Chelsea chase £25m Blueffon
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CHELSEA are lining up a bid for Gianlugi Buffon to replace crocked keeper Petr Cech.
Blues boss Jose Mourinho has targeted the £25million-rated Juventus star with Cech facing a long lay-off after fracturing his skull on Saturday.
The ItalianÂ’s representative Paolo Fabbri confirmed ChelseaÂ’s interest.
He added: “We are aware Roman Abramovich can offer fortunes. What he needs is to convince the player it’s the right move for him. This is not a financial issue, it’s about a chance in life.
“I don’t think he wants to leave Italy but things can change quickly in football.”
Buffon would be able to play in the Champions League knockout stages with Juve banned from Europe for match-fixing.
Buffon, 28, is contracted to the Turin club until 2010 and opted to stay despite demotion to Serie B.
The key to a January move will be persuading Buffon to leave Italy for the first time in his career.
Mourinho is determined not to place any pressure on Cech rushing back to action so wants to sign another world-class keeper. -
this is hilarious because immediately after the injury of the two goalies, a commentator was saying "this is Chelsea, you'll probably see Buffon in goal next week"
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i doubt buffon will want to join chelsea.
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Chelsea boss Mourinho: We've been offered 50 keepers!
tribalfooball.com - October 19, 2006
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has revealed he's been inundated by agents offering goalkeepers.
Former France keeper Fabien Barthez, who only recently announced his retirement from the game, is a free agent and therefore entitled to join another club outside the transfer window.
But Blues boss Mourinho insists Barthez is too much of a 'high-profile' player to join his squad as a third-choice keeper.
Mourinho said: "What I know in this moment is that we have 50 agents calling us and, if they call us, they call the press.
"So Fabien Barthez is a name. There are a lot of names in the air. What I know is that Carlo (Cudicini) and Hilario are very good goalkeepers and it is not easy for somebody to come and play in this team.
"Probably, what we have to try to get is a third goalkeeper and, of course, Fabien is not a preferred third goalkeeper. He is a high-profile goalkeeper.
"I prefer to think that now we have Hilario and Carlo, they are first options and we need somebody to give us security and replace Petr Cech in the group of keepers. That is the profile of the goalkeeper we are looking for."
Just other transfer rumour for buffon case as chelsea is looking for a good but non-high profile keeper -
i think so many offered to them because Chelsea look like radish to knock
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Yeah, been offered 50 keepers... these keepers are offered by their agents to every club across europe looking for keepers and chelsea are no different.Originally posted by ghimpheng:
[color=green]Just other transfer rumour for buffon case as chelsea is looking for a good but non-high profile keeper
Even Bolton alone wants to get rid of 1 of their their 2 reserve keepers and offered 1 to chelsea. He said he would gladly loan him Ian Walker or Oman Ali Al-Habsi if mourinho wants. If he was looking for 3rd choice, these would be good enough. But my guess is mourinho has no faith in cudicini all along so may get someone else he consider better.
Goalkeepers are abundance in the market cos one team only need 1 and 1 for backup.
So Buffon profile is not high enough? You don't compare a pass his best retired Barthez to what many people consider one of the best keeper at the moment... -
Gianluigi Buffon's agent has distanced the World Cup winning goalkeeper from a January switch to Chelsea.
The world's most expensive goalkeeper - who moved to Juventus from Parma in 2001 for £35.5million - was linked with the London club as emergency cover for the injured Petr Cech, who fractured his skull last weekend.
But, despite the Turin club's demotion to Serie B following their implication in a match-fixing scandal, Buffon's representative Silvano Martina doesn't believe a move to Stamford Bridge.
"Gianluigi's very happy at Juventus. He had lots of offers in Italy and elsewhere this summer and turned them down.
"But he made a decision to stay in Turin because he wanted to repay the club for helping him become famous and being one of the best in the world."