BlueLyon

Sure but we lost a player that scored the MOST goals for us and we didnt replace him. Hazard will likely be on around 15 and Willian/Pedro on 10. Even if someone else also contributes 10, that wont be enough because we need someone that can do 20 and we dont have one.

Fulham bought whole new 11. Only Cairney and Sessegnon will probably play from last season. Huge blast in chemistry and if they go down even after spending 100m, it wont be a surprise at all. They do have decent coach unlike QPR, Swansea, Stoke,... had. They bought 2 good GKs after already having Betinelli. Mawson, Marchand, Chambers and Mensah who are all at least on paper good enough to play for Fulham, not counting any CB that played for them last season. Rico, Anguissa and two CBs were totaly unnecessary.

Yes I agree completely, but would be better if Chelsea planned ahead, now we were left with no other quality choice but Kovacic on loan without buy clause. But IMO doesnt matter if our midfield is perfect, if Morata replicates last season form, we are not going to be in top 4, simple as that. We need two reliable players, like we had with Eden and Costa. Now we only have Eden. Thats not enough to get in top 4 right now, considering how shit our defence looked recently. Sarri got his midfield, but he also plays attacking football and we dont have quality striker which is very worrying.

I would like a new top striker, but Higauin, icardi or Lewa just arent it. Icardi is a poacher and other two are in 30s. All three are slow and not dynamic. Im glad we avoided paying big money for either of them. Hopefuly there will be dynamic, decently experienced, under 27 years old striker available next summer.

Can this twat just shut the fuck up for once? He got his wish, Eden is here. But he will continue to talk to move Eden there. What a cunt. I NEVER wish bad luck to players, but couldnt care less if Tibo flops and fans of every club he played so far fucking hate him. I dislike this twat with pleasure. Hopefuly Atletico fans show him his place and if he ever plays at SB again, we do the same.

Dont forget Hyundai on sleeve. Kits look as far from clean and classy as possible.

Mate, judging by how great our board is, we will get Fiat next summer.

I havent seen much of him at all, and while those videos look ridiculous, I wont judge him by that. People say he is extremely talented. I just hope we didnt throw 70m down the drain, good luck Kepa and make us proud.

Thats if everything goes in our favour. Real can slap 100m price on him if he has stellar season here. Hell, they might even want to keep him and he will love playing there if thats the case. If he is average, yeah we can get him, but then we would have to pay like 50m for someone who had average season... Next year we will have the money like this year. We only spent 60m on new player, while GK was a panic/freak situation because we had to sell our first choice GK. Like Morata after Costa left. We hardly spend big on someone that we arent replacing, but rather adding to squad. Besides Tibo likely brought 40m, thats 30m tops on Kepa after balancing out. Jorginho for 60 and Kepa for 30 (plus 40m from Tibo sale)= 90m spent. Sell Baka, Drinks etc and you have enough for good mid. This isnt excuse we couldnt afford another quality midfielder, but obviously not last day ffs because board is plain and simply stupid for taking the time with every damn thing. ''At the same time, we managed to greatly improve our team for a year, for free. '' Here is the catch, like you said Kovacic isnt marquee name to add some boost, just a quality talent. And for only that I dont want to improve my team for just one year. I rather drive Audi for next 10 years than Porsche for a year and then drive some crap for 9 years. Long term is all what the board should be about. And if one Kovacic alone will drasticly improve us, then we realy are crap team haha.

He decreased big time and Im not that surprised tbh.

Yeah they would attract attention thats true. But in Kovacic case like you say it wont. And what we end up is player that will take time, patience, trust and he can say goodbye after a year. And if Real sells aging Modric next summer and tells Kovacic you are great, come back: he will not hesitate for a second, that is my worry. RLC or whoever else will remain on this year level and we will need to buy new midfleder, spending money, time and who knows how will that new player adopt, another Bakayoko and we lose yet another year.

Because he didnt behave professional. I understand we are smaller than Madrid. But his bitching every week to go to Madrid one day was DISRESPECT. We signed him at 19 when he was ''nothing'', we gave him first spot by removing Cech and he kept talking about Madrid left and right. Besides most players move one day and they take families with them. Not sure how he didnt manage to convince his family to go to London. Even 4 years separated like this is weird tbh and I wouldnt want to be without my wife and kids like that. Eden was on verge of leaving too, but no one would blame him. No one. I would be super sad, but grateful for all. Because he acts like a champ and shows us respect. Its all about that. You see players move to another club with respect and players move to another club with no respect. First are not hated and later are. Courtois belongs to later. P.S.: and please dont compare this to regular people and their jobs. When you are on 200k a week, knowing you can be on that for next 8 years with GUARANTEED pay rise very soon, money cant be the motivator. You have enough of it. Reasons are not on capital level here or at least shouldnt be. If they are, then Tibo is plain and simply a greedy prick, valuing cash over club that gave him all. De Gea eventualy decided to stay in his club, so did Silva, Aguero etc.

Well its sweet sour signing. Just exactly what you would expect from Chelsea board. They actualy manage to get their hands on Kovacic (who is quite big talent), but they manage to somewhat undo it by loaning without an option. Real puts price at 100m next summer and we are out of the race. And all the Real jokes if we develop Kovacic and he says fuck you and goes back to Real to further improve, and we only watch how good he performs while us stuck back to square one. I cant understand people still have short term thinking here. We realy have to start with long term planning ffs. What will happen next summer? We lose Kovacic, we still will need LB and striker and probably RW etc etc. We have to slowly fix the squad and short term fixes shouldnt be an option. Unless club is confident they can land Kovacic next summer, I have no idea why would they agree to loan. It would feel like small club mentality.

Club would sign Fekir ONLY if they knew Eden is off. And Hazard is better than Fekir big time, so hopefuly this isnt the case.

I would. With current team, they wouldnt help us achieve much more. We are in transition (again) and every smart team will BUILD their team during this time. Not loan other players without actualy buying them because they rather give the spot and time to players who are set to stay here for a while. Put it this way. We got Kovacic and he has super season PERSONALY. However Chelsea as team isnt there yet to win stuff. But next year with signing or two they might be. However, Kovacic leaves and we are back to stage one without a quality midfileder, time and resources again have to be spend on Kovacic replacement, and those two signings are again pushed further. If we gave that time to Mason (huge long shot but just an example) and he exploded, we would have fixed midfield and could focus on those two new signings, hence improvement. If we had perfect team bar that one classy midfilder or winger, then yes Ronaldo/Modric would be good. But right now we are rebuilding squad and Ronaldo/Modric for only a season wouldnt outweight the chance to develop a player in their spot that would actualy stay here for next 5 years or so.

Its big shame he doesnt have buy clause. Madrid here wins every single time. If Kovacic performs well, they can take him back or demand big money. What I dont like is if we end up polishing him and he decides to go back to Madrid, because I have no doubt that even if he enjoys playing here and all, he will go back to Real. All they have to say is ''we will give you regular play time''. He wont pick us ahead of them IMO. I realy like we have Kovacic here, he could end up great loan, but this is sweet-sour situation because we might lose him even if he plays well for us. We dont have realy ambitious season ahead and we might give that playtime and polishing to some other player we actualy own instead of doing the business for Real and losing him next summer. Anyway welcome Mateo. At least this season, we could see fantastic midfield.

Only thing I consider reliable are Lopetegui comments saying Kovacic said he wants to leave and if he does, Real will get REPLACEMENT. Maybe they are ready to sell him, but we want loan first and they dont want to play that game...

Bertrand/Telles on deadline would be great but its never happening. Seems LB and striker will be priorities next windows unless Morata and Emerson step up big time.

Mate just because we played penalties against Inter, Lyon and Arsenal in preseason, it doesnt mean we will play penalties every game this season. And even then, Oblak is more than decent on penalties. I guess having world class reflexes, shot stopping ability and catching the balls instead of blasting it out means absolutely zero to you.

Chelsea to sign every available top quality player before window ends.

Yes. I was always dubious about tibo, he just never struck me as someone who loves chelsea. But I tried to convince myself over and over he is. But there was always shadow over him. Glad he is packing.

If we pull this off, it would be great. That cunt out of the club, and we also get decent replacement, but most of all, we will have some midfield now if we land Kovacic. Daaaaaamn. P.s. hopefuly there is buy clause and he ends up liking us.

Its crazy money but I cant wait to have a keeper who actualy wants to be here. Fuck Tibo. Good, not great and his weekly "I want to go to Madrid one day" were annoying as fuck.

Bit insensible, but if I was in board, fuck it and sign a quality GK and let Tibo rot on bench for the season. Will teach that cunt some lessons.

I will only be mad at Sarri if he caves in and plays experienced players just because reputation. Play young players and those who are actualy good. Simple. He gave Cho serious playtime so far and thats exactly what I want. If Willian and Pedro are shit, play CHO, dont play shit players over and over like Conte did. If we had a breakthrough youth player, be it CHO or RLC (long shot) this season, then it would mean more than a fucking title. We won couple titles since 2000 and not a single english youth product in starting 11 since Terry.