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5.5m after tax apparently.

Looks set to sign for Napoli. Napoli have made some good buys so far, Damiao and Mertens should be good for them along with Rafael the Brazilian GK from Santos who looks as if hes set to sign as well.

Still can't believe Rafa was going to sell Alonso and replace him with Gareth Barry the season before he went to Madrid... what a fucking idiot hahahahaha

Gomez is effectively another player to cross off that list, a Bayern executive said he only wants to go to Fiorentina but needs to wait for Fiorentina to get funds together to sign him for the price Bayern want. If we could tempt Lewandowski, I'd have him in an instance. The only thing is, can we get him when he seems Bayern bound?

If we are to sign Alonso at least it gives us a player who can control the tempo in midfield, something we lacked last season.

Daily Star is shit haha, most unreliable newspaper on the go.

SIGN FRED!!!!!!!

If we get De Rossi then it changes everything, he will be the undisputed starter if he signs.

Exactly what Benzema did that season under Jose where he scored a lot of goals. It worked. Great to see a young player though raring to get going and doing training. Great to see.

Hes one of the only natural holding midfield players we have. If we are to continue playing 4-2-3-1, he has more a right to start in the pivot than Lampard, Essien, van Ginkel or Luiz, playing without a natural DM has given us problems in midfield. We only have Mikel and Oriol as defensive midfielders, one of the two should start there, with one of Ramires, Lampard, Essien or van Ginkel next to them.

Still better for the pivot than Lampard on the basis he is an actual defensive midfielder.

There is a great buzz around this lad, he sort of reminds me of Mata when he first signed as in hes very, very excited and seems as if he feels he's privileged to be at the club. He seems to have a good personalty too from what I've heard about him, similar to Luiz as in hes a very positive guy to be around, not a sometimes dodgy sometimes world class center back

Hahahaha this!

Overmars is a wanker. Course van Ginkels career will stall under Jose Mourinho and playing with the likes of Mata, Oscar, Hazard, Ramires, Luiz, Lampard, Mikel, Romeu, Schurrle etc as in comparison to flourishing under Frank de Boer playing with the likes of De Jong, Enoh, etc..... Honestly Overmars needs to consider the fact Chelsea are playing in a better league than Ajax and have a better coach along with multiple better players. Hes bound to improve just by learning from the likes of Lampard, Ramires, Mikel, etc who all play in a similar position. Why would he go to Ajax when he could go to Chelsea to?

Alonso out then?

See in the video, does it sound like he says "my name is Marko Vginkel" sounds like he misses the Van part out... or is that just normal with these Van whatever names?

Great loan for Oriol... if it happens...

When we were trying to sign Ba "what a great signing he will be", when we actually signed Ba "hes not good enough" haha how times change.

Incredible player. 08/09 season he was sensational..

Will be funny if we do sign him and Yaya Toure decides to slap him like he did with Mata, can see someone getting destroyed...

Don't know why but when I think of De Rossi playing for us I think of that movie 300...... just because he seems like the sort of guy that would kick your head in just because he feels like it

Not true. Granero was sold by Madrid and eventually resigned after 2 successful seasons with Getafe. Anyway on Josh, I think he needs to get a bit more fight in him, as when you look at younger English players like Wilshere or Cleverly (as shite as he is) etc, they get stuck in a lot when out of possession. Josh physically could also improve but thats a totally different matter, I mean a few years back Wilshere was a stick, now hes bulked up due to his injury lay off and is much stronger. Same with Danny Welbeck, he went to Sunderland as a skinny runt, went back to United in the summer and bulked up a lot. Not saying he needs to become Vin Diesel but a bit of body weight could do him no harm, I could see him playing against a Toure or a Dembele or Sandro and getting absolutely killed. He looks even skinnier than Oscar... He could yet make the grade here, but I feel if hes going to improve, he needs a good loan to a team that play possession based football, where their front 3 of 4 or whatever look to make clever runs etc knowing they can be lfound. Its hard to find him a loan like that, because you could say well only a few teams play like that. Or we could give him a go but I feel hes not ready to be a regular at Chelsea yet. He has the potential to be a very special player but he has to get himself together and prove he has the determination and passion to go with the ability.

I don't see PSG being interested in him. They already have Thiago Motta, Clement Chantome, the youngster Rabiot who they have big hopes for, Marco Verratti and Blaise Matiudi as well while they are also linked with Maxime Gonalons who would probably go to PSG more than De Rossi would in my opinion. PSG's problem is, if they sign Cavani, how do they utilize Ibra, Cavani, Lucas and Pastore in one team while using the likes of Verrati, Motta/Matiudi? Also theirs talk if they are to go for Cavani that means Ibra has to go due to his high salary. I don't think PSG will go for De Rossi at all unless there are going to be radical changes, ie. Matiudi, Motta and maybe Verrati sold...

True but look at Balotelli now under Prandelli with the national team and Allegri or whatever his name is at Milan. They have sort of straighten'd him out. Balotelli would actually be a decent buy for me haha but yet again that would divide this forum more than John Obi Mikel ...... I don't think Suarez's attitude is bad, he loves football, its just he does stupid shit like biting players and racially abusing players which isn't acceptable at all. Look at his ban though he got 8 games for racial abuse while JT got 4? I can see why he is a bit annoyed with England tbh, JT should have gotten 8 or more games for the racial abuse case with that twat Anton.

If anyone can straighten him out, its Jose. If Loserpool would accept a bid from us for him then I'd probably take him. Great player.