34 minutes ago, TomCFC85 said:

Look what this debacle has turned us into.
I found a petition on Change.Org to Marina to sign Alex Sandro.
https://www.change.org/p/marina-granvoskaia-chelsea-to-pay-up-for-alex-sandro-and-in-turn-secure-the-future-of-conte-and-hazard?recruiter=848017929&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial.undefined
A website that has created successful petitions to help get clean water to African villages, pay for vital surgery for people in need and to release political prisoners from tyrannical regimes, is now being used to try and pester one of our board members to pay the money Juventus want for a Football Player.
Absolutely pathetic.
...I'm signing it...but still, absolutely pathetic. 

Watch out for the continuing stream of new emails from Change with new worthy petitions and a request for a contribution to running costs!

1 hour ago, TomCFC85 said:

Look what this debacle has turned us into.
I found a petition on Change.Org to Marina to sign Alex Sandro.
https://www.change.org/p/marina-granvoskaia-chelsea-to-pay-up-for-alex-sandro-and-in-turn-secure-the-future-of-conte-and-hazard?recruiter=848017929&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial.undefined
A website that has created successful petitions to help get clean water to African villages, pay for vital surgery for people in need and to release political prisoners from tyrannical regimes, is now being used to try and pester one of our board members to pay the money Juventus want for a Football Player.
Absolutely pathetic.
...I'm signing it...but still, absolutely pathetic. 

‘Found’. I bet you bloody started it 

8 minutes ago, Munkworth said:

‘Found’. I bet you bloody started it 

Shhh Munkworth! 

08/01/2018
Day 167
Have we signed Alex Sandro yet?

I'll allow Taylor Swift to answer this question:
 

I remember when we missed our target, the first time

Saying, "This is it, Marina you’re too tough," cause like

The board won’t offer near enough

When Juve said they wanted more. What?

Then Juve come around again and say

"Okay, he will go and we swear we’ll accept your transfer fee; trust me"

Remember how Marina said she’d pay?

She’ll say, "Too expensive," it breaks down, “How much for Aaron Cresswell?”

 

Ooh we called this one early on

Cause ooh, this time we’re telling you, We’re telling you

 

We are never ever ever getting Alex Sandro

We are never ever ever getting Alex Sandro

You go talk to United, talk to Barca, and Man City

But we are never ever ever ever getting Alex Sandro

Like ever

Edited January 8, 20188 yr by TomCFC85

Sadly this confirms we either have a sh*t show in Marina or that we are well on our way to becoming arsenal 2.0.

Probably both.......yeah I can only see jose calling this in and getting himself a World class player and move the likes of Young and Valencia further up the field. Or maybe psg will pounce.

So we are once Again getting f**ked by these people ha......What a way to send a signal that we are an elite Club and ambition.......im sure the likes of Eden, Tibo and Conte would love to stay with us this way......f**king pathetic this.

I've heard we are now in for Telle.

If we get Telles rather than offering Juve the Money or some add-ons etc.....then thats gonna be the final nail that we are heading the way we all feared. Absolutely amazing Roman aint moving a muscle anymore.......yeah we have won trophies thanks to Conte etc but he cant possibly be this blind can he?

1 minute ago, atomis said:

If we get Telles rather than offering Juve the Money or some add-ons etc.....then thats gonna be the final nail that we are heading the way we all feared. Absolutely amazing Roman aint moving a muscle anymore.......yeah we have won trophies thanks to Conte etc but he cant possibly be this blind can he?

I think Telles would be better value for us, but didn't someone just post that Porto aren't willing to sell anyways?  Makes it a moot point, if true.

Just now, mwblue10 said:

I think Telles would be better value for us, but didn't someone just post that Porto aren't willing to sell anyways?  Makes it a moot point, if true.

Maybe.....maybe not. But I think Sandro will offer more in a die hard match.

53 minutes ago, atomis said:

Maybe.....maybe not. But I think Sandro will offer more in a die hard match.

how so? apparently juve want £60m for him. a player who many are saying has declined this season and is 27. porto fans say telles is the most underrated player in the league and he does everything well. i don't watch either players tbh, so i can't comment, but if chelsea are reluctant to pay a huge fee for sandro can you blame them? alonso is playing well and yes he could be replaced, but sandro is a lot of money for essentially a player who is having an inconsistent season and the wrong side of 25. 

On ‎01‎/‎07‎/‎2018 at 09:11, Alakshendra said:

But that was old time , the best team known to do that was United in era of Alex ferguson , now even they splash cash bringing Pogba , lukaku , i dont want to see us losing again like this , if liverpool able to land lemar and keita than we are so doomed

They were spending 30million on CB's before Roman bought CFC, even in old time & having the greatest manager alive, you had to spend to dominate.

 

Edit: We really should just stop buying players and invest in cloning.  We'll be crap in 3-5 years and stay that way for for another 10-15 years, but when we have 4 Azpiliqueta's, 2 Kante's, 3 Hazard's, and a Drogba then who'll be laughing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Seriously, be nice to get Sando but I still remember not having a clue who Dave was prior to him joining so if we can do another like that even better.

Edited January 8, 20188 yr by Barry Bridges

36 minutes ago, enigma said:

how so? apparently juve want £60m for him. a player who many are saying has declined this season and is 27. porto fans say telles is the most underrated player in the league and he does everything well. i don't watch either players tbh, so i can't comment, but if chelsea are reluctant to pay a huge fee for sandro can you blame them? alonso is playing well and yes he could be replaced, but sandro is a lot of money for essentially a player who is having an inconsistent season and the wrong side of 25. 

If someone was after Azpi.....lets say barca, would you accept 50-60 for him? No facking way we would. Yeah im sure Telles would do fine here....I hope anyway, but Sandro is another animal alltogether. More experience....playing in a better League.....played in tough CL matches and only 26. Yeah he has not been his usual self lately but I think thats Down to him wanting away.....I really believe he would instantly make us better and give us a greater depth. If VVD goes for 75 then Sandro is a steal......if kyle Walker is 54 then 60 for sandro is not that bad. You cant just Count on being Lucky and grab yourself an Azpi Kante etc for cheap prices every season......

I've been thinking about this a lot...

Sure Sandro is an upgrade to Alonso.  I'm willing to concede that even though he hasn't played in the PL and is in a slump.  

But is he worth double the price?  His production on field has to match the price tag.  Right now Alonso is exceeding his price tag I would say.  Sandro would have to come in and perform twice as well to be worth the money.  I just don't think it's worth 60m when you really think about it, pragmatically.  If you can save that 60m and in the summer bring in someone who drastically outperforms someone in our starting xi, like say, a world class midfielder to go along with Kante and Fabregas, I'd rather spend the money there.  Or a top top striker to slot into our starting xi.  

60m for a wingback is so much money, especially when Marcos is performing well.  We need competition there for sure, I'm just not sure it's the right place to splash the cash.  I'd love Sandro here, but I like that we are being careful with how we spend our money.  If Sandro continues his poor form his price tag will only be lower in the summer...

I think differently and think we have the chance to sign a world class player and that chance does not come along very often.

I like Alonso a lot and would hope he could be found another role either LCB or left attack yet still buy Sandro.

By getting Sandro we have a better chance of retaining quality players and recruiting replacements when the time comes.

 

 

Wonder how many people on here would be pining for us to drop 60 mill on alonso if he wasn't already ours?

A Defensively solid, intelligent, and goal scoring lwb, who has one of the best free kicks in the league.... 

16 minutes ago, nonotnowjim said:

Wonder how many people on here would be pining for us to drop 60 mill on alonso if he wasn't already ours?

A Defensively solid, intelligent, and goal scoring lwb, who has one of the best free kicks in the league.... 

Agree! You buy a £60m LB & he becomes 2nd choice. At the same time you are losing an aerial threat, a set piece specialist and our joint 2nd highest goal scorer.

60mil got Sandro seems like a poor investment of money. You spend that on strikers who score goals. 

Just get someone who’s pacey and can put a decent cross in, who also won’t mind rotating with Alonso. 

10 minutes ago, Theafonis said:

60mil got Sandro seems like a poor investment of money. You spend that on strikers who score goals. 

Just get someone who’s pacey and can put a decent cross in, who also won’t mind rotating with Alonso. 

Exactly my thoughts mate. I get it, Sandro on his day is possibly the best LB in the world...(possibly).  But it's so much money when we already have a good player available to us in his position.  There are more glaring needs, spend those big bucks on a big time attacker or stout midfielder.  Those areas would impact us more, I think.

Again, won't be sad if Sandro comes but the club are clearly on a budget...spending a large portion of that budget on LWB when we already have one of the tops in the league doesn't seem worth it to me.  

If Thibo and Hazard leave at the end of the season, we will have no word class players left.

3 minutes ago, Strider6003 said:

If Thibo and Hazard leave at the end of the season, we will have no word class players left.

I don’t think it matters much. Chelsea will survive and continue on without them. Just have to go find the next gems and nurture them right. 

5 minutes ago, Theafonis said:

I don’t think it matters much. Chelsea will survive and continue on without them. Just have to go find the next gems and nurture them right. 

I think the difference is when we went for Hazard we still had Lampard, Cole, Terry and Cech. If those 2 were to leave it would be a very different scenario. 

Lets hope they stay a while 

52 minutes ago, Theafonis said:

60mil got Sandro seems like a poor investment of money. You spend that on strikers who score goals. 

Just get someone who’s pacey and can put a decent cross in, who also won’t mind rotating with Alonso. 

You've literally just described Alex Sandro. Price is irrelevant now. We need to buy players who improve our first 11 and he will improve our first 11.

4 hours ago, Strider6003 said:

If Thibo and Hazard leave at the end of the season, we will have no word class players left.

Harsh on Kante.

7 hours ago, Theafonis said:

60mil got Sandro seems like a poor investment of money. You spend that on strikers who score goals. 

Just get someone who’s pacey and can put a decent cross in, who also won’t mind rotating with Alonso. 

that's true and i don't particularly like the idea of spending so much on a lwb, especially considering alonso is probably too good to be a back up. however, wing backs are one of the most important positions on the field and help the team function. real madrid have been poor this season, and i read a stat which stated that many of the goals conceded have come from marcelo's side. if your wing back is having a poor game, it's more likely the team is going to concede. remember how poor we were a couple seasons ago with ivanovic on that right side? he got exploited constantly.

Edited January 10, 20188 yr by enigma

1 hour ago, Michael said:

Harsh on Kante.

and azpilicueta, and i would throw in fabregas too. half our team are world class tbh. obviously keeping hazard and courtois is crucial. 

Edited January 10, 20188 yr by enigma