Sandro would be a great signing, but doesn't the right side have less cover? We could try and sign Ricardo from Porto, haven't seen him play much, apart from highlights, but his stats were impressive last season and I've read good things about him. I don't think he'd be too difficult to sign and he would probably be a very good right wing back for us, can't think of too many other options on that flank. 

Edited July 27, 20178 yr by Floyd25

I don't mind if the board go all in for LWB and CM now. We need cover for that side. RWB can wait till Jan if we don't have enough time.

We have Rudiger and Azpi to cover for RWB as well as Tomori.

Once Matic and Diego is sold, we should have 50m+ to concentrate on a RWB.

Saw we're competing with Liverpool and Spurs for some RB named Toljan. Never seen him play but if he's available for 3m as they say and he's capable then I hope we offer quadruple that just to get it done

Saw we're competing with Liverpool and Spurs for some RB named Toljan. Never seen him play but if he's available for 3m as they say and he's capable then I hope we offer quadruple that just to get it done

He's been mentioned a couple of times in this forum. Played and apparently excelled in the u21's for Germany this summer.

25 minutes ago, TheChelseaBlues said:

Saw we're competing with Liverpool and Spurs for some RB named Toljan. Never seen him play but if he's available for 3m as they say and he's capable then I hope we offer quadruple that just to get it done

At 3m Toljan is a no brainer. Looked very decent in the u21 championship. Like all young players its now he kicks on , with the right coaching has the ability to go into being Germany's RB for many years ahead.

Spurs will sign him. Not a bad bit of business, sell one RB for 50m, and sign another up and coming one for 3m.

Michael Hector on his way to Hull on a season long loan...

1 minute ago, doctorblue said:

Michael Hector on his way to Hull on a season long loan...

I legit forgot we even had him.  Same with Baba Rahman until your post reminded me of players that I forgot we had.

3.1M for a very promising RB is crazy when you think we spent double that on Kenedy. 

BBC sport reporting via whoever else that we put in a late big for Walker but it was unsuccessful 

If from here we signed Sandro, Llorente, Barkley and Oxlade-Chamberlain I struggle to think how we could have had a better realistic window.

10 hours ago, DonAntonio said:

BBC sport reporting via whoever else that we put in a late big for Walker but it was unsuccessful 

Contes said himself we tried to get him 

33 minutes ago, startedwithglenn said:

If from here we signed Sandro, Llorente, Barkley and Oxlade-Chamberlain I struggle to think how we could have had a better realistic window.

That would be another 140 odd million, doubt that would be happening.

2 minutes ago, Chelsbear said:

That would be another 140 odd million, doubt that would be happening.

180mil-ish.

Barkley (40mil), Ox (40mil), Llorente (30mil) and Sandro (70mil).

Crazy insane rates.

1 minute ago, didierforever said:

180mil-ish.

Barkley (40mil), Ox (40mil), Llorente (30mil) and Sandro (70mil).

Crazy insane rates.

We'd have a very good squad with those 4 tho

2 minutes ago, TheChelseaBlues said:

We'd have a very good squad with those 4 tho

Barkley would be a redundant and useless signing.

If we want a "wha-if" scenario to play out, I would rather hope we do it with Baker/Musonda/Boga than with an over-rated player like Barkley.

33 minutes ago, didierforever said:

180mil-ish.

Barkley (40mil), Ox (40mil), Llorente (30mil) and Sandro (70mil).

Crazy insane rates.

Bar Sandro the rest are average footballers imo. 

50 minutes ago, Chelsbear said:

Contes said himself we tried to get him 

Yea I later read that, he also sh*t on Tottenham a bit which isn't a bad thing. 

11 minutes ago, Chelsbear said:

Bar Sandro the rest are average footballers imo. 

Agree but llorente can be a good plan B (or maybe C) and Ox can cover a couple of positions that we are short on.

As for barkley, cant get my head around the rumors.

I never support not signing players that improve the squad in place of giving youth a shot, not how modern elite football works but paying for Barkley and ox even lorente the prices they want....will they improve us other than depth?

You could argue ox is versitile and quick, got experience, Barkley I think could be very good if he was consistent but he is a risk, do we have any youth that are as good, if we do play them instead. 

This boga kid looks good, Baker....not seen enough, but he looks extremely technical, do we have anyone else good enough that we can say bring them on he will do a job like ox would?  We sold or loaned our best youth, why sell ake and buy ox for more, is he better? Is Barkley better than RLC or chalobah?

I get why we don't play youth and agree, it's about the best men available in the pitch, but under that philosophy why buy these level players that will have minimal impact, 

2 hours ago, didierforever said:

Barkley would be a redundant and useless signing.

If we want a "wha-if" scenario to play out, I would rather hope we do it with Baker/Musonda/Boga than with an over-rated player like Barkley.

I agree if it's one or the other but including them all we'd be very deep. I think we have yet to see Conte have a full squad as he'd like it. If he has more players he could trust we'd see much more rotation than last season when we used more or less 15 players. 

Luiz, Kante, Hazard, Moses and Alonso played even when they had knocks or needed a rest. Hopefully we get to a point where we can sit them down for a weekend and let them recover properly. 

Edited July 28, 20178 yr by TheChelseaBlues

Bar Sandro the rest are average footballers imo. 

Really, but I like Ox

We should getting top player and add class to the team, not getting average players, that we would try to get rid in few years.

Atleast for me the team needed class and i`m not sure we added enough.

Did we even strengthen our team, compare to last year or we weakened it ?

So far it`s unknown if Morata is upgrade over Costa. Atleast for the begining i don`t think so, in a future time, probably yes.

I do think Bakayoko is upgrade over Matic, but we got to see how he will be in the PL. Against Juve he was looking awfull.

Rudiger for me won`t be starter from the begining, he will become starter with season going.

And the squad now is even thinner then last year.

In the midfielder at the moment we have exactly 3 senior player and Baker, who is CM, not DM. Who exactly will cover Bakayoko/Kante spot ? And people here are saying we need just 2 wingbacks, o my dear.

Last year untill the winter we have Oscar, Mikel, Matic, Kante, Chalobah, RLC, Fabregas, that is 7 players, to 4 now, and now we will compete in CL .....

So board job to the moment is not good enough, atleast for me.

City for example have: Toure, Fernandinho, David Silva, Bernardo Silva, Delph, Gundogan, Fernando, and players like De Bryune, Sterling, Leroy Sane can play as AM.

Tottenham have: Lamela, Wanayama, Dier, N'Koudou, Sissoko, Dembelee, Dele Alli, Christensen, Harry Winks, and some young Josh Onomah.

United have: Pogba, Mata, Carick, Herrera, Mkhitaryan, Fellaini, and Lingard can play as AM. And they are after atleast 1 CM. Add Matic and they have 7 or 8 players at that position.

We are also 1 wingers down, we need 4, and we are 2 wing-backs down.

If we want to challenge we will need good depth in the team. The season will be long and with the CL football, we need more players. There will be injuries, lack of form, tiredness, to change something when it`s not working, and so on, so you need bigger squad. We are lacking and need 4 new players.

Surely 2 wing-backs, DM, Right Mifielder and Conte obviously want third striker, so 5 new faces.

 

5 hours ago, didierforever said:

180mil-ish.

Barkley (40mil), Ox (40mil), Llorente (30mil) and Sandro (70mil).

Crazy insane rates.

Barkley and Ox would be more like £20m to £25m respectively, with only one year left on their contracts, surplus to requirements and Everton forcing Barkley out of the door, if both are signed for a collective £80m, I'd be flabergasted.

Same with Llorente one year left on his contract, they have Tammy, Ayew and McBurnie (highly rated within the club), have been linked with a Bony return and another striker that escapes me. I would be surprised if it took over £12m, they also seem to be looking for a replacement so I wouldn't be surprised if this were to happen before the end of the window sigh. 

 

Rumours linking us to being interested in both Oxlade-Chamberlain and Ross Barkey to boost our homegrown/English representation. 

Could maybe see one coming but surely not both? 

Could probably go for Oxlade-Chamberlain out of the two if for nothing more than his versatility. Not sure either necessarily makes us a better team though.