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According to that he works for Sync Sports Group based in London, that is a collective of registered FA intermediaries, sport consultants & highly skilled recruitment personnel. http://syncsportsgroup.com/ Make of it what you will, I haven't heard of them before and their website isn't even finished yet and joined Twitter on September 2016, so they must be new.

I wonder where this myth comes from that Azpi isn't good offensively? Yes, he isn't an aggressive attacker, but he is smart and most of the times makes the right decisions, even if it's something simple. He isn't penetrative, but he's effective for the team in possession. Moses on the other hand is aggressive and fast, but pretty dumb. It gives us balance on the two flanks. I would rather play Azpi at RWB over Moses anyway, but we had no other choice in central defence. With Christensen returning and Van Dijk reportedly coming in, we will now have that choice and Moses will have rightfully earned himself a place as a squad player in a Champions League level team, something I'm sure he would be happy with. I was under no illusions that Moses would stay a starter for a team that wants to challenge beyond domestic glory, and Azpi is just too good to be dropped for anyone. Also, if we want to eliminate our weakness from crosses, then Azpi can't stay a CB imo.

I don't know much about how transfers can be financed or how common it is for sponsors to sponsor player transfers, but could it be that the frugal transfer windows these past few years have been (partly) due to Adidas's lack of interest in continuing promoting Chelsea? The sums being quoted would see us break the Torres record fee multiple times in one window, which is unheard of from us (One big buy yes, several? No). I looked into it and indeed all the players we are being heavily linked with for big money, are sponsored by Nike. Could it be that Nike are sponsoring those deals massively, would that comply with FFP and other transfer rules? After all, when we signed that Nike deal, it was said that their plan was to use us as their top football brand. Manchester United not long ago ditched Nike for Adidas and all of a sudden they started pulling those crazy deals out of their asses (Pogba sponsored by adidas). We on the other hand ditched Adidas, moved to Nike (like a swap between the two clubs) and by the looks of it are now creating a serious contender to United. It coincides with sponsor changes, perhaps Nike don't fancy the idea of an Adidas club holding the league in a financial stranglehold. City already have endless pits of Arabic money, plus we are way more marketable than City worldwide anyway, so it makes sense for them to help push us back up among the elites together with themselves. That is, of course, if those rumours and quoted prices are true. Sponsors might have a bigger hand in clubs' transfer policies than we think, or at least than what I thought.

Fuck that sounds so gooooood! I hope it's true. We'd be PR-ing our way back to the very top as an elite club this way. Caballero, Bakayoko, Van Dijk, Sandro and Lukaku are my bets.. and maybe a shocker too? Exciting times ahead But I'm dreading waking up on July 2 like "fuck, I fell for it again".

Wow, "breaking" news since 2014.

Schick is a forward, has nothing to do with Sandro happening or not.

Not to mention this would clearly be a Conte signing. I'm getting excited, it looks like this could be happening. Serious intent shown with those bids and the club doesn't seem to be backing off. Imagine come 1st July the club announces all four (Caballero, Lukaku, Bakayoko, Sandro) at the same time, that would be epic.

Wow, could this really happen? We are showing positive signs this window with serious pursuits of Lukaku, Bakayoko, Sandro and now Lewa. It most likely won't happen because he has a contract until 2021 = price over £100 million + mega wages. But still, great to see us being linked to genuine world class players by reputable sources.

Too dark blue imo. I think the Umbro blue around 04-06 was better. But pictures rarely show how the real thing will look in action, let's see...

What details? How it works is pretty straightforward, I don't know what else there is to clean out that could take years. Ideally this would be in use in major competitions starting from next season.

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Did Wenger get full control instantly or did he earn it with time?

Giving full control of transfers to a manager makes absolutely 0 sense unless that manager has longevity under his belt like SAF and Wenger. Giving full control to an employee that could well be working somewhere else in a few years time is stupid, the club would lack any kind of cohesion and vision in that department.

A decent English player that can cover several positions, wouldn't hesitate to have him here for a reasonable price.

Take it easy Had you seen those games with video replays, you would have understood the joke about celebrations. Think the players themselves aren't used to such intense waiting and delays in decisions, imagine it's quite brutal in high pressure games.

You killed a light joke by trying to seriously analyze it, forget it.

I bet you didn't.

I don't understand your question. Video refereeing messes up goal celebrations, not the other way round lol.

It's being tested now in the FIFA Confederations Cup. It's been working great, but it messes up goal celebrations.. score today, celebrate tomorrow if you're lucky. Other than that, in the games I have watched, they got all close decisions right thanks to video replays.

No I don't, but that doesn't mean I can't talk crap about them when they do.

Not to mention saying that Gary should give his medal away. It's not an opinion, it's just putrid shit he would never say to GC in person. The guy is an attention seeking loser, as is the newspaper that published it and paid him for that.

He gets paid for voicing his "opinion" to a wide audience, so he should be professional doing it and the newspaper should be professional in editing it. Saying that he feels sorry for somebody because he played with another player is what you see sappy teenagers write in forums and social media all the time, takes no skill or education to produce disrespectful shit like this, just like his playing career. And saying GC should give his EPL medal away, why exactly? Lmao gtfo you 4 time capped turd, probably thinks he knows it all now.

Everybody knows that, he just decided to act all smart and attack our player in the process.

Not world class, but not as bad as this guy is making him out to be. Feeling sorry for the goalkeeper because GC was in front of him? This guy should feel sorry for himself first and foremost. Gary gave his all this season, he went through a bad slump early on, but picked himself back up and went on to rectify those mistakes with some quality performances. We as Chelsea fans should defend our skipper from unprovoked attacks like this. He could have made his not-wrong point more politely, but instead opted to catch some headlines using our player as a scapeoat.