Chelsea Officially Signed Willian

[Pizy 18,848]

Again guys, if we're really considering Willian maybe it's because Jose wants to play him strictly out wide to provide us with more width. I think Jose would have him rotating with Schurrle at LW which would mean Moses would likely have to be moved on.

I know it's only been 2 games, but look how hard we found it for large parts of them trying to unlock these defenses who just park their entire teams around the box. Notice how when we got it out wide and spread them out it was much more effective. When opponents defend really narrowly it negates our attacking midfield.

Willian or Schurrle on the left, Mata or Oscar as #10's, and Hazard or De Bruyne on the right. And they can all rotate at will. That's incredible, title winning depth right there.

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Just Wait For Jose...

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Again guys, if we're really considering Willian maybe it's because Jose wants to play him strictly out wide to provide us with more width. I think Jose would have him rotating with Schurrle at LW which would mean Moses would likely have to be moved on.

I know it's only been 2 games, but look how hard we found it for large parts of them trying to unlock these defenses who just park their entire teams around the box. Notice how when we got it out wide and spread them out it was much more effective. When opponents defend really narrowly it negates our attacking midfield.

Willian or Schurrle on the left, Mata or Oscar as #10's, and Hazard or De Bruyne on the right. And they can all rotate at will. That's incredible, title winning depth right there.

Still missing that goal scoring striker though, Torres/Ba on field now only to make up 11 players but they play as if they are playing a charity match. I don't think Jose is stupid enough to get another winger BUT REFUSES TO GET A STRIKER and I am sure we will only spend big on one player before the closing of the transfer window.

So the logical explanation is that we are gonna sign Eto'o+Willian for around £35-£38m or another top striker will move to us on a free. Now none of them are out of contract atm and not many left so many people assume it will be Rooney. But again MU don't want to sale and in order to get him we need a bargaining chip, that is where Mata rumor come in.

Make sense now everyone?

[chrismada9 1,948]

If Willian joins I dont think it affects Mata personally. If Utd reject our bid after Mondays game, we just move to plan B whoever it is. I'd be more inclined to believe that if Willian joins, Moses will go. Oscar will go to CM, and Mikel will go

That's not a bad thought.. I never saw Oscar as an attacking midfielder anyway. He's more of a centre mid with bags of pace.

What annoys me, is that Mata does not need any pressure to keep his place because he's already made the CAM spot his own. Why bring in like for like? If it's any position we need new recruits, it's CDM. Whatever happened to signing De Rossi from Roma??

... or are we gunna let Arsenal have him!?

[Leif 6,006]

According to the Guardian his deal to Spurs is officially (to them) off.

[The Skipper 20,609]

Don't know if I'd go that far but yeah, it's a head scratcher.

Hulk would've been the worst signing ever.

I wouldn't say worst, because i personally rate willian as a very good player.... But definitely the most confusing considering we have better players than him already. I wouldn't have minded if we got him instead of schurrle as then we would have lots of depth and quality. But schurrle and Willian on top of KDB coming back in our strongest area just makes no sense. Seems like a waste of money when we could spend that on a very good central midfielder or add a bit to it and sort out the striker position. I personally can't see it happenning, because Jose isn't stupid and has openly said about his striker target.

It would be one of the worst signings in recent history simply because of the fact that it makes no sense in terms of squad make up and because £32m for Willian is overpriced. He's a good player but we're absolutely stacked in the position he plays in so there's no point whatsoever, hence why it'd be a very bad signing.

I really can't believe people are happy this could be happening.

[Mouri_Matic 560]

According to the Guardian his deal to Spurs is officially (to them) off.

Imagine we back out too some how hehe and Liverpool eventually end up having him. Would be quite hilarious.

[Hutcho 8,443]

It would be one of the worst signings in recent history simply because of the fact that it makes no sense in terms of squad make up and because £32m for Willian is overpriced. He's a good player but we're absolutely stacked in the position he plays in so there's no point whatsoever, hence why it'd be a very bad signing.

I really can't believe people are happy this could be happening.

Oh i am not happy with it in the sense i would much rather seen the money used elsewhere and it makes 0 sense for us to sign him and it raises a lot of questions, but i have seen worse transfers.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Big news about Willian's proposed move to the Premier League:word from a very reliable source has just filtered through to Guardian Towers that the Brazilian midfielder will not - repeat not - be moving to Tottenham. Despite completing a medical at White Hart Lane, he is no longer interested in a move to Spurs. In so far as you can presume anything in this game, it would appear he's off to Chelsea instead.

[Special Juan 28,089]

Big news about Willian's proposed move to the Premier League: word from a very reliable source has just filtered through to Guardian Towers that the Brazilian midfielder will not - repeat not - be moving to Tottenham. Despite completing a medical at White Hart Lane, he is no longer interested in a move to Spurs. In so far as you can presume anything in this game, it would appear he's off to Chelsea instead

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[Christo191 173]

Big news about Willian's proposed move to the Premier League:word from a very reliable source has just filtered through to Guardian Towers that the Brazilian midfielder will not - repeat not - be moving to Tottenham. Despite completing a medical at White Hart Lane, he is no longer interested in a move to Spurs. In so far as you can presume anything in this game, it would appear he's off to Chelsea instead.

SCooore!!!!

[The Skipper 20,609]

Again guys, if we're really considering Willian maybe it's because Jose wants to play him strictly out wide to provide us with more width. I think Jose would have him rotating with Schurrle at LW which would mean Moses would likely have to be moved on.

I know it's only been 2 games, but look how hard we found it for large parts of them trying to unlock these defenses who just park their entire teams around the box. Notice how when we got it out wide and spread them out it was much more effective. When opponents defend really narrowly it negates our attacking midfield.

Willian or Schurrle on the left, Mata or Oscar as #10's, and Hazard or De Bruyne on the right. And they can all rotate at will. That's incredible, title winning depth right there.

We've already got title winning depth in the attacking midfield section of our squad so there's no need to add to it when we've got other areas in the squad that still need addressing. We need a technical striker, a new midfielder for the pivot, a CB, a new LB to replace Cole later on, maybe another new midfielder as Lampard is getting on as well and maybe even again look at a new striker to improve our strikeforce before I'd even look at touching the attacking midfield area.

Signing Willian will certainly not give us a more impotent ability to unlock defences, he offers nothing new IMO. We have what he does in the players we have already. Signing Willian for £30m+ would be one of the most idiotic things I've seen in a while.

Not a dig at you but most people who want this transfer to go through are really just getting excited because it's potential a new signing and because of the fact we appear to be stopping Spurs from getting him more than anything else. They're not thinking about how it'll actually effect the team.

As I said before. It'd be a ridiculously bad signing in my honest opinion.