Blue Armour 4,439 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 As I see it's from mirror, it must be a dressing room source, a locker perhaps Or good ol' Lipton, live from the bin.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SemperVerus 6 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 With Essien being out for a while i could see Luiz being a hold midfielder for us this season and that would open up a space at CB. Cahill would be a great addition imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic weeds 446 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 trust me all i see is Luiz playing alongside Terry as CB, Ivan and Bos to play for right back. No way AVB is gonna sell or bench Luiz. He is the type of player that really fits AVB's philosophy IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teignman 441 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I'm going to throw this out there: Is it possible that AVB moves Luiz to the holding role now that Essien is out for some time? Thus, we pick up Cahill for CB duty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. 2,742 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 I'm going to throw this out there: Is it possible that AVB moves Luiz to the holding role now that Essien is out for some time? Thus, we pick up Cahill for CB duty.This is what im thinking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,570 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/3691677/Chelsea-could-outflank-Arsanal-in-the-17m-race-to-land-Boltons-Gary-Cahill.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionsden 4,689 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 With Essien being out for a while i could see Luiz being a hold midfielder for us this season and that would open up a space at CB. Cahill would be a great addition imoEssien is not a holding midfielder. The only position his absence makes available is the same position Ramires already occupies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slam Dunk 1,442 Posted July 13, 2011 Share Posted July 13, 2011 ^ Exactly.Luiz = CBMikel = DMEssien = Box-to-Box MF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomCFC 357 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Bolton reject a bid from Arsenal - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14676338.stm Let's hope they don't get him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slam Dunk 1,442 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 I read on twitter it was as low as £6M + add ons. Insulting offer (if true). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
termninja 5,290 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 If Arse get him they are going to have a pretty nice defense with Vermaelen and Cahill. Still, I doubt that Wenger will pay the money Bolton will ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madmax 9,219 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Really think we should go for Cahill next year. Big fan of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueLion. 21,491 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 As a decent defender, Cahill's worth £25m - since £20m seems to be the flat going rate for overrated English centre-backs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cujo101 75 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 £6 million? And people were having a go at Chelsea for making an opening offer of £22 million for Modric... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Term-X 7,891 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 This is clearly going to be one of those deals that finalise during the final hours of the transfer window. He'd be better off at Bolton than joining the sinking ship that is Arsenal though.As long as Alex remains, defensive acquisitions are low-priority. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeB 1,281 Posted August 26, 2011 Share Posted August 26, 2011 Scott Dann (4 votes [6.78%)Gary Cahill (14 votes [23.73%]I did vote for Scott Dann rather than for the Chelsea defence in order to bring something to the debate between Dann & Cahill.I must admit I'm a little bit surprised by the results of the poll. I did watch around 15 games of Bolton last season and whereas I can't deny Cahill has some great quality ; I was surprised by the media coverage and all the buzzing around him because I did find that not really righteous...Yes he is solid and yes he has some striker's ways to shoot when he goes forward, some of the goals he did score are classy. But I find that he has too much of concentration skips, he can miss something very easy because he is not always 100% concentrate on what he does. At other times I did find him not very sure before doing an intervention, like if he did fear to miss completely the ball and kick the man...I find him solid in the air but it does not really impress me, his long balls are not so precise and I don't find him as reassuring for a defense that would have us believe.I also base my argumentation on the dynamic of the team, in 2009/2010 Cahill was more in front when his team was not good and I did find him less in front when Bolton perform well in the first months of the season. I did sometimes have even a better impression of Wheater after January... !For me Cahill has clearly to pass a step in his progression before thinking he can sign for a big club, being more regular and stop doing fucking impredictable mistakes, I'm not a great fan of his mentality either...On the other hand, I think that Birmingham's defenders were the most under-rated of the league, Johnson, Ridgewell and Dann and even Foster were very good although nobody really underlined this.Dann is for me one of the best players in the air, he is terrific, his timing is excellent. He is comfortable with the ball to get the ball out of the defence properly and I find that he has a great tackling ability and a good passing for a CB, I find Dann's last two characteristic far better than Cahill's.Yes, Dann has the reputation to be a player who gets often injured but he is young, under rated and reachable for a price who is far from the usual English over rate system about their players, especially in view of his qualityDann and Johnson were instrumental during the 15 games unbeaten run of the Brummies last season and his injury (not not only, the shit recruits of McLeish, the lack of concentrations of the players... played a big part too) was one of the reasons explaining the fail of Birmingham after the win in League Cup.Cahill is not worth 20m even if Bolton is right to ask this price (because of their debts, Henderson and Downing, Jones's prices...) and I would find that more interesting to acquire a cheap player like Dann, who is homegrown if we need one more CB, ratrger than Cahill who does not convince me at all Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LondonPride1905 236 Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Seems with Kakuta sent to Bolton on loan, Chelsea will actually have the first go at signing Gary Cahill in January. Cahill is in the final year of his contract and may be sold for as low as 8million in January. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeB 1,281 Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 I keep thinking he's overrated and not that interesting in the absolute...When we did draw at Blackburn in the end of the double season, you might all remember Phil Jones ? I did not stop following him since that first match, I did think at the moment he had something special, calm and self confident, incredible defensive quality...He did just muzzle DIDIER DROGBA in his first game, it says allWe should have take him, he is going to be one if not the best CB in the world...LP1905, where does your source come from ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 CB is one of our least needed positions to fill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy. 2,742 Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/football/874381-gary-cahill-to-spark-bidding-war-between-chelsea-and-spurs-in-januaryhell yer ive wanted him for ages to replace JT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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