Marco van Ginkel

[IkE 267]

Agree over Essien/Mikel and the loanees. Though I think a Championship loan for Ake would be good too. However we look at it, that 12/13 needs to be whittled down to 6/7.

In my personal Opinion Ake could be one of our best young players, but he need to feel the pain... So or train hard with us, or go to any team that will play almost all the games (preferable premier)

[didierforever 7,349]

never seen him play so i will reserve my judgement about him.

but as far as the board goes, this is a stupid move considering the type of youth players we already have. chalobah, ake, josh, romeu, kdb and not to forget even OSCAR. what we needed right now was a world class DM who good be head and shoulders above most people on the football field. de rossi would have been IDEAL. so in my opinion not a very good use of 8 mil (thats what i heard) as it does not solve any problems that we currently have.

[Ankit 3,176]

Well, not bad at all!!

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Hope we still go for a DM.

[BOSS 372]

Great signing!!!

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Happy to see the deal finally done. I actually expect him to stay here and take some part with the first team instead of leaving on loan.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Happy to see the deal finally done. I actually expect him to stay here and take some part with the first team instead of leaving on loan.

If we play a 4-2-3-1 then i can definitely see him getting significant playing time but in a 4-3-3 i dont think he'll get much playing time.

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Well, not bad at all!!

Who the hell has made this? Oscar has gone down???

[The Skipper 20,609]

Loan out Romeu and Josh, get in De Rossi or Kondogbia. Leaves us with Lampard, Mikel, Essien, Ramires, Van Ginkel, De Rossi/Kondogbia for the pivot with Oscar and KDB. Could potentially mean we're playing 4-3-3 as well, which isn't too bad.

Squad already potentially looks a million times better than last season's.

[The Skipper 20,609]

Who the hell has made this? Oscar has gone down???

Oscar wasn't even £25m to begin with. Imaginary numbers.

[Ankit 3,176]

Who the hell has made this? Oscar has gone down???

Got it off from twitter! Don't agree with Mata's price as well! You can't even get Mata's shoelaces for 40 million. We are talking about a world where Bale is hyped up to be 65 million plus. But the point is, board has done a fantastic job!

[yuvala 2,167]

Loan out Romeu and Josh, get in De Rossi or Kondogbia. Leaves us with Lampard, Mikel, Essien, Ramires, Van Ginkel, De Rossi/Kondogbia for the pivot with Oscar and KDB. Could potentially mean we're playing 4-3-3 as well, which isn't too bad.

Squad already potentially looks a million times better than last season's.

this ^

[IkE 267]

Did we pay 6.7M for KDB?

[Jype 6,398]

Great signing. Personally I expect him to have a significant role, I don't think he would have joined otherwise.

I like this new Chelsea. Only two years ago our squad had probably the highest average age among Europe's top clubs but now we've got a brilliant young squad.

Feruz (16), Kalas (17), Piazon (17), Wallace (18), Lukaku (18), T. Hazard (19), Omeruo (19), Courtois (19), Romeu (19), De Bruyne (20), Oscar (20), Van Ginkel (20), E. Hazard (21), Moses (21), Azpilicueta (22), Schürrle (22), Mata (23), Luiz (23), Marin (23)

All our young signing since 2011, inside the brackets their age at the time of the signing. Only Torres, Meireles and Demba Ba have been players older than 23 when they were signed. On top of that all that the homegrown talent (Chalobah, Ake etc.) and the future is looking very bright for the club, even if we stopped making any more big signing in the next couple of years, be it because of FFP or a new club policy or something else entirely.

[Despiadado.Maleante 1,046]

Well, not bad at all!!

Don't think the price is right for Piazon, Wallace, Lukaku, and Oscar.

Lukaku was 13mil with potentially rising to 18