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Would take Wanyama in a heart beat. Also think we should sign some players who are in good form, even if you wouldn't normally consider them "Chelsea Quality", someone like Vardy, Mahrez, Ighalo, Charlie Austin etc, who can come in and have an immediate impact by scoring and assisting and lifting the entire teams spirits.

Lets just walk away from the whole thing and leave them to rot. They will look back on it one day and really wish they had sold, 100% guaranteed.

Everything about Willian screams B2B central midfielder to me. He's like a good version of Ramires. Lets stop playing him in advanced positions and let him do what he does best in the area of the pitch we get dominated in due to Fab/Matic being slow.

They can have Eva and 40m.

When he's on it he's absolutely deadly in the box. Quite a simple player but not every striker can be Totti. Reminds me a little of Mario Gomez tbh.

Everyone in Colombia will hate Chelsea after they start to follow us (due to Falcao& Cuadrado both being here) and find we never play them.

He's probably worth 15-20m. Average player tbh, not overly impressed by his potential either, probably close to his ceiling already.

Cabaye would be a great addition, giving us a chance to alternate between 4-3-3 and 4-2-3-1 depending on the form of Oscar. As long as he's cheap that is.

I'd actually probably gamble on him. Think he'd sell shirts, and unlike with Torres, we actually will have a world class alternative player so we're not stuck with him. I think he'd kind of be a good scapegoat for the media as well, if we aren't firing on all cylinders you just know they'll blame it on Falcao and take pressure off of everybody else.

Problem with Benteke is he's a massive confidence player. When he feels the faith and love of the manager and the other players he can be unplayable. Being a backup to Diego would probably stop him ever feeling that level of confidence, and we've seen the Benteke who plays without confidence...

Had a hard time trying to find stats for this guy, because of the league he plays in almost no one seems to record the assists. Well, I found on here http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/douglas-costa/leistungsdaten/spieler/75615/plus/?saison=2013that he apparently has 7 goals 14 assists in 39 appearances. That sounds alright to me! Don't know much about him obviously, but he's got to be an improvement on Salah at least. Willian by contrast 4 goals 10 assists in 46 appearances according to the same website...

For anyone interested, its half time of this game on Chelsea TV right now. I'm watching it at http://www.vipleague.is/football/23863/1/chelsea-tv-live-stream-online.html

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Willian is showing himself to be pretty good at whipping low crosses into the box, against Sunderland we could have had 3 or 4 goals from them if Demba had done his job and got his foot on them. Not to mention the couple of long balls Luiz put right on Demba's chest past the defenders but he wasn't clinical enough to make something of it. Considering how hard it is to get good strikers at the moment I don't think we could have any objections to Costa, probably in the top 2 or 3 we could hope for.

Haha, I've never cared in the slightest about Fulham. Spurs, Arsenal, & QPR are all quite detestable London clubs, but Fulham is like a harmless puppy that tries its best to take a shit on your carpet, but you always get there in time to take it outside and give it a telling off. Bless.

..."Fierce" rivals Fulham? Hahaha. Sarcasm, I assume.

Gareth Fucking Barry would be more useful in our midfield than Barkley right now. Give him 5 years of first team football at Everton and we'll see what the dealio is.

No way is Hazard on 185k. I thought it was in Terry's contract that he had to be highest or equal highest paid player anyway as part of his status as our leader. I seem to remember it was the main stipulation of his contract that he insisted on when he was briefly chatting shit about a transfer to City, so if Eden is on 185k then surely Terry would be as well. But imo its simply not true, he's probably on 110-120k.

http://www.thefa.com/England/All-Teams/Players/M/callum-mcmanaman Apparently he's a distant relative of Steve McManaman. I wouldn't mind him here at all; he's young, English, talented, bags of potential. Why not?

Gundogan is incredible, given his age and talent combo I'm surprised we've not tried for him already as bringing in younger players seems to have been our mission of late. He is already phenomenal and he's only going to get better over the next 10 years or so. He'd be my number 1 target this summer, given that if we get desperate for a striker we can simply recall Lukaku and give him his shot at the big time. Having Romeu and Gundogan would give us such an unbelievably bright future in CM.

If he was going for a bargain price then by all my means sign him up, he was sensational at Udinese and I always thought he was an odd fit for Barca, not surprised he has been bad there. Wouldn't want to spend serious money on him though. Would certainly not want to spend money on him instead of a striker or CM.

Well, according to the prices on that website things are quite easy... In Gundogan 17.5m. Vidal 26.5m. Cavani 48.5m. Lukaku KDB Robben 19.5m =112m Out Torres 24.5m LOL Marin 6.3m Essien 14m =44.8m Spend=67.2m Cech Azpi Luiz Terry Cole Vidal Gundogan Robben Mata Hazard Cavani

Its one thing to look around at other positions, but obviously we need to go through price negotiations and find out what they'll cost us. Once we have done that, and bought real quality in CM and up front, we can use whatever change we've got left for a squad player to play on the wing. By spending 20m on Schurrle now we're taking 20m away we could use to get much better where we really need it during our main deals this summer. If 20m is left after we've made some great signings, sure, go and buy Schurrle. It was quite another matter buying Marin for a few mil, as he looked to be a bargain squad player that would immediately address some depth issues. 20m is not throw away money, even in football terms.

I just don't get it. This is the sort of signing we should be worrying about at the end of summer, as we try to add a little extra depth. We should be starting with what we need desperately; CMs and a quality striker. We can worry about squad players when we've made those signings and know what is left in the budget, and if we're lacking money for more signings just bring back some loan players.

Napoli look like they'll be finishing 2nd in Serie A and going back into Champions League football. Makes it all the more important we get top 4, no way he'll want to miss out on Champions League for another season. Don't know if he's even a target of ours, aside from fan chit chat, never heard much in the way of concrete evidence. I would love him here but I've got a feeling we'll put in a cheapo offer for the unwanted Mario Gomez... of all the people/donkeys.