Butland Given Permission to Talk to Chelsea

Looks like this young player is so wise for his AGE. If the news are correct he turned down the move to the GRAVEYARD for youngsters.

"Jack's enjoying playing for Birmingham and he is gaining valuable experience," his agent Gary Mellor told BBC Sport. "He will listen to what any club that meets Birmingham's asking price has to say, but playing is of paramount importance for Jack."

For the sake of his rising career, he should avoid CFC like the plague especially for the 3 million pound price tag. If he cost 20mill then he'd have a chance but at 3, he will probably rot alongside Turnbull.

loool @ trueblue...I can kinda see what traykidd means even if he hasnt clarified very well...anyway i doubt if this kid will ever be a chelsea player...or in other words, i'll believe it when i see it!

@trueblue44. I think there is a paradigm shift at chelsea. Moses, cahill, ba, marin, romeu are examples wherein we have bought cheap and smart. Most me then except marin have regular play time.

@ trueblue44 and Blue India. What traykidd probably meant was he will never ever have a real playing chance in final XI. As to replace Cech and Courtois this guy really needs to be better then them, which would make him bit expensive then cech(£25 mill) and Courtois(£14 mill). And Thibaut is only 1 year elder then Butland. So the price gap really does make a diff these days. TALLENT = £. Also you wouldn't play Butland 1. Just to have a £25 mill and £14 mill replacements on bench with £3 mill bargain playing, 2. or sitting Cech on bench and Thibaut out on loan probably at Barca next season(If they hadn't bought him b4 that) !!! All I wanna say is if this guy was really good(better than cech, coutois) he's price would have been bit more acc to todays market. I think its a no-deal, probably just made up rumour. Good Luck for tonight Chelsea and hope we get back on winning ways.

Courtois is 20 years old going 21, sry my bad

FFS craig gordon is a free agent!!!!

I kinda agree that if we do not buy someone on big money transfer he will rot on the bench like forever.Yes ,there are some examples such as Azpi,Moses,Iva and Cahill but when you come to think of it none of them is a 100% certain starter.Yes,the first three of them will start in 75 per cent of our games and Cahill in 40-50 per cent, but not in all of them like Mata or Hazard when they are healthy.As far as Butland is concerned I have no observations about him,but the guy clearly wants first team football ,so I believe that Craig Gorden will me a much more viable alternative and he will be absolutely free and will not demand a huge salary.I do not know why he has stayed so long for as a free agent because in my view he is one of the top 5 keepers in the UK and it was even rumoured that he would join Manure ,but nothing materialised in the end.Yet a keeper is not our biggest priority as we need a top-notch midfielder because we do not have any for the time being-Ramires is a bad passer,Mikel plays like in slow motion,Lamps is a CAM and stays in that position for 99,9999 per cent of the time while Romeu is injured but he suffers from apparent lack of pace.We need a good destroyer,who is also able to participate well in the build-up of our play and we have restricted options in that position,because such players like that are a rare breed.

chelsea: butland chelsea is a great club one of the top club in the world if you sign here you will be playing here with the top players....we have world.class facilities and with world class manager Rafa..we nuture talent here...we have a great youth academy...one of the best in world..you will have a great career here.. Butland: hahaaa.... Chelsea: what happened why are you laughing Butland: the last part of your conversation...you guys have a great sense of humor... chelsea: ohh ghosh...we tought you were laughing for our rafa comment.. Butland: ohh about rafa you need to worry actually i have also signed the petetion of kick him out campaign while comming here.. Chelsea: well done boy...you did us a big favour...

I just though that that was a panic buy again. Weust need to call courtous from atmadrid and promote the likes of Blackman to the first team