Whiskey 173 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 A player has to WANT to move. Hummels has given no signal that he's unhappy or looking for a move.People dont understand that.I remember people screaming "buy Lewandowski" even though there was never really the slightest chance he was coming to Chelsea for obvious reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero 1,884 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 BTW, I love how everyone always becomes an expert on players in other leagues. If you are not Italian and you are watching 10 Roma games a year, you are probably spending 87% of your waking hours on football. I figured that someone watching all of Chelsea, following the Premier League and CL closely (3 games a week in total) and watching a few other big games in football would watch something like 30,000+ hours on football a year which is about 3 weeks of the year. If you wanted to drop down a level and watch more, who else are you watching? Roma games? Inter games? Athletico games? Bayern games? Juventus games? Porto? Benfica? Ajax? How many games can you watch? It's not possible! It's not just about not being able that much football (unless you are taping games and have zero life at all). I am always very skeptical when people say they watch other leagues in depth. (Unless they are from that country or have a particular tie to it). BeiN Sports... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Was JT fast in his prime? Was Puyol fast in his prime? You don't have to be fast to be a quality CB bro. Hummels was easily the best CB in the WC.Really? I thought he was all over the shop in the final and Boateng was carrying him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mechromancer 262 Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Yep. Mats is pretty slow. No pls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Skipper 20,609 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I don't want another CB this year. I think we'll be fine with JT, Cahill, Brana and Zouma for this year, I've always said though that we seriously need to start looking at options after this year though. I think JT can give us one more top year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Skipper 20,609 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Was JT fast in his prime? Was Puyol fast in his prime? You don't have to be fast to be a quality CB bro. Hummels was easily the best CB in the WC.Vlaar was better IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Namika 922 Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Boateng, Vlaar and Garay were the 3 best CB in the WC imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myself 793 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 I'd love if he signed, but I'd also hate if he signed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simonez 69 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 http://www.gazzetta.it/Calciomercato/13-08-2014/calciomercato-roma-arriva-fax-chelsea-trattare-benatia-basa-chiriches-manolas-90125426816.shtmlGazzetta dello Sport today insist Chelsea have already opened talks with Roma over Benatia and with an offer of about £30m a deal could be done not later than next week.Benatia was the best CB in the poorest SerieA league in years last season and he's totally unproven at international level. 30m could be better spent elsewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bacika 188 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Just found this..Kristof Terreur@HLNinEngeland57sMourinho ruled out the signing of Mehdi Benatia (Roma): "We aren't interested." Clubs are allowed to register 17 foreigners. #CFC have 18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,996 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Yeah, was always a long shot. José fibs a lot regarding transfers but I think he's telling the truth here.He keeps saying "I have the squad I want" and stuff like that as well as the club "this is our squad for 14/15." Makes me think that we're completely finished in the transfer market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaFanUK 1,014 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Yeah, was always a long shot. José fibs a lot regarding transfers but I think he's telling the truth here.He keeps saying "I have the squad I want" and stuff like that as well as the club "this is our squad for 14/15." Makes me think that we're completely finished in the transfer market.possibly. Wouldnt bank on it though. Because a foreigner still has to leave regardless. So it isnt "quite" the 14/15 squad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaFanUK 1,014 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 http://www.gazzetta.it/Calciomercato/13-08-2014/calciomercato-roma-arriva-fax-chelsea-trattare-benatia-basa-chiriches-manolas-90125426816.shtmlGazzetta dello Sport today insist Chelsea have already opened talks with Roma over Benatia and with an offer of about £30m a deal could be done not later than next week.Benatia was the best CB in the poorest SerieA league in years last season and he's totally unproven at international level. 30m could be better spent elsewhere.correire dello sport, duno if reliable, also say same thing and Sabatini will inform Garcia tomorrow that he is leaving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nadavTKL 1,787 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Benatia's agent: "Future at Chelsea? It's not true. Is he staying at Roma? I would say so" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaFanUK 1,014 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Benatia's agent: Generic response. Unless formal talks are taking place or a bid accepted, not much else he can say Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,234 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Wouldn't take anything Jose says as gospel when it includes transfers nor would I take what an agent says as gospel.Wait and see. Wouldn't be surprised if it did, wouldn't be surprised if it didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stroey 2,525 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 http://www.asroma.co.uk/news/transfer-talk/item/591-agent-rejects-talk-of-mehdi-benatia-leaving-roma-for-chelsea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Chels 2,502 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 If we actually wanted him we'd have signed him early on in the window like we did with our other targets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Skipper 20,609 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 "No, we're not interested. We have John [Terry], [Gary] Cahill, [branislav] Ivanovic, [Kurt] Zouma, and we want to integrate [Andreas] Christensen", Mourinho said."Step by step [for Christensen], training with us, every day, playing a few minutes when it is possible, playing with the Under-21s and training with us as a first-team squad member. We are fine. are, we are well set in defence". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,234 Posted August 14, 2014 Share Posted August 14, 2014 It wouldn't a transfer window without mine and your favorite Tancredi Palmeri.He claims we are in talks for Benatia.So we aren't then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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