Edinson Cavani

[didierforever 7,349]

Another thing you have to realize is that transfer fees are amortized and Torres still has 3 years on his contract which means 30M of his transfer fee still hasn't hit our books so if he's sold this summer that's really 40M for Cavani + 30M for Torres on our books. Although then Cavani's can be amortized but that's still a 30M lump-sum hit on the transfer budget by selling Torres alone.

but the problem is if we dont sell him, we will anyways have to pay 20 mil extra for cavani (which is 4 mil for this year,considering cavani signs for 5 years) + 10 mil of his salary = 14 mil. so we just get 16 mil in losses which does not include how cavani's inclusion AND torres' exclusion would probably mean a couple of places up in PL (probably 1st), fa/carling cup and an extra round or 2 further in CL. so all in all it would not be as big a loss.

[iceboy 992]

Next days are decisive for us.

[Hutcho 8,443]

It's all well and good proposing this move. But will torres take a wage cut. Sure, we can say you won't get much playing time but he is on 175 a week at the moment. And if torres says no then it doesn't matter what Chelsea and napoli do.

I also hope if we do get cavani the wage isn't in the 250k region as has been suggested as, even if we got rid of torres that would be another 150k more on the wage bill. (jt, match highest earner clause).

[Bosnian Blue 2,471]

That Tancredi Palmeri bloke is almost as annoying as Balague.

On a second thought nope, not really like Balague, forget it.

[The Skipper 20,593]

Another thing you have to realize is that transfer fees are amortized and Torres still has 3 years on his contract which means 30M of his transfer fee still hasn't hit our books so if he's sold this summer that's really 40M for Cavani + 30M for Torres on our books. Although then Cavani's can be amortized but that's still a 30M lump-sum hit on the transfer budget by selling Torres alone.

This is basically subsidised by the wages that's freed up from him and also the €20m less that we'd be paying Napoli. It'd be interesting if the club would still be able to amortise that £30m fee over 3 years though. But yeah, the mere fact that we have to deal with this is proof that Torres was indeed a horrible, horrible transfer.

[Magic Lamps 11,452]

He will take a salary reduction. The other option is the bench and he wants to be in the World Cup squad so he can't stay on the bench or play with the reserves like Malouda did.

Torres does not give a fuck if he is in the world cup squad or if he plays a single game of football again. he has won everything and just wants to stay here another 3 years to get a big payday.

[mannyfreshh 164]

Look at the bright side fellas... At least we have jose!!! Lets see who jose brings in to take us to the top of the premiership

[Avroneel Biswas 17]

Torres

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/8769994/

[Alabama 1,992]

Media now reporting the intrusion of Real Madrid which i have great fear of...cos players would always value playing for the biggest club in the world....well lemme...#grab a popcorn with a bottle of coke and see how this Cavani's season film unfolds#

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Media now reporting the intrusion of Real Madrid which i have great fear of...cos players would always value playing for the biggest club in the world....well lemme...#grab a popcorn with a bottle of coke and see how this Cavani's season film unfolds#

And Cavani already said his dream is to play for Madrid

[cfcs most wanted 657]

i dont think that chelsea should buy Edinson Cavani,they should go for a cheaper option such as roberto lewandowski

[Avroneel Biswas 17]

i dont think that chelsea should buy Edinson Cavani,they should go for a cheaper option such as roberto lewandowski

Lewandowksi is pretty interested in moving to United than us.

[lucio 5,403]

Lewandowksi is pretty interested in moving to United than us.

based on what?

has he ever said he would like to work under moyes? no

mourinho - When asked by SportBild of the links, Lewandowski remarked that Mourinho is "a good coach" and that "to be of interest in his view is a great honour".

[DanishBlue 426]

This transfer has Hulk written all over it. A lot of ppl thought that he was ours but now it seems that we are far away from landing him with City and Real also in the running. We can't compete against those clubs so it's getting tough if they actually want him.

[ulsterchelsea 3,213]

This transfer has Hulk written all over it. A lot of ppl thought that he was ours but now it seems that we are far away from landing him with City and Real also in the running. We can't compete against those clubs so it's getting tough if they actually want him.

of course we can compete with them. Where has this underdog mindset come from? And as far as deal looking far away thats only if you've been listening to every spurious link posted on here! We have no idea how far on this deal is, it could have been no more than an enquiry. The window doesnt open for 3 weeks yet and the players aint even back till july. Some of you really need to settle yourselves or it will be a LOOOONG summer

[lucio 5,403]

we beat all comers to land hazard so i am sure we could get this guy.

however im starting to think i would prefer lewandowski. assuming he will not be allowed to go to bayern. not including penalties he scored more goals than cavani this season , would cost half the price or less , younger and a better all round player.

[BOSS 372]

we beat all comers to land hazard so i am sure we could get this guy.

however im starting to think i would prefer lewandowski. assuming he will not be allowed to go to bayern. not including penalties he scored more goals than cavani this season , would cost half the price or less , younger and a better all round player.

I would prefer Lewandowski too tbh but he is not the better player.

[Styles 9,790]

we beat all comers to land hazard so i am sure we could get this guy.

however im starting to think i would prefer lewandowski. assuming he will not be allowed to go to bayern. not including penalties he scored more goals than cavani this season , would cost half the price or less , younger and a better all round player.

Cavani's goal tally would drop without the penalties but then so would Messi and Ronaldo's. Drogba got 37 in the 09/10 season and only one of those goals was a penalty. I would trust Cavani to score 25+ without pens.

Besides that since all of our European Cup finals seem to go to penalties another specialist would be great