Edinson Cavani

[Beirut_Blues 306]

IF this deal does end up happening, just wondering what would be people's expectations for this coming season?

ummm quadruple?

[Mouri_Matic 560]

If we really wanted Falcao we would've coughed up the cash and got him. Neymar obviously wasn't a target of ours this summer. Lewandowski is arguable, but we never were strongly linked with him anyway.

Those were your targets, not Roman's.

Well Neymar's dad said we made the biggest offer for him and there were about 6 teams in for him so...Yes we would but we were too slow so Monaco just grabbed him, obviously we learned our lesson so that is why we are ahead of City and Madrid in the chase for Cavani.

[Amin Sarmadi 24]

Real Madrid want suarez not cavani...

[Mouri_Matic 560]

ummm quadruple?

At least 2nd in BPL, missing out by less than 3 points. At least semi of CL unless we play Bayern or Barca in knock out/quarter final. Win at least FA Cup or Capital One Cup

[Mouri_Matic 560]

When do we ever pay a transfer fee which equates to what a player is currently worth? Hazard cost more than he was 'worth' - but a lot of the fee in that transfer was to do with potential and simply matching other clubs trying to sign him - and now the transfer fee is starting to look spot on.

Drogba wasn't worth what we paid for him at the time. But again, we paid for potential.

Piazon was absolutely nowhere near worth what we paid for him, and the same could be said for just about any youth player we've ever paid over £2m to sign!

Cavani is probably worth £30m at most based on how many goals he scores and what he brings to a team etc. Throw in £10-£15m for the potential factor now. Then anything else that we pay on top of that £40-£45m is simply to to force Napoli's hand into selling, because really, they don't need to sell do they? And if they do sell, they need money to then buy players to fill his void! They're not mugs. We can't just rip them off.

The reported price makes complete sense.

These sorts of prices are only stupid, for lack of a better word, when a player can't get any better, like the Torres signing, or Madrid signing Kaka and so on.

If you take into account inflation etc, this would be around the same price we payed for Drogba when Drogba was the same age as Cavani currently is. Difference between the two? Cavani tears up Serie A and has broken numerous records now whereas Drogba was just 'very good' in Ligue 1.

(All that bolding of words has turned me on.)

You don't buy arguably the best pure striker in world football easily or cheaply.

Every single word is right in this post, well done bro.

[The only place to be 11,313]

Still can't get excited about this deal. It feels like a shortcut.

We had in place a system of acquiring young players who could grow at this club and represented value. Now we're just cramming money into the most expensive tart's g-string.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Well Neymar's dad said we made the biggest offer for him and there were about 6 teams in for him so...Yes we would but we were too slow so Monaco just grabbed him, obviously we learned our lesson so that is why we are ahead of City and Madrid in the chase for Cavani.

We were interested in Neymar a few years ago, that's very clear, but I don't think we actually made a bid for him this summer. We weren't too slow regarding Falcao either, like I said, if we really wanted him and we let Falcao's representatives know that he would've waited for us to make a bid for him but obviously we didn't want him, no other top team wanted Falcao, and that's why he went to Monaco as they were the only ones willing to cough up the cash for him.

We haven't "learned our lesson" regarding Falcao at all, we just weren't interested in signing him for that money, that's pretty clear.

[iceboy 992]

Bild reporting that Edinson Cavani will join Chelsea for £49m in the next 48 hours. Claims Manchester City are now in for Mario Gomez.

[milka 3,308]

Bild are the German equivalent of the Sun.

Bild announced first return Mourinho .

[Leif 6,006]

Since 1976, the only non-Italians players to score more goals than Cavani in Serie A are Crespo and Batistuta. Not bad eh.

That's Crespo with over triple the amount of appearances when compared to Cavani and around 80 more goals. With Cavani hitting around 30 goals in a season, he would have more than likely scored more goals than Crespo in Serie A in 7 seasons less.

Also, 1 more goal this season (Cavani had around 3 wrongly ruled offside it must be added) and I believe he would have been only the 3rd(?) player in Italian top-flight history to score 30+ goals in a single league season.

[Fernando 6,376]

Bild announced first return Mourinho .

So?????

It's like Daily Mail getting 1 thing right out of 99!

All the 99 get thrown away, and the 1 things gets padded to excellency like they are the most reliable and important reporters ever.

[iceboy 992]

Bild announced first return Mourinho .

They also announced Falcao signed for Chelsea.

[Hutcho 8,443]

Bild announced first return Mourinho .

THIS!

They also announced Falcao signed for Chelsea.

[lucio 5,391]

Bild are the German equivalent of the Sun.

so they have nice naked german girls on page 3?

[Styles 9,790]

Bild announced first return Mourinho .

That was the worst kept secret in football. Everybody knew he was coming back so giving them credit for that is reaching.

[iceboy 992]

No more news

[Kinol 337]

Still can't get excited about this deal. It feels like a shortcut.

We had in place a system of acquiring young players who could grow at this club and represented value. Now we're just cramming money into the most expensive tart's g-string.

I think the club is seeking for the system you are talking about but they know that it will take time. Winning throphys is the clubs highest priority and they will make everything they can for us not to have a throphy less season.

[Toli 977]

so they have nice naked german girls on page 3?

yes they have haha . they had it on page 1, but than a few months ago they put it on page 2/3.

a lot of papers reporting he is close but yeah could be bs. still think there wont be nothing officiall until the Confed Cup is over.