Kisho

I dont understand why there are those who are upset about Chelsea Football Club spending 50 odd million pounds on a player. It is not your money, why do you care?
Everyone wanted Jose, we got Jose, we trust Jose, it is clearly his decision, so let it be.
For the record, I think Cavani is world class and would be very grateful to see him play up front for my beloved Chelsea.

Torres should not frighten us from making a bid for this guy, Torres looking back at it was so obvious, the world cup he looked lost and the 6 months prior to his arrival he had one good game which was against Chelsea. There's nothing to suggest Cavani is on the wane any time soon.
2003 we got our fingers burned signing Mutu (£16m in 2003 was massive money) but did that stop us signing Didier Drogba for £24m a year later? now £24m back then is equal to as much if not more than what we will have to pay for Cavani.
To quote how much £24m was back then was what a friend who was a United fan said to me in 2007 (and that was 3 years after Drogba arrival) when Ronaldo was getting linked to a £35m move to Madrid "we should sell him, imagine how many players we can sign with £35m", would that be said today? no chance. Cavani would be no bigger risk than Drogba was considering the change in the market.
When Real Madrid took the £80m punt on Ronaldo, he only had one "£80m" season at United which was 2007/2008, he had two great season's inbetween but if it wasn't for 07/08 i doubt Madrid would have splashed out. Bayern Munich splashed out what roughly £40m on Javi Martinez (a defensive midfielder). Bayern fans were skeptical, thinking they wasted the money and what did they get? a player who has changed the face of their team.
We have changed our transfer model in recent times and that will stay regardless, this would be an exception, every top team has a marquee signing or two very half a decade, statements of intent like that are needed every now and again and this would be a serious statement of intent.
We will not survive this season with Lukaku, Ba and Torres, have we learned from last season? Torres is shit, Ba is a good squad player and Lukaku has a great future but he just isn't ready to lead the line for a team looking to win every trophy they enter. Lukaku will get his fair share of games, think of the cup and group stage games, midweek prem games, Cavani getting injured and Jose throwing two forwards on when games aren't going our way.
Cavani has scored 104 goals in 138 games in Naples, and he has just finished his best season yet (38 goals in 43 games). If we don't sign him there is a high chance City will and we will regret it for every single second he is at Eastlands, believe me. A world class forward (Cavani), an upcoming forward (Lukaku) and a reliable squad forward (Ba) is the ideal mix to deliver for us next season.
Make no mistake, this will be a huge statement of intent even more so than United signing RVP last season was. Ofcourse their is an element of risk to a big money transfer but it's very minimal with this one and you know what they say, no risk, no reward.

The board should offer Torres to all the rich clubs - Anzhi, Monaco, PSG etc

I want us to win this so that we can have another crack at UEFA super cup.

Is it time we give this lad a chance to play the #9 position? I believe Moses did so w/ Palace & Wigan.

Probably not good enough yet to be a starter at a club like Chelsea, even though I rate him higher than Torres and Sturridge as it is.

i will consider it

Well reading between the lines of last nights doc -it seems hes being readied as Fergusons replacement. Cant blame him who'd want to come here ? Guardiola will go to Man City at the end of the season , and we will have ...er Rednapp followed by Christian Gross, then Kean, then people from this forum

I just think Cavani would give us more options. Torres only seems to be able to score in 1 way. He needs the ball played perfectly at his feet and basically needs to be unmarked or he'll clumsily dribble straight into a defender and lose the ball. Can't really beat people with pace anymore, isn't technically gifted enough to consistently take players one on one, and isn't a threat in the air.Cavani can score in ANY way. He's an absolute terror to defenses much like Drogba. If we had a formation we could use with both of them partnered up front for certain matches, they'd run absolute riot, I'd think.

Di Matteo prepares final swoop for £35m Cavani with Hulk also lined up for Chelsea move
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2191876/Roberto-Di-Matteo-prepares-final-Edinson-Cavani-swoop.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

I think that it's Cavani + Moses Or only Hulk.

I think mikel-ramires will do well In the pivot. Lamps often leaves mikel for dead when he gets forward and we get hit on the counter, ramires has enough pace and energy to get forward and get back to help mikel

Free flowing football is great but it can't be to the detriment of our defence, balance is key

Honestly, I think we've got that "other" striker in Daniel Sturridge already. If Torres fails to produce next season, I'm confident Daniel can step up. Daniel can be just as good as Lewandowski, maybe even better IMO.
Guarantee you if Sturridge played for another team he'd cost £20m at least, and people would be courting about how we should sign him.

Love the fact that Modric has refused to travel with the 'Spuds' - and Daniel Levy and the 'Spuds' fans are outraged!
Last year he wanted to move, Levy promised him CL if he stayed.
Result: - No CL for the Spuds, therefore, under his agreement with the baboon Levy - Modric is entitled to leave, but as usual, the baboon is going back on his word, so Modric is doing the only thing he can, refuse to play...
Fair play to Modric - he lived up to his part of the bargain and THFC failed him...
And AVB speaking openly to the 'Press' about it, is just plain stupid - AVB will tear that dressing room to pieces! Can't wait...

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.

You realy think Oscar wont seat on the bench of Chelsea? please... far proven and better players have set on the bench of top teams. This argument is ridiclious, you have to know it. (and btw, i dont get how you realy think RDM will put Oscar and not Lampard in the starting line up.. is it wishfull thinking or something you realy belive in?)
Doesnt matter on which side the name "Hazard" is showen in the formation, football doesnt go like this anymore in most teams... when you have Mata and Hazard, you can be sure they will play all over the field- both of them will go right, left and central. Like Silva and Nasri.
Cavani and Torres are used to be lone strikers, that is correct, doesnt mean they cant play together. Its realy not convincing that you already decide that if Cavani comes Torres will sit on the bench, that is an info that doesnt get to you by the club i assume, so no need for that in a forum.
If we'll get Cavani, we wont need another winger. And about Bale, nothing wrong with him, he's just not on the same level of the players we are speaking about (Hulk, Cavani...).

Yes. His price, Levy and clubs from other leagues gave us no choice to sign him. I am actualy happy we wont get him, but Oscar instead. Half cheaper and could be our very own star-in-making.

Avb is the coach of tottenham and his first line of business is to launch a 30 mil +_ bid for moutinho. So I think modric will be sold. To expensive for man u and real don't want to pay full price and sahin does not wanna move besides everybody knows modric will be benched a lot. I think 35 mil bid for from chelsea could do it

35-40 mil will definitely get modric. Levy will sell to the highest bidder period . Sturridge + 20-25 mil would allow us to go after hulk or jovetic still.

Avb is the coach of tottenham and his first line of business is to launch a 30 mil +_ bid for moutinho. So I think modric will be sold. To expensive for man u and real don't want to pay full price and sahin does not wanna move besides everybody knows modric will be benched a lot. I think 35 mil bid for from chelsea could do it