Blue Colored Sky

I hate those radars and tables. Never have a slightest clue what is going on and how to read them. What's xG ? And how Aguero needs 50 shots to score 0.15 goal ? So he needs well over 300 shots to get one goal ? (50/0.15 > 300)

Can we sack him already ? Clearly not here long term judging what he's doing with our youth players. Would get here Candreva, Llorente, Marchisio if he has his say. Just get over it and find somebody who cares about long term future of this club. Fucking knew that he's Mourinho with different spelling.

What's the issue with the price? Chelsea don't make an offer based on that they saved money on this player or that player. It's completely irrelevant for their evaluation. I give you example. If Chelsea value Vardy at 30m£ and sign him for 20m£ and then go for Van Dijk who they value at 50m£ they won't pay 60m£ because they saved 10m£ on others. It's been a case for years that Chelsea make their own evaluation of a player. So really don't bother with the money.

He's 30, going into 31 in 5 months. But it wouldn't put me off. We need another striker and I don't see any great options. Vardy for 2 years, why not ? Unless we're relying on Morata and Michy for a whole season which is ridiculous. Vardy and Morata in a duo? It could work. Against any good side we're always playing on a counter anyway so let's sign someone who's pretty good at this. Vardy is actually elite playing on a counter. We won't change, we'll be approaching any big game with that underdog mentality. For me it makes a lot of sense.

Name me a better realistic signing. And please not some random names from France. He's very decent player. 30m is a lot of course but that's the market. Also he's 27 and even if we want to get rid of him in 2 years time, I think we can easily sell him for 20m. His value won't drop drastically especially with the influx of money in the Premier League. Schneiderlin had rotten on the bench at United and still was sold for 25m€. What's 10m for a 2 year lease (at worst) with our dire need of midfielder(s) ? I don't get the outcry. Maybe I remember different player but with Kante next to him, DD was doing so much right, tackling, quick incisive pass, full of stamina, tenacious, can join the attack. I like this. I'm curious who realistically we can get at 8th of August.

BTW 7th supercup loss in a row. Why we even participate in them?

How can we have two midfielders and two wing-backs only with no substitutions ? How's that even possible?

Always a bit sad to see a player who was part of winning team go, but honestly I'm least bothered I can be. He has no charisma whatsoever and last few months was a struggle to watch him. His current version is the player we do not want to have in the squad anymore. We'll always have his first half a year here when he was a beast, a City performance, a few dozens of awesome games in 14/15, decent showing in last year campaign with cherry pick on the top, that goal against Spurs. Thanks for that. He has become a joy killer lately and he killed momentum of so many attacks. As a squad player, yeah he can stay, but for that money we have option to sign more complete player. BTW His and Jose statement on official Man Utd website looks incredible hilarious like a text randomly generated in Fifa/FM Career mode, I can tell that none of them have nothing to do with this whatsoever. Ha ha. Can't think of scenario we won't sign a midfielder now.

Some shit site reports it and says that deal will happen TOMORROW or Tuesday at worst and none of the big boys have reported anything yet. I am supposed to believe that ?

He's 28 until he's 29. That's how it works.

Hint ? He's talking as straightforward as he can that he needs lots of players and most importantly better players than he has. He couldn't be more clear about it.

He has alarming low IQ. I just can't understand how player can't grasp offside rule. He's very, very good squad player. Costs next to nothing on FFP books, home-grown, relatively low wages. Athletic and good experience, in his prime years. But he should only be squad player.

Well he's surely available. Not sure I want him. His one performance as a CM in game against QPR was class. Can he be decent CM in a 3 ? On last year of his contract. I can see this move happening.

He's good player but you can't bring external factors to defend his extremely poor output. After all he still managed to play those 129 games and most importantly, he's still an offensive player, 9 goals is indefensible.

Would like to think he's our ~5th option. Only for reasonable money. He has scored 9 goals in total in his 6 Premier League seasons ! Marcos Alonso scored 6 last season.

He'd be shrewd signing for us but I'm not that worried. Unlike striker position, when there was literally 3 options in total, there're many players that are fast, durable, sound technically that can potentially play wing-back position. Lots of less known names in France. And I think it's obvious we'll sign full-back or even two.

I wonder about that midfield spot. Kante, Fabregas and Bakayoko are 3 senior options for 2 spots. And Bakayoko has knee issues that we have to keep in my mind. We have to buy someone for Matic when he leaves. But I don't know who, can't even think about one. We'll surely be linked with one when Matic leaves. There's certainly young, Vidal esque player out there that we don't know about yet. We need to sign him,

Can integrate him and use him as 4th option or we can go and buy decent-not-world-class player in Mahrez ilk to completely block the path for our youngster. Those are decisions. Boga surrounded with quality can be something else. Eden Hazard + Jeremie Boga playing in one side is a dream. I was just sold a dream. Thanks Ospina.

You can't smart buy a striker now for a club like Chelsea. We have massive problem at hand and the pool of players is very, very small. We either pay up or be left with nothing. I don't see any logic at all with loose approach regarding strikers. "Not be held to ransom" and what are alternatives ? Striker is the position with limited options and we can't pull a rabbit out of the hat. It's not wing-back position when there's plenty of players with required skillset, at striker position you need everything, quality, experience, pedigree. Where we can find those outside of maybe 5 very obvious names ?

Di Marzio said it is done. Not interested or in advanced talks but done. He basically put his whole credentials into this. He'll be done if this doesn't happen.

So he needs to getting used to it. Emergency option. 2nd choice LWB. Doesn't mean he won't play +30 games. He can easily slot ahead of Cahill for the place in 3 men block which I assume will be Van Dijk - David Luiz and Azpilicueta. Not bad at all.

Chelsea gave him unique opportunity and exposure to the football world. There was a bit uproar that he was omitted from Spain squad. Some people are questioning why Chelsea are bringing the second best left-back in the world. Look at this. This time last year Alonso was nobody. I want to see him play as a LCB a few times. He could be very good there. His dealing with crosses is usually top notch, he can pass and deal with the pressure reasonably. BTW Like this type of question. Thinking straight, semi-long term, pretending like it's completely normal situation that we're signing top class player and not giving a hint that we're passing out on the floor in complete ecstasy. Riiight...

Funny if true. How can he joins the manager that subbed him on and off in the same game? But if Mata could make peace with Jose then Matic also can. He'd be good squad player but if the club receive such good money then it's yes every time. We're buying another midfielder alongside Bakayoko in this scenario. Honestly maybe we need more starting calibre central midfielders with our shortcomings upfront. We're likely to have Hazard, Pedro, Willian, Batschuayi and Lukaku, that's laughable comparing to City. We can play more times with 3 midfielders then and use Fabregas as creative source more often, with two adept midfielders alongside him and Alex Sandro on the left. It's unlikely anyway that we're signing top class creative player. The scenario with 3 central midfielders and Fabregas being one of them requires at least 4 absolute quality option, Matic isn't one so if we replace him with starting material midfielder with minimal net spend then it's advantage Chelsea.

Apparently Juve are recalling a guy from loan, who coincidentally plays left wing-back.

OMG. If this happens ... We should spend all our "wing-backs" budget on one truly world-class player. Right side can wait. We can collect money from sales and go all out in 2018 or maybe give Dujon Sterling a chance as he's made player for that position, excellent physique. I don't remember time when we had a world class winger and full-back/wing-back at the same time on one side. Truly historical move that would be. Beppe, love you for that one sentence at the end. We can dream for the next 2 weeks