Rumoured Mehdi Benatia

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Benatia ready to pen new deal at Roma

Roma fullback Mehdi Benatia is ready to snub a move and sign a new deal at Italian Serie A side Roma, according to The Daily Express.

[BenIsLegend 475]

Roma reps are headed to London. I'm being told to facilitate a sale and a purchase. A meeting with Chelsea for Mehdi Benatia is possible. @Solano_56

Lots more info on these two accounts. Seem reliable.

https://twitter.com/ASRomaPress

https://twitter.com/Solano_56

[stroey 2,525]

Roma reps are headed to London. I'm being told to facilitate a sale and a purchase. A meeting with Chelsea for Mehdi Benatia is possible. @Solano_56

Lots more info on these two accounts. Seem reliable.

https://twitter.com/ASRomaPress

https://twitter.com/Solano_56

Destro?

[Diego 433]

Roma reps are headed to London. I'm being told to facilitate a sale and a purchase. A meeting with Chelsea for Mehdi Benatia is possible. @Solano_56

Lots more info on these two accounts. Seem reliable.

https://twitter.com/ASRomaPress

https://twitter.com/Solano_56

I never quite understood things like this, don't football clubs have phones? hey ho id be happy if we signed him!

[calculatingInfinity 1,443]

I never quite understood things like this, don't football clubs have phones? hey ho id be happy if we signed him!

Yes, so does politicians and so on. Why do they even meet up?

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Destro (out) and Nastazic (in) I guess.

[didierforever 7,349]

Don't need him!!!

[Daniel1980 1,425]

Don't need him!!!

Yeah, our defence looked brilliant against Burnley. Not worrying at all. Of course we don't need a top defender in his prime.

[sherry33 234]

I want Destro!

[TheIceMan 596]

I want Destro!

+1

[BenIsLegend 475]

I want Destro!

That would be nice but can't see room for him unless Torres leaves

[Special Juan 27,424]

Things are OK right now, no silly Benatia bids I'm hoping.

Just another striker and sell or loan Torres to a market trader and it's good.

[didierforever 7,349]

Yeah, our defence looked brilliant against Burnley. Not worrying at all. Of course we don't need a top defender in his prime.

It dint??? Barelt troubled. We have iva and one of the brightest talents in zouma as our back ups. We have kalas and omerou on loan and yet we should be spending 30mil on a player who would barely make us any better than we already are. He is not HG, and we are already 1 non HG player more than the allowed limit. Buying him would mean selling /loaning 2 players. Pray tell me who those will be???

Like I said, don't want him, don't need him.

[Mechromancer 262]

Barely?

[didierforever 7,349]

Did I miss something? Dint we concede 27 goals in the whole PL last season. I mean are we talking about a very solid and stable GC-JT partnership or a skrtel-toure one???

I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.

[didierforever 7,349]

Did I miss something? Dint we concede 27 goals in the whole PL last season. I mean are we talking about a very solid and stable GC-JT partnership or a skrtel-toure one???

I guess the grass is always greener on the other side.

[Myself 793]

Yeah, our defence looked brilliant against Burnley. Not worrying at all. Of course we don't need a top defender in his prime.

You're correct, we don't need him.

[Daniel1980 1,425]

It dint??? Barelt troubled. We have iva and one of the brightest talents in zouma as our back ups. We have kalas and omerou on loan and yet we should be spending 30mil on a player who would barely make us any better than we already are. He is not HG, and we are already 1 non HG player more than the allowed limit. Buying him would mean selling /loaning 2 players. Pray tell me who those will be???

Like I said, don't want him, don't need him.

We must have been watching a different game then. Our defense looked unconvincing, even a bit panicky, against the team that is probably the weakest in the PL.

Yes, we conceded 27 goals in the PL last season, but it was largely thanks to the way we played as a team, with all our attacking players tracking back a lot and focused on defending, which was often detrimental to our attack.

Against Burnley we played more attacking and aggressive than we usually did last season, and our much-praised defense looked shaky. Our CBs are good, but they aren't the best out there individually, not to mention that JT is slow and isn't getting any younger unfortunately. Last season our defense was very flattered by the incredible defensive contribution of our other players. If we keep playing as attacking as we did against Burnley(and we should, with the players we currently have), a better team than Burnley will exploit it.

Zouma? Hype aside, he didn't look good even against the shitty teams we played in preseason, making lots of mistakes. Do you want an inexperienced, mistake-prone teenager to play in important matches? I don't. He's not ready yet. Iva will play RB a lot too, so he's nowhere enough to cover both CBs in case of bad form/injury. The truth is, we have 5 experienced defenders for 4 positions to play 50+ games. It's not enough. In comparison: we have 6 AMs for 3 AM positions, 4-5 CMs for 2 pivot positions, 3 strikers for 1 position(yes, Drogba and Torres aren't good enough, but the fact remains that we have 3 experienced strikers for 1 position).

2 non-HG players? Sell Cech(he deserves better than to sit on the bench) and loan out MVG(it is not ideal, but we have a much better depth in the pivot than in defense. I like the kid, but we all know Jose will pick Ramires over him and Mikel is better defensively). Ideally, we should get rid of Torres and sign a proper young second striker.