just seen this flash up on BBC sport, where did this come from? and Godin? centre back? what about Luiz? Aguero though Apparently its been rejected

£52m for the two, it does seem odd

Jesus christ, £52 mill for both apparently. Is this for real? Now that is a statement of intent if true.

Edited January 25, 201115 yr by dkw

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/25012011/2/atletico-coach-reject-bids-aguero.html

Some gomer on another forum I use claimed we had bid £52 million for Aguero.

Try to get him in the summer.

I thought Aguero's release clause was £38m on his new contract?

Isnt Aguero`s buyout £42m? So does that mean £10m for Godin?

why not 45 mill just for aguero.

Well, if the bid is equal to or bigger than the release clause, how can the club turn it down? I thought in these cases only the player's desire to stay can prevent the sale from happening.

It does seem odd if were in for Luiz, that means we would be aiming to have 5 top class centre backs

Apparently the bid was turned down last week, and rumours are we have went back with a new bid but there has been no response from Madrid as of yet.

Official: Real Madrid Sign Emmanuel Adebayor On Loan From Manchester City

Don't believe a word of it. They are to trying to create a bidding war and want Man City alerted to it. Fack 'em, greedy sods !!

Don't believe a word of it. They are to trying to create a bidding war and want Man City alerted to it. Fack 'em, greedy sods !!

I heard from a good source we did offer £40 million for Aguero in the summer but they wanted £45 million so we walked away we might have gone back with an improved offer

This is really out of the blue. I just saw by accident "Chelsea fail in £52million bid" at the top ofthe BBC page, I was completely baffled. Considering David Luiz *seems* to be on the verge, the Godin part was the most confusing, but the figure is most definitely, like dkw said, a statement of intent. Sign Luiz in the coming 24 hours, and then have a massive 5 day attempt to finally get Aguero on deadline day. That'd do me nicely.

don't understand how this could be true in the slightest if were prepared to spend 52m we should just sign aguero for his buy out clause.

Well this really did come out of nowhere, but if true as the BBC has said its surely a sign that Abramovich has not lost interest then has he?

Just focus on young Sergio...!

Get them or not - it sure sticks 2 fingers up to those who say Roman has lost interested.

I just don't see how this is true. Surely Athletico would not have turned that down?!

Stunning headline though! Takes me back a few years...

Release clauses can only be triggered by a fellow league club. That valuation is meaningless to us or I am sure we wouldve just gotten the one player.

As it is, I really dont believe it either. 52 million for one player who is rated at 38, and another 24 year old CB, when we have a deal for another CB almost tied up.

These European clubs are so absolutely full of sh*t sometimes. They are clearly trying to create a bidding war like Iceman said. Again, why the hell would we want Diego Godin.

Please let this be true! I'm no Christian but please god, just please!

Guys, i dont mean to be a jerkoff, but please dont get too excited, because I think this is just the Athletic brass peacocking for everyone to try and jump start their season.

Guys, i dont mean to be a jerkoff, but please dont get too excited, because I think this is just the Athletic brass peacocking for everyone to try and jump start their season.

totally agree

If Luiz is coming then I really can't see why we would go for Godin. He's a good defender whom I really liked during the World Cup, but we have JT and Ivan with Alex returning and Luiz possibly coming. That really should be enough. Even if we want to strengthen the squad I really can't see us spending loads on a player who will be backup for the backup.

As for Aguero, now there's a player we really should try to get. But there's still be problem with the wages. If I recall correctly we were close to getting him awhile ago, but in the end we couldn't accept his demands. His wages would be way over the likes of JT and Lampard and we couldn't accept that.

And we already have very high wages for such a small squad and have just got rid for a bunch of players to lower our wages. Would we really agree on paying Aguero like £200.000 a week? Or more?

And wouldn't his wages mean that Terrys and Lampards wages would rise as well to make them the top earners at Chelsea?

I'd love to get Aguero, but I really can't see us getting him :(