Filipe Luís

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

What if he decides not to come? Do we go for Shaw?

Would you refuse a three-year contract worth €4.5 per annum at 29?!

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Chelsea close in on triple summer transfer raid

Mourinho wants Costa, Tiago and Luis at Stamford Bridge next term

http://www.getwestlondon.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/chelsea-close-triple-transfer-raid-7186471?utm_source=Get+West+London&utm_medium=twitter

[didierforever 7,349]

so basically ATM will lose costa, thobaut, luis, thiago, koke and probably miranda.

shame!!!!!

good for us though!!!

[Rom2013 446]

In that article they say that the buy out clause is 24M€, the player want to play for us because he will have a salary of more than 4M€/season, and the good relations between clubs and the opinion of the player can make us pay less then the value of the buy out clause,

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Chelsea are hopeful all three deals for Diego Costa, Tiago and Filipe Luis are concluded before the World Cup starts on June 12 (Times) #CFC

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

Would you refuse a three-year contract worth €4.5 per annum at 29?!

Especially with history of injuries. Might as well take the safe option for your career . I hope he doesn't pick up many injuries here though.

[MrBlueGuy 1,552]

In that article they say that the buy out clause is 24M€, the player want to play for us because he will have a salary of more than 4M€/season, and the good relations between clubs and the opinion of the player can make us pay less then the value of the buy out clause,

Good relation after we are about to get 3 of the most important players in their 1st team LOL, doesn't matter much that we loan them Courtois for 3 seasons.

[sodasys 40]

Chelsea are seriously interested in landing Atletico left back Filipe Luis and would be willing to pay 25 million euros. #CFC (Cadena Cope)

[sodasys 40]

The agent of #Chelsea target and Atletico madrid defender, Felipe Luis have confirmed #Chelsea interest in the star man (AS)

[Toli 977]

According to his agent, we are interested in Luis but Atletico does not want to sell him. His release clause is 24 m.

http://futbol.as.com/futbol/2014/05/30/primera/1401410951_040831.html

[CHOULO19 24,332]

According to his agent, we are interested in Luis but Atletico does not want to sell him. His release clause is 24 m.

http://futbol.as.com/futbol/2014/05/30/primera/1401410951_040831.html

They don't have a choice if we trigger his buy-out clause.

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Why buy him? In a position where pace is important, he can only get slower as he is 29. Very strange signing IMO

[The only place to be 11,313]

Why buy him? In a position where pace is important, he can only get slower as he is 29. Very strange signing IMO

There seems to be a dearth of decent options. Apart from Coentrao who seems a bit of a long shot and probably expensive, the other options seem to be youngsters like Moreno, Shaw and Rodriguez none of whom is all that proven or cheap.

It's not like we have an aversion to buying young players in that sweet spot of early-20s (Schurrle, Azpi, Hazard etc.) but there simply don't appear to be many out there. As it is we're probably getting the best one currently available. Sometimes it's too easy to get caught up in 'the future' (I'm probably as guilty of that as anyone) but two-three years is a long time. That's a lot of weekends, a lot of matches and a lot of matchday threads to post comments about how good Luis looks.

If we get three years out of him then that's only 5 months less than we got out of David Luiz. It's a deceptively long period of time.

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

Why Not Moreno, Shaw and Rodriguez?!@@

[Shaan 263]

Why Not Moreno, Shaw and Rodriguez?!@@

maybe mourinho wants luis as he is proven at the highest level (cl) ?

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

Why buy him? In a position where pace is important, he can only get slower as he is 29. Very strange signing IMO

Who else then? Is Mourinho really interested in Shaw, Rodriguez, Moreno? Or is it just us here on this forum wanting them? I've seen no rumour saying Jose is willing to match United's offer and pay €33m to Southampton and €6m per annum to the player. And nothing about Rodriguez since December. Or anything reliable about Moreno.

Filipe Luis is the "strongest" rumour about a left-back out there. Every Spanish source was quoted by saying "Mourinho rates him highly, he wants him at Chelsea, he wants to double his wages, he wants to trigger his release clause just to have him at Chelsea, the player is interested, the player is delighted with the offer, the agent confirmed" and so on.

I think we've all went through plenty of transfer windows since we follow this club and we can now make the difference between utter shite rumours and close to happening ones. To me, Courtois, Filipe Luis, Tiago and Diego Costa coming to Chelsea looks like a very strong and trustable rumour. And it won't be a bad deal either you know - Chelsea will have four regulars from the La Liga champion and the finalist of Champions League for only €63m.

[Special Juan 27,424]

Filipe Luis' agent has confirmed that Chelsea want to sign the Atletico Madrid left-back http://es.pn/1kQf3r9

[Jype 6,398]

Don't really understand why everyone is so against this. For the next few years Luis would no doubt be better than any of the other names out there and for now he would also be cheaper than for example Shaw in both transfer fee and wages. While Filipe might not be as long term player as Shaw has the potential to be, he can still easily offer us four seasons at the highest level and in football that's a really long time. After that we could have a look at the market again and look for a bargain like for example Azpilicueta was while with Shaw in a few years he'd either be demanding the wages of a proven world class player if he'd come good so he would still be very expensive, or alternatively he'd just have ended up another useless young English full-back like Kyle Walker so 30m + big wages would have been a huge waste of money.

People have been playing way too much FM, where players are always bought at 18-20 and kept for ten seasons while players of 27 or older are overlooked completely as "too old". That's the way I play the game too but let's not kid ourselves and think it has anything to do with what's really going on in real life.