Date: 25th May 2011 at 6:00pm
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Chelsea are yet to have a new manager in place but are already looking to bring new additions to Stamford Bridge this summer, with five players set to leave the club and another five come in, according to The Independent.

The newspaper suggests that Nicolas Anelka, Yury Zhirkov, Jose Bosingwa, Paulo Ferreira and Henrique Hilario will be leaving west London. And despite reports linking Didier Drogba with a move away, the club are not planning on moving him on, apparently.

It is believed that Neymar (Santos), Kevin de Bruyne (Genk), Romelu Lukaku (Anderlecht), Dutch right-back Gregory van der Wiel (Ajax) and a reliable backup goalkeeper like Asmir Begovic are the five players that Chelsea hopes to sign ahead of next season.

However, whether we’re playing 442 or 433, it really wouldn’t make any sense to have Neymar, Lukaku, Drogba, Fernando Torres, Salomon Kalou and Daniel Sturridge at the club, it sounds as though we’d just be creating a headache for ourselves and if we were to continue with the preferred 433 we’ll be playing players out of position, why not buy wingers to play wide instead of putting forwards there? And if we change to 442, again the same problem, de Bruyne can play left side but still no right-sided winger/midfielder.

Also, it doesn’t address the need for a natural passer or playmaker in midfield and it will be disappointing if we continue to let this long-standing weakness go unresolved.

Instead of going for that lump Lukaku, why not spend the money on an attacking midfielder/winger like Eden Hazard, who creates chance after chance for Ligue 1 champions Lille, Udinese’s Alexis Sanchez, Werder Bremen’s Marko Marin or even make a cheeky bid for Tottenham’s Luka Modric?

Is Neymar really worth the attitude or will he be the next Robinho? Karim Benzema only has a year left on his contract at Real Madrid, could cost as little as £7m and despite being billed as something of a disappointment there, he has scored 35 goals and made 13 assists in his 81 appearances for the club. Kevin Gameiro has also impressed in France for his club Lorient by scoring 21 goals this season, as has Edinson Cavani, who has scored 26 in Serie A for Napoli.

If the striker making way for Neymar is Anelka, now a bit-part player at Stamford Bridge, then how do we expect to keep Torres and Drogba happy, as well as Neymar? I doubt Drogba will be happy to play backup for his £120k-a-week wages, Salomon Kalou seems disenchanted with his ‘super-sub’ tag and Sturridge, having impressed out on loan at Bolton, could be disappointingly loaned back out or even sold.

What ins/outs would you like to see at the club this summer?

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50 responses to “What ins/outs would you like to see at Chelsea this summer?”

  1. bebeto says:

    we need 2 sell nine players/keepers from our current squad & bring in nine/ten players/keeper not just five……………………,ins:begovic,subotic(so dat ivanovic will be permanently switch to right back with mancienne),bruma,mancienne,pva,schweinsteiger,arjen robben(so dat kakuta can learn more from him),sturridge,sanchez,neymar,maybe include hazzard and aguero not lukaku………………….,outs:ANELKA(who carlo once described as the new marco vanbasten),kalou,malouda,zhirkov,mikel or essien(either one of them 2 make way 4 luiz in dat position),ferreira,bosinqwa,turnbull,hillario………………….,Not all players in my wish list will be bought,roman just pick d best only but must bring in robben,schweinsteiger,subotic,begovic,sturridge,the listed loan players and some four more wingers/strikers from my list if we must win the uefacl.van der wiel may be another version of bosingwa in the team

  2. Alex says:

    definitely need some new players and to sell some players. i say sell anelka, zirkov, bosingwa, ferrira, malouda and hilario and even no i hate to say it because he is a ledgend to me maybe sell kalou. we need a good back up keeper turnball isnt good enough, and a right back everyone is saying go for van de weil but he just seems too over priced i would like to see us try and buy micah richards hes still young but has preimer league experince. and we need a attacking midfielder and winger such as sneider for ACM and for winger hazard he will be brilliant when hes older. and then we need strikers neymar, lukaku, benzema, aguero i dont no which ones but one of them maybe two. I would like to see chech – richards, invanovic, terry, cole – essein, ramires, sniejder – hazard, torres, neymar.

  3. khalil says:

    in-
    aguero or neymar
    pastore
    sanchez or wllian
    vdw
    coetrao
    out-
    drogba
    anelka
    kalou
    maluda
    mikel
    zirkov
    bosingwa
    ferrira
    a.cole
    hilario

  4. Nate says:

    What I’d Like to See:
    In-
    Yoann Gourcuff (long-term replacement for Lampard)
    Alexis Sanchez
    Gregory Van Der Wiel
    Begovic
    Neymar

    Out-
    Anelka
    Kalou
    Zhirkov
    Ferreira
    Bosingwa
    Hilario

  5. Nate says:

    What We Will See:
    In-
    Sergio Aguero
    Kaka
    Neymar
    Gregory Van Der Wiel

    Out-
    Malouda
    Zhirkov
    Ferreira
    Bosingwa
    Anelka
    Hilario

  6. patmos says:

    in-sanchez,neymar,hamsik,hazard,van der weil. Out-malouda,anelka,jose,ferrira,kalou,probably drogba.yuri..i don’t see any spectacular thing about this lukaku,maybe,buy and loan him wil b nice…do not tamper torres.

  7. Folu says:

    The Players I want out : drogba, malouda, mikel, benayoun, hilario, zhirkov, ferriera, bosingwa, kalou and anelka

    Players coming in: neymar, sanchez, hazard, van der weil, begovic, sneidjer

    Then our academy covers up the rest…

    In the event we can’t get Drogba to leave he has to settle for a bit part player. Drogba(120k) and Lampard (150k) need to renegotiate their contracts as they are ? longer key players.

    Torres picks up (175k) and still isn’t scoring goals well hopefully next season he will score loads

  8. Chelsea blue says:

    Buy Sanchez, Neymar and VDW.
    Team to come in
    GK:- Delac
    LB:- PVA and Betrand
    CB:- Kalas, Luiz, Bruma, Chlobah
    RB:- VDW and other player
    CM:- Mceachran and ramires
    CAM:- Piazon and Kakuta
    Wing:- Sanchez and Neymar
    ST:- Sturridge
    Obviously more signings or youth players would go with that team, but that team is quality!

  9. LOLOL says:

    WE FREAKING NEED DRIBBLERS
    Eden Hazard, Alexis Sanchez, Luka Modric or Javier Pastore. IMMINENT BUY
    As for striker go for established ones instead of unexperienced youth. Go for Sergio Aguero, Edinson Cavani or even u can bring back Daniel Sturridge.
    What the hell is Chelsea thinking. Buy the players that will obviously shine rather than going for unproven players.