Re: The Official Winter Transfer Thread

[lszanto]

Luke Shaw will hold out for transfer to Chelsea:
Saints left-back Luke Shaw is ready to snub other offers to wait for a dream move to Chelsea
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-manchester-united-transfers-luke-3078848

<3 Luke

[Kick]

I got over him now we have Matic

[Shed]

[lszanto]

Would you guys want Mandzukic if we could get him?

Outside of the supercup game i've never really seen him play and I hated him in that match cause he was so dirty haha.

[Shed]

Meh, indifferent. Can't be worse than we have now but would hardly be an exhilarating signing at the same time. Not going to happen this month anyway so irrelevant.

[Kick]

I would take him, he is a Jose kind of player.

[lszanto]

I feel like maybe he's just a poor mans Costa.

[Kick]

From General section:

http://rmcsport.bfmtv.com/info/570035/st-etienne-chelsea-ok-zouma/

Chelsea and St Etienne have reached an agreement for €15 mil euros for Kurt Zouma.  He'll finish the season at ASSE and join Chelsea for next season.

[Kick]

http://weaintgotnohistory.sbnation.com/2014/1/30/5360606/mario-pasalic-chelsea-fc

a young midfielder for the youth ranks.

[Shed]

Waiting for official confirmation.

[Kick]

I think we'll see official stuff on Zouma over the next 24 hours too.

[Blue Barrett]

Why sign Zouma?

[Kick]

He is one of the best young CB's in the world. Has great potential and we don't have the youngest CB's.

Makes sense, long term.

[Shed]

[Blue Barrett]

He is one of the best young CB's in the world. Has great potential and we don't have the youngest CB's.

Makes sense, long term.

A certain Tomas Kalas.

[Kick]

He is one of the best young CB's in the world. Has great potential and we don't have the youngest CB's.

Makes sense, long term.

A certain Tomas Kalas.

He is better than Kalas, or Omeruo. But Hey, if those three all reach their potential then we have nothing to worry about in CB for the next 10 years or so.

[Blue Barrett]

Never seen the lad play but a lot of big clubs seemed to be after him. That good?

[Kick]

From what I have read, yes. Apparently his only weakness is his tactical awareness.

[Kick]

A rather uninteresting, yet expected end to the window, signing Zouma and (although not official on CFC website) Pasalic.

So our window looks like this:
In:
Matic 21-25m
Salah 12-15m
Zouma 12.5m (loan back)
Pasalic 2m (loan back)
Total spent: 47.5m-54.5m

Out:
Mata 37.1m
Essien FREE
De Bruyne 18-20m
Walker FREE
Total profit: 55.1m-57.1m

Loaned out:
Traore -> Vitesse
Bamford -> Derby
Omeruo -> Middlesbrough
Chalobah -> Middlesbrough
McEachran -> Wigan
Bertrand -> Villa
Delac -> god knows
Clifford -> JFH's club

Total money made during Jan: 2.6m-7.6m

How would you guys rate our window? 10 being perfect and 1 being Worse than Milan's.

[Shed]

Just looking at the ins and outs, a 7 or 8. But the fact that we sold Mata to a direct rival knocks it down a few points for me.

[Kick]

Yeah. Had we kept Mata and bought a CF as well, it'd be a perfect 10.


The fact we sold Mata -2 (1 because we sold, 1 because it was to a rival), didn't buy a CF -1, and didn't get Luke Shaw -.5

So I'd say:
6.5/10.

[Shed]

And so another transfer window thread comes to a close. So long Winter 2013 thread. It's been a blast.

[Blue Barrett]

You really expected us to sign Shaw this winter? Why? Its not like we need him, and his price would be more expensive than in the summer anyway. There was no reason to sign him this winter unless there was a legitimate threat of losing him to someone else.

[Shed]

A lock on this thread in order, Kickster?

[Kick]

I can, I figured it would just die naturally though.

[Shed]

True

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