So upset about this. Story making the rounds is our scouts had been looking at the player for months, and the agent met with Ian Ayre (our club's managing director) to verbally agree to transfer fee and personal terms. When the official offer came, though, they low-balled Basel. When Chelsea learned of it, they became "part of the loop" and even though we met the original value, the "new value" was Chelsea's offer. So mad at the decision-makers in refusing to meet the team and agent's valuation.
Feel bad for the player, since he knew he was much more likely to feature regularly for us than for Chelsea. In essence, he's literally replaced Mata since Chelsea will use him as much as they did Mata.
