Chelsea made a £70m bid for Raul (allegedly)

[madstu]

From Sky Sports news.

There were rumours about this a few months ago, now confirmed??

However - pinch of salt time, this comes from his agent and Raul is negotiating a new contract

The agent of Raul has confirmed that Chelsea offered a staggering €100 million (£70 million) for the Real Madrid striker during the summer.
Gines Carvajal, who also looks after the interests of Michel Salgado, made the relevation whilst speaking to radio station Onda Seis.

Raul, 26, is currently on the verge of opening talks with Real over a new contract, and Carvajal insists that despite the West Londoners' interest in his client, the Spanish international hit-man will extend his stay at El Santiago Bernabeu.

"Raul is ready to re-sign, because he wants to re-sign, although it is certain that Chelsea offered Real Madrid €100 million for him," declared Carvajal.

The staggering size of the sum offered by Roman Abramovich-backed Chelsea would have represented a world record transfer fee, eclipsing the £46 million paid by Real for Zinedine Zidane.

[Alan. b]

That is just plain stupid, £70million - no-one no matter how good they are worth that.

[unrealnils]

If they win next years champions league and and premiership......... and do each again in the next three

Sell load of of shirts in russia, spain and have all the kids in this country start to support them like the kids 5 years ago did Man U.........

They won't care :nuts:

[Way_2_FAT]

Originally posted by Alan. b
That is just plain stupid, £70million - no-one no matter how good they are worth that.

If money means nothing to you, why not? :thumbs:

£70M is probably not even worth half a year of bank interest to him... :nuts:

[Bravoman]

Yes another agent saying that Chesea offered mega euros for his client....just as new contract negotiations are starting :rolleyes: just the same as Chelsea's alleged bid for Rooney.......announced the day after Rooneys agent started contract negotiations.......yesterdays papers were talking about £50m for Owen....his contract talks have stalled! :rolleyes:

[si2k2000]

This has been quite common in Spain for players to be linked with clubs at times when they want a new contract (Joaquim being the only one I can think of right now) but it seems to be creeping into English football now.

Although with Chelski about you never know. :suspect:

[FBI]

I think that Chelsea have probably made a bid for most of the top players (RVN, Zidane, Vieira, Henry). But were turned down.

The players they have is where the club was unable to say "no".