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I want to stab Adrian Chiles with a pen in the eye

The only player I'd want from Bayern's entire squad I think is Muller (maybe Martinez). I really, really want him on our right hand side. 'Traditional wingers' are almost extinct and now most like to play with a winger who cuts inside like a striker almost, but I feel work-horse wingers like Muller are the absolute best and we should definitely invest in one. (I guess Schurrle fits that profile a bit, although he cuts in too much for my liking.)

Get the feeling Bayern may keep a clean sheet and score at least 3 goals

Fuck that 'argument' which starts off most posts saying we shouldn't get him by stating what age he is. Just look at Arsenal for following that exact mentality of "young kidz rule da worlsd!!!". That is all.

5-year deal. £21m. Could rise to £24m. Barcelona & Santos to play 2 friendlies as part of the deal. Done. £2m more than Oscar. I don't even know what to think about that lol.

Hopefully next season with Mourinho we win the league and Liverpool get top 4, only for us to dump them out of the CL with a 'ghost goal' the following season

I think Rodrigo would be good, but only really if used in a Javier Hernandez role. Start against little teams and come on as a sub vs. big teams to get a goal. Just get him to work on his finishing and composure. Forget every other sort of training in regards to crossing, tackling etc. Just make him the goalscorer he can be.

I want someone to actually highlight what he can't do as a player and explain why he's not good enough for our system please.

Allegri set to join Roma with Bielsa being lined up by Milan.

I don't see why he 'isn't' on the level of certain rival players in the league. You're not magically 'not as good' just because you've played your football in another country. Sure, he may not make the same immediate impact that buying someone from one of the top 4/5 leagues would have, but that doesn't mean he's not as good.

Napoli is full of counter-attacking players. Torres plays best in a counter-attacking team. Hamsik could be his Gerrard; Armero the hard-working Kuyt and so-on. Please sign Torres from us Benitez, please. They'll have loads of money from the Cavani sale and will need a striker. Do it.

He'd be back up to Cech for fuck sake with Courtois going out on loan again It's not some stupid story like "Messi to replace John Terry". It would make sense. He joined Madrid TO BE BACK UP. Circumstances lead to him being #1. So we know he's fine with being back-up. If he stays at Madrid, he'll be made back-up again as the manager will displace him by putting Casillas back in the frame. So:- Why not follow a boss who seems to love him to Stamford Bridge, sign a 1 or 2 year contract and then play in cup games or be used if Cech is injured/suspended? Courtois is not coming back next season to play sub. Hilario is leaving at the end of the season. I doubt Blackman will be promoted. It would be Cech; Lopez; Turnbull. It makes fine sense.

Was RLC wearing Marin's number? Bye you little German.

The little bitches.

Apparently Mourinho will bring Lopez with him here. Reason probably being Lopez knows the next manager will put Casillas back as #1 (so he'll happily leave), we need a new back-up 'keeper and Mourinho seems to love the guy. Wouldn't it be lovely to rest Cech sometimes and let Lopez take over? He'd be the best back up keeper in the league surely. Want, want, want.

Regarding his release-clause - It's originally 90m (euro) but due to not playing a certain amount of games, a clause in his contract reduces the buy-out to 18m (euro).

I wouldn't mind:- Out: Marin (£5m?), Benayoun (Free), Ferreira (Free), Malouda (Free?), Essien (Sorry; £8m? Surely a Russian team would take a punt), Kakuta (£2-£8m?), Bruma (£5-7m?). That's already at least £20m just from fringe or no longer good enough players. That's also a huge amount of the wage bill reduced. Now with that £20m - In: Thiago (£15m). He will and would fit in here. We now have £5m leftover and are in a profit for the transfer window so far. That could go towards Coentrao in theory meaning we'd only actually pay around £10m for him out of our own pockets + the £5m leftover from above. (That's if the rumoured price is true, of course.) So that's us spending around £10m for Thiago and Coentrao in theory. Is that not an absolutely incredible deal? So with just £10m spent, we have our future left-back and possibly our future Mata successor or Oscar rotation player. He could even come right in and displace Mata but that's unlikely. He could also be groomed for a deep role. Now remember - We're Chelsea Football Club. No way would we stop at just £10m spent!!! We could now play around quite easily. Promote someone like Piazon to take over from Marin's role unless we want him getting more games out on loan. There. A free Marin replacement/squad player. Our full-backs would be sorted. As for central defence, if we don't feel like Ivanovic/Terry/Luiz/Cahill is enough, we can easily promote Christensen I believe. If we want someone of high calibre however, Mangala (Probably around £17m) or someone could come in. That's £27m spent. Now, reinforcement in midfield. Let's chuck in an experienced but still great De Rossi (£12m.) He'll play where Mikel currently plays. Also as he's a very good passer, there's no need to go out and buy an exclusive playmaker for the deep role. Partner him with Ramires. £29m spent. As for the striker, we can chuck anything between £15m - £40m-ish on Gomez, Lewandowski, Cavani, Falcao or whoever; or be brave and go with Lukaku. That brings our total to £29m - £69m depending on the striker situation, but to lower the total, I'll go with Lewandowski here and assume he'd cost around £23m. So we're at £52m. We then either loan out De Bruyne again or bring him in for the right-wing position. If he's loaned however, Moses isn't good enough to be our starting option there. Let's splash £15m on Sanchez or Di Maria If needed, £5m can be spent on contracts for handy free-agents as back-up, young talented players or whatever. We've also then got Kalas, Chalobah etc. all capable of coming in if needed. So let's put the final (well, at this point) total at £72m (If my maths has been right which I doubt a little bit.) We could potentially line-up with: Cech; Azpilicueta, Luiz, Mangala, Coentrao; Ramires, De Rossi; Sanchez, Mata, Hazard; Lewandowski On the bench we've then got something like: Blackman; Cole, Terry/Ivanovic; Romeu(?)/Lampard, Thiago/Oscar; Lukaku (if he stays)/Ba/Torres. Now our 'weakened' team in cups or vs. smaller teams could look something like:- Cech; Ivanovic, Cahill, Terry, Cole; Mikel, De Rossi/Lampard; Sanchez, Thiago, Hazard; Lukaku/Ba If Torres magically left however to some club like Atletico, I believe we'd get around £10-15m for him. If that were the case, our total expenditure would be:- £57m (Or even something in the £40m range if we put De Bruyne on the right and forget about Sanchez/Di Maria) It's a shame to have 0 British players in the Starting XI, but football is evolving. Deal with it. I should probably go play Football Manager now

Surely with a buy-out clause of £15m We, United, City, Arsenal, Milan, Inter, Tottenham perhaps, Dortmund(?) and even teams like Schalke and Leverkusen are interested. It really is a no-brainer. Who cares if we have a few midfielders already? Would you turn down Messi because we already have Torres, Ba and Lukaku in his position?

Look. We're rich as fuck as a club. He'd be a luxury signing but so what? The amount of money we'll gain and save from possible and definite departures of Marin, Malouda, Benayoun, Ferreira will help. Also, Turks are crazy. They love their national team players regardless where they play. Obviously it's a bit of a joke to mention this now, but I think we'd make a lot of kit sales with his name on the back from Turkish fans and he'd end it's all end up paying for itself. In fact no, from fans all over the globe. In January 2011, according to Wikipedia, he was voted the 3rd most popular player in Europe.

Would anyone say he's in the top 5 best left-backs in world football currently? If we were to do some proper scouting research (I mean us on the forum) and looked at every team in the Bundesliga, Ligue 1 etc, I think he wouldn't even get into our top 10. When he was at Benfica he was one of those top 5 players. Now he seems to have lost his self-confidence on the pitch and doesn't impose himself on games as much. IF Shaw is not an option however, I see this as our only realistic move for the left back position as he is indeed proven to an extent and has nice hair.

Liverpool: Begovic set to join Liverpool as Reina joins Barcelona soon apparently. Big upgrade. Downing set to leave for anything around £8m. Carroll likely to bring in around £15m with a move to West Ham United. I doubt all that much will be spent on Begovic and Stoke already have Butland as his replacement. Pool should have around £17m to play with at the end of those transfers above. They're also getting Kolo Toure on a free ffs. If invested wisely, I think next season will be their last season outside of the top 4 for a while.

I felt the midfield battle between RLC and Yaya Toure was quite even. RLC actually out-muscled Toure more whereas Toure was simply more intelligent at times and made a pass or move a split second quicker. Toure offered more going forward, as he always does, but RLC got around 8 or so very good tackles right in front of the defence after errors from the centre backs. If he was at Liverpool, Stoke, even Arsenal, I guarantee he'd already have double figure senior team appearances in all comps. He's good enough. I think it's been considered all season. He's our best midfield talent in the youth ranks in my opinion.

Today's 'big rumour' is that Ancelotti will take over at Real Madrid and demand - Neymar, Isco, Bale & Cavani He's apparently happy to let go of Modric (us?) and Higuain (Juventus?).

I don't like it right away because at the beginning it says the vast majority of supporters don't even know what he does, yet it's a supporter writing this article and thus the exact same could be applied to him. What an assumption for him to make. But after reading on - We're not headless chickens who know nothing about football and Emenalo is not a bloody scapegoat. Just because you point out the flaws in an U12 Girls Coach trying to lead transfers at one of the biggest clubs in world football doesn't mean he's a scapegoat. Gourlay gets equal berating from supporters but regarding different issues. But of course Big Ron isn't a scapegoat is he? I think what some of us fans say has more substance regarding the issue because we just say what we do know/presume, where-as this guy is writing as if he's on the Chelsea board and knows Emenalo's role inside out Much like Torres, arguably Mikel depending on who you ask, Bosingwa at the time and so-on, just because someone's at the club for a long period of time doesn't mean they're magically void of flaw and the people keeping them at the club are right

Mikel looks to be shit heading into the new season then