Isco

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Sunday People Sport can reveal the Blues are close to announcing the£15million signing of Spain Under-21 international midfielder Isco

http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-ready-to-extend-frank-lampard-1521165

[Superblue 6,370]

If the Mirror is right then that is great news... on both accounts!

[Z-25 12]

I think I remember reading somewhere that Isco has a minimum release clause of under £20m.

Great player if this transfer happens, can be utilised in various roles. fingers-crossed!

I just hope we stay away from the overrated Willian.

[Heisenberg 1,824]

Better than Oscar.

Joke.

[OReillyD36 311]

If it happens brilliant but screams luxury signing. From what I've seen of him has been behind the striker, can he play in a deeper midfield role (dlp, cm)? If not i'd probably prefer Benat

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Better than Oscar.

Joke.

Joke? He plays Better than Oscar till now...

[Heisenberg 1,824]

TRANSFERS: Sunday People Sport can reveal that Chelsea are close to announcing the £15million signing of Malaga's Isco

' Chelsea are close to announcing a £15m deal for Malaga forward and Spanish sensation Isco #CFC (Mirror) '

20 Millions, a bargain for his talent for me, but we have too much offensive midfielders.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Absolute bollocks, how can we be close to announcing this signing when he was playing but two hours ago?

[Heisenberg 1,824]

Joke? He plays Better than Oscar till now...

Yes, because he is the main player at his club & Pellegrini use him in the best way, Oscar mus play much deeper for me, and most play more.

[Superblue 6,370]

TRANSFERS: Sunday People Sport can reveal that Chelsea are close to announcing the £15million signing of Malaga's Isco

' Chelsea are close to announcing a £15m deal for Malaga forward and Spanish sensation Isco #CFC (Mirror) '

20 Millions, a bargain for his talent for me, but we have too much offensive midfielders.

Having an offensive midfield trio from Hazard, Mata, Oscar, Isco and Moses (can't see Marin making it here) sounds good to me. There needs to be competition for places, and alternatives for each game. All five are amongst the most talented young players in the game for their own positions and all have different characteristics. It will create an awful lot of competition amongst them keeping everyone at the top of their game and fresh, and preventing the team from becoming overly reliant on one or two players.

It's no different to United trying to stockpile wingers over the years when they can only play 2 at a time.

[Rmpr 8,977]

Amazing player, but we don't need him.

I am seriously worried we will fuck things up, buying more players than the neccessary (for the same attacking positions and forget about the defense and pivot) and too young...

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Sounds like we're trying to do a Mancini and sign 20 players for three positions.

[Styles 9,790]

Maybe our next manager wants Isco bought in.

[Z-25 12]

Having an offensive midfield trio from Hazard, Mata, Oscar, Isco and Moses (can't see Marin making it here) sounds good to me. There needs to be competition for places, and alternatives for each game. All five are amongst the most talented young players in the game for their own positions and all have different characteristics. It will create an awful lot of competition amongst them keeping everyone at the top of their game and fresh, and preventing the team from becoming overly reliant on one or two players.

It's no different to United trying to stockpile wingers over the years when they can only play 2 at a time.

Totally agree! when we rested Mata and Hazard against the worst team in the league we lost and looked like we never spent a fortune on quality players last summer.

getting Isco can be key in playing Oscar in his original deeper role and Moses could be moved up the field in case we don't get another striker.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

First of all this player is fantastic player. However he is NOT what we need. He is CAM. And we have Oscar, Mata, Hazard, Kdb and Marin who all play there. And 4 of them could easily be starters and should be. We dont need Isco to be backup, competition or whatever. Oscar is already there, as well Marin and Kdb on the way. Too many players is not always best thing. The second thing is that we need CM to play in pivot. Even a CM puts some doubts that Oscar will ever be our starter if some good CM actualy comes. With Moses, Mata and Hazard I dont see starting spot for Oscar. That means, Isco is totaly unneccesary, he is great talent but we will never have them all and we shouldnt. Go after Benat, Camacho, Essien, Kdb, Capoue, Bender , Gundogan, Sissoko or Hernanes instead...

[gr123 167]

Sunday People Sport... I'll won't be holding my breath for this one then.

Not convinced we would need him anyway.

[Sheva. 5,373]

I'd rather a player like Schurrle who can do a job on the wings.

[Leif 6,006]

Don't understand the people who think we don't need him. Whenever we rest either Hazard or Mata our team is simply not good enough in attack.

We want to be a TOP club don't we? Well a TOP club has many TOP players fighting for EACH position. Who's threatening Hazard and Mata? Oscar and Piazon? lol no.

Oscar has potential and is a good player. Piazon isn't even an AM, neither is Moses, Marin etc.

We're one of the richest clubs in the world and the current European Champions. Why settle for anything other than the very best?

McEachran doesn't play AM. De Bruyne is clearly a future pivot player. Marin is a winger - simple as that.

He wouldn't be a 'back up' option. He would be a top rotation player which we need.

Jeez. People talk about how we need more strikers when we've got Torres and Ba yet think we're 'ok' when it comes to our creative midfielders. No.

We play around 2 games a week these days. Again - what happens when we rest Mata or Hazard?..... and why does that happen? Because our options aren't good enough when it comes to rotation.

Do people not realise how incredible Isco's talent is? Anything near the reported price would be a steal.