bwin.com – Chelsea
www.bwin.com – Chelsea are considering Vágner Love, the CSKA Moscow striker, as a possible successor for Didier Drogba if he departs the club this forthcoming summer. The Ivory Coast striker is wanted by Inter Milan and Marseilles, and Chelsea are inclined to deal if they are able to recover the £24 million they yielded for him five years ago.
Drogba’s contract runs out at the close of next season and he has been looking for an extension for some time, but the club are reluctant to commence talks till the summertime. Even then Drogba, 30, might be unsuccessful, as higher-ranking figures at the club have been disillusioned from his performances in the last 12 months and in that respect have lingering worries about the condition of his knees after numerous surgical operations.
Chelsea’s best case scenario would be for Drogba to be traded to Inter to ease up enough finances to reinvest in Vágner Love. The Brazil striker got on Luiz Felipe Scolari’s list of objectives prior to him being sacked last month, but the 24-year-old has also affected Guus Hiddink, the temporary coach, after relishing a glorious campaign in Russia last season, in which he hit 20 goals in twenty-six league matches.
Hiddink is inexorable that he will depart Stamford Bridge at the close of the season, but will suggest to the club on transfer targets in the interim and has assured Roman Abramovich that signing up Vágner Love for £15 million would symbolize worthy business. The Chelsea owner has got warm associations with CSKA because his past oil company, Sibneft, used to sponsor the Russian club and he would have less trouble making the deal arranged, which would torment Everton, who are gearing up a revived offer at the finish of the season after a projected loan move foundered last summer. www.bwin.com
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