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Such fucking bullshit. Go to the first page of this thread and you will see that this exact same thing was reported back in 2014, NOT ahead of this transfer. Is this quote true or not? I don't know, but they are trying to make it seem like he just said it. Metro is scum.

Hahaha they are so late to the party.

What makes you think we didn't test the waters, hit a brick wall and decided not to go back to waste our time?

Nope, not working.

Wasn't Aurier ousted from PSG team because he threw his toys out the pram for some reason? What was the case, somebody remind me pls?

You can think what you want about City's board, planning and team, but despite all that they have underachieved massively and we are by far the more successful club. Doing things wrong has got us ahead, I wouldn't take City as an example in anything.

Arsenal doing some good business. Kolasinac (free) and Lacazette are great captures that will improve them. If they manage to keep Sanchez and Özil, they might just get into top 3.

Aren't they known for being cheap though? City, Bayern, even we could offer him bigger wages. I could somewhat understand him staying for his last season, but to renew his contract in that dead-end club? I would be shocked too.

Wtf? If that's true, I don't get it, how can Arsenal pull that off after having a catastrophe of a season? Okay we kept all our stars after that horrible season, but with us you don't get the feeling that we'll stay there. With Arsenal, on the other hand, you do. No CL football, even if there were their track record would presume another humiliation early in knockout stages (if they got there). No chance of winning the league, maybe a lucky domestic cup that has no pull on foreign players at all. How?

Di Marzio said recently it was done, now a few details are remaining. Not reliable anymore? Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk

Yeah, not ideal.

"Edging closer" - this phrase has been used so many times over the past few weeks. Chelsea must have a really bad case of blue balls by now.

Why don't you wait and see?

I already commented on that.

How do you know this? All reports, reliable and unreliable, are stating that he wants to come. If it's an educated opinion, I would like to hear what you base that opinion on in more depth.

Ah yes, we loaned Torres eventually, but solely because he was so shit that nobody else wanted or could afford him full time. We basically sold him to Milan with delay, so doesn't really count. Rüdiger needs to be Cuadrado/Torres level shit to be loaned out, and this season it won't happen 100%. PS Baba is another 30 million guy who was loaned out, but again it's because he was shit. All of those players were bought with first team football in mind, as will Rüdiger.

They weren't loaned out.

Thanks. Also, there must be a reason why we were prepared to pay more for Rüdiger than take Manolas for less. It's clear as day to me we were never really interested in Manolas and simply exploited the situation involving him. Roma preferred to offload Manolas ahead of Rüdiger - that should also tell something.

If we had gone for Manolas we would have signed him by now. Reliable reports say we made an initial check on his situation, nothing about us offering him anything, and likely what happened was that we exploited the situation quickly by going after Rüdiger as the first choice, because Roma had to sell before the end of month and they had to do it quickly because of Manolas screwing up their plans. So we acted swiftly and got our 1st choice target who otherwise would have been unsellable from Roma's POV had Manolas completed his transfer. It's no coincidence that it all happened in a matter of days after the Manolas-Zenit story broke.

"Could be" being the key phrase. Real are crazy.

He doesn't look right in red But at least it's tolerable red. Hope we meet them in a cup at Stamford Bridge, so he could play at home once more.

Nice fear mongering by Mirror and Chelsea HQ for spreading it. Rüdiger is ours, we were never going to get Bonucci and we've known for a month now that Sandro has been offered a new contract. Recycling old stories for clicks/retweets. Yawn

Full-backs that can attack and defend are rare. They give almost automatic advantage over the opposing team in that position. Also remember that full-backs/wing-backs are very important to Conte on both ends as opposed to Mourinho, who just needs them to defend. It's like if you have a choice between a Wayne Bridge and a Ashley Cole - one of them is fine, passable, but the other just elevates the whole team. I believe this is the difference we'd get between Alonso vs. Sandro. 60 million absolutely worth it.

It's not worth paying attention to unless it's from a sports journo with a blue tick, then there might be something in it. I wish people would stop posting tweets from random tickless morons. TC is my source for news and such posts are really fucking up my nerves, bullshit filter needs to be on 24/7 to maintain sanity.

Isn't that guy another bullshit merchant? If it happens and we go for Luke Shaw instead before the media even got a sniff, then give this guy a medal.. but until then, not buying it.