Chelsea close in on Gary Cahill

**Juan "Spanish Flair" Mata** · 24/12/2011, 03:05 AM

Today Bolton manager Owen Coyle confirmed that Chelsea's £7m fee for Gary Cahill has been agreed. See here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/16290837.stm

**bluemoon2** · 24/12/2011, 08:00 AM

Great news! We want him here on New Years Day!

**BackStabbed** · 24/12/2011, 10:21 AM

Excellent news, heard Coyle talking on skysports saying theres been strong dialogue talks and he reckons it will be sorted out as soon as the transfer window opens! Bad news about the club rejecting the players plea to wear t-shirts in support of JT but is probably the right decision nonetheless as liverpool recieved a lot of bad media and criticism and the media already hate us enough lol

**Blueman** · 27/12/2011, 07:46 PM

Great signing.

**bluemoon2** · 27/12/2011, 10:25 PM

If this is true I will be very pleased!

**Varier2** · 27/12/2011, 10:37 PM

Good squaddy. Hopefully more to come.

**sagarebel** · 30/12/2011, 10:49 AM

Has Terry given the go a head yet?

**Robby202** · 30/12/2011, 11:15 AM

It was Terry's idea

**Blueman** · 30/12/2011, 11:57 AM

Fee agreed and discussing personal terms.Great signing We have to start being strong defensively again.
Also we have to convert our chances more.

**HarrysDisciple** · 30/12/2011, 12:01 PM

Isn't he too similar to Terry, your best defender? Would have thought you need more of a Luiz type, but without the crap defending?

Will Ivanovic play at right back, or do I need to ditch him from my Fantasy Football team?

**Blueman** · 30/12/2011, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by HarrysDisciple

Isn't he too similar to Terry, your best defender? Would have thought you need more of a Luiz type, but without the crap defending?

Will Ivanovic play at right back, or do I need to ditch him from my Fantasy Football team?

Too similar? He's an excellent defender which is what counts.
Personally I like Alex and don't understand why we are letting him go.
I reckon Brana is our best RB so I 'd keep him in your dream team.

**BackStabbed** · 30/12/2011, 12:50 PM

Originally Posted by HarrysDisciple

Isn't he too similar to Terry, your best defender? Would have thought you need more of a Luiz type, but without the crap defending?

Will Ivanovic play at right back, or do I need to ditch him from my Fantasy Football team?

Luiz is a good defender, just makes a few bad challenges/decisions, still rather have Luiz than Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum ( Gallas and Kaboul )

**KING-KERRY-DIXON** · 30/12/2011, 12:55 PM

Personally I like Alex and don't understand why we are letting him go.

To this

**HarrysDisciple** · 30/12/2011, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by lcooper2010

Luiz is a good defender, just makes a few bad challenges/decisions, still rather have Luiz than Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum ( Gallas and Kaboul )

Exactly what I said?

We'd rather you had Luiz rather than Gallas and/or Kaboul, so we're all happy

**bluemoon2** · 30/12/2011, 01:28 PM

Originally Posted by KING-KERRY-DIXON

Personally I like Alex and don't understand why we are letting him go.

To this

Kerry---He had a lot of great games for us but he's handed in a transfer request--and AVB will have nothing more to do with him as a result!

**BackStabbed** · 30/12/2011, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by HarrysDisciple

Exactly what I said?

We'd rather you had Luiz rather than Gallas and/or Kaboul, so we're all happy

Hardly what you said, you said crap defending and in my opinion ( someone that watches every match ) i'd say he defends good imo just makes the odd rash challenge, his 23 and is getting better all the time

**Varier2** · 30/12/2011, 02:37 PM

7mil. Seems like a done deal.

Brana-Cahill-Terry-Cole

**bluemoon2** · 30/12/2011, 03:07 PM

I see we are miles apart on agreeing terms with Cahill. He clearly thought he was moving to a 6 figures a week income and we' re trying to hammer our outgoing expenditure! If he gets what he was earning at Bolton plus a 50% uplift he should consider himself very fortunate in these hard times!