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well then despite whatever people will say about Tottenham at heart being more bitter rivals than Arsenal, they're both incredible bitter rivals in the end and thus we should sell to the team that absolutely won't be getting a sniff of the title next season or the following 4 & are also obviously looking for a new goalkeeper

cool double-entendre, u should rush to copyright that

Arsenal has Arse in its name, Arsene has Arse in his name, they have Arse in their genes; let us be calm

what? this move is about HIS ambition to continue at a top club even if that means competing against us, it's nothing to do with his family, because if it was, he'd have signed for Fulham, Crystal Palace or any other Premier League London-based team today people are whining because he's CHOSEN to go to our biggest rival. he hasn't been 'forced' out of the club, he hasn't been forced to move to Arsenal; these are all choices he's made to the detriment of this football club which could have been avoided if his family stayed right where they are and he simply arrived at Selhurst Park instead of Stamford Bridge.

whatever. we had Cole in his prime. Cech is not in his prime. we have trophies. they have smaller ones. who cares.

tbh his goalscoring stats are no worse than Iniesta's and that's a player i'd compare him to; and be happy to have.

that'll solve his personal issue & reservations regarding the Turkish league being too inferior in quality to the Premier League. smart Demba.

i agree, we need someone good on paper, not good on the field

lots of love for everyone

He seems to be managed by an entire Turkish company who have pretty much every top Turk player on their books. Maybe the Twitter guy is part of that agent collective.

the other day before this was official https://twitter.com/Muzziozcan/status/614432085093273600

oh wow it seems real

his agent literally tweeted at half 1 about Chelsea with a wink emoji what professional does that? i wonder if it's really his agent; 23k followers for the record. https://twitter.com/Muzziozcan/status/615135080734965760

That look in his eyes of determination and focus is scary; i can see him tackling a sheep and biting into its belly before it can even 'bah!' to its comrades

we want him because he's exactly the opposite of that 2013 Spike needs to watch more Youtube compilations before making such audacious claims

are you absolutely sure about that?

Hazard needs a player who focuses on assisting him while he focuses assisting Diego; he'd be much more effective if he needn't assist himself for every goal; and that's why Turan would be useful IMO.

I hope he crashes and fails for no reason

Rewind and bring back a comment from a few pages ago since this is gaining a teeny bit of steam; if he's not fond of Atletico's pressing style, or it's wearing him out at least, how on earth would he cope here? are we thinking we'll plop him in the hole where Oscar is, delete everything Jose has said of Oscar being important to us next season & change our style to be slightly more passive with a technically superior player? i dont see how this transfer works logically despite being an advocate of the player.

look at all the people agreeing with u You start off right. Kakuta was higher rated. but right now Pogba is higher rated than Ronaldo and probably Hazard too. does that mean he's better? no. has he been better than either of them? no. I said Musonda is the most talented we've had. Whatever hype was associated with Kakuta and whatever high expectations were placed on him due to media is irrelevant to that. Fool.

Loaned to Vitesse

We quite obviously haven't had someone this talented in our youth ranks ever, unless you want to count Terry and Kakuta like a fucking fool

so why didn't we sell him to Tottenham? obviously a team somewhere in the world will have bid for Lloris & they'd bite our hands off to have Cech; they wouldn't be contenders to us and he'd still be in London. why didn't he push to stay in London at a good ol' team on the up like Crystal Palace? It is absolutely inexcusable to move to Arsenal from Chelsea. who the fuck does that? No legends do.

I can think of better defensive midfielders but not any better 'anchors' per se

Nope. Everyone from that crop of La Masia youngsters have something special trained into them, which is why Oriol found his footing in the Prem easier than most foreign youngsters would at his age, and the same went for Gerard. You'd expect to pay more for a prospect from Chelsea's academy with 0 appearances, than you'd expect to pay for a Burnley academy prospect with 0 appearances, and there's plenty of reasons behind that, the main one being the fact they've been around coaches & players that are better than those at 95% of other clubs, and are thus likely to have more up their sleeve than your average Joe. In most cases, you pay a man more if he graduated from Harvard rather than if he graduated from his local college, right? You'd certainly fork out a higher fee to acquire them; simply because they were trained somewhere better.