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Oh ok. Maybe there's hope yet... But with mikel now staying I'm not sure any reinforcements are coming

I've always supported this move because of the size and box to box energy he can give us in the big games with better passing than ramires, and will be cheap too. But I know this is fake news, the ship has sailed.

It's not as if he's not motivated, but Ake has always been a better performer to me in the midfield from games I've watched from both. I feel if Ake was taller he would have been given the same opportunity.

It's probably to Marseille

He has the natural technique to succeed, but let's hope he can develop his physical aspect and show determination.

Needs more technique, especially as he's not a high energy workhorse or workrate player. Can't afford to have none of the two

Our first pre-season game but our finishing was woeful as usual. Griezmann, Reus, Pedro on the right can solve this. Holding the ball against pressing teams with ramires playing is a disaster if either fabregas or Matic gets injured. Witsel, aranguiz, javi Martinez will solve this. But we're happy with what we have... Let's hope our first team starters don't injure.

When our first team midfield isn't playing, I fear for our lives in the Champions League. We still lack players who are good under pressure except hazard.And like I've always said, we have poor finishing in our team we need more goalscoring finishers in the line-up. That's the only reason I was in support of pedro coming here but we seem to be satisfied with what we have...

Exactly. When it becomes a mistake, is when fabregas or hazard goes off injured then we have to depend on willian and ramires to create chances for us. Mourinho has completely forgot about the term injury.. When it comes, our team is not prepared for the consequences. Costa getting injured and never completing 2-3 straight matches from February till may and we couldn't score goals anymore. I'm hoping we don't have any injuries to our starting lineup because our bench midfielders options are crap

Exactly. If he stays in our squad next season, he could be the finisher we've been looking for. He's already among our top five finishers (yes he's as good a finisher as hazard)

He's so good in the first half of every season. He'll actually have a shot at our player of the season if he knew how to maintain that level after January.

Lmao why?

It would be a good signing if its finally done. We would at least solve the problem of our centerbacks afraid to stay higher because they are BOTH too slow.

You underestimate that our team. No team from last season will beat that team easily, if at all. We turned world class strikers to rubbish against us.I know targets are not easy this season but we can try harder. We need another goalscorer to complement for when Hazard and Costa are marked. Why not bid for reus /Griezmaan?? Last season we went without hazard getting injured. Just imagine if hazard or fabregas gets injured for long spells, who in our team can replace any of the chances/goals/assists they create from midfield??? In the Champions League, PSG just put Verratti on Hazard and the rest of our team couldn't create chances for shit or stop them from creating their own. We need another high level winger and we're still playing financial fair play games while our rivals are throwing millions on their targets. It may be difficult to get players this window but we're certainly not doing enough. We're too relaxed imo. I said I'll be fine if we promote our youth players if we are not buying again, but this will come at a price of our improvement in the Champions League (especially from Mourinho's speech) it doesn't mean I don't know what we need to be a force in Europe again. Having some youth like traore and RLC take up cuadrado and mikel minutes isn't bad in this scenario...

Trust me, my ambition for Chelsea is for us to get as strong and dominant in world football as we used to be from 2004-2007 We used to be favourites in the Champions League and no one in Europe wanted to face Chelsea. Last season it was obvious in our desire for our team to improve during the summer transfer period. For some reason we have relaxed this time. Even after frustrating a lot of fans by selling cech to Arsenal, I thought they'd appease us by trying to bid for more quality players. I'm just saying that this quietness is only acceptable if we get some youth team players promoted into the starting line-up.

This is what Mourinho said yesterday This seems like he's satisfied and doesn't want new improved players. Imo from how we suffered in the big games last season, we have no chance in the Champions League with our current team. But we can easily beat the smaller teams till we win the league, Mourinho can still do his magic of not losing to any of the top four contenders and we still have a big chance of retaining the title. I wanted the board to appease us fans for selling cech to Arsenal buy buying a marquee player, just like they got fabregas when lampard went to city, but it seems nothing will happen. So I'll derive some joy if I see traore and RLC come through. Traore is a goalscoring attacking player which can help us, and I don't see anything mikel can do that RLC can't if given the same minutes mikel got last season.

Lol we're not getting anyone unless we sell from what I've noticed. Except the slow centerbacks problem solved by buying stones, it's as if it'll be the same. No problem if it means traore and RLC get games next season. I'm willing to forget we sold cech to Arsenal and I'm willing to reduce my champions League expectations if we get some young youth players through.

Stones is a good defender, and he's english. Let's get him before we get to a point where we have no english players in our starting lineup. 26mil + a player on loan should do it. English players are the most expensive because of the homegrown quota, especially if you approach a club who don't need to sell (Carroll, Sterling, welbeck )

Exactly my mind. And also our slow centerbacks preventing us from staying high up in big games due to fear of pacey forwards. If we don't buy or bid for any player soon, it means for some reason we just want to remain as we were last season, even after the woeful champions League performance and poor big matches.

Not yet. It'll only happen after the election in my opinion

This is precisely why we need to strengthen our team. We need a goalscoring winger and a box to box midfielder for big teams right now. Not waiting till January. Everyone doesn't want to bid for reus for some strange reason, so the only possible available right winger keeps falling back to pedro. Our hands are tied...

Fantastic signing

I don't know if we are really in for him, but this explains why it'll be a good deal.

Manutd with a midfield of Herrera - Schneiderlin - Schweinsteiger Is already as good as our midfield of Fabregas - Matic - oscar Mourinho factor could still guarantee us the league, but the gap is growing thin. Hope we at least get players to make us big teams killers again.

Until people come to accept this fact that Bale, reus, Griezmann, Isco and Sterling are all not available then they'll realize the only realistic right winger that is an upgrade on willian is pedro. I mean even bayern bought Douglas Costa and Barcelona bought Arda Turan.... He also has strength on the ball not to fall and is completely two footed like Carzola. He has the workrate Mourinho craves too. I would love griezmann, but I'm not willing to take another Schurrle/Mata/KdB gamble of a player who plays very well behind the striker only to turn to shit on the right.