Wishlist Blaise Matuidi

[zekinjo 449]

20 hours ago, Tautvix said:

The "fact" that we are targeting everyone means we will buy noone...

That would be extremely unambitious from our side...

[xPetrCechx 13,582]

Blaise Matuidi has been the subject of reported interest from Antonio Conte's Chelsea and Serie A champions #Juventus. (Mail) #PSG #CFC

[BlueLyon 9,359]

All the talk from Emery and Verratti about hoping Matuidi will stay looks like the player is seriously consisering leaving. 

If there is chance we should get him and play him next to Kante. That should bring enough pace to midifeld and that would compliment the lack of Cesc's pace. 

[J.F. 1,484]

10 hours ago, BlueLyon said:

All the talk from Emery and Verratti about hoping Matuidi will stay looks like the player is seriously consisering leaving. 

If there is chance we should get him and play him next to Kante. That should bring enough pace to midifeld and that would compliment the lack of Cesc's pace. 

Pogba - Pirlo - Vidal / Kante - Fabregas - Matuidi

[kellzfresh 7,229]

On 8/21/2016 at 0:29 AM, BlueLyon said:

All the talk from Emery and Verratti about hoping Matuidi will stay looks like the player is seriously consisering leaving. 

If there is chance we should get him and play him next to Kante. That should bring enough pace to midifeld and that would compliment the lack of Cesc's pace. 

Blaise Matuidi has reached a contract agreement with Juventus, a deal between clubs is close, according to L'Équipe bit.ly/2bv0Jqz

Honestly I would offer Matic to Juventus and grab matuidi to replace him. 

Matuidi was a starter in a midfield of a good possession team like PSG and starts for France and didn't look out of place. He's better than Matic right now, more mobile and is perfect for a box to box role. And we always have good players from the French League (Makelele, Drogba, Cech, Essien, Azpi, hopefully kante and batshuayi) 

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Reports say he is close to Juve and the only problem is price. Juve doesnt want to pay 40m.

Looks like we missed on another target.. 

Kellz beat me to it

[Dazzy_Vance 454]

He's an absolute workhorse. Would love this guy at Chelsea. Sell Matic to Juve for 25m and pay 40m for this guy or whatever it takes to get Nainggolan. We need more energy in midfield.

[Sideshow Luiz 2,310]

I'm also in favour of a Matuidi Fabs Kante midfield if Nainggolan is a no go (which seems to be the case).  

[xPetrCechx 13,582]

#PSG and #Juventus could reach an understanding in the coming hours for Blaise Matuidi who would cost just over €30m (L'Equipe)

[Polo7 3,496]

6 minutes ago, xPetrCechx said:

#PSG and #Juventus could reach an understanding in the coming hours for Blaise Matuidi who would cost just over €30m (L'Equipe)

Should have sold Matic to Juve and bought this guy

[avroneelbiswas 33]

With constant failures, I was wondering how on earth we managed to sign Kante?

[kellzfresh 7,229]

1 hour ago, avroneelbiswas said:

With constant failures, I was wondering how on earth we managed to sign Kante?

Simple, kante had a release clause. If he didn’t, he won't be here. 

[LAM09 7,069]

With constant failures, I was wondering how on earth we managed to sign Kante?

There was no chance of haggling. They paid the price in his clause.

[Pizy 18,994]

Will he even start every game for Juve? They seem pretty stocked in midfield - Pjanic, Marchisio, Khedira, Hernanes, Sturaro...

Seems like a similar situation for Matuidi as the one he'd be leaving at PSG. He'd be a rotation player just like at PSG.

[Yeboii 1,844]

47 minutes ago, LAM09 said:

There was no chance of haggling. They paid the price in his clause.

That proves players still want to come here while owners are being bitches

[BlueLyon 9,359]

42 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Will he even start every game for Juve? They seem pretty stocked in midfield - Pjanic, Marchisio, Khedira, Hernanes, Sturaro...

Seems like a similar situation for Matuidi as the one he'd be leaving at PSG. He'd be a rotation player just like at PSG.

Juve will probably play Pjanic/Marchisio-Khedira-Matuidi

And with all the injuries Khedira and Marchisio get these days, he will play alot. 

Hernanes, Sturaro and Lemina are not in first plan anyway. 

Meanwhile Emery wants double pivot at psg and I think Verratti-Krychowiak will own that big part of season with Motta and Rabiot coming of bench.

[LAM09 7,069]

That proves players still want to come here while owners are being bitches

Nothing to do with players not wanting to join, but the board trying to be smart

[OhForAGreavsie 6,092]

7 hours ago, kellzfresh said:

Simple, kante had a release clause. If he didn’t, he won't be here. 

Not so simple. Given that he had a release clause anyone could have signed him. They didn't - we did.

Last summer Everton did not want to sell stones so they didn't. This summer they accepted that they must sell him. Even so, it took until the eve of the season for a deal to be completed.

Thinking there is anything simple about this process is an error. In fact it reminds me of the famous quote about quantum physics which we've all heard; if you think you understand quantum physics, you don't understand quantum physics.

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

First Nainggolan and now Matuidi. He probably wasn't even interested in Chelsea, (not that I blame him),  but damn I hope Chelsea sign a complete B2B CM soon. Like, since lampard left. 

Vidal, Pogba, Nainggolan, Matuidi, Gundogan, all have swapped teams over the past 2 summers, and not one is in the chelsea blue. Still yet to have replaced (and not that it's easy), Lampard and Ballack. 

[kellzfresh 7,229]

5 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Not so simple. Given that he had a release clause anyone could have signed him. They didn't - we did.

Last summer Everton did not want to sell stones so they didn't. This summer they accepted that they must sell him. Even so, it took until the eve of the season for a deal to be completed.

Thinking there is anything simple about this process is an error. In fact it reminds me of the famous quote about quantum physics which we've all heard; if you think you understand quantum physics, you don't understand quantum physics.

I know Everton didn't want to sell last season, but if stones had a release clause last season, we would have gotten him. Just like costa. Players want to come but the people negotiating with the other Club's are poor at it.

The moment it has to do with convincing another team to sell their KEY player without a clause it is beginning to look like we don't know how to negotiate from that perspective as things stand. But Manchester clubs easily get it done by throwing too much money to refuse (even bravo, a starting GK for Barcelona can leave to mancity)

That is the Manchester clubs style, I'm not suggesting we should break world record bids but I'll highlight a little problem we have in negotiations. While we were struggling to get nainggolan from Roma, Juventus swoops in and gets pjanic from a direct rival, we started going for Koulibaly for a while and Juventus swoops in and gets Higuain from the same clubs that supposedly don't want to sell their players, while we struggle. Something is not quite right imo.

I think we actually piss off teams with very low starting bids but this is another topic. But the truth is these days, if you want to convince a big team to sell a player to you, you have to put an offer they can't refuse instead of pissing them off with low starting bids and coming up with the money later when they've changed their minds to sell. 

Thankfully we got batshuayi after other smaller clubs had agreed a deal so we bid a little higher and got him like willian. But I had this feeling if we started to bid it could have turned out differently.