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You don't sell Hazards unless you have to. They're not players who are abundant. He's a potential ballon d'or and the truth is that any club looking to buy him right now would have to start at the world record transfer fee and maybe go up to €100 million.

Very nicely timed there. Congrats and all the best for you and your's.

This is the thing about Luiz and arguments that support him - people meander from talking about him as a midfielder and defender too easily. You talk about the way we defend not suiting him but then talk up his performances as a midfielder. When you talk about his 'deep defensive position' do you mean CB or DM? Are PSG buying a defender or midfielder here? I think you're right that our system does require defenders to do the basics consistently and that is a problem for Luiz. He'll shine for PSG because the French league is far weaker.

Gundogan has been out for a year, but Kroos is hardly a defensive workhorse is he? Fabregas is a nice player but I simply don't think he has the mentality that Jose wants. He doesn't have that fire that Jose craves from his players which is why I think that any transfer for him is unlikely. To me he's a bottle-job....perfect for Arsenal.

The thought of getting him for £10-15 million 18 months ago would've been astounding to me. I don't think I could convince myself to think this would be a great deal now but let's be honest - the past 12 months haven't been a fair reflection of who he really is as a player. United was the absolute wrong move for him and they managed him poorly, but no-one came out of that season looking good. He'll be a decent player for someone and part of me wonders if he could still do that DM job alongside Matic, but that ship has probably sailed.

I hope Lampard stays and I think he's needed at the club right now with Cole almost certainly gone and Cech possibly having a smaller role. Van Ginkel's absence was weirdly unnoticed by most people outside the club, but he could be a real surprise next season. I think Ramires hangs around because he has a unique skillset. Chalobah has a chance to impress in the summer and I'm hoping he does enough - I'd give him the number 4 shirt right now actually. I think we'll sign someone else but it won't be a Kroos or Rakitic or Fabregas. Be interesting to see what happens with Pasalic as well. Could go to the World Cup, could get a few weeks training here, could be loaned out. Wouldn't put it past Jose to surprise people and include someone a bit younger next season.

I agree that's the type of profile Jose seems to want there. Athletic players who can contribute at both ends like Matic or Modric. Fabregas has always seemed a bit powderpuff to me, closer to someone like De Bruyne. More chance of us going for Song than Fabregas in my opinion.

Matic, Lampard, Van Ginkel, Ramires, Chalobah + A.N.Other

It's only fair that we should get £50 million for a defender like Luiz when we paid £50 million for a striker like Torres. #karma. (The chances of us getting much more than £35 million are fantastically remote but it's a profit on a player we don't actually need).

I do sometimes wonder what type of 'banter' I'm sometimes missing out on by my amazing ability to ignore Twitter. I guarantee that no-one worth giving a fuck about cares about our training kit being light blue. Do you know how I know this?? Because it's a training kit. No-one has ever cared about a training kit for the simple fact that it's a training kit.

He doesn't say that. Again, listening to the interview rather than reading comments out of context really doesn't make me feel all that outraged. He's massively complimentary about Cech and seems to be making a case for not coming back rather than demanding to start. Do people actually expect him to say that he would be happy simply playing the Cup games? Oh wait, people want boring automatons who don't say anything no matter how bland their comments actually are. Even the Mail can't be bothered to sensationalise those comments http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2635282/Thibaut-Courtois-does-not-want-Chelseas-cup-keeper-hopes-talks-Jose-Mourinho.html That's essentially what he is saying.

Nothing he has said in that interview is out of order. He's massively respectful to the club, to the fans and to Cech. There's this strange desire in modern society to find something to be offended by, to make mountains out of molehills. There needs to be a collective unbunching of panties.

Here's his comments in full. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01zhnm5 Personally I think he sounds very respectful towards the club and Cech. He's very complimentary and the way I inferred it was that he thought Cech would maybe stick around whilst he didn't return next season. To me he doesn't sound like this monstrous ego demanding to be given the first-team shirt, but simply recognises the problems that having two top-class keepers brings.

His comments are so innocuous that you have to respect the effort that those who are feigning offence are putting in. Seriously, he could've said so many worse things yet the only (barely) contentious thing he said was that he and Cech wouldn't want to play second fiddle to one another. That's in the same interview that he said Cech was a legend and one of the best in the business. The nerve of the man.

Personally I've never gotten over Jose lying about his team selection prior to the Barca game in 05. What type of manager isn't honest with his team selection and tactics before a match? This whole David Luiz thing is just another example. He should start the season by being totally upfront with the media and opposition managers about his intentions regarding team selection and tactics.

What an overreaction to a few innocuous comments from an ambitious sportsman who is saying what most of us have been saying for months. Going by form he's the better keeper so why would he want to leave a club who could possibly be European champions to sit on the bench behind a guy whose form has been declining ever since he was European champion?

Took that goal superbly. He's a proper poacher in the box.

Best goalkeeper in the Premier League last season. The argument about Courtois benefitting from our defence could quite easily have been made about Cech in his time here. Fortunately Courtois will come into another team with a strong defence next season. If he had been here this season then he may well have already claimed the shirt because Cech was pretty ordinary at times. Am I the only person who sees nothing wrong with what he's said?

Luis? He'll be 29 and he's proven at the top level. I'd like to see us develop a few of the youngsters like Kalas and Zouma next season so we could do with a bit more experience whilst giving time to a few of the other young lads in the academy.

That's a fair point, but the club have said they want to bring through their own youngsters...punting £30 million plus £100K wages (more than Terry, Cahill, Matic, Azpi and even Lamps are reported to be on) just doesn't fit our model.

How good could Jay Dasilva be in your opinion?

This has got to be the most bizarre story of the transfer window so far, but there's absolutely no chance of us getting him. This all seems to be engineered to get him a move to Barcelona. Bluemoon is in meltdown too. Literally less than two weeks after winning the league title and one of their best players has come out with this...what a cunt. Hilarious but still, come on. http://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=301818&start=2510

Dom Solanke and Izzy Brown should both feature in the u17 Final against the Netherlands this evening. The match is on Eurosport here in the UK and coverage starts about 17:30 ish.

You can wear it with a tie and look all fancy, or you can pop it up and pretend it's 1994 again. :tophat: FYI http://www.sportsdirect.com/football-shirts/premier-league-football-shirts/chelsea-football-shirts Sports Direct are actually selling the shirts this year despite there being some reports that they wouldn't (presumably linked to them discounting all our kit last year). £10 off rrp but delivery....obviously doesn't apply to their jumble sales in store.

I actually would've agreed with this a few weeks ago, but three years is a long-time. Filipe Luis is a very good player and would be a step up for our (already strong) defence whilst costing half of what Shaw would and probably being on lower wages too. He's much less of a gamble than Shaw, which of cause means the rewards could be lower but so would the risks. 3-4 years also gives us time to develop our own youngsters in that position to be the 'next Luke Shaw' if you will. Whilst I'd love for us to get Shaw, there's always more than one way to get young English talent in the ranks.