Luka Modric

[Joelasticot 111]

Don't worry AVB will probably need a full summer to asses the squad ^^.

On a more serious notes AVB was opposition scout at chelsea not scout as in players scout. Maybe you can tell me more on that matter. As he ever had this job?

I still think it's gonna be hard for AVB to bring quality players in what's turning into a selling club with no CL.

[ZanSnake 1,211]

Don't worry AVB will probably need a full summer to asses the squad ^^.

On a more serious notes AVB was opposition scout at chelsea not scout as in players scout. Maybe you can tell me more on that matter. As he ever had this job?

I still think it's gonna be hard for AVB to bring quality players in what's turning into a selling club with no CL.

Look at the player he bought us, like Romeu and Mata for dirt cheap, as well as Courtouis

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

Where would Mata play in a 4-3-3. As a CM? He's not as good deeper.

maybe the 3 could be this

-------mata-------rambo

--------------mikel.

mata would drift, not bein held to left side, and rambo would be box to box which is his best position .

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

maybe the 3 could be this

-------mata-------rambo

--------------mikel.

mata would drift, not bein held to left side, and rambo would be box to box which is his best position .

I just don't think Mata's best position is as a CM.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Avb already brought Sigurdsson, and soon Verthongen. Tries to keep VDW and wants Moutinho there.

I dont think bad about AVB, he bought Mata, Romeu, Courtiois and Cahill. Unfortunely he came season too early. His style and our team from last season couldnt work together. BUT he needed more time. Yes, we wouldnt won anything last season, but we would start playing more beautiful football. Replacing older player with younger and Chelsea would be top 3 teams in the world in 2 years. With Robbie we won CL, but I realy hope we never play 6:4:0 again. And we still need to rebuild our team.

At Spurs, Andre will have lot of money available and if he keeps all their players and buys few more, they will be dangerous. But overall, he plays too open football and Spurs dont have world class defence, meaning that they will do same like we did for first half of season. Play attacking, but no results realy.

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

Apparantly, A bola are saying we are preparing a £40M bid!

People saying thats too much I understand, But the market is so inflated right now that it's silly!

Downing £20m

Carroll £35m

Henderson £20m

Torres £50m

goes on and on!!

Modric would be a huge step towards challenging on all fronts IMO.

Him and Hulk would be a massive statement!

we're not gettin him and hulk. if we get modric, then moses. and if hulk then nobody else cuz no cm is available for cheap.

no way in hell we're buyin hazard-32mil hulk-35mil modric-40mil.

this isnt FIFA!

[Joker10 946]

Look at the player he bought us, like Romeu and Mata for dirt cheap, as well as Courtouis

I only consider Romeu and Meireles his true buys, and influenced their signings.

Courouis, Lukaku, and De Bruyne for that matter were players we were heavily linked with much before AVB was appointed.

Guys like Piet De Visser were much more influential.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

I just don't think Mata's best position is as a CM.

What I realy wonder is how people got to mind that Mata is best at CAM? He was winger at Valencia, he is winger in Spain and he played fantastic for us when he was on wing. After Robbie moved him to CAM, he was not as important as he was before. It could be our style, no support by other players or he was just tired. But he still played his best football on wing for his whole carrer. Now with Hazard, he will have more space and rotation, his work will be split 50:50, he wont be that tired anymore and also he will play on wing and in centre together with Hazard. My concern is only that we dont have proper replacement for him. Last season, he played so much because without him, we were dreadfull and he was realy tired in the end. This season, we must find someone who will replace him goo when he will need rest.

We should buy Hulk or CM plus Moses for rotation. Also RB is almost required. The problem is only that pre-season will be here sooner than you think and we are only being linked with players for all month now. If we plan to buy 3 more players, that wont happen in one month. If we wont get any more players till august, there will max one come in that last month and probably wont be world class. With Moses, Hulk and Sigurdsson we would be covered by now, but Gyilffi left for Spurs. If we will keep loosing on such players, we will end up with Maxi 'fuckin' Rodriguez in the end. And I dont want that shit again.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

we're not gettin him and hulk. if we get modric, then moses. and if hulk then nobody else cuz no cm is available for cheap.

no way in hell we're buyin hazard-32mil hulk-35mil modric-40mil.

this isnt FIFA!

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Indeed true, dont know where people get we will buy Hulk, rb, moses and another class CM

But Sigurdsson was quite cheap, we missed on him.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

What I realy wonder is how people got to mind that Mata is best at CAM? He was winger at Valencia, he is winger in Spain and he played fantastic for us when he was on wing. After Robbie moved him to CAM, he was not as important as he was before. It could be our style, no support by other players or he was just tired. But he still played his best football on wing for his whole carrer. Now with Hazard, he will have more space and rotation, his work will be split 50:50, he wont be that tired anymore and also he will play on wing and in centre together with Hazard. My concern is only that we dont have proper replacement for him. Last season, he played so much because without him, we were dreadfull and he was realy tired in the end. This season, we must find someone who will replace him goo when he will need rest.

Well I prefer him at CAM. He is better when he is on the ball. Plus Hazard is more suited to the wing. However it seems Hazard will play in the middle and Mata on the left but they will (presumably) switch places alot so it could mean Mata plays even better.

Also what do you mean we don't have someone to cover for him? We have Marin and De Bryune.

[themightyblue 443]

we're not gettin him and hulk. if we get modric, then moses. and if hulk then nobody else cuz no cm is available for cheap.

no way in hell we're buyin hazard-32mil hulk-35mil modric-40mil.

this isnt FIFA!

No it isn't fifa.....its Roman

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Also what do you mean we don't have someone to cover for him? We have Marin and De Bryune.

I meant at CAM. Lets say we rest both Mata and Hazard. Marin natural position is not CAM, while I dont think Kdb is actualy ready to lead our midfield in his first season. None of those two ever played in Premier league and we should get someone like Sigurdsson who is ready to be sub, but has had good season in PL.

In best case, we should get rid of Malouda and buy Hulk (for obvious reasons), Moses (to deeper our squad and add someone who actualy played in Premier league before), Dembele (or whoever who would come cheap, and would be used as CAM or CM) and maybe RB (well we need him, but I doubt there will be money for it)

Yes that is four players and two have already came, but we also got rid of Drogba, Kalou, bosingwa, anelka, possibly Malouda and in previous seasons Ballack, Joe Cole,...and we still havent got proper replacements for them.

[Joelasticot 111]

Look at the player he bought us, like Romeu and Mata for dirt cheap, as well as Courtouis

I agree. However those players chose to come to a great club competing in the Champions League. How many players have we heard mention champions league football as a key factor when it comes to transfers.

Hell, Hazard joined because we qualified by winning the CL.

A guy like Mata would probably not want to go to spurs considering they have no CL football now.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

I meant at CAM. Lets say we rest both Mata and Hazard. Marin natural position is not CAM, while I dont think Kdb is actualy ready to lead our midfield in his first season. None of those two ever played in Premier league and we should get someone like Sigurdsson who is ready to be sub, but has had good season in PL.

No we shouldn't. It seems all you want to do is buy, buy, buy. KDB is good enough to be backup. He has the passing ability and vision for it. We have no need for anyone other than Hulk.

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

No we shouldn't. It seems all you want to do is buy, buy, buy. KDB is good enough to be backup. He has the passing ability and vision for it. We have no need for anyone other than Hulk.

agree. also if our midfield is lamps, mikel, romeu, rambo, mierles, essien. i wouldnt mind getting rif of later two and pickin up dembele. but yh, modric not needed only hulk and kdb promted ONCE he shows his skills to RDM.

soo squad like this

wingers-hazard, hulk----subs:marin, KDB, rambo.

AM-mata--------alternate: hazard, lamps dembele.

pivots-lamps mikel-----subs:rambo, dembele, kdb. romeu.

no need for overpriced modric, did well without him, why cant that continue?

[BlueLyon 9,359]

No we shouldn't. It seems all you want to do is buy, buy, buy. KDB is good enough to be backup. He has the passing ability and vision for it. We have no need for anyone other than Hulk.

Read some of my older posts, I dont want to buy more than we neee. But we cant depend on Meireles, Essien again.

Torres will replace Drogba, Hazard Malouda, Hulk Anelka and Moses Kalou.

Maybe we dont need CM, but then why everyone wants creative CM?

Afterall, Bayern already bought 5 players (Pizzro, Manduzukic, Shaqiri, Dante and Stark, yet they will probably get Martinez type of CM

too).

I want us to buy enough players who will come cheap and replace Meireles and other deadwood, because I would like us to play more faster and creative. My point was to get rid of Malouda and Meireles and get some cheap proper replacements.

[Justin_3d 1,140]

Modric arrival stalls while Real clears house

Florentino Pérez orders to sell before signing players

http://www.marca.com/2012/07/08/en/football/real_madrid/1341731645.html

[Muzchap 8,966]

I also don't get why everybody says he AVB is a tactical genius? Some of his decisions at Chelsea seemed bizarre and instead of using all of the tools at his disposal he sulked like a little kid (immature) and only played those he liked! That's not professional or tactically adept?

I think plenty of Spurs boys will be leaving and we should look at Modric and definitely Walker - maybe in VDV as a squad player and loan them Lukaku as man city deal for Adebeyaor looks like falling through...