Non-Chelsea Transfer Pub

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Rambo is small but he is very combative and will never shirk away from challenges and thats what is important for a midfielder and not his ariel ability imo.The CB's are their to win long balls.

Trust me, mourinho is our manager. I know him well, he wont risk two small people in the pivot. The only reason he plays ivanovic is his height, mourinho will pick a big player beside a small one in the pivot.

We can buy the small guys, but it means they play beside mikel... thats the dilema of our pivot issues

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Trust me, mourinho is our manager. I know him well, he wont risk two small people in the pivot. The only reason he plays ivanovic is his height, mourinho will pick a big player beside a small one in the pivot.

We can buy the small guys, but it means they play beside mikel... thats the dilema of our pivot issues

In that case we should target Witsel.

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Trust me, mourinho is our manager. I know him well, he wont risk two small people in the pivot. The only reason he plays ivanovic is his height, mourinho will pick a big player beside a small one in the pivot.

We can buy the small guys, but it means they play beside mikel... thats the dilema of our pivot issues

Maybe the injuries but i dont think its that serious. But he definately has derossi vision. The problem with options available to fix our pivot is that we are buying who will play beside ramires. Because ramires is small, we cant afford to buy another small person beside him, it will be too weak a pivot.

Once we buy a small player, it means it wont be good for us to play ramires because teams will just hoof the ball in the air and our midfield will win zero aerial battles.

IMO, The only way to fix this pivot is to buy a deep player who is big and strong in tackles and can send very long passes.

There are only few available players like this off the top of my head (witsel, pogba, derossi, thiago motta, xabi alonso, javi martinez) Some are too expensive while some are not available

The rest (modric, cabaye, moutinho, gundogan) are too small to play beside ramires unless we play mikel beside them and leave ramires on the bench, then its possible.

Then there are some (schneiderlen, matuidi, koke, bender, gustavo) are very strong tacklers but are not known for long passes, we might as well play MVG since he is good at tackling and energy alone

As you can see, a genuine option to massively improve our pivot iand fit in our system is very rare. Thats the problem we face

Probably the reason why De Bruye never gets a go in the pivot and Lamps plays almost every match.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Probably the reason why De Bruye never gets a go in the pivot and Lamps plays almost every match.

Yeah unfortunately.

In that case we should target Witsel.

True, him or pogba. One of the expensive options though

[bushman 2,043]

Never mind the pivot.

Jackson Martinez is the name & Chelsea is his game.

As reported by A Bola & Ben Jefferson of the express Chelsea are about to snatch the Colombian forward. His agent reportedly flown into London to secure the move in January.

[quickpassnmove 924]

Matic, Pogba, De Rossi, Witsel, Imbula, Paulinho, Schneiderlin, etc. etc.

It would be nice to get someone in January. It would have been nice last summer. It would have great two summers ago, three summers... and I've been repeating myself on various web forums for over 3 years now while Ramires runs his ass off for this club and people like Mikel still can't figure out how to play well enough, Lampard slows down and is asked to play where he should not, Oscar is played as an "attacking midfielder" (but was a flourishing center midfielder in Porto Alegre).

At this point, I would be very happy to see Loftus-Cheek or some reserve player in matches if Essien isn't about to start in the league. It's odd the Essien hasn't been given a start for Ivanovic. It's strange we've seen Lampard start so much.

Every year something is not right at Chelsea but things don't change. Is this the club with tonnes of money and no answers? Surely someone has a clue and will get it done before we're all dead.

[whinni09 37]

I would love to see Gündogan in a Chelsea shirt. I'm not sure about Jackson Martinez though, I would like to have a player with the style of Aguero as our striker.

[The_Flash 1,144]

Wish we could get Zlatan or hulk

[ZanSnake 1,211]

As long as we can get a DECENT dm we should be ok

[Sidzeret 2,257]

Jackson Marinez seems most likely.

Great buy if we get him for 30m.

Will only happen if Porto didn't qualify for the last 16 of the CL. But they need a win against Athletico Madrid away and hope Zenit loses to Austria Vienna away.

[bushman 2,043]

As I posted yesterday, Chelsea are doing cha cha cha in January.

This lanky & a good scorer just might solve Chelsea´s scoring problem.

Cha cha for around 30m is bought, BA for 12m, Mata for 35m, Bertrand for 7.5m are sold, plenty of money to play with, then.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Chelsea are thought to be favourites to sign Croatia midfielder Ivan Rakitic say the Express.

http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/445456/Chelsea-lead-Manchester-United-and-Liverpool-in-the-race-for-Sevilla-s-Ivan-Rakitic

[Reddish-Blue 2,354]

Chelsea are thought to be favourites to sign Croatia midfielder Ivan Rakitic say the Express.

Can he play in the pivot?

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Can he play in the pivot?

Ahhh my favourite question,Yes I believe he can.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Can he play in the pivot?

Not really, he's a bit like KDB in where he could probably do a job there but would need someone like Mikel to play next to him. He plays best as the most advanced player in a midfield 3.

[didierforever 7,349]

martinez??? seriously??? with FT atlast getting back to his own... all we need is a bloody DM...

[bushman 2,043]

martinez??? seriously??? with FT atlast getting back to his own... all we need is a bloody DM...

Not according to Jose. He wants them all. Stay tuned for further reports.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Don't see the point in Martinez - not the type of striker we should be making our number 1 striker in my opinion. Would rather make Lukaku number 1.