Nemanja Matic

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

Gianluca Di Marzio ‏@dimarzio55s

Tomorrow #matic (@SL_Benfica) will have his medical in London with @chelseafc: deal done

Bit more comforting hearing it from him than our media

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Why? It's not like we must sell players before we buy... We're not Spurs. It just happens to be a good oppertunity for KdB to leave and us getting good profit from it. I do think we would have gone for Matic even if we didn't have plans to sell Kevin.

Where is our fund? Just posted a loss of 60m and that hasn't included last summer spending yet I don't think

[Thendo 1,088]

Where is our fund? Just posted a loss of 60m and that hasn't included last summer spending yet I don't think

Don't want to get off-topic about all that, but with new sponsor-deals and reaching knock out stages in CL etc, I highly doubt that it's bad as the media makes out. And still there is a transfer window this summer so every oppertunity in the world to sell KdB. So I don't see why we would be "Massively fucked" if the KdB deal somehow crashed...

[BenIsLegend 475]

This is the hardest part of a transfer for me. Trying to not get excited incase it turns out to be wrong.

[chrismada9 1,948]

Well I'm glad we're bringing back this guy and not signing Fredy Guarin!

[Sheva. 5,373]

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

A more reliable source than many of those posted before.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

Well I'm glad we're bringing back this guy and not signing Fredy Guarin!

Brilliant strategy by the board. Scare the hell out of everybody by starting the Guarin rumors then announce the signing of Matic so every one would be ten times as excited and happy!

[DROGBAtheGOAT 29]

I just read a report that our bid is £29 million for him....... Seems a bit ridiculous that we are spending that much on a non dlp/cdm.

[lionsden 4,689]

Gianluca Di Marzio ‏@dimarzio55s

Tomorrow #matic (@SL_Benfica) will have his medical in London with @chelseafc: deal done

Hopefully he gets it right this time unlike the Cavani one.

[lionsden 4,689]

Btw who was responsible for his signing the first time around. was it arnesen or De viser?

[HD3D 1,038]

That is false. You know how portuguese media are. He never refused to play against Porto and he's not demanding anything.

Look at him all sad yesterday

Actually, if you look close enough, you can see it in his eyes the real reason he is happy there is because Benfica told him they will let him go to Chelsea.

[HD3D 1,038]

United fans are so f*ing mad right now LOL, I love it! They have been drooling over Matic all year and apparently came very lose to signing him during the summer before the einstein Moyes chose to spend the money on Fellaini instead.

This club really seems to have turned into a joke.

[Berke 58]

He can't play in Champion League right?

No sir. Glad we've got him though

[Ainsley Harriott 2,732]

He can't play in Champion League right?

No.

[Pizy 18,368]

I'm scared I'm gonna wake up tomorrow excited to check twitter to see Chelsea tweet about the Matic signing, but to my shock and horror we've signed Guarin instead.

[Korea 734]

Nice. Steel in the midfield....

I would still go after another CM if we do sign Matic.

[ChelseaFanUK 1,014]

I'm scared I'm gonna wake up tomorrow excited to check twitter to see Chelsea tweet about the Matic signing, but to my shock and horror we've signed Guarin instead.

Mirror reckon could be both in by end of window

[Pizy 18,368]

Mirror reckon could be both in by end of window

The hell?

Could be a decent depth signing in the summer once Lamps and Essien are gone but now? Unless Jose wants to play 4-3-3.