xPetrCechx 13,573 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Chelsea have a number of contingency plans, including Atletico's Toby Alderweireld, who impressed on loan at Southampton. (Evening Standard) TheIceMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xPetrCechx 13,573 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Kristof Terreur @HLNinEngeland 4h4 hours agoAtlético have offered Toby Alderweireld to Chelsea, not the other way round. They want Filipe Luis back, but only in a swap deal. #cfc TheIceMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hostedenis 556 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Kristof Terreur @HLNinEngeland 4h4 hours agoAtlético have offered Toby Alderweireld to Chelsea, not the other way round. They want Filipe Luis back, but only in a swap deal. #cfcThese swap deals never happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyalBlues 4,050 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 If Luis want to leave, actually the swap deal is not that bad. Better than we have to spent another 20m+ on some player who is not proven in PL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duppy Conqueror 1,543 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 nobody is proven at Chelsea until they play for us. lots of players have proven themselves at other English clubs and not panned out with us.every transfer is risky,slightly less risky if played in England before but still a risk.I`d rather us sign a LB if Luis leaves and promote a CB we already have on our books for the 4th choice CB job. but that would be too long sighted for Jose and the current Chelsea regime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 nobody is proven at Chelsea until they play for us. lots of players have proven themselves at other English clubs and not panned out with us.every transfer is risky,slightly less risky if played in England before but still a risk.I`d rather us sign a LB if Luis leaves and promote a CB we already have on our books for the 4th choice CB job. but that would be too long sighted for Jose and the current Chelsea regime.We already have our young CB in Zouma, if we do that injuries to Cahill and Terry would lead to us playing two late teens/ early 20s in the back line. I don't know about anyone else but I don't want us to be too future orientated because that will end us with the unbalanced mess of a squad we had in 12/13, ee have a perfect balance now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethos1 802 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Why would we swap him for Luis? He isn't a LB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iseah100 5,612 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Why would we swap him for Luis? He isn't a LBHe has played there before no? And he can play as a CB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bethos1 802 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 He has played there before no? And he can play as a CB.No he can play CB and RB, I have never seen him play as a LB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weckerz 3,781 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 He has played there before no? And he can play as a CB.He IS a CB who plays RB for Belgium as we have no worthy fullbacks. He never plays LB.If we sign him, which I hope we don't, it should be for the CB position Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iseah100 5,612 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 He IS a CB who plays RB for Belgium as we have no worthy fullbacks. He never plays LB.If we sign him, which I hope we don't, it should be for the CB positionDecent back up, also would free up a free backup spot at LB for Ake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duppy Conqueror 1,543 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 (I still can`t quote on here)if Terry and Cahill were both injured we`d have Zouma and Bran at CB.with Omerou at back up who can play both CB and RB,put Dave at RB and true LB I mentioned earlier at LB (Kalas has already been loaned out I believe or would have kept) ..we can only count for a certain amount of injuries. playing it too safe and having too much insurance in experienced players is not good for the club in the long run.the 2011/12 season has been mentioned in other threads to apparently justify fear of getting some young players involved but we aren`t living in the past when different young players were around,different group of veteran players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
termninja 5,290 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Why would we swap him for Luis? He isn't a LBIf Luis isn't happy and wants to leave x not really a huge choice for us really. But agree with position, it would leave us with no real left backs. I'm hoping we could get Coentrao for similar money we could get for Luis from Atletico. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper22 2,418 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Alderweireld would be a great signing who could one day be a great player for the club.If we signed him in a trade for Luis we would then have this (N.B i'm not happy with Azpi at LB but Jose if never going to drop Ivan so i've just come to accept Azpi as a LB):1st: ---Ivanovic---Aldeweireld---Terry---Azpi---2nd: ---Kalas/Omeruo/Christensen---Zouma---Cahill---Ake---Moving on to when Terry retires (HAS to be at the end of this season, he can't keep being this good forever can he?) and Ivan's legs run out:1st: ---Azpi---Aldeweireld---Zouma---New LB---2nd: ---New RB---Omeruo---Kalas---Ake---See? All worked out . I think he'd fit really well and give us a young player who has proven himself at many levels and has a lot of experience for someone his age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Alderweireld would be a great signing who could one day be a great player for the club.If we signed him in a trade for Luis we would then have this (N.B i'm not happy with Azpi at LB but Jose if never going to drop Ivan so i've just come to accept Azpi as a LB):1st: ---Ivanovic---Aldeweireld---Terry---Azpi---2nd: ---Kalas/Omeruo/Christensen---Zouma---Cahill---Ake---Moving on to when Terry retires (HAS to be at the end of this season, he can't keep being this good forever can he?) and Ivan's legs run out:1st: ---Azpi---Aldeweireld---Zouma---New LB---2nd: ---New RB---Omeruo---Kalas---Ake---See? All worked out . I think he'd fit really well and give us a young player who has proven himself at many levels and has a lot of experience for someone his age.Only thing is, Azpi isn't getting moved from left back until either Jose leaves or he declines, Jose builds his team around the back four and creating a solid platform, he's not going to move the player who hasn't made a single error leading to the opposition chance.Even if Ivan gets dropped Azpi won't move back there, we will sign a new RB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unionjack 7,531 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Latest report Ive seen was in the Daily TelegraphHowever, Mourinho has been delaying the deal because he is weighing up the likelihood of signing either Real Madrid’s highly-rated defender Varane or Everton’s England international Stones.New Los Blancos boss Rafa Benitez has made it clear that he wants to keep the France international with Everton manager Roberto Martinez feeling the same way about his 21-year-old centre-back.With other reports of Spuds going after him but I cant see them wanting to pay £14 mill for a CB when theres cheaper options available for them. And I would think IF we did go for him the chance of playing back in Europe would be a pull for him.But with so many CBs linked with us we really dont have any clue to who we shall eventually end up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the wes 7,212 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 sounds like Aldeweireld for spurs http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/11698615/Tottenham-close-in-on-Toby-Alderweireld-transfer.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 Signed for Spurs on a five year deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
termninja 5,290 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 They even made a video of Toby pronouncing his name because of the average Spurs fan IQ being equal to average temperature outside... TheIceMan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sovieticus 743 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 They even made a video of Toby pronouncing his name because of the average Spurs fan IQ being equal to average temperature outside...But Azpilicueta did kind of the same thing.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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