Reddish-Blue

France has a number of good, young defenders...but you have to be willing to pay a high price for them. If you're only going to spend 5 to 6 million, you'll keep on signing rubbish players like Djilobodji.

I thought the release clause was for clubs participating in the Champions League...

Totally agree with your points, in my opinion, our transfer priorities should be: 1) New CB - Koulibaly would be nice 2) New CM - Radja would be awesome...but I'm not sure if he'll leave Italy 3) A clinical finisher in attack...as neither Oscar or Willian are great in that aspect. 4) One youngster to be given a chance as midfield backup (Chalobah has shown he can play the holding midfield role, Ake can play LB or midfield as well) *I'm holding out hope that Conte can develop Baba into an all-round better player...

If I remember correctly, Radja said that he liked playing for Roma and living in Italy. He's been living in Italy (playing in Serie A) since ~2006.. Maybe he doesn't want to uproot his family and leave his friends behind for a move to England? It's not easy settling down in a new country, just look at Cuadrado. He didn't look like a confident player at Chelsea but as soon as he went back to Italy, he regained his confidence and played a key role in Juventus winning the title... (Just to clarify, I would love to see Radja play for Chelsea, he's exactly what we need in midfield alongside Matic, but I don't see him leaving Italy for England, who knows, maybe Hazard can convince him during the Euros!)

He wasn't great but he wasn't bad either. If I was going to sign a CB from Roma, it would not be Rudiger, it would be Kostas Manolas (even though he would cost 35+ million). He seems to be the more refined, better at passing the football.

It's better to get business done early...otherwise you end up overspending (example: Torres).

Just what we need, another 30+ year old in defense...

In the article, it mentions "The Sun" Generally speaking, The Sun is probably one of the worst sources of information

Buy back clauses only work if the original transfer fee is low (below 15 million). I would much rather see Chelsea start using sell-on clauses with some of these youngsters, that way, we are guaranteed some money if the player lives up to their potential and earns a move to a big club.

Unfortunately, we're stuck with Baba.

He's quality, I honestly wish we went after him instead of Baba. He'll probably end up at City or Liverpool as their both looking for a LB

Good to see him doing well for England's U20/U21 team. Hope he finds a spot in Chelsea's midfield next season

I would say Suarez and Aguero (top-tier) then Lewa, Costa and Benzema.

Problem is, no starting quality CB is moving in January to a club in 13th place and potentially no UCL football next season.

Ambition? He's won it all at Chelsea, he's represented Brazil 50+ times in a 6 year period. It's not like he forced the move to China, he just wanted playing time and his agent got him a nice contract.

I just want to see Kenedy and RLC play. Rest of the team picks itself.

12 million for Townsend? Daniel Levy must be celebrating at the moment

We can also forget about signing a quality manager in the summer...

Interesting if it happens. Pato in, Remy out (apparently he wants a loan move by deadline day)

Hopefully this means RLC is the first option off the bench..

Just what we need another washed-up attacker. He'll be as effective as Falcow has been

You make some good points but at the end of the day, Chelsea has 6 wins out of 22 league games (which is beyond pathetic for the defending champions) Footballing quality isn't that important right now, what we need is leaders to step up, grind out 2-3 consecutive wins and bring back the fear factor!

He could have taken the Roma job for a few months.

Matic has been awful this season. If we're going to clear out players in the summer, he should go (along with Ramires).

I don't like Costa's antics either but he's the only 20-goal-a-season striker we have. Martinez is over-rated, he was a big-fish in a small pond at FC Porto.