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Would take him for £15m. Considering we were willing to buy him for £35m in the summer and now getting him a lot cheaper and is English and still very young, would be a good addition. Adds something different from our other CM too. Can run with the ball, can pass and has a good shot on him too. He just needs consistency. But when we play 3-5-2 he at least would offer more of a goal threat compared to our other CM.

 
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Cheers!

 
The deal not going through in summer had f**k all to with Spurs.  I am absolutely positive.  Never even had a medical tbh

I am genuinely more surprised that people expected Sandro, Vidal, Mahrez etc this month... and were actually serious

 
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For 15m it's not the worst deal in the world.  He's still young so has time on his side.  It's one of those deals that I don't mind either way if it happens or not.

 
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Fine with this - we need reinforcements In that area badly and nothing I've seen of RLC so far suggests he's quite ready yet.

Let's hope Antonio wants him and this isn't a board signing.

 
My Twitter feed if he signs tomorrow is going to be mind numbing.

"Why sign Barkley when we have Mason Mount"   "Should never have loaned out Baker, he is 10x the player of Barkley"  "Van ginkel must be fuming"   

It winds me up no end. 

 
15m is a snip, bloody hell we spent 40m on bakajoko, and look at him, he's an embarrassment. 

 
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15m is a snip, bloody hell we spent 40m on bakajoko, and look at him, he's an embarrassment. 
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He is 22. Give him a break. You will eat your words I'm pretty sure.

Barkley for me is us wanting a british-born player. If we get him for 15m why not but not much more. He has great potential but I feel he is somehow trapped in time in a sense he thinks he can have stinkers and it is okay.
 
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He is 22. Give him a break. You will eat your words I'm pretty sure.

Barkley for me is us wanting a british-born player. If we get him for 15m why not but not much more. He has great potential but I feel he is somehow trapped in time in a sense he thinks he can have stinkers and it is okay.
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Brilliantly put on both ends. 

Problem with barkley is that he wants to do it all, which will only increase when he spends most of the season on the bench (which he will if he comes here). So i dont see him improving at all.

 
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Brilliantly put on both ends. 

Problem with barkley is that he wants to do it all, which will only increase when he spends most of the season on the bench (which he will if he comes here). So i dont see him improving at all.
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He wanted to do it all at a club he was born to where he was constantly told he was the bestest thing in the world ever. Him moving to a bigger club where he will be a small fish in a bog pond might be the making of him, hopefully it will humble him enough to see him dig in and become a better player. Conte wont let him be biilly big balls at Chelsea I can guarantee that.

 
I thInk it’s a good deal, £15m in today’s market is great. English as well which we do needed. 

If it doesn’t work out, I’m sure we will at least get our money back. 

 
Cahill, Drinkwater, Barkley, we will have our ENGLISH SPINE BACK! 

 
I don't think we will get either Barkley or Carroll.

For me Barkley has more tools in the box than RLC though the latter has more time to learn them.

If we were to acquire him, I don't think he would be a regular.

 
We can flog him for at least double that in a year and a half when he’s fed up with the bench. 

 
Ok, so my view on this is that it could actually be a very clever signing, because initially I felt the same way about this as I did about Danny Drinkpints, but he's turned out to be a very good signing, whenever he plays I'm impressed with him and he's certainly a more finished product than Baka, (who i think will come good with more hard work on his defensive side). So Barkley for me is a very Drinkwater-ish signing, and could surprise us. That's my hope.

 
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He wanted to do it all at a club he was born to where he was constantly told he was the bestest thing in the world ever. Him moving to a bigger club where he will be a small fish in a bog pond might be the making of him, hopefully it will humble him enough to see him dig in and become a better player. Conte wont let him be biilly big balls at Chelsea I can guarantee that.
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Fair enough, but i dont think I am that optimistic about him.

Its his 8th season as a professional footballer, and the tendency to do it all will be ingrained in him. I dont see much improvement in draxler despite playing for PSG. Only thing is he has world class players surrounding him and the opposition is a notch lower. Draxler is as frustrating as barkley to watch, and quite similar.

 
In all honestly its fairly clever, we have knocked 20m off his valuation and he's been injured and not played a game. Sensible business by all accounts.

My slight query is wouldn't he and Loftus Cheek almost play the same position ? both probably prefer the Central Attacking Midfielder role and with Cesc, Drinkwater, Kante, Baka and potentially Barkley & Loftus Cheek we have a strong midfield.

 
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