Chelsea's spending spree will continue in summer

[Kostas 1,468]

We get a new FM thread every two weeks

[LDN Blue 7,903]

For all of you who think we're signing Pastore anytime soon, think again..

Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini has revealed that the club have upped the release clause in Javier Pastore's contract to €100 million.

[J.F. 1,484]

This is real life, not Football Manager.

[Madmax 9,219]

Spare us this.

[Henrique 9,133]

Yes, Lucas and Neymar in the picture, Lucas is the same level of Neymar... The most promising of Brazilian football: Ganso >>> Neymar >>> Lucas >>> Phillipe Coutinho >>> Douglas Costa etc.

PS. Do you hate Neymar? Why???

Because Neymar is brazilian and he doesnt like brazilian players because they are better than english players.

[BLionheart 516]

Pure speculation.

You part of the riots in cairo btw?

if asking for your simplest human rights is being called riots , then yes i am part of the riots .

[neel 257]

If we have to rebuid our squad then we have to do it now . And I dont understand why people think Lukaku will be our savior. why he would be better than Neymar ??? The only thing we lack is a creative attacking midfielder who can create out of nothing. The likes of Pastore is what we need to have. With the proper development of Kakuta and Josh we will be fine. And I am sure that they wont disappoint us.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Chelsea's extensive list of possible targets include Dutch right-back Gregory van der Wiel of Ajax, young Belgian internationals Eden Hazard from Lille and Romelu Lukaku of Anderlecht, Slovakia captain Marek Hamsik of Napoli and French winger Dimitri Payet of St Etienne.

Replacements for Bosingwa, Mikel, Drogba, Malouda and Zhirkov then, as the other article from The Sun claims.

Though that article comes from a poor, disreputable source.

[zolayes 14,489]

Replacements for Bosingwa, Mikel, Drogba, Malouda and Zhirkov then, as the other article from The Sun claims.

Though that article comes from a poor, disreputable source.

lazy journos with space to fill ....

[Fulham Broadway 17,306]

Loads of speculation and fantasy football between now and May.

And from the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious -players will be bought and sold in the Summer.

Lets just enjoy what we have now.....

[zolayes 14,489]

Loads of speculation and fantasy football between now and May.

And from the Ministry of the Bleeding Obvious -players will be bought and sold in the Summer.

Lets just enjoy what we have now.....

:goodpost: lets just enjoy football

[Tomo 21,751]

This is without doubt looking like an end of an era approaching, in the summer some new changes will be good.

Sadly i think it is time for ONE of Drogba and Anelka to move on in the summer, love the pair of them but they are both well into their 30's. Thanks for the momories you will never be forgot.

Hilario is out of contract i think, cant see him getting a new one if thats the case, gets a bit of unfair stick but apart from the City game he has never really played bad, good luck Henrique. Ferreira IMO i think its time to move on, been a brilliant servent for us but not the player he was and a move to the Portuguese league will be good for both parties. Zhirkov looks likely to leave aswell sadly.

I may get lambusted for this but i think its time for Bossy to move on, he aint been great since his return (especially defensively) and i think if we can get around £10-12 mil we should bite the oppos hand off. As for his replacement Srna could be a free agent in the summer? thats expierence if we can get him in which we will need if this clear out is happening and will offer competiton for Brana at RB and is versatile, he could be a stop gap till Billy Clifford is ready.

For players in we should bring in 1 of Lukaku or Neymar aswell as Alex Sanchez, am i the only 1 that thinks James McCarthy would be a good signing? If Gael Kakuta, Daniel Sturridge and Patrick Van Aanholt's loans are a sucess they will virtually be new signings. Jack Cork and Micheal Mancienne should be brought back as home grown versatile squad players.

We can name a unlimited number of U21's, why not take advantage of that and name alot of this years and the winning last season Youth Cup teams in next season's squad.

This is roughly the squad we should be looking at naming.

NHG = Non homegrown

HG = Home Grown

Petr Cech (NHG)

Branislav Ivanovic (NHG)

Ashely Cole (HG)

David Luiz (NHG)

Micheal Essien (NHG)

Ramires (NHG)

Frank Lampard (HG)

Fernando Torres (NHG)

Yossi Benayoun (NHG)

Didier Drogba/ Nicolas Anelka (NHG)

John Obi Mikel (NHG)

Neymar/ Lukaku (U21)

Florent Malouda (NHG)

Djario Srna (NHG)

Alex Sanchez(NHG)

Soloman Kalou (NHG)

Ross Turnbull (HG)

Daniel Sturridge (HG)

John Terry (HG)

Josh McEachran (U21)

James McCarthy (U21)

Alex (NHG)

Gael Kakuta (U21)

Patrick Van Aanholt (HG)

Jeffrey Bruma (U21)

Jack Cork (HG)

Micheal Mancienne (HG)

Matej Delac (U21)

Billy Clifford (U21)

Conor Clifford (U21)

Milan Lalkovic (U21)

Nataniel Chalaboah (U21)

Danny Papoe (U21)

George Saville (U21)

Maybe another expierenced versatile midfielder.

We can name unlimited U21's so come the summer Carlo should take full advantage of that and name a big squad. there will be a miz of the...

- Expierenced

- Early - mid 20's

- Youngsters who are knocking on the 1st team door

- Youngsters who are just starting out

What do you think?

[milllz 43]

henderson and lukaka and possibly van der wiel

[LDN Blue 7,903]

As long as their wages are under £80k, I don't care who we sign.

[Ollie 4,400]

1) Boring

2) We'll see

3) Lukak-who?

4) Wait till the season has finished.