WIll go: Cole, Lampard, Luiz, Moses, Marin, John Obi, Romeu, Kakuta, Hutchinson, McEachran, Ba, Eto'o and Torres.
Probably out: Bertrand, Lukaku, van Arnholt, Schwarzer and/or Hilario. Perhaps Wallace (it is complicated). There is interest in Hazard, Oscar and Ivanovic.
GK: Courtois will probably return, Darlow.
RB: Cancelo
CB: Varane
LB: Moreno, Shaw, Bernat, Filipe, Sandro, Nagatomo, Erkin and Kurzawa
MF: Rakitic, Pogba, Calhanoglu, Koke. It seems it has been agreed that Tiago will return to provide midfield cover.
FW: Lavezzi, Costa, Cavani, Alessio Cerci, Iturbe, Falcao, Callejon, Markovic
Youngsters: Brandt, Rabiot and Bakkali
There might be interest if the club cannot bring in the players they want: El Shaarawy, Griezmann
Interested but VERY unlikely to happen: Vidal, Draxler, Reus, Firmino, Aubameyang
On the back burner (now unlikely): Imbula, Martinez, Barkley, Carvalho
Will as per every window try to keep these updated
Transfer Latest (who we are looking at)
posted on 29/5/14
Falcao, Levazzi,Calvani,
Not even in our price range today, 3 seasons ago maybe!
posted on 29/5/14
Why is Firmino very unlikely to happen?
Sure If we make a FIRM offer, he'll be gone.
posted on 29/5/14
Cheers for the article Blue. I appreciate it. Nice to see a transfer article which goes against the usual norm of "we're after marquee signings".
No idea what you've done to ifarka in a past life but it sounds like a jealous rage.
posted on 29/5/14
Ifarka
some of the targets have been mentioned in the media yes but there are also many there which have not been.
the media will just list players randomly and i am pretty confident that thus far the above mentioned players are the ones we have looked at.
Mandzukic has been mentioned in the press yet is not on that list- as far as i am aware he is not a target at the moment but shoudl other targets fall flat then we may well have an interest then.
believe what you will but i assure you i have not just trawled the net for media reports.
if i had then i am sure Mandzukic would have featured in the list as would Luis
posted on 29/5/14
Ashley Coles Right Foot (U8355
Cheers Ashley
posted on 29/5/14
Why is Firmino very unlikely to happen?
we have other interests. if they fall flat then Firmino may still be an option
posted on 29/5/14
ashley & blue,
Lads, we sit here season after season, reading comment - article after article from a unreliable media.
The silly season for transfers once was largely limited to the windows, but in the last 2/3 its an on going assault 24/7 365.
Rumours start out on one issue and do the rounds ,by the time you see it again after being spun round the globe it bears little resemblance to original story.
Call me paranoid but i find much of what is written and said about CFC is said begrudgingly and often selectively .
When we are linked to players who do not sign we often SNUBBED , but then if another club fail to sign they treated with understanding.
But more on topic i find the transfer mill on the whole an in accurate waste of time.
Proved on a daily basis by the amount of rumours which are contradictory and failed.
posted on 29/5/14
ifarka
I know where you are coming from but again i stress that these are players we are looking at.
bids have not been made and in some cases not even enquiries been made but at present these are our targets. If owning club do not wish to sell or overprice the player we will look elsewhere. If we cannot sell certain players that we want to replace with said target then we wont buy the player.
there are many factors which will see some of these happen. likewise there are many factors that will see them fall through or we will end our interest.
essentially this is a short list of potential signings not a list of players we are definitly going to make bids for
posted on 29/5/14
blue, i understand we do have lists , targets and our aims will change as the market develops .
I just don't buy into the Rumour Mill and its assumption we are in the market for every player thats available .
posted on 29/5/14
Hope Lavezzi isn't one of the other interests.