Kalidou Koulibaly

[Tomo 21,733]

How hilarious, after weeks off moaning about how the board are low balling and can't finish their dinner now we look to have made a breakthrough whining about the price, unreal

Ultimately as many have pointed out our defense is vaunrable, other teams will feed on that especially as Kalidou is the best available defender in the market, so we might have to pay a bit extra on this occasion but it's how it goes.

[Leif 6,006]

I don't know why individually we want this guy, it'll be for different reasons for each of us i'm sure, but the pros I see are pace, strength, physical presence, ball distribution, positioning, anticipation. Bare with me here. 

Azpilicueta offers all that bar the physical presence (yet he's taller than Cannavaro & the same as Puyol.) I really think we already have the ingredients all here, but the wrong recipe. Azpi / Christensen/Zouma could work wonders theoretically, I really believe so. I've so much faith in Azpi and I know when he loses his pace he'll slip into centre back for whoever we eventually offload him to. Let's start the party early and get him in there. Splash this cash on new staff members. 

[Liuxas 121]

Why just not include a player. The club has so many players in the squad and loans them every year. Why not just try to give them for example, Moses or Atsu+Money. In Seria A a lot of big teams using this system. 

[Diego 433]

Just now, Liuxas said:

Why just not include a player. The club has so many players in the squad and loans them every year. Why not just try to give them for example, Moses or Atsu+Money. In Seria A a lot of big teams using this system. 

[LDN Blue 7,903]

8 minutes ago, Tomo said:

Why not? The last loanee this far ahead in his loan programme was Courtois, and we benched a still high performing Petr Cech to play him.

 

General pessimism mostly. I see either the German club buying him outright or us sending him elsewhere for any number of unexplained reasons. Look forward to being proved wrong however..

[Spike 12,049]

12 minutes ago, Liuxas said:

Why just not include a player. The club has so many players in the squad and loans them every year. Why not just try to give them for example, Moses or Atsu+Money. In Seria A a lot of big teams using this system. 

Why would they even want those players?

[quickpassnmove 924]

4 hours ago, RuudiGullit said:

LOL 60 million pounds.....holy fucking shit. If De Laurentiis still rejects this: he's gay for K2.

 

Also, does this confirms that Roman is a TalkChelsea user? Hahahaha 
Get this done please. 

Except that it's probably NOT 60 mil pounds because the English-speaking media over there don't know WTF to do with currency numbers when talking football transfers.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Anyone who believes this ridiculous rhetoric that "Chelsea are going to go back in and bid £60m!" You either are new to the whole transfer window thing or extremely naive.

Think logically for a second. If Chelsea were to table a bid for player X, in this case Koulibaly, why on earth would they let that info out to the press before an approach is even made? You think clubs are gonna use the media to test the waters before making a bid?

"So Adam Burt here's what we're considering doing, we're gonna bid 60m for Koulibaly. We haven't spoken to Napoli but we wanted you to know that that is our intention."

Anytime you read anything that says 'about to table an offer for' or 'have agreed personal terms but the clubs are still negotiating a fee' or 'unwilling to meet buyout fee' you can bet your house the article is designed for click bait.

Bids for a certain amount don't 'about' to happen. If you notice DiMarzio's posts he tells you exactly when an offer has been made and for how much. None of this "Chelsea are willing to spend up to..." Bullshit.

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[quickpassnmove 924]

K2

 

[1chelsea 864]

Are we there yet? ??

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[coolhead23 1,146]

49 minutes ago, 1chelsea said:

Are we there yet? ??

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Well ... 31st is still long way off

[zekinjo 449]

Very good sign....

[Dazzy_Vance 454]

18 minutes ago, zekinjo said:

Very good sign....

Funny you posted this. Was just about to post how Napoli fans are banging on about Maksimovic being Albiol's replacement and not K2's. Seems they have as much of an idea as we do regarding this transfer.

[Roquila 1,335]

60M is fucking insane.... I would get slim, teach myself how to play football, fucking bulk up, become world class at every position that was ever invented. 

For 100k.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

I guess the David Luiz jokes have run their course now, step up Kalidou Koulibaly  

Interestingly enough he is rated this highly in Serie A. Browsing around yesterday I saw many Serie A fans comment on how he was between 'top 5' 'top 2' and even some, not Napoli fans, that suggested he was on par with Bonnuci. I read his passing ability is actually incredible and so is capable of playing the ball into the channels for the running offensive players and he's comfortable playing it out from defence. They generally agree £60m does not match his valuation but in the days where we've seen Higuain and Pogba go for above £80m it's the cost of football's inflation. 

I'm easy on this. Though £60m will make his performances go under a microscope, it wasn't long ago City made Mangala the highest valued defender in the world and he was quickly discarded without much recourse. It's not like we don't have a billionaire financing us - even if he is financing a brand new Stadium also. 

Plus knowing the way things have gone this summer, it's probably going to be somewhere like £45-50m + Add-ons that eventually culminate close to £60m. You'd have thought we'd have an easier time with Napoli after we'd sent them Chalobah, but I guess in the grand context who is Nat to Kalidou..

[blues.bridge 343]

£ 60 ? rather not I buy anyone!

[MefiX19 1,092]

1 minute ago, blues.bridge said:

£ 60 ? rather not I buy anyone!

And stay with Terry and Cahill as main CB's? Who the fuck cares how much we pay for him, we spent 65 pounds 2 players and we still got TV money left plus tons from sponsorships

[Unionjack 7,531]

10 minutes ago, LDN Blue said:

I guess the David Luiz jokes have run their course now, step up Kalidou Koulibaly  

Interestingly enough he is rated this highly in Serie A. Browsing around yesterday I saw many Serie A fans comment on how he was between 'top 5' 'top 2' and even some, not Napoli fans, that suggested he was on par with Bonnuci. I read his passing ability is actually incredible and so is capable of playing the ball into the channels for the running offensive players and he's comfortable playing it out from defence. They generally agree £60m does not match his valuation but in the days where we've seen Higuain and Pogba go for above £80m it's the cost of football's inflation. 

I'm easy on this. Though £60m will make his performances go under a microscope, it wasn't long ago City made Mangala the highest valued defender in the world and he was quickly discarded without much recourse. It's not like we don't have a billionaire financing us - even if he is financing a brand new Stadium also. 

Plus knowing the way things have gone this summer, it's probably going to be somewhere like £45-50m + Add-ons that eventually culminate close to £60m. You'd have thought we'd have an easier time with Napoli after we'd sent them Chalobah, but I guess in the grand context who is Nat to Kalidou..

Me, I really like Chalobah. This is probably why they're being cunty. They wanted to keep him

I just hope they get Maksimovic now that Torino got Rossettini. Fuck our season/future, relys on this to a large point.