BlueLyon

Well we could easily play with Marin on Rw, yet we look after top players to hold our attacking line. I agree Lamps can handle for sometime along with Mikel (and Ess, Meireles, Romeu, Rambo and Kdb as backup), but if he fails, we dont realy have player that is doing best on CM position right now; some are too young, some too old and some are not in form. For example, Barca has Busquets with Mascherano as perfect replacement or even Cesc. Its about getting in form players, Ess was huge once, but dont get distracted by name, Romeu hardly played last season under RDM, Rambo is now more B2B than creative deeplying playmaker (if he ever was that), Kdb might get loan, Meireles is old and like Rambo has no playmaker and passing abilities needed for deeplying playmaker. But I get what you meant, we have plenty of backup, somehow I would rather have Martinez instead of Ess and Meireles. We would have better midfielder and our youngsters could still play as much as with Ess and Meireles in team (Maybe even more, since one player would replace two).

I know, but at least we could offer 35mio for him and see, if we are ready to pay 30+ for Lucas (who told he wont be leaving too, but now he is ready to go...). You never know, one is speculation, other is formal bid and Dortmund might actualy accept 35mio, also Gotze would move to a club with regular starting position and I dont see any problem why he wouldnt start if we only get him for RW (no Hulk or Moses). Players said all kind of stuff, but when you actualy have offer from CL winners with regular starting position worth 35mio, mind goes other way quickly. At least we could try...

First why do we need him? Just to be backup? 16mio for a player who can only play in Mata/Hazard position. Unless we go 4:3:3; ------Mikel------- --Oscar-Lampard--- Hazard-Torres-Mata He is not winger or CM, but only creative CAM with possible ego. I would welcome any signing, but I realy think first we need winger, then CM with defensive abilities, then RB, then striker and then another creative CAM. And to mention he is not exactly strong player and physicaly loses ball often when bigger player comes around him, he has 179cm and 66kg.

Doesnt matter what Ferdinand said to Terry, he is captain and old enough not to react back. Thats why its called professional football. Now, we will have to play without him for some time...

We are linked with everyone, I hope we wont some overrated old average player, who will cost us ridiculous money.

Well his price is more than 30mio, that is pretty absurd to me since he plays in brasil league and hasnt realy proved himself in international games. There are plenty other players (Oscar,...) that play same good, but dont have media fame.

What about this guy for 6mio? Very good prospect, would be sure backup for Hulk, but could offer something we dont have yet, Barca minded attacking player (and they usualy do it well ). His dribblings (when in top play) are fantastic, goals against Brasil or Usa are class too. If we could actualy get him for 6mio I couldnt say no.

I think Gio dos Santos wouldnt be bad for a fair price below 10mio. He is absolutely fantastic in Mexico team, I never know why is he not playing at Spurs... He could be one of those great talents who just need to change club. Sure we would get Hulk too, but having Gio for less than 10mio would be wonderfull. There were some rumours he might return to Barca, he has great ball skills, maybe Mata and Hazard can make him shine at club level too!

WTF man?!?!?! D R O G B A is THE best big striker in the world

We already have enough potential and Lucas is expensive potential. Better to have some experience in attack, since we have striker with dificult mentality, winger who just arrived from France and playmaker who is only 24yrs old and not regular in Spain. To have Hulk would be better because on important games, talent goes off and only inteligence and experience play role. I dont think havin Lucas and Hazard would be good against the likes of City, United or CL matches, because there talent usualy dont play best, maybe some, but not all.

He didnt shine as much in Brazil squad as he does in Sao Paulo. That is what I dont want him much. He could be best player in the world, but he is just too expensive and when did he turned down Inter? Wasnt Inter his favourite club?

Good player, I guess RM has no intention in selling their spanish players. First they need to get rid of Gago (he is actualy good player, linked with ManCity) Drenthe (terrible player, Im sure he will leave). Also Altintop will give place for new player, rumours about Lass, Carvalho, Sahin (loan), Kaka leaving too. What real would realy need is class RB and maybe alternative to DiMaria on wing. Silva was fantastic wish because he can play on wing or CAM and has better passing and dribbling than DiMaria. I think Modric wouldnt fit as much as Silva because he cant play on wing.

Anyone knows if Navas (lost his homesickness?) or Cazorla are available? In case Hulk deals wont go through, our board might start looking after other wingers soon enough.

He is prospect, not finished product or at least Hazard-type established player. And priced at 30mio plus... I rather go after Gotze instead.

Moses. Would be perfect addition to squad depth. If he proves, he could be starter.

You realise that here we just say our wishes right? If I had power I would sell Meireles, Essien, Malouda, Bosingwa, Kalou and Ferreira and buy Hulk, Moses, Martinez and Azpi. But that will never happen and then comes realistic opinion; No we dont need any more players, but a good right winger. Hulk or Moses. I will be happy with whoever Chelsea buys. No one here cant make difference after all.

Read some of my older posts, I dont want to buy more than we neee. But we cant depend on Meireles, Essien again. Torres will replace Drogba, Hazard Malouda, Hulk Anelka and Moses Kalou. Maybe we dont need CM, but then why everyone wants creative CM? Afterall, Bayern already bought 5 players (Pizzro, Manduzukic, Shaqiri, Dante and Stark, yet they will probably get Martinez type of CM too). I want us to buy enough players who will come cheap and replace Meireles and other deadwood, because I would like us to play more faster and creative. My point was to get rid of Malouda and Meireles and get some cheap proper replacements.

I think we need someone who actualy played in Pl before. Marin, Hulk, Hazard and Kdb all played outside UK.

I meant at CAM. Lets say we rest both Mata and Hazard. Marin natural position is not CAM, while I dont think Kdb is actualy ready to lead our midfield in his first season. None of those two ever played in Premier league and we should get someone like Sigurdsson who is ready to be sub, but has had good season in PL. In best case, we should get rid of Malouda and buy Hulk (for obvious reasons), Moses (to deeper our squad and add someone who actualy played in Premier league before), Dembele (or whoever who would come cheap, and would be used as CAM or CM) and maybe RB (well we need him, but I doubt there will be money for it) Yes that is four players and two have already came, but we also got rid of Drogba, Kalou, bosingwa, anelka, possibly Malouda and in previous seasons Ballack, Joe Cole,...and we still havent got proper replacements for them.

Considering we get Hulk and keep KDB, who will play if our main players will need rest? We have enough CMs, but what about Cam or Wingers? Lamps could play CAM sometimes, but if he will be regular starter as CM, he will need rest too Hazard and Mata will get rest manualy: once one then other, one can always play as CAM Hulk will have replacement in Marin(who can play both wings), Rambo (unless he will be already CM box2box starter) or possibly KDB (but I think he should be used more on Cam or CM than wings) Torres will get replacement in Danny Hazard will rotate with Mata. Rambo, Marin or Kdb can replace him. Our second team would then be: Romeu-Essien/Meireles KDB Rambo-Danny-Marin As I see without Mata, Hazard and older Lamps, we dont have proper starting replacement. Sure KDB could get minor role in CM along experienced Mikel or Lamps ocasionaly, but surely he cant pull strings and plan our attack as Cam in his first season. There will always have to be at least Mata or Hazard along him. His good techmique would be wasted on wing, so I prefer CAM/CM for Kdb. With this team, we would still need at least one winger or midfielder who doesnt need to be super class, but just someone who played in Pl before (like Moses or Sigurdsson)

iIndeed true, dont know where people get we will buy Hulk, rb, moses and another class CM But Sigurdsson was quite cheap, we missed on him.

What I realy wonder is how people got to mind that Mata is best at CAM? He was winger at Valencia, he is winger in Spain and he played fantastic for us when he was on wing. After Robbie moved him to CAM, he was not as important as he was before. It could be our style, no support by other players or he was just tired. But he still played his best football on wing for his whole carrer. Now with Hazard, he will have more space and rotation, his work will be split 50:50, he wont be that tired anymore and also he will play on wing and in centre together with Hazard. My concern is only that we dont have proper replacement for him. Last season, he played so much because without him, we were dreadfull and he was realy tired in the end. This season, we must find someone who will replace him goo when he will need rest. We should buy Hulk or CM plus Moses for rotation. Also RB is almost required. The problem is only that pre-season will be here sooner than you think and we are only being linked with players for all month now. If we plan to buy 3 more players, that wont happen in one month. If we wont get any more players till august, there will max one come in that last month and probably wont be world class. With Moses, Hulk and Sigurdsson we would be covered by now, but Gyilffi left for Spurs. If we will keep loosing on such players, we will end up with Maxi 'fuckin' Rodriguez in the end. And I dont want that shit again.

Avb already brought Sigurdsson, and soon Verthongen. Tries to keep VDW and wants Moutinho there. I dont think bad about AVB, he bought Mata, Romeu, Courtiois and Cahill. Unfortunely he came season too early. His style and our team from last season couldnt work together. BUT he needed more time. Yes, we wouldnt won anything last season, but we would start playing more beautiful football. Replacing older player with younger and Chelsea would be top 3 teams in the world in 2 years. With Robbie we won CL, but I realy hope we never play 6:4:0 again. And we still need to rebuild our team. At Spurs, Andre will have lot of money available and if he keeps all their players and buys few more, they will be dangerous. But overall, he plays too open football and Spurs dont have world class defence, meaning that they will do same like we did for first half of season. Play attacking, but no results realy.

No thanks for Modric...If we get Modric, we will never get top class winger like Hulk. Plus Spurs would still get 40mio for a year older player who had worst year than a season ago...

I guess we will buy one class player and as it seems also Moses. And that class player will be Hulk. But I dont think Moses is that bad to play carling games. He is much better than Lukaku, Piazon, Josh,... What I rate most about him is his experience in Pl and good performances against good teams. After all, Cahill played for low table team and he turned fantastic.