BlueLyon

Yeah Llorente would be good additional striker to have. Feel sorry for Bats, but seems he just isnt up for it yet.

Today was difficult game for him, but he should burry that chance in the beggining.

Onda cero is reporting deal with Atletico is close. 45m +10m add ons.

In first two games he averaged 4 dribbles 1,5 key passes 4,5 long balls 87,7% pass accuracy 3,5 tackles 2,5 interceptions Kid looking realy bright. Hope he carries these performances through the season.

Feck take a chill pill. Right now everything is going against us. Injuries, suspensions, small squad, poor fitness. Our best player didnt even feature yet. I will worry when we will be at our best and still losing games, but when we are in such riggid state, its obvious we wont be playing great. United is in super form, no injuries, players inform, Matic and Lukaku straight impact, swansea and whu were in poor state too. If we dont end up winning the league, so be it. Right now we are in transition, just replaced key striker and midfielder with younger dudes and it will take some time. Also for Eden to return from his first major injury in career. But we will come back sooner or later. Just enjoy the road

2 weeks is still plenty of time if you consider 40% of our transfers have been done on deadline day in past years...

Tbf Sandro and Cedric wouldnt be bad at all IMO.

The rumours are getting funnier and funnier. Tomorrow we can expect something like Chelsea pushing for surprising moves on Kyle Walker and Benjamin Mendy.

Barca: we are close to Dembele and Coutinho Bvb: barca is no closer to Dembele, they are having headaches from real defeat.

Cech Iva-Carvalho-Terry-Cole Essien-Makelele-Lamps Robben-Drogba-Hazard Gudjohnsen/\Hasselbaink, Zola and Gallas were also quality in their best years at cfc.

He was below average at psg though. Even if we sign him, what if there will be zero impact from him? Pointless to just buy someone just to buy someone. At least buy decent quality or someone coming off a good season.

Well if they dont sell this summer, thats about potential 90m down the drain...

Well if we made signings somewhere in july, it wouldnt matter much, because they would all go through full preaseason and trainings. But right now, if we want new signings that will fit straight in with instant impact, im very certain that things like "did play in PL before" are quite important (and a bunch of othee details). Obviously not everyone that played in PL will guarantee impact, but its alot more possible than someone who never played in PL before. Kante, Rvp are two players I always keep in mind who have played in PL before and made instant improvement in Chelsea and United when they arrived. That has alot to do with quality of the players too, but then you had examples like Robinho who never realy made it in PL. Anyway, right now we are in extremely difficult situation. We need players that will give us instant impact, but I somehow doubt it will happen. Whoever we sign, will probably need "weeks of training to gain fitness and philosophy" etc etc. If we somehow manage to sign someone that will be match fit in two days or so, we will be blessed. Thats why I have no idea why people wanted signings this week, as if they would play straight away vs spurs. I gues the chances for that would be small. For me, as long we get business done, I dont care when. Be it tomorrow or last day of august.

Andre Gomes has to be hands down worst midfielder in any of top clubs. I pray we dont make a bid for him lol.

Fantastic article. The culture of this club and players we had back then was completely different. I would go back in those times if I had a choice.

We are doing this window so wrong IMO. Would be better if we bought foreign midfielder and target someone like Redmond if we need more homegrown players...

Sigurdsson for 45m is giant amount of money, but I think he is actualy one of the better, underrated players in premier league. Im sure he will be good adition for them.

As things stand right now Matuidi will go to juve and Psg will buy Fabinho... But we will have Drinkwater

Probably because Kondogbia going the other way.

Seems like he is realy pushing for a move away from Monaco. Im not sure if we can guarantee him starting spot, but he would definately play alot this season and he could even cover RB or RWB position if required. His pal Bakayoko is here, not to mention few brazilians aswell. Kante, Bakayoko, Fabinho and Cesc would be midfield we should target. Or is our pulling power so weak, we have no chance in getting him?

Oh come on...I agree money fees are getting more and more ridiculous. But do you know that around turn of century Betis and Lazio paid ridiculous fees for players? Betis broke world record for Denilson, they paid more money for him than Inter for Ronaldo9. And Lazio bought Crespo and Mendieta for around 40m euros each, unbelievable scenes. But look at Lazio and Betis after...they ultimately failed with their attempts to be super clubs. You know funniest thing however, there is more money in football than ever, specialy in PL. Everton can probs afford to pay 100m plus every summer from now on. However we act like we have same or even less money than 10 years ago lol. Its obvious that on long term, we wont be competitive anymore if we insisit with same strategy. I agree we shouldnt be throwing money away just like that, but we will simply have to spend more if we want players that can make difference.

I thought CL 11, EL 11 and uefa best 11 wasnt the same?

Tbh as long he plays that good thing. I guess we can always buy him back, much better player than he was when he left. Same for RLC and Baker, hopefuly they play week in week out and get in squad next year.

Im just wondering how the fuck did Ibra get ahead of him or Kante in UEFA top 10 of past year?

Regardless of situation, I expect chelsea to sign at least midfielder and wingback. Be it on last day, there is absolutely no way we wont sign at least two new players. I could bet a house on that. The question is who. And then we will see if it was successful window or not. Problem is, we had whole summer knowing we need two quality wingbacks. And if two quality wingbacks wont be here come 1st september, I think we can safely say we didnt solve the issues we knew for quite a while. In short we needed midfielder, two wingbacks and squad fillers. Next summer quality RW and CB. At least that was what you would expect after watching past season. Christensen should get chance before forking millions for new CB, hence why we should get one next summer if necessary. Pedro on other hand performed well enough to start another season. Unless there was some exceptional RW available for us, but there wasnt one. However midfielder and two wingbacks were absolute must. And striker knowing Costa situation. We did adress striker issue and bought Baka aswell, but sold Matic, leaving us short. Then we needed two wingbacks, because it was clear as day this season, also playing in europe, we will need backup there and probably more quality. It would make perfect sense to get two top wingbacks, but so far nothing. To me, this window will be successful if we get these two quality wingbacks and backup midfielder. Anything else will only prolong our problems till next summer, hence poor management of the situation. On another note, I expect us to remain competitive with manchesters, and big chance the results will say otherwise, so far we have gone behind real quick in just two months. Either buying wise or spending millions, we have to remain near top.