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He is a pretty good player but never worth the 100m+ and never will be. Can't believe Thierry Henry said he reckons he will be one of the best midfielders ever... strongly disagree with that. Quite glad we aren't competing in this "auction" for him, insane amounts of money being offered for somebody who was bigged up to be a star of the Euros but he really looked quite ordinary bar one game against Switzetland and another against Iceland. Although if AVB got him when he still played at United and managed to play him and help develop him it would be a different story. Wonder how many people laughed in 2012 when we were linked to him, probably did so myself

Maybe but I don't think anybody in football is worth that money bar Ronaldo and Messi.

€94,000,000 apparently... Are Juventus going daft? Good player but that fee, they've been rooked.

This should be proof to any young German footballer, the grass isn't always greener on the other side, guys like Leroy Sane, Sule, Max Meyer etc should all be wary of going to Bayern. Hopefully Gotze can get himself back to where he was at before he started struggling with injuries, still is one hell of a talent and only 24.

Honestly I don't think he's worth what they want for him but if he doesn't want to be there, table a take it or leave it bid of 35M and move on or this is going to be as bad as the John Stones case last summer. We need a left sided center back because Zouma for me when he's back fit, should be nailed on starter as the right center back based on his potential and what he has shown in the last 2 years. Cahill and Terry both played left center back in various games last year but both can be improved upon, Laporte of Bilbao for example is probably worth what we are willing to pay for Koulibaly or more but we missed a trick with Hummels to be perfectly honest, although competing with Bayern is always difficult. Even Bonucci despite his age and the fact he's normally in the middle of a back 3, would also be worth spending good money on because he's an excellent defender and a leader.

Bit gutted he's going to Barca as I would of liked to see him come here. Has the technique as well as a bit of a presence, will be interesting to see where he plays as he can play as a 10, an 8 or off the left, another good bit of business by Barcelona this window.... the cunts

I honestly don't think Koulibaly is much much better than this kid from what I've seen. Both are decent and can still improve but we have young CBs in Zouma and Christensen who's out on loan, we need a guy who's in his best years and can give us something different. Even then the money being talked about for these two spend it on Laporte from Bilbao...

We won the title with him in our midfield....

Think he has to stay. He is the sort of player I would imagine Conte likes, constantly covera a high distance, tackles, intercepts etc. Obviously last season was an indifferent season for the whole club and I feel he let Cesc down at times when they played next to each other but if we have a 3 man MF this year I think we will see Cesc and Matic back to their best. Kante gives us more balance for a 3 man midfield, which we need to play with now considering the lack of genuine talent in the #10 role, midfield was a big issue last year so hopefully we can get it right and none of this 4-2-4 carry on which would leave us hilariously outnumbered in midfield and also leaves us questioning either Fabregas/Matics' roles in the squad because Kante is here to start.

Midfield 3 of Kante - Matic - Fabregas now please Conte!! Wasn't sure if he'd be a better signing than Nainggolan but he offers legs, drive and tenacity to our midfield (which it desperately needs) and if Matic can get a grip of his game and adjust to playing as a 6, with Kante one side of him doing what he did last year and Fabregas on the other side getting back to his best I feel we could achieve something again this year. Talk of another bid for Andre Gomes as well... Beefing up our midfield options.

they would have accepted 32M... Never mind 40M...

I think he'd be a good signing, he was impressive for Italy where he was paired with Eder. If we are gonna be playing 3-5-2, which I sincerely hope not, he'd be a good back up/rotation player, bringing a different skill set to the squad in terms of his hold up play and aerial threat. For 7-8M you can't go wrong, heck even 10-12m is reasonable and it gives Conte an ally in the squad, someone he already knows inside out.

People are confused as to why we haven't confirmed any transfers??? Really? It's because Conte is focused on achieving whatever he needs to with Italy at the Euros and not on Chelsea at the moment. I'm sure this is also stopping PSV signing MvG on a permanent deal. If he didn't have to manage Italy I am sure we'd see a bit more activity in the market....

So Azpilicueta LB or perhaps even a CB in a back 3? Or gone completely? Fuck.. not good

If we can include Musonda on loan for a year or two along with a slightly lowered fee then we will have done exceptionally well.

Would take him despite his age. He has class in abudance but West Ham wouldn't sell him to us

Oh cmon I'm sure when Matic was one of the best DMs in the world when we won the league (wasn't my words, likely wasn't your words either but not the point) any one would agree that he had some sort of half decent/pretty good technical ability as well as Oscar. Asamoah is an athlete, he is basically the same as Ramires, just wait if we sign him and he's plays CM against teams who have a low block people will turn on him like they turned on Ramires questioning his use. Different case If he plays LWB, fair enough then, a specialist player in that position would be a useful signing.

20M is a nominal fee? When you have no extra money from CL and a board that has clearly bought into FFP if you look in to our last few transfer windows? And if he doesn't succeed here do we sell him for a loss like with Torres and possibly Cuadrado this summer if he doesn't stay? No point avoiding it if he is a one season wonder then we will likely overspend on him and this summer we need to get it right in recruitment like we did the year we got Costa, Cesc, Filipe Luis, recalled Courtois... Like I said previously he is a good player and would likely cut it (mainly as a squad/rotation player here if we are being realistic when you consider Nainggolan and Vidal were probably his first and second choice targets) but I believe he won't play a season of football again as well as the one he just did. Also we will need more than Ngolo Kante to win the league regardless of how well he would play considering we are a mess at the back, lack a top quality box to box/attacking midfielder, as well as needing a back up/alternative to Cesc and have no real competition for Costa other than a promising kid who's probably gonna join the loan brigade. This season coming up isn't going to be easy to get in to the top 4 yet alone win the league, especially considering our manager is new to English football (possibly the Engliah language) and nobody is any the wiser with who is coming or going.

Anyone else under the impression he would come here and flop but exceed anywhere else? Or is it just me? not saying hes a bad player but would just be our luck if he was a one season wonder.._.

Surely that quote has been fabricated haha? I think Ibra would play for us or Utd or any other non CL team if the money was right.

Depends on what happens next season with other teams who overachieved/ underachieved this season. Leicester wont win the league again but they could compete for top 6 or 7 along with ourselves, City, Arsenal, United, Liverpool, Spurs... Even Everton, West Ham, Stoke and Southampton with right signings could push for positions in the top 8, who knows? This season coming up is the most important one for us in years, with this big TV deal we will see more smaller English clubs able to compete with bigger foreign clubs in the transfer market and it will lessen the gap of quality between certain teams in the PL. If we dont get this season right we could end up like Liverpool 6 or 7 years ago and fall away from the other top teams. Conte did well at Juve but not entirely sure he will get many opportunities to fix things if it all goes to shit here and we have to make do with second rate players so hopefully he can tempt top players without CL because if we got say 2 or 3 top players in it could rejuvenate the whole squadbut it might be a struggle. Talk of him green lighting Hazard, Costa and Courtious sales too would be a disaster seeing as they are top top quality footballers who need to be retained regardless if we are going for 1st or 4th or 7th.

I don't think we've ever signed anybody from Leeds that weren't youth team players, can't see that changing any time soon haha

Well looks he will be competing for a left wing back role in a 3-5-2 then. No way Conte has signed him to play as a central midfielder, lacks the technician ability the likes of Fabregas and even Matic and Oscar have despite his physical qualities. If he plays him as a CM then I am surprised we even bothered selling Ramires... Basically the same player but left footed.

Regardless of if Roma win big trophies or not do you think if we weren't in th CL half our team would of signed for us? If we didn't win it in 2012 we wouldn't of gotten Hazard to sign for us. If he doesn't want to leave Roma because he's comfortable there and guaranteed champions league football then fair enough. We will struggle to attract big names this summer because of no CL football I think, unless we do a Man United and go overboard with wages.

Not surprised he doesn't want to come here to be honest. No champions league is a killer.