Summer 2014 Transfer rumour thread

Problem here is that the Window is shut and there are other covetous elements out there.

 

Lovren being linked to Liverpool again on Eurosport, but that is probably just a rehash of the old rumour. He's under contract anyway.

 

Chambers to Arsenal is a done deal, £10m and £75k a week, from what I've heard from a decent non-press source.

 

A done deal...two months before the transfer window.

 

Whole squad sold off for £150m, we now have £150m to spend.

 

Sell club and Katherina has £200+M to spend. Sounds good to me.

 

AND Barcelona.

 

Ramirez to Leverkusen. £7M + lederhosen.

 

Least we can play the youth, with our whole team gone.

 

Sadly, Krueger was offered a slap up breakfast at Tim Horton's. The kids are going too.

 

With Lovren a done deal [OK, I'll play along with the crap], how about Coloccini..?

 

Chelsea to do a clear out apparently

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...the-club-in-mass-summer-clearout-9225743.html

Alot of them are probably too expensive or already grasped by others but it might be worth a look, for a back up keeper atleast, Schwarzer is getting on but he's experienced and would probably be happy as back up.

 

That's a staggering number.

EDIT: When I suggested Coloccini, by the way, I was thinking of a poor man's David Luiz. How about the real thing..?

 

I don't rate Luiz at all. If he was at a team that actually had to defend a lot, he'd be found out constantly. Coloccini is the better player.

 

Chelsea have a youth policy.of basically buying all the top 17 year olds from europe and africa, of those 28 out on loan there is some serious talent that will just wither away and be ruined. Ba is an obvious choice but will be on stupid money, if Jose is feeling generous then maybe he can throw Hazard jnr our way

 

I think at lot of the top teams will be off loading their fringe and young players in an attempt to satisfy FFP so there will be some good options out there in the summer however we will struggle with the wages of some of these I strongly suspect.
If Sunderland go down, how about Adam Johnson?

 

Personally I think Johnson is way too inconsistent. One good game and 5 bad ones. Not sure he has the work rate either.

 

But they turn a profit on a lot of them, thus allowing them a means to offset their large buys. A tactic beloved of FM players, and now actually fairly useful in the FFP era.

 

This happened to Cork...he never got a chance at Chelsea. Luckily for him, he ended up at a proper club.

 

Coloccini is possibly the best CB in the Prem and deserves to play in a decent defence. Everything Newcastle do starts with him, and he badly misses Cabaye as an option to take the ball off him. I'd buy him like a shot, although my Newcastle-supporting daughter would be heartbroken.