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Who's going to offer huge money (apart from Manchester City) if they know the likes of Sanchez, Ozil can leave on a free transfer at the end of the season. The likes of Bayern Munich will be waiting with open arms for both of them (Ozil going back to Bundesliga, Sanchez potentially playing with his national buddy and winning titles both domestically and in europe, the storylines are just waiting to happen)

As expected. Why would Wenger want to strengthen a rival for a top-4 place?

1 out of 6 is better than 0 out of 6. I get the feeling that this will either be a 1-1 draw or some crazy scoreline like 5-3...

If Conte isn't getting his transfer targets, there has to be a reason. If he's being stubborn about signing 31 year olds who are too slow for the pace/intensity of the premier league, then I agree with the board's stance. We should be targeting players in the 24-27 age group as we have enough 'veterans' in the team (Luiz, Cahill, Fabregas, Pedro, Willian are all in that 29-32 age bracket)

We should just ask Atletico for one of their spare midfielders as part of the Costa deal.

Walker isn't a loss for Spurs as they already have ready-made replacements in Trippier and the young Walker-Peters.

How has Poch been screwed over? He gets to keep all of his players at the club and their is still time to add 1-2 decent players as depth. As for Klopp, he only lacks options at CB. At least Liverpool signed depth at the LB, Striker spots.

What's crazy is the fact that we couldn't keep Chalobah/Baker at the club as 3rd choice midfielder, even though everyone knew Matic was leaving. The Fabregas - Kante partnership was always destined to fail as their skillsets are incompatible. One's a runner, the other is a passer...but there is no linker/thinker in the middle of the park.

The Sandro to Chelsea door closed a long time ago. Juventus won't sell two top-class defenders in the same transfer window. It's interesting that out of the top 6 premier league sides, Chelsea is the only side who became weaker in the transfer window. Spurs lost no-one, United lost no-one & got Matic, City lost no-one, gained 3-4 quality players, Arsenal lost no-one, gained a striker & Liverpool are in the same position as they were last season.

The source is: http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/840619/Chelsea-Transfer-News-Antonio-Conte-Virgil-van-Dijk-Drinkwater-Oxlade-Chamberlain-Cancelo

Aurier is still blocked from entering the UK and that's part of the reason why United haven't finalized the deal with PSG yet. Ghoulam would be a nice signing but I don't see Napoli letting go of a quality player this late in the window.

Do you really think the club is going to spend 25+ million on a backup striker?

If you're a young manager, you would take the risk at Chelsea. Worst thing that could happen is you'll be sacked in a few months and a nice payout (e.g. Villas-Boas).

Let's be realistic, Tottenham won't sell Rose to Chelsea and I doubt Chelsea are gonna spend 50 million on a defender anytime soon. If we really needed competition, why not just pay Southampton for Bertrand. He's PL proven, knows the club, homegrown, generally 7/10 player, wouldn't cost a fortune.

The key for that match was Matic. He may not have been dominating like the 2014/15 season but on his day, Matic can produce special performances. I'll never understand why we sold such a crucial player to a title rival without signing a fit and ready replacement.

Cuadrado, Begovic, RLC, Chalobah, Matic, Aina, Zouma, Traore. From my count, it's 8 players who were part of the first team squad at Chelsea (last season or previous seasons). People crying out for depth...we had depth (Chalobah for CM/DM, Cuadrado for RW/RWB, Traore for ST/Wing) but the club preferred not to keep these players.

Arsenal were never looking for a technical director, it was a like smokescreen to give Wenger time and space.

Can't really blame anyone for writing off Chelsea. 2 key players lost, leadership lost in dressing room, young replacements (with no premier league experience), no first choice striker, best player injured for a while. Hopefully Conte works his magic and manages to keep Chelsea on the right track until Hazard's return Expecting a 2-1 win for Chelsea.

It only makes sense IF Conte wasn't impressed by him throughout pre season. Musonda, Boga and Christensen seem to be 'part' of the first team and they were all mentioned by Conte at least once during pre season....as for Baker, I don't really recall him being mentioned.

Honestly, Pato wouldn't be a bad signing as 4th striker/backup attacking midfielder...considering we have no depth.

Hopefully one of our attackers step up...as I'm not sure if we can break down a bus without Hazard

It'll be more like: Some unknown wingback, Drinkwater, Barkley and Llorente on deadline day.

Agree with the quote. Conte helped Chelsea win the title and he just lost two key players (both of them would fit into any other EPL side) in the same transfer window. Either back him in the transfer market or watch him walk away.

Hopefully Morata scores early on in the season...otherwise the media will have a field day with Torres 2.0

That sounds great in theory. But in reality, Bale has already said multiple times that he would never ruin his history with Tottenham by moving to a rival.