Skybet odds have moved out from yesterday's 1/12 to now 8/11, which is quite a shift ... albeit still the "most likely" outcome is a transfer, but only marginally from the other possibility of "stays at Benfica". 

23 minutes ago, LongtimerLurker said:

 

 

 

This is what I said yesterday

 

16 minutes ago, JM7 said:

Chelsea and Benfica are not close to reaching an agreement for Enzo Fernández, and, at this time, the transfer looks complicated despite the offer of €120 million in six payments.

Chelsea continue trying to unlock the departure of the Argentine.

#CFC

(@CLMerlo)

This is false, its 1 major payment and 4 smaller installements.

Edited January 31, 20233 yr by PrinceOfPortugal

 More exciting than the actual game. 
 

who was our last great Argentinian midfielder. Would that be Juan Sebastian veron?

Edited January 31, 20233 yr by ozboy

1 minute ago, PrinceOfPortugal said:

This is what I said earlier today. 

 

This is false, its 1 major payment and 4 smaller installements.

Thank you once more, Rui. Now just accept our offer.

Anyone else losing faith this will happen?

1 minute ago, ozboy said:

 More exciting than the actual game. 
 

who was our last great Argentinian midfielder. Would that be Juan Sebastian veron?

Veron is the only one i can think of. Outside of that we've had a few strikers (Crespo, Higuain, Di Santo) and then Cabellero

2 minutes ago, drjonesy1994 said:

Anyone else losing faith this will happen?

I've never thought it will happen.

Still the weirdest deal of this window is Cancelo to Bayern on loan...

16 minutes ago, ozboy said:

 More exciting than the actual game. 
 

who was our last great Argentinian midfielder. Would that be Juan Sebastian veron?

You could maybe argue Mascherano, different profile of "great midfielder" and can't really remember if he played much CB for Pool like he did for Barcelona later but still an excellent destroyer imo. 

Losing Jorginho to a direct rival without securing a midfield replacement would actually be a disgrace.

Surely this means we're confident this will happen?

9 minutes ago, TomCFC85 said:

Losing Jorginho to a direct rival without securing a midfield replacement would actually be a disgrace.

Surely this means we're confident this will happen?

Deal has been done, only talks now about the payment plan. 

7 minutes ago, PrinceOfPortugal said:

Deal has been done, only talks now about the payment plan. 

Its never doen until he is signed on the line and the paperwork has been submitted

54 minutes ago, drjonesy1994 said:

Anyone else losing faith this will happen?

From all the reports it sounds like Rui Costa is the one that we can’t get through to negotiating.

I just can't see this happening to be honest, it's midday already and nothing more seems to have happened. That's half of the day gone.

5 minutes ago, Frankie8Lampard said:

From all the reports it sounds like Rui Costa is the one that we can’t get through to negotiating.

Reason is Chelsea wants to pay 70€ million now and rest split to 4 years unevenly, probably due to financial planning by Chelsea.

Now as Jorginho deal is done, Chelsea will make Mr. Costa happy and agree to his asking.

18 minutes ago, PrinceOfPortugal said:

Deal has been done, only talks now about the payment plan. 

If it is just a disagreement over the payment plan you would think they could work something out. Perhaps Boehly first needs to wrap up a couple of player sales in order to balance books for FFP. If there is more money up front it won't fit as well with his 7 year plan in that respect.

That being said it feels as though we have hit a bit of a roadblock based on the way the story has gone quite today so I am not too confident at this point.

1 minute ago, forbzy said:

If it is just a disagreement over the payment plan you would think they could work something out. Perhaps Boehly first needs to wrap up a couple of player sales in order to balance books for FFP. If there is more money up front it won't fit as well with his 7 year plan in that respect.

That being said it feels as though we have hit a bit of a roadblock based on the way the story has gone quite today so I am not too confident at this point.

Yes its only the payment plan. Nothing else.

Rui Costas office must be absolutely packed to the rafters. There are literally dozens and dozens of people who seem to know exactly the situation in the negotiations. No wonder it's getting nowhere if they are spending more time keeping legions of Twitter based sports 'journalists' up to date on proceedings than transferring the player.

 

38 minutes ago, PrinceOfPortugal said:

Deal has been done, only talks now about the payment plan. 

That sounds like its not done to me.

RTP is the equivalent of BBC in Portugal isn't it?

In that case he's staying and we are complete idiots for letting Jorginho leave.

Its all twitter waffle. Been down this road on so many occasions by now. Is Frenkie De Jong available!

If I had to guess, we're waiting because Benfica need to line up a replacement and/or Chelsea need to find some more funds to bump up the initial payment

13 minutes ago, DarkMata said:

That sounds like its not done to me.

If that information is correct I would say the overall fee has been agreed, but the 2 clubs have yet to reach an agreement over the payment structure.

2 minutes ago, OriginalS said:

RTP is the equivalent of BBC in Portugal isn't it?

That seems to be the case.