Strike

David Luiz should be Club Captain

I cant believe the club have let go of Matic , Chalobah and RLC without a central midfielder coming in. We need a midfielder for the Spurs game now

Do Chelsea have enough players to fill up the bench?

Everybody with a mouth has written Chelsea off this season. The hope is we repeat shades of last year when we quietly went about racking up the wins. Burnley have lost a first choice central defender and a striker and are awful away from home. Chelsea should win, should sign a couple of wingbacks and all will be well again.

Ashley Cole 2.0

He also mentioned how Chelsea rested Hazard, Costa and still won the FA Cup Semifinal

Fabinho

Luiz should stay away from midfield but there are no options at the moment

Courtois Rudiger Azpi Cahill Moses Luiz Kante Alonso Fabregas Morata Batshuayi

The world has gone mad

Not if they sign Sigurdsson

Worried if this is the 'strong' Chelsea team

No, we will meet the quota. Since the club is not registering 25 players, they don't need to have 8 home grown players in the squad Cahill Moses Fabregas are the only Home grown players at the moment among 15 senior players (Christensen is U-21). The club can add five more non-homegrown players and still submit a 20-man Premier League squad. This is my understanding anyway

GK: Courtois, Caballero, Eduardo DEF: Moses, Azpilicueta, Luiz, Christensen, Rudiger, Cahill, Alonso MID: Kante, Fabregas, Bakayoko FWD: Batshuayi, Pedro, Willian There are just SIXTEEN senior players at the club. I think it's time to ask - What the fuck is happening?

Not a bad shout if a deal could be worked out. Would be an improvement from Costa

Even though he might be first choice here, there is no guarantee he is going to stay that way during the season. He has never experienced the league before and could take time to settle in.In a World Cup year, the best thing for any player is to keep playing in a settled team/system. So I understand if any player wants to just stay on at their respective teams

Have to add Alex Sandro on top of these three

Is there a centre forward available that is better than Costa at the moment? I would keep Costa ahead of Belotti, Aubameyang or Morata. Push the problem to next season when the market for strikers will be different with Griezmann, other promising forwards continuing to develop.

Can't believe the panic on here. If Conte really wants Lukaku, Chelsea will simply match the 75m bid and it will be down to the player then. There must be something else up our sleeves or we will react quickly to this. In Conte we trust.

Yes please. First choice RWB, cover for CM and RW. English.

Apart from 2015-16, we have penny pinched very well. 32mon Costa, Hazard, Luiz, Kante, Fabregas in the last few years. Hardly Spurs esque. Maybe 2 years ago when we were signing Willian, Schurrle, I would compare Chelsea to Spurs but we have our sights far bigger now. Alex Sandro, one of the best LB in the world, Lukaku, flat-track bully in the Premier League and one of Monaco's promising youngsters while Tottenham are looking to re-sign Gylfi Sigurdsson. Man City have far more squad positions to fill and a remote possibility of a transfer ban later in the month. Even then, the keeper and Silva are the only players they've signed yet. The panic is a bit much, no?

The signing overcrowds the Centre-back position without really strengthening it. Luiz- Azpilicueta - Rudiger - Christensen (unproven) - Cahill - Zouma

Not the most convincing case. He basically said Conte needs 5 centre backs so adding Rudiger makes sense.

It is likely an agreement in principle between the clubs.

Feels strange this. John Terry. Not a Chelsea player Stranger than Lamps, Drogs or any of the others