6 hours ago, axman2526 said:

Hmm wonder if that part has to do with lowering the fee for Barkley, who we have been linked with.

I hope not. Would prefer Musonda to be our 4th Choice AM than Barkley. 

I hope not. Would prefer Musonda to be our 4th Choice AM than Barkley. 

Given confidence and games and barkley will shine.

Hard to see him playing regular though.

Id take costa for 6months

54 minutes ago, bluescouser said:

Given confidence and games and barkley will shine.

Hard to see him playing regular though.

Id take costa for 6months

Will be out until Jan apparently, so hardly solves any of our depth problems. The only way he will get match fitness is by playing in the Fa cup games which would be the perfect stage and opportunity for Musonda. 

Given the choices, i would rather take a risk on musonda than a 50/40/30/20/15 mil pound rated Barkley.

According to the Evening Standard, breakthrough talks have been held between Chelsea and Atletico, with a transfer fee of £41m being agreed.

23 minutes ago, Zola said:

According to the Evening Standard, breakthrough talks have been held between Chelsea and Atletico, with a transfer fee of £41m being agreed.

I've heard 30, 40 and 50m from various sources. None of them reputable. 

Evening Standard prints rubbish constantly, marginally better than the Mirror, Sun or (bottom of the lot) Star. 

The whole situation with Costa saddens me a lot 

Spanish papers reporting €43m+ €11m. Decent, given the circumstances. Would be especially good if he ends up going to Everton till January to help take points from our rivals.

No Llorente, no problem.

We've got another Spanish international striker ready and waiting!

 

 

(I can dream)

So now what Diego? Madrid clearly being cheap as they can't play him until January anyway 

Spanish window shuts tomorrow i think..

Well for one his loan until Jan options are Spain only so that creates a problem. Honestly I do not see why Atletico would need to rush unless it was a really good deal. They cannot use him till Jan, he wants to go nowhere else, only Spanish teams can sign him and most could not afford what we were asking even if he changed his mind. 

 

Think we are stuck with him till Jan tbh, maybe longer.

Saw earlier tha Remy is gone so that leaves only Morata and Batshuayi. 

Should've bought in any average third striker - an old one or a young one.

Hate seeing little midgets pretending to be strikers. 

So what happened with Costa?

50 minutes ago, evissy said:

So what happened with Costa?

Spanish deadline day is today, i think. So still time to offload him.

3 hours ago, evissy said:

So what happened with Costa?

He's been Zappa'ed

Is it too unrealistic to hope Costa makes a comeback? 

Hopefully yes. He can f**k off from whatever gutter he came from

Spanish window shuts in 4 hours. If it doesn't go through then will we name him in the squad? Definitely have a foreign space for him, and it will help our case should he take it to court he's been forced out. 

i would think he is the last player conte would want in the dressing room, short a striker or not

Can't see him going anywhere now. No football for 6 months it is then, and no world cup spot, good job Diego. 

36 minutes ago, Zeta said:

Can't see him going anywhere now. No football for 6 months it is then, and no world cup spot, good job Diego. 

To think that he could have got his move to AM (and then loaned out) this window, if only he had not spat out his dummy like a child. You reap what you sow.

3 hours ago, big blue said:

Spanish window shuts in 4 hours. If it doesn't go through then will we name him in the squad? Definitely have a foreign space for him, and it will help our case should he take it to court he's been forced out. 

We should give that foreign spot to Baba Rahman. We need a left wing back and i don't think Kenedy is a good enough back up to Alonso.

9 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

We should give that foreign spot to Baba Rahman. We need a left wing back and i don't think Kenedy is a good enough back up to Alonso.

I think we have 2 left. I don't fir 1 second think costa will play again, just thought it might be a political move to put the ball back in his court should he not get sold. 

I like baba tbh, thought he got unfair criticism considering the sh*tstorm of a season it was, and he was young and adapting to a new country. 

If conte can make a serviceable wing back out of moses, I don't see why he couldn't do similar with baba.  

He will repair his relationship with Conte and build a beautiful strikeforce with Morata.. well one could hope at least.

16 minutes ago, Scott Harris said:

We should give that foreign spot to Baba Rahman. We need a left wing back and i don't think Kenedy is a good enough back up to Alonso.

We have 2 spots open.

Tibo, Willy, Eduardo; DL, azpi, Rudi, Zappacosta, Alonso; Kante, Baka; Willian, Hazard, Pedro; Morata, michy.

Thats 15. Kennedy is under 21 anyways.