Silly Season January 2014

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toffeejack said:
not sure we'd need fernando AND defour. we would still be nowhere near title contenders even with them though. de bruyne is about chelsea's 10th best midfielder regardless of how good he is, that's the competition we're up against for the prem.
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I disagree mate, the teams only lacking that little bit atm, defensively our back 4 holds up with any in the league, with lukaku we have a genuine goalscorer and we have a fantastic starting mid atm, what we lack is genuine competition for starting places in that mid though and a genuine playmaker as barkley isnt yet that player.

De Bruyne is only the 10th best midfielder at chelsea in mourinho's head mate, the lad was amazing in germany on loan and was belgiums top scorer and arguably best player in wc qualification, he just doesnt fit the mourinho mould of what he wants, same way mata didnt. i tend to agree about fernando as honestly i dunno whod make way for him to start, certianly not barry or mccarthy so i doubt hed be a happy squad player at all.

remember that mourinho also reckoned lukaku was inferior to ba, torres and eto, think we all can see thats not the case

Thing is when you break down the squad we are ****ing close to being able to mount a challenge, its just that little bit of depth and quality in certain areas where missing atm the addition of a very high quality de bruyne, a playmaker of top class like defour whose versatile to move around the mid as needed and a young forward with huge upside like guidetti would push us that closer to being seriously in with a shout
 

bluestevon said:
The really depressing part of the January window is that with about 25-30m available we could genuinely mount a challenge for the title and feel confident at least of top 4

Bring in defour -25 (7m), guidetti -21 (5m), de bruyne -22 (10m) and fernando 26 (5m), 27m same price for those as we brought in for fellaini, wages would be an issue and dunno just how needed fernando is, but the other 3 would give us a amazing young squad for the next 4-5 years to come
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Jesus, what market is that in? Those players would cost a lot more than that.
 
meagher94 said:
Jesus, what market is that in? Those players would cost a lot more than that.
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going on a mark up of 20% on their transfermarket values which are 'normally' pretty close, fernando would cost a lot more if he wasnt in the last 6 months soon, de bruyne is effectively looking like hes forcing a move and 10m is around the value he will go for seriously mate, hes not got any money clubs snifing around him really, guidetti's value has plummeted with him missing a seasson and a half with illness and injury, and defour has only started for porto since moutinho left until then he was a squad rotation player, and they only payed something silly like 3.5m for him
 

6 in 10 this year i think for lille this season i know its French league like but when ive watched him play he looks quite a good player
 
Roux is good for the French league, but he is short and weak and not terribly fast, I don't think he'd fit in the Premier League
 

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