Gary Cahill

[diskoviolente 425]

hopefully he´ll get a lot of playing time along side Luiz, because that´s the partnership for the coming years. hopefully.

[Zola kinda blue 89]

^{Cahill? Seriously?}

^{Seems we are only getting him because he is cheap and available. Oh and english}

^{If he was double the price (normal for english) and this was summer I doubt we would go near him with a barge pole.}

^{Chalobah is already way more talented than him. Now he has to watch as a much less talented player gets in his way.}

^{If Cahill is going to be backup to Terry and Luiz, why cant Chalobah be?}

^{When are we going to give our youth a proper chance?}

^{I despair - I mean Cahill - come on! Poor mans JT at best}

^{Chalobah the future of england will no doubt leave now}

^{And to make it worse, we give them Josh?}

^{Who is better than Josh in that position? Again we play the old players instead of youth}

^{We should be starting Josh, not Lamps}

^{Fergie would give them a chance, especially against Fulham etc.}

^{Seriously, our youth has no chance, unless they were nicked from Barca or we paid silly money for them}

^{Obviously the pressure has got to AVB and he has abandoned his principles.}

^{Like all the others, now we play Mourinhos 4-3-3 with much the same players}

^{I despair!}

[CHOULO19 24,332]

^{Cahill? Seriously?}

^{Seems we are only getting him because he is cheap and available. Oh and english}

^{If he was double the price (normal for english) and this was summer I doubt we would go near him with a barge pole.}

^{Chalobah is already way more talented than him. Now he has to watch as a much less talented player gets in his way.}

^{If Cahill is going to be backup to Terry and Luiz, why cant Chalobah be?}

^{When are we going to give our youth a proper chance?}

^{I despair - I mean Cahill - come on! Poor mans JT at best}

^{Chalobah the future of england will no doubt leave now}

^{And to make it worse, we give them Josh?}

^{Who is better than Josh in that position? Again we play the old players instead of youth}

^{We should be starting Josh, not Lamps}

^{Fergie would give them a chance, especially against Fulham etc.}

^{Seriously, our youth has no chance, unless they were nicked from Barca or we paid silly money for them}

^{Obviously the pressure has got to AVB and he has abandoned his principles.}

^{Like all the others, now we play Mourinhos 4-3-3 with much the same players}

^{I despair!}

Chalobah is 17. You can't just throw him in there no matter how talented he is. We are all excited about the talent we have in our youth especially Chalobah and Josh, but we need to be patient, they will both have many years to play for Chelsea when the manager feels they are ready.

[Sheva. 5,373]

... And AVB has always used the 4-3-3. The only thing he's changed is the high-line.

[termninja 5,290]

We are not buying Cahill to be our 1st option CB for a number of years but to be here as a backup and to fill the gap until the club decides what to do with Chalobah, Kalas, Bruma and Hutchinson.

[Zola kinda blue 89]

We are not buying Cahill to be our 1st option CB for a number of years but to be here as a backup and to fill the gap until the club decides what to do with Chalobah, Kalas, Bruma and Hutchinson.

So we are buying Cahill untill the summer when we will buy a "real" CB, especially as JT wont be first choice next year.

Cahill must feel wonderful about that!

The kids might be 17, but Sam is 22 and realy dont see why you cant have him sitting on the bench instead of Cahill.

I repeat, if Cahill wasnt cheap, english and available, would Chelsea go near him? I think the answer is no and its not the right policy just to get someone in on a kneejerk, I thought with AVB we are finally thinking long term. So say Cahill is a bench warmer for 4 years until Chalobah is 21?

No that wont happen, JT will be replaced with some foreign world class youth, Cahill stays and the likes of Chalobah eventually get loaned out until they leave

Can no one else see this?

[francozola 2,040]

lol. no way Sam is ready for first-team action. What if JT/Luiz get a long-term injury? Then we'd have to deal with Ivanovic playing at CB and Bosingwa at RB which would be disastrous.

I don't understand why this is such a big deal. If he doesn't play/perform well he will be here for 2 seasons MAX.

[Melanicus 5,208]

So we are buying Cahill untill the summer when we will buy a "real" CB, especially as JT wont be first choice next year.

Cahill must feel wonderful about that!

The kids might be 17, but Sam is 22 and realy dont see why you cant have him sitting on the bench instead of Cahill.

I repeat, if Cahill wasnt cheap, english and available, would Chelsea go near him? I think the answer is no and its not the right policy just to get someone in on a kneejerk, I thought with AVB we are finally thinking long term. So say Cahill is a bench warmer for 4 years until Chalobah is 21?

No that wont happen, JT will be replaced with some foreign world class youth, Cahill stays and the likes of Chalobah eventually get loaned out until they leave

Can no one else see this?

He is. Basta.

[Madmax 9,219]

End of Bruma's Chelsea career, then.

[The Big Drog 1,110]

Personally Im not a fan. His form this season has been poor for Bolton, to me he seems to be a generic English centre back, I think we should be aiming for better than that. However at 7 million he might provide decent cover.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

End of Bruma's Chelsea career, then.

I don't agree. Cahill's 26 & Terry's not getting any younger, Bruma still has a future here.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

He is. Basta.

Could be a lot cheaper.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

So we are buying Cahill untill the summer when we will buy a "real" CB, especially as JT wont be first choice next year.

Cahill must feel wonderful about that!

The kids might be 17, but Sam is 22 and realy dont see why you cant have him sitting on the bench instead of Cahill.

I repeat, if Cahill wasnt cheap, english and available, would Chelsea go near him? I think the answer is no and its not the right policy just to get someone in on a kneejerk, I thought with AVB we are finally thinking long term. So say Cahill is a bench warmer for 4 years until Chalobah is 21?

No that wont happen, JT will be replaced with some foreign world class youth, Cahill stays and the likes of Chalobah eventually get loaned out until they leave

Can no one else see this?

I still think Cahill could be cheaper if we negotiated properly

But yes, Chalobah is still very young and he's still developing. As good as Fergie is, even he wouldn't take such an enormous gamble on someone so young. Chlaobah is still growing in the academy and with England too. His time is approaching, but it's not now. We don't want to make another Josh out of him, where we recognise his quality and demand he plays in more games than he should

Hutchinson has only just begun his come back. Like we heard when Chelsea announced it, he's stepping up his training in January, which means he's still not match fit yet. We have a good crop of young defenders. From Sam to Kalas. But we can just throw them in the deep-end considering the pressure we play under this season. Give them time and patience.

[Melanicus 5,208]

Could be a lot cheaper.

http://www.transfermarkt.de/en/gary-cahill/profil/spieler_27511.html

Market value: 13.000.000 €

[Madmax 9,219]

I don't agree. Cahill's 26 & Terry's not getting any younger, Bruma still has a future here.

Cahill's not good enough to be first choice for Chelsea, that's plain. If we only wanted backup, we could have used Bruma or Kalas (who're both doing well on their loan moves). Instead we spend £7m on a guy who is out of contract in 6 months and who'd be lucky to make >15apps over the rest of the season for us. So when Bruma comes back in the summer he'll have yet another competitor for his place. We'll end up changing his loan contract terms (to amend the buy option HSV have at the end of the second year), send him on loan again and probably not see him in a Chelsea shirt thereafter.