Who needs him, we've got Rob Green.

Robert Green, A Great American Hero

 

Edited August 7, 20187 yr by robdog

Rob Green, Chelsea saviour.

 

Journo on another station said Kepa is very happy where he is and unlikely to want to move over here.

3 hours ago, Blueblur said:

Forget about how good he is, think of the puns!

"He KEPt that out!" 

"He's a KeePEr!"

"Sweeper Kepa!"

And so forth. 

Let's hope he's not a "dodgy kepa"

Bilbao have announced it, Kepa's termination clause has been activated.

Roman still cares, there was no way we'd end up with a Joe Hart or Reina. Let's hope we tie Kepa's contract up once he has a good season or two. We over paid, but at least we won't be looking for a GK every season had we signed an average and over the hill GK.

8 minutes ago, icecoolguy22 said:

Roman still cares, there was no way we'd end up with a Joe Hart or Reina. Let's hope we tie Kepa's contract up once he has a good season or two. We over paid, but at least we won't be looking for a GK every season had we signed an average and over the hill GK.

Do we not do 'buy out clauses'

Sky reporting that he’s ‘bought himself out of his contract’. Does that not then make him a free agent and we’d pay nothing for him, the wording seems strange.

Just now, EdinburghBlue said:

Sky reporting that he’s ‘bought himself out of his contract’. Does that not then make him a free agent and we’d pay nothing for him, the wording seems strange.

Pretty sure that is how buy out clauses work in Spain. Similar to when Neymar went to PSG. Basically we give Kepa 70 mil and tell him to go free himself from his contract and then we sign him. 

5 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Pretty sure that is how buy out clauses work in Spain. Similar to when Neymar went to PSG. Basically we give Kepa 70 mil and tell him to go free himself from his contract and then we sign him. 

Ah sweet, cheers! Did not have any idea that’s how it worked over there - just as well he didn’t do a runner with the money 

8 minutes ago, EdinburghBlue said:

Ah sweet, cheers! Did not have any idea that’s how it worked over there - just as well he didn’t do a runner with the money 

haha, i might be wrong, and i'm sure someone will correct me if so, but i seem to remember that's how the Neymar deal worked. 

A release clause in Spain applies to only the selling party and the player. A player is entitled to buy himself out of his contract at any time and the release clause is the agreed price. 

Where it gets interesting is that only domestic clubs are allowed to meet the clause directly; overseas clubs must meet the clause requirements, plus taxes (VAT, income tax on the transfer payment) which makes it significantly more expensive. That's why Barca, Madrid, Sevilla and Atletico Madrid appear to stock their teams with Spanish players on the cheap. 

If Kepa's fee is just €80m, either his actual clause is in the €35-40m range or Athletic Bilbao were willing to sell and waive taxes.

26 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

Pretty sure that is how buy out clauses work in Spain. Similar to when Neymar went to PSG. Basically we give Kepa 70 mil and 

9 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

haha, i might be wrong, and i'm sure someone will correct me if so, but i seem to remember that's how the Neymar deal worked. 

15 minutes ago, RIP Mourinho said:

haha, i might be wrong, and i'm sure someone will correct me if so, but i seem to remember that's how the Neymar deal worked. 

We give the money to la Liga

La Liga confirm they have the money to Bilbao

Player agrees terms, transfer confirmed, money transferred to club.

 

5 year contract at 80,000 a week.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/sport/kepa-set-to-arrive-in-london-after-chelsea-pay-record-72m-fee-5l88czvnm 

In the end I don't care about the money - it isn't mine after all. I'm just apprehensive with him being largely an unknown quantity. The poll above has 12 named options and he isn't one of them. Fingers crossed he's good enough to allow our weak goal scoring enough to collect 3 points more often than not.

36 minutes ago, SydneyChelsea said:

A release clause in Spain applies to only the selling party and the player. A player is entitled to buy himself out of his contract at any time and the release clause is the agreed price. 

Where it gets interesting is that only domestic clubs are allowed to meet the clause directly; overseas clubs must meet the clause requirements, plus taxes (VAT, income tax on the transfer payment) which makes it significantly more expensive. That's why Barca, Madrid, Sevilla and Atletico Madrid appear to stock their teams with Spanish players on the cheap. 

If Kepa's fee is just €80m, either his actual clause is in the €35-40m range or Athletic Bilbao were willing to sell and waive taxes.

Pretty sure that VAT  isn’t payable on transfers within the EU. 

2 hours ago, Snedger said:

In the end I don't care about the money - it isn't mine after all. I'm just apprehensive with him being largely an unknown quantity. The poll above has 12 named options and he isn't one of them. Fingers crossed he's good enough to allow our weak goal scoring enough to collect 3 points more often than not.

I bet most (initial) polls asking who Chelsea fans wanted to replace Mourinho didn't include Conte and that went allright.

Does this signing mean we won't hear anymore from @brakeit until its the second day of the transfer window and we haven't spent £1bn yet?

I'm pleased with this signing!

However, we are still desperstely short of firepower up front, so fingers crossed we can pull a rabbit out the bag and buy someone who can put the ball in the net.

1 hour ago, Argo said:

Does this signing mean we won't hear anymore from @brakeit until its the second day of the transfer window and we haven't spent £1bn yet?

I bet bluedoctor or doctorblue whatever his name is, is already thinking up a childish conversion of his name in case he has 20 unconvincing minutes  

1 hour ago, Argo said:

Does this signing mean we won't hear anymore from @brakeit until its the second day of the transfer window and we haven't spent £1bn yet?

Fortunately he’s banned and we never have to hear from him again. 

People here vastly underestimating the amount of laughs I got out of Brakeit posts.  It was worth it for me to keep him around!  Plus I wouldn't be so quick to dispel the rumors that Brakeit was actually Conte himself...

1 minute ago, Munkworth said:

Fortunately he’s banned and we never have to hear from him again. 

Unfortunately there are others who do a great impression of him.