Non-Chelsea Transfer Pub

[bushman 2,043]

Whom to buy & whom to sell ?

BA in rumor to go to Roma for 12.6m, it´s a sale for me, asap.

KDB agent to speak with our bombastic Jose & his plans for the kid. KDB to leave for Germany just to save his career, thanks Jose.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Not a fan of Guarin.

[Special Juan 27,421]

Just sort the so called DLP and a striker sooner rather than later and we are good to go.

[bushman 2,043]

Just sort the so called DLP and a striker sooner rather than later and we are good to go.

All right, ready to whip them all, eh ?

Jury is out.

[nadavTKL 1,787]

I really hope we don't buy any of the players we've been linked with as of late. Not of our standard.

We need a Gündogan/Witsel/Bender type player. A world class or potentially world class player. Not Guarin. Gündogan's contract is nearly up and we should be offering the moon for him. Go in for him before Madrid or City do. Don't care if it's £35m, just fucking buy him and we'll have a world class midfielder locking down his position for years and years.

You got it wrong i think. I completely agree we do need a world class midfielder or a potentially world class midfielder like you said, but you cant get those players in January. You can get Gundogan (world class) or Witsel (potentially world class) only in the summer (Lars Bender is not in this level imo). So you're saying: "if we cant get them now, lets not buy anyone"? i think thats wrong, we need a player, even if its a player who next season will only be a squad player, we need this Guarin/Cabaye/whatever to be better in the current season... to fight fot the PL and to be able to compete better in the CL.

[nyikolajevics 2,573]

Whom to buy & whom to sell ?

BA in rumor to go to Roma for 12.6m, it´s a sale for me, asap.

KDB agent to speak with our bombastic Jose & his plans for the kid. KDB to leave for Germany just to save his career, thanks Jose.

I wouldn't sell Ba. He's clearly not a world class striker but a really good backup. I like him.

He has played 34 matches in blue and scored 9 goals. It's not bad at all.

[bushman 2,043]

I wouldn't sell Ba. He's clearly not a world class striker but a really good backup. I like him.

He has played 34 matches in blue and scored 9 goals. It's not bad at all.

His 9 goals are pathetic, Chelsea deserves better. Out he goes in January for 12m, money allocated for much better player.

[Pizy 18,368]

You got it wrong i think. I completely agree we do need a world class midfielder or a potentially world class midfielder like you said, but you cant get those players in January. You can get Gundogan (world class) or Witsel (potentially world class) only in the summer (Lars Bender is not in this level imo). So you're saying: "if we cant get them now, lets not buy anyone"? i think thats wrong, we need a player, even if its a player who next season will only be a squad player, we need this Guarin/Cabaye/whatever to be better in the current season... to fight fot the PL and to be able to compete better in the CL.

We should know by now that buying for the sake of buying is dumb. We were so dependent on Mata so we bought and bought and bought in attacking midfield and we ended up loaning Moses, KdB can't get a game, and one of Willian or Schürrle is on the bench quite often. Depth is one thing but having too many players for one position is possible.

Think it would be a mistake to buy a midfielder in January who would just be serviceable for the remainder of the season but isn't the solution long term. We have to stop fucking around with these mid-tier signings and bring our side up a level by buying a world class player or two.

When Barca, Real Madrid, or Bayern want a player they go and get them and don't mess about. If we want to be as good as they are that's what we need to do.

[nadavTKL 1,787]

We should know by now that buying for the sake of buying is dumb. We were so dependent on Mata so we bought and bought and bought in attacking midfield and we ended up loaning Moses, KdB can't get a game, and one of Willian or Schürrle is on the bench quite often. Depth is one thing but having too many players for one position is possible.

Think it would be a mistake to buy a midfielder in January who would just be serviceable for the remainder of the season but isn't the solution long term. We have to stop fucking around with these mid-tier signings and bring our side up a level by buying a world class player or two.

When Barca, Real Madrid, or Bayern want a player they go and get them and don't mess about. If we want to be as good as they are that's what we need to do.

Its not "buying for the sake of buying", its buying becuase you need someone that much and our situation in this area is so awful that we can lose the league because of that, and look pathtic against the top teams in Europe in the CL. We can buy a CM now, and buy another one in the summer, a world class one. Right now you cant get Gundogan its not that hard to understand. Jose got himself into this situation, if we can fix it for the remainder of the season why not.

[mediator 2,026]

Should we improve quality or quantity?

Easy one for me... sign a great one right now and not another potential for the squad depth "in case of". Aké, Essien are still here for that concern

[Pizy 18,368]

Its not "buying for the sake of buying", its buying becuase you need someone that much and our situation in this area is so awful that we can lose the league because of that, and look pathtic against the top teams in Europe in the CL. We can buy a CM now, and buy another one in the summer, a world class one. Right now you cant get Gundogan its not that hard to understand. Jose got himself into this situation, if we can fix it for the remainder of the season why not.

It would be just like buying Ba. We bought him just to have another option in our lacking striker department and he's now playing once a month as a sub as soon as we brought another forward in.

One of the names you mentioned could actually improve us long term and that's Cabaye. Actually a realistic and likely inexpensive player too.

[didierforever 7,349]

ba for 12-13mil, add one of essien/mikel to that too and buy sven bender with that money... please...

[Alan Partridge 1,124]

For the sake of his career and our club, I would suggest this.

Cash in on Mata and buy Witsel.

Witsel won't be cheap but we should be able to get a good amount for Mata.

Mata does not fit in this team anymore. When he's not sitting on the bench, he looks lost on the pitch

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

CB + Luke.S + CM + ST.

Sell Torres + Mikel + Luiz.

At the end of the season, Get rid of Essien,Etoo,Cahill.

[didierforever 7,349]

CB + Luke.S + CM + ST.

Sell Torres + Mikel + Luiz.

At the end of the season, Get rid of Essien,Etoo,Cahill.

why would u want to keep essien but sell mikel?

buying shaw while we have 2 fine LBs?

luiz is fine in my opinion, only problem is our DM who simply provide good enough cover.

as for ST, i am still on the fence. even if we do sell ba/torres, who do we buy? is there a good enough ST left in the market.

hence for me

out - essien, BA

in - sven bender/witsel.

[Waterfall 893]

Why the hell would you sell Cahill? Perfectly serviceable and homegrown.

[nadavTKL 1,787]

I posted that in the player's topic, but anyway..

In the past few days, there have been new contacts between Jorge Mendes and #FCPorto over the proposed transfer of Jackson Martinez to #CFC

The arrival of Jackson Martinez at Chelsea could free Demba Ba who has been offered to Inter Milan. (via @AlfredoPedulla)

Guarin+Martinez would be a fantastic January imo.

[lucio 5,418]

I posted that in the player's topic, but anyway..

In the past few days, there have been new contacts between Jorge Mendes and #FCPorto over the proposed transfer of Jackson Martinez to #CFC

The arrival of Jackson Martinez at Chelsea could free Demba Ba who has been offered to Inter Milan. (via @AlfredoPedulla)

Guarin+Martinez would be a fantastic January imo.

it would help a lot

with porto out of the CL i can see martinez leaving 100%