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Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 11:32 am**

tend to focus my attention on the russian and ukrainian leagues so not seen much of this matic guy
just know that he 'didn't make it' at chelsea but that they now want him back...?
supposedly we are also in for him for garcia + £20m
thoughts?

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 12:58 pm**

My grandma vs Garcia. I pay lot of attention on Finnish retirement home bridge leahues. Supposedly Grim Reaper is in for her but 20 quid worth of diapers would do it. I don't think they'd accept Garcia though since they have lot of people still moving on their own feet and don't need slower guys who need wheelchair.

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 4:07 pm**

Nigels Tackle wrote:tend to focus my attention on the russian and ukrainian leagues so not seen much of this matic guy
just know that he 'didn't make it' at chelsea but that they now want him back...?
supposedly we are also in for him for garcia + £20m
thoughts?

Or £15m straight cash.

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 5:07 pm**

[youtube]VjPS6e4-tvU[/youtube]

Quick on his feet, seems good in the video atleast

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 6:19 pm**

Bleed_Blue wrote:[youtube]VjPS6e4-tvU[/youtube]

Quick on his feet, seems good in the video atleast

With all due respect, I wouldn't pay too much attention to you tube clips.
We could make one of Garcia and make him look like zidane.

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 8:17 pm**

sheblue wrote:
With all due respect, I wouldn't pay too much attention to you tube clips.
We could make one of Garcia and make him look like zidane.

Can you do it quick - the transfer window opens in a couple of days.

Posted: **Sun Dec 29, 2013 9:14 pm**

I see he's 6 foot 4 . How quick is he? We really don't want another slow paced midfielder. Let's get more pace into the side FFS.

Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:02 am**

blues2win wrote:I see he's 6 foot 4 . How quick is he? We really don't want another slow paced midfielder. Let's get more pace into the side FFS.

I guess if he's faster than Garcia he'll do

Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:23 am**

blues2win wrote:I see he's 6 foot 4 . How quick is he? We really don't want another slow paced midfielder. Let's get more pace into the side FFS.

Allan Wells Olympic 100m champion was a six-footer so away with your short-arsed propaganda nonsense. :-)

Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:00 pm**

blues2win wrote:I see he's 6 foot 4 . How quick is he? We really don't want another slow paced midfielder. Let's get more pace into the side FFS.

Here is your answer which you will not like :

http://sabotagetimes.com/football/neman ... city-again

Matič has proved exceptionally versatile at Benfica playing the deeper role in the Benfica midfield alongside Enzo Perez. He’s tall and strong (6 ft 4in), shields the ball well and breaks up the play with well-timed tackles. He works hard when the opposition has the ball, but his main strength lies in his ability to launch an attack from deep, to turn quickly with the confidence to run with the ball himself and beat players or pick out a teammate in space, in particular lead striker Óscar Cardozo. He has also proved effectively in unlocking teams, which try to park the bus with delicate lobs and chips into the penalty area. Perhaps his only major weakness is out and out pace but given his other qualities and the pace of teammates such as Ola John, this hasn’t proved to be much of a problem. The only other question is how Matič might perform over a full season in a more competitive and physical league such as the Premiership or the Bundesliga?

Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 5:36 pm**

I didn't say he was slow I was just asking! Typically very tall players aren't blessed with lightning pace but there are exceptions obviously. The attached article isn't encouraging.

Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 6:20 pm**

blues2win wrote:I didn't say he was slow I was just asking! Typically very tall players aren't blessed with lightning pace but there are exceptions obviously. The attached article isn't encouraging.

I agree, he can be long term replacement for Toure

Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 6:23 pm**

Bleed_Blue wrote:
blues2win wrote:I didn't say he was slow I was just asking! Typically very tall players aren't blessed with lightning pace but there are exceptions obviously. The attached article isn't encouraging.

I agree, he can be long term replacement for Toure

Sorry mate, but there isn`t a player in the world that can be a replacement for Yaya. That is what makes him unique, never seen a player like him in the last 15-20 years in this game.

Posted: **Mon Dec 30, 2013 7:21 pm**

Bleed_Blue wrote:
blues2win wrote:I didn't say he was slow I was just asking! Typically very tall players aren't blessed with lightning pace but there are exceptions obviously. The attached article isn't encouraging.

I agree, he can be long term replacement for Toure

lol

Posted: **Mon Jan 13, 2014 9:25 pm**

Apparently chelsea are back in for him:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/201 ... anja-matic

Chelsea are to re-sign Nemanja Matic for an eye-catching fee of around £22m, a vastly inflated price from the valuation attached to the Serbia midfielder when he was allowed to leave and join Benfica three years ago.

Matic is due at Cobham on Tuesday to undertake a medical with the clubs close to agreeing a price for the 25-year-old, who has been capped nine times. The defensive midfielder had pushed for a return to Stamford Bridge after a hugely impressive spell in Lisbon, with the outlay to bring him back to England to fall well short of the £37m buy-out clause in the player's contract. He is expected to sign a contract to 2017.

Yet the fee remains remarkable given Chelsea had considered Matic to be only a makeweight in the deal which brought David Luiz from Benfica in the 2011 mid-winter window, the midfielder's valuation at the time being placed at around £3m. The vast difference will be partly offset by the sale of Kevin De Bruyne to Wolfsburg for around £18m, with that transfer finally to be concluded in the next 24 hours.

A bit mental to buy a player for 1.5 mil, sell them for 3 mil, then buy them back 3 years later for 22 mil!

But if chelsea do get a great defensive mid like him, it'll make them a good deal stronger. Along with striker, a holding mid is one of the only critical areas where they are weak.

Posted: **Mon Jan 13, 2014 11:01 pm**

García much improved as of late. El Conde has done a good job with a few of the fringe players actually.

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