BlueLyon

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.

https://www.barcablaugranes.com/fc-barcelona-transfer-rumors-news/2017/8/15/16151490/barcelona-boss-ernesto-valverde-talks-paulinho-samper-sergi-roberto-ahead-of-el-clasico So Valverde counts on Sergi, but anything could happen till end of august.

Here I cant agree with you. Yes Laca is individualy better player than Giroud, but whenever I saw france play with Lacazette, he just didnt cut it. Giroud was much more efficient france played better aswell. And its not just coach preference. Lacazette simply didnt show enough, despite his quality. Same for Paulinho in brazil or in this case Cedric in portugal. Or Benzema. We might say Morata is better, but Zidane knows better. Morata might be better individual than Benz, but Benz makes Real team tick better, he makes the team as a whole better. They are more reliable, better team players and thats what you eventualy want. Only a team will win trophies. People often look individual qualities in players, but I rate players also on their success with team. Sure sometimes you have shit team and fantastic individual and still there wont be results. Thats why for example I rate Monaco players alot, because there is not just individual quality, but that team actualy achieved great results last season. Or Lille back then with Hazard. Valencia has few good individuals but as a whole, they are absolute crap atm, despite all the investement and talent they brought, they are very underperforming and honestly I dont see a single player there that could improve Chelsea as a team. Cancelo might put better input in attack individualy, but our balance in defence will be still bad, probably even worse than now. How can you say Cancelo is better defender than Cedric? I can guarantee you thats not true. I admit I havent seen them play many times past season, but two seasons ago Cedric was quite reliable defender and Cancelo was below average in defence. Then I checked fans opinions and they all agree Cancelo was even worse in defense last season. Dont get me wrong, I dont see Cedric ideal rwb or rb, but neither is Cancelo. We should aim at better fullbacks, but I dont agree with you that Cedric is soo poor and Cancelo much better as you say. The best portugal rb atm IMO is Ricardo Pereira who also played in france two seasons, which is perfect step before PL. Atm I would try to get him, Ox or Aurier. Anyone else available wont give Chelsea much improvement, except for being squad fillers.

I would expect us being linked with Ricardo Pereira too... We have relatively difficult targets (going by who we have been linked with); Juve doesnt want to sell Sandro, SPurs will never sell Rose to us, Aurier doesnt have visa, Arsenal possibly doesnt want to sell Ox,...if neither comes here, raid Porto for Telles and Pereira and we have two young, potentialy very good wingbacks. And I guess we could get both for reported 70m we offered juve for Sandro. Still hoping we get Sandro tho.

Just curious when did he became third choice option for portugal? He was first last year when they won euros and I hear Cancelo is absolute shit defender (good going forward tho), while Nelsinho and Pereira dont have many caps for portugal either yet.

And we sold Matic, even tho Mou is not here anymore. I think those sales were board decisions or players wanted to leave themselves. It also explains why Mata, Lukaku and Matic are now happy playing under Mourinho. If he told them he doesnt need them, they would never play for him...I guess it was their personal choice or board decision because they thought we have good squad and money looked good, so they decided its ok if they get shipped out

I just hope we dont rush him back too soon just because we have short squad ffs. Same for Bakayoko

Completely agree with what you said, but still MSN is probably best attack in history of football. They were unplayable in their first season when barca won CL.

Tbh Alves and Bonucci knew they will leave before summer and so did Juve. If we dont have chance now, we didnt have it two months ago either. Im pretty sure something is up with Sandro to Chelsea.

Southampton is now 80% owned by chinese... Whoever will want VDV will have to pay shitload of money now.

Yeah but PL is still quite tough. The problem with finding good player for PL is that he is phyisicaly capable of playing full seasons in PL and at same time skilled enough to play CL. If it lacks the first, he wont make it in PL and will be sold, if he lacks second, he will be destroyed in CL. Finding such players is very difficult then. As for Sergi, in current situation, Im all in to have him here.

Well in that case, we better not believe anything at all. I dont know how can one justify Diego is bad person and say "he must be lying, dont believe him" and at same time bring evidence that he was a dick who tried to go to china and doesnt give a fuck about cfc, just because MEDIA reported it. And we should straight up believe what media says, just because you or someone else finds it handy because you dislike Costa and obviously "he wanted to leave to china" serves your belief despite it might all be just bullshit (just throwing example here). I think people here hate Costa for what they read in media and that might not be all entirely true. We should all wait for some evidence before blaming Costa (or Conte, board,...), or just leave the thread and be done with. Only what is known to be true is Diego wanted to leave last summer. Thats what he he admited last summer and didnt lie. Why would he lie now? And guess what? Even after wanting out and eventualy staying here; he gave 110% for Chelsea in first half of the season. There were rumours he will extend which didnt happen. Why? Who knows. Could be Costa discipline or even Conte simply saying fuck off your not my profile of striker. Not saying Conte is wrong, its good board supported him and if that was his decision, so be it. But for fuck sake, dont blame Costa if this is what realy happend. As of now, its more Chelsea didnt want Costa rather Costa wanting to leave and cause problems. I hope Chelsea or Conte makes official statement to put this behind

I think thats the problem of bigger size. We should have captain who is more than good to be our starter nearly every time, either one of best in his position or natural leader and motivator. Tbh Cahill was "captain" whole last season, Im sure if he plays so bad now or someone else much better, other players should understand

He would be quality buy for backup but I think he might struggle in PL, Pogba, Dembele would bully him all day.