Nemanja Matic

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

£25 million. Good player, but are we seriously going to buy back a player we let go for what worked out to be about £3-4 million? That seems utterly ridiculous and simply emphasises our lack of patience with young players.

Be interesting to see if we chuck in a young player this time.

I'm not bothered at all by that. One player in about 15 years and hundreds of youngsters that we let go that turned out to be any good. Who is the second best youngster we let go in that period? Jack Cork? Robert Huth? When you have so many people coming through, one or two will eventually turn out to be good. You can't keep everyone just because of that. I think we do have an issue beyond what we've already spoken of and that is we simply have too many young players. It is possible to work one maybe two players into roles on your team if you don't have too much depth, but we have a lot of depth already and still go out and buy as many young players as we can. Look at our attacking midfielders. We have too many on the team right now so that De Bruyne can't get playing time. On loan, we have Piazon, Moses, Marin, Kakuta, Atsu, and T. Hazard. What's the point? There is no room to work in a single player, even one who had success in the Bundesliga, why do we keep buying more young players? (I know the answer and I hate it. It's for profit. It's a horrible hole in the football system where rich clubs can afford to buy players and then sell them for more later.99% of clubs can't spent 7M on Piazon and loan him out because 7M pounds is a huge part of their budget and they need someone who can help them now. I really think football needs to institute rules on how many people you can loan out to prevent this sort of thing. It's good for Chelsea but bad for football.)

[Despiadado.Maleante 1,046]

No way worth 25m. His being playing in a pretty average league and only has 9 caps for serbia since in debut in 2008.

Cabaye would be a much safer buy for a similar price

[The only place to be 11,313]

It's good for Chelsea but bad for football

How many things could you say that about?

Personally I'd rather we went after Cabaye for roughly the same money.

[lucio 5,418]

No way worth 25m. His being playing in a pretty average league and only has 9 caps for serbia since in debut in 2008.

Cabaye would be a much safer buy for a similar price

he dosent play for serbia over a dispute with the manager.

[Tomo 21,751]

I'm not bothered at all by that. One player in about 15 years and hundreds of youngsters that we let go that turned out to be any good. Who is the second best youngster we let go in that period? Jack Cork? Robert Huth? When you have so many people coming through, one or two will eventually turn out to be good. You can't keep everyone just because of that.

Exactly, for one Matic or Sturridge there's 20 (maybe more) Borini's, Mancienne's Sinclair's or Di Santo's, which is quite funny i remember being told we would regret it when we let those 4 forenamed players. Although i do think Cork should have stayed and been the versatile homegrown, squad player.

[Rekin 835]

Matic was not that good in his first full season at Benfica, but in my opinion he was one of the league's best players in the second one.
A friend of mine who follows the portugese league religiously had this to say about him:

"After he got out of Witsel's shadow he became immense, better than most expected. Good vision, passing ability, has a good shot and keeps calm under pressure (very good at shielding the ball). He also works extremely hard during games, gives it all he got. One of the better players in Portugal last season.
He is however quite a slow player, and it is not certain that he would fit english football very well. Having said that, Ramires would be a good complement next to him."

Matic and Zouma would be good transfers. I still prefer Lars Bender though, is there any truth to him having quite a low release clause in the coming summer?

[José Mateus 46]

Matic used to be a sub for Javi Garcia. He just proved to be 5x the player Javi was for us.

http://abload.de/img/maticvsolhanenselwu9e.gif

His goal yesterday.

[jasonlol 154]

http://sulia.com/channel/soccer/f/1163b0ec-ee49-4342-b5e4-2546db06a992/?source=twitter

Duncan Castles reporting Mourihno will have chance to buy dm in january and matic is on his list. Would be buzzing if it happened.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

I totally forgot that benfica didnt qualify for champs league knockout stage. And its now 2 seasons in a row. We wont have a better chance to sign Matic at a cheap rate and solve our pivot once and for all.

[CHOULO19 24,332]

£25 million. Good player, but are we seriously going to buy back a player we let go for what worked out to be about £3-4 million? That seems utterly ridiculous and simply emphasises our lack of patience with young players.

Be interesting to see if we chuck in a young player this time.

Actually didn't we include him in the Luiz deal to knock 2m off the price?

Would be a huge f*** you to our board if this does happen.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Actually didn't we include him in the Luiz deal to knock 2m off the price?

Would be a huge f*** you to our board if this does happen.

The mistake we made was not to include a buy back clause. Like madrid did for carvajal. I hope they learn their lesson now lol

[Toli 977]

I still dont think that he is worth the money. he isnt that much better in terms of offensive play, than the DMs we have (from what I have seen). he is maybe more mobile than Mikel and has a better shot definetely, but he aint creative at all and he is more someone who destroys than builds up a game...so I am kinda torn between buying or not buying. he has his qualities, but not really what we need and futhermore I think with 25-30 m we would pay over the odds for Nemanja. And he hasnt really proven himself internationally at all. playing godd in portugal or in the EPL is really something different.

[lucio 5,418]

I still dont think that he is worth the money. he isnt that much better in terms of offensive play, than the DMs we have (from what I have seen). he is maybe more mobile than Mikel and has a better shot definetely, but he aint creative at all and he is more someone who destroys than builds up a game...so I am kinda torn between buying or not buying. he has his qualities, but not really what we need and futhermore I think with 25-30 m we would pay over the odds for Nemanja. And he hasnt really proven himself internationally at all. playing godd in portugal or in the EPL is really something different.

not creative at all?

he actually has pretty good vision and can pick attacking passes

[Toli 977]

Most of the video is showing headers or him taking away the ball and passing it to the guy staying next to him . technically he is better than mikel ans also faster and more mobile, but he aint a creative player like Modric/Alonso/Pirlo/Arteta and Co at all.

[wilander 35]

I prefer Guarin + Matic to Essien + Mikel