Luka Modric

[Vóx 18]

Yes and as usual, what I highly rate about Porto is that they buy replacements out of the unknown to replace them. Look at James Rodriguez, Danilo and Defour. Iturbe and recently signed Jackson Martinez will turn into the next Falcao I am sure

It´s our way of keeping competitive.

[Naked Mole Rat 437]

I think there will be more pleased Spurs fans than upset. If Chelsea had Modric and he wanted to leave, would you rather sell him to Madrid for £24m, or to one of your closest rivals (let's use United for example), which will improve their team greatly, for £40m?

Madrid for me.

No, they should be pretty pissed. This is pretty much second to the worst scenario possible. They could have either kept him or gotten so much more money for him until AVB decided to screw up everything, and now they have no Modric, less money, and they're going to have a hard time trying to purchase Moutinho because Porto is a very smart club.

[diskoviolente 425]

How do you know that it´s AVBs fault ?

[TorontoChelsea 4,064]

Don't agree with this. If we were talking a couple of mill difference then yes but we're talking potentially in excess of £15m - that is almost what spurs have paid to buy Sigurdsson AND Vertonghen!

A big club would have no qualms selling to a league rival for that difference in money as they would be confident of using such money to improve their squad. They also generally know when best to offload a player. As Spurs can't offer champions league they know they'll struggle to replace modric and have well and truly made a mess of this!

It's not an excess of 15M difference. The add-ons will probably take the Madrid deal to about 30-35M. So, they lost out on probably about 5-10M pounds, but got to keep Modric for a year and got to sell him out of England. In retrospect, they probably should have sold him to Chelsea last season (40M is an insane offer for a central midfielder) but they didn't know they were going to miss out on the CL and be forced to get rid of Modric. Under the circumstance, 30M is definitely a decent price but we'll see how they choose to spend it. Not nearly as worried about Spurs as I am about the Manchester clubs.

[GoldChelsea 7]

Modric va venir a chelsea ?

[jakeheath 19]

ENGLISH!...please

[couris 232]

Modric va venir a chelsea ?

Non aucune chance

[iamjack 8]

Such a shame he is not joining us . I'm still dreaming of getting him on deadline day £30 million + Meireles.

[ZanSnake 1,211]

Such a shame he is not joining us . I'm still dreaming of getting him on deadline day £30 million + Meireles.

Usual Chelsea deal on deadline - a transfer to make Jim to show his brilliance:D

[Melanicus 5,208]

Here in Slovenia there are rumours, that Mourinho is pissed off by Levy and Luka will stay in London. lol.

[Kezza 1,965]

Haha he's making such a bad name for himself. Could potentially affect future business when buying players.

[blue_swaggin_96 96]

all thiis xabi talking rejecting new contract i can see him leaving! Real is waiting on how modric will turn out! is it a fair replacement? i doubt his anywhere near xabi level.

[Gianfranco_Z 202]

@GuillemBalague

Chelsea have made an approach for Modric, willing to offer 40m+. Levy delying deal with Madrid after agreeing fee. Modric wants 2 go 2 Real

Source: Twitter.

Surely not again?

[themightyblue 443]

Guillem Balague ‏@GuillemBalague

Chelsea have made an approach for Modric, willing to offer 40m+. Levy delying deal with Madrid after agreeing fee. Modric wants 2 go 2 Real

Go on Roman

[Hutcho 8,443]

Can't believe modric talk is starting again, i think its just a matter of time before he goes to real. Still you seem to never know with football but i don't think its very likely.

[zolayes 14,489]

:fainthv9: :fainthv9:

[NiclasCFC 2,582]

Chelsea have made an approach for Modric and are willing to offer more than £31.4m. Modric wants Real Madrid. [via @guillembalague]

[xPetrCechx 13,563]

He wants real? last year he wanted chelsea.... i think we can give more than real... cammon levy lol...