Alvaro Negredo

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Is there anyone decent we can sign from seville instead of negredo(taking advantage of their financial crisis)?Fazio or somebody like that.

Jesus Navas is fantastic player, but his homesickness... Medel is good too.

[bushman 2,043]

Alvaro will be a good signing. Him & Torres just might work magnificently.

[BenIsLegend 475]

From @davidjaca (Freelance Spanish football writer for Mirror Football; and more.)

On Negredo to Chelsea:

I think his style very suited to PL. Powerful, strong, tough exterior and has ability with back to goal and in behind. Despite exterior, is able technically and is deceptively skillful. Can finish too. Negatives: lacks intelligence, slow-ish. As for feasibility of rumour. Sevilla need to sell, he's most saleable asset with Navas. Negredo would be up for move IMO.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

This looks like a done deal. Being reported in most British papers that he will be announced within the week.

[Billy. 2,742]

not really seen him play, do you guys think he can fit into the PL i know he will be better than Torres.

[Vybz Kartel 1,613]

Not a big fan of Negrado especially his age 27 ?? Was not impressed by him at the euros at all, I cnt still get over the fact tht he was behind a miss firing torres so it tells you a lot about him

[Beepu 1,714]

This looks like a done deal. Being reported in most British papers that he will be announced within the week.

any news about reported price, wage, etc??

[GermanBlue 82]

Not feeling very positive about this one. Ba would be a lot better option, if his wage demands would decrease. Is there any reason this is just a trick of the management for the negotations with Demba Ba? Like "Well, if you want such high wages, we're not gonna sign you, we have another good striker in hand" (which is likely to happen at this stage btw).

[nadavTKL 1,787]

This looks like a done deal. Being reported in most British papers that he will be announced within the week.

Give us something... what reports and where?

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

The sun reported it. Yes... The Sun

[Corner 456]

Not a big fan of Negrado especially his age 27 ?? Was not impressed by him at the euros at all, I cnt still get over the fact tht he was behind a miss firing torres so it tells you a lot about him

To be fair, considering Spain played mostly without a striker in the Euro's and when they didn't it was Torres up front, you can't really judge his based on that tournament.

I'm actually delighted about this signing. It makes a lot of sense. I don't expect Negredo to be on very high wages either. Most of our team can speak Spanish so it would help a lot with communication on the pitch, which is important. I can see him grabbing a lot of goals for us.

[Rubber bullets 1,183]

Where are the reports saying we are about to sign him? Apart from one (very brief) report in The Sun all other articles were done on the 30th December.

[Muzchap 8,966]

Not a big fan of Negrado especially his age 27 ?? Was not impressed by him at the euros at all, I cnt still get over the fact tht he was behind a miss firing torres so it tells you a lot about him

Jesus since when was 27 considered too old?

It's not FM or FIFA - we can have 'prime age' players too

Successful teams blend Youth+Experience - we need to do that

BA's greedy agents have blown it, so f**k him and hello (possibly) this guy

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

Meh still would rather Ba/Villa.

[DDA 9,924]

Don't know a great deal about this guy but what I have seen from him.. he simply isn't good enough though some players do surprise wheb put into a bigger and better team.