Abramovich orders Gourlay to bring Ribery to Chelsea
Chelsea are going all out for Bayern Munich star Franck Ribery.
The Daily Mail says Roman Abramovich has told new Chelsea chief executive Ron Gourlay to make signing Ribery his top priority.
The Russian billionaire is desperate to bring the Bayern Munich winger to Stamford Bridge for £45million, preferably in January but in the summer at the very latest, and make him the highest-paid player in the Barclays Premier League.
Ribery has long been a target of some of the biggest clubs in football — recently attracting interest from the likes of Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United and Liverpool — but Abramovich will authorise an offer approaching £200,000 a week for the France winger in the hope of luring him to Stamford Bridge.
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Comments (8)
come to chelsea franck
Our other january signings should go...
1. Aguero or Pato and bring Franco di Santo and Michael Mancienne back
2. Villa, if we can get silva and/or mata as well, if not then i think we should get quaresma back
3. Angel di Maria
and/or Quaresma
and definately Alan Dzagoev and Milos Krasic (did u see him against Man U!)
Alex Tiexeira (before Man U can nab him)
Rafael van der Vaart
Giampaolo Pazzini
4. Daniele de Rossi
Ribery
Cesar Azpilicueta and Nacho Monreal from Osasuna
Lucas Piazon (youth from Brazil) and Romelu Lakuku (youth from Anderlecht)
or Jesus Gamez from Malaga
or Jonathan De Guzman
5. Marek Hamsik
and/or Joao Moutinho
and/or Ramires
and/or Raul Meireles
and/or Antonio Candreva
and/or Jack Rodwell
and/or Mesut Ozil
6. An ACN backup,
Acquafresca
Robinho
Hulk
Pavlyuchenko
Marouane Chamakh
Ezequiel Lavezzi
7. Patrick Vieira
8. Javi Garcia
9. YOUTH!!!! Adam Johnson, David Luiz, Sebastian Corchia, Angelo Ogbonna, Matej Delac, Lorenzo Paramatti, Marcos Gullón, Maxime Lestienne, Seydou Doumbia, Gai Assulin, Migjin Basha, Jonjo Shelvey
what a waste of money.... definitely not worth that much.
Who needs that pig of a player waste a talented Chelsea team?
He's a crap player. NOOOO Mr Abramovich... I'll hate you even more if you buy this disgrace who cares only abt $$$$$$
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