AndyBlue82

Will the football agent be inviting his imaginary clients?

You've got to feel sorry for his clients! All those transfer requests handed in on scraps of paper with crayon scribbled on them!!

For a professional Football Agent he can't even spell the word SWAP! Shows how infrequently swap deals happen!

I never claimed Morata was inferior. That was your claim. Morata has never playing in the EPL so how is he inferior to Costa? Funny that you don't mention the loss of JT at all. Surely the team will be inferior without him as Captain (playing or not) Moses may be replaced my Danilo who I personally think is the better player, my opinion though. Cahill may start but he wasn't great on the left of cb last season. Matic may make way for Bakayoko but we will have to wait and see

Stop! My sides are hurting!! Hahahahaha

Are you being serious??? For a start we aren't replacing Moses or Cahill. Costa is a great striker but has wanted to leave for at least 6months. Matic may or may not leave, who knows. Lukaku chose United and no one knows if we were even in for him anyway. Agree with RMCM, so much negativity!

But with true wc players going for 100MIL a go what would you expect? I think we're trying to be shrewd and not have our pants pulled down on every deal.

The options are limited: Morata Aubamayang Bellotti Lewendowski Llorente

Why's Morata a no go? Because he's gone on their pre season tour? He'll just get permission to leave and fly to London. No big deal for 2 clubs our size

Agreed but we are lucky enough to have a manager that has turned some meh players into champions. Just my opinion. Personally not fussed one way or another about this signing. We have greater needs elsewhere.

Would be good for him to be fair. He needs to play regularly and would be better coming back in a year with Cahill probably moving on by then.

I'm sure people would have said that about Alonso before he signed and he hasn't turned out too bad!

€30m is a steal in the current climate. Competition for Moses is priority over another lb/lwb

But they're all using the same source. It's bullsh*t, he's ours!!

I think the floating from certain ”informed” members would be too much to bear!

I honestly stopped reading after you mentioned Tommy Robinson... Really going out of your way to make sure no one respects you, aren't you?

Would make sense with pre season starting tomorrow. Get him checked, sign him, announce him and let him meet his new teammates.

Am I the only one that thinks this transfer is being delayed because Bakayoko can't decide what colour to dye his hair? Lol

We don't disbelieve the deal - we disbelieve you. No one cares if you think you have inside knowledge. You aren't the first to claim it and you won't be the last either. This is a forum for Chelsea fans. Do one!

Considering how much our new home kit looks like the Italy shirt I bet he'd feel right at home!

James is the stereotypical luxury player, no club really needs him and very few can afford him. Not worth our time

Reading this has really got me worried that the deal for Bakayoko might not go through. Then I realised you wrote it so I'm fine again now.

What the f**k has happened to this thread since this morning? Full of arguments and bloody fantasists! Has anyone just told the football agent to bugger off back to the Arsenal boards where he belongs?

I was really implying that the club was getting their choice of striker in Lukaku when Conte wanted Morata. With the Lukaku transfer a mess surely that means Conte will go to the club and say that they should pursue a deal for Morata. I'm sure he'd cost around the same but doubt he'd have a 12mil agent fee and 275k pw demands. With regards to the coach being appointed, it was reported the club wanted a English/British replacement whereas Conte wanted an Italian that he'd worked with previously. A small victory for Conte there I think

Conte has just brought in a coach he wanted to employ when Steve Holland left. Seems unlikely he'd walk now. Also, I was under the impression that Lukaku was the clubs choice and Morata is Conte's choice. Surely Conte must be happy if this is true?