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Arsenal have literally zero room for him. He'd be a total waste of money for them.

Costa's movement and off the ball runs were superb but he just had a really clumsy match when he got on the ball. We would've scored about 4 more if he was sharper today.

N'Golo Kante is a sensational player.

Have to make this dominance count before they score a freak goal!

Not likely! Cahill or Iva mistake is nailed on. Just have to hope Hazard and Costa are on it.

As much as we're all displeased with the XI, there's still no excuse not to get all 3 points at home to Burnley with the talent we have out there. Hazard should have a a great match if he has a super attacking mentality. Willian will hopefully want to shake the rust off and get his season started for real. This should still be a comprehensive, professional win. Just take care of business and play with intensity and they shouldn't be able to stop us.

Hopefully training all week focused on keeping a high tempo and energy. That's the only time when Oscar is effective. If we come out and play at walking pace and allow Burnley to play we'll make hard work of this. We must play fast!

Think we may struggle going forward with Oscar in there.

I'm not against it but it's just strange. Big clubs don't usually being in loanees to be starters when they have title ambitions. They're usually just to make up the numbers. Maybe that tells us something. That he'd just be Azpi's backup...

Wtf?

Already get the feeling that he would be Baba v2 if we signed him. Everyone and their mother figured Baba was brought in to play straight away and Azpi would move back to his position. Never happened. Same here. Natural LB, super comfortable on the ball and good going forward like Conte prefers but he'll probably be a squad player with Ivanovic still starting.

Whereas Wenger is an old, stubborn fool who never seems to have plans in place in the transfer window, Conte has known for a while what's he's wanted to bring in and makes it sound like the club aren't able to. Wenger needs to be slapped in the face with a couple of poor results and a slow start each season before he realizes he needs to reinforce. I feel like our club genuinely believe that Conte is a miracle worker and can simply reinvigorate the players we have and get top 4. Just like they did last summer with Mourinho.

Sounds like a Chelsea panic buy alright! Probably loaned next summer to a second rate Spanish side or something.

As usual, Chelsea TV was having issues so I couldn't actually watch the presser, but judging by the quotes I think he's saying his top choices may not be attainable. Let's hope Maksimovic happens.

He'll make a huge difference especially against the smaller sides. Even with him in our team I think we'll struggle against the United/City/Arse/Spuds/Liverpool's of the league because he'll have to pick up so much slack due to Matic and Cesc being woeful. Lets see what happens when world class players are pressing r midfield and breaking through to our defense. Might not be pretty.

This graphic infuriates me. Two clubs that appointed a top manager just like we did, but they've each shown huge ambition and went out and signed every single target their managers wanted. We've spent less than half what those two have and are days away from missing out on almost all of our managers targets.

I think clubs of a certain stature can withstand a year out of the CL and still affect top caliber players. They just have to demonstrate their ambition and sell to the potential targets the "project." Maybe not the absolute world class ones, but still top players. We started so well with Kante and Michy. Why haven't we signed about 3 more players on their level? We can clearly attract that sort of player.

I do remember him being a standout, flash in the pan type at Sunderland but I haven't seen him since he left there. Looks really good in that YouTube highlight video. Looks really awkward to see a LB that's so tall. Great tekkers, though.

With one player I can understand that. With every player we try!? We've been after about 6 targets and they've all failed. City have signed 7 players. Seven! We finished 10th and have signed ONE weekly starter!

Oh god, I just realized its that Marco Alonso. The one from Sunderland! LOL!

Oh god, I just now realized its that Marcos Alonso. The one from Sunderland! LOL!

He's starting to accept it. You can see it in those quotes. The club are failing him. Many reliable sources said weeks ago that Conte wanted 4 or so new players. None have arrived. This should be a time when Chelsea are wealthier than ever before yet now we decide we won't spend the money. Seriously, someone tell me how Man City can go out and buy 3 £50m players over the last couple of summers plus a few £40m players yet we can't?

Aren't Fiorentina still super angry at us over the Salah situation? Surprised they don't quote £50m for this guy.

Don't know a thing about him but I would hope that if he's brought in he goes straight in to the team within a couple of weeks and isn't just bought as cover.

Unless something drastic happens in the next week (2 top class signings at least) I sort of agree with Fernando about missing top 4. Think we'd finish about 5th-6th with the current lot. Without any more signings I think there would be matches where we'd look brilliant and show huge potential and others where we get smacked due to the shit defense, Kante having an off day, or Hazard/Costa being out of form. There are currently just too many weaknesses in our team for me to be confident of a CL place. Here's to hoping that changes by Sept 1st!