Liverpool still to receive Chelsea bid for Benayoun
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Yossi Benayoun set to join Chelsea! Blues close in on £6.5m deal to sign Liverpool midfielder
Blues bound: Liverpool midfielder Yossi Benayoun is set to sign for Chelsea for £6.5m
Chelsea are closing on a £6.5million deal to sign Liverpool midfielder Yossi Benayoun.
Sportsmail revealed Chelsea's interest last month but Anfield sources said the fee had yet to be finalised.
Former Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez was reluctant to sell Benayoun to Chelsea for anything less than £10m and had a £7.5m offer on the table from CSKA Moscow.
However, the Israeli international was reluctant to go to Russia and had set his heart on Stamford Bridge. He has now provisionally agreed to join the Premier League champions on a four year contract with an option for a further year.
Benayoun is on holiday in Israel but wants to fly to London later this week to complete the formalities and undergo a medical.
Silva lining: Chelsea want to beat rivals Manchester City to the signing of Valencia ace David Silva
The 30-year-old, who signed a two year contract extension at Liverpool last year, is expected to be offered around £70,000 a week.
Chelsea are also keen on Valencia's David Silva - a target for Manchester City.
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chelsea are going to do a deco again signing silva?
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wat deco??
Silva is only 23 years old leh...
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wtfffffff.
Damn sad loh.
Say want to cut wages, 70k for him to probably sit bench.
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Originally posted by MaNyZeR:
wat deco??
Silva is only 23 years old leh...
my bad my bad
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way too much for benayoun..fark the 6.5million can be used to pay joe cole wages for how many years!!! wtf..
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Originally posted by stellazio:
way too much for benayoun..fark the 6.5million can be used to pay joe cole wages for how many years!!! wtf..
the board is sending an expensive message to all the greedy players.
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Liverpool is going down down down down down, downnnnnnn downnnnn ~
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Liverpool still to receive Chelsea bid for Benayoun
Liverpool say no offer has yet arrived from Chelsea for midfielder Yossi Benayoun.
Reports suggesting the Reds have agreed a £6million deal with Chelsea are premature but the Merseysiders are resigned to the fact the 30-year-old will leave and accept it is only a matter of time before an offer comes in, reports PA Sport.
Benayoun signed an improved contract only last year but even before the departure of manager Rafael Benitez earlier this month he had already dropped several hints he wanted to leave.
Back on May 2, after the 2-0 defeat by Chelsea at Anfield, the Israeli said "he couldn't say for sure" whether he would be at Anfield on the opening day of the new campaign.
Chelsea are believed to see the former West Ham star as a direct replacement for Joe Cole, whose departure from Stamford Bridge was confirmed when the two parties failed to agree terms on a new contract after his current deal expired.
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Originally posted by stellazio:
way too much for benayoun..fark the 6.5million can be used to pay joe cole wages for how many years!!! wtf..
they should not sell benayouneven if they sell, it shld have been a price of 15 to 20m pounds
seriously too cheap!
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but why benayoun ???
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Originally posted by AEW5001:
they should not sell benayouneven if they sell, it shld have been a price of 15 to 20m pounds
seriously too cheap!
lol, you think yossi god arh, 15m.
at most he can fetch 12m only luh, he no longer young alr leh
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at least must exaggerate lah
u know, since i'm a liverpool fan
