Scolari wants every single big name player in the world, apparently
The newspapers should just ‘fess up and admit it - they haven’t a clue who which players Luiz Felipe Scolari would like to bring to Chelsea. Naturally, they have all assumed the Brazilian will want to load the squad with his fellow countrymen - The Sun fancy Ronaldinho to come for £20m and £120k a week (a damn site cheaper than the supposed Manchester City asking price), while The Guardian believe Kaka will be strolling over to West London, in exchange for a £60m slice of Abramovich’s bottomless kitty.
The Guardian also claims that Fernando Torres could become subject to Big Phil’s fiery temper next year - the unlikely move could ease Liverpool’s financial woes, but the Kop faithful would probably sooner burn a couple of Americans at the stake than let their prettyboy striker go. That said, the Spanish press linked him with a move to Chelsea over a month ago.
Not wanting to be left out in all the madness, middle England housewives’ favourite The Daily Mail have waded in by suggesting that Franck Ribery is also ‘flattered by their formal approach’.
Other players linked with the club since Scolari’s arrival include Barcelona’s Deco and Samuel Eto’o, and also Spurs target David Villa.
For a man who is currently engrossed in the process of winning a European Championships and has only been formally linked with Chelsea for two days, this seems like an awful lot of transfer inquiries.
So which rumours do you believe? Let us know who you think will be at The Bridge next season with a comment below.
[Picture: The Sun]
15 responses so far
1 funkdubious // Jun 13, 2008 at 9:18 am
Has anyone put 2 and 2 together and thought of Cristiano Ronaldo changing over to Chelski? He may well be tempted to link up with Scolari and i think if the money’s right he’d go anywhere, mercenary!
2 Xile // Jun 13, 2008 at 9:33 am
I agree, there’s got to be close to £200M worth of talent there, and for a guy who has only just agreed to manage Chelski, he’s been quick off the mark. It’s a load off blks, the media have all jumped on the band wagon and decided who Scolari or, should I say Abramovic wants to sign! I’m suprised that Ronaldo, Messi, Robinho and Quaresma are missing off the shopping list!
3 Brian Fantana // Jun 13, 2008 at 9:36 am
Yeah couldnt agree more, theres not much happening so the papers are just pulling all of this stuff out of thin air
4 Anfield81 // Jun 13, 2008 at 10:02 am
What a load of rubbish, Scolari won’t sign Ronaldinho because he’s not his type of player. He’s similar to Mourinho in that he doesn’t like having “Galacticos” at his Club which could prove a problem if Abramovich is intent on turning Chelsea into a marketing gimmick. I could see Deco going there, Messi wont leave Barca, Robinho could go anywhere, Villa is a possibility as is Ribery but Torres is a definative “No” from both player and Club.
5 Si // Jun 13, 2008 at 10:11 am
Afterall, with England not making it to the Euro2008 competition, it’s not like they’ve got much else to print.
6 Efemena Edafioka // Jun 13, 2008 at 10:17 am
If all these los galaticos can be captured by Chelsea then the sky is our limit. i mean Quadruple!
7 head in the clouds // Jun 13, 2008 at 11:55 am
Oh…. and just to be complete, please could the press also link Pele, Maradonna, Cruyff, Van Basten and Beckenbauer for shock moves to play for the new galacticos?! Obviously the Euro’s aren’t keeping the footy journo’s busy (or interested) enough for them to keep clear of lazy speculation. And coming off of the bench for Villa - none other than Jesus!!
8 lololol // Jun 13, 2008 at 2:57 pm
hahaha look at chelsea i mean iv always defended them in the past but no more. they are scum.money money thats all they are i used to hate man utd but im glad they fucked u over the cups. u think that these amazing players will jus jump ship to play for ya cupless team i dont think so.U HAVE NO REASON TO BE A PROUD SUPPORTER OF CHELKSI
9 DREL123 // Jun 13, 2008 at 3:02 pm
chelsea should be carful now is not the time to be getting head lines like that do they wanna be hated?chelsea jus seem to buy buy buy and get no where.a medicre team trying to become somthink bigger .the world knows who the 2 biggest english teams are and they always will be.manutd and liverpool
10 wizer // Jun 14, 2008 at 12:46 am
hmmmmm at the end of the day abramovich can do what he likes with his money…hes not guna go out and splash money on shit players he wants the best so if any of them go to chelsea then so be it none of this hating chelsea just cos they have enough money to buy quaility…..the papers are speculating abit yeah but who knws anything cud happen!!!!
11 tone // Jun 14, 2008 at 4:59 am
What a lot of shit.
CSKA Fulham are trying to do a Real Madrid and unsettle players to ease transfers, it’s so transparent and pathetic.
I reckon that Russian twat might be trying to put off certain big players so that Russia don’t get made to look like such a bag of jizz in the Euro’s as well.
12 jake // Jun 15, 2008 at 10:15 am
To Mr/Mrs/Ms lololol
You are gay People sign to Chelsea because of the money and who they are which is a great team. No doubt money is a factor people say they come to Chelsea JUST for money but if, Derby County,Birmingham,WBA had the money Chelsea had i dont think every good player would be linked there because they are crap, players come to Chelsea because they are good!
13 bii // Jun 16, 2008 at 12:34 pm
chelsea bfans are always fooling themselves
14 samuel // Jun 29, 2008 at 2:31 pm
i like all what all the blues are doing i am very happy with them
up blues
blues 4 life
15 samuel // Jun 29, 2008 at 2:34 pm
the person who says what chelsea that they are fooling themselves
the person is a bastard