Oriol Romeu

[chrismada9 1,948]

Barca website says:

The deal includes a buy-back clause of 10 million Euros after a year, rising to 15 after the second year.

embarrassing!

[Domino- 116]

Welcome , Romeu

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

We don't need to use him for 2 years lol...

[Madmax 9,219]

#13, perhaps?

[5354 204]

2nd spanish player in the squad!

hopefully he and torres can become buddies

[Sheva. 5,373]

Welcome to Chelsea...... again lol.

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

If he is with us for the third year in is contract does the buy back clause expire? Or if he finishes his four years and then gets a new contract or has a contract extention does the buy back clause expire?

[kongdaniel 34]

Does Oriol and the gk with the difficult name count as the two signings Gourlay was talking about?

If so, then Oriol would feature in the first team squad then......?

[MetsajCFC 1,255]

Welcome to Chelsea

[Melanicus 5,208]

:cfc:

[Kostas 1,468]

The Barcelona site descibes him as a rough-tackling midfielder whose main attributes are stamina and power, must admit that's not what I expected when we signed a Barcelona midfielder. Still our squad is terribly short of midfielders and as long as he plays more frequently than eg Sturridge at that age he will definitely benefit us.

Welcome to Chelsea Oriol Romeu.

[kongdaniel 34]

Yes, Romeu seems to be one of the two signings as is Courtois

And as Sturridge, Romeu is really recruited to be part of the first team because he is ready. Sturridge had experience of nearly starter in Premierleague and played in Europe with Shity ; Romeu comes from the best reserves system in the world, he is able to play in the Prem and he won't play in the reserves. He really is the backup of Mikel, not a young prospect the club has no precise ambition with.

Carlo did not trust in youngsters, Villas Boas seems to do that so it would be normal to see Romeu, Josh, Sturridge playing some games next season and a lot more than under Carlo

That makes sense, thanks mate!

[Blue Armour 4,300]

No mention of buyback clause.

That's what I thought as well; in that case, we can forget about that for another.....for 2-3 years?

[Kieran. 6,317]

Don't really care. If he's good, Barca's gonna bring him back. If not, we're stuck with him.

Great business. Though he'll help the midfielder depth.

[Waterfall 893]

That's what I thought as well; in that case, we can forget about that for another.....for 2-3 years?

Forget?

I bet we are going to talk about it every time he has a good game lol

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

If After 2 years barca wants to buy him but he doesn't want to go there and will no accept there contract offer.

what will happen?

[bababoom 4,478]

He stays with us, the contract reads that Barcelona can make an offer that Chelsea MUST accept, but as any other transfert Barcelona has to agree terms with Romeu who is not forced to accept

So Chelsea have to accept... It's good that we are buying youth players, but what if he does really well for us, and Barca want him back.. we will have to spend more money for another defensive midfielder.

[termninja 5,290]

Look at Fabregas, he has everything to be the playmaker in a team where the system is made for him, where he is captain for long...

And he seems to prefer going to Bacelona to joke with his friends Pique and Xavi, warming the bench and win a lot of medal he would not play a big part in. Even more than Thiago Alcantara is likely to become a fabulous player, Busquets is young so is Mascherano...

It's a matter of mentality, Oriol comes from Espanyol before and he may not be as narrow minded and victim of the ballyhoo from the greatest club in the world, with his fantastic socios and his fantastic history, his fantastic masia and also his fantastic debts and cheating bitches

Because of his profile and his qualities, Prem seems to be suited for his way of playing so... And as I said somewhere else, if Romeu wants to go back home and then in the same time we have the opportunity to put Clifford in his place, we have no matter to worry

You can't compare Arsenal and us though, titles and huge wages are flying around the Bridge while Arsenal is slowly turning into a joke and not into a serious club.