Tricky

If this is what you choose to believe then that's fine. I'd argue that players only move to these places at the end of thier careers, and not neccessarily all of them. Don't see many genuine world class players going to china for the big bucks during the height of thier careers.

If and it's a big IF we bought Cavani we would have to sell Torres. He won't play second fiddle again and I'm sure his £175k a week wages are something the club would be looking to off load for a bench warmer. "In Nando I trust", think he Sturridge and Lukaka are good enough to cover the one striker spot in our squad.

This lad reminds me of Ronaldo (actually think he is a better dribbler) pre united. Lots of amazing skill but very little end product. Having said that I'd bite your arm off for him. Fast, low centre of gravity, not easy to knock of the ball and skill to burn. If you could develope his end product think you would have a CR7.2 on your hands.

This lad reminds me of Ronaldo (actually think he is a better dribbler) pre united. Lots of amazing skill but very little end product. Having said that I'd bite your arm off for him. Fast, low centre of gravity, not easy to knock of the ball and skill to burn. If you could develope his end product think you would have a CR7.2 on your hands.

Not sure I agree, the location, climate and success of the club would play a major roll in any decision. If it was all about the wedge everyone one be playing in China or the middle east!

This is a done deal, but it makes sense for us not to sign until after the Olympics. Can you imagine if he broke his leg and was out for 9 months? It's just good practice to wait till he is available to train and play for us.

You realize people can develope friendships with ppl whilst working together don't you?

Why is it that when ever Chelsea come a calling clubs add 10-15 million to a players fee. Podolski was half the reported 30 million price!!! Just look at the Modric farce, RM won't spend more than £27 million yet we were offering 40!! I'm glad we are starting to tell clubs where to go.

Do you remember Drogbas first season at Chelsea? I do, I remember him being through on goal three times in one match and missing all three. Look how that turned out for us. I'm backing Nando because of his ability, ability he displayed for the best part of a decade with Athletico and Liverpool. And I'm backing our youth because they deserve the chance to actually play a few games and develope.

Don't be a donut, Mata performs at the highest lvl of club football, Oscar though talented plays in an inferior league. It's not a fair assessment.

WOW!! Stop buying into the media BS. If you believe everything there saying we have bid for at least a dozen players this summer. I mean at the moment media are reporting: £35 million fr Cavani £27 million willian £25 million for Oscar £7 million for Cesar Last week it was £35 million for Modric £38 million for Hulk £6 million for Maicon £20 million for Schurle It's crap, it's crap designed to sell rag papers.

Going to enjoy bumping this thread when Nando hits 20 league goals next year. Give the guy a break, at his best he used to single handedly tear us a new one when ever he played against us. He wasn't great last year, but then baring a few UCL games neither was Drogba. In fact Drogba wasn't that great the season before either. Cavani is a great footballer, but I'm most definitely backing our three existing strikers for the season ahead. I mean if we don't start trusting and developing our youth players you'll find future talent won't sign for us.

City and United typically start with two out of the four strikers in there starting eleven. I doubt this is our intention given the number of attacking midfielders in the current squad. If we have an additional striker like Cavani you can kiss goodbye to Lukaka and Sturridge as they would be wanting regular first team football.

Read between the lines. We have three strikers and I've posted this in a Cavani thread! ?

Torres, Lukaka and Sturridge ( he has always been a striker. If we sign Cavani that's 4 fighting for one place. What's the point in that? Besides we have squad limitations for most competitions of 25, of which x amount must be comprised from HG talent. People seem to offer this when they talk about buying new talent.

Do you remember how bad Drogba was in his first 18 months? And Sturridge was converted to play as a winger last year, he has played CF most of his career. We don't need 4 strikers for one starting position, only going to undermine squad harmony.

100% agree, shall have additional games (world club cup, euro super cup) which is going to require additional rotation. And at times last year (and under carlo) we simply made the same subs every game through necessity rather than for tactical reasons. Our squad was thread bare, strength inf in all areas can only be a good for thing for future success.

Yeah I'm thrilled with that, replaces Malouda, Kalou and Anelka with some very promising talent. I'm putting my faith in Torres, Sturridge and Lukaku so only a right back to replace Boswinga and we are good to go. Board have really impressed me in the close season, keeping RDM on for the minimum of a year was a master stroke.

Malouda and Benayoun are leaving and Piazon is not going to be a starter. Ramirez and KDB are more likely to play in CM. really leaves only three genuine attacking midfielders.

Intresting could buy him and Oscar for the price of hulk!

Urban dictionary says its a black perdon pretending to be white. For me to infer a difference between two people based purely on their ethnic background is racism. How does one pretend to be white? Do white people behave differently to other people? Is the colour of thier skin the cause? So much is wrong with that statement from Rio but he is far to ignorant to see the statement for what it is. TWAT!!!

Roman pre FFP maybe, think our recent transfer policy has shifted to take that into consideration. Said it before but this deal with wages and fees could easily hit £80 million. That's a lot of cheese....

I stand by my comments, I think a players value is based on several things, ability, contract length, competion being a few of the more inportant ones. In the case of Mata we had no competition for his signature and Valencia needed cash. In Hazards case he wanted to leave, they had no financial reason to sell and there was stiff competition for a very talented player. In hulks case Porto need the cash and there is no competition. It is a unique stand alone deal and because of that I think a fairer price would be £25-28 million. Asking for £38 million plus is an outrageous fee, and I'm glad the club are now looking elsewhere.

If we sign Oscar this deal is as good as dead. Can't see the club spending over £100 million on players. Not unless they offload a few.

Guy is not worth £35 million. Hazed was £32 mil and his price was inflated because of the competition for his signature, nobody else wants Hulk. Glad we are finally playing hard ball, paying stupid money for players should be left to City, Madrid and PSG.