What are your thoughts on Witsel by the way chef? Heavily linked with him at the moment, as are Juventus and United (who aren't they linked with FFS). Is he the CM that could take us to another level? I honestly haven't seen him since his Benfica days where he looked like a potential world class player, but from all reports he has struggled to adapt to life in Russia. To me it seems like he is a bit of a risk, as opposed to someone like Schneiderlin who is already Premier League proven, but it looks like United might snap him up.
I haven't been this worried about a transfer window in some time. Falcao, Witsel, Dembele, Begovic, Song, Austin, Douglas Costa, Alderweireld - these names don't exactly fill me with confience. On top of that we're selling Cech to a rival, have the chance of losing guys like Luis and Remy and aren't looking to bring in any first XI players. I hope Jose is just keeping his cards close to his chest and we move for some more inspiring names.
I would love either Witsel or Schniederlin, would be the perfect type of CM we need and strengthen our best 11-13 gtreatly. I haven't seen much of him either lately, but I think he'd do well under Mou. We do need another defensive type CM for 'big' games to partner Fab and Matic in a CM 3.
Falcao's a replacement for Drogba, which I'm cool about with a paycut and 1 year loan(not much of a risk). Who knows, he could find form and we've got the bonus of first dibs on him.
Dembele and Song...yuck. I don't see the appeal and would rather keep Mikel.
I would like Alderweireld for Luis, he's such a versitile player who can play anywhere across the back 4 and is quality.
Number 2 keeper is an interesting on, Begovic would be great.
Don't want Austin, we need to hang onto Remy at all costs. I'll be pretty pissed if he's sold.
Douglas Costa is an interesting one. He'd thrive in a Mou team I think and I'd be happy to add him if Cuadrado was sold, but he won't be just yet so I think we may revisit this one in January.
I'd lose my shit if we got Griezmann, but this aint happening.
Cech going is sad, but he's a legend and deserves to go where ever he wants and it won't bother me to much if its Arse.
We've got a weird window ahead as our 'best' 11 is settled and the best in the league, it's really just a matter of trying to upgrade the bench for me.