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He can be the first player bought off rumours created by fans not papers.

Cesc is by far the smartest player in our squad. Probably one of the few truly intelligent players around. He can actually say something thoughtful. Next captain IMO.

I almost forgot Remember when 2 months ago everyone thought 30m€ will be enough ? Now most people think that 45m€ will be rejected.

Yeah, probably Methinks that as well but can't dismiss that completely because every now and then there's random dude who really knows his stuff. Last year some random guy got Pedro spot-on even before Catalan media started rumbling about this.

Some random dude with under 1000 followers who lives in Surrey area according to his bio. Claims that he is an Arsenal fan and know some dude who works at Cobham and tells him that Mahrez to Chelsea is close. I think the point that he is an Arsenal supporter (he has lots of pictures about Arsenal) gives a wee bit of hope that it's plausible.

You want a source ?

Would you rather have Mahrez or Lukaku as a second striker ?

Are Chelsea some underdog ? Or they're paying the highest wages in this league ? Yet Pep will field against us KdB, Aguero, Silva, Nolito etc. And we have solitude Hazard in response. For a guy like Mahrez there's always a space. Finally we can have upgrade over Kalou !

Sign him up.

Where is his 2015/16 season ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_de_Vrij

It's us.

Antonio recently gave two interviews to Chelsea TV and I AM NOT talking about post-match interviews. Could you please try to find them from different source and put them here ? I will look for them myself in any case. If there was one good guy that could extract those videos from their website ...

Get some perspective ffs. What the f*** is wrong with you guys, can you look besides your nose and let's say, have a broader picture ? I can't believe that I'm reading that in other clubs everything is intact but in Chelsea everything is collapsing. Have we signed the best midfielder in the Premier League in the last 7 days or I'm dreaming ? Barca and United can't sign proper central defender for YEARS. Arsenal can't sign proper striker in ages. City and PSG are on financial doping, yet still can't say they're majorly successful and btw City are going through major revamp again after spending hundreds of millions in the last summers. Tbf only Juve and Bayern are clubs that we should aspire to but they're in league of their own (well, literally) so it's difficult to compare.

And what's that price ? Why you all forget that we're dealing with the toughest negotiator in world football, yet still (chatting sh*t) that we should pay whatever he asks. Besides transfers are more complex than that transfer figure. I find it illogical if you think that Chelsea can't sign good players when they just signed the best midfielder in the Premier League.

Well, some French source reported Kante to Chelsea 2 days before any major outlets picked that up. So wait and see. We have 7 attacking midfielders, we should get rid of 3-4 and got one quality in like him.

Why no club try to buy Fekir ? He is 60-80m€ player by today's standards when fit and flying. Now he would be available for much less. But yeah, all top clubs probably can't wait until he rediscovers his form to start bidding odd sums for him.

I was so happy when Nat scored that goal. Damn. I always thought he is the most "Chelsea" player of all the players in the Academy. Just because you went through ranks doesn't mean you're so much associated with this club. But Chalobah is, certainly. Shame that for one spot in midfield, assuming Kante is a starter, we have Fabregas, Mikel, Matic, RLC and Oscar.

"I'm one of you"

Juve soon start to spend that Pogba money. Matic is their target apparently. Should we sell ? I think knowing that they have 120m€ or so in the bank we shouldn't look for nothing less than 35m€ I think if we do give a go to sale.

Looked far better than he was in most of the youth games. Wasn't looking like the guy that can do something sloppy at any given moment. Encouraging but I'm looking forward to tougher test to give a verdict here.

Please sell him. When he got tackled by Shawcross (I think that was him or it was Charlie Adam ?) in that Stoke game and went to his shell scared I wouldn't have imagined then that we can get 30m€ for him. We have too many AMs anyway. Turn Cuadrado, Pedro, Kenedy, Moses into 1 proper attacking midfielder and be scared.

1.10.2015 r. was the time Roma released the statement that they bought Salah and Dzeko permanently.

Courtois, Begovic Baba Rahman, Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, JT, Zouma, Cahill, Matic, Fabregas, Kante, RLC, Van Ginkel Hazard, Oscar, Willian, Cuadrado, Pedro, Kenedy, Moses, Diego Costa, Batschuayi, Traore, Remy 24 player, 22 outfield players. That's way too much ! We have 40 games scheduled in a season, with both finals in cups, we have maximum of 50 games (FAC replays exluded). We can only take 16 outfield players into the match squad so up to 6 players will be in the stands. Rumours are circling around that we're buying central defender, whether it be Koulibaly or Manolas or even somebody else. Also forward which would be direct replacement for Remy. There are speculations that we may sign central-midfielder as well but I think that's not as certain even if we see the back of Van Ginkel. And I'm not even counting the likes of Aina, Chalobah, Miazga, Pasalic and probably a few other youngsters. I think Moses and Van Ginkel will be moved on and that's still 23 players and 21 outfield players for 16 outfield places in the match squad. Too much. Unless we're preparing for injury crisis in advance.

That 7 players give me headache : Hazard, Oscar, Willian, Cuadrado, Pedro, Kenedy, Moses, So many players, so little quality. We should sell 4 players from that, buy 1 great and have 4 attacking midfielders and 2 of them with world-class abilities. Come on Chels, it's not rocket science !

Can't believe now that we sold him for 22m€ (loan fee + transfer fee). He was Roma best scorer last season. He's only 24, has very good scoring record in his carrer, at international level. And Roma want 40m€+ for Manolas and Nainggolan ! Chelsea allowed them to buy their best goalscorer for half of that. And you know, goals are usually at premium. FFS. We got mugged !