Sheva.

Get someone from the reserves to back up the main striker till he returns. We don't need to waste wages and non HG spot on a 3rd choice striker who will rarely play. Barring injury, 2 strikers is perfectly fine.

This. Always wasting chances and falling over like every game, smh. If Lukaku is going to stay, then we don't need him or Torres.

Are you describing Prince or Ramires?

Yes. Like Leif said, he can play anywhere, from midfield to attack. Perfect utility player i'm sure Mourinho will like.

Fucking hell. Napoli have learned from Porto in demanding nothing but the release clause. Very frustrating because 50m for one player is still a fucking lot, and they can use that money to improve more than 3 positions

Get him and give Napoli Ramires in exchange for El Matador

Lol. Mate it's a forum, you can easily look past someone's post or block if you don't want to read any of it.

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Yeah fair enough. I just don't think Mikel was as bad for Chelsea - during his entire time here - as some of those other players to deserve that.

Even at Madrid, he did the same with Benz and Higuain.

Definitely. But this is not the same Essien, and he's only going to stay at Chelsea because of his Mourinho butt-kissing. I only included Torres because of his price tag. His first 2 seasons at Chelsea were terrible, he did alright last season. But overall his production is nothing you would expect for a 50m striker, so everyone involved with the club should be happy to see the back of him really. Mikel cost what like 4m? (minus the extra we paid Man utd for all the complications ) and has been a main-stay in the team for a while now. We can get a better DM than him, but it's not like he isn't good enough to be backup. But like i said, we have many players, and there's Ramires and Romeu, so somebody has to leave.

You won't see me posting gifs about any player, but i can understand it for some - Bosingwa, Benayoun, Kalou don't belong at a club like Chelsea, and their donkey play is so apparent for all to see. Anyway, Mikel stepped up when Essien was injured under Carlo and we won the PL. He was also instrumental under RDM and was probably our best player in the CL final - that is enough good imo. He's very inconsistent that's for sure, but generally he does a good enough job - but unfortunately for him, fans have come to expect much more from that position having watched Maka and Essien in his prime.

Ridiculous. Mikel is not terrible to have people 'celebrating' and posting stupid gifs at news of his potential departure. That should be saved for the really bad players like Torres, Kalou, Benayoun, Marin etc. I do hope he's sold because we just have too many players, and some people have to leave to make room. But he's a decent player, capable of contributing at an acceptable level at many teams. And I'd still rather have him in the team than Essien. Hopefully if he does leave, Romeu can be made backup to De Rossi/Capoue/whoever.

I know lol. He works too hard, i play with custom 3 forwards and while 2 stay up, Cavani is clowning around somewhere in midfield

Very one dimensional. He's good at what he does, but against better teams - check game at SB - his cut to the left and shoot shit can be stopped easily.

I don't think we can get Cavani if Hulk is signed. Schurrle is pretty much a done deal for 20m, add Hulk and De Rossi to that and we're looking at close to 70m on those 3 players, which is not bad at all. I don't know the clubs budget, but an additional 50m+ for Cavani seems too much, so we might be getting a cheaper alternative in Dzeko or Gomez - which again is not bad at all, since they're upgrades over our current options.

‘If I said there wasn’t anything in it, I would be lying. But that is not for now. At the moment, I am 100 per cent focused on the Selecao (Portuguese for the Brazil team), and I hope to be a Confederations Cup winner with my country'

This is what i was talking about in Lewy's page after CL final. All these top strikers - Falcao, Cavani, Lewy - are only great when their team are able to get them involved and create chances, otherwise they don't do much else. Another reason as to why i won't mind Gomez, he won't cost as much as most, but is just as good a finisher - so get him chances, and like Cavani or whoever, he will score goals.

Damn Didier.

Lmao, TC's number one ITK has spoken!

Mata last season emerged as a leader of this team and stepped up to put the ball in the net in big games, and when he didn't do that, he was setting up someone else to score. Right now he's probably as good as it gets for any player in that #10 position, especially when it comes to effectiveness in the final third. 20 goals and 30+ assists is no joke, it's ridiculous to entertain any thought of selling him, because finding a better player is next to impossible.

Lmao.

Yeah, i said i would prefer Gomez to Dzeko. He is to me the best option available after Cavani, in terms of doing what a striker is actually supposed to do, and score goals.

True, and why he's more suited to a 2 striker formation. If we want a goal machine, we should just get Gomez