re: Chelsea 2012/2013 Season Long Thread

Here are the moves that I hope we makes this summer. Part of this is what I hope happens and may not be best for the team necessarily but I want to see a certain player in blue next season.

CF - Keep Lukaku next season. I would love to see him work with Mazacar and even if he isn't world-class next season, he will have gotten great chemistry formed throughout the season and will be world-class the year or 2 after. Keep Ba and try to get Torres to take a pay cut but that may be unlikely.

Wing/AM - Seems to me like we will be buying Schurrle so I will include that here. Gives us nice depth. Possibly recall de Bruyne, which I will discuss below. Loan Piazon again, this time to a PL team possibly, or don't loan him at all. In the future, if Mou implements a 4-3-3, I would like to see Oscar back in the midfield and play deeper.

DM - One of 2 options in this spot imo. I want to either buy Fellaini or get Ilkay Gündogan from BVB and if we were to get him then I am sure that we would have to give them de Bruyne. I really like Gündogan and giving up KDB would be tough but I think it would be worth it. We keep Essien and Mikel can give us some depth, and then keep Chalobah, who I think can contribute next season. Also if we could try to sign Modric that would be great, but I don't see it happening (plus he's not necessarily a DM but a DLP so I put him here).

CB - Get a partner for the future for David Luiz. I think Luiz is still best as a CB and right now he is our best CB, so unless we sign 2 CBs then I think he should stay in the defense for at least another season.

LB/RB - Buy a young LB that could replace Cole in a few years, and get a backup RB so Azpi doesn't have to play so much next season. Brani can also fill in at RB along with being 3rd CB.

GK - Recall Courtois. I think he is ready to start for CFC but with Cech still here obviously it is a tough situation.

Honestly I don't think we need to buy many players this summer, so as to not mess with our young core. In just about every position, we have either a young guy that is already starting or a young guy ready to take over, so I don't think we should mess with their confidence by signing a ton of new people just for the heck of it.

In the end, I hope our lineup looks like this next season and we use a 4-3-3 primarily:
CF - Lukaku, Ba, Torres
LW - Hazard, Schurrle, maybe Piazon
RW - Mata, Moses
CM - Oscar, de Bruyne (maybe), Lampard
DM (2 starting with 1 CM) - Fellaini/Gündogan, Ramires, Modric, Chalobah, Essien, Ake, Mikel
LB - Cole, Bertrand, new guy
CB (2) - Luiz, new guy, Ivanovic, Terry, Cahill
RB - Azpilicueta, new guy
GK - Courtois, Cech

with this as our starting lineup:
------Courtois------
-Azpi Luiz NEW Cole-
--Fel/Gün---Modric--
--------Oscar------
-Mata--Lukaku--Haz-

again, this is just what I hope to see and may not be the best option, but I really would like to see this. of course, we are Chelsea so we will probably sign a ton of people

/endwishfulthinking