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Wow! Hope this means Koulibaly is the priority now. Better player anyways.

LOL! Some people here don't remember what he did against us just a few months ago in the CL. Singlehandedly destroyed our midfield and back line. Made some of our players look silly. Slender frame with no power? Huh? He's got a very solid body with a brilliantly low center of gravity similar to Hazard. Hes one of the best dribblers in Europe and is insanely good on the ball. If we plan on playing with 3 attacking midfielders Brahimi would be a great replacement for Oscar and a huge upgrade. Hope we sign him.

The thought of selling any player to United shouldn't even enter our clubs heads. Don't care how poor he was last season. Too big a risk of him coming good again and haunting us. I'd be furious if we did.

I think they'll be eliminated fairly quickly. They have so little firepower in their attack that I can't imagine them scoring much. Their defense looks good but they're missing their two best midfielders and don't have a star striker to win them games. Good for us.

Also, it makes sense to get this done before the Euro's like these reports are saying. Like Kante for France, if Morata destroys and scores like 5 goals Real Madrid may just keep him or best case scenario simply raise the price. Some other European clubs like PSG are sniffing around too.

I just wonder... What if we're planning on selling Costa back to Atleti and buying both Morata and Lukaku as our new striker unit? It seems that Lukaku is nailed on to leave Everton and I can't really see where other than here he goes if he wants to stay in England. Arsenal will get Vardy, United will sign Zlatan and have Rashford waiting in the wings, and I can't see him going to City where he wouldn't be "the man." Plus, he's the opposite type of forward that works in a Pep system. Costa would probably love to go back and to be honest, the club would probably be a bit relieved to not have to constantly worry about his behavior. Never mind the constant injury worries.

Vardy's pace and movement with Özil and Cazorla when he's back from injury feeding him through-balls has potential to be utterly lethal. It makes perfect sense as a short term signing.

Don't think Kante going to PSG would impact Verratti anyways. He would go there to replace Thiago Motta I would guess. Motta is old, super slow, and not athletic at all. He's essentially the Italian Carrick. Verratti, Kante, and Matuidi would be ridiculous.

I'm seeing a whooooole lot of chatter on Twitter saying he isn't very good. Guess people don't understand that he isn't a Suarez or an Agüero yet who will score 30 goals up top on his own. He isn't the finished product and has a huge ceiling. Playing with a strike partnership of Costa and Morata would be insane. They'd compliment each other perfectly, I think.

I think if we truly want Nainggolan he's ours, before or after the Euro's. I think Kante will be nearly impossible for us to sign after the tournament if he does really well for France and they win the whole thing like they're favorites to. He'll be even more coveted by other CL clubs. PSG are already rumored to be after him. How would a French international be able to turn down the biggest France and the chance to play with a bunch of his mates?

This is the dream. And neither of them are unrealistic signings like Pogba. Both can be had for relatively little money by modern standards. What a midfield 3 we'd have with those two plus Cesc pulling the strings and not having to worry about defending. We could compete with anyone in world football with that midfield. I'd actually be super confident going into each match unlike recently where I'd be worried about our central midfield getting dominated.

Who's going to cross it to him? Willian, maybe, I guess. Hazard with his opposite foot? That's not his game. Azpi either. I don't see how Benteke would suit us at all. Especially not together with Diego.

If he has a cheap £20m release clause what's the hold up? The Euro's, I guess? I'm impatient as hell!

Damn. When you write it all out like that it is pretty depressing. It's especially annoying with City because they're in the same league as us.

Oscar will be here. An anchor around our necks holding us back for another season.

Matuidi is a central part of that PSG side. No way they'll sell him.

The club are gonna dick around and lose him...

Sounds to me like he's open for and willing to come here if we reach an agreement with Roma. FFS, get it done, Chelsea!

At a time when so many clubs are buying, using, and having great success with younger players it's sort of weird/concerning that we're being linked with older (in football terms, obviously) players. Surely instead of going for Lichtsteiner who will turn 33 halfway through the season and Candreva who will turn 30 halfway through the season, we should be targeting much younger and better players who can give us years of quality service? Players who have room for improvement and aren't already declining or at their peak.

True, but most of the players we've been linked with are also wanted by other top teams. Teams that have CL football to offer. I expected us to be the most active club out there and have a couple of Conte's priority targets signed up. We need to be quick and decisive before richer, more attractive situations come along for the players we want.

We'll probably delude ourselves into thinking we have a chance of signing Pogba until late in the window and he'll end up signing with Pep or Mou. Then we'll sign Danny Drinkwater or Fabian Delph on deadline day.

I sadly have to agree. I think we've gone to arguably the most attractive club to join in the league to maybe the 4th or 5th. But to be honest, the players we've been linked with (Lukaku, Morata, Nainggolan, Koulibaly, Rüdiger, Kante etc) we should still be able to attract pretty easily. We don't need Galacticos like United and City will go for. The most annoying thing for me is that the clubs that are already better than us are signing world class players while Chelsea who you would think are the most desperate to get back to the top have been absolutely silent. City and Arsenal have made excellent moves already and now United will sign a one of the world's best players. Meanwhile, if you believe the media we're haggling over chump change and getting bids rejected from clubs we're way bigger than.

We won't sign anyone until after the Euro's. One of my all time favs going to United. Shame.

Zouma isn't a ball playing CB, though...

Seem so Ike's the opposite of an Arsenal player and Wenger signing. To be honest, though, I think he'd do well for them. I'd be terrified if I was a Leicester fan right now. Only a matter of time before Mahrez rumors start.