Justin_3d

Men how I miss goals like that from Drogba. Might be his last season with Chelsea, but thank you Drogba for all the time!

AVB the person that said he has the backing of the owner unconditionally? ....... Yeah right, keep believing what AVB said and what the board tells you.

Dude what you talking about? Romeu is a product of Barcelona academy, that Barcelona sold to us with a buy back clause. They can get him this summer or next summer. So with that in mind, putting all our hopes in Romeu is a very risky business.

This place seems to be very good with transfer and gives you very good market value: http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/?from=top_navi The got Modric quoted at 34 mill. That sounds about fair. But giving that we are a rich club we have to pay a premium of at least 5 mill. Making Modric close to 40m....what we tried to pay at the end of the transfer window! And they quote Javi Martinez at 19.5 mill...which sounds about right. No team will buy him for more then what we payed for Mata. So if Bilbao wants their release clause no team will touch it.

Speaking of Bosman: Alan Dzagoev free transfer this summer.... http://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/en/alan-dzagoev/profil/spieler_69683.html

Actually I checked online and saw Drogba, Kalou and Bosingwa in the Bosman list.

That would sound like a reasonable transfer budget. I think Mikel can go for 10 mill. I remember Anzhi wanted him, and he should fetch that price. Essien not sure what his price would be. Malouda price sounds reasonable. Kalou I think he is leaving for free....likewise Bosingwa. So being rationale a income of 30 mill will not be that bad. If the board can double what we got to spend then we should be in good shape to get some quality players.

I don't think we will spend that big as before, which is why being smart is the key. Buying and selling players. Like we can still get money from Essien and Mikel. Those 2 sells should at least raise money for a Tiote. Meireles sell would raise cash for Kagawa. The exodus of Kalou, Bosingwa and Drogba will free up wages. And if we somehow managed to sell Malouda we raise some cash. So we can easily end up spending between 70mill in out of pocket expense which will not be that bad. It won't be a ridicules 240m like the paper put it!

Yeah so i guess it boils down to personal choice. I think for the players we can sell and the money we got getting 3 new players in this summer would be sort of a disappointment, which is why I am shooting for 4 to 5 players in this summer.

We do got Sturridge, and as mention Kakuta and KDB coming this summer. So if they look ok we can easily wing it with one great winger ala Hazard type. Selling Meireles for Kagawa should be no brainier. Meireles would like to go cause AVB is gone and Kagawa would want to come. That should be an easy transaction....unless our board will make it hard, which they probably will! The hardest aspect will be getting mid like Tiote, Javi and then wingers like Hazard and such....

Ah one can only dream! 5 players in would not be that bad though. If we can get 3 or 4 we are golden. I would still get Tiote, Javi and a winger as priority number one. If that's all the money we can spend on these 3 players then so be it. We can get the Kagawa, Azpi and more wingers/strikers in the future. As we got Kakuta coming back, KDB and hopefully Sturridge can be better next season.

Can easily replace Meireles. This is the player we needed to buy last summer and not Meireles. If the board manages to correct that, I will give them a cookie.

Sell Mikel for Javi, sell Essien for Tiote. Meireles....can keep but if you get Kagawa then sell Meireles. Ramires...don't want to sell him unless some big bid comes. After that, for the money we got and spend it should not have been big. The biggest part to spend has to be in wingers!

I really don't think we need a creative mid if you got Javi, Romeu and Mata. Because Romeu and Javi can easily balanced out with Mata to add creativity in the mid. With Lampard, Josh, Kakuta and what ever other youth getting some games from time to time. With that mid of: Javi-Tiote Mata You would only need wingers.

Good point, at which I will only sell if some crazy bid comes from Anzhi! So why can't we have Tiote, Romeu and Javi? In a long season where will be using 4-2-3-1 as one of our formations, it behoove us to get more then just one player for each role. And like I said, Romeu is a card we don't know. He can easily bounce to Barcelona in a year or two, so is better to have Javi because of that.

Well Ramires for me with a better team is not starting 11 material but great to have for squad depth. Like people say of Meireles. Ok player that can be used as squad player. Plus Ramires would be vital for those games when we need to counter attack, or defend a lead. And for the 4-2-3-1, yes it will work like that. Tiote and Javi both in the 2 role, but with Javi having a bit more freedom then Tiote to set up more attacking player with Mata.

Sorry but I am not sold on Romeu cause we don't know if he wants to leave us for Barcelona. And he ain't getting a chance ahead of Essien and Mikel.

Javi is a type of player that I can easily compare to Xavi Alonso. He is the perfect piece for a team that wants to play with 2 DM's in the 4-2-3-1 role because of his quality he can offer.

Get Javi Martinez...but giving that Bilbao only plays Basque player they won't buy players with the money they get....so will they also take players as part of the deal? If so give them money plus players...heck they can get Torres for Javi Martinez in a straight swap! Javi Martinez will be awesome since we are trying to play the 4-2-3-1 Then get some wingers and a RB like Azpi and we are good!

hmmmm City picking up form...... I will say that I sympathize with the City fans. I know how it is to live in the shadows of your local rivals. For years we look at Arsenal winning trophies and being the top dog of London.

Ah true, I remember all that hate Chelsea used to get when Roman came. Now is not much because they seen that what Chelsea has done no other club with rich owners has been able to do.

Good read, this is why I ask why people think just buying players will solve the problem? Most people are blind that they don't notice the real problem is at the heart of the club! You need to fix that problem first before you fix anything. Otherwise we spend 150 mill on players and in 3 or 4 years be back to the same shit cause those that run the club are inept.

The owner??? You must be joking.

Seems like it, cause only fools would label a club like Barcelona as corrupt. The last clubs I known that where "deemed corrupt" where from Italy....yet they don't get a mention.

So Comolli goes in pool for doing a poor job in transfers, while our genius of a board continues to be at the club....