Is There One Big Signing Left In Us?

[Special Juan 28,094]

Well, that's that then, Lukaku has fucked off we now have 28M fat ones in the arse pocket plus other cash left over……Something will be rumbling under I am sure, someone out and someone in.

[Pizy 18,850]

Well, that's that then, Lukaku has fucked off we now have 28M fat ones in the arse pocket plus other cash left over……Something will be rumbling under I am sure, someone out and someone in.

Hope you're right.

Di Maria, please!

[Hutcho 8,443]

Maybe another striker for cheap as back up.

But personally i am extremely happy with our window and don't expect or particularly think we need to bring anyone else in.

End the window bring on the first game. LetsGoooooo!

[Mustafa 885]

Marco Reus.

Just refused to sign a new contract that Dortmund offered him so they can bump up the amount of his current release clause of £27 million (which becomes active next season).

So a cheeky bid of £35 million would probably be enough.

Besides, with Ribery ageing now, I'm 100% sure Bayern will be interested come next season when they can buy him on his release clause. And Bayern are the last team Dortmund would want to sell to.

[Fulham Broadway 17,299]

Nope.

Costa, Drogba & Torres it is with Schurrle if needed. That's a major improvement on last year imo

[MichaelDance 552]

We have to sell one more player, hopefully that is Torres. If so, hopefully we can bring in a great 2nd option up front.

We'd make a loss, everyother club is like 50m for him f*ck off lol.

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

Just like the same turds that thought Giroud wasnt a good holdup player.

fing hs kids these days

Giroud is miles better than Carroll, Carroll is utter shite.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

I wish I'd be English to explain this better, but I'll give it a try though. Hope you'll get my point.

From what I've read, after the Lukaku move, Chelsea can spend up to €75-80m on transfers this month (August) w/o breaking the FFP rules.

But if Chelsea will do such thing, then in the next transfer windows (not now!), the club will have (is forced) to sell some loanies to free up FFP space (wages plus some other FFP related stuff).

Is important to know that the club won't have to sell now. No, not now, but in the next transfer windows (next winter and next summer). Don't ask me, I don't know why, apparently this are the rules.

That's why the club have sent Kakuta or Bertrand on loan, instead of selling them. The club will probably send Moses on loan, too, and Marin. There is no need to sell them right now because it would mean nothing in the FFP books. Next transfer windows are important in terms of getting rid of loanies, not this one.

The same thing goes for Torres too, I'm afraid. As Jose said, the deals that Chelsea have made this summer have put the club in a great position so freeing up the Torres space would not mean a big deal in the FFP books now. But it will mean a big deal next summer, when he'll free a hell of a lot of space in the FFP books (even if he goes for free!).

As I said, I don't know why in order to buy this summer you have to sell in the next transfer windows (loanies especially), but apparently this are the rules.

Wanted to write this in the Kakuta thread, for those wondering why Chelsea didn't sell him now. At least this is what I think - Chelsea needs to free up loanies space in the next windows, not in this one. Even if Kakuta will leave for free next summer, he'll free up space for that window.

And to answer Special Juan's question, yes, I think there's one more top player to arrive this summer.

[bluesman2610 1,415]

Nah, nothing reliable from them, Sirigu is a top keeper, kept a clean sheet for 775 minutes, a PSG record breaker.

Monaco however, that's different, from the moment Alves failed his medical they will have had their eyes on Cech's situation.

He is a top keeper but also has only 1 yr remaining on his current deal so they have to be in the market for a top keeper as well I Wouldn't be surprised if they don't come looking for Cech

[bluesman2610 1,415]

With a few technical strikers in last 11 months of their existing deals I personally think someone like Benz or Dzeko would be ideal for us to dominate in PL and Europe .. we somehow though need to get rid of Mikel/ and or Torres to pull off one of these deals.. Both those strikers have contracts expiring in 2015 why not cheeky big we have the money to pull it off

[iseah100 5,612]

CHICHARITOOOOOO!!!!

[Barbara 15,149]

I don't think we need another midfielder, although I do think we need a striker like Remy or Benteke, with Torres as 4th choice.

Benteke would be perfect here, although how much he's prone to injuries? It seems he's injured all the time - but it could be only a wrong impression.

[Stingray 9,441]

Benteke would be perfect here, although how much he's prone to injuries? It seems he's injured all the time - but it could be only a wrong impression.

Thats pretty much ok, but he is very far from clinical. He can link up great though.

[Dion 2,476]

I'd really, really like Di Maria here. He's so underrated... IMO he was Argentina's best player in the WC. Problem is we're already stacked with AMs and he would cost a fortune so I'm not sure. I wouldn't mind buying him at all, but I think our squad looks good as it is. If we get rid of Torres maybe we could use Costa/Drogba/Bamford and save some bucks. I'd even call it an improvement over Torres. Probably the best option and what makes more sense from a financial point of view. We'd have a proven and reaching his peak striker in Costa, a proven and experienced striker in DD and a young and promising one who is probably already better than Torres in Bamford.

[Reddish-Blue 2,489]

CHICHARITOOOOOO!!!!

I wouldn't mind Chicharito...but I'm not sure if he fits Jose's tactics

He seems more suited to a team that plays with 2 strikers up front...