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Stats are also roughly the same and playing time, just that Schürrle has 14 goals, 10 assists for club against Kevin's 10 goals, 10 assists. Schürrle has been playing in Europe for the last 2 years in Leverkusen.

Woah, a very random one at me now. Never said it the way you said, but alright, have your fun. Yes, in your mind you think you are setting someone in their place, but you are just causing trouble and arguing for no reason. In both of the cases you are ripping words out of context. Not even going to have this nonsense argument. I get that you are trying to be controversial and have this aim to knock TermX / Henrique off their thrones but off-topic and personal quarrel picking don't help you any closer to that. Take care, troll.

Alright, sorry I assumed too much! Thought you'd use the 20 mil of Schürrle's deal on Di Maria's.

Why are you so sure Real Madrid would sell us Di Maria and for 20 mil? They payed a fee rising to 36mil for him. Plus he isn't exactly built for playing in EPL as a winger, that and his diva attitude.

Are you having a dig on him just because you have a problem with different opinions? Doesn't make him a less of a fan. Harsh, unjustified and too much generalisation.

I think that having the chance to send Kevin de Bruyne on loan to a Champions League team with one of their top players joining us is win win. We'd have even more depth the season after, KDB gets regular football and CL experience and become a better player. Schürrle is not a bad player - far from it, I don't really know where all the Bundesliga 'experts' have come from. He is roughly 6-7months older than Kevin and already has made 23 appearances in Die Mannschaft. Has scored 14, assisted 10 in roughly the same amount of gametime as Kevin -he has 10 of each on club level.

This kind of approach isn't as unique as you are trying to point out.(Weren't we arguing how Bayern Münich is the big bad wolf who is eating the talents in Bundesliga? They are very successful, best club in the world at the moment. Extreme comparison, I know.) Having so many players will potentially hinder their progress due to lack of opportunities, in that sense I totally agree with you, but all of these players have worked hard all their childhood, in a very thug like competitive environment - they know what it takes to succeed and part of it is luck and taking that little given chance with both hands. I hope you agree that we can't really give everyone a fair run of games to judge them? We'd be a feeder club otherwise. That's why the loans. Though you are right about not piling up as much, we should pick more carefully and nurture them. And to all honesty the likes of KDB, Lukaku, Courtois, Chalobah etc all had a great loan season - props for the Chelsea's staff for picking the right club and helping them take a huge leap forward. We might be jumping the gun here with claiming that every young player will again go on loan or be used as make weight in deals like this - all are still very much rumors and a huge factor - we haven't got a manager appointed yet. Before presumably Mourinho takes over I'm not believing any of the transfer/loan yellow page fabricated jibberish.

Are we actually arguing if Chelsea should have depth or not? I mean IF the rumors are true and we give KdB on loan to Leverkusen(CL football)and get Schürrle, then we'd have 2 great players, 2 different players in our disposal for 2014/15 season. I hope KDB and his agents are smart about this, a season with regular football in Bundesliga plus CL will be the smartest thing to do in order claim his spot in Belgium's World Cup team.

You missed the point here. I quoted him because he gave an impression like Chelsea are criminals for having 23 players on loan - it is normal. Regarding you comparisons: IF Lukaku has the same form he had in WBA he is better than Torres. Equal with Ba. Though, why on earth would you compare KDB with Benayoun - a player out of contract? Compare him with Mata, Oscar, Hazard, Moses. Piazon has played second fiddle this season at Malaga, so has Marin - we can't compare them really - both of them are at the moment far from the quality needed. Mikel any day over Chalobah - you saw how easy he cracked under real pressure a few days ago - he needs experience in an EPL club this year with regular playing time. Stop taking things from air, I didn't claim anything.

Hate to break this to you, but we are not the only ones doing it. Plus very few from this 'mega talent pool' we have garnered will make it at the top level. People were crying over Bruma, Raijkovic, Mancienne when we constantly loaned them out and in the end we were right not to give them a chance. I'm confident that all the belgian boys will make it here, but I'm not really sure about anyone else.

How many of them are capable of stepping in right away to the first team? How many players do other (top) clubs have on loan?

That ship has sailed my friend. Torres, Ashley Cole to name a few.

Schürrle type of player really - not really a winger, but not really a striker either.

Now hold on - who are we exactly to judge if a club splashes a huge amount of money on new players? Let's not be hypocrites, shall we? It is not even certain we made a bid for him and already there's bitterness about him not joining us, sore losers.

Ricardo Carvalho joins AS Monaco signing 1+1 year contract. http://www.asm-fc.com/en/news/team/ricardo-carvalho-sign-for-1-year

Genuinely a down-to-earth and realistic lad, really wish him the best. Fingers crossed that he gets and takes the chance at Chelsea! Thanks @petr.breu for this video!

So basically none of the original players who gained the promotion would make the cut? Ouch... Dortmund have signed Sokratis Papastathopoulus from Werder Bremen and sold Felipe Santana to Schalke. http://www.bvb.de/?%87%ECY%1B%E7%F4%9C%5Ch%E2%81%94 http://www.bvb.de/?%87%ECY%1B%E7%F4%9C%5Ch%E2%81%99

Hey, I dont complain. A weakened Everton side is great for a change. It is interesting to see how all of this plans out with almost every top team changing their manager for next season. I reckon ManUtd will be less of a hassle, but can't say the same about ManCity.

Player like him can't retire without a CL title, now can he? I think Mourinho knows a shortcut.

Maybe not a long term solution, but he would certainly bring an instant impact with his winning mentality, experience.

A huge factor for lack of playing time and trust in our youngsters comes from the fact that we don't have a so called Chelsea B in a lower division like Barcelona, Bayern, Real Madrid have. Would the FA allow such policy, we would have a B team playing in fairly high intensity, molding them into the players who would fit the Chelsea's system. Implement the possibility of such reserve teams and English youth system would be on the rise. I'll add one more thing. The purchases of de Bruyne, Lukaku, Courtois, Azpi, Oscar, Hazard are all successful in my eyes. Let's not jump to conclusion that the club is certain to loan the first three names out instantly again for the next season - we simply don't know what it going on behind the scenes really. Especially looking at the transfer market where every top name is rumored to be already sold to our rivals and we are left with mere scrapes.

Wouldn't be against this transfer if Zenit asked the right price. Always liked him at Porto and it was quite odd for him to go to Russian league, where he can't fulfill his potential.

Zaha class above the rest. In my mind it was a fair penalty, the right back was a bit naive not to predict the toe poke in the end and just smashed his foot against Zaha's shin pad. Calm finish by Phillips, last time I remember him in the EPL is his Birmingham City days.

Watford would love to be our reserve team. Damn, we have beaten the system here.

Why are some so hostile towards him now when he is about to join another club? I mean be it for money, be it for the project - that's what we were 10 years ago and arguably still are - paying over the market price, offering wages out of this world and plotting the next master scheme to conquer the footballing world.