Antonio Rudiger

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http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2643236-scouting-chelsea-transfer-target-antonio-rudiger

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Eric Bailly shits all over Rudiger and you better mark my words here as he's left the Ivory Coast training camp because he is on the verge of signing with an English club. Supposedly Leicester, for 19m.

Should this donkey Rudiger join Chelsea, compare the two of them in a year's time and see who mugged who here. 

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Chelsea have spoken to #ASRoma about Antonio Rudiger, Kostas Manolas and Radja Nainggolan. (Times) #CFC

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7 hours ago, Blue_Fox_ said:

Well, will we know if Marquinhos wants to come if we won't bid for him? Not quite, trying has never hurt anyone.
Yes, Koulibaly could turn out just like Mangala, there is no certainty in football, but then I would have to argue that Rudiger has even a better chance to turn even worse than Mangala. Just look at the first half of this season.
Bailly is more of a personal preference, and I would say that defensively is the better player, considering that Rudiger never seem to fully commit in his tackles.
Rudiger is in no way, shape, form, figment of the imagination, on par with Umtiti.

Again, Rudiger chances to fail are even more ample if we take in consideration the first half of the season at Roma.

Koulibaly and Umtiti would fit us more, it's what we need considering we can't attract the "world class" CB, they're not quite WC yet, but the step to become just that is way shorter than what Rudiger would need.

How do we know this is one of Conte's targets? I sure hope he is otherwise we're screwed.

I will agree to disagree, because I do not have time for debates. I believe you are massively underrating Rudiger. In our recent history, we have a thing for buying the 'better' signing, only for him to flop.

I, personally, believe it is Conte's target. As I said, he left Juve, because of his final saying on transfers. I doubt he'd come here if he didn't have some assurance. Add to that that the supposed targets are all similar.

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Marin, Schurrle, Baba and now Rudiger, flops have been quite costly, no wonder Abra is furious, better sack some people from the board now. They always end up with the poor 'german' players or 'wrong' players from the Bundesliga.
Instead of Reus they buy Marin and Schurrle, instead of someone like Rodriguez they buy Baba and now instead of Mustafi they try to show the world what a world class talent Rudiger is.
For that kind of money, Roma will be laughing all the way to the bank, congrats. Poor man's Boateng.
Conte must make gold from shit now, good luck, you gonna need it, but the bright side is, massive payout either way, so chin up. I would have also taken the job, the money is there to take.

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Rudiger is very close to Chelsea,the deal is almost done. (@angelomangiante)

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Angelo MangianteVerified account‏@angelomangiante

@BlueBIueBlue Before 30th of June Rudiger will be the first player to leave Rome. The deal is almost done with Chelsea, they are very close

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On 30.5.2016 at 11:31 PM, petre.ispirescu said:

I refuse to believe and I say it again, I REFUSE TO BELIEVE that the Chelsea board would be that stupid to wait for Roma to transfer Rudiger and then buy him for 25m or 30m. Had Chelsea really wanted him, our club would have convinced the player to refuse the transfer to Roma, he'd have come back to Stuttgart after his loan, then Chelsea would have transfered him directly from Stuttgart for 9m. At least this is what I like to think and frankly this is what every business man would do. This is no fucking charity, oh yes you can have him for 9m and then I'll pay you 30 just because we're Chelsea and financially we're stronger than you. And I firmly believe that the Chelsea board is a tough negociatior because when you rob PSG for 50m on David Luiz it shows that you mean business. Chelsea board can't be idiots to pay silly money for a bang average player like Rudiger. Hopefully.

Sure?

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well and if he flops all you will complain we spend money on average players. 

One thing, it can go 50:50 with Rudiger. But right now after all these years of average players, I would for once prefer us to go after proven top quality. It is not Rudiger. Or Manolas. Why cant we target top CBs out there like other clubs would do? 

I see real picture where we are right now. Its a result of playing average players for high prices and hope they will do well. But most dont and next summer same story. 

Either buy some kiddo for 10m or splash 50m on top player. Im tired of us paying 30-40m on average players who are only decent but when combined, they cost hundreds of millions. 

Rudiger is like Baba right now. Damn high price but shown nothing to be realy worth that price. He has potential, but is his potential realy worth 40m? Bayern paid alot for Sanches or Coman while they shown little before. But we cant afford that risk right now to spend on Comans and Sancheses and Rudigers and Stones etc. We need proven players. Leaders. 

Big price for proven quality. Or if the board thinks they have become magicians in turning up and coming players in world stars, then get talents who wont cost more than 20m and even that can be alot. But dont pay fucking 40m or whatever on players like Rudiger or Stones because the risk is damn high, while the price is damn high too. 

I would much rather if football went in different direction with these potential players. They should be bought based on their current skill and if they make it, simple clauses with add ons to the former club. Everyone is happy. But Im sick of spending all this money on players who choke in every big game. In past at least you knew if you spent big you got results in 90% of cases. 

I have nothing against Rudiger but more about the board for making such interest in this kind of players instead of going for proven players. 

Name me these big name proven CB's you speak of?

At what price will these big name CB's sell for?

What is their wage demands?

Is their a desire to play in the premier league or the champions league?

It's not just a matter of going to a grocery store and selecting which CB you want to buy, they have to WANT to come here. In world football there is a real shortage of quality CB's anyways, the best have their choice to choose which club they will join and right now it's not going to be Chelsea.

Trust the process, Conte was never big on buying all the world stars, he made his name mainly through developing good players into great ones. No one ever heard of Chiellini, Marchisio, Bonucci and Barzagli before Conte showed up at Juve and now they are household names and full internationals.

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30 minutes ago, Chelsea Legend 11 said:

No one ever heard of Chiellini, Marchisio, Bonucci and Barzagli before Conte showed up at Juve and now they are household names and full internationals.

???
It's not like they were shit before, they've always been solid players. And their name didn't go out of Italy only after 2012, it only went out stronger because they started winning things.
Barzagli is a world cup winner.
Chiellini plays at Juve ever since 2005, first national cap in 2004 at the age of 20.
Bonucci is a known player since 2010.
Marchisio since around 2009.

For better CBs we could target see my previous posts

[Blue_Fox_ 2,086]

2 hours ago, Essien19 said:

Marin, Schurrle, Baba and now Rudiger, flops have been quite costly, no wonder Abra is furious, better sack some people from the board now. They always end up with the poor 'german' players or 'wrong' players from the Bundesliga.
Instead of Reus they buy Marin and Schurrle, instead of someone like Rodriguez they buy Baba and now instead of Mustafi they try to show the world what a world class talent Rudiger is.
For that kind of money, Roma will be laughing all the way to the bank, congrats. Poor man's Boateng.
Conte must make gold from shit now, good luck, you gonna need it, but the bright side is, massive payout either way, so chin up. I would have also taken the job, the money is there to take.

It's like someone at Chelsea has a raging inferiority complex or was repeatedly bullied as a kid and now wants to be proven right just for once in his life 

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34 minutes ago, Blue_Fox_ said:

???
It's not like they were shit before, they've always been solid players. And their name didn't go out of Italy only after 2012, it only went out stronger because they started winning things.
Barzagli is a world cup winner.
Chiellini plays at Juve ever since 2005, first national cap in 2004 at the age of 20.
Bonucci is a known player since 2010.
Marchisio since around 2009.

For better CBs we could target see my previous posts

Ya a World Cup winner from the sidelines… If you accurately read what I wrote you would see that I said 'turns good players into great'.

 

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2 hours ago, Chelsea Legend 11 said:

Ya a World Cup winner from the sidelines… If you accurately read what I wrote you would see that I said 'turns good players into great'.

 

Obviously i focused myself on the latter part of your post which is quite inaccurate

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Anyone given credence to the thought that Rüdiger is coming to play RB, and Azpi will be shoved back to LB? 

I think that's a real possibility especially if we sign another CB like Koulibally. 

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6 minutes ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

Anyone given credence to the thought that Rüdiger is coming to play RB, and Azpi will be shoved back to LB? 

I think that's a real possibility especially if we sign another CB like Koulibally. 

Can accept it...