Chelsea Banter Archive July 17 2014

17 Jul 2014 22:01:51
Hi Ed, can you share which positions Jose is still actively looking to recruit?

Thanks Studley

17 Jul 2014 20:25:38
Edd is fernando Torres going to leave this summer. I hope we get rid of Mikel he never done much for Chelsea he's been hanging around for far 2 long he contributes absolutely nothing to the game . Any more interest in aubemayang or pogba and varane do you see any of the these 3 joining Chelsea this summer

Torres has always said he would leave at the end of his contract, next summer.

18 Jul 2014 01:19:11
To aid the eds in answering your questions which can call be found by using the search function.
1 Torres and mikel are available to leave but whether they do is another story.
2 chelsea want aubamayang but dortmund don't have much desire to sell. Pogba will be rather expensive and we will be competing with psg as well. Varane is our main interest at centre half but it remains to be seen if real acquiesce to a sale.

17 Jul 2014 19:20:07
Eds Who else is interested in Varane?

Are chelsea likely to make a bid for him?

Cheers pals

17 Jul 2014 15:21:35
Romeu signs new deal to keep him at CFC for 3 more years.

17 Jul 2014 19:41:34
I think this is a good sign. I like romeu, decent hard tackes decent positional plAy. Perfect for matic back up. So we have ramires, matic, romeu, fabregas, v ginkel, Oscar. Who can all play here well happy with that. Get mikel out.

We also just signed a new 21 year old CM and are still linked with Pogba, not to mention the likes of chalobah and baker who could all step up.

My opinion is that we have too many, if that is possible.

17 Jul 2014 22:13:17
Challobah and baker need loans to prem first so that is them out, your talking about pasilic.(spelling) If we play a 3 man midfield how do we have too many? Oscar, ramires, fabregas, matic, v ginkel, romeu and pasilic. 7 is not too many for a 3 man midfield. During fa cup games and champs league, and an injury or two. Then it is definitely not too many.

17 Jul 2014 23:59:30
Pasilic is going out on loan mate, so yeah that's back to six.

17 Jul 2014 14:40:46
I know it's been mentioned on here but I do not want us to buy a CB, if need be give zouma that chance, no point looking at varane and other young good centre backs who IMO are no better than what we got but are given more of a chance, Christensen, zouma, kalas are all potentially brilliant, getting an injury to few cb could be a blessing in disguise and let theses boys show there class,

17 Jul 2014 15:18:18
True that but imagine a pairing of Zouma and Varane. Could be the most solid centre back pairing for the next 10years at the club and for France.
Think about it, think about it, think about it, think about it.

17 Jul 2014 19:43:26
We have terry Cahill ivanovic omerou zouma kalas ake challobah what's the point in spending 30 plus million for varane or mangala. We have what we need. Just give em a chance!

Nah, for me I'd be ecstatic if we got Varane. He is undoubtedly the best young CB in the world and if there is a possibility of Real selling we need to sign him up! Zouma should go out on loan for another season as he is still very raw and any game time would be very beneficial for him (there is no point him sitting on the bench waiting on CBs "getting injured") Chalobah and Ake are more defensive midfielders and if there is an injury crisis then Christensen can step in along with playing some league cup games!

Totally agree with MB1. Not to mention that it'll likely be Terry and probablyy Ivanovic's last season at the club. Cahill will also be almost 30 at the end of the campaign. Thinking purely from a 2015-16 point of view, we'd have Cahill, Varane, Zouma and possibly Iva as back-up or Kalas/Omerou.
Personally I think Kalas, Omeou and Zouma are still 1-2 years away from being ready to play consistently in the side. And Christensen is only 18.
Perhaps it'd be better to sign Varane next year but things don't always work out that way. We had to sign Oscar a year earlier and we wanted to sign Markovic next year but look how that turned out.
For me Zouma needs to be loaned out to a prem side in order to be ready for 2015.

18 Jul 2014 03:05:41
As long as none of terry, Cahill, and bran (the only possibility) don't move on they will be the first three names at centre half. Christensen will be with the u21s most likely so he can be the 4th man at the position. Everyone else will go out on loan and I doubt ake and chalobah stay as centre half.