited defender? He is no more limited than the majority of CB around. Cahill has so many quality games for us but he is always percieved to be as some sort of average CB when he is not.
He is slow and awful in 1 v 1 situations. Thats a limited defender in todays game. He cant play for a team who wants to play a high line and press high. Terry is the same. To play with one slow CB is maybe ok, but two is too much.
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Jose Mourinho said on DirecTV that Juan Guillermo Cuadrado is a substitute as Chelsea "has several top players." #CFC (AS)
Mourinho on Cuadrado: "It's a position where we have Willian, Hazard, and other players who want to play as well - Moses, Kennedy & Ruben."
Mourinho on Cuadrado: "One thing is to ask, another thing to buy. No proposal to sell . Nor do I think about possibility of him going." #CFC
What does he mean there about "one thing is to ask, another to buy"? I just hate it when he says half things and keep it mysterious. I assume teams have asked about taking him on loan but it's not an option?
Meanwhile, Italian source calciomercato say Inter will be looking to find the right formula to bring him to Inter, after selling Shaqiri.
Their 1st target is known to be Perisic from Wolfsburg though.
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Augsburg can judge it how they will from the euros side, that's up to them. For me my only concern is Chelsea and we paid £14M, no matter how you cut it. With the possibility to go up to £17.5M depending on performances. That's not expensive when you consider some of the deals that have gone down this summer. For me a maximum of £17.5M for a 21 year old LB who is already good and looks like he has the potential to be a top player in the future is a good price. Especially considering Rodriguez is mooted to cost around £30M and Shaw went to Utd last summer for £30M aswell.
You're right about that.
The issue of judging prices is that the British market became so crazy that £14m is small for a 21 yo LB. PL clubs can pay over the odds for players from France, Germany, Spain, and they wont feel bad about that. And the selling team, they are happy about getting so much money, a lot more than the "real value" of the player. Its happening in the last two-three years a lot and it will continue to happen even more, especially with the smaller clubs in PL.
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Good signing, especially for such a small initial fee (£14M).
Thats not a small fee. English teams are having a real profit because the Euro is so weak.... nowadays 14m pounds is 20m Euros for Augsburg , definitely not a small fee for Baba.
With that 6-10 more on bonuses its even too expensive. not that im complaining.
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never mind
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According to Di Marzio it's 20m euros + 5m. euros bonuses, so 25 m. euros.
Like i wrote earlier, the reporter/translator of Di Marzio says something else. He says its 30. Tbh im not yet sure, maybe he's wrong.
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Except for its not 30m so your post is irrelevant.
Its 20m Euros+bonuses up to 30m according to Di Marzio. According to Guardian its up to 28m Euros.
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Jose doesn't like his full backs to go to far forward, says it exposes the centre backs to much, Ashly Cole said when he joined chelsea jose told him dont get caught up field. Cole never got forward as much as he did at Arsenal until Jose left.
So explain Ivanovic? or Marcelo? thats his last two teams, its more relevant than 2006.
I think he likes only one of his FBs to go far forward. Azpi is more defensive here, in Madrid it was Arbeloa.
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The fee - http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/eng/chelsea-completes-deal-for-baba-the-financial-figures/
I still cant understand if the maximum fee is 26m (like the article suggests) or 30m like David Amoyal (a reporter/translater for Di Marzio) said on twitter.
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I think it might be it this time. Di Marzio was the only one who contradict the reports about a done deal a week ago (from Bild), and he was also the first to report about Baba.
The datails (Google translate, later they will translate it to english):
" An operation that ended based on 20 million EUR plus five bonus; in addition, all 20 games will add another million and after reaching 100 appearances will add another 5 million.
For the player, however, five-year contract to three million Euros net per season"
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Still mind boggling that a team that already scored the most goals in the league last season will have spent well over £100m on attacking players this summer. And that's after being fined for breaching FFP. The same FFP that we're terrified of for some reason.
30m pounds on Stones and 18m pounds on Baba is far from nothing, if we get it done like the club is trying to do. Although i would agree not getting any reinforcement (at least one) in midfield seems silly and dangerous.
About City spending tons on more attackers after scoring the most goals - its all about philosophy, Pellegrini believes that you need to win by playing open and attack attack attack, he scored the most goals but he didnt won the title, so he wants more goals rather than fix the defensive problems. Yaya is the best example for that. Pellegrini must know by now that playing him in CM destroys his defense, but he prefers to keep him there because of his attacking contribution. One thing is a sure thing - City will continue to be an embarrassment in Champions League. I dont think they will win the league like that, imo the title depends on our form, i believe City are the 2nd favorites.
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After seeing and being reminded what a liability Ivanovic+Cahill are on this team, im a bit less concerned about the high prices of Baba and Stones, just want Ivan and Cahill off our XI as soon as possible.
We have Zouma though, and i still think paying 48m euros on stones is a joke. While Ivanovic will continue to start for a while, at the very least. But, i guess Baba and Stones will create more competition and options to rotate, so things might change more quickly.
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Looks great - on paper.
Aguero seems to be getting a lot of injuries these days.
Silva is still good but isn't getting any younger.
Will De Bruyne be able to adapt to the demands of the Premier League?
Sterling is still young and erratic right now.
Toure blows hot and cold and if his age is anything to go by, he's already past his best.
On top of that, none of the players above are really hard workers and teams can easily take advantage of that if they play their cards right.
Agreed, this line up is ridiculously soft.
Fernandinho would have tons of work, even more than he had last season. And he's not even a DM originally.
i also dont think KDB is that great but thats a different subject. Im really waiting to see him again in PL, so much hype and i seriously cant undertstand it. Many people i know or read online are talking about him as world class talent when they watched him maybe 2 times. It will be nice to understand if he's really that good, or that i was right.
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But yeah, I am not a big fan of having Fabregas and Matic as two deep midfielders when we defend. It makes Matic over work, and it makes Cesc burn out and lose the cutting edge and precision needed for his passing.
Question is, how are we supposed to play? what are we supposed to do? playing Cesc in #10 means no Deep Lying Playmaker, no creativeness in center midfield, against the best teams when you need to move the ball quick it wouldnt work too well.
If you want more steel and power in midfield the best solution for us is a box-to-box CM, someone who can defend well, link up well, attack well, obviously very dynamic, someone who would let Cesc stay as the DLP.
Koke, Vidal, Pogba - they would make it work probably. I think Willian and Oscar (when in form) could play in a similar role, but to this point Willian isnt playing centrally, and when we're facing a strong team Oscar is benched for Ramires.
I love Cesc as a player, think he is the 2nd most important player when we're attacking, but him as the DLP is proven to be a big problem for Jose and our development as a team.
Jose is yet to find REAL solutions to this problem. His best solution is Ramires and he seems to think he cant get a better solution in this transfer window. I would take Witsel, but its mainly because im tired of Ramires and his nonsense, not because i think having Witsel (who is a DM who sits deep, similar to Matic) is the way to go or the missing piece we need to be complete. If Witsel would play here, after some time we'll all say the same - we're slow in the build up, we're attacking with four players max, we're predictable. "Its not ideal and we need better than that". We'll control games better than with Ramires, pass better, but Ramires on the other hand is box-to-box, he lets Cesc stay deep when the manager wants it, and he's joining the attacks around the box.
Another problem which is the reason we cant regret buying Cesc or drop him or move him further up the pitch - there arent any world class DLPs in the market, never. It took us years to find Cesc available, and we were very lucky.
As long as Koke and Pogba wont come to play for us, and there isnt a quality DLP in the market, the best solution IMO for this "Balance Problem" or "Big Games Problem" is in our own squad - Oscar (or Willian). Jose should work on getting Oscar-Matic-Cesc to be a reliable trio when defending.
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The source is Marca.
They're saying Bayern and Chelsea made a 65m bid for Koke and Atletico turned it down (they can't, it's his release clause), Psg made a 60m bid for Greizmann and United made a 35m bid for Oblak.
I call bulshit on everything. Nobody talked about such offers, and Atletico has no say when a club wants to pay the release clause.
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As long as Cuadrado is still wasting a spot on our roster I doubt we'd even consider buying another AM.
Of course someone needs to leave for that to happen, and im still not completely sure Cuadrado will stay. There's also Mourinho's comment when talking about Moses - "We'll see what happens".
I think there is more evidence that we consider getting a Winger this summer than a CM. Sky and Beasley were saying we wanted Sterling for a certain price, and Beasley also talked about Pedro. Nothing reliable about CM.
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My dream is that they wont sell, and Jose will go "fuck it, lets put this money on a top class AM/CM".
What a transfer window miracle this would be...
Douglas Costa
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Who would have thought that you should not speak about a player when you didnt see the player play. Crazy idea.
Some things that are very clear for one human being are not that clear for the other.
Anyway, as much as i like to see Costa doing well and hate how we got Cuadrado instead, i wouldnt push it too much. He'll continue to be very dangerous but I dont think Costa can grow into a 'world class' winger. He has limitations in his game that will be shown. If he could get enough games as the RW, not the LW, he'll do great. In LW he'll become predictable.