January Transfer Window 2015

Chelsea make £30million Kevin Strootman bid:
Chelsea have made a £30m bid for Roma midfielder Kevin Strootman
http://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/546751/Chelsea-30m-Kevin-Strootman-Man-Utd

Chelsea ponder Karim Bellarabi transfer as boss Mourinho looks to add pace to his team:
Blues scouts watched the Germany international winger - and his Bayer Leverkusen midield colleague Hakan Calhanoglu - in Champions League action this week
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-ponder-karim-bellarabi-transfer-4806844

José Mourinho looking to keep his ‘very, good but thin’ squad together as Chelsea boss claims he won't be buying in January:
José Mourinho insists that he has no plans to bolster his Chelsea squad during the forthcoming transfer window
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2877269/Jose-Mourinho-looking-good-squad-Blues-boss-dismisses-talk-transfer-window-activity.html

"No [if he would be making any January purchases]. We have a short squad but we’ve got good players, some younger, some older, but the squad is very, very good."

"Our project is to start and finish the season with the same group of players, so there will be nobody to leave and nobody to come in either."

Kevin Strootman would be solid. But I don't think we'll sign anyone.

Not too far off the window and it doesn't look like many changes will be made. Although, Bellarabi and Strootman would make this team near perfect.

And your suggestions for departures in their place?

Ramires and Salah.

Besiktas president Fikrit Orman wrote:We have a very good relationship with them. Will we do business with them in January? Why not? We are interested in some of their players, but not Petr Cech. We want to get loans for the second half of the season. It is very difficult to invest in players at the same time as building the stadium. We do not have stadium income.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/transfers/chelsea-transfer-news-besiktas-considering-january-loan-move-for-misfit-mohamed-salah-9943100.html

Mancini wrote:"Within its limits, the club gave me full availability, which is nice to hear"

"[Mohamed] Salah is a very interesting young prospect. [Ivan] Perisic is a good player, he has the right profile - but he isn't easy to get to, either."

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"An offensive winger is one of our targets, but we'll see what happens in the mercato in January. We must look at those who are not playing, who lack motivation and are unhappy where they are."

http://www.goal.com/en-gb/news/2892/transfer-zone/2014/12/24/7368492/-

Salah loan rumours.

Salah just needs to be given a chance ffs, don't want none of this Marin treatment.

As long as he is replaced by Thorgan Hazard, I don't care, tbh.

Not in January but if we got Hummels and Rues we would walk the league next year. Cahill cannot continue as our first choice CB next year

Why not? Cahill has done a great job.

From next season, we will need a new CB partnership. Cahill-Terry are aging and losing some pace and sharpness.

Cahill won't be the one to be replaced though.

Kick, who will you want to replace Terry?

Hummels if not such injury-prone, I would have loved him.

I want to see one of Zouma, Kalas or Christensen given a shot before we buy someone. Even if it is 6 months. Gaz has the mould of the JT so I'd like a youngster to be mentored by him.

What I don't want is what happened to Barca, lost Puyol and panic bought Verm and Mathieu.

assuming Terry starts regressing next season, I'd like to see one of the aforementioned rotated with him alongside Cahill, at least for 6 months. If it doesn't work, fine, lets buy someone. Then I'll let you know who I want to buy.

Kick wrote:I want to see one of Zouma, Kalas or Christensen given a shot before we buy someone. Even if it is 6 months. Gaz has the mould of the JT so I'd like a youngster to be mentored by him.

So our starting CB pairing from August to February of next season should be Cahill-Christensen. Lmao.

You've dropped some right whoppers on here before, but that's got to be one of your personal best.

But the next 6 months happen to be most important part of this season.

Shed wrote:You've dropped some right whoppers on here before, but that's got to be one of your personal best.

I think you need to re-read what I said before you act smart.

I did. Thought maybe you said we should be giving them some minutes here and there next season and that I just misread it or something, but nope.


Unless you're saying we should be playing one of those 3 over Terry (ya know, best centre-half in the Premiership right now on current form and all that) intermittently until the summer, which is no less ludicrous.

Kick wrote:I want to see one of Zouma, Kalas or Christensen given a shot before we buy someone. Even if it is 6 months. Gaz has the mould of the JT so I'd like a youngster to be mentored by him.

What I don't want is what happened to Barca, lost Puyol and panic bought Verm and Mathieu.

assuming Terry starts regressing next season, I'd like to see one of the aforementioned rotated with him alongside Cahill, at least for 6 months. If it doesn't work, fine, lets buy someone. Then I'll let you know who I want to buy.

Shed wrote:I did. Thought maybe you said we should be giving them some minutes here and there next season and that I just misread it or something, but nope.


Unless you're saying we should be playing one of those 3 over Terry (ya know, best centre-half in the Premiership right now on current form and all that) intermittently until the summer, which is no less ludicrous.

Is that helpful?

I am not saying Christensen should be our starting CB. I am saying, assuming JT regresses, the best out of the three should be rotated with JT, with Cahill being the constant. For at least 6 months.

Understand?

Gotta be honest with you, I only read the first 2 paragraphs for whatever reason


You're correct. Apologies.