Chelsea anger over Real's Robben contact

Chelsea anger over Real's Robben contact

BRUSSELS, June 7 (Reuters) - Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon has responded angrily to claims that Real Madrid are in talks with Dutch winger Arjen Robben, stating: 'We note that Mr Calderon confirms Real Madrid spoke to Arjen.

'As a result Chelsea will be writing to Fifa to ask them to investigate an illegal approach by Real Madrid.

'There have been no meetings or conversations between the Real Madrid sporting director Predrag Mijatovic with any Chelsea officials, anyone mandated to act on Chelsea's behalf or owner Roman Abramovich about Arjen's future.'

Real Madrid earlier claimed that they were in talks to bring the player to the Bernabeu.

'We are in talks with Chelsea and the player, they are at an early stage, but we hope to sign him,' Real Madrid President Ramon Calderon told reporters at the European Parliament in Brussels.

'Bringing Robben was one of my pledges when I was running for president and still remains the case,' he added.

The 23 year-old Robben was reported close to signing a new contract to keep him at Stamford Bridge until 2012 having turned down Bayern Munich, but Real are still hopeful of prising him away from London.

If Calderon really did say that, I hope they hit Real Madrid hard.

Been doing things like that for a while now.

Parks lives wrote:If Calderon really did say that, I hope they hit Real Madrid hard.

Been doing things like that for a while now.

What a sack of $h!t Calderon is. Mijatovic too.

They are really sullying the good name of Real. I have rarely seen such crass business techniques in European football.

I think these election promises need to stop.., what a stupid thing to promise... "if you make me president, I will get kaka and robben".... thats ridiculous... what if those players do not suit the team or the coach's strategy??? I am surprised that people are elected coz of these stupid promises, or inspite of these stupid promises, whatever the case may be...

Then when they can't deliver on these promise, they start talking like this... I hope Chelsea sue the $h!t out of them, then they will learn how to be professional!

bluenine wrote:I think these election promises need to stop.., what a stupid thing to promise... "if you make me president, I will get kaka and robben".... thats ridiculous... what if those players do not suit the team or the coach's strategy??? I am surprised that people are elected coz of these stupid promises, or inspite of these stupid promises, whatever the case may be...

Then when they can't deliver on these promise, they start talking like this... I hope Chelsea sue the $h!t out of them, then they will learn how to be professional!

They unsettle players. Charlton said as much about C. Ronaldo, then with Kaka and now Robben.

The latest is the sack of $h!t concedes that Kaka will be difficult to sign because Milan won't let him go, but he will not give up (we wait with arms open, he said). Mijatovic also said the other day that it will be hard now because Kaka is happy at Milan.

hahahah...he must be regretting lofty election promises that he probably knew wouldn't come true.

from what i understood people liked calderon because of his plan and the he distanced himself from perez. allthough he only won by some 200 votes or so.i agree that he is stupid.i thought he learned about opening his mouth after he said at a university speach that the players are brats that earn to much and cant do anything for themselves.

supermadrid(zizou legend) wrote:from what i understood people liked calderon because of his plan and the he distanced himself from perez. allthough he only won by some 200 votes or so.i agree that he is stupid.i thought he learned about opening his mouth after he said at a university speach that the players are brats that earn to much and cant do anything for themselves.

I have tremendous respect for your club, and all the Real fans on here are sensible. But because of Calderon and co. I wish Barcelona win La Liga.

I don't think they've actually made any official contact with Robben. Probably all they've done is call his agent and ask about availability, something that happens all the time.

For Kenyon to react like that and run crying to FIFA is quite hilarious. I'm going to sit back and enjoy this new drama

kas wrote:I don't think they've actually made any official contact with Robben. Probably all they've done is call his agent and ask about availability, something that happens all the time.

For Kenyon to react like that and run crying to FIFA is quite hilarious. I'm going to sit back and enjoy this new drama

Nah...I wouldn't be surprised if these two did. I hope FIFA take action. That would be really nice.

Forza Italia!Forza Milan! wrote:

supermadrid(zizou legend) wrote:from what i understood people liked calderon because of his plan and the he distanced himself from perez. allthough he only won by some 200 votes or so.i agree that he is stupid.i thought he learned about opening his mouth after he said at a university speach that the players are brats that earn to much and cant do anything for themselves.

I have tremendous respect for your club, and all the Real fans on here are sensible. But because of Calderon and co. I wish Barcelona win La Liga.

i understand and calderon deserves it. i thought he had learned his lesson by now with all those dumb moves but he refueses to learn. allthough like Kas said it is not unsual. Perez did the same but he was great at it and did it in a way that made it impossibe to court him.

Arjen Robben blijft voorlopig zitten waar hij zit. Hans Robben, vader en tevens zaakwaarnemer van de vleugelspeler van Chelsea, verklaarde tegenover het Algemeen Dagblad dat er met niemand van Real Madrid is gesproken over een mogelijke transfer van de international naar Los Merengues.

Voorzitter Ramón Calderon verklaarde woensdag nog tegenover diverse Spaanse media dat zijn club in gesprek zou zijn met Chelsea en Robben zelf. “De komst van Robben was al een van mijn doelen toen ik kandidaat was voor het voorzitterschap en dat is nog steeds zo”, klonk het toen uit zijn mond.

Het deed de wenkbrauwen bij Robben senior in ieder geval fronsen. “Goh, dat is opmerkelijk, want ik heb met niemand van Real gesproken”, helderde hij de situatie op. “Ik dacht dat iedereen nu toch wel zou moeten weten dat Arjen op het punt staat zijn contract bij Chelsea te verlengen tot medio 2012. Daarin is niet veranderd.”

Vader Robben verwacht komend weekend, tijdens het huwelijk van Arjen met verloofde Bernadien, duidelijkheid te krijgen (van Peter Kenyon) wanneer hij met zijn zoon en Chelsea rond de tafel gaan zitten om een datum voor de contractverlenging te prikken. “Dat hadden we al eerder willen doen, maar dat is er door de drukke werkzaamheden van hem (Kenyon, red.) niet van gekomen.”

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Dad and agent of Robben says that he havent spoke with anyone from Real Madrid and that Robben will sign a new contract at Chelsea soon.

Can all these threads be cnfined in the Real Madrdi thread please. Confounded. Too many threads on the same issue is clogging the board up!

Dick Grayson wrote:Can all these threads be cnfined in the Real Madrdi thread please. Confounded. Too many threads on the same issue is clogging the board up!

Tweedle, the sad thing is he probably doesn't even realise his level of hypocrisy!

kas wrote:

Tweedle, the sad thing is he probably doesn't even realise his level of hypocrisy!