Luka Modric

[jmarlow 458]

Modric would be a great signing! with Modric, Mata and Hazard in the same we would dominate games against virtually anyone!

...........................................Mikel/Tiote...............Modric/Lampard................................

......Ramires/Hulk.......................................Mata......................................Hazard..............

.................................................................Torres.................................................................

that team would be ridiculously impressive!

[Joshyboy 36]

I like Modric and what he brings to the pitch, but I honestly don't know if we've got a position for him, he's an attacking midfielder playing in the hole, basically a number 10, in which position we've got Hazard, Mata, De Bruyne and Marin who can all play effectively.

I guess we could drop him into a deeper midfield role but that would be something he'd need to adapt to and he really is at his best threading balls through the defence to the strikers playing off the shoulder, more so than an Andrea Pirlo typed player who can spray longballs all over the park effectively.

Not to mention we've got John Obi, Lampard, Romeu, Mireles and Essien who can play there, for the money he's going for (and I usually don't give price much thought when we have our own in house billionaire) I'm not sure Its a practical deal to do, if we'd signed him last season he'd be playing in the hole now and we'd have Mata out on the wing and we probably wouldn't have purchased Hazard.

TLDR; I'd love to see him at the club, but where would he play?

:blue scalf:

[BleedsBlue 1,549]

No doubt he's a terrific player but I think he missed the bus a year ago and he can only blame Levy for that.No point spending anything more than 25m on him now,it'd best if he tries his luck in Spain and opt for Madrid instead of the Manchester clubs.

[RamiCFC9 258]

Easily the best CM in the PL, said not by some forum "experts" but Paul Scholes himself.Would I want him here even for 40m ? YES, YES, YES! And about the "where would he play when we already have Mata, Hulk, Hazard bullshi t" WELL GUESS WHAT EDUCATE YOURSELF BEFORE POSTING SUCH KINDA OF CRAP.Modric is CREATIVE CM he will overtake Lamps or Mikel's place.

[Joker10 946]

I would say Yaya Toure has been the best CM in the league this season. After him i can't name many top class players at that position. Then you are looking at players like Arteta, Carrick, and Fellaini. Nothing impressive.

Lauding him the best CM in the league is not saying much tbh.

[Spike 12,049]

I personally don't give a fuck about Paul Scholes' opinion.

[KonohasOrangeFlash 2,607]

Easily the best CM in the PL, said not by some forum "experts" but Paul Scholes himself.Would I want him here even for 40m ? YES, YES, YES! And about the "where would he play when we already have Mata, Hulk, Hazard bullshi t" WELL GUESS WHAT EDUCATE YOURSELF BEFORE POSTING SUCH KINDA OF CRAP.Modric is CREATIVE CM he will overtake Lamps or Mikel's place.

You're talling others to educate themselves when you thought Gotze was a forward..................

[RamiCFC9 258]

By forward I mean players who are supossed to beat their man, english and german players rarely do that.

I would rather trust Paul Scholes then some aussie forum "expert"(srsly for how long do u even have football on TV, 5 years?And how many games have you watched live?(and no Schri lanka and Fiji don't count)).

[didierforever 7,349]

Easily the best CM in the PL, said not by some forum "experts" but Paul Scholes himself.Would I want him here even for 40m ? YES, YES, YES! And about the "where would he play when we already have Mata, Hulk, Hazard bullshi t" WELL GUESS WHAT EDUCATE YOURSELF BEFORE POSTING SUCH KINDA OF CRAP.Modric is CREATIVE CM he will overtake Lamps or Mikel's place.

do you want to see chelsea play next season or some version of world xi? we have got enough players. there is no need and place for modric.

[RamiCFC9 258]

do you want to see chelsea play next season or some version of world xi? we have got enough players. there is no need and place for modric.

There IS need of creative CM (Modric) and about place there's always place for the best CM in the league.

[didierforever 7,349]

There IS need of creative CM (Modric) and about place, if he comes there will be no place for some1 else (worse aka Meireles, Essien) not him.

how dont we have creativity now? we got torres up ahead flanked by hazard and hulk and mata between them. what we need behind these 4 would be a solid (to the point defensive) pairing and i would trust the tried and tested of lamps and mikel than spending 40m on modric.

as far as essien is concerned, he was bad last season but lets look at it this way, even after kalou and bosingwa played such a big role in the final, they were let go off because people who are dealing in transfers could see that they are more of a liability but if they are trusting in essien, it might be that they have seen things we have not. so just trust in chelsea rather than mindlessly spending on transfers. anyways if we get modric it would mean o chance for josh even in the carling cup matches so it is a complete NO.

[Kojo 4,676]

Modric would be a fantastic buy, in my opinion he isn't a cam, i love his work rate and such, imagine him playing in the double pivot. He has a lot of work rate and great vision, we would finally have a player who could pick a pass out.

I will only pay 25 million at most, that's the honest to god truth anymore and Spurs can go get fucked.

[MGuerreiro 252]

how dont we have creativity now? we got torres up ahead flanked by hazard and hulk and mata between them. what we need behind these 4 would be a solid (to the point defensive) pairing and i would trust the tried and tested of lamps and mikel than spending 40m on modric.

as far as essien is concerned, he was bad last season but lets look at it this way, even after kalou and bosingwa played such a big role in the final, they were let go off because people who are dealing in transfers could see that they are more of a liability but if they are trusting in essien, it might be that they have seen things we have not. so just trust in chelsea rather than mindlessly spending on transfers. anyways if we get modric it would mean o chance for josh even in the carling cup matches so it is a complete NO.

Or, maybe, it's because Essien's contract isn't expiring this summer like Bosingwa's and Kalou's. I think it's more likely that it's extremely difficult to sell Essien, and they don't want do disrupt the teams atmosphere by putting an unlucky player on the transfer list.

And I think people are underestimating Modric, he is an exceptional player. Of course there is room for Modric, he plays in the double pivot and would be a fucking great replacement for Lampard.

[RamiCFC9 258]

how dont we have creativity now? we got torres up ahead flanked by hazard and hulk and mata between them. what we need behind these 4 would be a solid (to the point defensive) pairing and i would trust the tried and tested of lamps and mikel than spending 40m on modric.

as far as essien is concerned, he was bad last season but lets look at it this way, even after kalou and bosingwa played such a big role in the final, they were let go off because people who are dealing in transfers could see that they are more of a liability but if they are trusting in essien, it might be that they have seen things we have not. so just trust in chelsea rather than mindlessly spending on transfers. anyways if we get modric it would mean o chance for josh even in the carling cup matches so it is a complete NO.

Err instead of quote I clicked Like.

1.Lampard is 34.

2.For most of the last season we were dominated badly in midfield Mikel-Lampard is only tried and tested as failuire to me ..Its quite obvious we won only because of KING Drogba and our great defense.Midfield of Lampard-Mikel is joke for a club who has ambitions to be title contender and defend CL.Neither Lampard at 34 or Mikel are world beaters at their positions and for me midfield is the vocal point of every TOP club.

[didierforever 7,349]

Or, maybe, it's because Essien's contract isn't expiring this summer like Bosingwa's and Kalou's. I think it's more likely that it's extremely difficult to sell Essien, and they don't want do disrupt the teams atmosphere by putting an unlucky player on the transfer list.

they have let go off 3 (out of which one was dd), that would have more than disrupted the atmosphere, plus by now every1 who follows epl knows we have shouted OVERHAUL for rooftops, and i think so do our players and being professionals they would accept it, but u r right on one point, selling essien would be difficult(aging and heavily injury prone) if we rate him high. but i still think he would be sold for bout 10m.

[didierforever 7,349]

Err instead of quote I clicked Like.

1.Lampard is 34.

2.For most of the last season we were dominated badly in midfield Mikel-Lampard is only tried and tested as failuire to me ..Its quite obvious we won only because of KING Drogba and our great defense.Midfield of Lampard-Mikel is joke for a club who has ambitions to be title contender and defend CL.Neither Lampard at 34 or Mikel are world beaters at their positions and for me midfield is the vocal point of every TOP club.

are u kidding me? mik-lamps got dominated not because of their lack but because we dint have outlets. who cares if lamps is 34. have u already forgotten the 2 awesome balls for rambo against barca. also tell me who does not get dominated by barca and what happened to real madrid when they went to allianz arena? lamos and mikel were brilliant in the final and yet we were "dominated" not because of them but because of the lack of attacking outlets of our team. they was just one outlet for us mata, but when u have hazard and hulk on the wings, the full backs wont commit with mata being an even more potent of a weapon than he was, so mikel and lamps wont be over run 2-4or even 5 in the midfield.

btw if lamps is 34 we have 2 awesome 20 and under players in romeu and josh. so no need to but modric.

[GIBBO3000 20]

No need to buy Modric. We have enough youngsters that with the proper guiding can become world class.

[capriccioso 2,545]

By forward I mean players who are supossed to beat their man, english and german players rarely do that.

I would rather trust Paul Scholes then some aussie forum "expert"(srsly for how long do u even have football on TV, 5 years?And how many games have you watched live?(and no Schri lanka and Fiji don't count)).

I'm going to bring myself out of exile for a bit.

Mikel is our best midfielder, and unlike Modric he's played at his maximum potential this season. If anyone should go to make room for Modric its Lampard and he won't be leaving for a while. Lampard and Mikel play well together, and we have Romeu, Essien, Meireles and McEachran already as squad players, if we sign Modric, we'll have too many midfielders sitting on the bench wasting away and taking out money for doing nothing.

Also your dismissal of Australia is hilarious. Football is a minority sport here and we've still managed to get to more world cups than Bulgaria will in your lifetime. My Sri Lanka has never played Australia in football as far as I know, and we have beaten many quality teams of late. While it was fun beating Tonga 22-0 every week we're too good for that these days and now play far better Asian teams. I don't want to take this off topic but Asian teams like Korea and Japan- who we regularly play and do well against- would disassemble half the teams that have qualified for EURO 12.