Slam Dunk

How many pens should we have had?

The right hand side of team is awful. Bosingwa has 4 red shirts in front of him every time, not a Chelsea player in sight. Which means we switch it to the left...PREDICTABLE.

Right so Ballague/Migeru_cb have tweeted it...that's all the proof I need. Time to get excited.

So if the fee is €27.5M, we're paying £24M for him. Good deal imo.

http://translate.goo...1313785446.html I have everything crossed.

Its gone beyond that now, some rumours that a fee has been agreed already. http://twitter.com/#!/migeru_cb

Jay Spearing is excellent for these...

I would think so. Looked much more competent than Turnbull in pre-season.

Hilario.

Cech out for 3-4 weeks

It says they are considering an offer from Atletico (I think).

Were you expecting a different outcome, can I ask? I doubt we were ever seriously interested.

Read that our bid was €20M now, then €5M in add ons, think we would try €25M now, then €5M later if we were to bid again.

It was. After August 1st however, the release clause in his contract went up to around ~€50M, but because of Valencia's debt, they are likely to accept a bid of €30M (reportedly). Edit: €30M is roughly £26.25M

Well, he's not actually a Chelsea player (yet). So no.

I do hope nobody has ordered a #46 shirt...He's now our new #20!

Yeah mate, Luiz should be out for one more week. AVB didn't mention any of Alex, Ivan or Mikel, so I would assume they are fit and will travel. He said he will assess them again tomorrow and decide on a starting 11. Torres couldn't remember the moments before/after the Spain game, but he is back training and is fit to travel. Interesting that when someone asked about central forwards (Torres/Drogba), AVB also mentioned Anelka as a contender for central forward. He also said that if the Lukaku deal were to go through (matter of hours/days in his words), he would have no problem in including him in the match day squad for Stoke.

Glad Torres is travelling. Luiz out.

Our new #6 :chelsea2:

We certainly will. Looks like he is going to be a very good player (from what i've seen).

Medical completed. Everything to be finalised tomorrow after his international game tonight. I seriously doubt he'll be involved for the Stoke game.

So he's said that he won't be moving...Why make a thread on it?

^ Well De Bruyne has just been stretchered off with a suspected broken fibula playing for Genk. So that one is probably out of the window.