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Chelsea’s First Attempt At A Summer Signing Declined?

Chelsea are reported to have bid £17million for Barcelona’s Yaya Toure.

Toure looks set to leave the Nou Camp with Pep Guardiola favouring Sergi Busquets and Seydou Keita but despite interest from Arsenal and Man City, we’re alleged to have stepped in with the first offer.

Now, Barcelona don’t absolutely have to sell the 27 year old, so they won’t be in any particular rush to accept first offer on the table and you’d have to suspect that knowing City are interested – even if the player himself doesn’t fancy them – Barcelona will use that interest to negotiate the best possible price if Toure insists on leaving. So, it comes as no great surprise to hear that our alleged offer has been turned down.

Toure had previously been suggested as a part-exchange player for Cesc Fabregas. The only trouble was, he didn’t fancy a move there but Barca’s technical secretary Txiki Begiristain suggests “Yaya Toure is an extraordinary and important player. The question is how he sees things. He has to accept his role. We’re counting on him for next season but the thing is the players have to accept their position. Busquets, Xavi, (Andres) Iniesta, Keita are all playing fantastically well. In the end you have to face up to the competition and you may not play as much as you would imagine. The player has to be the first to admit that. If they do that’s great for us. If they don’t accept it and want to discuss it, we have an obligation. We’ll never keep a player here who doesn’t want to be here.”

I suppose the question is though, with players like Michael Essien and John Obi Mikel already at Chelsea, should we really be after a player who is reported to struggle with a bit of competition?

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