James Rodríguez

[Beigl 1,387]

Think he said last week he will be staying at Real which is a shame because he is a superb player, I'm really baffled how Zidane doesn't seem to rate him or Isco and struggles to get him in to the team. Casemiro is a good footballer but Kroos played excellently as a CDM under Ancelotti the previous year...  

I still don't know if Conte will play a traditional number 10 or not, but if so him or Gotze would have been perfect, especially if you consider Oscar..

Then again Conte favours a 4-2-4 or 5-3-2 so we probably will play with three central midfielders and with Hazard and Willian on the wings.

[Liuxas 121]

According to "Sport newspaper" we are interesting in him. http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/11562/transfer-talk/2016/08/15/26557062/rumours-chelsea-willing-to-spend-big-on-james?ICID=HP_BN_2

[Fernando 6,453]

90 million, Yeah right. 

[blues.bridge 343]

They would be 90 million down the toilet !

[avroneelbiswas 33]

We would rather go for Mahrez.

[dkim2 73]

Really wish it is true. Sell Cesc for 45m, Cuadrado for 30m, Pedro for 25m and get James for 85m. It would be one helluva signing. 

Koulibaly, Fabinho, James for this summer.

Mahrez for next summer.

 

Hazard-Costa-Mahrez

(Moses) (Batman) (Willian)

Kante-James-Matic

(Maia) (Oscar) (Chalobah)

Azpi-Koulibaly-Christensen-Fabinho

(Baba) (Zouma) (Cahill) (Aina)

 

Doable against big boys in champions league.

[avroneelbiswas 33]

After seeing yesterday's match, it seems we need to strengthen our midfield as well.

[zekinjo 449]

I don't think we are capable of taking him. Maybe City or United in England.

[the wes 7,212]

2 hours ago, zekinjo said:

I don't think we are capable of taking him. Maybe City or United in England.

Why?? City or United don't need him 

[Diego 433]

Sounds like nonsense 

[Unionjack 7,531]

The swap was something that I was thinking in my wobbly state last night. But will he want to stay and fight at RM? Just how pissed off is he? Lets hope he fancies seeing the bright lights of London.

[RuudiGullit 112]

Wouldn't really mind him as we really lack creative players apart from Hazard and Bats...but 90million is insane as we also need to strengthen the defence and a backup or second striker. Those reports about that last £140 to spend will be gone very soon.

[J.F. 1,484]

http://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2016/08/16/57b2121346163fbe318b45c3.html

 

On his way out from Real Madrid

[RuudiGullit 112]

http://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2016/08/16/57b2121346163fbe318b45c3.html

 

On his way out from Real Madrid

Yeah. If Marca reports this, this is true. 90 million is way too much. Surely Perez isn't asking that much for a player he just axed?

[Special Juan 27,424]

End up at PSG, cannot see us buying him.

[Liuxas 121]

Would be massive signing for us. World Class player and one of the most popular players in the world. I mean, if we spend on him 75 pounds I can predict the club will get this sum back from selling shirts. He's so popular in South America.

[akgw13 867]

If we've got the type of money prepared for lukaku I'd much rather have James for a little bit more. Front three of a motivated hazard Costa and James is world class! With kante/matic shielding + whoever as the 3rd midfielder(I think Willian would be perfect next to them, and against weaker teams matic can sit for a more creative player) not getting my hopes up until he is holding up a Chelsea shirt though

[Dazzy_Vance 454]

People are quick to forget just how good this guy was for Real Madrid in his first season. 13 goals and 12 assists from 29 league appearances. A lot of his goals were from long distance or outside the box as well.

He obviously fell out of favour once Carlo got sacked and couldn't find form again. We know how ruthless Real Madrid are once players don't perform consistently week in, week out. They had no problem dumping quality players such as Ozil, Di Maria, Higuain, etc. and look how they've performed at their new clubs.

In my opinion we should go all out for him. We need more goal scoring options outside of Hazard and Costa. We also need more creativity from midfield outside of Hazard and Cesc. James would be a huge signing.