Thibaut Courtois

[yuvala 2,167]

No you should hope Courtois significantly improves his ball handling and shot stopping technique before he joins us. That should be your hope and not that I'm proven right or wrong

Pretty sure it's better if you're wrong, then there would be no need to improve it..

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

Well, this sucky keeper seems to be keeping Barca out of the semis...

[lucio 5,418]

can he play vs us?

[We Hate Scouse 10,286]

Chelsea Youth ‏@chelseayouth 3m

There are reports that #CFC have a clause in this year's loan preventing him from playing them unless Atlético pay a release fee of sorts.

[robsblubot 3,498]

Regardless of contract clauses, he shouldn't because it would be a major conflict of interests.

[Anme 5]

What conflict of interest? Obviously if Chelsea draw Atletico, he wants to win with Atletico!

He was decent today. One very nice save, followed by stumbling and being lucky.

[We Hate Scouse 10,286]

What conflict of interest? Obviously if Chelsea draw Atletico, he wants to win with Atletico!

How can you say that with such confidence? What if something happens, he miss kicks the ball for instance resulting in a goal. The whole match would be thrown into dispute.

[Jase 43,479]

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Chelsea Youth ‏@chelseayouth 3m

There are reports that #CFC have a clause in this year's loan preventing him from playing them unless Atlético pay a release fee of sorts.

Is that even legal? Would UEFA object to that?

[johnnythefirst 1,076]

That sounds like bullshit, and would be unprecedented...

He can either play or not, there's not gonna be any bargaining going on.

[We Hate Scouse 10,286]

Is that even legal? Would UEFA object to that?

If it's a clause in his contract then I guess so.

Similar to having a clause about having to pay for amount of games played etc. I guess.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

UEFA has no rule about on-loan players facing parent clubs. It's up to the player's contract.

This is a similar situation to the one in Monte Carlo when Courtois played against Chelsea. Atletico chose to pay that fee and they will surely do the same if Chelsea will face Atletico in the Semi-final or the Final. I mean, they've payed that fee for the SuperCup, wich is just a glorified friendly IMO, they would be nuts not to pay that fee now. It's not like the fee is £3m, maybe it's something like 20% of Courtois' salary or things like that.

He will play for sure.

[gabrimur 69]

On Spanish radio, Enrique Cerezo (Atlético de Madrid President) confirms that there is a clause by which the Atletico would have to pay a significant amount if they want to play Courtois.

Could be 9 million €

[Yeboii 1,844]

On Spanish radio, Enrique Cerezo (Atlético de Madrid President) confirms that there is a clause by which the Atletico would have to pay a significant amount if they want to play Courtois.

Could be 9 million €

It would be worth it for them

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

No need to get the contact details we all know uefa will not give us Atletico

[gabrimur 69]

It would be worth it for them

He says is a amount that Atlético can't pay

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

On Spanish radio, Enrique Cerezo (Atlético de Madrid President) confirms that there is a clause by which the Atletico would have to pay a significant amount if they want to play Courtois.

Could be 9 million €

Didn't expect that.

Basically it's the same amount Chelsea paid to sign Courtois from Genk.

[gabrimur 69]

The clause was signed after the Supercup Europe that Courtois played.