TRANSFER RUMOURS! 12th June
StrumSolo > 12/06/2014, 18:39
Cesc Fabregas has signed, for Chelsea. 5-year deal and a fee of around £30m. Gonna bite Arsenal on the err, arse isn't it?
This next one's from this morning, so could be a 'possible Fabregas alternative' thing and dead by now, but anyway... Ramires for Luka Modric swap deal! Yeah, probably not.
Last bit of Chelsea scheming comes in the shape of Petr Cech maybe being let go this summer so Thibaut Courtois can return victorious as the Blues' number one.
Mauricio Pochettino is Argentinian, so it follows that he'd only be interested in signing Argentinian players. Pretty sure that's how it works, and also why he's after Inter midfielder Ricardo Alvarez, River Plate striker Sebastian Driussi and Benfica's Nicolas Gaitan. Man Utd are also keen on the latter, despite Louis van Gaal being Dutch.
Roberto Martinez has been to watch van Gaal do his thing at a Holland World Cup training session, but rumour has it he was actually more interested in checking out Jeremain Lens, Bruno Martins Indi and Stefan de Vrij's moves. Sneaky.
Dejan Lovren's handed in a transfer request. FFS.
And West Ham have offered £3m for Nice left-back Timothee Kolodziejczak, but if nothing's doing there will go for Marcos Alonso, who spent last season on loan at Sunderland from Fiorentina.