Chelsea Banter Archive June 11 2014

11 Jun 2014 22:41:45
Hi Ed, can you please give us any info about rumour that D.Costa is reluctant to join Chelsea like he would prefer to stay at A.Madrid but he is allegedly forced to come to London due to clause in his contract.

{Ed018's Note - you're trying to say that in his contract with Atletico it states he must come to London? This sounds beyond a twitter rumour}

Absolutely not! Rumours are connected to Costa contract with his agent. Do you anything regarding this rumours. Apparently he has to pay large penalties if doesn't except move to Chelsea to his agent.?

{Ed018's Note - you've lost me. I have no clue why in Costa's contract it would say he has to move to London or any of the clubs based in London. You'd better ask Ed002. I'm sure his reply will be more entertaining than mine. I fully expect Costa to be wearing blue next season}

I think nkch is reading into a rumour (twitter?) which refers to a pre-contract agreement signed by Costa and the fees involved if he decides tobstay at Atketico instead of moving to Chelsea. sounds like bs to me.

{Ed002's Note - There is no "pre-contract" agreement with Chelsea or any such bizarre agreement with his agent.}

Exactly what I thought Ed. thanks for the clarification (on nkch's behalf!).

Thanks for your answer Ed002!

11 Jun 2014 19:57:19
Ed002 are you American?

{Ed002's Note - Originally - yes.}

11 Jun 2014 18:26:58
With luiz and now Kalas gone on.loan we must be brining in a centre half!

11 Jun 2014 18:57:45
I wouldn't go that far. To start off kalas barely played last season, and especially in the second half of the season luiz was in the midfield about 80% of the time. I believe us bringing in a leftback will push dave back over to the right and bran will figure a lot more centrally this year. Then the club also has the option of keeping zouma in the squad rather than loaning him out. Now if bran were to leave then I would agree.

Buy varane, him and zouma at the back in couple of years. Be class

Even if JM wants to sell him which is close to science fiction, RA won't let it happen and that's something I know of.

Thts if we don't loan out zouma. Can't just reply on brana being back up. Varane or Benatia would be great additions

11 Jun 2014 16:03:40
Just read from a very unreliable source that we are negotiating a ramires-modric swap deal, I would be very happy but I want to know if we are in for Modric?

11 Jun 2014 16:35:26
I would rather we go for isco, he could grow up in the same mould as iniesta, starting as an attacking mid, then with experience in a couple of years (kindda like oscar) be one of three in midfield. I think Matic, Fabregas, Oscar, Van Ginkel and Isco could be great for next season. Has everything. Youth, skill, flair, vision, energy and also goals. Hope we go for Isco. What do you guys think?

11 Jun 2014 17:53:43
With Eli 100 percent on that. I don't want modric at chelsea. Especially when we can get younger.

Would only want Isco IF Oscar leaves. No need for another big money attacking midfielder unless another one leaves.
Modric is a fantastic player, but I agree we shouldn't go for him. He's really up there in age and after the season he's had they probably would want a whole lot of money.
GIVE ME POGBA! :)

11 Jun 2014 19:01:59
This doesn't make a great deal of sense to me. For starters as others have pointed out Modric doesn't make sense for Chelsea when there are far better (available) options. Then it doesn't make sense to move him on from Madrid's standpoint. He was their most prominent midfielder last year and then you have to factor that Alonso will be another year older which can't hurt. If they bring in kroos then it would make more sense to move him but still it wouldn't make sense to move to Chelsea.

That's total BS Real Madrid has absolutely no intention to give-up Modric. They already suffered huge blow with Rakitic.

Guys, wakeup Modric and Isco will never happen. Both of them are very important to Real. Real Madrid is seriously trying to sign Toni Kroos.

There are four Real Madrid players tied to JM Contrao, DiMaria, Varrane and Khedira.

Coentrao nkch? Isn't he best mates with Ronaldo?

Contrao is JMs player which is not in favor at Real unlike Ronaldo. It has nothing to do with being CR7 best mate. Peppe is Portuguese but he was never JMs player.
You've probably heard about untouchables.

11 Jun 2014 15:51:03
Hi ED, please is it that d price quoted by Juve foe Pogba is too much for Chelsea's valuation of d player or they don't want 2 sell him? Just wish we could sign him irrespective of other midfield signings. Tnx

{Ed002's Note - I don't want to discuss money at all but I would think any Chelsea deal for Pogba is probably not going to happen.}

Lukaku plus 20-30m€ would bring Pogba to Chelsea, but is it going to happen no one can tell.

I would explore the possibility of using Juventus' interest in both Ramires and Lukaku to strike some sort of deal out.

Mate, so would I, but we are not the ones who will make decision.

11 Jun 2014 20:14:13
Upon reading other sites you've made mention that if pogba would to go psg that veratti would likely come the other way. With juves interest in ramires has a similar situation been discussed?

{Ed002's Note - That is not going to happen.}

11 Jun 2014 09:38:35
Alright ed002

Which clubs have an interest in Roberto Di Mittaeo as manager? I remember seeing you say something like hell be taking a break and then get back into it (not exactly that)

Why isn't he already managing a club? A ucl and fa cup to his name, great manager

There's only one Di Mittaeo

{Ed002's Note - He was close to the Eintracht Frankfurt job but they decided on Thomas Schaaf. He will wait and pick a role he thinks is right.}

I hope to see him I'm the premier league, love him

Cheers ed