The Special One is the only one Chelsea needs.
IMO, Chelsea needs more than just him if you think you're going to win the title. You need another striker for starters.
Falc could come Lukaku could come back from loan, Piazon should come back from loan. We will buy a central midfielder and defender. We may spend a lot, we may not but we had a lot out on loan and as it stands now with the crap storm of a season we had we have the 2nd best GD of the whole league, while setting a record for games played in a campaign.
I think the Schurrle deal is pretty much done (unless Jose vetos) and that will help to give us a variety of options going forward. If we do bring in a striker, I am hoping for Lewa or Cavani over Falcao (we need too much help in CM/CB to splash that much cash on Falcao). Sending Kevin de Bruyne on loan to Dortmund to lessen the Lewa fee makes sense. Lukaku is probably ready to come back, but if we get one of the big strikers I can see him spending another year at West Brom. Piazon isn't ready for Chelsea's first team yet and I would rather see him stay on loan than play 2nd team minutes at CFC. Essien coming back will help with depth in CM, but another top quality player is needed.
This is how I see the summer shaping up for CFC:
IN: JOSE!, Schurrle, Lazar Markovic (go straight to loan), Essien (from loan), Elite Striker, Starting caliber CM (Moutinho/Alonso?), CB to pair w/ DL, Backup GK
OUT: Marin (loan), Benayoun (free), Malouda (free), Ferreira (free), Turnbull (free), Hilario (free)
???: Lampard
Sign Turnbull to a one year rolling contract until we bring Courtois back, pray PC1 stays alive, and have Blackman be the 3rd keeper.
Schurrle is a done deal. So I think between him the 3 Amigos and Moses we will be okay with depth if we bring back Piazon or not loan Marin. If we keep the 4-2-3-1 formation we need to have 6 serviceable guys so we don't have to run Mata and Hazard into the ground again this year.
Essien can come back and play the holding midfield spot. I would still like another one there and maybe bring back Josh or Nathan from loan and get some PT.
I think Frank is gone sadly.
I think we need another RB to back up Dave because between Luiz, Cahill, Ivanovic, and Terry we will be okay IMO.
I agree with the idea of bringing in a world class striker to help with depth and flexibility with formations. If we do bring in someone we need to loan Lukaku to a team who is playing in some sort of European Competition whether that is sending him out of England or a side like Swans which will be in Europa.
I think we learned this year we need to recall some of our Loanees just for depth. I agree giving some young guys every day play is important but man were we thin squad wide this year.
