BlueLyon

At price of 40mio, I doubt anyone would pay 50. Unless he will be REALY fantastic. Leader of brasil, goalscorer, free-kick scorer etc. And usualy price goes up on euros or WCs, not olympics. For football, olympics are like europa league comparin to World cup.

If Oscar comes, please we wont sign another midfielder of any kind. It will be death to all our youngesters including likes of Oscar,... We dont need Moutinho, Lampard is doing just fine and when he will not be on top level anymore, I hope among our youngsters, there will be at least one who will take his job in full responsibility and replace him good enough. Either Mata, Kdb, Oscar, Josh or Hazard. Cech Iva-Luiz-Terry-Cole Mikel-Lampard Ramires-Mata-Hazard Torres Oscar, Cahill, Bertrand, Ferreira, Malouda, Meireles, Marin, Danny, Kdb, Josh, Hutch, Turnbull, Essien, Romeu, Kakuta Probably, we will add at least another winger; Moses, Hulk,... and RB. Get rid of Malouda, Essien, Meireles and Ferreira and we get team of 24 players. Looks just right amount for me.

So far Hazard is talent. Oscar is talent. Marin is talent. Kdb is talent. Lukaku is talent. Torres is out of form striker. And I dont think Moses, another talent will give us anything more chances to compete for PL trophy. Someone who is a bit older is necessary. After all this problems with young players, we will now depend only on them? I know what you mean, but we should have some backup plan, we cant only depend on technical play, but there should be one player that can go past few defenders on his own, using his speed, strenght. And that player is Hulk. With Oscar and Hulk I wont complain a bit. Even that will cost us so much money...

We have some problems to solve. I guess Oscar (and yet we havent sign him) was third thing we needed; creative CM. We still need someone who can start imediatey with option to become better. Hulk. And we will also need RB since there is only Ivan and Ferreira...unless Hutch will play regular sub.

Comparisson to barca is way to difficult... Their power and dominance comes from several years of training and playing together. They all pass great and that is their power. And yet on ocasions, they look terrible in defence (against Milan or Osasuna are good examples). Our team (Hazard, Marin, Mata, Oscar) never played together before, not club or national level. They dont pass with such excelence, or keep possesion, also we dont play in Spain where you have only 3 realy difficult teams and style allows you lot of possesion and playing in attack (since all teams are very offensive). Here in england, teams play defensive when other team is having lot of possesion. And even barca is not good in such situations. The best against defensive teams is pure power we had in Drogba, Anelka and Malouda, now we only have technicaly gifted smaller players, not including defence. One bigger player I think is almost a need, no mather what style we will play. And what is most important to develop attacking football is TIME. With so many new players, we will surely need time for them to find chemistry or whatever is that mind team-working connection called.

With all this technical problems, we will probably play much more offensive, but we all saw how terrible defence we had under Avb who tried attacking style. And our defence remains the same. We havent bought CDM either...

talksport...says Oscar denied links with Chelsea, while several sites like foxnews, Espn, bloomberg,...report we signed him or will sign him soon.

I just dont think Ganso would join another brasil club. It has no point...

So if we buy Oscar and another winger, either Hulk or Moses, we still heavy require RB backup. Ivanovic will need rest, got injured and booked, who will replace him? And that could be important games too. Ferreira should be only some third choice, for realy unimportant games, Rambo could play there, but that might be game or two, not whole season replacement. Hutch is RB, but as some of you said, he will never be regular player. I guess if Rdm will find him good enough, we wont buy new RB. But if not, then we will slowly be unable to buy anymore players...After Hazard (35mio), Marin (7mio), Oscar (possibly 20mio), Moses-Hulk (10-39mio) that means more than 100mio at max and even that is huge, not to mention that RB would cost us additional 15mio.

I watched some stuff on ytube, good prospect, but I noticed he was heavily tired after Argentina game in 60 minute. Tempo in PL is even higher and I doubt he would be our starter. Certainly joker from bench and Lamps replacement, but if he turns great, we will play him lot and he will be even more tired than Mata in last season at the end.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/7885309/Chelsea-bid-for-Oscar Nothing agreed yet, but at least we are actualy interested in him. 25mio is lot of money for Internacional and they will accept if Oscar will want to join us. He said he will stay but that was some time ago. If Modric is of to RM, its fair alternate transfer, but I still hope of Hulk or some good winger to come. Moses is more second forward than winger and doesnt cross at all. But after Oscar for 25, I doubt we will go for Hulk too...

Number 11, 13 or 25+ for Oscar then... I wonder which number he will get. 13 could be bit unliked by players (Ballack had it, but sadly won nothing realy). 11 could be kept, then only 25 remains or even higher numbers. I gues if both Oscar and Moses arrive, one will certainly get 11.

What Modric does so fantastic is his passing. It reminds on Ozil, Xavi,... Oscar has a lot do here and individual skill like dribbling is not what we realy need. He is not winger and his passing is not as precise to play in deep playmaker role, one mistake in his dribbling and we will face counter attack. Plus team mates will be angry. Dont forget we are in england, not spain and both CMs should be strong and have good defensive abilities. I dont say he isnt good prospect, but he is just not what we need. He is not typical winger nor CM. And having Moses and Oscar in same team will mean we will have unsucessfull season with no major trophies, but next year, we could play for PL throne (like City). I am excited about anyone we sign, but after Marin and Hazard, I would prefer someone physicaly stronger i.e. Martinez (even he would cost 25mio). And someone who is actualy bit older, but can still progress (Hulk). After all the rumour about Hulk(35mio) its still major downfall we are paying 10mio less for a player who played only in brasil league and hasnt realy proved he is worth 25! mio. He is not on Mata level afterall. But again, good prospect overall, just not fitting our team what we realy need.

25mio is far too much. Dont forget he had one decent year in brazil league. I think for 25mio, there are other players better. I take for 16 most, not 25.

My point was for you to understand and except others opinions, not just jumping at everyone, but I wont argue with you, it has no point... As they say; 'Arguing on internet is like running on Special Olympics, even if you win, you are still retarded' Chillax now...

What are you? Some spurs fan in disguise? Only they are so idiotic... Look no one is bigger than club, not us and specialy not you. What you think you will achieve here by saying you are biggest Cfc fan? Everyone is just laughing at your comments.. As I said, just because your daddy gets you season tickets, while some people here live in australia or wherever else and they cant watch matches every weekend, it doesnt makes you any bigger fan. Its what you keep in heart and feel when Chelsea wins or loses, not just going to matches and pretending to be cool. Since your comments are not possible to be written by adult, I suggest you to grow up. ...off-topic ends here...

Is he good in defensive actions (intercepting, tackling, marking)? At least comparable to Modric?

Exactly. First we need to get rid of some players and replace them with more "classy". It has no point in buying Martinez if we will still keep Ess and Meireles.

Is there smallest chance for us to get Hulk AND Modric/Witsel/Martinez if we sell Essien, Meireles, Malouda? I have feeling that in the end, all biggest transfers will cost us too much, we will miss class cheaper players and overpay for some medium 28yrs old player on deadline day... We are looking after Modric (probably wont be available for us), Moses, Hulk (Porto wants more), Schurrle (already refused) and thats it. We are not seriously interested in any other midfielder or winger...I think we should look after alternatives, because it wont happen what board is waiting for; miracle that Porto will accept smaller fee and Spurs will sell their best player to rival...

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.