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He truly stinks. Awful in the Copa America and awful against Werder. Much rather have Papy than him.

He truly stinks. Awful in the Copa America and awful against Werder. Much rather have Papy than him.

We need to gets this guy in uniform. Get the deal done. He will provide us with coverage at CB and RB. . He also comes at a lesser price than Koulibaly. We don't need to spend the big bucks on Koulibaly when our future pair can be Zouma and Christensen, Wake up Emenalo!!!

http://www.insidefutbol.com/2016/08/06/irritation-in-my-knee-marco-van-ginkel-tells-psv-no-new-loan/298575/ Sounds like an knee soreness issue more than anything. Does not sound career threatening or overly serious. I guess he wll stay in the club and brought along slowly. I like him but who knows if he will be part of the team. Personally I much rather have him in the plans than Mikel and I believe he could be valuable as he has good composure and experience at the knockout stage Champions League level.

Personally I will not be surprised if Papy ends up the better of the 3 defensive signings (Miazga, Papy, Hector). Not to mention he costs less. It infuriates when we go for these signings and yet we supposedly cannot buy Lindelof because we have to pay in installments. Either the press is making crazy stuff up or we are incomprehensibly cheap.

I hate when the club acts as a commodity trader but cannot upgrade the defense in 2 years nor find decent loan destinations to some of our prized prospects (Lewis Baker, Jeremie Boga, Natahaniel Chalobah, Tommy Kalas to mention a few).

Alexandre Pato - loan - Corinthians Matt Miazga - £3.5m - New York Red Bulls Marco Amelia - free - Lupa Castelli Romani Pedro - £21m - Barcelona Baba Rahman - £21m - Augsburg Asmir Begovic - £8m - Stoke City Kenedy - £6.7m - Fluminese Radamel Falcao - loan - AS Monaco Michael Hector - £4.5m - Reading Danilo Pantic - £1.25m - Partizan Papy Djilobodji - £2.2m - Nantes Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3491340/From-Papy-Djilobodji-Alexandre-Pato-Chelsea-s-11-signings-reveal-club-struggled-season.html#ixzz4GUj8tPGy Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook

IDK, but being that we are not very active in the market, could we see Tomori make the team as a reserve right back? He is more a center back but can play out wide too.

Everton is not worthy of hate. They are a perennial midtable wannabe club.

I rather give Tammy Abraham a chance than bring in Mandzukic.

I would like a 4-4-2 with a diamond in the middle: Hazard Costa Cesc Willian Chalobah Kante Azpi Terry Cahill Aina

I am not opposed to having Ola Aina at RB as long as we can purchase a good CB to provide stability and help him out. He simply does not have the sufficient experience to have to be asked to do his job and help our awful CB's. When Zouma comes back is different but in the meantime we need to stop dicking around with Lukaku and get a young competent CB now since we will need 2 good ones anyway when JT and Cahill are done which will be sooner than later.

So 14 goals later, we still sell as if he was a prospect. I wonder how much would Roma charge us if it was the other way around (we buying)?

Heard rumor Liverpool will bid 20Gbp. I would not mind us joining that race.

I hope this Lukaku sh$$ gets sorted out sooner than later. I don't like our defensive outlook to start the season and we need to get Koulibaly here or its reasonable facsimile.

I understand that an unhappy player is not a good player to keep around but why not extend his loan or put a buy-back clause. Not to mention, why could we not convince him to stick around and compete for his place at the club like RLC has done? At his age, he should have been convinced to stick around. He easily would have been the second striker off the bench in a tittle race. It would have been a great experience. At the very least, a buy-back clause should have been placed on his sale.

So you are all for not nurturing or for letting players dictate their terms?

Sounds good. It will be interesting to know the asking fee change with Remy in it.

^This.

^My phone autocorrects Emenalo with Enema.

^My mistake. Anyway, I cannot believe we will go as high as 68MM GBP for a striker with our defense so frail. I happen to agree a lot with the article which mentions also our failed transfer/youth development policy.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2655357-chelseas-rumoured-romelu-lukaku-interest-shows-holes-in-blues-transfer-policy The potential transfer of 68 GBP for Lukaku is a far reaching statement IMO. Personally, I wish we would use the money to anchor our defense and add cover for Fabregas ( would have been nice to have Lewis Baker available). Is there any hope for change in this club?

We have the option of buying a right back too, thanks to Cesar's versatility, but we again fail in that department too. After the Madrid game, I am really concerned about our defense. Ola Aina can be adequate but he needs seasoning and might be overwhelmed once the regular reason intensity turns on. Hopefully Conte can coach him up.

Left Back has been such a self-inflicted problem. Why couldn't we just hold on to Filipe Luis or line up a proper replacement before getting rid of him? Similarly to the Nathan Ake situation, we fail to make contingency based decisions. Unbelievable the mismanagement!!