Chelsea must go to £35M for Atletico Madrid ace Aguero
Chelsea must cough up £35 million to land Atletico Madrid star Sergio Aguero.
The Mail on Sunday says the son-in-law of Diego Maradona has a £50million buy-out clause in his contract with Atletico Madrid, who might be persuaded to accept £35m.
But Argentina coach Maradona is urging him to join Inter Milan at the end of the season, which would not disrupt his World Cup preparations.
Atletico could extract the maximum price from Chelsea in January, with it potentially being the London club's last transfer until June 2011. But delaying any sale to the summer might pacify unhappy fans.
An added problem is the incoming 50 per cent tax rate in the UK. Aguero currently earns £4.5m a year net in Spain, although that will be affected by the change in Spanish tax laws that come into effect on January 1st.
To match that Chelsea would have to pay him £170,000 a week, in excess of their top earner John Terry.
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Comments (12)
Pato is not coming sign kun asp...
be cool every1, we have won the january transfer window back, so what purpose of suing it if we don't buy a player. We sill certainly buy one, but Aguero?
nahh, i'm tired already of the media sending him to us. Would love Ozil or some other talented guys playing in the mid or forward
What the fking fk.
Look at all these football manager game noobs. Please if you want to show off, show off your tactical knowledge, not your "Florentino Perez' talk.
Btw, tell me an argentinian that succeded at Chelsea? Juan Sebastian Veron? Hernan Crespo? Werent they superstars in their own previous leagues? What happened to them in Chelsa? Im not trying to damn Aguero, but i see not diff.
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