Summer 2015 - Transfer Rumours, Speculation & Suggestions

[Malandro]

http://www.first4lcfc.co.uk/blog/leicester-city-aston-villa-and-newcastle-united-chase-chelsea-midfielder/?

"Leicester City, Aston Villa and Newcastle United chase Chelsea midfielder

Leicester City, Aston Villa and Newcastle United are all interested in Chelsea midfielder Nathan Ake, according to the Daily Telegraph. Middlesbrough have previously been linked with the youngster.

Ake spent last season on loan at Reading and Middlesbrough had been hoping to take the 20-year old back to the Championship next term, however it is now unlikely with all the Premier League interested. Leicester City, Aston Villa and Newcastle United are all keen on taking the Chelsea midfielder on a season long loan.

The Holland youth international is said, by the Daily Telegraph, to be a replacement for Esteban Cambiasso. Despite rumours suggesting the midfielder is set to pen a new deal with the Foxes, the club are preparing for life without the former Real Madrid and Inter Milan man."

Only posted this because its also in the Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/11748672/Claudio-Ranieri-going-back-to-Chelsea-for-Nathan-Ake.html

No loans, pls.

I think we'll need a couple of loans, I can't see us buying enough to fill the squad

[andyh]

Right, I have watched a YouTube video of the kid Embolo we have been (very) loosely linked with.
I don't know if there is any truth in it, but after watching the video, I bloody well hope so.
He is going to to be very, very special.

[Dante Lavelli]

I agree.  Loans are vital as most other clubs are using them so we would be daft to handicap ourselves.
Furthermore they're  good way for us to build an affinity with good young players who would otherwise not entertain joining us.  Lukaku at Everton being an example and also that winger they just signed from Barcelona.

[Dante Lavelli]

Right, I have watched a YouTube video of the kid Embolo we have been (very) loosely linked with.
I don't know if there is any truth in it, but after watching the video, I bloody well hope so.
He is going to to be very, very special.

That youtube montage makes him look awesome, with a good range of goals. 
If signed, I think we would have to accept that Gabby/Kozak would be the insurance policy as I doubt we could afford to sign two strikers.

Personally I'd be happy with that.

[andyh]

I know the square root of bugger all about the players we have been linked with.
But, if we get Darder, Praet and Embolo I would be seriously looking forward to next season.

[ozzjim]

Darder looks a proper player to me but concerned that our press don't seem to be reporting us as interested. Praet looks quality too but I want both. I want us to actually have a really good midfield for once. We have had such piss poor midfields for so long that I would love us to have a young, talented unit that left the opposition on their knees.

[paul_e]

Embolo really does look the bollocks on youtube, I'd be happy with him as the only incoming striker this summer and seeing if Gabby and Kozak can step up, if not look to get someone else in in Jan and try to move one or both of them on.

Same in midfield I think, Sign Praet and then see if Sanchez, Gueye, Praet, Westwood, Gardner and Grealish can form a decent unit between them.  If not look for replacements and move on the weaker links.

I'd quite like a genuine right winger and another right back (I'd let Hutton go and keep Bacuna as competition with the new guy)

So 4 signings to compete for starts would be ok by me (and maybe a couple of 18-19 year olds to give us some quality in reserve ready for when the likes of Senderos, Nzogbia and Cole all leave next summer).  I think it's easy to go a bit crazy and start calling for 8-9 new starters but I don't think we can or should do that much business.

[Villa in Denmark]

Embolo really does look the bollocks on youtube, I'd be happy with him as the only incoming striker this summer and seeing if Gabby and Kozak can step up, if not look to get someone else in in Jan and try to move one or both of them on.

Same in midfield I think, Sign Praet and then see if Sanchez, Gueye, Praet, Westwood, Gardner and Grealish can form a decent unit between them.  If not look for replacements and move on the weaker links.

I'd quite like a genuine right winger and another right back (I'd let Hutton go and keep Bacuna as competition with the new guy)

So 4 signings to compete for starts would be ok by me (and maybe a couple of 18-19 year olds to give us some quality in reserve ready for when the likes of Senderos, Nzogbia and Cole all leave next summer). I think it's easy to go a bit crazy and start calling for 8-9 new starters but I don't think we can or should do that much business.

Regardless of whether we could do that amount of business, integrating more than 4 maybe 5 starters to create a well functioning / drilled team is problematic.

[paul_e]

Embolo really does look the bollocks on youtube, I'd be happy with him as the only incoming striker this summer and seeing if Gabby and Kozak can step up, if not look to get someone else in in Jan and try to move one or both of them on.

Same in midfield I think, Sign Praet and then see if Sanchez, Gueye, Praet, Westwood, Gardner and Grealish can form a decent unit between them.  If not look for replacements and move on the weaker links.

I'd quite like a genuine right winger and another right back (I'd let Hutton go and keep Bacuna as competition with the new guy)

So 4 signings to compete for starts would be ok by me (and maybe a couple of 18-19 year olds to give us some quality in reserve ready for when the likes of Senderos, Nzogbia and Cole all leave next summer). I think it's easy to go a bit crazy and start calling for 8-9 new starters but I don't think we can or should do that much business.

Regardless of whether we could do that amount of business, integrating more than 4 maybe 5 starters to create a well functioning / drilled team is problematic.

Exactly, lets fill the immediate problem areas, which was replacing Vlaar, Cleverley, Delph and probably Benteke and getting upgrades on Nzogbia and Richardson we're halfway there on that which is ok by me.  I'd like another right back but that's because Bacuna needs to develop defensively and Hutton terrifies me with his tackling (he could've had 3-4 red cards last season in my opinion) so I think we can carry 1 but not both.

[Clampy]

Someone posted the name of Obbi Oulare earlier. I've never heard of him but he looks better than that Embolo chap i reckon.

[Dave]

Someone posted the name of Obbi Oulare earlier. I've never heard of him but he looks better than that Embolo chap i reckon.

Hmm, I know nothing about either apart from 10 seconds on each of their Wikipedia pages but I'd go with the bloke with 22 goals in 50 matches at the age of 18 over the guy with 2 goals in 11 games at the age of 19.

Incidentally, that Embolo chap was born in 1997. Fucking hell, I have clothes that I actually wear to work that are older than that.

[Villa in Denmark]

OK, some of the names we're now getting linked with sound more like characters in the new Star Wars films.

Annoyingly I'll probably have a better idea about who's who in that far far away galaxy.

[OCD]

Someone posted the name of Obbi Oulare earlier. I've never heard of him but he looks better than that Embolo chap i reckon.

Has somebody been performing experiments on Benteke's DNA? There seem to be a few clones all a similar age.

[Clampy]

Someone posted the name of Obbi Oulare earlier. I've never heard of him but he looks better than that Embolo chap i reckon.

Has somebody been performing experiments on Benteke's DNA? There seem to be a few clones all a similar age.

He reminded me of Benteke when I saw the youtube video actually.

[OCD]

Also, we must have been trying to shift Hutton for 2 or 3 years. Another great Lambert decision to extend his contract.