Juan Cuadrado

[OneMoSalah 8,619]

So Schurrle stays then if Salah goes on loan to Fiorentina... interesting.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

So Schurrle stays then if Salah goes on loan to Fiorentina... interesting.

wouldn't bank on it

[xPetrCechx 13,548]

Schurrle still can leave to germany.

Costa maybe will come.

[Namika 922]

[Special Juan 27,111]

Sounds like it's moving on now.

[xPetrCechx 13,548]

https://twitter.com/carlolaudisa/status/560810942188236800

English maybe?

[iceboy 992]

calciomercato.it ‏@calciomercatoit 3m3 minutes ago

#Fiorentina, #Chelsea have completed the signing of #Cuadrado for €33,5 million plus the loan of #Salah

http://www.calciomercato.it/news/315497/calciomercato-fiorentina-cuadrado-ad-un-passo-dal-chelsea.html

[lionsden 4,689]

If He fulfills most people's suspicion/prediction and turns out to be just another energetic winger with little goal threat aka another Willian, someone at the club, be it Jose or emenalo will have some questions to answer. We don't have the luxury of making bad buys or unneccessary buys anymore. we have enough energy on the wing already, we need genuine quality/end prodcut.

[supporter 3,088]

I remember when Jose arrived at Inter and he got the signing of Wesley Sneijder before the match Inter - Milan in August. Jose put Sneijder in the starting eleven that same match.

Also in the Real Madrid Jose signed Diego Lopez, although in a different situation than Sneijder situation, but Jose also put Diego Lopez in the starting eleven in the match Real Madrid against Barcelona.

This may mean nothing, but maybe Jose is thinking to putting Juan Cuadrado (or other signing) in our starting eleven on Saturday as an attempt to stage a coup d'unexpected effect.

Regards to ALL.

[Special Juan 27,111]

Maybe?

https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC_es/status/560816913098346496/photo/1

[DH1988 1,203]

Wow, Fiorentina have absolutely bent us over here.

Good player but my God..

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Maybe?

https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC_es/status/560816913098346496/photo/1

Well I would say it's very unlikely to have hair like cuadrado!

[ChelseaFC12 134]

If He fulfills most people's suspicion/prediction and turns out to be just another energetic winger with little goal threat aka another Willian, someone at the club, be it Jose or emenalo will have some questions to answer. We don't have the luxury of making bad buys or unneccessary buys anymore. we have enough energy on the wing already, we need genuine quality/end prodcut.

The thing is it's not all about goals which we desire from Willian. but it is his decision making, he just doesn't prove any threat from right hand side of the wing whenever he has the ball in danger areas he has a brain fade and just stops instead of running them down and provide the pass in the final third.

This leads to Hazard being man marked by 2 and this stops our creativity. If we he'd even has somewhat better decision making and can provide even 50-60% if the threat Hazard do we'll be unstoppable.

[Supermonkey92 1,428]

Wow, Fiorentina have absolutely bent us over here.

Good player but my God..

I think you'll be surprised by how much you like him in the team. If it's around £25m I think it's within a reasonable ball park.

[iceboy 992]

Maybe?

https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC_es/status/560816913098346496/photo/1

This is from the summer dude.

[illmatic 901]

Maybe?

https://twitter.com/ChelseaFC_es/status/560816913098346496/photo/1

No, this picture is of a travel for a Colombian team convocatory, because the other guy (Black shirt and jean) is Carlos Carbonero, another Colombian player than plays in Italy.

[Azul 1,615]

Wow, Fiorentina have absolutely bent us over here.

Good player but my God..

26m pounds is a decent price considering that Willian was 30m.

[dee25 1,044]

There have been no reliable sources stating that we are looking to pay over 20M for Douglas Costa. The impression I've been getting is that we are hoping to get him for around 15-20M. If we move Salah on (now or in the near future) we will be looking to get 7-13M for him; that will cover around half of the Douglas transfer fee.

And I simply don't get this 'not all that good' argument that I see being trotted out again and again. Douglas Costa will likely be 5TH CHOICE. Too many people on here seem to think that we will genuinely be able to have a roster full of world-class/near-world-class AMs, and that two of these players are going to be satisfied with spending most of their time on the bench. This will never happen; even BAYERN and REAL have been unable to make such a situation work.

Ideally, that 5th AM spot could be occupied by one of our youth players, but this seems unlikely to happen at the moment. This is possibly because Mourinho doesn't trust them yet, and/or possibly because Mourinho feels that the lack of meaningful game-time that they will receive as 5th choice will stall their potential development. Either way, we may soon find ourselves one AM short, and we will need to bring in a replacement (for Salah) who is actually trusted enough by Mourinho to fulfil the squad role that they have been brought in to play, and so does not spend all of their time either on the bench or out of the squad completely.

Even for 15-20M, there's something very unsettling to me about paying that amount of money for a player who hasn't managed to consistently perform well in the Ukrainian league. From what I've read he's shown flashes of quality but generally hasn't impressed all that much but you're telling me that he's going to come to the premier league, in the middle of the season, to a more disciplined system than he's used to and with less playing time than he's used to and suddenly be able to make a big enough impact? Mata, KDB, Moses, Salah, Schurrle - all have struggled to impress but somehow a 24 yr old from the Ukrainian league who isn't even the best player in his team will come in the middle of the season and do better than all those players? It just seems like fantasy thinking.