This could end like last summer

[Ollie 4,400]

Its definitely Ribery being targetted, i have no doubts about that and i think Roman's gonna target him and buy him no matter the price unlike previous seasons. He is probably thinking about how Robinho got away last season and wont want that to happen again. We aint won the league since 06 and aint ever won the UCL so maybe its bout time we put ourselves out to get targets. £70m is stupid tho but thats what was in the mail.....

[chelsea_4_eva 1,180]

Next player? no idea but Pato said hell be decide his future end of june.

june?? it's already july.... do you mean july??

but i really....really....really hope and pray that the big signing is pato.....

*oh please god*

[Term-X 7,891]

milan will never sell pato.

it will probably be tevez although this means sturridge wont get a chance to develop and it will be r.i.p di santo

[NoFear 23]

Something tells me it won't be Pato this yr !! Ancelotti would more likely want him for next yr.. because this yr Drogs n Nico wd do just fine for the lone striker role.. Drogs may not be the same next yr when he is 32 and may be allowed to leave wd Pato then comin as a replacement..

My guess is Ancelotti would hv told Pato to be at Milan this yr so that he gets a first team place in the Brazil squad for the WC.

Well, its only my guess, u know !!

So its between the Frankenstein n Kun I believe...

[Term-X 7,891]

bojan from barca would be the one player in the world i would sign

[Matterz 67]

With Bruce Bucks announcement that we are still looking to make a block buster signing for the season, it got me wondering who they would need to bring in. Perhaps Ribery or Villa, maybe Tevez, Aguero or even Pato, could it be De Rossi or Pirlo? Then I started thinking, do we actually need any of these players? My feeling is no, our first 11 pretty much picks itself, especuially with Joe Cole fit and Zhirkov to provide competition on the left. If we were to bring in any of tese players it would disrupt the team as they would want to walk into the first team. Yes Pato and Aguero are both very young but would cost a fortune and come with large expectations. Tevez would mean we would have to play 2 up front as we cannot leave two world class players out on the bench. I think signing Ribery or Villa would just be luxury signing that we dont actually need, as would Pirlo or De Rossi. I say we should continue as we have been so far and bring in quality players who can add depth and versatity to the squad, like we have done with Zhirkov. I dont think we need more than 2 more signings to replace those who are destined to leave in Deco and Carvalho. If it were me id try bring in Van Der Vaart or Snjider to replace Deco and if we allow Mancienne to go out on loan to Wolves for the season, id want Micah Richards or Steven Taylor to provide quality, young, strong, English talent and not Bruno Alves or Mexes who we have been linked with.

[EskWeston 696]

Do we NEED a big signing? Probably not, our squad is excellant for sure. However we seriously need to be considering the future. To sign, especially Pato or Aguero now would put us in an excellant position to build on for the future. With so many of our players into their 30's it is now we need to start dealing with replacing them.

Plus to be adding the quality of a truly World Class player to our squad will take us up a level and make us even stronger and give us a even better chance of winning the big cups this season.

[Milan 17,955]

The thing is we really need someone who can do something special, something unexpected. That's what we are missing, we need such a player, probably a star-name.

[Matterz 67]

I agree with what you are saying, my only concern is the disruption that a signing like that may cause, any big name signing will want to play and im not sure that we could guarantee it with the exception of during the AFCON. Perhaps it would be wiser to rather wait until a player like Drogba does leave and then purchase such a player. bearing in mind the quality youngsters we already have in Stoch, Di Santo, Sturridge, Kakuta, Mancienne to name a few does put us in a strong position for the future.

[EskWeston 696]

I agree with what you are saying, my only concern is the disruption that a signing like that may cause, any big name signing will want to play and im not sure that we could guarantee it with the exception of during the AFCON. Perhaps it would be wiser to rather wait until a player like Drogba does leave and then purchase such a player. bearing in mind the quality youngsters we already have in Stoch, Di Santo, Sturridge, Kakuta, Mancienne to name a few does put us in a strong position for the future.

Stoch, Di Santo, Sturridge, Kakuta and Mancienne all have to prove still that they can play at the highest level on a regular basis. If a couple of them were fairly established i would agree with you.

To wait could be a big mistake, we may not be able to land someone at that time and we could be left with nothing or someone not quite good enough.

It is obvious we want a big signing to improve the quality of the squad and we DO need someone who can do something special!

[Matterz 67]

The thing is we really need someone who can do something special, something unexpected. That's what we are missing, we need such a player, probably a star-name.

We already have Lampard, Drogba & Joe Cole who are all capable of this and who have proven they are capable of this. Yes most of our star players are ageing, but we have some seriously talented young players, people forget about Mikel, Kalou, Stoch, Kakuta, Bosingwa is only 25, Joe Cole 27, Zhirkov is 25, Essien 26 I think, so we have young players, I think we should rather bring in players who we can develop into word class players like we have done with Zhirkov

[Stamford 3]

Stoch, Di Santo, Sturridge, Kakuta and Mancienne all have to prove still that they can play at the highest level on a regular basis. If a couple of them were fairly established i would agree with you.

To wait could be a big mistake, we may not be able to land someone at that time and we could be left with nothing or someone not quite good enough.

It is obvious we want a big signing to improve the quality of the squad and we DO need someone who can do something special!

Agree totally. We do not necessarily need a big name, but a signing that can just do that little something to turn the odds in our favour. Also by signing this so called marquee signing, it will in turn strengthen our bench. For example look at Utds bench last season, they could batter most teams with their starting line up. Then when the opposing team think they have handled themselves quite well, they look at the touchline and see Tevez, Berbatov or Rooney waiting to come on. That's what we need a real threat from the bench as well as the starting line up.