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Good luck to Manchester City. If Sanchez wants go there, then Sane, Sterling or Aguero will have to leave. Someone is going to get the hump so it's maybe one good player in, one out. 

And Chelsea are a big club, they just haven't had a good a season as last year, and City have had a great season so far. 

Arsenal, Chelsea, United, Spurs, Liverpool and City are all fighting it out. There can only be one, hey, this could be City 5 years in the sun. We dominated for back to back years. United threepeated. That's football. All those of you sulking because Chelsea are not getting the deals you want and then saying we are a small club need relax and understand the way football works. Some fans on here sound like spoilt brats. You don't hear Manchester United fans calling themselves a small club because they ain't clocking titles at the minute or signing the best players. City are flying and everything is going right for them. There bubble will burst and it will be onto the next team for their time in the sun. 

So to all you brothers and sisters who seem to be overreacting and going way over the top..

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CFCholland said:
City are doing what we shouldve done last summer. We won the league fairly easy last year, but instead strengthening our position by attracting some top players, we weakened our squad. City, despite absolutely walking the league this year, are already looking to strengthen. It looks like they are going to make a big step and become one of Europe's biggest teams along with Barca, Madrid and Bayern.

We've had a couple opportunities to do the same, but every year we look like we're not too far off, we sit back and let the squad deteriorate.
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Exactly this. It's so frustrating that everyone except the board seems to be able to see this. We had great momentum last year after winning the league. Antonio Conte was being heralded as one of the best managers in world football after having bested Mourinho and Pep. It seemed only natural that we would sign some good quality players, strengthen the squad around Hazard and mount a strong European challenge this season.

I don't know if the issue was money, players preferring other clubs, bad negotiating or boardroom politics and egos that are getting in the way of the club's growth. We're clearly not top dogs in terms of spending anymore but I've always felt that Roman was prepared to back his ambitions for the club when needed. 

Maybe the impending cost of the new stadium is meaning purse strings are being tightened. Yet what's the point of having a world class stadium if your no longer ambitious to compete with the world's best?

If the issue is money, then it seems like the club hasn't had the foresight to realise that if we can no longer buy ready made top level players, then we need to stop shipping out younger players only for them to come good at other clubs and not wish to return. We've had the best youth team for years now but don't seem to be able to capitalise on it because we only sign 'big names', or at least used too. 

 
Icardi from Inter Milan would've been a great addition to Chelsea as Seville look to snatch Batshuwayi in the January window. Unfortunately it appears that Icardi has just passed a Real Madrid medical ?

Not sure if the news is authentic or not. We will find out soon enough.

 
I have no idea why we arent even in for Sanchez. He’s available for 35m ffs! 

 
Famous CFC said:
Good luck to Manchester City. If Sanchez wants go there, then Sane, Sterling or Aguero will have to leave. Someone is going to get the hump so it's maybe one good player in, one out. 

And Chelsea are a big club, they just haven't had a good a season as last year, and City have had a great season so far. 

Arsenal, Chelsea, United, Spurs, Liverpool and City are all fighting it out. There can only be one, hey, this could be City 5 years in the sun. We dominated for back to back years. United threepeated. That's football. All those of you sulking because Chelsea are not getting the deals you want and then saying we are a small club need relax and understand the way football works. Some fans on here sound like spoilt brats. You don't hear Manchester United fans calling themselves a small club because they ain't clocking titles at the minute or signing the best players. City are flying and everything is going right for them. There bubble will burst and it will be onto the next team for their time in the sun. 

So to all you brothers and sisters who seem to be overreacting and going way over the top..

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IMO Non one is over reacting....and I for one am not a trophy hunter (remembering the good old days of relegation) and do not expect us to win everything all the time.  Its just continually frustrating that we continually fail to refresh our winning squads when we have the opportunity to do so, and when we do add 'squad' players they are generally no better than the players we move on.  Isn't the idea of the club to continually improve; defend the title, take one more step forward in cup competitions?   We have tended to stagnant and remain status quo. RM are paying the price this season for not refreshing their squad.

Fighting on as many fronts as we are privileged to do requires WC or near to WC players, especially if the expectation going into them is to win these competitions; if the expectation is to simply 'do well' then I guess we'll stick with mediocre or just above average players that we seemingly are attracting these days.  CFC don't come into my top 5 in terms of 'big clubs' currently.     

 
It’s been a long time since we used to reach at least the semi’s in most champions league tournaments, now a quarter final would seem like a great achievement.

I miss being one of the best in Europe. Everyone used to really fear us, with Lamps and Drogba.

 
ChelseaFanBoy said:
Icardi from Inter Milan would've been a great addition to Chelsea as Seville look to snatch Batshuwayi in the January window. Unfortunately it appears that Icardi has just passed a Real Madrid medical ?

Not sure if the news is authentic or not. We will find out soon enough.
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that icardi thing is fake news. 

He has £100m buy put clause that starts in the summer, so I don't see him going until then, and at that price, he won't be coming here.

Can't see us spending big on another forward, certainly not more than we did on morata. maybe aubemayang or immobile might be possible if we can raise funds from Batshuayi. 

 
Sick of being linked to average players - if the board doesn't want to compete at the top then they should be cutting Conte some slack.

How can you have a 1 in, 1 out policy and not chase after top players but expect to compete at the top. Delusional.

 
Odiddy said:
Sick of being linked to average players - if the board doesn't want to compete at the top then they should be cutting Conte some slack.

How can you have a 1 in, 1 out policy and not chase after top players but expect to compete at the top. Delusional.
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this isn't fifa. blame inflated prices. i am sure if player fees were average of 30m we would be more active in the market, but clubs want way too much for players. 

 
enigma said:
this isn't fifa. blame inflated prices. i am sure if player fees were average of 30m we would be more active in the market, but clubs want way too much for players. 
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Sanchez is available for 35m.

 
I think we should go full on for Sandro this window. Barkley is a big questionmark but ifbwe manage to bolster our wb situation we'd be set till summer.

Maybe a striker...

 
I saw many reports suggesting that some newspaper in Italy reported that allegri agreed to take over Chelsea next season..wtf...i will stick with conte...the issue is that our club is not ambitious at all 

 
yes please bring Allegri or Ancelotti or go ahead bring Zidane as coach , Sack Conte , but managers can manage team they cant do miracles , if our owner is not ready to upgrade the team than manager cannot play the game by himself , may be i am to rude but if Roman is really not interested in the club than why not sell it to someone else who can help the cub grow and save us from staying frustrated like this :( 

 
i am hoping that Guy Loz will build some bigger fanbase for the club and bring some bigger revenue on table to get us some players in sometime

 
                                Courtois
  Azpi - Christensen/Rudiger - Koulibaly - Sandro
                       Kante - Weigl
               Alexis - Draxler - Hazard
                     Morata/Suarez

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the special one said:
                                Courtois
  Azpi - Christensen/Rudiger - Koulibaly - Sandro
                       Kante - Weigl
               Alexis - Draxler - Hazard
                     Morata/Suarez

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This is not reality it's FIFA.

(Or is the other way around.)

 
I think we should look to sign - Lafont, Laporte, Pereira, Werner, Tah, Malcom, Brandt, Tielemens, Sanabria, Guedes, Bailey and Tousart. 

 
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