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Considering he's not even a Chelsea player (perhaps for now), am moving this to the Football Banter section.

Think you are a bit quick to jump the gun here. Haven't even agreed the fee yet!

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Adding to that...

Levene: Mourinho will rebuild Chelsea's spine

No mention of that so far. Only says we have agreed a deal for Cavani.

Read an article in the Independent before saying that the club admires him for the play his style of play. Was considered by the club apparently. Well, Mourinho is a master of pressing the right buttons to charm people. OR you're just reading way too much into it.

Understandable in your case since you live in Shanghai but for Stingray who lives in Belgium, that's a bit odd.

OR rather the last thing Arsenal need behind the ST is a CAM that slows down the attacks with a slow feet and lacking that technical ability. Arsenal needs an enforcer more in their pivot rather than someone like Fellaini playing behind the ST to provide a different option. Wenger will move him there if needed but not when their usual game plan is working.

Yes, it makes no sense but Wenger has always been a stubborn man and likes a certain type of players he likes to go with his style of play. I agree that buying Fellaini will give them a different option upfront but think he would be used in DM instead, as opposed to CAM/behind the ST. Arsenal lack a DM, or a supposed DM in their pivot.

You can speak Chinese?! Or did you use Google translate for that?

But the issue is that Fellaini is not suited to play there in a team like Arsenal with his lack of technical ability. And not to mention, he's slow and immobile. Doubt Wenger would want to play him behind ST.

http://youtu.be/NA6jGpQN-iE

An idol of Cristiano Ronaldo...

Then behind the ST? I can't see Wenger playing him there unless he decides to just hoof the ball up to Fellaini and exploit his aerial and physical ability. The latter is the main reason why he has excelled in that role. Otherwise, he doesn't fit Wenger's bill in terms of the technical, quick, crafty kind of player. If anything, he's probably buying Fellaini to play him as a DM, where Arsenal needs a bit of an enforcer in there.

People are happy over the potential sale of Mikel?! How unexpected...

Oh gawd. Why are people associating Mata with homesickness all of a sudden? If La Liga continue to be dominated by Real Madrid and Barcelona, then I don't see why Mata would want to go back there. Yes, trophies may come easy domestically in Spain but IIRC, he mentioned somewhere before that the competition isn't exactly strong and you don't get to test yourself at the highest level week in week out when there is a huge gap in quality between the top 2 teams and the rest. Seriously, are you really reading so much into that quote and thinks he's homesick? It's normal for a player or heck, even just an ordinary human being to miss or thinking of home if he or she is working in another country etc but does that mean they are homesick? No.

Last time I checked, Bale is a Spurs player or rather, not a Chelsea player and this thread shouldn't be in this section. Moving to the Football Banter place...

There was but only saw the Mirror reported it back then. Both parties probably thought there isn't a need to rush it yet since Mata still has 3 1/2 years left in his contract back then. Looks like it'll be pushed through this summer.

As some have mentioned, Schurrle is bought to add more depth to the squad. He can play anywhere behind the ST, though primarily on the LW.

Klopp, Guardiola, Martinez etc in a few years time, who knows? And Roman won't care where Mourinho goes after this. He will sack him if he feels like it really. Hope so. He seem willingly committed to AVB previously but had to sack him because of the circumstances back then.

Well, Mourinho may want to stay for a long time but Roman could easily pull the trigger anytime he desires.

It's not about who should be captain, who's got the character etc as you made in the post after that. It's about having a captain that plays week in week out in our starting XI and not constantly change the captaincy for every game.