AndyBlue82

What's the point in having the policy if you then try to sign players over 30? Plus are GK exempt from this policy? Who knows... f**king ridiculous

Son: Dad, can I have Drinkwater on my shirt? Dad: (looking at his watch) Anytime now son I promise... Megastore employee opens door to find an empty stockroom, looks at Dad and shakes her head. Dad: (mutters under breath) f**king bullsh*t transfer window!

But strange him wanting to go to Liverpool to play cm but he'll lose that spot next year when Keita joins.

Given the choice I think he'd totally choose us over Liverpool but it really depends on the Coutinho transfer to Barca.

Turan is 30 so we'd only offer him a 12 month deal. Unlikely he'd come here for that when he'd easily get 2-3yr contract with a club in Italy or France playing Europa League footy

Wouldn't blame him for wanting to go. If the offer came in for £75mil or higher we'd need to look at it. Couldn't think of an ideal candidate to replace him that isn't Sanchez, so we'd probably end up with Candreva. Probably just bs though

35 could easily actually be 25mil + 10mil in add one. Dunno where 50MIL came from? His flexibility to play 3 or 4 positions is enough to warrant our interest.

Most squads need a few stop gap players. Not the most exciting signing but I remember signing Mineiro and we haven't sunk to those depths yet.

I'm gonna predict 2-2 draw with Willian and Bakayoko scoring.

I like him as a player, reminds a little of Azpi. Not flashy but does the basics well.

With all due respect, are you sure you want to be a Chelsea fan? As you mentioned this has happened before and it will no doubt happen again. It's all part of the rollercoaster ride of supporting this club. You get the highs of winning the CL and the lows of finishing 10th or sacking a beloved manager. Just roll with it and KTBFFH

I don't think he's injury prone, he just plays for Arsenal. Most players improve on that area when they leave The Emirates.

Would prefer Cancelo given the choice

Krychowiak would be my choice - decent squad addition

Could just need a better manager to work with him - Moyes and Martinez were dross

As a minimum we need an lwb and a cm. The rest should be filled from the youth ranks to give them minutes

Imagine the sh*tstorm of ffp investigations that's about to take place. I'd be more worried about Barca coming for Hazard personally

So VvD signs, we use Azpi and Rudiger as RB/WB and Moses gets moved further forward. Still leaves us short a LB/LWB though

Seems like Southampton relented and have let him go after all. Probably had Liverpool agree to pay more upfront then they wanted to fix the tapping up issue.

Apparently our interest in Drinkwater is 'not reciprocated' Probably doesn't want to move to sit on our bench. Fair enough

Every player we're linked with seems to be a dead end. In the morning rumours start surfacing about being linked with such and such player and within the next 12 hours the players manager/chairman/agent comes out saying the players is invaluable/unavailable. I understand that this is sometimes used as a ploy to raise any potential offer but it so bloody tedious!!!

He said shoot, he didn't say score!

Wondering how this thread is still going with no movement on the transfer...

It's a bit of a conundrum really.. Media blasting us for a poor window and having so few first team players but also chastising us for not using our youth. We've painted ourselves into a corner over the homegrown/non homegrown ratio. I hope this is resolved soon

Strange one. Loan with an option to buy would be good for both parties but a loan with no option only benefits Munich. Or is Conte that desperate for quality additions that this is an easy way of the board placating him?