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Found this: Missed out on Pastore - got Mata Missed out on Modric - got Oscar Missed out on Hulk - got Hazard Miss out on Cavani - don't worry!

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His celebration would look a bit silly here. He's used to doing a huge roar like "RAWRRRRRR" or something when he scores which goes perfectly well with the Napoli fans going "GOAAAAALLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!

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BREAKING: Corrie dello Sport report that an agreement between Chelsea and Napoli is very close for striker Edinson Cavani. #CFC #Chelsea

Is Corrie dello sport reliable? From what i have heard they are not that good.
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Obviously not quite as reliable as an Italian-speaking forum, but the guys over on BigSoccer in the Napoli section all reckon he's gone. The majority see either Gomez joining them (if he doesn't sign for Fiorentina) or Leandro Damiao. They want Dzeko the most out of realistic targets but as we know, Dzeko (apparently) doesn't want the move (and I can't blame him since Rafa isn't exactly the most enticing manager and Naples isn't the most enticing destination.) The few Italians on that part of the forum report that there's concrete interest in Muriel of Udinese which would require a bit of funding.

So he is leaving surely, that can't be up for debate.

Who can afford him? Chelsea, PSG, Manchester City, Real Madrid. Throw in the likes of Anzhi and Monaco perhaps but neither of those would make sense.

Assuming Ibrahimovic is retained at PSG (not like any other club can afford his wages) it'd be idiocy for PSG to buy.

Suarez seems almost nailed on to sign for Real Madrid with Higuain departing and I personally can't see Cavani being happy in the same team as Suarez since he's clearly uncomfortable with him for their national team.

Manchester City? With Mancini at the helm I'd see this deal as very likely. Manuel however is a smarter manager. He knows how to man-manage players. A big part of this throughout his managerial career has been using a small squad with little rotation. He likes to have his start striker on the pitch every game with a decent back-up striker on the bench. There is absolutely no way Cavani or Aguero will be content on the bench and I doubt they'd do well as rotation-partners as Cavani takes a game or 2 to find his rhythm usually.

I'm probably wearing blue-tinted glasses without actually realising it and being overly optimistic, but there is no choice in my mind but us.

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Jorge Mendes? Coming to London? I think he's spending his effort trying to get Rui Patricio to join Porto at the moment.

Also isn't Cavani's agent Claudio Anellucci?

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another guy supposedly favoring another team over us.

If he wants to go to Madrid let him be my guest.

If those guys don't respect Chelsea they can GTFO.

We're Europe Champions, we have one of the best managers in the world and one of the best attacking midfield to cater to the strikers.

If they want to go to Bayern, Real, Barça or whatever and keep repeating so, let them be.

We're Chelsea Football Club and that name deserves respect

But as someone mentioned earlier, football players in their majority aren't the brightest cookies around.

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another guy supposedly favoring another team over us.

If he wants to go to Madrid let him be my guest.

If those guys don't respect Chelsea they can GTFO.

We're Europe Champions, we have one of the best managers in the world and one of the best attacking midfield to cater to the strikers.

If they want to go to Bayern, Real, Barça or whatever and keep repeating so, let them be.

We're Chelsea Football Club and that name deserves respect

But as someone mentioned earlier, football players in their majority aren't the brightest cookies around.

He's just keeping his options open and being polite to everyone because he has no idea where he will play next season, nothing wrong with that. Last week he was saying it would be an honor to play for Chelsea under Mourinho and now he is flirting with Real Madrid.

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And the saga continues.

Fwiw. Cavani and lukaku on PAPER would be the best top 2 strikers combined in the league. Better than rvp and rooney etc. However, it also costs a hell of a lot more, and on paper doesn't mean much these days.

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Torres should not frighten us from making a bid for this guy, Torres looking back at it was so obvious, the world cup he looked lost and the 6 months prior to his arrival he had one good game which was against Chelsea. There's nothing to suggest Cavani is on the wane any time soon.

2003 we got our fingers burned signing Mutu (£16m in 2003 was massive money) but did that stop us signing Didier Drogba for £24m a year later? now £24m back then is equal to as much if not more than what we will have to pay for Cavani.

To quote how much £24m was back then was what a friend who was a United fan said to me in 2007 (and that was 3 years after Drogba arrival) when Ronaldo was getting linked to a £35m move to Madrid "we should sell him, imagine how many players we can sign with £35m", would that be said today? no chance. Cavani would be no bigger risk than Drogba was considering the change in the market.

When Real Madrid took the £80m punt on Ronaldo, he only had one "£80m" season at United which was 2007/2008, he had two great season's inbetween but if it wasn't for 07/08 i doubt Madrid would have splashed out. Bayern Munich splashed out what roughly £40m on Javi Martinez (a defensive midfielder). Bayern fans were skeptical, thinking they wasted the money and what did they get? a player who has changed the face of their team.

We have changed our transfer model in recent times and that will stay regardless, this would be an exception, every top team has a marquee signing or two very half a decade, statements of intent like that are needed every now and again and this would be a serious statement of intent.

We will not survive this season with Lukaku, Ba and Torres, have we learned from last season? Torres is shit, Ba is a good squad player and Lukaku has a great future but he just isn't ready to lead the line for a team looking to win every trophy they enter. Lukaku will get his fair share of games, think of the cup and group stage games, midweek prem games, Cavani getting injured and Jose throwing two forwards on when games aren't going our way.

Cavani has scored 104 goals in 138 games in Naples, and he has just finished his best season yet (38 goals in 43 games). If we don't sign him there is a high chance City will and we will regret it for every single second he is at Eastlands, believe me. A world class forward (Cavani), an upcoming forward (Lukaku) and a reliable squad forward (Ba) is the ideal mix to deliver for us next season.

Make no mistake, this will be a huge statement of intent even more so than United signing RVP last season was. Ofcourse their is an element of risk to a big money transfer but it's very minimal with this one and you know what they say, no risk, no reward.

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