Eliaquim Mangala

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

Why give Zouma or Christensen a chance when you can splash out 35 million on Mangala?

Exactly, let's buy them all, and loan as many as we want. F*** FFP, f*** uefa.

[Miki-Liki 405]

Because maybe one day those 2 can be were mangala is at now. And spending all the time and not giving our youth a chance is not the right way to go forward as club and a buisness..

I was being sarcastic. I thought it was obvious.

[xPetrCechx 13,548]

Mourinho is also far more interested in signing Porto’s French central defender Eliaquim Mangala (Independent) #CFC#FCPorto

Mangala views Chelsea as a more desirable prospect and City may need to out-spend their rivals on wages to land him (Independent) #CFC#MCFC

[Special Juan 27,104]

Really don't think we will be in for a CB at all. Fetch Zouma back in and that will be Zouma, Cahill, Terry and Ivanovic, then we have Kenneth/Kalas and it's a toss up who goes back out on loan.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Read something similar earlier today, but I was in a hurry and skipped past that story.

Now I went back to that article. It comes from La Repubblica (Rome based newspaper), one of the most reputable media outlets in Italy, along with Corriere della Sera and it says that AS Roma will sell Benatia (probably to City) and is already negociating with Mangala to replace him. After preliminary talks, they were sure Mangala accepted their offer, but things have changed in the last minute because Mourinho submitted a €26m offer to Porto. The offer is better than Roma's who will not pay more than €20m. Jose is a big admirer and the player would fancy a move to Chelsea as well. Now Chelsea is in pole position to sign the CB and now Benatia might stay in Rome for another season as all the Roma targets seem to be out of reach (Garay is going to Bayern de Munich, Marquinhos to Barcelona and Mangala to Chelsea)

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Read something similar earlier today, but I was in a hurry and skipped past that story.

Now I went back to that article. It comes from La Repubblica (Rome based newspaper), one of the most reputable media outlets in Italy, along with Corriere della Sera and it says that AS Roma will sell Benatia (probably to City) and is already negociating with Mangala to replace him. After preliminary talks, they were sure Mangala accepted their offer, but things have changed in the last minute because Mourinho submitted a €26m offer to Porto. The offer is better than Roma's who will not pay more than €20m. Jose is a big admirer and the player would fancy a move to Chelsea as well. Now Chelsea is in pole position to sign the CB and now Benatia might stay in Rome for another season as all the Roma targets seem to be out of reach (Garay is going to Bayern de Munich, Marquinhos to Barcelona and Mangala to Chelsea)

Oh dear.. Are we about to betray Zouma and Kalas then. 'Varane' promises indeed.

[mannyfreshh 164]

Imagine if we get mangala,luis,costa and fabregas???? We would be up there with barca, real and bayern as elite teams. Offcourse that would only be on paper until we win something...it's gonna be an interesting summer

[-Kaplan- 410]

Who knew about luis and mangala a year or so ago?

Exactly.

[Symbol123 175]

Who knew about luis and mangala a year or so ago?

Exactly.

This post says a lot about your football knowledge; many people already did

[lucio 5,401]

Who knew about luis and mangala a year or so ago?

Exactly

most people?

[Jype 6,398]

Who knew about luis and mangala a year or so ago?

Exactly.

If you hadn't heard of Filipe Luis a year ago, then mate I'm sorry to tell you but you don't know much about football because he's been one of the best left-backs in La Liga for at least five years now. Luis has been Atletico's first choice for four seasons while even prior to this year they were always challenging for at least the minor trophies (UEL, CdR) and before that he put on some very impressive performances for Deportivo, enough for Atletico to splash out €13m for him back in 2010.

Mangala was heavily linked with us last summer after having a brilliant season at Porto so that means most people were starting to see his quality in around 2012, when he was 20-21 years old. Aside from the freak exceptions that's usually the age when players start to develop massively so it's not a surprise the majority of people didn't really know Mangala until quite recently.

Just because you haven't been paying attention to football played outside England and don't recognize talented players when you see them doesn't mean everyone is as ignorant.

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

No he seems too expensive and I believe we can wait another 2 months for alternatives to consider.

[ZOS 580]

I wouldn't mind if we don't sign a CB now .... Zuma should be adequate

[xPetrCechx 13,548]

#FCPorto’s highly-rated centre-back, Eliaquim Mangala, is set to reject interest from #MCFC in favour of a move to Chelsea (Telegraph) #CFC

Eliaquim Mangala [prefers #CFC over #MCFC] as he wants to join a club who have had success in Europe (Telegraph)

Van Gaal is not interested in signing Mangala as he would prefer to bring in players with more experience in that position (Telegraph) #CFC

Mourinho still has strong links with #Porto & is hopeful #CFC will be able to land Mangala for less than £35m quoted in the past (Telegraph)

[zolayes 14,489]

I would prefer to give Kalas a chance at least until the winter window

[Chelsea? 892]

Wow players pick one temam over another for the strangest reasons. But if I were a defender, playing under Jose would be a no brainer.

[OneMoSalah 8,615]

A left footed CB, would add a bit more balance to the team I feel but at 35M no thanks.

[cadenza666 221]

Kalas seems to be on his way to Koln....rumour might finally make sense but unnecessary