Non-Chelsea Transfer Pub

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

On 2/15/2016 at 5:50 PM, Spike said:

Real Madrid. Have you ever read about Perez? Do you know of the story concerning his Head Scout and Kaka? His head scout at the time was pushing for Perez to authorise a transfer for Kaka, Real Madrid at the time had connections with Sao Paulo and had rights to buy him but Perez refused stating something along the lines of 'Get back to me when he [Kaka] is worth $50,000,000 to the world'. 

Are you unaware of the two Galacticos policies?

It's great for the rest of football though.  Just wait until Madrid offload someone because they bought a replacement they didn't need.

Robben, Higuain, Ozil, MAKELELE

That's just off the top of my head.

[The Skipper 20,609]

17 minutes ago, Sideshow Luiz said:

It's great for the rest of football though.  Just wait until Madrid offload someone because they bought a replacement they didn't need.

Robben, Higuain, Ozil, MAKELELE

That's just off the top of my head.

Di Maria, Sneijder... There's quite a few. 

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

1 minute ago, The Skipper said:

Di Maria, Sneijder... There's quite a few. 

I didn't include Di Maria because he went for quite a hefty fee.  Forgot about Sneijder.  After leaving Madrid, Sneijder had a legitimate claim to having the best year of any footballer in 2010.  CL winner at Inter, then the WC Final.

Just looked up the fees.  Ajax -> Madrid 27M EUR.  2 years later, Madrid -> Inter 15M EUR.

It was quite a busy 2009 window for Madrid, lot's of in's.  The direct replacement would be Kaka though.  65M.

They also bought Ronaldo, Benzema, and Alonso.  Shipped off Robben that summer too (25M).  That is a very busy window for the club shop.

[Special Juan 28,132]

Sell Hazard for big dollars, then use this money to strengthen up both midfield and defence.

[quickpassnmove 924]

With Kenedy, Musonda, Traore, etc. waiting, it's good to know that Chelsea simply need to start building from the back and through CM for the future (IF Chelsea really WANT to be a top tier contender again).

Hopefully the logic in the January window was simply wait until the new manager to sign the players for the spine and additional fullbacks. 

[BlueLyon 9,359]

On 2/17/2016 at 9:28 AM, Special Juan said:

Sell Hazard for big dollars, then use this money to strengthen up both midfield and defence.

Or have some faith in Eden and keep him...its not like we dont have money, besides we already lack ball possesion players and we would sell one who is best at that in our team.

The other scenario would be selling Hazard who would then perform better than half of our team combined and we would buy overpriced and overrated replacements. 

Sell Hazard for 80m and bring Stones for 60m for example would be the biggest bullshit in history of football.

[Special Juan 28,132]

2 minutes ago, BlueLyon said:

Or have some faith in Eden and keep him...its not like we dont have money, besides we already lack ball possesion players and we would sell one who is best at that in our team.

The other scenario would be selling Hazard who would then perform better than half of our team combined and we would buy overpriced and overrated replacements. 

Sell Hazard for 80m and bring Stones for 60m for example would be the biggest bullshit in history of football.

Or Hazard could have some fucking faith in himself right? He keeps possession well he just does fuck all with it right now.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Just now, Special Juan said:

Or Hazard could have some fucking faith in himself right? He keeps possession well he just does fuck all with it right now.

Thats exactly what we need to be right now, patient and have faith. Costa proved it, sure Eden can too. 

One thing is to expect miracles from Oscar who never actualy led us, but Eden did and sure he can lead us again.

I get it that its hard to trust players in hard times, but irony when fans bash players as soon as they hit hard days while at same time bash board for not giving youngsters a chance and have some trust in players. 

Unless Eden decided to do a Balotelli and is not giving fuck for anything anymore (which is highly unlikely), then we should do everything to keep him. Because when the boy comes back to best he will be on fire. Not sure about you but I want him to wear chelsea shirt when he does that. 

[Special Juan 28,132]

32 minutes ago, BlueLyon said:

Thats exactly what we need to be right now, patient and have faith. Costa proved it, sure Eden can too. 

One thing is to expect miracles from Oscar who never actualy led us, but Eden did and sure he can lead us again.

I get it that its hard to trust players in hard times, but irony when fans bash players as soon as they hit hard days while at same time bash board for not giving youngsters a chance and have some trust in players. 

Unless Eden decided to do a Balotelli and is not giving fuck for anything anymore (which is highly unlikely), then we should do everything to keep him. Because when the boy comes back to best he will be on fire. Not sure about you but I want him to wear chelsea shirt when he does that. 

I've said numerous times in the Hazard thread my thoughts and without derailing this thread you can have a look in there as to my outlook.

 

[11Drogba 2,000]

On 7/12/2015 at 3:30 PM, Calcavandi said:

http://www.transfermarkt.com.tr/pione-sisto/profil/spieler/252641

Pione Sisto; technique, speed, brain and special ability.

Absolutely wonderkid...

After the goal he scored yesterday we can expect to hear a lot more about him.

[11Drogba 2,000]

Paul Pogba hailed “icon” Pep Guardiola and “the possibility of working with him in future could develop.”

http://www.football-italia.net/80069/pogba-guardiola-future

[kellzfresh 7,229]

59 minutes ago, 11Drogba said:

Paul Pogba hailed “icon” Pep Guardiola and “the possibility of working with him in future could develop.”

http://www.football-italia.net/80069/pogba-guardiola-future

Not good news. City will be tough next season 

[Unionjack 7,531]

On 19/02/2016 at 8:30 AM, 11Drogba said:

Paul Pogba hailed “icon” Pep Guardiola and “the possibility of working with him in future could develop.”

http://www.football-italia.net/80069/pogba-guardiola-future

Im really not sure if Id want the lad. Ive always liked him but hes not set the world on fire this season has he. Maybe hes been knocking round weth Eden and hes just waking up? Hard to know with these players with egos.

[communicate 2,703]

What we need this summer is a cm who is a willing runner and good enough to play at both end basically a better version of ramires. 

[!Hazard! 3,394]

Buy Kanté or Nainggolan, Verratti and Stones. Bring Solanke and Ake back from loan. Those would be my moves from the summer. And get rid of Oscar, Mikel and Remy.

On loan: Musonda, Christensen, Kalas, Baker (+ the others who'll never play for CFC anyways)

Verratti called Conte the best manager he's ever had. Could it somehow be possible that Conte would be able to convince Verratti to join us? That would be sensational but yeah, I know, it is an unrealistic scenario at least at the moment. I believe buying Stones is only a question of money, £50m should be enough. Mangala didn't cost much less and is an inferior player. Plus the value of a (potentially) world class HG-player cannot be understated. 

 

First XI: Courtois; Azpilicueta, Zouma, Stones, Baba; Verratti, Fabregas, Matic; Willian, Hazard; Costa

Second XI: Begovic; Ivanovic, Miazga, Cahill, Ake; Kanté/Nainggolan, Loftus-Cheek; Pedro, Kenedy; Traore, Solanke

 

Solanke might look like a weak option as the other striker (if Traore isn't considered a striker) but I believe it is worth a try. Surely he's got the talent to make it here and someone like Conte could be the right manager for him to achieve his full potential.