Maybe we are waiting for him to hand in a transfer request.....

 

Has anyone ever handed in a transfer request to join us?

Has anyone ever handed in a transfer request to join us?

Stones....by accident

That almost didn't end in disaster..

And our response to their loan of Palasic is...stick, sunshine ?, where, don't shine...

"AC Milan has received a significant offer for its player Alessio Romagnoli from Chelsea FC.

 

The player is not for sale, therefore this negotiation will not continue. The club wants to thank Chelsea fc with whom we will continue to have a great working relationship"

 

https://www.acmilan.com/en/news/first-team/2016-08-25/ac-milan-official-statement

 

 

 

Come back Papy! All is forgiven! 

he wasn't our first choice though. i don't understand why we tried so hard to go after romagnoli when we've always wanted koulibaly (who is yet to sign a new contract). it seemed koulibaly was A choice, maksimovic was B choice, and romagnoli was C choice, but we've been pushing hard to get romagnoli in last couple days to coax napoli into considering the koulibaly offer. no idea where we go from here, it's either maksimovic or bust methinks because who else is out there of high quality and obtainable for a reasonable fee? 

he wasn't our first choice though. i don't understand why we tried so hard to go after romagnoli when we've always wanted koulibaly (who is yet to sign a new contract). it seemed koulibaly was A choice, maksimovic was B choice, and romagnoli was C choice, but we've been pushing hard to get romagnoli in last couple days to coax napoli into considering the koulibaly offer. no idea where we go from here, it's either maksimovic or bust methinks because who else is out there of high quality and obtainable for a reasonable fee? 

 

Is Maksimovic high quality? I have literally not seen a single Serie A game in yonks.

Edited August 25, 20169 yr by MissouriBlue

he wasn't our first choice though. 

 

Well we haven't signed them either so...... 

“AC Milan have received a major financial offer from Chelsea for their own player Alessio Romagnoli.

“The Milan player is not for sale, so the proposal will not have any result market. We thank the Chelsea Club with which Milan will continue to have excellent relations sports ever.”

“AC Milan have received a major financial offer from Chelsea for their own player Alessio Romagnoli.

“The Milan player is not for sale, so the proposal will not have any result market. We thank the Chelsea Club with which Milan will continue to have excellent relations sports ever.”

 

You know Zola, I kinda expected you to translate that in your own words rather than google translate seeing as you're Italian and all..... 

BREAKING NEWS: Chelsea lodge £25m offer for Sunderland's Papy Djilobodji.

If we don't end up landing a new CB it may end up being a blessing.  We may not reach the heights we want for this particular season, but if it means Tomori or CS get a run of 10-12 game somewhere because of injury it could be beneficial to them and prove they are capable.

Edited August 25, 20169 yr by Van Butsen

Romagnoli has a higher ceiling than Koulibaly though, he is still only 20/21. Seems we have had a €35m bid rejected for Savic also. Can't get my head round our thinking with these late bids, why are we running around with less than a week till the window closes?

Maybe is wishful thinking on my part but could this attempts also be smokescreens to make our real targets come down in price? Maybe despite what Conte so publicly speaks about (lack of defenders) is not what he truly wants if he thinks he can gamble with the defenders he has at his disposal (including the young guys Tomori and Clarke-Salter). Who knows what Chelsea wants at this point because the attack is not looking that great either. Maybe a double dip of James and Ric Rodriguez is what we want. Or maybe we just trying to drive up Cuadrado's price so we sell him at better terms with the pretest we want funds to buy players.

Yeah but the more teams that put their fingers up at us for their players the more the likes of Napoli put their prices up and up...

I am not sure what you mean. But anyway, I think Napoli sounds like they are ridiculous to deal with, that I agree with. End of day though, will they blink?

if we need some back-up goalkeeping, I am sure this guy will be handy