We're interested allegedly.

 

Massive Chelsea fan.

 

28 years old.

 

Scorpio.

 

Check out his passing ..

 

 

No thanks.

He might be a future Ballon d'Or winner, the fact that Davey mentions his star sign makes me firmly opposed 

Didnt he scored like 5 own goals last season ? I dont think we need someone to replace Cahill in that regard ?

Could be another Cahill-type of signing. Gary Cahill turned out pretty well for us in the end if memory serves me well.

9 minutes ago, forbzy said:

Could be another Cahill-type of signing. Gary Cahill turned out pretty well for us in the end if memory serves me well.

In other words he could be a real slam Dunk of a signing?... I'll get my coat...

Mentioned in The Times apparently. 
 

never noticed hiim. Then we have rudigier,tomori, Zouma and Christensen.  So 5 central defenders when we need at most 4. I get that great teams have a great spine wasn’t that what shankley or paisley said? Even so...

Edited January 13, 20206 yr by ozboy

This rumour has come from nowhere, does it means one of our other centre backs is moving on?

£50m, totally unproven at the very highest level. 

Decent player, but i wouldnt sacrifice any of our 4 to bring him in, and 5 centre backs is overkill.

1 minute ago, big blue said:

£50m, totally unproven at the very highest level. 

Decent player, but i wouldnt sacrifice any of our 4 to bring him in, and 5 centre backs is overkill.

I agree he is not worth it at that price. If he was available at a lower price (like the bargain price we got Cahill for) I would say he would be a good addition to the squad. But he is currently one of Brighton's best players so why would they let him go on the cheap. If we are looking for a defender from Brighton Ben White would probably be better value. 

He's got a dog called Didier folks. For f**k's sake. Just buy him.

I thought the subject was "Lewis Dunk called Didier a dog", so I was quite disappointed to find it's just another stab in the dark transfer speculation that would probably be more at home in the random rumours thread.

Just now, forbzy said:

I agree he is not worth it at that price. If he was available at a lower price (like the bargain price we got Cahill for) I would say he would be a good addition to the squad. But he is currently one of Brighton's best players so why would they let him go on the cheap. If we are looking for a defender from Brighton Ben White would probably be better value. 

Ive not seen white play, but in all honesty, i wouldnt sign a centre back unless they were absolutely top drawer. We have 4 decent centre backs, Rudiger and Zouma are entering their prime, Tomori and Christiansen are still developing. 

Then we also have Clarke-Salter who captains england u21's, and we have guehi who looks quality aswell. Either of those 2 could have a similar season to White in the next 18 months. 

We hsvent looked great at times defensively this season, but i wouldnt say it has necessarily been down to the centre backs. Set pieces will always be an issue whilst kepa is here, because he cant dominate his 6 yard box, let alone the area. 

1 minute ago, big blue said:

Ive not seen white play, but in all honesty, i wouldnt sign a centre back unless they were absolutely top drawer. We have 4 decent centre backs, Rudiger and Zouma are entering their prime, Tomori and Christiansen are still developing. 

Then we also have Clarke-Salter who captains england u21's, and we have guehi who looks quality aswell. Either of those 2 could have a similar season to White in the next 18 months. 

We hsvent looked great at times defensively this season, but i wouldnt say it has necessarily been down to the centre backs. Set pieces will always be an issue whilst kepa is here, because he cant dominate his 6 yard box, let alone the area. 

Clark-Salter is still young but I haven't been overly impressed when I have watched him play. Certainly he hasn't caught the eye like Tomori. I agree about Guehi though. He certainly looks like a player who can eventually be important for us and the loan at Swansea should be great for his development. A lot probably depends on Christensen. I know there have been doubts over him this season and he has been linked with a move away. If that was to happen we would certainly need a replacement and in that scenario I would think Ake or White would be decent options.

I agree with you about Kepa. I am hoping some of his current weaknesses are down to his age and inexperience but I am yet to be entirely convinced. I also think we will benefit signifcantly in defense if we can sign a top class left back. 

2 hours ago, forbzy said:

Clark-Salter is still young but I haven't been overly impressed when I have watched him play. Certainly he hasn't caught the eye like Tomori. I agree about Guehi though. He certainly looks like a player who can eventually be important for us and the loan at Swansea should be great for his development. A lot probably depends on Christensen. I know there have been doubts over him this season and he has been linked with a move away. If that was to happen we would certainly need a replacement and in that scenario I would think Ake or White would be decent options.

I agree with you about Kepa. I am hoping some of his current weaknesses are down to his age and inexperience but I am yet to be entirely convinced. I also think we will benefit signifcantly in defense if we can sign a top class left back. 

Going on loan to Swansea pretty much finished Josh McEachran. He's never been remotely as good as he was before that loan. Tammy had a tough time time there, too, but it obviously did him good.

14 hours ago, axman2526 said:

In other words he could be a real slam Dunk of a signing?... I'll get my coat...

Or a dunk him in the bin kind of signing. 

5 hours ago, Davey Baby said:

He's got a dog called Didier folks. For f**k's sake. Just buy him.

Didier Dogba la la la 

Its just typical lazy reporting.

Lewis Dunk - Chelsea Fan, dog called Didier.

Chelsea possibly looking to trigger Ake release clause = Chelsea need a CB.

Lewis Dunk is a Chelsea fan and is a CB...wait, hang on. Chelsea must be interested in Lewis Dunk.

13 hours ago, ozboy said:

Mentioned in The Times apparently. 
 

never noticed hiim. Then we have rudigier,tomori, Zouma and Christensen.  So 5 central defenders when we need at most 4. I get that great teams have a great spine wasn’t that what shankley or paisley said? Even so...

Keep adding to that spine and it's going to grow a tail!

Feels like a Cahill type signing but plays like a David Luiz. We need a left footer though, as overkill as it is having 5 CBs we can't have all of them be right footed.

17 hours ago, WhiteWall said:

Its just typical lazy reporting.

Lewis Dunk - Chelsea Fan, dog called Didier.

Chelsea possibly looking to trigger Ake release clause = Chelsea need a CB.

Lewis Dunk is a Chelsea fan and is a CB...wait, hang on. Chelsea must be interested in Lewis Dunk.

Supposedly we have now cooled our interest in Ake.

It’s nice of Dunk to name his dog after Deschamps.

So he is 28 and we barely know who he is, that should say enough, and 50 million, yea ok? 

Its not going to happen so theres nothing to worry about.

I say buy this guy and sell Christensen

I know I know, why sell an internationally recognised CB-talent at 24 for an almost 29 y o no-namer in a potentially par-for-par deal?

But guess what, Christensen will most likely never fulfill his apparent potential for us and this no-namer is actually a really good PL defender. He'd make us immediately more stable and stronger, particularly in the air, and his passing looks great. Let's not forget that Brighton has the 9th best defense of the league, conceding only one goal more than us (might look different after Thursday).

Since Van Dijk everyone is convinced that there is no route to success without a 90m centre half, but I think this guy could actually be an intriguing addition to our back line. Now it doesn't look like Brighton will be relegated, but maybe Corona could make them a bit more reasonable on their valuation.