Slam Dunk

I've read a fee of around €29M/£25M in total. 5 year contract most likely, paid around £55K per week. This is from reports though. The wage was reported as around €3M per season, which is £55K per week, of course you have to take into account the difference in tax rates etc in Spain when compared to Britain.

Harry obviously knows nothing about Mata if he thinks his signing has any bearing on the Modric situation.

Works out to about £55k a week I believe, yes.

How many pens should we have had?

The right hand side of team is awful. Bosingwa has 4 red shirts in front of him every time, not a Chelsea player in sight. Which means we switch it to the left...PREDICTABLE.

Right so Ballague/Migeru_cb have tweeted it...that's all the proof I need. Time to get excited.

So if the fee is €27.5M, we're paying £24M for him. Good deal imo.

http://translate.goo...1313785446.html I have everything crossed.

Its gone beyond that now, some rumours that a fee has been agreed already. http://twitter.com/#!/migeru_cb

Jay Spearing is excellent for these...

I would think so. Looked much more competent than Turnbull in pre-season.

Hilario.

Cech out for 3-4 weeks

It says they are considering an offer from Atletico (I think).

Were you expecting a different outcome, can I ask? I doubt we were ever seriously interested.

Read that our bid was €20M now, then €5M in add ons, think we would try €25M now, then €5M later if we were to bid again.

It was. After August 1st however, the release clause in his contract went up to around ~€50M, but because of Valencia's debt, they are likely to accept a bid of €30M (reportedly). Edit: €30M is roughly £26.25M

Well, he's not actually a Chelsea player (yet). So no.

I do hope nobody has ordered a #46 shirt...He's now our new #20!

Yeah mate, Luiz should be out for one more week. AVB didn't mention any of Alex, Ivan or Mikel, so I would assume they are fit and will travel. He said he will assess them again tomorrow and decide on a starting 11. Torres couldn't remember the moments before/after the Spain game, but he is back training and is fit to travel. Interesting that when someone asked about central forwards (Torres/Drogba), AVB also mentioned Anelka as a contender for central forward. He also said that if the Lukaku deal were to go through (matter of hours/days in his words), he would have no problem in including him in the match day squad for Stoke.

Glad Torres is travelling. Luiz out.

Our new #6 :chelsea2:

We certainly will. Looks like he is going to be a very good player (from what i've seen).