chelseabmw:

Chelsea have had offer in excess of €20 million for Germany winger Andre Schurrle rejected by Bayer Leverkusen.

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The Blues first showed interest in Schurrle last season but renewed their pursuit after a bid to sign Wigan Athletic's Victor Moses hit the skids last month.

Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo is keen to bolster the attacking options of his side and Schurrle, who played in Germany's 4-2 win over Greece at Euro 2012, is able to play out wide or up front.

However, the Werkself have decided to keep hold of their 21-year-old attacker, rather than cash in on a young player who scored nine goals last term.

"We were presented with a very concrete offer from Chelsea for Andre of beyond the €20 million mark. The sum was pushed back and forth between the two clubs, but we eventually opted to hold on to Andre," Bayer Leverkusen CEO Wolfgang Holzhauser is quoted as saying by German news agency SID.

"Andre is very valuable for us on the pitch. He has also made it very clear that he is happy to stay with us."

Chelsea have already bolstered their attacking options with the capture of Eden Hazard and Marko Marin, but the bid for Schurrle shows they still have money to strengthen.

Source: Espn Soccernet

What a silly bid from Chelsea if at all they made any bid. Having just acquired Marin from Germany, what on earth do we need Schurle for. We have Sturidge, Malouda, Marin , Hazard and Mata who all play from the wings.Chelsea does not need him for now. What Chelsea needs now is a supporting striker either Jovotic or Hulk. One central midfielder with physical prowess e.g Fellaini from Everton and a right full back-Maicon/Perrreira or draft Ivanovic permanently to that position.

nateevs: @Ibime,

Kakuta, KDB, Mata and Sturridge though can play on the wings are certainly not wingers.

Kakuta has not played on the wings in about 2 years.

KDB, though played as a winger in the first half of last season for Genk, is actually a CM. He pushed for a CM role in readiness for joining Chelsea and he became a massive influence on the Genk team. I have provided the stats before on here. KDB was involved, either as assist or key pass, in 17 out of 22 goals Genk scored in the 2nd half of the season after he moved to CM. More effective than he was when on the wing.

Mata is our number one player in the hole.

Sturridge, I hear, has as a condition for signing a new contract, wants to play as a CF.

Andre Uweh: I do not understand the need to buy Oscar when already we have Piazon coming through. Anyway Sky has denied it.

Ibime: Oscar is a good guy unlike that lazy wasteman Ganso who expects everyone else to do his work for him. Like play, like play, Oscar has stolen Gansos mandate as Brazil's no 10 for World Cup 2014.

Chelsea should price well though. Im not happy with spending £25m straight from Brazil.

Piazon is a top guy as well but seems more suited to drift in from that left wing.

nateevs:


I am a massive fan of Piazon and I rate him alongside Feruz, Chalobah and Bamford as one of those that have a realistic chance of breaking into the first team. That said, Oscar is light years ahead of Piazon in every aspect of football. Why are we buying Oscar? Well sometimes, you go out of your way and splash on kids that have a massive potential of making it very big. Why should we let Spurs him when we can impress Oscar with money and prestige?

I think the club is playing a smart one here. After AVB was sacked, he was scouting players in Brazil. Oscar is one of those players ear-marked by AVB. Oscar seems already like one of those Brazilians that have greatness written all over them. Sometimes, you invest in these sort of players, not because they are particularly ready to be first team material but a shot, a gamble at the future that just maybe, he could be golden.


The calibre of players being sought after in this window continually points to a massive drift in football philosophy.

dare2think: I'm really wondering if benayoun can offer any credible contribution to our season. I like the dude and his work ethic.

Perhaps he can bring experience to the table and be one of our super-subs this season.

1025: @El Guapo,
in all these, some of the players chelsea are looking for at the moment are not necessarily first team players rather we need back up players. there are players or amounts that you don't spend to be on the bench.
personally, i don't always want to judge players based on their past. remember we bought torres as per what he was doing against us while he was at liverpool. don't forget, barca bought ibrahimovic based on his inter days. babertov was bought because he was crazy at spurs Glen Johnson was released by chelsea because he was below per but the opposite became the case when they moved.
chelsea needs some players for their economic values which are expected to go higher any moment from now and some of these players will turn out to be the future of the team.
our own mikel was not bought as a first team player and he gradually took his place in the team with time.
we need all the players we can get at the right values not forgetting that we will be playing more games than we have ever done in our history over this season.

Which club will pay him £80k/week?