Nemanja Matic

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Why would Matic say anything else? He is covering his back as any other player would in that situation. Imagine him saying Im going to the club I love which is Chelsea and then the deal falls through lol.

Don't want a Odemwingie situation do we

[Polo7 3,496]

Don't want a Odemwingie situation do we

Lol Matic would have a much longer ride home though

[ricardosr 38]

tbh I don't remember much of him.

#6 is the same position as Rami? In Brazil #6 is the left fb and I always mix #6 and #8 in Europe. In Brazil #5 is the most defensive guy in the pivot (DM) and #8 is the less defensive (CM or MD). I suppose the #8 is the same and in Europe you call the DM #6?

I'll trust you guys saying this is a good signing. We need to improve our pivot asap and Guarin isn't the answer to that. He's not a proper midfielder imo, almost like an AM.

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.

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

tbh I don't remember much of him.

#6 is the same position as Rami? In Brazil #6 is the left fb and I always mix #6 and #8 in Europe. In Brazil #5 is the most defensive guy in the pivot (DM) and #8 is the less defensive (CM or MD). I suppose the #8 is the same and in Europe you call the DM #6?

I'll trust you guys saying this is a good signing. We need to improve our pivot asap and Guarin isn't the answer to that. He's not a proper midfielder imo, almost like an AM.

In Europe:

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[Mouri_Matic 560]

Still nothing.

Give it a few moment, he is probably eating dinner atm

[Barbara 15,149]

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.

thanks you put it better than me. I think Guarin is more like Lampard style, which is a proper midfielder, but more attacking, and not really the guy to do both, defend and transition and sometimes go forward.

Thanks for the #6 explanation. I think we need a DM that knows how to play as Mourinho would say, the kind of guy that can pick not a pass, but passes, most of them.

[Pizy 18,877]

The lack of Matic at Heathrow pics is disturbing.

[DanishBlue 426]

I haven't seen this guy play (beside the games against Chelsea) and because of that I know close to nothing about his skills, but I really hope he is as good as people say he is (I read a lot of positive things about him).

It doesn't take much to improve our pivot so I guess i'll cross my fingers for this deal to happen.

[teignman 441]

Another thing, we don't have financial problems.

We have the same financial problems

Your credibility on this subject looks tenuous at best.

So you know more about Benfica than me?

I wouldn't have thought so from the outset, but in a financial sense, it's looking increasingly likely.

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€.

I did take into account the money that your club receives up front from TPO's, such as the Benfica Stars Fund. Also, I noticed you failed to mention the transfers where Benfica fared far worse (the Di Maria, Coentrao, or the Ramires transfer,where Benfica received only 20% of the transfer fee) when citing an example.

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.

I wouldn't be surprised in the least if this was bandied about during the negotiations for Matic.

[lionsden 4,689]

So have we signed him or not?

[laeth 527]

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/jan/13/jose-mourinho-chelsea-nemanja-matic

Chelsea to re-sign midfielder Nemanja Matic from Benfica for £22m

• Serbia international returns to club he left in January 2011
• Kevin De Bruyne to join Wolfsburg for £18m

[Special Juan 28,133]

So have we signed him or not?

No.

[laeth 527]

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/9115041/transfer-news-benfica-midfielder-nemanja-matic-open-to-chelsea-return

Transfer News: Benfica midfielder Nemanja Matic open to Chelsea return

Matic was quoted by A Bola as saying: "I still can't say anything about this, let's see what happens in the future, you have to ask the club and the president."

And, when asked about a move to Chelsea, Matic replied: "If it's good for the club and for me, we'll talk. Let's see what happens until 31 January."

[Thendo 1,088]

Matic was quoted by A Bola as saying: "I still can't say anything about this, let's see what happens in the future, you have to ask the club and the president."

And, when asked about a move to Chelsea, Matic replied: "If it's good for the club and for me, we'll talk. Let's see what happens until 31 January."

(http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/9115041/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter)

Quite confident we'll get him now, otherwise he would have said he's staying or something along that line. Might have to wait a couple of days before we get anything offical tho.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

He just talked to portuguese television 1 minute ago.

He said "i am still a Benfica player"

Well he clearly isnt a Chelsea player yet. what else did you expect him to say