Kostas Manolas

[Tomo 21,751]

Rumour has it we are looking at a double swoop for him and Naingolan.

Not a big source but I ain't creating this thread purely because of the rumour, what I want to ask to the avid viewersof Italian football is how good is he? And would he be good enough to be our main defender next season?

[kiwi1691 255]

Didn't Jose try to get him from Roma at the beginning of this season. 

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Apparently Greek side Olympiakos, his former club, still owns 50% of his footballing rights until September this year. So if he is to be sold this summer, Roma will only get half the money. This is why they are now trying to renew his contract and wait for that clause in his contract to expire in September. Can't see him move anywhere this summer unless Roma do something and buy the rest of his rights.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

@Kostas is this how you're going to solve our problems? Direct action?  

[cosmicway 1,333]

Manolas is a joke.
Propped up by Greek media because he used to play for state sponsored team Olympiakos Piraeus.
Against Roma the silly tv speaker kept saying "look how Manolas has nailed Ronaldo" but Roma lost 2-0.
In one instance Ronaldo has the ball and Manolas is infront of him but 1-2 meters away. So Ronaldo tries the pass to the right winger.
But the right winger he was expecting was missing and the ball goes to a Romano player. But the speaker goes on "great, Manolas has stolen Ronaldo's identity tonight". What a load ...
We will be losing 7-0 to L'pool with him and become bald men before our time.

 

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Chelsea hold talks over Kostas Manolas, Sky sources understand

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10233483/chelsea-hold-talks-over-kostas-manolas-sky-sources-understand

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Manolas was close to joining #CFC in 2015 but #ASRoma pulled out of the deal as they could not find a replacement for him. (Guardian)

[Pizy 18,848]

Triple signings from Roma, please. Throw Oscar their way to sweeten the deal.

[Stats 7,135]

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10233483/chelsea-hold-talks-with-roma-defender-kostas-manolas-sky-sources-understand

Always believe it more when I see it from skysports. Good to see that the club are looking to get business done early

Also contrary to the opinion from @cosmicway I have mostly seen excellent reviews about him.

A pacey CB is what we could do with tbh. Very young too. Hope we can secure him.

http://www.skysports.com/football/news/11668/10233767/who-is-chelsea-target-konstantinos-manolas

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

On 4/7/2016 at 5:25 PM, cosmicway said:

Manolas is a joke.
Propped up by Greek media because he used to play for state sponsored team Olympiakos Piraeus.
Against Roma the silly tv speaker kept saying "look how Manolas has nailed Ronaldo" but Roma lost 2-0.
In one instance Ronaldo has the ball and Manolas is infront of him but 1-2 meters away. So Ronaldo tries the pass to the right winger.
But the right winger he was expecting was missing and the ball goes to a Romano player. But the speaker goes on "great, Manolas has stolen Ronaldo's identity tonight". What a load ...
We will be losing 7-0 to L'pool with him and become bald men before our time.

 

Agree, I do not think he is Chelsea quality either. Feeling is that Greeks tend to overhype him just like Romanians do with Chiriches. Although the bullshit our journalists write is taken to a new level. Or I must say used to be taken to a new level when we was playing for Spurs. At that time, Romanian outlets was constantly linking him to Chelsea, although English papers was quiet and you couldn't hear a thing about that "supposed" transfer. Imagine as a Chelsea fan to have to read every week that "Chelsea is desperate to land Chiriches", "Mourinho has found Terry's heir" and lots of other bullshit. When the truth is that Chiriches is Championship level and nowadays can't kick a ball for Napoli. But he used to play for media darlings Steaua Bucharest and only got to play for Tottenham because of a shady business between his agent that is now in prison, Ioan Becali and Tottenham's Director of Football, Franco Baldini, another shady character in world football.

[kiwi1691 255]

I was getting excited by this possible transfer.  Now the media are linking him with united.

 

http://gianlucadimarzio.com/en/eng/for-manolas-chelsea-is-not-alone-his-agent-has-also-met-with-manchester-united/

[LondonsFinest 692]

According to Di Marzio, United are in pole position to sign him.