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Papy was with us for six montgs, then after a loan to Germany we made a 5 million profit. Bloody great business if you ask me. Piazon was touted as the next Kaká. Its easy to point out someone not beibg good enough in hindsight

There are no guarantees in football. No llayer comes with a guarantee if success, if we are waiting for that player we might as well not buy anyone. Yes its a lot of money for a young player, but we will never get a shot at him again thats almost a guarantee. Show me a young player with his football intelligence, technique, goalscoring record and blazing speed who didnt succeed. Ill wait

Lmao that video was awful, 3 years of footage and anyone could look like that. Especially Costa. Reninds me of that Cahill video that consisted of three minutes of Cahill backing off and getting beat by attackers. Lukaku and Costa have very few complementary qualities, playing them together would never work. Cant have two poachers who loses the ball that much. I think the main reason I dont want Lukaku here is the amount of unwarranted critisism he is going to get by at least 50+ of our fanbase. He is like the anti-Torres

With the money in question its a risk for sure, but lets be real. Just the money we got from being on TV last year would cover his transfer fee, add in what we sold Oscar for and thats his five year contract sorted. The club raked in an insane amount this year. Its not going to put much of a dent at all

Yeah, lets not act like Pogba hasnt gotten a TON of stick from the media. Even a few days after his dad died, english media were cracking jokes on his poor run of form. This media has an agenda against Chelsea thing is getting a bit lame. Yes you have media darlings like Pep and Klopp (even Conte I might add) who seems to get more leeway, but all in all they are relentless c**ts to just about everyone

Depends for me, i will wear a shirt if Im at a home game with my dad or missus as I have a ton of shirts that I collect and I like to wear them to games. I used to wear them to aways when I was younger as me and a group of mates found it an easy way to get "in trouble". Thankfully I grew out of that behaviour and now just wear casual attire away

And most of them we end up making a profit on.

Yes because getting a player who will be world class in 2-3 years time is an AWFUL idea. Dont need it. Rather we went for a proven superstar from one of the top leagues like when we bought Sheva and Torres

We still bought them from that league

Griezmann all but confirmed he wont be going anywere this year. Probably prinised Atletico he wouldnt move if the transfer embargo was uphekd. Which also means Costa in all likelyhoo stays

Tolisso seems more like the kind of player we need in midfield, think he has the ability to play in a two and three man midfield

Yes, because the last two players we bought from that sh*t league didnt end up being any good

Some of you arent looking at what the norm was at the time. We completely flooded the market and threw obscene amounts of money around. Our total spend from those years completely dwarfed anyone at the time. We changed the game as far as spending goes, complaining that other teams now do the same is a bit rich

Much of this has already been discussed. Mourinho failing to produce alternatives, that the manager AND Emenalo together create a list of players etc. Appfently Kanté was also a "done deal" for a while before we got wind of it. What I do find concerning is that we seem to fail at getting most of our top targets and that to me is a concern. You can blab about thibgs taking time all you want, but we seem to always get our signings in later then other teams and often they miss out on a lot of preseason and thats not ideal

Not a huge fan at all, but like others have said I too have only watched him a few games. What does have me excited is that it seems quite clear Conte wants and rates him. He is also not Matic, which is a clear positive from me.

I dont give a sh*t about Liverpool, it was a dead rubber for us. There was no pressure. "Pocketed them all"? That explains why he was subbed after 60 mins

It was a dead rubber, hence why he was given gametime.

Which massive game was this? Are we talking about the dead rubber game when we had already won the lague were he was hooked after 60 mins?

He was shipped out on loan because he was never going to get enough minutes here and he did fairly well for his first senior season I would say, If he comes back this year I doubt he would get much time, just as Ruben will if he stays. I doubt he will though. Both likely to go on loan next year to a prem team. My guess is Abraham gets a lot of playing time, scores a few goals while Ruben sits in the stands watching and Chelsea fans blames another manager for not playing him

Wenger has stated several times he regretted selling RvP to United and he would never make that mistake again. Cant see it happening tbh. Abroad or one more year at Arsenal

"Bayern wants Willian to replace Robben and Ribery". Hahaha yeah that sounds plausible

Lmao. Abraham found his level his first year of senior football? Ok Jeff. If Lofthus-Cheek was so special he wouldnt have spent most of the season in the stands

Reuben is a championship caliber player, three years from now thats were he and Bamford are playing. Abraham has so much more to offer then just being a poacher. He can hold up the ball, is a good passer and is a physical specimen still developing. Bamford was never in the same league potential wise

Yeah, its the devil you know and all that