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Please no, not these Mata rumors again.

Took a punt on Lukaku to stay @11/2. Too much bullshit spreading around so he might as well be staying, decent odds IMO.

Now I'm reading on Twitter that Lukaku's in Belgium with the national team and Sky are saying that he's on his way to the WBA training center. Not sure what to believe anymore. God, I just want all this to be over with.

But Lukaku is so much better than Torres or Ba so him going on loan while the other two clowns get to stay is beyond ridiculous. Best solution: Eto'o main striker Lukaku clear second choice with lots of games Torres stays and sulks on the bench if he's not successfully off-loaded Ba loaned out, should be easily done Torres staying has hurt the club enough already so using his astronomical wages as an excuse for putting him ahead of yet another great young striker and clearly unsettling him by not giving him a fair chance is simply not worth it.

Yes but what I don't get is why Torres is staying while Lukaku, who had a brilliant season last year and was one of our best players in pre-season, is being shipped out? Poor man management from whoever is in charge if that happens. Lukaku missed a penalty against Bayern, big fucking deal. Torres has been shit for three years, why does he get to stay ahead of RL?

Good old Tancredi Palmeri saying Tottenham have now offered 15m + Adebayor for Torres. No thanks, we'll just take the €15m.

Now rumours of Ba staying and Lukaku being the one to leave on loan. Laughable if true.

Isn't that kind of what I was implying? That Ba is already going so Lukaku will stay because I don't see us bringing in anyone else in the next three hours?

Hazard had a release clause.

Loaning out a young player is different than loaning out a player in their prime like Demba Ba. If the club think it's best to buy some top class striker and let Lukaku develop for another year at a great club like Everton before coming back to replace the short term signing Eto'o next year I see no problem with it but loaning out proven players like Ba isn't ideal because not only do the club miss out on a decent transfer fee, they also strengthen one of our rivals at the same time. Anyways, wouldn't worry too much because Lukaku going out on loan is not looking very likely. Haven't seen any rumours of us buying another forward and there's no way Lukaku and Ba are both leaving if no one's coming in.

Lukaku to Everton on loan, now that's a rumour that came out of nowhere. Could be great for his development but can't see it happening unless we're about to bring in a big name forward in the next few hours.

http://nutjob.eu/ssnewstv.html Here you go.

Jim White on air now.

PSG can fuck off, Mata's not for sale. They're welcome to buy Torres though.

Like fuck he has. Last season Cazorla played most of his games in a central role with Walcott on the right and Podolski or Oxlade-Chamberlain on the left. Rosicky played 16 games overall last season so he didn't exactly play the #10 position for "the entire year" like you seem to think. Or in case you were talking about this season only, Rosicky has played the first few games through the middle and Cazorla on the wing but with the long term injuries to Podolski and AOC they've hardly have any other options, right? Cazorla is still effective out wide and will do the job there once Özil joins but IMO he's somewhat wasted there and they'd have been better off spending the Özil money on some hazardesque pacy winger and continued playing Cazorla through the middle where he's at his best. Don't get me wrong, I definitely rate Özil as one of the best playmakers in the world and he will improve their side significantly but is spending £45m for him really necessary if it makes their current best player less influential? I know they don't exactly have any other options because it's so late in the window but what I'm saying is that maybe they should have been active in the market earlier and for example competed with us and Spurs for the signing of Willian? Now they're just trying to take the only world class player that is still on the market and that can be risky.

What the fuck are you on about? Where did I say anything about anyone's title chances? I was simply talking about Mesut Özil and whether or not buying him is the best way for Arsenal to spend £45m.

Özil will be a great player for Arsenal but is he really a player they so desperately need they're willing to pay three times their previous transfer record for him? They already have Cazorla to play behind the striker so if Özil joins then one of them will be forced out wide where neither of them are at their best. Wenger should have spent that money earlier in the window for a new left winger with explosive pace, not in another number ten.

Going off topic now but for me Lukaku at 18 was just as much unproven as Bruma is now. Sure, he had two good seasons at Anderlecht but to be honest being successful in the Belgian league isn't really all that extraordinary. Lukaku was on everyone's radar because of his potential, not because he was expected to produce immediate fireworks in the Premier League for a top club at the raw age of 18. Anyway, there's really no point taking this any further. Bruma is a top class prospect who really made quite an impression at the U20 WC, much like a certain Chelsea #11 did two years ago if I might add, and if Galatasaray think he's good enough to earn himself a big contract then so be it. If he really does become the 'next Cristiano' people will look at this deal as a proper bargain in a few years and if he fails, people will just forget all about him and the player is more than happy to have earned himself a fat paycheck. Win-win for all parties, I would say. I don't believe for a second that his proposed move to Chelsea didn't materialize because of his wage demands. Maybe the club just came to their senses and started thinking if it's really worth it to take this gamble when we already have players like Hazard, Mata, Oscar, Schürrle, KdB, Willian, Moses, Marin, Piazon, Kakuta and countless of other young attacking midfielders already at the club.

9m over five years is only 1,8m a year which in GBP amounts to £1,5m a season. Per week that's slightly below £30k and I'm fairly sure that even guys like Lucas Piazon or Josh McEachran at Chelsea are currently on similar wages and much like Bruma they've so far proven fuck all. And what about Lukaku? Two years ago he was a raw 18-year-old with only potential to become world class but the club still paid a high transfer fee and according to reports he's on wages of around £50k a week. In my opinion he's proven to be worth every penny of that money but that doesn't change the fact he was very much an unproven player when he signed and Bruma has the potential to look like a bargain too if he's even half as good as some people think he is. And as for PSG, they're already signing kids on massive wages. Only recently they bought the young French left-back Lucas Digne for 12m and gave him a contract worth 65k a week. That's simply how the big clubs do things these days and as much as we'd like to believe differently, Chelsea are no exception. Football's gone mad ages ago, nothing us fans can do about it.

Can't really go wrong with this move. Liverpool will pay a decent amount of money for this loan without even getting an option to buy if he ends up being a massive success there like Sturridge and they'd only be doing us a favor by increasing the player's market value but if he fails we can still easily offload him next summer for around £5-10m.

Rules set by the FA.

That was fast. Welcome on board, Samuel! I find it odd the club didn't tell his squad number in the article confirming his signing. Perhaps he's going to get a number that's currently taken? Ba's 19, Moses' 13 or maybe even his favoured number 9 shirt if we're lucky? He had 99 at Anzhi so if he wanted that, surely they would have let us know already?

That's exactly why some people are complaining. Because he won't cost £50m he must be shit. Fantastic piece of business if you ask me. From what I've seen Anzhi he's mostly been good and Jose knows him so he will probably settle in quite nicely. Age won't matter because he's a free transfer and the contract is only short term. If he succeeds, he can be given a couple of one year extensions but if he fails he'll be gone by next summer and won't trouble the club no more. By the time he leaves or retires we will have a more mature Lukaku to claim a bigger role in the team but in the meantime he can learn from someone who at least used to be one of the best strikers in the world.

Hoping for Marseille, Ajax and Celtic. What time's the draw?

Sure, but his Bolton contract was about to expire that year so being an England international regular he most certainly would have got a good contract elsewhere had he waited till the summer and moved on a free transfer.