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29? where did you get that from? He's 25.

Haha if that Matic tweet is real he must of tweeted it on the pitch while playing for Serbia.

Lets not get too carried away, Belgium were against Luxemburg, but i think he has done enough to warrant a place in our squad as a second striker. His touch and technical ability is still pretty woeful but he scores goals. Regarding KDB, he wanted to leave and lets be honest he was having a hard time getting ahead of the likes of Mata, Hazard, Oscar, Schurrle and Willian, maybe he wasn't ready to wait. To be honest if he had stayed he would have played many games this season especially towards the latter stages of the season when the likes of Willian and Oscar were underperforming. Azpi and Cahill fought for their place in the team, it's a shame KDB didn't have the patience, but i guess it's a World Cup year.

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We're not going to sell him for god sake, forget Mata or Luiz, he is our star player, he fit's our system and he will be unbelievable next season playing alongside the likes of Costa and co. We're not a selling club, we can spend £150 million and still be alright in terms of FFP. If Real comes knocking than maybe Hazard may want to go but it's PSG ffs, get a grip.

If we can get £50 million (42million+add ons) for Luiz surely we can get £10 million for Ba?

Get this done, Buy a striker or two and get a world class midfielder to partner Matic... after that we can waste our money on someone like Lavezzi.

Daily mail reporting it as well, FFS, do we really need any more attacking midfielders/wingers? if and i say if we do actually sign him we may have praised the board far too soon... £30 million for a 29 year old? i hope it's BS.

He was awful yesterday, truly awful.

Benzema? no thanks.

It's just a hamstring injury, Torres injured his knee ffs.. it will not be serious.

The Nazi flag was photoshopped.

Fair enough, to be fair my whole opinion was based on that youtube video.

Has Koke even played as a center midfielder this season? i thought he played on the wing and behind the striker? or does he play in a 4-3-3 with Gabi and Tiago/Suarez?

It's funny how much he has improved in terms of shielding the ball, he hardly ever gets tackled now. When he was 18 you can see he has that magnificent dribbling but he was significantly weaker, you can tell he worked on his lower body. Januzaj will do the same i think, right now he gets pushed off the ball far too easily.

In the last 1-2 years it did seem like we only wanted to sign attacking players, it did get ridiculous at times but the last year especially with Mourinho and Emenalo we have been going in the right direction, Mourinho is a football man, he knows what players we need to make us more balanced and competitive, while Emenalo essentially can look for the type of players Mourinho wants.

With Costa a fee has already been agreed. Courtois is already our player. Koke, I'm not sure they'll be as willing to sell but they are in serious debt so they may be tempted if the price is right. We've also been linked with Filipe Luis, he's 29 so it doesn't really fit in with our transfer policy, but if he's cheap I wouldn't mind having him for a couple of seasons. Next season we may be the new and improved Atletico Madrid...

Cavani may be the better player, but he will cost in the region of £55 million. That's £20 million more than Costa, is he that much better? I'm not so sure. Also take into account his high wages. Costa is a no brainer for me, he may not be the better player but for the money we're spending on him I think its a great deal.

That was quick, all that in a day.

Jake Cohen ‏@JakeFCohen 4m Based on reported £48m fee from sale of David Luiz to PSG, Chelsea records a £41.1m profit on 14-15 books. Get ready for big spending. #cfc

^ Beat me to it.

Telegraph are normally reliable, not as much as The Guardian but close. BBC and The Guardian say £40 million, Sky and Telegraph say £50 million... take your pick.

Why would Hazard want to go back to Ligue 1? he has bigger fish to fry. Also the reason we sold Luiz to you was because he was essentially a squad player or a makeshift Midfielder (also the money was crazy as well). Hazard is our number one player, unless you offer something obscene like 80-100 million, no chance.

Aww poor you, grow up. That's the second time someone made that point, why cant you be happy about the deal? it means we can spend big in the summer without worrying about FFP. It's like saying why celebrate if we win a trophy or buy a player...we support the club ffs, it's better than being a fucking bore like yourself. Arsenal sell their best players, we don't. Jose obviously didn't fancy Luiz and Mata, so why not sell them and replace them with players who can improve us as a team and make us more competitive and balanced. He can suddenly turn into Beckenbauer still doesn't change the fact that 40-50 million for a defender is a great deal. If we keep him he's going to play in midfield, do you honestly want that? he's been good in the big games but we need a world class midfielder alongside Matic, not a makeshift one.