Radamel Falcao

[Pacquiao 1,834]

Not sure if you are being sarcastic or not As a striker I'm thinking he wants to play as many games possible to rack up even more goals..

no im not being sarcastic! he wasn't played because they never needed to play him the Europa League! Atletico haven't got a bid squad so it was a chance to rest Falcao as well as other key players. Regardless if he wanted to play or not the manager wanted to rest him for those games.

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

But the difference is that we are strongly linked to falcao with bookies giving odds of evens on us getting him, wheras, other than people saying we want him there is little specualtion of cavani going or us bidding for him. If we were interested then people would be getting as excited... The same way messi is better than both of them but no one talks about getting him because it is never gonna happen.

this is why I never understand the wank fest that goes on over 'lewy' on here. We aren't linked to him yet he seems to be offered up as a preference to falcao all the time.

[DanishBlue 426]

Well, just because we aren't in for Cavani or Lewandowski according to the papers doesn't mean we wont go for them. The papers don't know that much. Who ever read about the Marin move in the papers? Noone.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

this is why I never understand the wank fest that goes on over 'lewy' on here. We aren't linked to him yet he seems to be offered up as a preference to falcao all the time.

Agreed. I don't know why people keep mention names that either a) we aren't linked to or haven't given any indication they are even going to be transfered.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Well, just because we aren't in for Cavani or Lewandowski according to the papers doesn't mean we wont go for them. The papers don't know that much. Who ever read about the Marin move in the papers? Noone.

Actually we were linked with Marin earlier in the year.

And there is no reason to speculate over names that haven't been linked to us especially since there are plenty of names that are. Its sort of silly to keep making suggestions about players who aren't likely to move

[DanishBlue 426]

Maybe he was linked with us earlier but earlier this year we were also linked with Lewandowski. My point is that things happen behind the scenes - especially at Chelsea - so the papers don't know that much.

But yeah, I know what you mean - it's better to focus on the player we are most likely to sign but I'm just saying that you can't say never and you never know.

Another thing is that Falcao said that he wont leave Madrid this season. Still we are talking about him because many people hope to see him at the Bridge regardless of what he said

[The Skipper 20,593]

But the difference is that we are strongly linked to falcao with bookies giving odds of evens on us getting him, wheras, other than people saying we want him there is little specualtion of cavani going or us bidding for him. If we were interested then people would be getting as excited... The same way messi is better than both of them but no one talks about getting him because it is never gonna happen.

I know I know, but you shouldn't read much into what the bookies say. The bookies know as much as we do.

[Hutcho 8,443]

I know I know, but you shouldn't read much into what the bookies say. The bookies know as much as we do.

Yeah, but it at least gives a big indication of what is going on... People see someone play well and say we should buy x,y,z. But Falcao is realistic and that is why a lot of people are getting excited about the potential. If we were linked to cavani everyone would be going crazy probably including me hoping we sign him, but i am not going to say i would rather have this that or the other when there is an extremely minute chance we will get them atm... Obviously things change, but i am sure everyone has a list as long as their arm of players they would like to see us buy.

As someone also said People really like the idea of getting lewandowski, but we are nowhere near the front of the queue for him and although we may like to think we can buy anyone the fact is we cant, as players don't want to move get better deals, want to go elsewhere or our club isn't interested.

[ulsterchelsea 3,221]

Well, just because we aren't in for Cavani or Lewandowski according to the papers doesn't mean we wont go for them. The papers don't know that much. Who ever read about the Marin move in the papers? Noone.

but marin never signed.....oh wait

[Hutcho 8,443]

but marin never signed.....oh wait

Yeah but who here was talking about getting marin... Very few. So yes just because we are not linked to a player doesn't mean we won't sign them, but that situation applies to every player we don't own. Yes they could be working at getting cavani and lewandowski in the background but it's a lot less unlikely given how much media attention they recieve.

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[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Sturridge is on his way out for about £12 million (Thank God, Livershite are buying nothing special). So if Falcao's clause is £48 million, we will now be paying at most £36 million. That makes a January deal much, much more realistic.

We probably should go for someone cheaper though. Cavani could be bought for perhaps £23-28 million taking into account the Money for Sturridge. We should do all that is possible to keep Lukaku at West Brom for another year, at least. He is developing well.

[Pizy 18,415]

"Got to get him just so Chelsea don't... This isn't no Eden Hazard shit... This guy will make those ***** in to an unbeatable prem team who'll steamroll everyone in this league."

Quote from some idiot on the Man City forums. Confirming what many of us have thought about City muppets. Buy, buy, buy so no one else can.

[YouNameIt 1,511]

Sturridge is on his way out for about £12 million (Thank God, Livershite are buying nothing special). So if Falcao's clause is £48 million, we will now be paying at most £36 million. That makes a January deal much, much more realistic.

We probably should go for someone cheaper though. Cavani could be bought for perhaps £23-28 million taking into account the Money for Sturridge. We should do all that is possible to keep Lukaku at West Brom for another year, at least. He is developing well.

Yeah, we got Torres for 50m and they get danny for 12.

The way I see it they are getting something more special than we got.

[Kezza 1,965]

Watch Sturrridge score for fun. He and sterling/Suarez are gonna be dangerous as fuck.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Yeah, we got Torres for 50m and they get danny for 12.

The way I see it they are getting something more special than we got.

Deluded until the very end, eh? He may score goals there but that's his level. We definitely won't miss him one bit.

[Tomo 21,733]

Deluded until the very end, eh? He may score goals there but that's his level. We definitely won't miss him one bit.

The timing was a bit shit, if we did this when Kenny was around we could have doubled our money.

[Waterfall 893]

I am personally disappointed to see Sturridge go, but if there's one thing I trust our Board with, it's the selling of the players. Players we let go usually don't amount too much. Off the top of my head, I can only think of Robben being an exception and that was more complicated than the current Sturridge situation