Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck admits the board would like the manager to raise his own funds in the summer market.

He told Chelsea TV: "In terms of transfer spending? I think that generally speaking what we'd like to do is use internally generated cash to buy new players and by that I mean sell players and buy new players but to the extent an appropriate player comes along that is outside of that cash flow then money would be available from the owner to buy that player but it all depends on the player and the circumstances."

Buck also said: "Well, first off we haven't gotten together yet to talk about summer transfers but I think that we could expect that several players will leave and that several players will come in, I don't know whether that is three, four of five, but something in that kind of neighbourhood. A handful we can expect to leave and we can expect a handful of players to come into the club."