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5 appearances needed, he's good

The kid is 19, Chalouba is 22? or 23? if we really bring this kid in what is it the end for any of the border line center mids we have, and i include barker in that as well who i think is a superb player

At 25 would be worth a punt if could get him for anything less then 25.

We need this FA cup to start soon for michy

Poor michy

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Just 5 actually

Would you offer lamps a 6 month contract... Reasons for It will always sit badly with me that his last moment in the prem where in a city shirt. Should have been in Chelsea blue be great to see him and JT bow out together potentially at the end of this year His expirenece could be valuable in the runin another prem medal for the man against: could rock the environment, we are finally transitioning from old to new, not an easy thing to do but and adding an old face could upset the balance would he come in on a low wage ?

We always hear about the Juve game but what about Shaktar https://youtu.be/S9WXZvKQO0Q (hope the link works) those early days under Robbie he showed imagination and had the execution to pull it of, that slowly disappeared over the last few years . 5there is another player in the clip who makes some cracking runs of the ball but has been missing ever since

Now he's gone I find my self wandering what went wrong. Such early promise that never progressed

Point taken, he is a couple of years older then I thought he was

Could be, I haven't seen enough of him but he's only one year at Juve, I don't think we would get him in Jan. I'm just down the line of thinking that another world class player on our other wing and it would be very hard to see us not won the league, like robbed and duff combo. And I let the 60 mill from Oscar go to my head, normally I'm all about looking inwards

The point is to test the resolve and destruct the player but to be honest,he is one of the best players in the world and playing in a three with hazard and costa would be scary, Griezman is the only other player I can think of that takes us up a level. Beyond that you are looking for that bit of luck on a player that it didn't quite work out for, perhaps the boy Lucas at PSG for example

Just for kicks and giggles , take the 60 add 40 and throw the 100 mill at arsenal for Alexis and see what they say

Ruuds team ;)

A poster who left these shoures long ago once referred to Vialli as the kind of guy who whorls drive up the motorway to pick you up and not ask to sleep with your sister. Great poster and a guy I had the pleasure to meet once. But couldn't agree with him entirely ok Vialli, classy guy yes great football manager, meh... Conte however brings the two together for me, he is clearly a top level manager, what ever happens this season he has proved his credentials for me, the west brom game was perhaps the best example as we fluidly chnanged formation in search of the goal against a well organized team playing 6 at the back. But I'm addition, Conte then man is just class personified, like he would drive up the motorway to pick you up and not ask to sleep with your sister. I loved Jose, I would excuse any action he gave me some of the best times as a Chelsea fan, and I was happy to pay the price and even defend almost everything, but conte makes me look back and think... what was I thinking. Conte is proving you don't need to be a walking brand to be a great manager

Any one else think that based on nearly every interview Luiz has done with British media , he basically thinks their a bunch of c**ts and wants to give them nothing. Smarter then he looks

I think after the last World Cup most would have had him in a heart beat,he hasn't really set the world on fire at Madrid but he wouldn't be the first world class player not to make it work there. I think my main reason for possibly being against it is there is a kid at Ajax that might be the best possible option in that position and he would be free

Another point work th making, as much as Cahill has re found his form he hasn't got the pace of Dave and I don't think anyone in the team is as good a one on one defender as Dave, life must be a hell of a lot more fun when you got Dave backing you up

You don't go on a winning run like ours and have a defensive record like ours carrying passengers for 11 games, man city was a bad game, spuds not great but outside of that he has been very good and his presence in the air has been massively overlooked (almost like pep digging out his own fans after the arsenal game). Also Alonso is the only only in the team that has won every game he has started

Pat Nevin appeared on the Chels podcast and would recommend the episode, very good listen and Pat is clearly a very smart guy a few highlights. He thinks we had a lucky escape with Lukaku, considers him Lazy. Apparently mentioned batshuayi to the club two years ago Wanted to play number 10 his whole time at chelsea http://playbackmedia.co.uk/podcasts/the-chels-the-chelsea-podcast-with-phil-daniels/

In order not to get fleased I think we would need to take a risk some where. I think its actually our weakest area on the pitch, Pedro and Willian both do a decent enough of job but you can see room for an upgrad, it's like between them two plus maybe Fabregas we kind of have what hazard offers on the other side. Maybe Draxler

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He scores goals and is a quality player available in Jan , not many of those around

Don't want to open up a new thread, but would anyone take a punt on having Sturridge back ?