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G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 2:13 pm
by Papabendi
Dyche a big fan. And Perhaps Tarkowski is on his way.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 2:14 pm
by claretonthecoast1882
Bit young, let him go to Stoke for a couple of years 1st, give the helmets something else to whinge about.

All out for Charlie Adam this summer

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 2:15 pm
by Chester Perry
well that took it's time coming - rather have Kevin Long these days

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 2:17 pm
by Spijed
What's the difference between being officially linked and unofficially linked?

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 2:19 pm
by Pearcey
I see Charlie Adam has become the new Dry Powder.

I’d be delighted with Cahill. Top player.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 2:20 pm
by ElectroClaret
Officially linked by whom?

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 2:50 pm
by Rowls
Cahill's an international class defender and he's be a great player to bring in.

One can imagine wages would be a sticking point however.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 3:01 pm
by Goobs
Cahill? Seriously? I would hope that IF this was to happen it would be as a back up player. Would be good to have him partner a young CB (Dunne maybe) in our cup games.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 3:04 pm
by gtclaret
This would be against the stated policy of player trading, buying younger players with sell on value and using them to replace a future big sale. If this is to replace Tarky, then it is going in the opposite direction

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 4:28 pm
by Jakubs Tash
Good defender but wrong age for us.

Could see him signing for Sheff Utd. He supports them and they will probably require some experience.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 4:29 pm
by moaninclaret
A class player but a bit too old to make regular pl football as with crouch. They are great to have in the dressing room with their know how but i cant see any making the starting 11 every week,

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 4:32 pm
by Foulthrow
I think it would be an excellent signing should we need to bolster the ranks at CH - however, I don't think we do at the moment. But, the bloke isn't happy on Chelsea's bench so why would he be happy on Burnley's?

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 4:58 pm
by AlargeClaret
Can’t see him coming back here we’d never get near his wages ,but what a player bona fida international class player too, miles better than what we have tbh and he scores a few as well .

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 5:00 pm
by ClaretTony
Spijed wrote:What's the difference between being officially linked and unofficially linked?
Don’t think there’s such a thing as an official link

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 5:01 pm
by Steve1956
We need to move on from signing over 30s....not a criticism ....just an observation.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 5:14 pm
by FactualFrank
An official link I guess is when the club actually come out and say they are interested in bringing him to the club.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 5:27 pm
by Wile E Coyote
i dont think he's too old , and as long as the most of the team are younger, then with his experience it could be a very astute addition.
Its not as if we are aiming to pack the squad with over 30's players.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 5:29 pm
by dougcollins
Gibson?

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 5:47 pm
by claretfern
Jakubs Tash wrote:
Could see him signing for Sheff Utd. He supports them and they will probably require some experience.
Thought exactly the same.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 5:58 pm
by Murger
Would definitely take him if Tarks was to be sold.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 6:36 pm
by Bosscat
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Team-mates huh dontcha just luv em

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 6:41 pm
by ksrclaret
If we offload a few of the older lads (Hart, Defour, Crouch, Bardsley), then there's room in the squad for one more experienced player. Cahill would be a good signing if Tarkowski goes.

The bulk of our business must be younger players, as Rigg has alluded to.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 6:46 pm
by Devils_Advocate
Maybe we are planning on entering a team in the Tommy centre walking football league next season

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 6:51 pm
by Fretters
dougcollins wrote:Gibson?
No, Gary ;)

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 6:53 pm
by claretspice
No per se objection to this if we need a stop gap replacement for Tarks and aren't convinced by the younger options. We'll need someone in sharpish for pre-season if Tarks does leave so they can build a partnership. Cahill's as good a man for that as any.

It would though place a greater emphasis on youth in other areas of the team.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 6:55 pm
by CoolClaret
Cahill would be quality playing in a protected back four & means another leader on the pitch.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 7:11 pm
by boatshed bill
claretspice wrote:No per se objection to this if we need a stop gap replacement for Tarks and aren't convinced by the younger options. We'll need someone in sharpish for pre-season if Tarks does leave so they can build a partnership. Cahill's as good a man for that as any.

It would though place a greater emphasis on youth in other areas of the team.
TBH I'm not sure about this. He's 33 and we haven't had real value for money out of several of our older signings.
Would he be a replacement for Tarks?
Would he be an upgrade on Kevin Long?
We are an established PL club, should we be looking at signing "stop-gaps"?

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Tue May 07, 2019 7:43 pm
by Dark Cloud
One for the future.....

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 8:10 am
by Suratclaret
Not convinced. OK, Cahill is still a good player but by next season, Gibson will have served his twelve months apprenticeship and Dyche has never been afraid to play Kevin Long if necessary...unless there are transfers out from the central defender ranks.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 10:27 am
by tiger76
He'd be a decent enough short-term replacement if either Mee or Tarks left this summer,wages could be a problem,and we definitely don't want another Joe Hart scenario.

I'm more worried about the suggestion Crouch's contract might be renewed.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 10:31 am
by Hipper
boatshed bill wrote:TBH I'm not sure about this. He's 33 and we haven't had real value for money out of several of our older signings.
Would he be a replacement for Tarks?
Would he be an upgrade on Kevin Long?
We are an established PL club, should we be looking at signing "stop-gaps"?
Most of our players are 'stop-gaps' if you think about it.

Any player that stays at Burnley is either too young to have yet shown their full potential, too old to have a Premier League future elsewhere, or simply isn't good enough to do better.

Gary Cahill, I would guess, has been unable to get in the current Chelsea side because he is basically an old school defender with limited playmaking abilities. If he has no injury worries I would think he would be good for us for three years, not only as a solid centre back but as a goalscorer too. He scored some spectacular goals at Villa:

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Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 10:36 am
by Quickenthetempo
People saying he's not good enough for us when we have shipped 65 league goals. The highest of any side not relegated.

To say we're a defensive side first it's a little bit worrying.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 10:38 am
by nyclaret
Jakubs Tash wrote:Good defender but wrong age for us.

Could see him signing for Sheff Utd. He supports them and they will probably require some experience.
He supports Wednesday?

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 10:42 am
by Spijed
Quickenthetempo wrote:People saying he's not good enough for us when we have shipped 65 league goals. The highest of any side not relegated.

To say we're a defensive side first it's a little bit worrying.
Let's have some balance here as that's only because of the first half of the season.

Once we got everything sorted after Boxing day we are now pretty much back to our best defensively.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 10:47 am
by Dark Cloud
It's not a position we really need to recruit tbh unless as speculated somebody (maybe more) are leaving. Most here seem to think the most likely to leave is Tarks, but realistically where would he go? He's good, but he's not top 5/ Champions League good so that leaves Everton and possibly Leicester who are at present upgrades on us. Everything else is largely a sideways move imo, despite many having a better season than us this time, where we had a better season than most last time.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 10:52 am
by Tricky Trevor
Dark Cloud wrote:It's not a position we really need to recruit tbh unless as speculated somebody (maybe more) are leaving. Most here seem to think the most likely to leave is Tarks, but realistically where would he go? He's good, but he's not top 5/ Champions League good so that leaves Everton and possibly Leicester who are at present upgrades on us. Everything else is largely a sideways move imo, despite many having a better season than us this time, where we had a better season than most last time.
Fair point but Leicester could need to replace Maguire and Everton have had a good season out of Zouma and Chelsea have said they want him back, for pre-season at least.
For mine I think he would be perfect in a back 3 but after last seasons trial I can’t see us going there again.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 10:56 am
by TVC15
Dark Cloud wrote:It's not a position we really need to recruit tbh unless as speculated somebody (maybe more) are leaving. Most here seem to think the most likely to leave is Tarks, but realistically where would he go? He's good, but he's not top 5/ Champions League good so that leaves Everton and possibly Leicester who are at present upgrades on us. Everything else is largely a sideways move imo, despite many having a better season than us this time, where we had a better season than most last time.
Not sure about that - think there are a few teams who would be interested and have problems in the CB position. When you look round the league it’s a bit of a problem position. Just a few clubs that would blow us out of the water salary wise and have ambitions to break into top 6 or 7 include Everton, West Ham, Leicester and Palace who all need centre backs next year. You can even look at the likes of United who probably need at least 2 centre backs and Tarks could be good for them even as a 3rd choice - he’s better than Rojo and Jones. Look at Arsenal also - they are shocking in this position.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 11:10 am
by Quickenthetempo
Spijed wrote:Let's have some balance here as that's only because of the first half of the season.

Once we got everything sorted after Boxing day we are now pretty much back to our best defensively.
You want me to forget about a full half season so it looks better?

Let's hope our recruitment team aren't as daft as you.
We signed him on having a decent half season and completely ignored the other half where he was terrible.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 11:13 am
by Spijed
Quickenthetempo wrote:You want me to forget about a full half season so it looks better?

Let's hope our recruitment team aren't as daft as you.
We signed him on having a decent half season and completely ignored the other half where he was terrible.
Yes, you can write off the first half of the season when it comes to our defence as everyone in football knows we are back to our best in that respect.

Games like Chelsea proved that beyond any doubt.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 11:15 am
by ClaretTony
nyclaret wrote:He supports Wednesday?
He does, but he's already played for Sheffield United

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 11:18 am
by Quickenthetempo
Spijed wrote:Yes, you can write off the first half of the season when it comes to our defence as everyone in football knows we are back to our best in that respect.

Games like Chelsea proved that beyond any doubt.
We defended well but still conceded two.

If you were judging a neutral teams defence you would praise when they kept a clean sheet.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 11:36 am
by nyclaret
I'd have thought Jagielka would move to Sheff Utd rather than Cahill

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 12:53 pm
by Duffer_
Quickenthetempo wrote:If you were judging a neutral teams defence you would praise when they kept a clean sheet.
You should also take into account the quality of the opposition. Would be good to see the variance to expected goals but xG is still to be refined and the defence itself plays a part in the xG metric.

UTC!

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 12:58 pm
by Quickenthetempo
Duffer_ wrote:You should also take into account the quality of the opposition. Would be good to see the variance to expected goals but xG is still to be refined and the defence itself plays a part in the xG metric.

UTC!
It's judging over the whole season. Playing everyone twice bar Arsenal.

Everyone thinks are defence is brilliant but Eddie Howe's Bournemouth can't defend for toffee. It's crazy.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:05 pm
by South West Claret.
He was certainly a cut above the rest when we had him on lone from Villa when he was a youngster, but signing him now I don't know unless stated above maybe one of our existing centre backs goes.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:23 pm
by dpinsussex
He's a similar age to Kompany and he isnt doing too badly

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 1:25 pm
by Spike
ksrclaret wrote:If we offload a few of the older lads (Hart, Defour, Crouch, Bardsley), then there's room in the squad for one more experienced player. Cahill would be a good signing if Tarkowski goes.

The bulk of our business must be younger players, as Rigg has alluded to.
Bardsley has already signed a one year extension -just not been announced by the club

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 2:07 pm
by ashtonlongsider
Still think there's plenty of football left in GC. He reads the game well and comes up with a few goals. Not sure if were interested or not, but if we were it could be a shrewd bit of business. My hunch is him ending up at somewhere like Fulham.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 2:10 pm
by Quickenthetempo
ashtonlongsider wrote:Still think there's plenty of football left in GC. He reads the game well and comes up with a few goals. Not sure if were interested or not, but if we were it could be a shrewd bit of business. My hunch is him ending up at somewhere like Fulham.
He turned Fulham down in January.

I'm not that keen on signing 33 year olds, but If Cahill is still as good as he was in his last Chelsea appearance on the Turf then I would take him all day long.

Re: G Cahill officially linked

Posted: Wed May 08, 2019 2:15 pm
by Quickenthetempo
Spike wrote:Bardsley has already signed a one year extension -just not been announced by the club
A little surprising seeing as Nixon reckons we're very keen on Reece James who has been on loan at Wigan from Chelsea and impressed massively.
Others are also keen and Chelsea might decide to keep if under transfer embargo.

Unless selling Lowton we must be sticking to our current options.