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[The only place to be 11,313]

Effective management is knowing that Terry will retire soon and that Ivanovic is 30 later this month. We're definitely going to have to spend big on a new CB soon regardless.

Like I said before, I know Luiz isn't having the best of seasons but to say he automatically isn't in Mourinho's plans (when there's been many factors affecting why he isn't starting) is ridiculous IMO. You're writing him off far too soon I think.

You might think it's ridiculous but I don't. And how quickly you forget that we signed Kurt Zouma just a few days ago.

[AswinR 96]

I'll probably edit this a few times but let's see.

IN - Shaw, Striker (Cavani, Rooney, Costa)

OUT - Luiz, Cech, Mikel, Bertrand, Van Aanholt, Moses, Marin, Cole, Ba, Torres (probably dreaming on that one)

GOALKEEPERS - Courtois, Schwarzer, Blackman, Hilario's corpse.

DEFENDERS - Azpilicueta, Ivanovic, Kalas, Terry, Cahill, Zouma, Shaw, Ake

DEFENSIVE MIDS - Lampard, Matic, Ramires, Romeu, Chalobah, Van Ginkel

ATTACKING MIDS - Oscar, Willian, Hazard, Schurrle, Salah, Piazon

STRIKERS - Shiny new one, Lukaku, Etoo

Plenty of other youngsters to be decided on (Bamford, McEachran, Kane, Omeruo being the main ones) and could see us getting another DM but that to me a is a squad that can compete.

Why do all want cech to leave ...is he that bad? is reading the game badly? has he not performed at big stages? is he 38-40 and reflexes not like before?

I still think he has invaluable experience and he is one of the most underrated goalkeepers of our time!!...i wouldnt pick anybody over him...not even courtois( hes in top 5!!)...

why kick van aanholt out ? hes having a gr8 season at vitesse and will be perfect back up left back to shaw imo also think the same of bertrand...not sure why jose dont trust him...hes been soild at villa(i know its only been 2 games but still...)

mikel very good player ...as long as you dont want your cm to make a sensible pass !! good bye and all the best!

courtois is a case of overachieving.....chelsea never tought he will peak so soon and worse Athletico would along with him....now hes gonna be demanding... but could sell him with a buy back clause after 5 years...

Bamford is impressive(touch wood...) omeru will fight for a spot next season(hes strong and quick , a perfect mourinho player)

Torres leavin...keep dreamin ;P

costa/rooney/cavani along with torres and lukaku should seal the deal upfront...

lamps i fear is nearing his time chalobah should be given a chance along with romeu(hes pretty good...had a gr8 game against barca !!)

But my wish list is to bring Kroos to play along with matic...imagine that...

hope mourinho has another quiet transfer in the summer

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[1chelsea 864]

Well am glad nobody have said anything or mention a thing if salah will forcing himself into the the first team!!!!!! It fun to see what this kid have

[Korea 734]

In: CM, Costa (cavani is too unrealistic), LB, TC, maybe Piazon

Out: Lampard, Lukaku, Ba, maybe Mikel....

[Namika 922]

Diego Costa, Luke Shaw and Gundogan if possible.

Moses, Demba Ba, Eto'o, Marin, Cole, Kalas, Mikel (i don't think he would be happy being third of fourth choice)

GK: Courtois, Cech

Defence: Azpi, Ivanovic, Terry, Cahill, Zouma, Luiz, Shaw, Betrand

Midfield: Matic, Ramires, Gundogan, Chalobah, Van Ginkel

AM: Schurrle, Salah, Hazard, Willian, Oscar

Striker: Diego Costa, Torres, Lukaku

[oldportblue 547]

Fully agree with previous post! That eould be one hell of a team!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

The posts about Diego Costa in every single thread are getting incredibly annoying. Am I missing something? Did we buy him already? Half the football fans had never even heard of him a year ago and now he's the flavor of the season...smh

[oldportblue 547]

Except i would keep lamps

[bluesman2610 1,341]

Well in that case selling Luiz and Ramires should bring in about 55m and there's lots of other players on loan that can be sold like Moses and Romeu.

Yes Balotelli! How long would he be willing to play for a team not in the CL, and he did say he wanted to work with Mourinho again. Aside from his attitude (admittedly a big problem) he's the perfect forward for us - has it all with his peak still awaiting. Besides in the CL I assume Mourinho will be wanting to play counter attacking football against the likes of Bayern and Madrid - isn't Costa, the only viable alternative, too slow for that and plus how can anyone be sure that he won't be a £32m flop that's just had one good season?

As a someone who watches Milan Balotelli doesn't have the work ethic hes the kind of forward that will lose the ball and just stand there and start pouting we don't need that here at all..

[didierforever 7,349]

The posts about Diego Costa in every single thread are getting incredibly annoying. Am I missing something? Did we buy him already? Half the football fans had never even heard of him a year ago and now he's the flavor of the season...smh

Totallt agree. One good season and sonehow he is goung to be our saviour.

[Toli 977]

Totallt agree. One good season and sonehow he is goung to be our saviour.

he has been good for 2 seasons already.

[Strike 7,217]

Just because we sold to buy players this January window doesn't mean we have to do the same in the summer. Pretty sure we've got money set aside for the summer.

We'll get rid of some unneeded squad players like Ba, Moses, Marin, Kakuta etc. which will generate funds for Luke Shaw (plus the leftover money from January) and then we'll have a set amount of money we can spend this summer on a world class striker.

there are plenty of others as well who will move on in the summer plus Eto'o and one of the old guard leaving (Ashley) should save 10mil in wages alone

[didierforever 7,349]

he has been good for 2 seasons already.

he has had one good season.

last season he scored 20 goals in 44 matches in a league where somehow soldado had scored 30 goals. lukaku with WBA had 18 goals in 38 matches minutes in PL. that barely counts as good when u look at la liga.

costa , if bought, will be our no.1 striker. his overall play, contribution to the game, goal scoring prowess does not even compare upto someone like cavani. we have 2 great GKs, a good defence, an almost complete midfield and the only thing we lack is a WC striker. cavani is the answer to it, not costa.

[lucio 5,418]

he has had one good season.

last season he scored 20 goals in 44 matches in a league where somehow soldado had scored 30 goals. lukaku with WBA had 18 goals in 38 matches minutes in PL. that barely counts as good when u look at la liga.

costa , if bought, will be our no.1 striker. his overall play, contribution to the game, goal scoring prowess does not even compare upto someone like cavani. we have 2 great GKs, a good defence, an almost complete midfield and the only thing we lack is a WC striker. cavani is the answer to it, not costa.

because cavani is such a realistic target

[didierforever 7,349]

because cavani is such a realistic target

why not? he is playing out of position, he was "reportedly" unhappy, and with the 75% tax thing probably going to be applied in france, i seriously dont see why not?

plus i would rather give 60mil for cavani than 32 mil for costa. plus we only need to buy a WC striker, so dont see the problem in going big if we have to.

ps - the only way i would like a costa deal is if FT is somehow involved in a swap. 15-20 mil + FT = costa, then i have no problem.

[mediator 2,026]

The 75% tax in France is not a problem for PSG you know. They will make a new "sponsorship" to cover that shit

[Toli 977]

he has had one good season.

last season he scored 20 goals in 44 matches in a league where somehow soldado had scored 30 goals. lukaku with WBA had 18 goals in 38 matches minutes in PL. that barely counts as good when u look at la liga.

costa , if bought, will be our no.1 striker. his overall play, contribution to the game, goal scoring prowess does not even compare upto someone like cavani. we have 2 great GKs, a good defence, an almost complete midfield and the only thing we lack is a WC striker. cavani is the answer to it, not costa.

you do realize that last season he was playing on the wing and their game was based upon Falcao? seems like you havent wachted one game from Costa and just looking up stats from him to be honest. and scoring 20 goals in 44 matches and having 12 assists while having to play on the wing next to falcao who gets nearly every ball? most of the atletico fans even last season said that Costa was already better than Radamel by the way.

[didierforever 7,349]

you do realize that last season he was playing on the wing and their game was based upon Falcao? seems like you havent wachted one game from Costa and just looking up stats from him to be honest. and scoring 20 goals in 44 matches and having 12 assists while having to play on the wing next to falcao who gets nearly every ball? most of the atletico fans even last season said that Costa was already better than Radamel by the way.

I dint watch Atm last season but I have watched them this season a lot. And enough to know that he is not world class. He might be better than any we have got but when comparing to city they would still have atleast 3 strikers better than our best.

Again when compared to cavani, and the fact that we won't be buying any1 else and that we don't need any1 else, cavani seems a better pption. Much better.