EskWeston

Come on guys this is supposed to be a thread for Lucas Piazon's move. There is a thread for Neymar's potential move and Kakuta has his own thread.

Would be a suprising move if it turns out to be true, however if it does happen then i am sure the reasons are good in his mind. There are a good few top top class younger players on the move this summer Aguero, Neymar, Pastore, Sanchez...... would be a shame if we don't get one of them

Watched a bit of Lucas Piazon last night for the first time playing in the U17's world cup. Didn't see much of the game only about 20 mins, but what i saw of him he was playing wide left cutting when he had the ball (although he can play as a centre forward or behind the forward). He was the best of the Brazil team at that time, and had very good skill on the ball without being flashy and did quick passing and took up good positions. It is impossible to judge on such a short period of 1 game but i am looking forward to him coming over and seeing more of him. Incidently we also apparently own something like 40% of the right back playing for Brazil last night Wallace, seemed a decent player too.

Yes that is correct, of course we can actually sign them, but once the list is submitted (end August) our squad has to conform to these rules. Also there is a real possibility that Bertrand and sturridge could go on loan again, which would mean a squad of only 21 unless we sign some more "Homegrown" players.....

Time to revive this thread again as it will most certainly affect our transfer plans this summer. So here we are as things stand: 1.(HG): John Terry 2.(HG): Ashley Cole 3.(HG): Frank Lampard 4.(HG): Ross Turnbull 5.(HG): Daniel Sturridge 6.(HG): Ryan Bertrand 7.(HG): 8.(HG): 9. Petr Cech 10. Branislav Ivanovic 11. Michael Essien 12. Didier Drogba 13. Mikel 14. Florent Malouda 15. Jose Bosingwa 16. Yuri Zhirkov 17. Paulo Fereira 18. Salomon Kalou 19. Alex 20. Nicolas Anelka 21. Hilario 22. Yossi Benayoun 23. Ramires 24. David Luiz 25. Fernando Torres U21 Players: 1. Patrick Van Aanholt 2. Gael Kakuta 3. Josh McEachran 4. 5. What it means with regards to our transfer plans is that we could sign 2 "Homegrown" players without selling anyone. Or if we bring any non homegrown players in someone will have leave to make space. IF we sign Neymar and/or Lukaku then we don't need to make any changes because they would go on the U21 players list. I think it would be safe to assume that we would be letting at least a couple of our players go and would need replacing as we do not want to start the season with a light squad as we did last season..

Sturridge has to stay, we need English players in our squad and Sturridge is clearly a very talented young man, we need to utilise his potential and push him forward next season.....

Look at our FA Youth cup squad last season and you will see the way the club are going, we focus on the technical aspect of the player first for sure. And all down the levels of the club we are trying to produce the technically gifted players. PHysicality counts for nothing once they reach 19/20 and things even out and then the more technical players overtake the ones who have dominated physically. If you are only interested in results you will play a physically stronger team at youth level like a lot of clubs do (even Arsenal at the moment) but if you look at our results last season in the Youth league and the number of schoolboys we fielded it is clear we are more focused on the development of our players.

I think the reports of us losing interest in Lukaku are premature. Things will have been put on hold once the deal for AVB got moving and now discussions will take place for transfer targets and i would imagine next week we will start to see some movements. Lukaku is a bright young player and i think we are very interested, i would see it as a positive move for us to bring him in and have him as understudy to Torres.

Would certainly be an good signing. Spain rate him very very highly, and anyone has a very tough job of getting into that Barcelona side.

Saw more of the interview with him yesterday and the more you hear from him the more exciting a prospect it is to have him here. I think it was clear from his interview that he intended to bring some of his own staff with him and that is a good sign, the manager needs to be able to create the right environment around him to do the job to the best of his ability. It is going to interesting watching things evolve from now until the close of the transfer window.

Neymar would still be my number 1 target this summer. Think we would be crazy if we miss out on him now... He has everything we are looking for in a player to push us forward..

Can't see there really being any consideration for selling Luiz, he was signed very much with a long term view....

Our young age groups have been very dominant in the tournaments that they have entered recently. We have made massive strides as an academy and that will just continue, expect some very very good young players to be showing up in the youths soon including this year (although most have already played last year). The only thing we need to do is bridge the gap between youth and first team and we are sorted...

Todd Kane will be signing his first pro contract this summer along with a number of other players. Natural progression but he is a very talented young man......

Would not mind us signing Hulk at all, much more the type of player we need that Falcao...

Roumers of our interest dropping now because AVB does not fancy him are bound to be rubbish especially as the roumers were on the day he signed, how would the press now know his transfer preferences? I would imagine after the weekend we will see things start to move, and even more so once the players are back from pre season training and the squad can be properlu assesed by AVB. Again though a striker is pretty low on our needed list.

If Falcao comes it most certainly means that Drogba will be leaving, would seem a strange buy considering there are other areas of far more importance to strengthen.

Given all the reports we have had already with Hiddink, Redknapp and Hughes all being dead certs i think we have to take this with a pince of salt still. Having said that i would be well pleased to see us sign a young up and coming manager with something to prove and a very good technical knowledge of the game. Would be pleased if we did appoint him.

We will of course want to get our manager sorted before making any signings, and i agree with feroze, Aguero will not go to Juve....

Wouldn't trust anything that came off that show, they would tell you black is white if it got them callers and attention....... Fact is though we have been heavily linked to Aguero for years. If he is to move we are bound to be one of the key players in trying to sign him

Hulk and Hazard are no more wingers than Neymar and Aguero. Sanchez would be a good signing but not likely to come to us by all accounts. The others are not exactly the World Class players who could better Neymar or Aguero in those positions.

So a no to Neymar and Aguero from you, i understand you want natural wingers, but who?

To me it seems that Van Basten with Hiddink as DOF is most likely. And whilst i wouldn't be doing cartwheels at the appointment i would be more than willing to see how it goes without complaining about the appointment. Going for experienced managers clearly isn't always a gurantee for success

I just don't see him as an out and out Centre Forward, he would be more than capable of playing anywhere across a front 3 or even behind in the number 10 role. What natural, quality winger is there that we could bring in that would be better? With Villa v Robben it depends on what you are classing as effective, i don't see Villa hindering Barca's attacking play and i would quite happily take that over the attacking play we are serving up at the moment.

To be honest i would just like to see a young manager with something to prove given the chance to build something at Chelsea. No idea who that person is though.