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To be perfectly honest, I think he could do a great job for us in the middle of the park on a 1 year, Samuel Eto'o type deal.

Your last sentence is exactly what I feel.I hope it gets really ugly on their end with Stones handing in a transfer request and demanding out. I then hope Stones starts against Everton and scores.

Just a taste of what the Everton forum are saying. Delusional as you can imagine. "£25m is an insult. To the club and to Stones. Shaw went for £30m and he's just an over rated chubby lad. Mangala went for £32m and he's a glorified Titus fucking Bramble. John Stones is the future of the England defence." --------------------------- "You're right they're cheeky bastards. It's a derisory offer and we should tell them to shove it right up their arse. The email back should read.. Dear Chelsea, Hi, thanks for the offer for John, afterwe picked ourselves up off the floor following the fits of laughter we had after reading it, we re-read it incase we mistook the 2 in 25 for a 5 but no we definitely read it right. Now we have composed ourselves enough from the giggle fits we've been having atter reading your valuation we would like to take this opportunity to remind you you sold a player who was error prone and couldn't defend for 50 million the fact he had hair like Dennis Rusos should have devalued him in our eyes but you still deemed it acceptable to pull PSGs kecks down with it. We can categorically tell you now our kecks are fastened tightly and our belts are done up sound. Mangala was 32, Luke Shaw 30 so how much crack cocaine have you been smoking to think John Stones is worth 25? Unless you are prepared to come back with an offer of 55 million (fifty five) then kindly take your offer and shove it up your Portugese managers arse as he quite clearly has his head up there so could perhaps read it better from that angle. Yours sincerely Everton Football Club. Ps, John says hi. " ----------------------------------- "Anything less than what they got for David Luis shouldn't even be considered."

Maybe, but there's also the chance he's as good as everyone thinks and slays for United.

More worried about United coming in for him after Ramos played them than Everton basically saying "meet our valuation or no sale." Have a bad feeling they'll come in and just offer the £34m or whatever like we should and seal it quickly. Only hope is that Stones himself WANTS to join Chelsea and Mourinho has turned his head.

Hummels is basically "Mr. BVB" these days. He's one of the faces of the club. He had the chance to move to United a couple of times and declined to move. Don't think there's a chance he'd leave this summer. Maybe if they have another dismal season.

You just listed two literally impossible names.

I'd rather pay the money (however ridiculous it seems) and have him under the very best guidance he can possibly have here than seeing him sign for United or City and become the next Ferdinand or Terry.

Activley hoping we DON'T sign a good player who even our legendary CB says will be a special player. Fucking hell, man.

So if we keep going up by increments of five (and assuming the reports of it taking ~35m to get him) maybe we'll have him in 2 more weeks. They'll reject a £30m bid next week.

Yep, now every other outlet is reporting it.

Not sure I believe we've made a second bid if only the Daily Fail are reporting it.If true, though, we're acting like Arsenal here. Stop bidding amounts that we know will be seen as derisory and get serious. No way they sell for less than £30m.

Just can't stay fit, can he? Worrying that he'll now probably take weeks to recover, weeks longer afterwards to get match fit and longer still to reach form if the injury is serious.

Ramires still can't pass a ball. What else is new?

Costa.... Fuck.

WOW!!!! Fantastic half of football! Hazard, Cesc, Costa, Matic, and Kenedy were all fantastic. As I predicted prematch, though, Suarez is terrorizing our central defense. Will be a constant worry this season when up against the best forwards in the world, with or without Terry. This also may be the sexiest kit I've ever seen us wear. Absolute beauty!

If you guys ever need streams just go on YouTube, search for a match, and filter it to show "Live" results. I've watched both of our preseason matches and most of Copa America on YouTube streams. Fairly good quality most of the time and easier to find than most other streams.

If there's one thing Ramires isn't it's fat.

Hope we don't play defensively or passively against what is really a 50% strength Barca side. Definitely think our CB pairing may struggle with Suarez's movement.

Interesting that you say Nathan > Kenedy.Just about everyone I've seen has said that Kenedy is the much better prospect.

He's not even officially a Chelsea player is he? Weird.

Looks like Kenedy is starting!?

With José saying he wants us to be more unpredictable this season I think Luis could've been a big part of that. In the biggest matches we could've stuck with Iva and Azpi but in the other matches against weaker sides Azpi and Luis could've been brilliant.

Maybe this is why we aren't splashing the cash this summer http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2015/07/25/billionaires_nonexistent_megamansion_already_costs_78m.php

So let's see if any of the rags were right about another bid "within 48 hours." I'm gonna guess no.