Falcao Being Watched

Surely he attracts interest from top clubs as he is a top striker, so anything is possible, and more then likely, come start of next season he will not be atletico player any more. Where he will go is pure speculation for now.

No, no and no to anything above 35-million pound. Yes he scored a hat-trick against us on 'a bad day' but scoring in goals in EPL is totally different from scoring in other leagues. Why can't we buy our own Falcao a little amount and cause him to be admired by others?

for this season we should stick with torres then we should give youngsters like lukaku and danny a chance or get a top young natural scorer like liandro damiao like liverfols did with torres and suarez

I remember him watching hazard.

€60mm for Falcao is almost a bargain for the player. Messi, Ronaldo and Falcao sit as the best 3 finishers in footy today. They are also a couple of factors that benefit Chelsea if they do make a bid. Firstly, the currency exchange benefits Chelsea. €60mm is £48mm. Secondly, we have assets that can be offloaded to reduce the impact of a £48mm outlay. If Falcao comes to Chelsea, there is a almost a 50% probability that Sturridge will leave given where his contract status is today. Going by the value of English forwards in the league today, we can estimate we"ll get at worst an £8mm - £10mm compensation from someone. Third (I am not saying we'll sell Torres nor am I advocating it), Chelsea can offload Torres to someone for £15mm - £20mm. Although that means, Chelsea will record the £15mm - £20mm loss on selling Torres. However, that can be made up from the sales of Kakuta and co in the summer and the release of some senior players as well.

Lets face it...Strurridge is gone in January. So that leaves Torres and Lukaku...Chelsea will purchase a CF in January...Falcao would be my 1st choice..

Falcao is the best striker in the world at the present moment and for another few seasons yet. To have him would just make us complete, but again it's the price.

Iam more fond of the idea of buying Balotelli.But we cannot fool anyone,he would take a huge investment in excess of 30M pounds as well.However,Balotelli is young and that could compensate for his price if RDM somehow manages to tame him.But most importantly,we should get hold of Sturridge.Mark my words,if we let him go we will bitterly regret it but it will be too late.Playing Torres in all matches makes no sense and I really hopes Di Mateo sees this in some part of the season and gives him the place in the starting lineup he has always dreamt of.That way we will keep him in our ranks for sure.Although if I have to be perfectly honest I would consider a Sturridge for Balotelli trade.

Balotelli - please....RDM won't want to change his diapers.

I am glad more and more VC guys are seeing this the way i have seen it for quite some time. Now that Atletico have today confirmed their willingness to listen to offers i would say getting Radamel Falcao should be our priority no 1 for this coming January. It looks like Danny may be the one to move and as i have said again and again getting Falcao is not to replace el nino but to compliment him. City have Tevez, Dzeko, Arguero and Ballotelli, ManU have RVP, Rooney, Welbeck and chicarito..Barca have Messi, Villa, Pedro and sanchez, Real have Ronaldo, Benzema, Higuan and callejon. It is high time we had at least one world class game changing finisher in our ranks. I like the sounds of us lining up El Nino, falcao, Lukaku and if possible also danny. I also agree with the comments of some here that getting a player of falcaos quality can change a clubs fortunes from top 4 to title winner, can change status from a contender to a cup winner..that is why all the other clubs mentioned above spent a fortune getting those 1-2 players in their ranks that are such game changers..we got it wrong with the El Nino signing and we failed to get this guy when he was cheaper and literally begging to come to us while AVB was here with us ...this is the last chance we will get to get him because his next move will be to where he will hit his peak form..Come January it will be a straight out battle between us, city and PSG for this guy..i hope our relative dearth of strikers and our favorable relations with Atleti (Courtois et al) will give us the edge we will need to win this the way we did with the race for Hazard.

Sign Falcao and sell Torres....... If we get this guy, we won't need Torres anymore (and I'm a Torres fan btw)..... WE SHOULD NOT SELL STURRIDGE..... Some of you don't get it... Danny is a gem... we should give him more time and another contract

@Persian.Sturridge may be talented but we need match-winers like Drogba.Sturridge,in my opinion,doesn't come in the category of matchw-winners.

Demba Ba would be a better option than him.

I too agree that Sturridge is gone in Jan. Chelsea already looking for his replacement in the market. heard that we are scouting Remy, Huntelaar and Oliveria. All these can act as a back up for torres. they wont complain. But Falcao..I doubt...we will pay 48m and then make a bench of either 48m striker or 50m striker...is that affordable...but there is no doubt about the quality falcao will bring to the team and the title chances will improve drastically. Also, heard that david villa is sidelined at barca after his spat with messi...we can try him....

BlueKiwi.Maybe thats your opinion.But in my opinion,Sturridge is just another overrated English player.I cannot remember him scoring any match-winners.I cannot remember him scoring a single goal against the top teams or getting us out of trouble like Drogba.English players have never been match-winners apart from Gerrard,Lampard,John Terry and Ashley Cole.He has scored goals against the mid-table teams.If he's ready to be third-choice,then its okay otherwise he should.Torres,may not be at his best currently,but he's a proven match-winner even at the International stage.Torres has scored goals time and again against us,Man UTD,Barcelona,Real Madrid,etc.He's proven match-winner.I hope he gets back to his best.Else,we will have Falcao anyway.And Drogba played well in the PL.He has won the golden boot twice.It was only last season that he played well only in the CL big games.

shlok27.Judging by your post,I think you have not even seen 10% of his matches.Even Drogba was signed at the age of 26.

Sturridge is better upfront than torres and I would say RDM needs to start him soon and see what he can do before selling him off, we might have a top striker in our hands and we'll regret selling him, o prefer we give torres out for 5m than selling sturridge, who is 22 and is a clinical finisher, he scored some good goals last season and is way better than torres right now, the little cameos he got before he got injured was good, if roman wants falcao, he'll get him latest by january 5th, that's how roman is, if he wants u he'll get u. Sell torres in january and keep sturridge, I won't mind having sturridge and nelson oliveira than having torres.

I won't give up on Torres unless he scores less than 18 goals in all competition before x-mas.

I have been watching him from Porto.His worth more than 60 million.Yes,the media usually overhype many players but thats not the case with Falcao.You start watching the La Liga.Maybe,you will change your opinion.Yes,Falcao is match-winner.Ronaldo,Messi and Hazard are just too gifted thats why they produce so much of brilliance.But Falcao is more of a match-winner and a big game player.

Sturridge is not a clinical finisher. He is a poacher, but not a clinical finisher at all. Besides that, his all around play which are other qualities that Torres possesses is seriously lacking which are: build up play, decision making, passing ability, knowing the surrounding of other players around you is quite lacking. Hold up is as poor as Torres's. A few cameos here and there this season doesn't change that fact.

Kaku that's ur opinion and I disagree, the fact that the young boy scored more than torres last season alone is enough for me to put my faith in him and give him a chance as a chelsea fan, the boy is 22 and torres is 29, so the difference is clear and the comparison itself is unjustified! Sturridge is a fantastic player that can be a world class player if properly nutured

Good player no doubt. But that price and the FFP coming up?

We should trade Torr-Mentor for Falcao...a striker without confidence is a waste of space

Falcao is stronger (looks stronger anyways) hungrier (he wants to score at every chance) younger and more confident (the way he scores, he just takes every chance) than Torr-Mentor (missed a 1on1 because he was scared to take the shot right away)

There's no other 'top' club in the world that tolerates what Torr-Mentor is doing (or not doing) because a striker is primarily supposed to score before anything else, and Torr-Mentor ain't doing that. I understand about his assists but we didn't spend 50Mil for an "assist" person, we paid for a goal scorer that can score, and looking at how Van Persie scores it's embarrassing that we keep a striker that needs 3 chances to score, Kalou is a reminder of such characteristics...I love Torr-Mentor and he's my fav player but the club comes first, and for the club to go further we need to wean off lesser performers like Torr-Mentor and Mikel, get better players and we are strong enough...We'll never win a Champions League with Torr-Mentor as our sole striker, maybe as a 2nd striker but him leading the line?? Forget it

Falcao (present) and Sturridge (future) over Torr-Mentor and Lukaku...If Lukaku can be given a chance why not Sturridge, who is faster, has more dimension than Lukaku and versatile enough to play wing when necessary?? I'm with you on Sturridge BLUEKIWI

trade Torr-Mentor+30Mil for Falcao and we good BLUEKIWI then we also retain Sturridge as his sub...we'll be stronger than we are now, no team will pay half of what we paid for Torr-Mentor that tells you something

I wouldn't say over falcao, but I think Walcott would be a great signing for us. Not as a winger, because he is terrible if he has to beat a player or cross, but his one on one finishing is actually fantastic. With his pace aand the people behind who can pass it through to him with ease, he would thrive. Now if we get the same from sturridge I would be happier, but it's a suggestion.

Van Persie needs more than 3 chances to score for Man U. Check his games out this season. Anyone who knows my stance here know I have repeated, if we want to win a trophy, Torres and Sturridge cannot be our strikers. So it is not about Sturridge or Torres. Torres for reasons already known and Sturridge is quite frankly overrated to the core by a lot of folks. Malouda is a better finisher than Sturridge is. Just as Ancelotti, AVB, RDM and co haven't solved torres's form and brought back the Torres of old, Ancelotti, AVB, and RDM have not allowed Sturridge to lead the line. He was in fact looking to be transferred out of Chelsea on the last day of the window because we were still deliberating on what striker to sign. As far as all the other kids, Borini hasn't scored a goal yet in the Pl, no one is talking about stock since we have better players like Marko Marin and Moses and Scott Sinclair is another overrated player. What players like Sinclair and Sturridge are doing at 23 and 24 and people are hailing as potential, Brazilian kids and la Liga young boys are doing at 19, 20 and 21. Sturridge and Sinclair are 23. Oscar and Hazard have already taken starting spots and are 2 years younger while Mata is just a year older than Sinclair and Sturridge. Yet, look at the difference in class.

The potential from elsewhere have been allowed to develop the potential into something. Would you say sturridge has had the same surroundings to learn and grow, improve and actually given the same oppurtunities?

recall Ballack et al singing Kakuta's praises when he joined us?? He could arguably been doing what Hazard is doing had he been getting game time because they are similar players, but he joined us too early and didn't develop further

@BlueKiwi, do you know Oscar is 2 years younger than Sturridge, less experienced than Sturridge and has only played less games than Sturridge in the Brasilero, but HAS COMMANDED a starting shirt at Chelsea alongside a 30mm player like Hazard and a Chelsea starting XI like Mata. It isn't just a skills and development thing too, it is a mental maturity as well. It is not just the ability to score, build up play, skills etc....but the maturity. I remember when people say Sturridge is selfish. He is this and that. I however posed the question is it selfishness or is it just the inability? Kalou had the same impressive scoring stats that Sturridge had at Bolton in the Dutch league around the same age. Kalou also had impressive scoring stats on the wing or wherever he played for Chelsea and I can remember the calls for him to be given chances. Over the years we found the truth which is he just wasn't good enough compared to the existing talents. Sturridge maybe a young promising striker, but they are a lot of young promising strikers who are better and even younger. The young and promising words have been attached to players like Sturridge, Adam Johnson, Walcott, Kalou and Lennon for years and the cries for them to be given chances have been echoing for years too. However, the coaches who have coached those players over the years have done something different. Minus Rooney, a lot of these guys could end up being worse than Kalou. Sturridge could end up being a world beater for the likes of Pool if paired upfront with Suarez, but leading the line for Chelsea against Barcelona in March/April? I haven't seen anything as at today.

@Mq, he packs a mean shot, has pace and can dribble. Other than that.....what else? Walcott, Adam Johnson and Aaron have 3 of those skills as well. What about footballing brains? Decision making ability? Ability to remain calm in the big games or when the pressure is piled up because that is what Chelsea faces all the time. The argument about development is not a complete one at all because we don't know where he would be if he was at another club. One can use the same argument about Sinclair, Lennon and Walcott yet, those guys are getting enough game time for years in the premier league and still can't afford to clean Juan Mata's boots while he was at Valencia. Sinclair has received games at Swansea for how many years now and he won't get ahead of Marko Marin or Moses in this squad so let's stop using this argument. Flashes of brilliance and potential does not mean a player is a world beater at all. What Rooney was doing at 17 and 18 for Everton was what convinced Fergie to start playing him at United. The players have to scream world beater and convince the coach in training and various exercises to bench players ahead of him. Sturridge hasn't commanded that at all. As far as Sturridge and Lukaku is concerned, I can't rate the two of them just yet. Time will tell and it is way to early to be doing so. Lukaku has shown the physical abilities, speed, heading and shooting abilities thus far, but he needs to be groomed carefully because we'll keep shouting potential all the way to he is 23.

@Slippy G-19, mention the top 10 teams in Europe and mention which of their strikers were groomed minus Barcelona. Minus Messi, mention the last 3 strikers groomed by Barcelona.

KAKU...I'm not saying he is complete but he has shown enough to warrant calls for more game time so he improves. Sturridge would be starting for any other sub-9 club (bottom 11) so he has the potential, perhaps this selfishness is derived form him wanting to prove his abilities at the expense of the team cohesion and who can blame him given how 'ruthless' we are with our academy prospects. I don't rate Walcott et all any higher but they get more game time than Sturridge so comparing him to them is pointless, but if we not going to give Sturridge game time and send him to loan at Bolton (no top club will take loan players) where he excels and still say he isn't good enough then what can he do?? You rightly say he must scream world class, but you can only do that with consistent football and we won't give him that, who do we fault for that??

Comparing him to those players are pointless? Not sure if you spent a second to review what I wrote and the spouting....... I said the argument about how chances and giving game time are reasons for where players are today is a false one. If we had bought Walcott from Southampton and Lennon and they weren't given chances at Chelsea, a lot of folks here will be using the same argument that had their been given chances their they will prove to be world beaters. However, the likes of Walcott and Lennon have been given chances and they are quite frankly not world beaters. So the argument that Sturridge should be given chances will prove..........is not a complete one at all. Sturridge simply does not get chances because they are not good enough right now. Period. From the first day you see Mata and Oscar, you see footballer written over them before you even mention game time. The only thing you see in Sturridge is pace, ability to beat a man and ability to shoot screamers (how many of those has he even scored?)....Everybody has that. The only thing that screams out lie crazy is the fact that he is a poacher, but poachers ain't starting in footy any more. There is a reason Ferguson spent close 30mm pounds on a soon to be 30 year old striker rather than giving a young upcoming poacher in Chicharito more chances.....

I won't play Lukaku or Sturridge on the bench. Lukaku is 19 and barring any crazy injuries, the boy has more than 10+ years of football left in. He should stay at West Brom and he will develop more than at Chelsea. He needs more game time now and not the pressure of chasing trophies. When we are facing Man U or Man City and the game is tied, we need strikers who have the experience and maturity to win the game for us within 10 minutes and throwing such pressure on a 19 year old kid is ridiculous. Lukaku is already scarred by his experience last year. He doesn't need further like that. As it is now, he has played 216 minutes in the premier league for West Brom plus another 70+ minutes in the Carling Cup. Let him stay there for a season or 2. Come January 1st and going by what Chelsea is doing, Ashley Cole, Frank Lampard and Daniel Sturridge will be free to discuss with clubs for their summer transfers. Sturridge is already on 60k a week. He is just 23 so any other contract has to better than his current salary of 60k a week so maybe 80k a week. I don't see Chelsea going up at all or breaking the bank for him so he will probably be leaving between January and the summer. Just sign Falcao, and wait for Bilbao to release Llorente for free in the summer.

KAKU.I hope we get Falcao.I want him badly.He's a Ballon D'Or material.Desmond.I told you before the game on Twitter that he will score a hat-trick.And I have seen this guy for a long time.He's a genius.With Sturridge leading the attack,we can neither win the PL nor the CL.Not being a prophet,but if you want to win big games and chase lost games,Sturridge is not the man.Thats where Drogba was best.You need big-game strikers who can perform under pressure like Drogba,Shevchenko,Eto'o,Tevez,Torres(Liverpool).

under the condition that sturridge is not keen on extending his contract and was even looking to move out permanently on deadline day. So, practicaly I safely assume that sturridge will be gone in jan. We are looking for people like Remy, Oliveria as his replacement. If we go buy Falcao, it should be the replacement for Torres and not sturridge. We cannot afford to keep any one of them in bench....unless RDM has other plans for Torres (i imagine a role like Rooney for Torres...a free role, creative one...he can easily help resting mata/hazard/oscar in some matches)

@kakufrank u are great

@kakufrank u are smart and hope to add more , sturidge and lukaku are not cfc materials

@KAKU.Sturridge is not.But its too early to comment on Lukaku.Yes,I am dying to see Falcao in a Chelsea jersey.I would be disgusted if goes to some other club.

Blu_run.That "Rooney" kind of a role requires good passing vision,ball retention and I must say Torres does not possess these qualities.

Sturridge is very hard to shake off the ball, he is incredibly fast, skillful and sharp. He has a deadly left foot and would have scored 95% of those one on ones Torres wasted. His passing has improved, he was great whenever he came on the pitch before his injury, he caused all sorts of problems for QpR when he came on. He is different from other overrated English players, he has superior technical ability and skills.

you make a very strong argument KAKU and I must admit that you are right about Sturridge not having 'outstanding' qualities but if your reasoning is that Lukaku needs more game time to improve then perhaps Sturridge too. Drogba started playing competitively at 25 and played well till he was 34, perhaps Sturridge could still reignite his career too. Mentality-wise, I believe Sturridge is hungry and has the desire to be a world beater, he needs more games and proper direction and he'll be a world beater, I believe so. Oscar is talented (no doubt) but thus far he's been a surprise package, I'll start really alluding to his genius when he performs under pressure (when defenders are now 'noticing' him) but you do have a point about the player being 'outstanding' to play for a top club like Chelsea at such a young age

SameX.I am not questioning the player's talent but there's an ability to win matches from losing positions and perform in the big games which I don't see in Sturridge.Drogba may not be skillful,but his ability to win the big games and play like a beast are the reasons why he's so highly rated.Of whatever age a striker is,his football improves along with many other things,but the match-winning ability does not.

SameX.I agree with you on getting Falcao.He should be a Chelsea the minute the tranfer window opens.But Sturriodge is not good enough to be a back-up(not talent-wise but his ability to in matches).I hope you are getting me.

proven match winner for Torr-Mentor?? LoL...as for Sturridge, he led to the 1st goal that forced Man$hitty to attack and we counter attack hence we won, Lescott wasn't stupid but he was simply too slow for Sturridge hence the penalty. Other game's he's won?? Let's see, under AVB Sturridge played out of position and lesser games than Torr-Mentor but scored twice more than Torr-Mentor (12 goals if I recall) yet when RDM took over he wanted defensive players so he dropped. Sturridge has been guilty of shooting instead of passing but on the same breath he's scored more than "super passer" Torr-Mentor, he played like half the season last season but he was top3 goal scorer for us, how much more do you want a striker to do?? I'm not saying he's brilliant, but he has potential and unfortunately plays for 'always coveting' Chelsea

@cfc250 Sturridge singlehandedly won us the City game @the bridge, we had already conceeded one goal to a team on fire that destroyed united 6:1 @old trafford. Danny gave Clichy the game of his life, he destroyed him on more than 2 occasions, at a point Clichy could not mark him alone Lescott and Kompany had to help leaving plenty of space for Danny to cross for Raul to net the first goal, Clichy was having a terrible game and got sent off in the process, Danny blasted the goal bound shot that Lescott used his hands to block which led to the penalty for the winning goal.

In the Fa cup game against Birmingham city we conceeded first and would have crashed out at the hands of a championship side until Danny bailed us out by scoring a wicked goal with his head to the far corner of post, it was a great goal for someone of his height. Torres was crap in that game. Remember Danny gave us the lead against QpR in a game I felt would be tight with a cracking right footed effort, that goal took all the pressure away.

Against ManU @the Bridge, Danny destroyed Evra and another defender before blasting the ball at goal that led to Evans own goal. He rescued us against Spurs with his equalizing goal and scored our only goal in our 2:1 defeat against Liverpool. He scored the winning goal in the Carling cup against Everton. He was deadly in the first half against Arsenal @the bridge and exposed the gunners defence with his pace.

@SameX, Sturridge @23 is better than Drogba @24...even @26 is NON COMPARABLE. At 26, Drogba was scoring goals for Marseille and giving Champions League teams a headache that informed Mourinho to buy him. Prior to that, he was Guingamp keeping them afloat alongside Malouda. Don't compare Drogba and Sturridge as Didier Drogba did not actually attend a football academy and only started asserting himself as a football player at 21 WHICH WAS THE AGE he made his first team debut while Sturridge made his at 17/18 at Man City.....Can you imagine FrLamp beginning to train for for professional football at this age now? How can you compare FrLamp to a Daniel Sturridge who joined a football academy from a young age?

Write* let's give him a chance at CF before we call him useless.

@Falcao was not even as good as this when he was Oscar or Hazard's age. How do you know that mate? From the records available, he was average 1 goal every game at River Plate. Similar to Higuain before he left for Real Madrid. Falcao was the reason Porto moved Hulk to the right wing. @23, he delivered 25 goals in 28 games for Porto in his first season. Higuain from the same club (River Plate) was already benching Raul at 21 and 22.......So to say he wasn't that good is just wrong.......

if you were manager @KAKU who would you (realistically) have as starting CF and who would you have on the bench??

Mentality wise, he is ready? Based on what his ability to make decisions? His decision making is terrible and football I.Q. is.......He should improve that first being saying he is ready. All he has is pace, shooting ability and ability to beat players. Quite frankly Theo Walcott has all 3 and he is a better finisher than Daniel Sturridge. Anyone who dares to debate, I challenge you to bring up all of Daniel Sturridge's goal last season and assess what is actually a Poacher's goal versus a pure finisher. Don't confuse to the 2 of them at all. Cameos against QPR count for nothing to be honest. I can call his cameo against Man U in the community shield during Ancelotti's season or Josh's cameos against Marseille or Torres's cameos against Aston Villa where he had a shot that hit the crossbar or a bunch of cameos. Cameos don't count for much. Everytime Lamps has made a cameo appearance in the double pivot alongside anyone other than Mikel, he threatens opposition. Do I use that to judge Lampsy's ability in the double pivot? So do cameos count for much? Full 90 minutes against opposition over a bunch of time and the coach's decisions during the season is what we should judge with NOT Cameos. He has 6 months left on his contract. The time for chances are too late. If he performs well, he will move to another club because they will offer him higher salary. When was the last time Chelsea gave any player an extension with 6 months left on their contract. If Chelsea value you, they will sign you to a new contract way before the tenor is ending. They did that with Luiz, Ramires and Mata.

SameX.He did not single-handedly win us that game.He did play a vital role though.I am afraid the one game you have pointed is the exception that proves the rule that he does not do well in the big games and he is a donkey with a zero iq,poor decision-making and is overrated like all the English wingers and strikers.Some idiots are comparing Rahim Sterling to Ronaldo.He is another overrated English winger with pace and zero brains.And Man City themselves are a bunch of donkeys,who despite spending so much win on goal difference and cannot get out of the group stages of the CL.This time I don't see them making to the knockout stages.@Desmond,him playing at CF has got nothing to do with his match-winning ability.Villa won matches for Spain from the wings as well as CF.He cannot win matches.He may be talented footballing wise but lacks the match-winning abilities.Even Ronaldo did not do well under pressure(by his standards),but made up for it by the exceptional talent he has.I am sure Sturridge is not as talented as Ronaldo and he cannot make up for it.

KAKU.Falcao is a must and I am sure he will win us the CL in a year or two.But where did you get this idea of Llorente as a back-up?He wants to make it to Brazil in 2014 and he will go to a club where he will be a starter.Think of another back-up.Maybe Demba-Ba?

Lukaku (1 trick pony) over Sturridge @CFC250?? I rest my case :(

Atletico will not take Torres for swap. Forget that stance. They are looking for cash to reduce their heavy debt load not player swaps. My concern is who will Atletico sign in January.

falco falcoa my god seems like he is going to score 30 40 season per season....i think everyone here seems has got a crystal ball with them where they are seeing him scoring lots of goals for us....just blind faith all i can say...60 million fo a striker waste of money..

@Desmondadonis, check the threads and the forums. I was never a fan of signing Torres for 50mm because his form was poor. My choice was between Aguero and Cavani. The signs for signing Torres for 50mm was bad business. He was already in poor form for Spain and poor form for Liverpool under Hodgson. That was the clear sign of a player who was suffering. Signing a soon to be 30 year old Sheva was also a bad deal. In Arsene Wenger's Eurosport column, he said this about Cristiano Ronaldo: "When you talk about Ronaldo, no matter where he goes, he wins things and at the end of the season scores 50 goals," Falcao is in the same boat. He scores 30+ goals a season, wins trophies and scores in finals. Only Ronaldo and Messi can boast of such accomplishments in the last 3 years as well.

When will Chelsea fans realize that drogba is gone?there will never be another drogba so stop comparing players,,,,sturridge in 3years will be a super star either at Chelsea or at any other club,,,,,,

lamarochs - Until a deal is done (which it is not might I add), Sturridge is still our player. I had read rumours also at end of last transfer window like everyone, but nothing came of this, and seemed no club were willing to see out our valuation circa 20mil from what I had read. Whilst he may leave, yes, I think some have read too much into things as RDM has suggested he will get his oppurtunities, and he has been injured also. Its not like Malouda where he has been cast aside. If you have any information confirming Sturridge is definitly gone, please share. It would not be the first time that rumours have come to nothing but paper talk IF he doesnt leave at all. As for the suggestion of a squad player 19-21, we have Lukaku which fits this profile?

the following things are clear 1. Sturridge is not the first choice as striker. He will get chance to play say about 30% matches (including the low importance matches). He should play as subs for rest of the match. 2. Sturridge is not happy with this situation and is looking to leave the team. I doubt he will get regular starting berth in any team other than liverpool...so, it is better for him to sign the contract extension and start prioving himself to RDM. 3. If he is not signing, then chelsea will sell him in Jan and bring in Remy or Oliveria who may accept the roles. 4. We can verywell go with swap of Torres+25m pounds for Falcao...very welcome move...

What do we actually need is falcao the player who played before PORTO days..Unknown player who could blow the world away in a year...Not a finished product who wil cost you more than £100 in total cost and may even flop in the EPL...Our fans should stop this obession with big name strikers and try to appreciate bargain world beaters..

What really matters is looking around the club and realizing that we have the player we are looking for in sturridge, it is just that he has never been given the chances.

@sponnukumar, mention the unknown player that will score 20 - 30 goals a season. Secondly, Atletico Madrid is smoking serious weed if they think they will get more than €60mm for Falcao. That's his buyout clause. I don't think psg is involved. Their name is just being linked by the media. Thirdly, the statement about strikers just banging them in till just under 30 is false. Chelsea just finished the champions league with a 33 year old drogba. Price of amilan is still Diego Milito. Starting striker for PsG is ibrahimovich who is 31 while Eto and David villa are still banging it in at 31. Van Persie just looks like he is just heating up. Atletico Masrid has been warned by uefa to get their acts right if not they won't be getting any uefa payments. They still owe Porto the transfer fees for Falcao.

@KAKUfrank Do you fans just dont understand the TERM FINANCIAL STABILITY or MAKING A PROFIT AT ALL? I dont give a ***** about falcao or ronaldo or messi if it means paying more than 60 to 100M for them and getting 3 yrs service and not able to sell them if they flops...DD won us CL but how many matches he played well last season or how much goals he scored? Just dont sugarcoat the obvious mate..WE won the CL bcz of miracle..Each and every CFC fan know deep down that our CL victory is nothing sort of miracle..Miracles wont happen again and again..When i say unknown i meant FALCAO when he was playing before his porto days...lewandowski(23) Even if we sign him for 25M he can easily give atleast 5 to 7 yrs for us if he is a hit..If he flops still we can recoup atleast 50% money by selling him in germany...Nobody will buy a falcao if he comes to CFC and flops..WE could not offload him in the age of 28 to 30 even for 10 to 20M with his mammoth salary in the range of 175K to 200K...Like i said i dont give a ***** about falcao if it means we need to commit atleast 100M on a guy who is 27...WE spend 25M on oscar 32M on hazard but they will give us atleast 6 to 10 years even if they decides to leave in another 3 year we can still sell them for double the money we signed them...Also stop asking about names about striker who can score 20 goals a season or 30 goals a season..I am not a scout..That is why CFC has a big big scouting dept...Their job is to find the next ronaldo next messi like your dream striker falcao..Not signing every guy who scores a hat rick against us..

@sponnukumar, to understand financial stability, you first need to understand the finances of the football club which I don't think you grasp entirely. Firstly, Chelsea just ranked 4th in global t-shirt sales behind Manchester United, Barcelona and Real Madrid. With the signing of Hazard and Oscar, we could see our shirt sales spike more in places like Latin America and Belgium where Chelsea fans are going by the day by virtue of the players we are signing. Secondly, do you know the PL has signed a new deal with SKY? From that deal, we'll see our revenues from BPL increase by at least 20-30mm pounds a year from TV rights. Falcao won't get a mammoth salary from Atletico because they can't afford and neither will he be on 150k a week if he comes here. For him to get there, his current wages have to be close to 100k a week which Atletico Madrid is not currently paying. The fact that you can't point out a striker who will score 20-30 goals a season means there isn't any out there for cheap. Lewandoski has only done this for one season and even 30mm pounds to Borussia Dortmund won't get him. You are also very incorrect about Manchester United. The last time they won a trophy, they were lead by Dimitar Berbatov (27 going on 28). Alex Ferguson spent 30mm pounds on him and a salary of 100k a week. On amortization (30mm divided by his contract term) and his salary of 100k a week, the Berbatov signing was costing Manchester United 12mm pounds a year. The total cost of Van Persie (on his trophy hunt) to Manchester United over the next four years is £70 million and Van Persie is 29 going on 30. Even at 33, Van Persie will be costing Manchester United £17 million. Thirdly, it is pretty clear in Europe and Brazil that once the buyout clause of a player is met, there is nothing the club can do about it. Mention any club that has refused to sell a player once a buyout clause is met. That is exactly the point of having a clause in there so your statement is absolutely wrong. Lastly, even if Chelsea pay Falcao 150k a week and met the buyout clause of 48mm pounds, the total cost of Falcao to Chelsea football club over the next 5 years is 87mm pounds which is about 17.4mm pounds in amortization and salary a year. That is exactly the same cost of Manchester United to Robin Van Persie. You are yet to show me a club in the last 5 years that has won a trophy in the premier league with an unknown striker who scores 20 - 30 goals a season. Regardless of the salary paid and the fees paid for a player. If the player flops at CFC, we won't be able to offload them anywhere regardless because they have flopped. Case in point Yossi Benayoun and the likes of Bosingwa.

@KAKUfrank You are just simply twisting and putting words in my mouth...My simple argument is I dont want CFC to sign anybody for more than 35M..End of the story

@sponnukumar, you need to differentiate between profits and cash flow. 67mm loss wasn't a result of signing players. Beef up on the accounting knowledge please. 67mm loss was a result of compensation Chelsea paid to sacking Ancelotti and signing AVB from Porto. These are one time charges which were booked last year and not likely to repeat itself this year. You are also not seeing the point about shirt sales clearly. Thinking we'll overtake Real Madrid or Barcelona is myopic thinking. Think further. Shirt sales behind Man U, Real and Barca indicates the popularity of the club on a global level. It is also an indication Chelsea has reached on the global sale. Ron Gourlay can use such statistics in negotiating better deals from commercial sponsors. If you understand accounting properly, you will realize Chelsea is not living above it means at all. "revenue has grown by a healthy 8%, while operating expenses have been cut by 5% (including the wage bill by 3%). Not only that, but these accounts include £42 million of exceptional costs and if these were excluded the loss would have been “only” £26 million, which would have represented an impressive £45 million improvement on the previous year." I am sure we would also show an improvement this year as well. With the new PL deal and release of older players on high wages, Chelsea will surely be getting results in the future.

£26 million is probably a result of amortization and depreciation which are not real cash. We are cash flow positive last year in spite of the expenses made.

and ManUre DIDN'T WIN ANYTHING LAST SEASON !... and yet they are still spending BIG !.......... we need that man... we need that RVP/Messi/CR7 type of player !...... we need to be more lethal...... we most likely can't win anything with Torres or Danny......... Sell Torres, and buy Falcao......... we should keep Sturridge for another 2 seasons, OR sell him to Pool for MORE THAN 25m pounds and not a penny less

If cfc sign falcao i will be happy still that we are signing the dedliest finisher and currently 3rd best player in the world in the sense of scoring goals...But not in the financial point of view..

@sponnukumar, YOU DON'T GET IT AT ALL. Call an accountant and have him explain to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One time charges as a result of compensation to Ancelotti and Porto for hiring AVB constituted a signifcant chunk of our loss LAST SEASON. There are one time charges because we won't be sacking an Ancelotti every year and paying him what is left of his contract nor will we be paying Porto for AVB's services every year. If we exclude those "one-time" charges, Chelsea recorded a 49mm pounds improvement over last year. There are one time charges NOT alien club closes as your brain is interpreting it. My second point is depreciation and amortizations are not cash expenses, but accounting items. Regardless of the loss, we were cash flow positive. What is your back ground and do you understand accounting at all because if you don't, call a buddy of yours and he will confirm all I am saying to you. If you claim to know accounting, then gosh, you've wasted money on education.....

I don't think there is anything wrong suggesting Neymar as a false 9. It is something I have been thinking of for a bit. He has the technical ability, pace, work rate and dribbling ability for such. No doubt he is hyped up by the Brazilian media, but he is an excellent player regardless. If a terrible finisher and decision maker like Gerbinho is averaging a goal every game, you can imagine how many goals and assists a talent like Neymar with the likes of Mata, Oscar and Hazard behind him. Anyways the cost of signing Neymar will be around the same costs of signing Falcao. However, the salary is the issue. He is already among the highest paid players in the world. We also need to get out of our high horses with this will he do well in the premier league. Such adjustment factor is vastly overrated. Most flops in the PL are PL to PL players not foreign players.

@KAKUfrank well sadly i am not interested in accounting degree mate..So you can take your accounting lessons somewhere..Like i said just our owner is RA so you are trying to put a positive spin on lot of negative things..You tell me cfc dont need to sack CA and hire AVB every year..Oh we are the only club who paid more than 100M in compensation alone in the last 10 years..So dont let your love for falcao cloud your judgment..You can all say how much about positive spin..cash flow positive..player values divided over the contract period..Blah blah but the simple point is CFC is a LOSS making club..Like i said if RA announces he is ceasing his backing then we will go under with in a day...With out RA will you ask for falcao when your club made a staggering 67M loss last year..I dont think so..

It is great to learn and we must face the reality. Chelsea paid much for 2 strikers and history has it that they have never lived to the expectations. We are not to come and pay the debt Atletico put themselves in when buying Falcao from Porto.