I responded in thirty seconds to Chelsea’s bid for Alvaro Pereira - FC Porto president Pinto da http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Costa-c9458
Porto superemo http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Nuno-Pinto-c28241 da Costa has revealed that Chelsea had made an official offer for Alvaro Pereira but he turned it down in thirty seconds, removing all doubts whether the Uruguayan will be staying at Estadio do Dragao.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Álvaro-Pereira-c5297 all summer and only recently it was understood that they had acted on their interest and made an official proposal for the fullback.
The Blues were thought to be eyeing the 25-year-old as a replacement for Yuri Zhirkhov, who made a switch back to his homeland a few days ago.
Keen as they were on landing their man, the Stamford Bridge officials deemed his €30 million price-tag as ludicrously high even in the inflated transfer market and made an offer far less than the valuation of the Portistas.
While the figure is yet to be announced, it is thought to be quite less given the quality of the highly talented player and was always likely to be rejected. And according to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Pinto-c30032 da Costa, that is exactly what happened and it only took
him half a minute to make up his mind.
"I confirm that Chelsea have made an offer which took 30 seconds to be responded to," Da Costa was quoted as saying.
Chelsea manager Andre Villas-Boas also confirmed that the talks had come to halt, as a fee had not been negotiated with the Dragons for their coveted asset.
''The only thing I can confirm to you is that we have made a bid for him and we are very far apart in terms of numbers,” the 33-year-old said.
While Alvaro Pereira is not likely to be on the books of the London outfit in the 2011/2012 season, a swoop cannot be completely ruled out, as the defender was omitted from FC Porto’s squad that is scheduled to face http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604 in the UEFA Super Cup, adding
more uncertainty to the one of the most talk-about transfer sagas this summer.
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