nore_ega 8 Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Why give Zouma or Christensen a chance when you can splash out 35 million on Mangala?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.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalBlues 4,050 Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miki-Liki 405 Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,573 Posted June 3, 2014 Author Share Posted June 3, 2014 Mourinho is also far more interested in signing Porto’s French central defender Eliaquim Mangala (Independent) #CFC#FCPortoMangala views Chelsea as a more desirable prospect and City may need to out-spend their rivals on wages to land him (Independent) #CFC#MCFC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,152 Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petre.ispirescu 4,928 Posted June 3, 2014 Share Posted June 3, 2014 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDN Blue 7,903 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mannyfreshh 164 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Kaplan- 410 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Who knew about luis and mangala a year or so ago? Exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Symbol123 175 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucio 5,418 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 Who knew about luis and mangala a year or so ago?Exactlymost people? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jype 6,398 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BleedsBlue 1,549 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 No he seems too expensive and I believe we can wait another 2 months for alternatives to consider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZOS 580 Posted June 4, 2014 Share Posted June 4, 2014 I wouldn't mind if we don't sign a CB now .... Zuma should be adequate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,573 Posted June 5, 2014 Author Share Posted June 5, 2014 #FCPorto’s highly-rated centre-back, Eliaquim Mangala, is set to reject interest from #MCFC in favour of a move to Chelsea (Telegraph) #CFCEliaquim 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) #CFCMourinho still has strong links with #Porto & is hopeful #CFC will be able to land Mangala for less than £35m quoted in the past (Telegraph) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zolayes 14,489 Posted June 5, 2014 Share Posted June 5, 2014 I would prefer to give Kalas a chance at least until the winter window Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea? 892 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneMoSalah 8,886 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 A left footed CB, would add a bit more balance to the team I feel but at 35M no thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadenza666 221 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Kalas seems to be on his way to Koln....rumour might finally make sense but unnecessary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mannyfreshh 164 Posted June 6, 2014 Share Posted June 6, 2014 Heard a lot about mangala last 2 years and seems like an elite player.. I bought him on FM and all he does is get red card lol.. Hopefully if we get him he doesn't play like he does in football manager because it would be a waste of money lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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