Chelsea Banter Archive August 25 2016

 

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25 Aug 2016 15:38:01
Eds can we have an update on the Cb situation?
Are in for 1 or more?

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{Ed018's Note - at this rate getting one will be quite the achievement}

25 Aug 2016 17:29:57
I am really worried now.

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25 Aug 2016 18:40:57
Everyone calm down, by next Wednesday we would of bought Johnny Evans for £20m and Shane Duffy for £10m lol.

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25 Aug 2016 19:21:13
And luke chadwick for 45mil.

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{Ed041's Note - leave luke alone, hes a top guy.

25 Aug 2016 19:31:11
Considering situation Johnny Evans had decent EURO. I believe that he is not so bad player as some people want to present.

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25 Aug 2016 19:32:40
And yes Clarke-Salter is one option for sure.

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26 Aug 2016 07:42:42
Don't forget challobah is here still. Clarkesalter, could recall kalas. Zouma will be back soon, then their is January transfer window. I would of blocked christensens loans this season, he's obviously a diamond. Imagine starting zouma and Christensen each side of terry. For the future!

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26 Aug 2016 10:56:38
Romagnoli is still an option guys. If we offer near £40m they will accept it.

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26 Aug 2016 16:03:23
Got some inside info CFCAdam or just a hunch?

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25 Aug 2016 16:23:37
From my point of view the club have two choices.

1) Somehow pull a top quality defender out of the bag before the window shuts.

2) Give the youth (Clarke-Salter) a chance.

Option 3 (another deadline day signing like Djilobodji or Hector) has to be off the table!

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25 Aug 2016 16:00:44
Well this is getting embarrassing, another bid rejected, is this the 2nd bid or old news of the first 1?

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25 Aug 2016 17:51:29
Second bid.

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25 Aug 2016 17:56:13
So I take it we move on to the next then.

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25 Aug 2016 22:25:37
That's the way you get to Djilobodji and Baba. If Chelsea really needs certain players then we have to as other clubs do. If we just keep moving on we will end up with another Djilobodji and Baba.

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25 Aug 2016 15:42:09
AC Milan have rejected a "significant" bid from Chelsea for defender Alessio Romagnoli, and say the player is not for sale.

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25 Aug 2016 12:13:27
It's time to play wheel of CBs! Marquinhos, come on down!

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25 Aug 2016 13:23:49
The scary thing is imagine if we didn't offer terry a new contract and still struggled to sign anyone we'd be having Mikel as our CB!

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25 Aug 2016 14:28:46
As much as I love Chelsea and always will, they have really backed themselves into a corner here. One week to go in this window and no centre back, we knew long before the summer we needed one. Christeansen would have done the job but he was not recalled from lone. Now all of Europe knows we are desperate for a centre back and will play hardball with prices. Some of the powers that be need their backsides kicked for this one.

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25 Aug 2016 16:02:51
Like I've said in the past why not negotiate before the window opens, to give ourselfs room for manoeuvre, then if any snags we still got months left not days.

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25 Aug 2016 16:13:47
They have tried all window how is it our fault sides are t selling top class centre backs? Can't blame em.

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25 Aug 2016 16:51:52
Totally agree Blueboy1, the club have been actively trying to sign CB's all window, but they aren't going to just sign someone for the sake of it. Top quality CB's are few and far between nowadays and clubs are not wanting to sell there prized assets which has made this window very difficult!
We haven't really had as much time as other clubs as well. It hasn't helped that Conte didn't join up with the club until after the euros, with his main focus during that time being solely on progressing as far as possible with Italy.
I have 100% faith that the club will get some business done before the end of the window and that the right players will come in.
I wish some posters on here would be would be a bit more patient and see the bigger picture instead of posting their daily negative BS, it's starting to get a bit boring!

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25 Aug 2016 10:24:24
Long time follower, first time poster.

Now that both Roma and Ajax have been eliminated from the Champions League, do other posters (or indeed the Eds) consider it likely that players from those clubs who we have targeted recently (El Ghazi, Bazoer, Nainggolan Fiorenzi, Manolas to name a few) will become more easily available.

I appreciate that striking an appropriate deal might still be very difficult (and/ or we have moved on to other targets), but I do think that the lack of Champions League revenue could tempt those clubs to sell and the lack of Champions League football could incentivise the players in question to leave. Manolas in particular could become available (given that Roma have signed a number of defenders in this window - although that could also be a result of Rudiger's injury), but I understand from following this page that Koulibaly remains the top choice.

Would be interested to hear your thoughts.

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25 Aug 2016 10:56:46
It is a possibility however Chelsea also don't have champions league.

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25 Aug 2016 11:15:55
That's true, although the chance for the players to prove themselves in an arguably stronger league (as against the Eredivisie in particular) might be a big drawer - particularly for a developing and ambitious talent like Bazoer.

The players might also see Chelsea as a better long-term prospect for continued elite European football (provided of course that we are back in Europe next year, which is by no means guaranteed) .

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25 Aug 2016 11:37:06
and the money in england.

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25 Aug 2016 16:48:42
Plus if they played in the qualifying rounds for their current teams then they will be cup-tied for this season's CL anyway, so other CL teams this season now don't have tha advantage over us for specific players from those teams (at least I'm pretty sure the cup tied thing applies from qualifying rounds? Ed? )

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