Waterfall 893 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 He can be a cover for Ramires who's irreplaceable at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadavTKL 1,787 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 It's again Di Marzio, not Palmeri! you people are a pain in the ass for saying the same thing every freaking time. Palmeri just writes what he reads most of the time. (In the Cavani saga he did posted some bs himself)I'm happy, no more Lampard or Mikel in our regular first 11, hopefully... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea Legend 11 4,062 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Put him on Ice. A striker is all we need to be celebrating in May.Not entirely true. We lost Van Ginkel for the year so currently we don't have a full compliment of mids. that is evidenced by the sub par play by Ramires lately... He's being run into the ground, we need another midfielder as much as we need a striker for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Warrior 109 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Disagree, can only be a combative defensive midfielder. Not convinced by this guy. A striker is still then top priority. We dominate games but are not clinical enough to win them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lionsden 4,689 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Out of all the CM's in europe why this guy. our transfer policy just keeps getting weirder and more retarded each year. I bet some people will try to put a positive spin on this move and try to insult our intelligence by painting Guarin as the second coming of Viera Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadavTKL 1,787 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Out of all the CM's in europe why this guy. our transfer policy just keeps getting weirder and more retarded each year. I bet some people will try to put a positive spin on this move and try to insult our intelligence by painting Guarin as the second coming of Viera I think it's clearly Jose's signing. And what are the names of all the midfielders who are available in January? spill it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Warrior 109 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Look no further than Ilkay Gundogan, Paul Pogba and Arturo Vidal if you want the future. Would rather have De Rossi than this untested upstart at Inter. A few more English players would not go a miss. Lets keep the bar high and think about the cash later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bir_CFC 3,455 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 People are looking at this like Jose is bringing him in to solve our midfield problems. No, he isn't going to solve anything. Solving should have been done last summer, now it'll be done next summer. Guarin is only coming in to make sure they don't get worse before we can find a solution next summer.At least Jose has identified that the midfield needs help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadavTKL 1,787 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 For the future? I agree about the names you mentioned, but we need a CM right now. I hope that in the summer we'll go for one of those world class midfielders. If this signing means we won't do it, it will upset me to, but I realy don't think so. Jose can't make this mistake twice summer after summer, I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sodasys 40 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 wanted ivan rakitic instead of that guarin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,149 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 18ME for a stand in eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mufassir08 2,400 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 This will be the very definition of an underwhelming signing.This guy wont improve anything except our depth which imo is not our biggest issue,our main problem is our lack of quality in midfield and this guy will hardly improve that.A big D minus! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vybz Kartel 1,613 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Feels like tht sidwell signing all over again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vybz Kartel 1,613 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 I rather we buy Yohan Cabaye, proven in the EPL, a better player, younger, probably the same price with this guarin guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jype 6,398 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Look no further than Ilkay Gundogan, Paul Pogba and Arturo Vidal if you want the future. Would rather have De Rossi than this untested upstart at Inter. A few more English players would not go a miss. Lets keep the bar high and think about the cash later.If you really believe any of those would be available in January you're deluded.Pogba and Vidal are both enjoying life at Juve where they are fighting for the league title and it's not like Juventus need the money either. Dortmund won't sell Gündogan in January when they still have a very good chance of winning the Champions League title and the player himself will want to keep his options open till after the World Cup. De Rossi didn't want to leave Roma last summer so why would he leave now when the club he loves are a serious title contender for the first time in a very long while? And tell me, which available English central midfielder would be an upgrade to our current squad? And please don't say Ross Barkley because he's an attacking midfielder, not to mention the fact he probably won't leave in January either when Everton are doing so well and at least by playing every game there he has a good chance of making the World Cup squad.Players like Guarin, Cabaye and Rakitic are the ones we can realistically go after in the January window and I really don't see a problem with that. Getting any of those guys now would be an improvement to our current midfield and they would also be able to play in all competitions, unlike the names you mentioned. And the people saying they prefer this or that player of the available ones, will you for once trust Mourinho to know what he's doing? If he wants Guarin and not Cabaye, then Guarin he shall get. Haven't we learnt by now that it's really no use buying players that the manager does not want?The time to get a world class midfielder is definitely upon us and Mourinho knows this too but he also has enough experience not to go chasing windmills like poor David Moyes last summer with his unrealistic pursuit of Fabregas for the whole transfer window which left him empty handed in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eidur the Spider 4,515 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Feels a bit like the Maniche signing, albeit not on loan this time around! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,149 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Imagine if we had the balls to put Chalobah in there, big saving of 18ME right there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushman 2,043 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Watch out boys, Fredy is ready to come over.Apparently, an original bid of 12m rejected, but 15m was offered.I just hope, Jose knows what he is doing here.Frank & Rami do need help though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muzchap 8,966 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Imagine if we had the balls to put Chalobah in there, big saving of 18ME right there.Yup our youth set-up must be demoralised as hell...They are the equivalent of a graduate looking for a job, everybody wants skills + experience - they only have 1 of those.To be fair, reading this board sometimes, us the fans are too blame too! We all like to talk about transition - but none of us actually want to experience it... A few poor performances and people are saying Mourinho out, glad this player is suspended blah blah.Now that's a massive problem in my eyes!!! Oh well - I trust the manager, so if this guy joins, I will back him. Remember Drogba - everybody thought that would be a bad bit of business... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,149 Posted December 17, 2013 Share Posted December 17, 2013 Yup our youth set-up must be demoralised as hell...They are the equivalent of a graduate looking for a job, everybody wants skills + experience - they only have 1 of those.To be fair, reading this board sometimes, us the fans are too blame too! We all like to talk about transition - but none of us actually want to experience it... A few poor performances and people are saying Mourinho out, glad this player is suspended blah blah.Now that's a massive problem in my eyes!!!Oh well - I trust the manager, so if this guy joins, I will back him. Remember Drogba - everybody thought that would be a bad bit of business...I can see why because our midfield is shite and we need something or someone. But looking at this Guarin situation on face value, he hasn't played in the PL and coming to Chelsea would be as big a risk as putting in Nathaniel, but 18ME plus the risk??????? Really, we need need to grow some balls and give him a go.The easy get out, throw money at it when both are risks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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