Special Juan 28,141 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 This club isn't far away from being competition for Liverpool and City, 2 or 3 elite players needed and a season of patience. Johnnyeye, Styl1994 and ulsterchelsea 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superblue 6,372 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 15 hours ago, jabj24 said: @Vesper Lets say we're all in with Tammy as our striker. Who are the best backup striking options? I think the better option is to be able to find a higher quality player who is versatile enough to play different roles (lone striker, second striker, out wide) and therefore won't necessarily be "backup quality" and instead first team quality getting plenty of game time due to rotation and suitability across the front line. I've mentioned it before, but in my opinion, Anelka was really underappreciated by a large proportion of the fan base during his time here. He was an easy scapegoat at times but he sacrificed much of his game to play out wide for the majority of games and we were pretty successful during this period. But where his additional value came into play was we didn't miss Drogba very often when he was unavailable due to injury, Afcon, etc because Anelka was a top quality central striker. He top scored in the whole league in the Scolari/Hiddink season when Drogba struggled for form and fitness and besides probably United and Liverpool at the time, he would have walked into any other team in the league as their main striker. Since he left, we've never had an alternative striking option anywhere near his quality and in some years, our main striking option wasn't anywhere near his quality either. The obvious option I think when you think of someone of this ilk has to be Werner because of his ability to play multiple roles across the attack and he offers different strengths and characteristics to Tammy in the same way that Drogba and Anelka differed. As most have mentioned Werner will be in huge demand in the summer so there's no guarantee we'll get a clear run at him. But there must be other players across the continent that can offer something similar in case he's a no go. jabj24 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strike 7,489 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12691/11909775/boubakary-soumare-manchester-united-and-chelsea-set-to-battle-it-out-for-his-capture Soumare Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milka 3,393 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 -Dunk -Fernandes -Souamare too many peripheral players we need top class player/s Antonio8 and Vesper 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Soumare another fucking Bakayoko signing you watch Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZAPHOD2319 4,818 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Get Dani Olmo. Get the Pulisic buy and loan deal for Sancho, call it a month. oldportblue and Nicco 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldportblue 547 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 reports that mertens is available for low fee (read 8.5M somewhere on twitter, who knows if it's true) because his contract runs out in summer and that us and arsenal are interested... wouldn't be the worst thing in the world to sell giroud, get mertens in until end of season to help us get top 4 and then hopefully make some big signings in summer like sancho and werner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo 21,751 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 2 hours ago, ZAPHOD2319 said: Get Dani Olmo. Get the Pulisic buy and loan deal for Sancho, call it a month. Dortmund will not agree to that. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,909 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 2 hours ago, Special Juan said: Soumare another fucking Bakayoko signing you watch Having watched Soumare a bit that's very harsh. He is about 1000x the footballer Bakayoko is. He's very composed and classy on the ball whereas Baka has the touch of a brick wall. I just don't think we need a pure DM like him. He's really a player Arse or United should be after, not us. Strike 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atomiswave 6,117 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Soumare looks decent actually but only if we use him as DM, not Kante's current position. Young strong physical and good at driving forward when he wants. For a decent fee its ok imo but then again not exactly where we are weak, surely other areas require more urgent help. It is said its battle between us and manu, he will get much much more playing time at manu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 31 minutes ago, Pizy said: Having watched Soumare a bit that's very harsh. He is about 1000x the footballer Bakayoko is. He's very composed and classy on the ball whereas Baka has the touch of a brick wall. I just don't think we need a pure DM like him. He's really a player Arse or United should be after, not us. An out-and-out DM wouldn't be the worst thing for us IMO, given how flimsy our midfield can be at times, even when Kante is playing. That said, we're well stocked in midfield in terms of numbers. Unless we let someone go, signing Soumare makes no sense in that case. Vesper and Pizy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,909 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 51 minutes ago, Jason said: An out-and-out DM wouldn't be the worst thing for us IMO, given how flimsy our midfield can be at times, even when Kante is playing. That said, we're well stocked in midfield in terms of numbers. Unless we let someone go, signing Soumare makes no sense in that case. Agreed. Only real use I could see for him is in those matches where Frank sits Joriginho to give us more defensive solidity. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killer1257 3,282 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Having watched Soumare a bit that's very harsh. He is about 1000x the footballer Bakayoko is. He's very composed and classy on the ball whereas Baka has the touch of a brick wall. I just don't think we need a pure DM like him. He's really a player Arse or United should be after, not us.Soumare is actually quite good. Have seen him play 4 times and he was always showing his Potential, especially against Ajax. Stil we already have way too many midfielders. RLC is also coming back. Gesendet von meinem SM-G920F mit Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiCFC 8,322 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Do you guys think what I am thinking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicco 927 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 6 minutes ago, NikkiCFC said: Do you guys think what I am thinking? Yes they need someone to cover for Depay out injured, good for them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChelseaFanUK 1,014 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 Lamps presser tomorrow. Might not give anything away but it could give us an idea whether we are still in the market, or leaving it as it is Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NikkiCFC 8,322 Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 9 hours ago, Strike said: https://www.skysports.com/football/news/12691/11909775/boubakary-soumare-manchester-united-and-chelsea-set-to-battle-it-out-for-his-capture Soumare Kovacic, Kante, Jorginho, Soumare. Frank use Barkley there, and said he sees RLC deeper as well. Plus Gallagher. 7 players for two positions. AM? Mount and Mount only 😂 and he refuses to play Pulisic or even Willian there. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,179 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 6 hours ago, Atomiswave said: Soumare looks decent actually but only if we use him as DM, not Kante's current position. Young strong physical and good at driving forward when he wants. For a decent fee its ok imo but then again not exactly where we are weak, surely other areas require more urgent help. It is said its battle between us and manu, he will get much much more playing time at manu. apparently no one saw this IF we are looking for a crunching DMF (which we bloody well need IMHO) then this lad is NOT it Atomiswave 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nicco 927 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Please sell him. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,179 Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 9 minutes ago, Nicco said: Please sell him. all these Italian clubs can stick their constant loan requests up their arse seriously sick of this shit it just rapes us to no end when they fail to follow through plus the same fuckers raise the price over and over and over on real sales when we come calling with truly MASSIVE quid (see Alex Sandro and Juve for Exhibit A) Nicco and Atomiswave 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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