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Ramires 22M€ David Luiz 25M€ Matic 25M€ Javi Garcia 20M€ This 2 teams gave Benfica 92M€ I'm rooting for a draw so we can see another great game in Stamford Bridge edit: oh jeez

Now you know why we were so angry...only 25M€ is a joke... We sold Di Maria for 35M€ and Coentrão for 30M€...

The total of the fees is something like 5M€, and paying the transfer money all at once it's not something very common to do. Update on the 35M€ offer that i said a couple of minutes ago, it was Arsenal.

There are a lot of fees when u buy a player, agent fees, fees to all the clubs where he played when he was young, etc I'm telling you what it was said by a Benfica TV commentator.

According to a Benfica TV commentator, 25M€ cash paid right now all to Benfica. Chelsea will pay all the other fees. We had an offer from other club, 35M€ but it would be payed in 3 times and Benfica would have to pay all the other fees (agent fees, etc). if you know portuguese here it is the interview http://tinypic.com/player.php?v=f0qno6%3E&s=5#.UtbebhB_tyx

2 former benfica players + luiz on the back. I guess only Tiago (speaking about former benfica players) didn't had a lot of success there.

He would not get many games here. Luisao and Garay are our centre defenders, even if Garay leaves to Zenit our coach likes Jardel (our 3rd option to CD). Don't get me wrong, i'm not being arrogant, but none of your young players would play here in Benfica right now, that's why I really don't care if there are 2 chelsea players in this deal or not. Matic in his 1st season here didn't played a lot, he was Javi Garcia substitute. Only when Javi left to City he started to play here and after 2 or 3 months all the fans started to stay that he was really better than Javi Garcia. Probably the deal is not done yet because of those 2 players, we don't need players like Kakuta, for his position we have a lot of players, Markovic, Djuricic, Gaitan, Sulejmani, Ola John, Cavaleiro, and a young kid that you will see a lot in the future called Bernardo Silva (i hope there are not any chelsea scouts here or you will buy this one too).

We had Freddy Adu. I still remember the day we bought him, i was very excited. Epic fail.

The problem is that we are in January. We just beat Porto and we are on the top of the league and now one of our best players it's gone, he could refuse and wait for July. Teams like Chelsea, City, PSG, etc, have a lot of money to buy players in January and get stronger for the rest of the season, while teams that don't have a russian or a sheik loose players and get weaker for the rest of the season. At least he's going to my favourite league and not for russia.

He is, but Zenit owners are crazy, they bought Danny for 30M€ from Dinamo Moskow a few years ago and he wasn't even one of the best 30 portuguese players at that time.

26.3M€ it's a bargain. So sick of russians and sheiks waving players with money. I don't care about the 2 players that will come, Kakuta is like Freddy Adu, do not want, we have better in our B team, and we don't need more attacking players, only a DMF.

right bottom, "Benfica asks 35M€ for Matic" but don't be sad, this newspaper is not reliable, it's like the portuguese "The Sun"

I guess our "6" is your "5" I don't like Guarin, in Porto he wasn't even regular in the start 11 and Porto supporters did not liked him. I'm suprised to see him linked with Chelsea, and he don't play in the same position as Matic. Matic play as a DMF and Guarin as a CMD, at least it was his position in Porto but i don't follow Inter a lot.

So you know more about Benfica than me? You are right my club is not receiving the total transfer fee from these players, but we receive some money that you are not thinking about. I'll give an example. We sold 25% of David Luiz for 4.5M€. When Chelsea bought him (25M€), we only received 18.75M€, but since we sold that 25% for 4.5M€ to total value was 23.25M€ that's not far from 25M€. We have the same financial problems like any other team that doesn't have a russian or a sheik giving money. We will be fine if me sold him only in the summer. Changing subject, I heard that Chelsea as an option to buy Markovic for 15M€, i hope that in this negotiations about Matic we do something to delete that option because we can sell him for much more than that in the future.

He just talked to portuguese television 1 minute ago. He said "i am still a Benfica player"

That is false. You know how portuguese media are. He never refused to play against Porto and he's not demanding anything. Look at him all sad yesterday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn79viya0bM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBRIccyU8lU Our goals from yesterday. Matic played well, we played in 4-4-2 and porto in 4-3-3 so 2 vs 3 in the center of the field and yet their midfielders couldn't create any goal chances. Btw, for those who doesn't know, we are the only club in the world that broadcast our home league games in our TV channel and we also broadcast a lot of Premier League games (5/6 per weekend) so I watch Chelsea almost every week.

Foreign journalists know nothing about Benfica. Our rival, Sporting, in the last 4y has -250M€, we in the last 4y always had profit in the end of the seasons, except this last one. Do you think that we are like Malaga or Anzhi, do you think that we are going to sold most of our players for a bargain?Not a chance. Today there is news talking about a 50M€ offer from Zenit to get Rodrigo+Garay. If that is true we don't need to sell Matic, unless he really really wants to go.

I don't know any player like him, and i watch a lot of football. When Ibrahimovic started to play in Ajax people were suprised too, a very tall striker with a superb technique, that was a strange at the time....that's how i see Matic in a way, a very tall midfielder (he can play as a 6 or 8, but he's better as a 6) with a great technique. When he first got here we said he was a number 10, but our coach said that he would be a great 6 and he was right. We also have his brother in our B squad, he's called Uros Matic

If he leaves for < 35M€ i'll be upset. He's better than Witsel and we sold him for 40M€. I'm not saying that Matic is worth more than 40M€, but 35M€ is a good price for him. He has the technique of a number 10, I saw people saying that he's like Mikel...that's far from true. Another thing, we don't have financial problems. The thing is, in the last years we always sold 1 or 2 players for more than 20M€ (Ramires, Coentrao, Di Maria, David Luiz, Javi Garcia, Witsel), but this season we decided not to sell anyone (we had an offer for Matic close to 40M€ in the summer and Cardozo was close to leave too) so it would be good for our finances (we don't have a russian or an sheik giving us money) to sell a player for something like 25M€. I would accept 30M€ + Oriol Romeu Btw, I hope Chelsea wins the PL and CL...but without Matic on the squad