AC Milan’s Pirlo again in Chelsea sights
AC Milan midfielder Andrea Pirlo is back on Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti's shopping list.
The Sun says Ancelotti is already sniffing around Everton's blossoming £10million-rated midfielder Jack Rodwell, although Roman Abramovich does not traditionally get out his chequebook after Christmas.
The exception was in 2008 when then boss Avram Grant prised £27.4m out of the Abramovich coffers to sign Nicolas Anelka, Branislav Ivanovic and Franco Di Santo.
Grant needed cover because Didier Drogba, Michael Essien, John Obi Mikel and Salomon Kalou were all missing for a month on African Nations Cup duty.
Italian Ancelotti faces the same dilemma over his African stars in the New Year.
Along with Rodwell, Pirlo is also on Ancelotti's shopping list, while Atletico Madrid ace Sergio Aguero is also a target - if his Spanish club drops their asking price to closer to £18 million.
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Comments (10)
THe special one sold Robben because he was scared of his flashiness. Why do you think J Cole wasn't playing? Its because he wants organization and stiffness instead of flashiness. What has football turned into these days??? Probably the only leagues who play good football are Ligue 1, Bundasliga, and the dutch. Yes, all those leagues aren't very good. At least they never lost the spirit of football.
no pirlo please
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 (did u see him against Man U!)
and/or Kaka (if he's sick of all the ronaldo drama at RM...hopefully he is!)
Alex Tiexeira (before Man U can nab him)
4. Daniele de Rossi and Sergio Ramos
Ribery and/or Robben if possible
Cesar Azpilicueta and Nacho Monreal from Osasuna
Lucas Piazon (youth from Brazil) and Romelu Lakuku (youth from Anderlecht)
or Ranfinha from Schalke
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 Zvjezdan Misimovic ( with Arsenal hunting him now is the time to pounce)
and/or Mesut Ozil
and/or Jack Rodwell
and/or Moussa Sissoko
6. An ACN backup, Heskey (cheaper option)
Agbonlahor (better option)
Lavezzi (good option, memories of Zola)
Acquafresca (youth option, ditto Zola)
Robinho (if not a higher priority, good but expensive option)
Hulk
Chan Siu Ki (chinese merch option)
Eljero Elia
pavlyuchenko
huntelaar
luis suarez
Marouane Chamakh
7. Patrick Vieira
8. A strong defender, Gary Cahill, Maicon, Capdevila, Javi Garcia
9. YOUTH!!!! Adam Johnson, David Luiz, Sebastian Corchia, Vladimir Koman, Gregory van der Wiel, Martin Galvan, Angelo Ogbonna, Zhano Ananidze, Vid Belec, Rene Khrin, Matej Delac, Miguel Vitor, Gladson Awako, Fabian Rinaudo, Matthew Upson, Simon Kjaer, Maxime Lestienne, Lorenzo Paramatti
10 mill for rodwell, 18 mill for aguero ur havin a joke. rodwell wont go for any thing less than 25 mill and aguero at least 45 mill or what ever his release clause is.
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