Oriol Romeu

[Term-X 7,891]

Not necessarily happy for our club but happy for the player who gets to live out a dream of his playing a big role for Barcelona. And I suppose we could take some pride in having helped to develop him as a player.

That's exactly the type of small-club mentality Bolton supporters have.

[Lampy 110]

relli amazin player...more spanish please chelsea!..he kinda scares me somtimes tho...lookin like dracula an all..

Ha, too true. Btw, I think I know you. Do you still model for victoria secrets ?

Ha, ignore, my lame attempt at a line. Back to footy.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

That's exactly the type of small-club mentality Bolton supporters have.

You need to accept the fact we're no longer a super club. People do not fear Chelsea anymore, people fear Manchester City, Manchester United, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona. Hell, even Tottenham are a more-feared team than us now.

[Melanicus 5,208]

That's exactly the type of small-club mentality Bolton supporters have.

Man, great sig by the way. Did you make it by yourself? You always have great sigs and avatars.

[eldo 868]

You need to accept the fact we're no longer a super club. People do not fear Chelsea anymore, people fear Manchester City, Manchester United, AC Milan, Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona. Hell, even Tottenham are a more-feared team than us now.

Hahaha AC Milan...hahahaha.Even BM are not that much stronger than Chelsea.

[The Big Drog 1,110]

That's exactly the type of small-club mentality Bolton supporters have.

I think you missed the bit where Barcelona and Real Madrid stormed ahead of every other club. Honestly did you really think that we would get such a talented young player from Barcelona without them covering their own interests? Of course not, to think otherwise is simply naive. You are looking at the deal as some sort of negative symbol, in reality we all know that Barcelona and Real Madrid are on another level. You have to look at the positives, we have a fantastic young player currently playing in our midfield, to the extent that Barcelona see him as good enough to be a member of their first team squad, lets enjoy it while it lasts.

[Kostas 1,468]

Can't stand all the drama regarding Oriol so

More posts from you please

[Ollie 4,400]

It's basically the Arsenal, Fabregas situation. If he wants to go back to his boyhood club as a world class established player then good luck to him. As long as he's been great for us and been committed to OUR cause.

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Barca, just give us Iniesta and we will be fine :blue scalf:

[zolayes 14,489]

seems we have another topic to speculate about when we don't really know the full facts.

[eldo 868]

'Beyond that I don't want to think too much, and just to progress week by week at Chelsea.'

[Wilson 358]

To read Romeu say this had cheered me up a bit.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4028854/Romeu-loving-life-at-the-Bridge.html

[Term-X 7,891]

Man, great sig by the way. Did you make it by yourself? You always have great sigs and avatars.

Indeed, I only ever use my own work. Various subtle layers, lighting, and a bit of cross processing.

I think you missed the bit where Barcelona and Real Madrid stormed ahead of every other club. Honestly did you really think that we would get such a talented young player from Barcelona without them covering their own interests? Of course not, to think otherwise is simply naive. You are looking at the deal as some sort of negative symbol, in reality we all know that Barcelona and Real Madrid are on another level. You have to look at the positives, we have a fantastic young player currently playing in our midfield, to the extent that Barcelona see him as good enough to be a member of their first team squad, lets enjoy it while it lasts.

AVB wanted Oriol at Porto, his desire to work with him transcended our clubs stature as a top european club. That would be the only way of rationalising it, regardless of Barca's position in world football.

[Joker10 946]

Not really worried about this whole Romeu situation. If he stays then that is fantastic, if he goes back to Barca then oh well we will find someone as good as him in a year or two.

I think he is more suited for Chelsea then Barca tbh, unless he plays CB at Barca. He doesn't have great positioning sense, he gives a lot of space for the opposition midfield. While Busquets has amazing positioning sense and which makes him untouchable player in their system.

[warnie_666 1,081]

What you're stating is the first refusal clause.

The buy back clause is identical to a minimum fee release clause, only difference being that in a buy back only the original seller gets the right to speak with the player if it pays the amount stipulated in the contract. The release clause is for any club that can afford that price.

What Barcelona have is a right to first refusal, atleast that's what the manager says.

Not really. I suggest you do some research on buy back clause. To speculate based on our own assumption is not good.

If the buy back clause is how you state it it really does not make sense. Why didn't they loan him to us? What if he had flopped? Everyone's going nuts because he turned out a gem.

BUY BACK clause is exactly what I stated. It means the Barca has the opportunity to buy him back at the states price IF and Only IF Chelsea decide to sell.

FIRST REFUSAL is similar to BUY BACK but in FIRST REFUSAL there is no deal made on future sale. The buyer has to buy it at the price at Whig the seller is selling but he is the first person the seller will talk to. BUY BACK is where a deal is made on the future sale IF the seller plans to sell it.

That's how shit works in US as I asked my lawyer frd.