£16.6m not enough for Alvaro Pereira

According to reports coming from Porto, Chelsea made a bid of around £16.6m for Pereira which has been rejected. Alvaro Pereria can play as full back or wing back down the left hand side and seems to have been identified as a direct replacement for Yuri Zhirkov who left the club earlier this month.

According to The Guardian, Chelsea will head back to Porto with an improved offer that is somewhere close to his reported £26m release clause in order to get their man knowing that Porto have already signed a direct replacement for him.

Pereira at 25 would be another good signing to bolster the squad but I cannot see him forcing Ashley Cole out of the side at the moment as Cole has made a good start to the season.

With Van Aanholt and Bertrand in our squad already, and Malouda now also being linked with a move away after the signing of Mata, wouldn't it be a good idea for the club to give one of them a chance to get involved in some first team football or has the pressure to deliver trophies at the club EVERY season, forced the club to invest once more?

KTBFFH

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