If he goes to Chelsea, it's because he's choosing to go there.
No one's forcing him.
If he goes to Chelsea, it's because he's choosing to go there.
No one's forcing him.
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I'll find it difficult not to puke at the sight of him in a Chelsea shirt.
But if we have the gist of the story, it goes something like this:
Barca have him as surplus to requirements.
He wanted to come back to Arsenal.
We don't want him and have declined our option which we insisted as being a part of the transfer agreement.
If we don't want him - it would then be a bit rich for him to be restricted to a list of teams he can choose from so our feelings aren't hurt.
The Chelsea 1st XI line-up for next season looks a bit daunting thanks to Arsene:
GK - Cech
RB - Ivanovic
LB - Azpilicueta
CD - Cahill
CD - Terry
DM - Matic
CM - Oscar
RM - Willian
LM - Hazard
AM - Fabregas
CF - Costa
Then you've got Courtois, Ramires, Schurrle, Torres, Ba, Salah, etc.
Look a bit light at the back but with a back four who aren't made of glass like our lot, they will reinforce there. Mourinho always manages to get a decent defender or two, unlike Arsene. Maybe they'll even get Ashley Williams in and make him look a world beater while AW ponders over whether £4M for a 29 yo CD might be lacking a little sharpness.
I don't know about you guys but this looks to me like another major coup for Chelsea. Worryingly the names being bandied about who we are allegedly after don't seem to go any way to address the spankings we took at Citeh, Liverpool and at the Bridge. We have a weak spine and the heads go down too quickly. Not sure how 21 year old Bundesliga lightweights, La Liga benchwarming strikers and anything these days from Serie A is looking like a good move while we pass on the chance of bringing back a World Class prodigal. Balotelli? Fuck off.
Chelsea have actually quietly gone about acquiring a phenomenally expensive squad. And the insane wages that go with it too.
Matic - £22m, Oscar £25m, Willian £32m, Hazard £32m, (Fabregas £30m), (Costa £32m), (Filipe £17m), Schurrle £18m, Salah £11m, Zouma £12m. And then the likes of Ginkel, Marin, Moses, Ba all bought for about £8m each, and those like Ramires, Lukaku and of course Torres who were bought a few years ago for big money as well.
Helped in no small part to getting enormous fees for Luiz and Mata I'm sure, and if you believe the press possibly Hazard to PSG as well.
But yeah, they're definitely a little horse.