It's pointless even considering any Chelsea players coming to us.
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It's pointless even considering any Chelsea players coming to us.
Arsenal prepare to match Diego Costas release clause (daily star)
Is Balotelli any more likelier to come?Quote:
Originally Posted by fakeyank
According to Fakeyank, who got alot of inside knowledge, thats is impossible and laughable!!!11one. His inside knowledge were laughing off the rumours of Özil joining us aswell... Very credible!Quote:
Originally Posted by AKBapologist
This is crazy. Why didnt they just go for him in the summer? He has 9 in 16 league games. Its not like hes pulled up trees.Quote:
Originally Posted by Munchies
Anyway I dont mind if they get him, for £50m they could do better.
What? 25 million for De Bruyne? Ok im done. Whew, nearly forgot all these were fairytalesQuote:
The Blues have reportedly already had a £50million bid turned down by Napoli but are lining up an even bigger offer, according to The Telegraph.
Napoli clearly have no desire to sell the Argentina striker, who has nine goals in 16 Serie A games this season after his switch to Italy in the summer.
But Chelsea look set to test their resolve and could part-fund a huge bid – in excess of the £50m they paid for Fernando Torres – by selling Kevin De Bruyne who could fetch £25m from Wolfsburg.
i'm not sure the striker we need is going to ba available in Jan, if they are it will be for silly money. Rather than the lacklustre Berbatov, I like the look of Jay Rodrigez at Saints, young, good feet, pacy, very good in the air & at least he sounds Spanish.
Meh, Now Sanogo is back in training again, he's like a new striker :ilt:
Yeah I know.Quote:
Originally Posted by 'Coca Cola presents GP'
It's just frustrating seeing these young talented strikers suffer there whilst we're desperately looking for one. Imagine how good we would be with Lukaku and Schurle reinforcing Giroud. League would be ours. :cloud9:
I can understand the likes of Eto'o and Higuain going there but it still baffles me that young talented players like those two, Van Ginkel, De Bruyne etc all decide to opt for that place ahead of clubs like ours.
I think it depends on who we see as our target. If our target has a release clause which we are willing to meet, he's not going to be any easier to get this summer.
If it is someone else and he costs up to 5 million more (for example) because we signed him in January rather than June, then that is probably a risk worth taking if said player is going to;
a) Significantly increase our chances of winning the league or finishing higher up the table (and technically speaking you earn more money with each ascending position, ie 2nd place earns more than 3rd place)
b) Give us a better chance of going further in the FA Cup and/or CL and allow us to generally not play certain players into the ground.
Paying over the odds is a very real concern in January but it is relative and different for each player, naturally. I do like the idea of a player actually getting a pre season before his first full season too, albeit truncated.