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Havertz is worth over 100 million pounds, broja about 50 million, aubameyang is 33years and cost only 20 million+. The value is determinant. If havertz gets injured aubameyang will be a great support for broja. We had numerous injuries in attack last season.Aubameyang isn't a conventional no. 9 and will also provide support for Sterling and mount when on the wings. Look at what our closest competitors last season spurs have got in attack (kane, son, kulisevski, richarlison, perisic, moura) for 3 positions, highly experienced. With Werner and Lukaku gone we lack experience from the bench and there's a world cup mid season so starters will burn out surely. Competing for EPL, UCL and world cup in one year is crazy for players like mount, havertz and Sterling who give everything on the pitch so they will need rest and aubameyang can replace all three.

Right personnel but wrong formation i think. This is most probably our line up against Hull ---------------------Courtois------------------------- Azpi----------Cahill--------Luiz-----------Alonso --------------Kante---------Matic------------------- Willian----Hazard-----Diego Costa----Moses I think its a 4-2-4, our first time to use it from the start in the league. I like this setup because it takes only a substitution of either moses or willian to change to the 3-4-3 which we used in the second half vs Arsenal

Aye!!! Are we signing everyone now?

It actually does bcoz he will be 4th or 5th striker. You have benzema, ronaldo, bale, jesse and morata. ronaldo or bale is moved to no.9 when benzema is injured. With the introduction of isco, james or vasquez on the wing as replacement. So morata may be a no.9 but he is competing with forwards more experienced than him.

No one is selling costa and he is our no. 1 striker. Having costa, morata and batshuayi could give us one of the best strike force in EPL for years to come. Imagine if we had signed a young suarez or aguerro or torres before his peak. Now we have such an opportunity even after a rotten season. This imo is an opportunity to have two amongst the worlds best young strikers in batsman and morata. We are as good as certain to sign a midfielder and a defender. We should spend up to 150m pounds after all we also have fringe players to sell to reduce our net spend.

After finishing 10th in EPL and setting so many negative records i dont mind us signing morata who has proved himself on the biggest stage at an early age for a huge fee because we need to react after a rotten season. If he leads us to UCL final like mandzukic at bayern and juve i wouldnt mind. Its unproven players like andre gomes that i do not want us to overpay for. Look how much manu have and are still spending in desperation since end of fergie era. We realistically need to spend at all costs on proven players or players with pedigree to get back up.

I pray we dont spend such money on any player this window. No available player is worth that 85m euros in this transfer window pogba inclusive and andre gomes is certainly not worth 53m euros. We dont even need him imo we have loftus cheek. kante and koulibaly are players we must sign, morata would be ok only at 40m pounds or less. We should wait for next window the right player might become available at reasonable price hopefully by then we will be laughing at manu and city with their so called big money signings flopping hard ala torres, sterling, luke shaw (so far).

while he shares some similarities to wilfried bony i think batsman is faster, more mobile, likes to use his strength and dribbles more. I also see similarities to obafemi martins, the nigerian striker formerly at inter milan and newcastle united. But batsman has more finesse and composure

^^^Still injured

I think he will also be one of the players to benefit the most from pedro signing. His goals and assists will surely increase. Willian however will be an important option in away games especially or when oscar is tired or not in good form. Any update on his injury?

you may pick out the comas and full stop from my posts but many still believe had drogba not been sent off in ucl final against manutd and played john terry's penalty which he would have done we would have won that game, so giving an important player of your opposition a red card in a big game is ofcourse a big impact usually but my main point is that for his age such stat is a B+ or more when you look around the league and see that arsenal have not scored us in 2 seasons(2 yrs.) and man united have scored us only 2 goals in that period.....so i say yes bcoz some will do most things to have such stats in big games even without considering his age.

2 goals and a superb performance for a 20 yr old against a great juve midfied isn't bullocks. Others include a goal and 2 assists against spurs, 3 assists against manutd, 2 goals against arsenal, a goal and 2 assists against liverpool, won a penalty against PSG and also got Ibra sent off in UCL. All these in the last 3 yrs and while he is only 23 yrs and below in the toughest league in the world. I think his career is actually just starting. If no one criticizes or talks about you that means you are nobody....criticism is very welcome.

Unofficially isn't binding...anyway mourinho gave him his debut and regards him highly or he would be on loan. Costa is undoubtedly first Choice.

I think traore is like a new signing and going forward he is a much better fit than pedro for the EPL and chelsea. Let's not forget pedro is quite small and will be mostly used against smaller clubs to provide penetration and not in big games therefore we do not really need him since we found several ways of winning small clubs last season. Mourinho has been looking for a player like traore for the right wing and I think he is happy we have such a player now. You only have to see how much man utd signed memphis depay(£25m?) to really appreciate that we have him. He is younger than depay and was a class act for vitesse a team with less talented players than PSV. Traore has better attributes than most of the wingers we are linked with. He is very strong, tall, skillful, left footed, scores goals and is quite fast. He is built to specification and I think he can play in the very big games as well such as against mancity because he already plays for his national team (burkina faso). To be honest there are not many wingers or forwards that are this complete, he will be a special player for us for a long time and he is ready to compete. I also think we are really strong with him in the team as below. This is another genius buy from mourinho just like drogba. -------Ramires----Matic Traore-----Fabregas----Hazard ---------Costa/Falcao ------Fabregas---Matic Traore-----Oscar-------Hazard -------Costa/Falcao -------Fabregas----Matic Traore-----Willian-----Hazard ---------Costa/Falcao

Mourinho only wants one more signing, a defender...according to sky sports news

I think some people don't have a total view of how good our team is....fortunately Mourinho does. Bringing big name signings that are not really needed can only disrupt the flow of this already great squad. A central defender, a left back if luis goes, a high scoring right winger plus a quality central midfielder are all that we need. But we are not desperate by any means so we only replace when somebody leaves and mourinho knows this because looking at the profile of our team which is still young we don't need older players to come in and disrupt our growing team so naturally as a result of being proactive these days we have a young scoring forward in traore, a young midfielder in loftus-cheek, and we are working on stones for CB and also baba for LB if luis leaves which fits perfectly with the profile of our young and improving team and doesn't cause any disruption. Mourinho already knows this is a great team that can improve a lot because they are young but they are f****** great because we lost only two games in EPL (not counting westbrom because we were already champions) and a record four losses in all competitions beating the record set by the greatest man utd team ever and winning two trophies to show for it. Compared to three seasons before, our team is in heaven but still young with mourinho willing to go through the rigours of training them and making the best out of them to last for a decade rather than buying experienced mercenaries for short term. I have to say am in love with mourinhos football brain. I hate it when people use madrid as a template and if people were really humans they would see that madrid are now like the proverb all that glitters is not Gold....mostly spoil and ungrateful fans booing their legends when ever they have a bad spell...surely even Sir alex ferguson would have been sacked as madrid boss especially with player power and politics that thrive there hence the 3rd season syndrome some posters are suggesting is merely phantom and as mourinho stated earlier this is the first time in his career he is building for the long term he therefore requires long term strategy while delivering achievable success at the present. This project is different for him and so far I'd give him an 8/10.

And if he doesn't perform according to your godly standards what would you do? Break his legs??

^^^Are you haterz the new coach or the board or a f****** legend like pele who this lad has his respect and even spends time with.Stop overblowing your amateur opinions for too long it spoils this forum.

The kid has grown a beard. He is a unique player and I hope to see him develop further this season.

Well....I did not actually think of it that way but now that you've brought it to light it seems so in a funny way because since the 90's as I can remember we've had babayaro,weah,jimmy floyd, desailly, drogba, willian, zouma and lots of those kinds of players it would actually seem strange in the modern chelsea to not see more than a couple of black players like in barca for example or madrid to a lesser extent. So in that light I'd say black is quite typical with chelsea although I wasn't consciously trying to reflect so in my initial post.

Mehn....signing this guy is a must because he has chelseafc written all over him he is strong, fast, black and the best part is he is a prolific forward. He cld play on our right and is capable of standing in for hazard on the left when injured. I like isco and pedro they are close to world class but this guy is more profilic, stronger, may be even faster and cheaper too. What is mourinho waiting for?. We have signed ligue 1 POTY like malouda, essien and hazard who are all hits for chelsea lacazette will be no different. I really want him here.

Oscar is a far better player than arda turan was at 24yrs. Nevertheless an experienced turan and young oscar will be nice to have.

Welcome....I believe without doubt that mourinho can bring the best out of Falcao just like he did with Diego milito at inter milan

If we can add falcao, Gundogan, Douglas costa and an experienced CB that would be next to perfect for me.

Save your strength for this sort of explanations have been posted on several threads including this one but haters will always be. I think this hatred from some people started because mata was sold and they blame it on mourinho's like for oscar which is quite juvenile as mata was sold because he did not fit mourinho's profile of a no. 10. Instead of some fans to be happy that we incorporated oscar in our team at the tender age of 20 which is the next best thing to having a player from our academy being upgraded into our team which has rarely happened instead they want mourinho to sell him when he is obviously our most established young outfield player below 24 years and that's really silly because we could be making the same mistake man u did with pogba, madrid with morata. As a chelsea fan I will love to see him stay until he is at least 25 years. But as a fan of oscar I know he will be so good at juventus if he goes there and right now juve are a stronger team than chelsea. Its a win win situation.