Non-Chelsea Transfer Pub

[TheIceMan 596]

His place of training should add at least £2m to his value IMO.

You're joking right???

[Leif 6,006]

You're joking right???

Nope. Everyone from that crop of La Masia youngsters have something special trained into them, which is why Oriol found his footing in the Prem easier than most foreign youngsters would at his age, and the same went for Gerard.

You'd expect to pay more for a prospect from Chelsea's academy with 0 appearances, than you'd expect to pay for a Burnley academy prospect with 0 appearances, and there's plenty of reasons behind that, the main one being the fact they've been around coaches & players that are better than those at 95% of other clubs, and are thus likely to have more up their sleeve than your average Joe.

In most cases, you pay a man more if he graduated from Harvard rather than if he graduated from his local college, right? You'd certainly fork out a higher fee to acquire them; simply because they were trained somewhere better.

[Thendo 1,088]

£4.2m is a bit cheap for Deulofeu is it not? He was supposed to be the next La Masia product to do big things; i think he's still got that ability in him. His place of training should add at least £2m to his value IMO.

There's been talk of a buy back clause for barca which could explain the low price.

[CMS 382]

Not much quality available, however, if we should buy, I would say, Pogba, Begovic, Varane, Sterling,

[LAM09 6,807]

There's been talk of a buy back clause for barca which could explain the low price.

I'm sure there will be. Seems to be normal practice for the big two in Spain.

[Tomo 21,733]

Worried by the lack of transfer activity. This time last year, Fabregas was signed, Costa and Luis were done deals.

In 2005 only Del Horno was done at this time.

Getting transfers done (or as good as done) early is very rare.

[1chelsea 864]

Are we going to defend our title like this? Why is this transfer market too quiet for us? Let see what magic the board will perform

[TheIceMan 596]

Just Spla$h The Cas$h!!

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

Quite a slow start this year from us but I think we were spoilt with early awesome activity last year. We seem to be linked with a lot of players without a lot of actual evidence to back it up. (Falcao aside obviously). The whole Petr Cech thing is a bitter pill to swallow so hopefully CFC have something in the pipeline for us fans so that we can start to feel a bit more optimistic before pre-season begins. I wonder if this season might be one of those where we don't make many 'massive' signings and instead look at players who would help with squad rotation. Hope I'm wrong because other teams seem to be working hard to close the gap.

[hamad138 190]

Are we going to defend our title like this? Why is this transfer market too quiet for us? Let see what magic the board will perform

Look at other clubs. They are quite too because the market is too heated. Sterling cost 50Million Pound, enough said.

Its difficult now because other clubs ask for redecilous prices

[Sosuke Aizen 46]

@hamad138

I doubt anyone is as quiet as us. Utd have already signed Depay, are close to signing Schneiderlin and Ramos could be going there too. Liverpool have already made 5 signings. Arsenal have signed Cech. Man City look like favorites to get Sterling. In the meantime we've been connected with a hoard of mediocre/washed up players. If things continue like this, I don't think we're going to be able to defend the title next season. We're making the same mistake previous 4 champions made. Being too satisfied with our squad and not getting quality additions next season.

@OmldZamani/status/614391372561297408

Juventus apparently are desperate to keep Pogba.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

If Cech's medical is today, I am quite surprised neither us nor Arsenal have released any sort of confirmation. Even confirmation of an agreement, subject to medical.

I mean if it is at medical stage, he is more or less their player. So would make sense to announce something

[LondonsFinest 692]

WH signed Payet.

[Unionjack 7,531]

Ive been nervous from the start of day 1 and Ive been around long enough to not get nervous about transfer season. But Ive got that rumble in the pit of my stomach. Thought it might be a dodgy lamb karahi but its been going too long now.

Ive been trying to search for an old transfer thread for Diego Costa but must have been deleted after he joined. Wanted to remind peeps what grief some of us gave the lad.

[yuvala 2,167]

There's no one to sign is there ?
This isn't like the Cavani\Falcao summer

[kellzfresh 7,229]

There's no one to sign is there ?

This isn't like the Cavani\Falcao summer

What happened is that we are now a very good team already and have far better players compared to those years. To improve this our current team, we have to mostly get players from Madrid, Barcelona, Athletico, Juventus, and PSG. Before any ericksen/Tadic/gaitan improves our starting line-up but we now need bale /pogba level players to really improve.

[cfcs most wanted 657]

liverpool going to sign clyne. looks like in 2 or 3 years they are going to sign the whole of southampton squad

[nadavTKL 1,787]

The amount of money in PL is starting to be frightining. Now West Ham are also close to sign Moncao CB Abdennour for 20m Euros, and he was reportedly wanted by top clubs in Italy.

How is it going to be in a few years... every PL club can now throw such bids, and i cant see how most clubs in Europe will compete with it.

Outside of Bayern, PSG, La Liga's top 4-5, Milan-Inter-Juventus-Roma, who can compete with the PL money? i guess in a few years it will only grow. Its crazy. This leauge is going to be filled with top players.