The Skipper 20,609 Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Would be a very unnecessary signing. At £30m too? Please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Behemoth 266 Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Love the guy - please Mou makes this happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
petre.ispirescu 4,928 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 There is an article in today's Gazzetta Dello Sport printed edition in which they say Jose has convinced Roman to pay €38m for Benatia. He wants to have a complete team before the game against Burnley and Benatia is his favourite centre back at this moment and the #1 target.Talks between the two clubs have already begun yesterday and Gazzetta Dello Sport believe that Chelsea have made an offer too good not to be accepted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sherry33 234 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 There is an article in today's Gazzetta Dello Sport printed edition in which they say Jose has convinced Roman to pay €38m for Benatia. He wants to have a complete team before the game against Burnley and Benatia is his favourite centre back at this moment and the #1 target.Talks between the two clubs have already begun yesterday and Gazzetta Dello Sport believe that Chelsea have made an offer too good not to be accepted.38!?Hope its not true, would be really upset with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1980 1,425 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 He's 27. His age is just right for a CB: not too old but not too inexperienced. He was the top defender in Italy last season and was excellent at Udinese too. He's fast--which is something we lack. Our defence lacks depth. Zouma doesn't inspire much confidence and JT will probably retire soon. He's one of the top defenders out there. He has a rating of 7.55 on whoscored for a reason(in our team only Matic and Hazard had a bit higher). Pace, tackling, interceptions, positioning--he has no significant weakness. Just to compare him to JT and Cahill:Tackles per game: JT - 0.9; Cahill - 1.1; Benatia - 2.1Interceptions per game: JT -1; Cahill - 1; Benatia - 2.8Dribbled by other players: JT - 0.2; Cahill - 0.3; Benatia - 0.3IF the price is right, I'll be delighted if we get him. He'll strengthen any defence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chelsea Legend 11 4,062 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 He's 27. His age is just right for a CB: not too old but not too inexperienced. He was the top defender in Italy last season and was excellent at Udinese too. He's fast--which is something we lack. Our defence lacks depth. Zouma doesn't inspire much confidence and JT will probably retire soon. He's one of the top defenders out there. He has a rating of 7.55 on whoscored for a reason(in our team only Matic and Hazard had a bit higher). Pace, tackling, interceptions, positioning--he has no significant weakness. Just to compare him to JT and Cahill:Tackles per game: JT - 0.9; Cahill - 1.1; Benatia - 2.1Interceptions per game: JT -1; Cahill - 1; Benatia - 2.8Dribbled by other players: JT - 0.2; Cahill - 0.3; Benatia - 0.3IF the price is right, I'll be delighted if we get him. He'll strengthen any defence.If he's forced into making that many tackles he could be mistake prone. You usually tackle as a CB as a last resort. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1980 1,425 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 If he's forced into making that many tackles he could be mistake prone. You usually tackle as a CB as a last resort.Granted, he's a more aggressive defender than our CBs and he makes more fouls, but he also does far more interceptions(Cahill - 29; JT - 35; Benatia - 92), which shows that he's excellent at reading the game. Thiago Silva is another top defender who makes many tackles too(at least he used to in his best years at Milan) and he isn't exactly mistake prone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBlueGuy 1,552 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Really see him signing for us next year if Terry leaves, Zouma proves he isn't up to it yet and Roma don't win the Serie A. If they do I don't think he will want to leave/they let him go especially with Strootman likely heading toward MU once he recovers from his injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cadenza666 221 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 would be extremely happy if we sign him, best defender in the Serie A last year . and that will be CB future sorted for a good 4-5 years atleast, Kalas and Zouma to take over after ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego 433 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I have never seen him play personally but every reporter from Italy seem to rate him as one of the best all round CB in the world. Do we need him? Depends on which way you look at it, IF Cahill and Terry both stay fit and consistent as last year then probably not but terry isn't getting any younger wont be able to play as many games as last year. If one gets injured then we have Ivanovic who is good but not the world class standard we need for Half/ full season. If JM believes we need one then I trust him 100% and we shouldn't worry to much about the money situation either we have been doing some pretty good business recently to say the least and we are well within the FFP rules Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1980 1,425 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I have never seen him play personally but every reporter from Italy seem to rate him as one of the best all round CB in the world. Do we need him? Depends on which way you look at it, IF Cahill and Terry both stay fit and consistent as last year then probably not but terry isn't getting any younger wont be able to play as many games as last year. If one gets injured then we have Ivanovic who is good but not the world class standard we need for Half/ full season. If JM believes we need one then I trust him 100% and we shouldn't worry to much about the money situation either we have been doing some pretty good business recently to say the least and we are well within the FFP rulesYou've probably seen him play: It's his first preseason with Roma, against us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego 433 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I didn't see that game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,582 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 You've probably seen him play: It's his first preseason with Roma, against us.Chelsa Against Roma?When?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1980 1,425 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Chelsa Against Roma?When?! Preseason, August 2013. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Term-X 7,891 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Ivanovic is like the forgotten man atm, why do we need a high price CB when he's on the bench. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjperdeath 2,226 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Why would we buy him? Ivanovic to cover the CB spot and concentrate on phasing in Wallace to fill up the right-back spot in a year or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel1980 1,425 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Yes, best case scenario, our defence is as great as last season, no one gets injured and Iva would be enough to cover 2 CB spots. But we play a lot of games. With only three experienced CBs, we're one injury away from not having any good CBs on the bench. IF we can get Benatia for the right price, it'd be great. But 38 million is too much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stroey 2,525 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Yes, best case scenario, our defence is as great as last season, no one gets injured and Iva would be enough to cover 2 CB spots. But we play a lot of games. With only three experienced CBs, we're one injury away from not having any good CBs on the bench. IF we can get Benatia for the right price, it'd be great. But 38 million is too much.1. It's hard to keep 4 senior CB's happy, we already have a problem with keeping 5 senior defenders happy: luis, azpi, iva, gary, jt. Ake, Zouma and Christensen won't complain about minutes as they will play a lot in the cups and learn a lot from the seniors. 2. We just solved our HG quota problem, if we want to add one more Non-HG we will need to sell again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quickpassnmove 924 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I don't know what is going on with these rumours on another defender, but Mehdia Benatia is, definitively my favourite centre back right now who isn't in the twilight of his career and isn't playing for a club I dislike. He has everything a centre back needs and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 4,400 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Terry, Cahill, Ivanovic, Zouma, Kalas... We don't need any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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