*Transfer Window 2014/15 Season Rumours/Signings *AKA Man U fans listing every player under the Sun

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It occurs to me that Chelsea have pretty much broken even with transfers this window:


In:

Costa: £32m
Cesc: £27m
Luis: £16m

- Total = £75m


Out:

David Luiz = £48m (?) [or £40m or £50m depending on which source you believe]
Lukaku = £28m
Ba = £5m

- Total = £81m [or £73m or £83m]


... not a bad bit of business overall. It's actually been a net profit considering 2014 as a whole: January business was selling Mata for £37m and De Bruyne for £18m, and buying Zouma (£12m), Matic (£22m) and Salah (£11m), giving a £10m net profit in January.

When you look at Chelsea's squad strength now compared to December 2013, it's quite impressive that the improvement has come at an overall profit.
 
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Duff-Man said:
It occurs to me that Chelsea have pretty much broken even with transfers this window:


In:

Costa: £32m
Cesc: £27m
Luis: £16m

- Total = £75m


Out:

David Luiz = £48m (?) [or £40m or £50m depending on which source you believe]
Lukaku = £28m

- Total = £78m [or £70m or £80m]


... not a bad bit of business overall. It's actually been a net profit considering 2014 as a whole: January business was selling Mata for £37m and De Bruyne for £18m, and buying Zouma (£12m), Matic (£22m) and Salah (£11m), giving a £10m net profit in January.

When you look at Chelsea's squad strength now compared to December 2013, it's quite impressive that the improvement has come at an overall profit.
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Getting 50m for David Luiz was probably one of the best pieces of business I've ever seen.
 
Interesting to read chambers only recently switched from CM to RB to get into the first team. Certainly worked out for him and adds more versatility to his game. He could be the DM we are looking for.
 
Rusty0611 said:
Getting 50m for David Luiz was probably one of the best pieces of business I've ever seen.
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It's crazy really... Only PSG would pay that kind of money.

When it was rumoured that Barca were interested in him for £25-£30m I thought that would be a pretty good deal.
 
Duff-Man said:
It occurs to me that Chelsea have pretty much broken even with transfers this window:


In:

Costa: £32m
Cesc: £27m
Luis: £16m

- Total = £75m


Out:

David Luiz = £48m (?) [or £40m or £50m depending on which source you believe]
Lukaku = £28m

- Total = £76m [or £68m or £78m]


... not a bad bit of business overall. It's actually been a net profit considering 2014 as a whole: January business was selling Mata for £37m and De Bruyne for £18m, and buying Zouma (£12m), Matic (£22m) and Salah (£11m), giving a £10m net profit in January.

When you look at Chelsea's squad strength now compared to December 2013, it's quite impressive that the improvement has come at an overall profit.
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Ba went for just under 5milly as well.
 
dannyjo22 said:
28 million, we got our pants pulled down unless the repayments are very favourable. I don't think he will get much better and a lot of times is very lazy. I don't think he will ever be top 4 material and have said so many times.
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Let me remind you this is the price Man U paid for Fellaini and has scored more goals by the age of 21 than most Premier League strikers. He's only going to get better and you're incredibly wrong.
 
FishFluff said:
Let me remind you this is the price Man U paid for Fellaini and has scored more goals by the age of 21 than most Premier League strikers. He's only going to get better and you're incredibly wrong.
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So what, when we signed yakubu he was second only to henry in the premiership over the previous 3 or 4 seasons. We paid 15 million for him when no one else wanted him and now 28m for a player that few seem interested in.

28m is what top four pay for decent strikers not a club that will be 6th or 7th. Crazy money for a player no one wants. I think we paid 8-10m over the top, unless the repayments are as stupidly low as someone suggested.

Time will tell but far too many times last season his attitude didn't impress me and I don't think he will become a player the top four coming hunting for in 3 years time.
 
Hmm people amazed at the Lukaku fee! How much was Fellini? In the space of a year that's some good business by Everton!
 
dannyjo22 said:
So what, when we signed yakubu he was second only to henry in the premiership over the previous 3 or 4 seasons. We paid 15 million for him when no one else wanted him and now 28m for a player that few seem interested in.

28m is what top four pay for decent strikers not a club that will be 6th or 7th. Crazy money for a player no one wants. I think we paid 8-10m over the top, unless the repayments are as stupidly low as someone suggested.

Time will tell but far too many times last season his attitude didn't impress me and I don't think he will become a player the top four coming hunting for in 3 years time.
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Moyes signed an expensive player who had a lets say, weight issue, at the end of his career. Moyes's history of screwing up strikers and getting less out of them is pretty well founded.

Naismith looked an entirely different player under Martinez than Moyes... as did 90% of the Man Utd squad, and Yakubu.

Comparing Yakubu and Lukaku, apart from the u's , they aren't remotely comparable. One at the start of his career, one at the end, one looking for games and to prove himself, one who was looking for a last pay cheque.... lets not forget that many people suspect that he was quite a bit older than he pretended to be, and his form dropped off as you might expect a player(with what was estimated to be his real age) to drop off almost exactly as it did also.

People weren't interested in Yakubu in general because people knew he was on his last legs, suspected he was older than he was, and he wasn't a player that you could build a team around.

Lukaku improved throughout the course of last season, and when pushed into a newer wider role in which he was asked to work harder, responded well.

Wasn't good at his first international tournament? Hazard didn't set the world alight, Fellaini was as crap as usual, Vert actually played pretty well, De Bruyne was dire, the other striker whose name I can't remember who was utterly abysmal. It's a team with very little international experience, there were no older players who had 3 world cups/euros behind them to help out the youngsters. He was also very good in his final couple of appearances.
 
You really can't compare him to Failani.

1. Afro was hideously overpriced. As in, I would say we paid double what he's actually worth.

2. You don't respond to someone going well over the odds to buy one of your players by doing the same yourself. I'm not saying Lukaku is or isn't overpriced but "an eye for an eye" isn't really a valid transfer strategy. :)
 
Ryan Bertrand to southampton

Good loan signing. Will replace shaw nicely and finally theyre making movements. When are they going to spend money though!?
 
Great piece of business by the club to sign Lukaku, £7m upfront with £5m a season until payments done. We need to go out there now and sign one or two more, but I feel we've got quite the squad of players now.

Goalkeepers

Joel
Howard

Defenders

Hibbert,
Jagielka,
Baines,
Distin,
Coleman,
Stones,
Alcaraz

Midfielders

Gibson,
McGeady,
Oviedo,
McCarthy,
Besic,
Barry,
Barkley,
Osman,
Pienaar

Forward

Kone,
Lukaku,
Mirallas,
Naismith
 
Number_25 said:
Great piece of business by the club to sign Lukaku, £7m upfront with £5m a season until payments done.
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That works out quite well for both parties I think. Chelsea don't need the cash upfront - our concern is mostly just keeping ahead of FFP. We've made a profit on transfers these last two transfer windows, so we don't need any more upfront sales to avoid FFP penalties this year. Spreading out the payments over 5 years gives us a little more room to breathe in subsequent windows. 5 million per year will pretty much balance the wages of a 100k per week player, for example (or alternatively, one half of a Fernando bloody Torres).

Any word on what his wages will be? Who's the top paid player at Everton currently?

Everton's squad is developing nicely... I don't think it'll be enough for a top 4 place though, not with Utd 'back on track' and under a competent manager. I think it's enough to put up a good challenge to Spurs and Liverpool though, and have a decent run at the domestic cups.



Edit - found a list of Everton wages. Looks like Baines is top earner on 70k. Barkley was on only 15k until yesterday (now on 65k). I wonder if Lukaku will top these?
 
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