🇸🇳 Kalidou Koulibaly

[Beigl 1,387]

Koulibaly is certainly not worth 60 million pounds, but do we have an option? Pogba and Higuain aren´t worth their price tags too, not to mention a handful of other players who went for crazy prices in this inflated transfer market. Another season with JT/Cahill partnering Zouma could end with another top 4 finish, which would be a disaster for Chelsea. 

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

I read that Napoli want to buy another defender alongside Maksimovic, that Lindelof guy. Di Marzio also posted that they want some defender from Hoffenheim, the left-back. Can only hope that Chelsea buy Ghoulam off them as well. But in reality Chelsea fund them 2 defenders for 1.

[Fulham Broadway 17,315]

Its odd that players signed by the board, (Baba, Papy, Hector) are no longer at the club. To suggest these players were used to manoeuvre the previous manager away from the club must of course be ridiculous.

That reminds me, how long did Sidwell, Pizarro and Tal Ben Haim last once the board had made their next appointment?

Of course, I'm sure I'm wrong.

[Blue Gino 377]

Time to move on. Besides what's the harm in Zouma coming back, Brana for emergency purposes and if it gets real bad there's Fikayo Tomori if he hasn't already been loaned out. I say this because there's a certain Andreas Christensen who looks the part and it's my preference he lines up next to Zouma next year when his 2 year loan deal is up. My real concern this transfer window lies with full back depth.

[The Skipper 20,609]

37 minutes ago, Fulham Broadway said:

Its odd that players signed by the board, (Baba, Papy, Hector) are no longer at the club. To suggest these players were used to manoeuvre the previous manager away from the club must of course be ridiculous.

That reminds me, how long did Sidwell, Pizarro and Tal Ben Haim last once the board had made their next appointment?

Of course, I'm sure I'm wrong.

Mourinho got sacked because we were drifting one point above relegation with nearly half the season gone. Nothing more in it tbh. Papy, Baba & Hector were never going to be first teamers here so they definitely weren't the downfall of Jose. You know, I'd be inclined to maybe think your theory was plausible if you know, we were even top 8 in the table. I'd then think his sacking was unfair. But he was stewarding us to the relegation zone and that's unacceptable. The narrative that Jose's sacking was unjustly barely holds any merit to me. We lost 9 games out of 16. 9! We were on form for the worst title defence in PL history.  

[Thor 2,711]

13 hours ago, Roquila said:

60M is fucking insane.... I would get slim, teach myself how to play football, fucking bulk up, become world class at every position that was ever invented. 

For 100k.

Can you play in the pivot? 

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Napoli have turned down an offer of 58 million Euros from Chelsea FC for Koulibaly. (via @PremiumSportHD) #CFC #Napoli

#Napoli is preparing a new offer to #Torino for defender Maksimovic: 25 million Euros + bonus (via @PremiumSportHD) #CFC

[Fulham Broadway 17,315]

7 hours ago, The Skipper said:

Mourinho got sacked because we were drifting one point above relegation with nearly half the season gone. Nothing more in it tbh. Papy, Baba & Hector were never going to be first teamers here so they definitely weren't the downfall of Jose. You know, I'd be inclined to maybe think your theory was plausible if you know, we were even top 8 in the table. I'd then think his sacking was unfair. But he was stewarding us to the relegation zone and that's unacceptable. The narrative that Jose's sacking was unjustly barely holds any merit to me. We lost 9 games out of 16. 9! We were on form for the worst title defence in PL history.  

The general consensus with me and mates was that as after Tal Ben Haim, Sidwell, Pizzaro he went on a sulk.

This was even more exaggerated after Hector, Baby and Papy were foisted upon the squad. He just couldnt be arsed, knowing he would get full contract compensation. So he let it imp[lode, let us slip all the way down the table. Totally unprofessional, but only what every manager does, they never walk away and lose millions in compensation. Mourinhos was more of a scorched earth policy though. Childish.

Man Utd know this and allow him the Class A eggs =Pogba, Ibramovich etc, but if they stop him signing stella performers, he will chuck his toys out the pram again.

[King11Didier 916]

Just move on ffs. It's clear that Napoli don't want to sell. Because of that stupid deal we are with the same defence from the last season...

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http://forum.talkchelsea.net/topic/21265-nikola-maksimovic/?do=findComment&comment=1241766

[Special Juan 28,141]

Hopefully there is truth to it and we can finally get this deal done.

 

[Unionjack 7,531]

Look. IF Napoli had come straight out and told our powers that be we didn't have a cat in hells chance of buying him so we can fuck off then that would have closed the subject off straight away. So there must be some sort of a negotiating process going on unless our lot are just a bunch of masochists!

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[Ryan Fong 2,776]

Look. IF Napoli had come straight out and told our powers that be we didn't have a cat in hells chance of buying him so we can fuck off then that would have closed the subject off straight away. So there must be some sort of a negotiating process going on unless our lot are just a bunch of masochists!

The problem here is they don't want to sell and most importantly they don't need to sell. They have the absolute right to toy with us until we raise our bid to a level which would be stupid to say no.

[Unionjack 7,531]

2 minutes ago, Ryan Fong said:

The problem here is they don't want to sell and most importantly they don't need to sell. They have the absolute right to toy with us until we raise our bid to a level which would be stupid to say no.

They passed that mark £10mil back or so.

He's their player so have every right to say bollox. And IF they had come right out n said it at the start I'm pretty sure we woulda just caled them cunts and moved along to our next target surely.

So Napoli must me ummming and ahhhring about summet cause it makes us look like complete starters and gives every club the idea to do it to us.

[Ryan Fong 2,776]

They passed that mark £10mil back or so.

He's their player so have every right to say bollox. And IF they had come right out n said it at the start I'm pretty sure we woulda just caled them cunts and moved along to our next target surely.

So Napoli must me ummming and ahhhring about summet cause it makes us look like complete starters and gives every club the idea to do it to us.

Sigh...no way we can know what's going on behind the door and all we can do is wait. I'm sure Conte is more desperate than us.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

What about Fonte? I know he is 32 or something, but he is realy good CB tbh. If Napoli keeps playing hard ball with us, we should look at alternatives and Fonte is one of better options IMO. Used to PL, had two realy realy good seasons and just won euros.

If we dont sign Koulibaly, we will need to sign someone else and I hope we dont splash big money on some average CB or sign another Djilobodji.