According to reports from The Daily Star, interim manager Guus Hiddink has dismissed reports claiming Chelsea are about to sign former AC Milan star Alexandre Pato from Corinthians.
The Dutchman told reporters this afternoon; “No [we don’t want Pato]. No truth in it. We now have Diego, Remy and some youngsters who can fill up the gap.”
But the Blues are certainly light on numbers up front at the moment, with Loic Remy only just returning from a lengthy injury and Radamel Falcao reportedly in line to leave Stamford Bridge for the MLS, so we at This Is Futbol aren’t entirely convinced that the west Londoners won’t try to sign a new frontman before the January transfer window slams shut.
After all, it wasn’t long ago Hiddink hinted that he’d like to add a striker to his squad and the tabloids have been fairly unanimous in claiming Chelsea are on the prowl for goalscoring reinforcements.
Indeed, plenty of strike targets have been mooted over the last few weeks, so could Chelsea be passing on Pato because they have someone else up their sleeve? Here are FIVE front-men heavily linked in the tabloids that the Premier League champions could sign instead.
For manager to say chelsea our in relagation battle does not give me confidence in him being our manager he should of said we our down the bottom and need to fight to stay away from that and then to say we will not buy in january is a big mistake as there need to be a lift of a new signing hopefully a striker as remy and falcou is always injured and who know if coster will stay on pitch longer enough when remy is fit he is not what I see in a striker yes odd goal but not good enough also I see the fa charge us again because the referee’s in the premier ship can not do there job correctly so they find the club’s instead of punishing crap refs