rumoured Cedric Soares

[Azpinator 2,325]

Signing Chamberlain is a long long shot, so I'd be happy with Cedric over Cancelo or Aurier considering he's familiar with the Premier League.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

12 minutes ago, Azpinator said:

Signing Chamberlain is a long long shot, so I'd be happy with Cedric over Cancelo or Aurier considering he's familiar with the Premier League.

I would expect us being linked with Ricardo Pereira too...

We have relatively difficult targets (going by who we have been linked with); Juve doesnt want to sell Sandro, SPurs will never sell Rose to us, Aurier doesnt have visa, Arsenal possibly doesnt want to sell Ox,...if neither comes here, raid Porto for Telles and Pereira and we have two young, potentialy very good wingbacks. And I guess we could get both for reported 70m we offered juve for Sandro.

Still hoping we get Sandro tho.

[Jase 43,479]

4 hours ago, Jype said:

Yeah, Cancelo would be a good choice if Wenger refuses to sell AOC.

But now it's gotten to the point where I'm willing to accept pretty much anyone for RWB if they're good enough to provide competition for Moses.

In an order of preference

1. AOC

2. Cancelo

3. Candreva

4. Cedric

5. Aurier (not so far down because of level but toxicity)

Then of course there's Sergi Roberto who I would most definitely love to have but he's hard to place in the list because he'd play both CM and RWB.

Do we actually have any clue who we want? We have been linked with so many right backs over the past week it feels like we're buying lotteries and randomly hoping we strike jackpot with one of them.

[the wes 7,212]

12 minutes ago, BlueLyon said:

Just curious when did he became third choice option for portugal? 

Cause Cancelo and semedo better Soares is not a great defender Giroud gets on front of Lacazette In the international team does that made Giroud better than lacazette??

[Tautvix 1,321]

This guy Cedric would be the type of signing we would loan out next Summer. 

[Azpinator 2,325]

13 minutes ago, Tautvix said:

This guy Cedric would be the type of signing we would loan out next Summer. 

I bet you said the same thing about Marcos Alonso when we signed him.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

3 hours ago, the wes said:

Cause Cancelo and semedo better Soares is not a great defender Giroud gets on front of Lacazette In the international team does that made Giroud better than lacazette??

Here I cant agree with you.

Yes Laca is individualy better player than Giroud, but whenever I saw france play with Lacazette, he just didnt cut it. Giroud was much more efficient france played better aswell. And its not just coach preference. Lacazette simply didnt show enough, despite his quality. Same for Paulinho in brazil or in this case Cedric in portugal. Or Benzema. We might say Morata is better, but Zidane knows better. Morata might be better individual than Benz, but Benz makes Real team tick better, he makes the team as a whole better. 

They are more reliable, better team players and thats what you eventualy want. Only a team will win trophies.

People often look individual qualities in players, but I rate players also on their success with team. Sure sometimes you have shit team and fantastic individual and still there wont be results. 

Thats why for example I rate Monaco players alot, because there is not just individual quality, but that team actualy achieved great results last season. Or Lille back then with Hazard.

Valencia has few good individuals but as a whole, they are absolute crap atm, despite all the investement and talent they brought, they are very underperforming and honestly I dont see a single player there that could improve Chelsea as a team. Cancelo might put better input in attack individualy, but our balance in defence will be still bad, probably even worse than now.

How can you say Cancelo is better defender than Cedric? I can guarantee you thats not true. I admit I havent seen them play many times past season,  but  two seasons ago Cedric was quite reliable defender and Cancelo was below average in defence. Then I checked fans opinions and they all agree Cancelo was even worse in defense last season. 

Dont get me wrong, I dont see Cedric ideal rwb or rb, but neither is Cancelo. We should aim at better fullbacks, but I dont agree with you that Cedric is soo poor and Cancelo much better as you say.

The best portugal rb atm IMO is Ricardo Pereira who also played in france two seasons, which is perfect step before PL. Atm I would try to get him, Ox or Aurier.

Anyone else available wont give Chelsea much improvement, except for being squad fillers.

[Jype 6,398]

10 hours ago, Jason said:

Do we actually have any clue who we want? We have been linked with so many right backs over the past week it feels like we're buying lotteries and randomly hoping we strike jackpot with one of them.

Yeah, I thought the same.

Clubs like City, United, Liverpool got linked to single priority targets all summer and either got them or didn't, but Chelsea seem to be 'keeping tabs' on pretty much everyone without actually making a move for any player. It's ridiculous.

[RoyalBlues 4,050]

You just don't have to believe everything you read on the paper though.

[Duppy Conqueror 1,526]

I`d go in with a 90-100m bid with Southampton for VVD,Soares and Romeu. 15m seems too cheap these days for just about any starter at any club in the prem.but if it`s part of a mega deal like 100m for 3 players then we could get away with it.35m then for Ox and we sorted out all our depth and starter issues.

[Jase 43,479]

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-step-up-bid-for-20m-cedric-soares-and-remain-in-strong-position-over-virgil-van-dijk-a3612826.html

Seems like he has been on the club's radar since April

[Pizy 18,856]

8 minutes ago, Jason said:

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/chelsea-step-up-bid-for-20m-cedric-soares-and-remain-in-strong-position-over-virgil-van-dijk-a3612826.html

Seems like he has been on the club's radar since April

Awfully convenient for them to say that now. Never hear his name linked with us before.

Would be sad if Aurier can be had but we sign Cedric instead.

[quickpassnmove 924]

Wednesday the 16th an NOTHING so far.

It's as if Chelsea star in their own drama, Waiting for Sandro.

[Jype 6,398]

11 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Awfully convenient for them to say that now. Never hear his name linked with us before.

Would be sad if Aurier can be had but we sign Cedric instead.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/05/chelsea-target-bid-for-southampton-right-back-cedric-soares-6554474/

That's from April, of course it's only the Metro but still. Also seen some rumours maybe a month ago, saying the club are monitoring the situations of Bertrand and Cedric should other targets fail. I think it's clear he's not the first, probably not even the second or third choice for the club but by leaving it this late he might just be all that's left to buy if other clubs refuse to sell the higher priority targets.

Either way, it's not an ideal situation. 

[Pizy 18,856]

4 minutes ago, Jype said:

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/05/chelsea-target-bid-for-southampton-right-back-cedric-soares-6554474/

That's from April, of course it's only the Metro but still. Also seen some rumours maybe a month ago, saying the club are monitoring the situations of Bertrand and Cedric should other targets fail. I think it's clear he's not the first, probably not even the second or third choice for the club but by leaving it this late he might just be all that's left to buy if other clubs refuse to sell the higher priority targets.

Either way, it's not an ideal situation. 

He's a decent player so I wouldn't be super upset if we sign him but I think we should be aiming slightly higher. Especially since the reported price tags on Cancelo and Aurier aren't even high.