communicate 2,703 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 23 minutes ago, shrenshah said: Get xavier mayubu for our reserve team on a free Buy a world class bad a$$ cb like Koulibaly Sell ac and zouma We get Rudiger and Koulibaly as starters Tomori and Ampadu as backup with Mayubu just for cover Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk Koulibaly is 29 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Regarding the CB position, it feels like we're not going to buy a new one unless we can get rid of one. There has been barely any rumors at all on this position. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Lampard on more new signings... https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-8443509/Chelsea-boss-Frank-Lampard-calls-summer-signings.html Lampard says: ‘This is Chelsea Football Club and we want to close the gap, and signings like Timo and Ziyech are nice statements. There are other areas we may want to improve on as we go along. They have to be players who are in the market and we feel we can get. ‘We know there is a big gap going upwards, when you look at the performance of Liverpool and Manchester City in the last couple of years. So we need to try to work to close that gap but we have to be ready to give the players that come in, the two players you’re talking about, some time for adapting to the League.’ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrenshah 186 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Koulibaly is 29Good 3 years from him and we have Tomori or Ampadu ready Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
communicate 2,703 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 5 minutes ago, shrenshah said: Good 3 years from him and we have Tomori or Ampadu ready Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk In a perfect world he is good until 32.That is 30 m a season for transfer alone. We are not crazy enough to do that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blues Forever 1,232 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 14 minutes ago, shrenshah said: Good 3 years from him and we have Tomori or Ampadu ready Sent from my SM-G955F using Tapatalk Forget it, Marina would never pay 100m for 29 yrs old CB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase 43,479 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 11 minutes ago, Blues Forever said: Forget it, Marina would never pay 100m for 29 yrs old CB. It's bad for business anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styl1994 188 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 11 minutes ago, Jason said: It's bad for business anyway. The time to get Koulibaly was in 2016 or 2017 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blu35_army 551 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 How about Thiago Silva? is he free transfer right? maybe we can use him in short term 1/2 years.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Styl1994 188 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Imo our squad in a ideal world GK: Onana, Forster, 3rd homegrown goalkeeper RB: Azpilicueta, James CB: Zouma, Tomori, Gabriel, Christensen/Rüdiger LB: Chilwell, Maatsen, Azpilicueta CM: Kovacic, Kante, Loftus-Cheek, Gallagher, Mount, Gilmour, Havertz RW/LW: Pulisic, Ziyech, Hudson-Odoi, Werner, Havertz, Mount ST: Abraham, Werner, Giroud, Havertz This squad would give us so much tactical flexibility Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,907 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 I just realized that Koulibaly is only a month older than VVD. I for some reason thought Van Dijk was a few years younger than he is. CB's can often remain very good well into their 30's and I doubt VVD drops off any time soon. So maybe Koulibaly is actually worth the big money even at 29? God knows we need a quality CB who can dominate physically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killer1257 3,282 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 I just realized that Koulibaly is only a month older than VVD. I for some reason thought Van Dijk was a few years younger than he is. CB's can often remain very good well into their 30's and I doubt VVD drops off any time soon. So maybe Koulibaly is actually worth the big money even at 29? God knows we need a quality CB who can dominate physically.Koulibaly costs 80 Mio. +. I don't think that is worth itGesendet von meinem VOG-L29 mit Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Special Juan 28,141 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 There's talk of KK every single season and nothing happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,175 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 1 hour ago, Pizy said: I just realized that Koulibaly is only a month older than VVD. I for some reason thought Van Dijk was a few years younger than he is. CB's can often remain very good well into their 30's and I doubt VVD drops off any time soon. So maybe Koulibaly is actually worth the big money even at 29? God knows we need a quality CB who can dominate physically. Not a chance. His buy window has passed. Fernando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pizy 18,907 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Not like there are many options. Some of the names I see posted here like Varane are literally impossible. Not sure I can stand another season of shitting bricks every time the other team gets a corner or set play inside our half. Even shit teams have entire game plans centered on winning set plays against because we're so poor at defending them! That can't continue next season. DDA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post! Tomo 21,751 Posted June 22, 2020 Popular Post! Share Posted June 22, 2020 While I'm not atall defending our CBs (I'm not convinced even Rudi is good enough and the only one who potentially is long term is Fik) our current issues are running a lot deeper. Two years ago City pissed the league with worse CB options for half a season. I think the fact we are still not properly coordinated with our pressing (something Werner and Ziyech will help with considerably) and Kepa doing his Claudio Bravo impressions for a lot of the season are even bigger problems at this minute. killer1257, Supermonkey92, 0007 and 3 others 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,175 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 6 minutes ago, Pizy said: Not like there are many options. Some of the names I see posted here like Varane are literally impossible. Not sure I can stand another season of shitting bricks every time the other team gets a corner or set play inside our half. Even shit teams have entire game plans centered on winning set plays against because we're so poor at defending them! That can't continue next season. Varane has only been mentioned by me (cannot speak for others) in regards to a swap involving Kante, and I always preface that with the caveat that it is extremely unlikely. It looks like Kante has no chance of being sold, so bye bye to any remote shot at Varane. There are other WC centre backs out there whom we could make runs at, especially if we put the ludicrous Chillwell and Koulibaly valuations (so £80m to £90m) as a budget. Romagnoli (left footer and the least expensive), Skriniar, José Giménez, de Ligt (swap for Jorginho + Emerson), and Marquinhos are the WC ones who have even a remote possibility of perhaps being pulled. Stefan de Vrij (last year I will recco him due to age, we should have bought him years ago) is a slight step down from those but still a MASSIVE improvement over anything we have. Many other younger ones too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando 6,585 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 1 minute ago, Vesper said: Varane has only been mentioned by me (cannot speak for others) in regards to a swap involving Kante, and I always preface that with the caveat that it is extremely unlikely. It looks like Kante has no chance of being sold, so bye bye to any remote shot at Varane. There are other WC centre backs out there whom we could make runs at, especially if we put the ludicrous Chillwell and Koulibaly valuations (so £80m to £90m) as a budget. Romagnoli (left footer and the least expensive), Skriniar, José Giménez, de Ligt (swap for Jorginho + Emerson), and Marquinhos are the WC ones who have even a remote possibility of perhaps being pulled. Stefan de Vrij (last year I will recco him due to age, we should have bought him years ago) is a slight step down from those but still a MASSIVE improvement over anything we have. Many other younger ones too. I'm wondering if atlético is low on funds we can buy from them. They will take the money. Vesper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesper 30,175 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 8 minutes ago, Fernando said: I'm wondering if atlético is low on funds we can buy from them. They will take the money. Perhaps, and AC Milan are fucked financially. We are mad to not be in there after Romagnoli. Our CB's and Kepa (I assume we do SOMETHING at LB) are a disaster waiting to happen. Lampard is deluded if he thinks we can win the league and/or CL with them. Even Rudiger worries me now. Our set piece defending is close to the worst in the EPL. Madness. Fernando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alabama 1,992 Posted June 22, 2020 Share Posted June 22, 2020 Rogmanoli seems hellbent not to leave Italy.... I would rather try and test Atletico resolve by offering them 70m for Gimenez.... Fernando 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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