Summer Transfer Speculation and Shit.

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Originally Posted by Marc Overmars

The only concern is whether he's actually an agent sent by Mourinho. :ninja:

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Wel there is talk of Abramovich giving him a bonus for his services to Chelski......

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Originally Posted by The Emirates Gallactico

1) @ Zim - You keep saying "Chelsea Reject" without appreciating the context of the situation. That being the difficulty in rotating between two top goalkeepers to keep them happy or the fact that Mourinho patently doesn't want to sell him to us. This isn't a Silvestre situation we're dealing with here where we actually bought a rival's reject.

2) @ Zim - Courtois has been impressive but so has Chesney at times in his career. Frankly his season wasn't anything more special than what Chesney produced for us last year. He's a step below the De Gea/Neuer level of Goalkeeping presence right now.

3) @ Zim - GK's can play up till they're almost 40. We've got plenty of years left with Cech and hopefully by the time he does fade, one of Chesney or Martinez would have developed enough to surpass him.

4) @Dein Machine - The last thing we need is to bring in a talented but raw and unproven keeper like Gerrin just when the squad is ready and at the right age to challenge for the league. Besides, I thought everyone was sick and tired of project Youth anyway and wanted the final product.

5) @Dein Machine - You act like De Gea was amazing to begin with when Ferguson brought him in. He was dodgy as hell for two years and probably even cost them a league title the year when City won it on GD before exploding into the GK he is today.

6) @ Dein Machine - Cech is better than Lloris btw.

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4) Why is it that a mid 30's keeper, who was very good as few years ago, is thought to be a better bet than a 22 year old now good enough to play for Italy. If we had this year over again knowing what we know - who would you start with as DM, Arteta or Coquelin?

5) Yes De Gea had a dodgy start but it doesn't mean anything. Di Maria has had a dodgy start for Utd but Sanchez has been superb for us. Lloris started well for the Spuds, you can't NOT buy quality youngsters incase they don't start very well - you would only ever buy older experienced pro's in that case.

6) That is your opinion - not mine. Can't possibly have the reflexes he had a decade ago & his head injury has affected his decision making.

His head injury was 9 years ago. If his decision making since then was that bad Chelsea would have replaced him ages ago.

Daily Mail says it's done!!!!!!!!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...rd-Bridge.html

11 million.

@Dein Machine - Will reply to them later

Daily Mail. :lol:

I'll wait for Arsenal.com thanks.

If the Cech deal goes through, I bet Curtois suddenly get injured for a long time.

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Originally Posted by Dein-machine

4) Why is it that a mid 30's keeper, who was very good as few years ago, is thought to be a better bet than a 22 year old now good enough to play for Italy. If we had this year over again knowing what we know - who would you start with as DM, Arteta or Coquelin?

5) Yes De Gea had a dodgy start but it doesn't mean anything. Di Maria has had a dodgy start for Utd but Sanchez has been superb for us. Lloris started well for the Spuds, you can't NOT buy quality youngsters incase they don't start very well - you would only ever buy older experienced pro's in that case.

6) That is your opinion - not mine. Can't possibly have the reflexes he had a decade ago & his head injury has affected his decision making.

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Forget all that. You'd be happy with Wenger signing a 22 year old keeper for £18m and having to wait a couple of seasons for that player to develop?

Just ordered my replica hat.

Great signing

Read that he's younger than Lehman when he joined us.

Number 1 sorted :coffee:

Keepers can keep playing much older than outfield players. if we signed buffon who I think is 37, I would still think that is a good signing.

not ever player has to be an investment to the future. a player for the next few years is fine for me.