Your ideal team for next season ?

[Essien19 1,415]

...................Guv'nor.........

..Hazard....Fabregas.....Willian

.........Pogba............Matic.........
Luis.....Terry.........Ivanovic......Dave

..................Courtois......

I don't need much.
We need more goals from midfield!
Otherwise Koke would be great too. Verratti is my favourite, but PSG won't sell.
How would Kondogbia fit in? He was great in CL, the defense would be rock solid with him.

[zolayes 14,489]

I am worried about Diego's fitness ,, Hope we get Falcoa on a loan AND bring Bamford back

[Essien19 1,415]

I am worried about Diego's fitness ,, Hope we get Falcoa on a loan AND bring Bamford back

Bamford:

"I'd like to think that I'd be able to compete [for a place in the team] but honestly I think I'd benefit most from playing.

"Going back and sitting on the bench now after having two good seasons wouldn't really help me and it's up to the people at the top at Chelsea to decide what will be best and what career plan I'll have for this next year.

"I'll just have to play it by ear and see what they say."

At the moment he needs more time to improve, so we should loan him again....

[zolayes 14,489]

Bamford:

"I'd like to think that I'd be able to compete [for a place in the team] but honestly I think I'd benefit most from playing.

"Going back and sitting on the bench now after having two good seasons wouldn't really help me and it's up to the people at the top at Chelsea to decide what will be best and what career plan I'll have for this next year.

"I'll just have to play it by ear and see what they say."

At the moment he needs more time to improve, so we should loan him again....

WE need three fit strikers and Jose wont trust Solanke or Brown

[Pizy 18,850]

-------------------Costa------------------

Hazard-------------------------Griezmann

-----------------Fabregas-----------------

----------Matic-----------Schneiderlin--------

Azpi---------Terry------Cahill--------Ivanovic

------------------Courtois-------------------

That's a completely realistic team. One big money signing in Griezmann and Schneiderlin for a good £25m. That team has incredible balance and athleticism as well as goals from all four attacking positions. Willian would still get loads of playing time and be an important player.

[Essien19 1,415]

WE need three fit strikers and Jose wont trust Solanke or Brown

I don't want to slow down Bamford's development. In my point of view it's the hardest position to play.

You have to cope with the pressure if things doesn't go your way, being mentally strong is fundamental.

I would like to give him more time to develop. The most important thing for such a young guy is playing time to gain more experience.

He hasn't even played one Premier-League game!

How serious is Costa's injury? Will he miss 4 weeks or months? I don't know....

Remy is injury prone, yeah i give you that, but at the moment he is fit.

If we buy one more striker, i prefer an experienced one, we are good to go, except Costa is going to miss the first half of the season?

Cuadrado can also play as a striker...

[Sheva. 5,373]

XI against lesser teams:

Courtois; Ivan-Cahill-JT-Azpi; Cesc-Matic; *-Willian/Oscar-Hazard; Costa

XI against tougher teams:

Courtois; Ivan-Cahill-JT-Azpi; *-Matic-Cesc; *-Costa-Hazard

- Someone needs to take Ramires' place as the 3rd CM. Obviously won't be a Pogba or Koke, but anyone capable of not looking out of place. A Remy-esque CM signing would be golden imo.

- Starting quality RW. Not many options here, so I'm least optimistic about this position. If no one is signed, we have to hope for some miraculous Cuadrado improvement or something. Willian cannot fucking play every game in that position yet again

[iseah100 5,612]

Cuadrado can also play as a striker...

Cuardado can't even play his natural position lol

XI against lesser teams:

Courtois; Ivan-Cahill-JT-Azpi; Cesc-Matic; *-Willian/Oscar-Hazard; Costa

XI against tougher teams:

Courtois; Ivan-Cahill-JT-Azpi; *-Matic-Cesc; *-Costa-Hazard

- Someone needs to take Ramires' place as the 3rd CM. Obviously won't be a Pogba or Koke, but anyone capable of not looking out of place. A Remy-esque CM signing would be golden imo.

- Starting quality RW. Not many options here, so I'm least optimistic about this position. If no one is signed, we have to hope for some miraculous Cuadrado improvement or something. Willian cannot fucking play every game in that position yet again

3rd CM could be Marchisio, one year left on his deal, if he doesn't sign a new one[emoji7] .

RW could be someone under the radar. How much would Brahimi go for?

[nadavTKL 1,787]

RW could be someone under the radar. How much would Brahimi go for?

50M euros, and he's a LW.

[lucio 5,418]

Mourinho says we want a defender , midfielder and striker. So I guess a rw is unlikely unless that counts as the midfielder.

[Tomo 21,751]

1st Team:

--------------------Courtois-----------------------

---Azpi-------Terry-------Zouma-------Luis---

-------------Matic--------Fabregas-------------

-Reus-------------Willian--------------Hazard-

---------------------Costa-------------------------

2nd Team (bold = on the bench):

---------------------Butland-----------------------

-Ivanovic-----Cahill----Christensen-----Ake-

-------------Ramires--------RLC-----------------

-Milner-------------Oscar-----------Cuadrado-

---------------------Remy--------------------------

Others in squad: Blackman, Bamford.

In: Milner (Free), Reus (£50M), Butland (£10M). Overall In = £60M

Out: Cech (£15M), Mikel (£10M), Drogba (retired), Kalas (£5M), Salah (£13.5M), Moses (£5M), Kane + Kakuta + Piazon + McEachren (£6.5M). Overall Out = £55M

Overall expenditure = £5M.

I know im quoting this late but only just seen this post.

I don't see what the appeal of Butland is, he is crap and his reputation is solely built on the Olympics.

[jernej93 569]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tIFL2p1fJo

Great words by Neville. We can actually add world class winger Bale for net worth around 10-20M if we sell players like Mikel, Ramires and Oscar. I am not sure about adding players like Douglas Costa, because we don't need squad players. We need some world class quality in front 3 attacking midfield positions and probably even in midfield because Fabregas seems lost in big games ... he is more nr.10 than holding midfielder Player like Naingollan, Gundogan, Vidal, Schneiderlin would be perfect

Rather include some young players from loan and academy for rotation instead of buying average players We need some big quality this summer and this is it.

What about striker and central defender? I wouldn't buy a new striker .. If we can get one experienced striker on loan for one year and than Bamford can take his place, this would be a nice move. Otherwise Solanke or Bamford as 3rd striker this year. And the same goes for central defender ... we would probably need some depth on CB position, but with Terry and Cahill probably playing 90% of all games it's not that urgent. I can't see Varane coming here and being fine with bench. IMO Tomaš Kalaš is great rotational player who can also play RB where we don't have real sub for Ivanović.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

I would personally love to add Miralem Pjanic

[Viper22 2,418]

I know im quoting this late but only just seen this post.

I don't see what the appeal of Butland is, he is crap and his reputation is solely built on the Olympics.

Always rated Butland. Was gutted when he chose Stoke over us when he left Birmingham. He's the best young English GK around ATM. The only one anywhere near him is Bond. I personally think he's the best English GK that is gettable as Hart and Forster are settled at their clubs and any other good English GKs are starting at their respective clubs and are unlikely to want to move onto the bench, even if it is for Chelsea. Butland has never been even 2nd choice at Stoke though so pilfering him would essentially be upgrading him to 2nd choice and will give him the chance to maybe play in Europe and likely win a fair few medals in his career.

[Pacquiao 1,834]

I would personally love to add Miralem Pjanic

no thanks! simply not good enough for Chelsea, like Isco and Coutinho his style of play is nice to watch but really isnt good enough to start regularly for a top top team.