Thibaut Courtois

[sutro 1,026]

Hmmm so many reports about that 24 mil pricetag chelsea putted on his head now.

Could be true and would mean that chelsea decided to keep cech for the upcoming years.

Makes perfectly sense to me to be fair, cech is a chelsea legend and still worldclass, he also got atleast 5 years in him

Some sources also reported that barca asked atletico to not bid for courtois and barca would loan/sell players to them

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

I'm not using foul language and I'm not insulting anybody. It's a free world.

I've been following the Premier league since I was a kid and I was obviously excited when a lot of Belgian players started playing in England.

I'll support any team that plays them and any team that plays the football I like. This does not mean criticism is forbidden.

To get back to the club, I was a huge fan of the Chelsea that won the Uefa Cup in '98, and later of the Hasselbaink Chelsea. The Abramovic Chelsea is somewhat harder to like for neutral, not London based fans (especially in the early years) but I have no negative feelings toward them since they had some of my favorite players in the past. Always been more of a player than a team fan outside of Belgium.

But thanks for asking! ;-)

[Weckerz 3,781]

I'm not using foul language and I'm not insulting anybody. It's a free world.

I've been following the Premier league since I was a kid and I was obviously excited when a lot of Belgian players started playing in England.

I'll support any team that plays them and any team that plays the football I like. This does not mean criticism is forbidden.

To get back to the club, I was a huge fan of the Chelsea that won the Uefa Cup in '98, and later of the Hasselbaink Chelsea. The Abramovic Chelsea is somewhat harder to like for neutral, not London based fans (especially in the early years) but I have no negative feelings toward them since they had some of my favorite players in the past. Always been more of a player than a team fan outside of Belgium.

But thanks for asking! ;-)

Fair enough

[meetdoscar 335]

Every player has a price.

[Pizy 18,418]

So after hearing Mourinho speak at today's presser I have to say that it doesn't sound like Cech is going anywhere anytime soon.

Which means Courtois likely will be. Can't see any way we'll just extend his contract and keep him at Athletico for another 5 years. Can't see him wanting that either.

Even yesterday I said in here that there was no way we'd sell him, but after hearing Jose gush about Cech and call him the best in the world I think that if Barca offered something insane like 30m we'd sell him there.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

The fact Chelsea put an actual price tag on his head (and 24 mil is not an impossible price) tells me they're at least considering his departure.

No, that's not a fact, that's just a rumor which you are building a lot of your assumptions on. There are thousands of rumors going around papers in Europe every week and I reckon less than 5% end up being true.

Chelsea control the situation with Thibaut. If we want him to stay then he's stay at least till his contract is up. If we want him sold then he'll go to the team that we want to sell him to when we want to.

[sutro 1,026]

No, that's not a fact, that's just a rumor which you are building a lot of your assumptions on. There are thousands of rumors going around papers in Europe every week and I reckon less than 5% end up being true.

Chelsea control the situation with Thibaut. If we want him to stay then he's stay at least till his contract is up. If we want him sold then he'll go to the team that we want to sell him to when we want to.

Reading this makes me think if we are talking about people here, damn!

First of all he doesnt need to go the team we want to at all, players can refuse other teams aswell.

You make it sound like they are some goods

[Kojo 4,676]

Why don´t you help yourself & Google it ?

Certainly, you may find some peculiar errors there. Good luck.

Don't worry Bushman, we aren't important just leave it.

[Sheva. 5,373]

Reading this makes me think if we are talking about people here, damn!

First of all he doesnt need to go the team we want to at all, players can refuse other teams aswell.

You make it sound like they are some goods

If Chelsea don't want to sell to Barca, they won't. Just like BVB didn't sell Lewy to Bayern, despite his contract running down.

[sutro 1,026]

If Chelsea don't want to sell to Barca, they won't. Just like BVB didn't sell Lewy to Bayern, despite his contract running down.

i know and that has nothing to do with my point at all......

the fact that choulo said that we can sell to who ever we want when we want bother me tbh

the player still can refuse the team that we want,so no we dont have that power

[Korea 734]

Also, quarterback is easily the most important and difficult position to find in the NFL while keeper is the least important and easiest to find in football. (I'm not saying it doesn't matter, but teams can win with poor keepers and great defences can make mediocre keepers look great.).

Don't think keeper is the least important...... Also, everytime turnball played last season I usually thought we would draw or lose.....

Also the most important positions in the NFL are oline, than dline, than qb imo. You can win a superbowl, with bad qbs ( aka flacco, dilfer, big ben), but it is highly unlikely without a good line....

Funny thing is, I know a ton of Atletico Fans that say the same thing about TC. He is a product of a superior backine, but I dont really watch belgium nor Madrid so I don't really know.

[Stingray 9,441]

Reading this makes me think if we are talking about people here, damn!

First of all he doesnt need to go the team we want to at all, players can refuse other teams aswell.

You make it sound like they are some goods

We are talking about people, actually. I would not be too ethically disturbed. Mou will want him to stay-according to a contract. Nothing wrong with that tbh. He can refuse loans, he can choose to go after serving the contract.

Let's reverse the situation: how inhumane would we think it to be if Cech get benched for Courtois after his service and current level of ability?

To be frank: we have two amazing goal keepers going into competition. Period. Time will bring us advice on the matter - but it is not an ethical issue just yet :-)

[sutro 1,026]

We are talking about people, actually. I would not be too ethically disturbed. Mou will want him to stay-according to a contract. Nothing wrong with that tbh. He can refuse loans, he can choose to go after serving the contract.

Let's reverse the situation: how inhumane would we think it to be if Cech get benched for Courtois after his service and current level of ability?

To be frank: we have two amazing goal keepers going into competition. Period. Time will bring us advice on the matter - but it is not an ethical issue just yet :-)

meh ill just leave it,its still not my point but could be due my excellent english

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Reading this makes me think if we are talking about people here, damn!

First of all he doesnt need to go the team we want to at all, players can refuse other teams aswell.

You make it sound like they are some goods

Of course we'll take the player's will into account because we treat our players with respect, we're not Tottenham! Yes, he can refuse loans or going to certain clubs, but similarly we can refuse to sell him to certain clubs like the ones in England or Barca which we most likely will if we want to sell him.

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

If you refuse to sell a player with two years left on his contract, you'll eventually have to let him go for free. Which is a double loss. Plus it's not exactly great publicity to bench a wanted player for two years out of spite.

I seriously don't think we'll see both of them in London next year. Makes no sense.

[OneMoSalah 8,785]

Sign him up on a big ass new contract... keep him as for next season to compete with Petr then re-evaluate, he won't walk into the Chelsea team, if he thinks that hes stupid.

[bushman 2,043]

Sign him up on a big ass new contract... keep him as for next season to compete with Petr then re-evaluate, he won't walk into the Chelsea team, if he thinks that hes stupid.

Do you ever read what he says ?

Let me help you.

I WILL NOT SIT ON THE BENCH.

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

Sign him up on a big ass new contract... keep him as for next season to compete with Petr then re-evaluate, he won't walk into the Chelsea team, if he thinks that hes stupid.

Yeaaah, the perfect plan!