Fernando Llorente

[Leif 6,006]

A man with sense bets a little on a 99/1 potential return. 

[Styles 9,790]

1 hour ago, nyikolajevics said:

Yeah because having 4 golden ball winners in the squad is always a winner team - see that horrible Real Madrid 12-13 years ago.

 With Alonso we won 13 games straight and hardly ever conceded goals. Llorente would be a backup striker - why not? He scored some goals at Swansea, he is a good player and very tall.  By the way, Conte was the one who called Kanté and convinced him to join Chelsea.

Who the hell said anything about having a team full of ballon d'or winners?

Do you really think the only two options are world class players or the Alonso's of this world and with absolutely nothing in between?

 

1 hour ago, Polo7 said:

I used to think you were one of the sensible ones.....tut tut.

I have my moments.

[Special Juan 28,112]

SKY all over this and them saying Batsuyahi going the other way.

[the wes 7,212]

Antonio Conte is keen on signing Swansea striker Fernando Llorente - and Blues striker Michy Batshuayi could be going the other way, according to Sky sources.

[Leif 6,006]

In the same way that Torres was terrible here, yet perfectly adequate and 'good' for Atletico upon his return, plenty of 'past it' strikers (I'm looking at Falcao) can flourish once they're with different players in a different system. Llorente would bring something new to this team, which Bats does not. With or without Bats, we have all the same qualities, he doesn't bring something new to the table, but Llorente brings a controlled, aerial presence which Costa does not, which alone gets you 5 or so headed goals a season; and in a season where we rarely lose by over 1 goal, that's the difference we can benefit from.

Also, since his style is similar enough to Costa's, the players around him wouldn't need to change their way of playing once he comes on. Whereas when Costa goes off at the moment, suddenly we decide our replacement striker isn't worthy enough of having the ball fed to him, and thus it goes to either Pedro or Hazard as they become the main attacking threat. 

For 6 months of football we could do worse than use a player that Conte's already familiar with.

He's averaged 1 goal every 2.5 games in both the Premier League and Serie A. This mostly being a sub. Wanting anything more from a sub is spoiled.

[Leif 6,006]

Also, this loan-swap would ensure Bats plays pretty much every game until the end of the season. That is what we want. We need to see if he can kick it in the Premier League for 6 months straight. But, we aren't in a position to experiment with 1 player and his personal potential. It's a move which makes more than good sense.

[Leif 6,006]

Then again

A player that cost £30m

Needing a loan to Swansea to prove he's good enough

Is already pretty much a lost cause. I hope we make our money back, somehow.

[the wes 7,212]

[BoyBlue96 990]

I really don't understand what Conte wants in terms of transfer business. Really vague.

 

Michy for Llorente is much of a muchness...

[Pizy 18,858]

Is it more embarrassing for us or for Michy that he cost more than Diego Costa and Eden Hazard yet has to go out on loan half way through his first season here?

If he is to go on loan, though, I wish it were to a better club than Swansea. At least send him to a club like West Ham who can maybe take points off our rivals with Michy playing for them. He'll get shit service and be surrounded by shit players at Swansea.

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MAYBE this palava just might teach whoever was responsible for bringing Bats in that the manager should get a veto.

Us swapping over a £32mill player for one thats @ £10mill is fuckin bad business if bothing else.and I hope Romans asking some questions. Unless of course it was his idea. Nah!

[volfan89 97]

Don't think this would be bad business IMO. Bats has potential, I think we can all see. He needs consistent minutes which he just will not get with Costa in front of him. Costa isn't getting any younger, however, and still think he'll be off to Spain eventually. Might as well lets Bats get a lot of minutes for a side who desperately need it and Llorente can deputize for the handful of games we need him to this season. 

[BoyBlue96 990]

It's done.

lol

[Roquila 1,335]

38 minutes ago, BoyBlue96 said:

It's done.

lol

Not sure if photoshopped or real

[BoyBlue96 990]

2 minutes ago, Roquila said:

Not sure if photoshopped or real

 

(I did fall for it on Twitter though.)