Chelsea Banter Archive June 26 2012

26 Jun 2012 20:40:02
Taking the price into account who would chelsea fans like to see up front next season?

Cavani - £35 mil

Huntelaar - £17 mil

LLorente - £25 mil

Torres.

Cavani - I get so excited just thinking about it!

Torres

Torres

It must be great to have a sugar daddy

I dont think we need a striker in all honesty, torres, sturridge, and lukaku should be plenty...

cali

Llorente out of the three but I like Lewandowski 15-17m!

Surewould

Torres all day long

Torres is so out of form you have to go with cavani ! What are we gonna wait to see if he scores goals next season and when he don't finish 6th and don't have the luck in the champions league and don't qualify for the cl the following season?? It's a no brainer!!

26 Jun 2012 18:52:56
If Napoli are actually going to bid for Meireles, why don't Chelsea give them a counter off of Meireles + Cash for Edinson Cavani! If they want to take our player they shouldn't be so shocked if we want there's. What do people think, and what do you think ED? I know player exchanges can me messy, but this could work as it would suit both teams, as they were missing a worker like Meireles when we beat them. As much as I'm wanting Torres to play well, Cavani is a beast and is made for the prem in my opinion! Also, everyone is talking about a new RB, is it just me or is Ivanovic one hell of a player and deserves that starting role. If Chelsea are going to be an attacking force next year as it would appear, in my opinion you need defenders that are going to do their primary job and defend, so I wouldn't bother unless its back up for Brana! I'm just a bit worried our team seems to be shrinking in size as players go out and others come in, remember that it was our big dominant midfield that made us great! I wouldn't want to lose the physicality from midfield, they'll be needed to allow the attacking quality we now have to do their jobs properly!

Chelsea Nick

I agree, If an offer is imminent then i'd like to see us make a cheeky counter offer with Cavani as part of the deal

But don't worry about the squad getting smaller, we will buy more players this window (and it's only June!) plus hopefully some youth players can make the step slowly into the first team which would be nice

Rich

You read the article

Iva wants to play at CB but is happy to cover at RB, not play there all the time, with Bosingwa gone that leaves Ferreira or a youth player, we need a RB.

PieZ

26 Jun 2012 20:36:01
Who would fellow Chelsea fans prefer in central midfield considering the price?

Fellaini - £22.5 mil

Modric - £30 mil

Modric all day long, class player.

I pick...... Schweinsteiger. I know he's not in the option above but come on, the heart wants what the heart wants. :)

ELI

Dont mind. modric will be more creative. fellani will be more muscle and physical presence. tbh im not convinced we should get either or anyone in deep-midfield. i dont see the need. i think chelsea fans are getting greedy with wanting this area strengthening

Modric if we were going to buy, but i dont think we really need to buy.

Ramires is a guarantee to start, Mikel will also start, and Mata or Hazard will also play a central role. Plus we have Lampard, Essien and some good youngsters

I assume Meireles will be Napoli bound

Modric

Ramires

Fellaini is just what we need behind the front 4. IMO

cali

Neither. Give me the £20m.

Tk

What about romeou

26 Jun 2012 20:12:18
Which one was the young chelsea centre half who played in the youth team this year, with a striking resemblence to a young ruud gullit {Ed018's Note - Nathan Ake, and there is loads of potential with this kid}

Millions of potential for sure. BLUEBOY1

Does anyone have a clue how tall he is? I'm just concerned he could turn into a very short centre half.

Tl

26 Jun 2012 16:14:55
Why do we need to get Modric

We dont & i dont. mceachran can be our passer.

Because modric is one of the best midfielders in the world and would improve our team immensely?

Agreed, waste of £30 million in my opinion, if we were to get a cm would be Fellaini for me to add a bit of physicality, while still being a quality player. MB

Fellaini is no better than Mikel

26 Jun 2012 12:38:32
In response to Napoli's interest in Raul Merieles Chelsea are poised to offer £27m + Merieles for Edinson Cavani. In addition Chelsea will rock the transfer market by finalising a deal for Hulk for £33.5m, completing a £32m + performance related fees transfer for Lucas Moura, a 12m deal for right back Cesar Azpilicueta and a £6m deal for Wigan's Victor Moses. The total outlay of £142.5m will be marginally compensated with the removal of Merieles from the wage bill and the sale of Malouda to Vasco Da Gama who will join former Lyon teammate Juninho. Chelsea will also move on Daniel Sturridge to either Arsenal, Liverpool or Tottenham for a fee in the region of £17m hence the signing of the promising Moses to fill the homegrown slot. Ferreira will be kept for the final year of his contract and is being considered for a coaching role in the summer 2013. Essien is likely to be retained but Chelsea will listen to offers and may consider a sale if the sum involved outways the potential risk of further injuries. If Essien is sold it is possible Chelsea may make a late bid for Modric though this is likely to drag on late until the window. Likely loans heading out are Bruma, Kalas, Ake, McEachran, De Bruyne, Kakuta, Davila, Lukaku and Bamford.

Would love this to be the case......alas, i very much doubt it!

If this comes true ill cry of happiness

One can dream my friend. Source?

mikec

You're clearly very imaginative.

trueblue012

I'd like ed002 opinion on this and I'd be thrilled with that to happen but can't see it, {Ed002's Note - Putting aside the numbers, there is an offer coming for Merieles. Chelsea maintain an interest in the players mentioned. Obviously the likes of Ake cannot go on loan.}

Lucas moura yes please

I like your style!

But i don't know maybe i'm a miserable bas***d but with players like Moura and Cavani, i just see them as the type of players who would never come to England

Hope i'm wrong!

Rich

Haha the question is, who would be the biggest flop? i reckon moura ;)

I think hulk would flop, his ego's too big since he's the 'big man' for porto and he definitely wont get that a chelsea so i think that'll be a huge blow to him and he may be outplayed by experienced premiership defenders... his only real success this summer in the friendlies has been against weak teams like the USA and Denmark; against Argentina i forgot he was playing

Maybe you forgot that he was playing against Argentina cos Messi was playing, and it was the 'Messi Show'!

USA and Denmark are good teams!

This comment is void in my opinion, the man is brilliant and made for the English game, Pace, Power, Eye for goal you name it

26 Jun 2012 10:43:30
It seems like almost ,every football pundit,player's are blaming chelsea for certain team's defensive style at the euro's,saying they parked the bus like us , the latest comment being Diamanti,in the England-ltaly match.What do you guys think?.CM

England played nothing like us!! Different formation for a start! And we only played that way (deffensive) against Barca and B Munich! England played that way against Ukraine and Sweeden aswell as France and Italy!

Both teams says back and attempted to counter when possible.

Ramires was a big part, obviously, of our counter attacking - England lacked someone with both the energy and quality of Ramires.

Drogba was obviously massive for us too! You need a striker who will play with his back to the goal and who is strong enough to hold the ball up until the countering midfielders arrive to support him. Midfielders for England only saw the back of Welbecks shirt...Ian Wright proved this type ofstriker simply doesn't work in international football; Carroll was slightly better.

In short England tried to play in a similar way to Chelsea but simply didn't have the players/quality to pull it off!

Surewould

Obviosly sharing same players but chelsea would ruin england anyday!
So no they dont play the same
Carefree

Lets not forget england went over the half way line a lot more than chelsea did in those games !!

Only because their back four wasn't in our half for the majority of the games, unlike barca and bayern.

trueblue012

If anyone is even comparing england to bayern they are idiots. never mind barca, on any given day bayern would blow italy out the water

Well done trueblue012 you got it,a game of two halves ,so why spend all game in one because thats what you do when you are far inferior to your opponent ,comes to something when you would rather watch england over chelsea

25 Jun 2012 23:52:35
Has drogba actually signed for shanghi? Been seeing his
In spain tomorrow for talks with barca? Of all places dont go to barca!

Carefree