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why do we need him or lacazette or any second striker. we have remy who has been BRILLIANT whenever given a chance. scored 2 winners in PL and deserves far more credit.

not many. infact to be honest, iva, cesc and hazard are the only one who would make it.

44 mil pounds. sorry but not needed. a LW/CF is someone we already have. square pegs, round holes. if it was something like 20mil (as said before), it would have been different. reus is a much better option for a AM, for almost the same amount.

sorry to say this, but you guys know nothing. NOTHING, i repeat, NOTHING will top getting a guard of honor from slippy G. now thats gonna be FUN!!!

they have a transfer BAN.

sadly, we have to accept that if RM go after him, he is theirs. we dont have the pull that RM has. i dont know about city though. would depend a lot on the player himself. 70mil pounds and 150k+pw wages is a LOT of money even if the player is someone like pogba. honestly speaking, i dont think he is coming here. but i hope we remain in the market and keep driving the price up, specially if city is included.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3067893/Jose-Mourinho-plans-persuade-Roman-Abramovich-spend-big-summer-turn-Chelsea-European-champions.html so a new GK, a new LB, a new CB, a new AM/CM and a new ST. hmmm.. if we do do that, then ins - HG 2nd GK - 5mil LB - well we had a perfect backup LB who we sold for 10mil. are there defensively solid left backs out there? lets say (15mil) CB - varane (30mil) CM - koke (45mil) ST - lacazzete (20mil) total ~ 115mil outs - cech - 10mil luis - 10mil moses - 7mil salah - 10mil atsu - 3mil GC - 10mil mikel - 5mil mvg - 5mil romeu - 3mil piazon - 3mil remy - 8mil other "loanees" (kakuta, josh, kalas) - 6mil total ~ 80mil net spend of 35mil. squad GK - courtois, 2nd GK, blackman(HG) Defenders - JT, Varane, Zouma, Iva, Azpi, LB, ?,? CM - matic, cesc, rambo,RLC AM - hazard, koke, willian, oscar, cuadrado ST - costa, lacazette, bamford addresses our high line problem, squad strength issues.

we got no history's "conservative" estimates are sometimes way off. i think last season they predicted that chelsea would get a profit of 20mil without luiz inclusion. they were way off the estimates. i would take that with a pinch of salt.

transfer ban

hahhahha so after ATM finished 1st in la liga, we took costa and luis and thibo back, which would make them finish 3rd this season then we want to take antoine and koke which would make them go down even more to lets say 6th. and by giving them mikel, we are putting one of the nails in the coffin for them to be relegated.

griezmann and koke. after costa, luis and thibaut. damn, we are destroying ATM.

Courtois - 8 & 8 Ivanovic - 6 & 8 Cahill - 5 & 8 Terry - 8 & 10 Azpilicueta - 8 & 8 Fabregas - 10 & 5 Matic - 10 & 7 Willian - 6 & 8 Oscar - 7 & 4 Hazard - 10 & 10 Costa - 10 & 6 with ivanovic people forget that it was a delibrate tactic to play higher up the field. i wont believe for a moment that jose had asked iva to play deep like azpi but he ended up playing as a RW. people wanted open and beautiful football, and we provided it,sacrificing a wing back who always gave us a lot of width down the right. very harsh to rate him so low. when we played deep against united and arsenal, iva was a BEAST. it was not his defending that was poor but how he was used tacticallly. cahill was horrendous in the first half of the season and oscar was abysmal in the 2nd half - both getting the lowest ratings subsequently. azpi was probably the most consistent player of ours (after eden of course).

oh the sexy and beautiful football bayern played yesterday. such a joy to watch. the first 16 minutes when pep the genius, the football saviour was playing 3-4-3 with boateng-rafinha-benatia against neymar-suarez-messi was just fabulous. i mean such a footbal is such a joy to watch. probably our college manager has more understanding and tactical nuance than pep the saviour. i feel so blessed that pep rejected us, even if it meant three-fourth a season of benitez. thank you god.

if possible, i would like people to post their combined teams of 04-05 and 14-15. would be nice to see who people think would make the cut in the 04-05 team(except hazard of course)

silva, cazorla, mata, kdb. james, isco. muller, gotze etc etc etc.

have not seen much of him in the last 2 years now. so hard to judge. a lot will depend on his value that barca set. but considering that barca have a transfer ban and wont be able to replace him, would they even be willing to sell?

not even a contest. the combined team would look something like this cech ivanovic carvalho jt(old) gallas lampard makelele cesc robben DD hazard

clyne - 20mil varane - 30mil sterling - 50mil begovic - 10mil lacazzete - 20mil 130mil pounds easily!!!!!

i would choose every one of them except for willian (ofcourse, not even a question). essien should be there. cech iva carvalho JT cole lamps makelele essien robben DD hazard.

links? summary?

some people...

courtois azpi zouma JT luis matic willian cesc pogba hazard costa.

mikel will leave. no doubt about it. does not matter if its a luiz bid or a mere 4-5 mil pound deal. we will be buying a marquee CM (pogba/koke). costa hazard- cesc - willian matic - pogba luis JT zouma azpi courtois subs - freidel, iva, GC, oscar, rambo, remy, cuadrado in short, rambo will be the 4th choice CM in a 2 CM system. just cant see him staying here if thats the case.

we still do need a couple more players to be right there. i would have preferred varane but dont think jose would be breaking up GC-JT any time soon. for that matter, zouma looks likely to be more of a part next season. midfield is definitely a region where we need an enforcer/controller. one of pogba/koke is a must. dont feel the need for a striker. costa-remy-bamford should and IS good enough. we were very unlucky with striker injuries this season. but think, with a proper month or 2's rest, costa will be in a much better shape injury-wise next season. a 2nd GK is a must. rob green is a ticking time bomb - dont want him at all. brad freidel and john ruddy come to mind. transfers: ins - pogba - 60mil pounds. freidel - free total~ 60mil outs - cech - 10mil pounds mikel - 5mil pounds ramires - 15mil pounds thorgan - 5.5mil moses - 5mil romeu - 3mil marin - 2.5mil piazon - 2mil kakuta - 1mil josh - 1mil total ~ 50mil squad GK - courtois, freidel, blackman(HG) DEF - JT(HG), GC(HG), Zouma (U-21), Iva, Azpi, Luis, Ake (U-21), Christensen (U-21) CM/DM - Matic, Cesc(HG), Pogba(HG), Mvg, Rlc(HG) AM - Hazard, Willian, Oscar, Cuadrado, ?, ? ST - Costa, Remy, Bamford (HG) cesc and pogba can obviously play as AMs. all 4 of our AMs can play as wingers.

class act. JT gives his condolences to RIO at the end. what a guy!!!