Serie A - Chelsea green light for Pirlo

Eurosport - Mon, 22 Jun 09:37:00 2009

AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi has said the Serie A club is open to offers for Italy midfielder Andrea Pirlo.

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"If there's an offer, it should be considered," the Italian Premier said in La Gazzetta dello Sport when asked about Pirlo, amid speculation he could join former Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti at Chelsea.

"We'll see. I was the first to say that he must stay, but then they showed me the sums (for his salary)."

The seven-times European champions had previously said no more big names would move on after they sold Brazil playmaker Kaka to Real Madrid for a reported fee of 68 million euros earlier this month.

Reuters

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  1. both pirlo and chelsea will be making a big mistake..­ scolari tried to do the same thing when he bought deco­ in last year and they started well as deco was­ dictating the play and anelka was scoring.. however­ when that stopped, all of a sudden deco was no longer­ wanted at chelsea and he seemed disinterested. It seems­ like thats what managers do these days.. leave a top­ club or a top football country, go to another club and­ try bring in their midfielder they know and trust and­ start the same thing they have over the last place they­ were.. Thats not going to work with chelsea.. as long­ as lampard is over there.

    From Sean V, on Tue 23 Jun 8:12AM
  2. bring alexandra pato instead of pirlo he is old ox n he­ can play in english club where we need speed n fast­ dribbling skills..chelsea dont do such mistakes by­ buying pirlo..buy villa ,tevez n so on..i love bosingwa­ he is a great player n so much hard working..pls don­ sell him..he is best??

    From wolfhunter_tamu, on Tue 23 Jun 3:53AM
  3. jesus we need to get some young players most of our­ team are in there 30's why not buy a.young lennon­ and get benzema my team next year
    ­ cech
    johnson terry alex cole
    lampard essien­ lennon
    anelka drogba benzema

    bench malouda tevez­ bosingwa mikel (i fink we shud get re sign damien duff­ yes he might of passed it but he cud come back and help­ are team out chelsea to finnish as champions league­ winners and carling cup winners we wont win the leagaue

    From David, on Mon 22 Jun 10:30PM
  4. jesus we need to get some young players most of our­ team are in there 30's why not buy a.young lennon­ and get benzema my team next year
    ­ cech
    johnson terry alex cole
    lampard essien­ lennon
    anelka drogba benzema

    bench malouda tevez­ bosingwa mikel (i fink we shud get re sign damien duff­ yes he might of passed it but he cud come back and help­ are team out chelsea to finnish as champions league­ winners and carling cup winners we wont win the leagaue

    From David, on Mon 22 Jun 10:30PM
  5. chelsea never won anithing except with vialli [­ italian] zola [italian di matteo italia excetera why no­ pirlo one of the best still in the market . thank you­ all experts

    From ciro cappiello, on Mon 22 Jun 9:21PM
  6. pirlo..pls stay at ac milan!!! you are apreciated here

    From Vlad, on Mon 22 Jun 6:59PM
  7. first of all non of you know what you talking about. ­ talking about seria A aint got no futball i guess thats­ why ac milan got 7 champion leagues something that no­ english team can never achive thats why they taking are­ managers look at england they have capello and now­ chelsea took anceloti england does not have a better­ league it just that more money its beeing spent there­ but dont worry milan its back next season will see what­ will happend to man-u and all the london clubs ac milan­ forever

    From ilir, on Mon 22 Jun 6:27PM
  8. it very bad that a lot rubbish writers are on yahoo­ most of this people never played football in england or­ in italy. should put a barrier to the bad comments­ about great champions only because hided

    From ciro cappiello, on Mon 22 Jun 5:24PM
  9. Who the hell is this illiterate cretin jackienewby51?­ Get the nincompoop off this fo rum! He's nothing­ but an hazard..

    From dante, on Mon 22 Jun 4:04PM
  10. I love this forum everyone is an expert coach/manager­ genius, each one of you should have applied for the­ managerial job at Chelsea, perhaps, Mr. Abrahmovich is­ a real fool to have hired Carlo Ancelotti, after all­ Carletto, is a nobody according to your expertise! Why­ all of nincompoops just bug off!! Just return to your­ janitorial jobs.

    From dante, on Mon 22 Jun 3:49PM
  11. i watch all the major leagues in europe and still think­ the seria a is about the worst going premiership is the­ best that why foreign billionaires want to buy there­ teams cause thay get good football not a bunch of­ rascist italians who even have a go at black players­ who play for there team.

    From Jacqueline, on Mon 22 Jun 3:43PM
  12. comment 20.

    you see this is exactly what i mean. he­ hasn't watch serie A for 20 years, yet still­ manages to spew a load of utter @#$%. Serie A has­ produced more goals in a season that any of the­ european major leagues for three seasons in a row. The­ top three teams in the league all play with a trindent­ attack...yet we have idiots who still live in the­ 1960s.

    bribery and corruption? you mean the problems­ that we decided to deal with back in 2006? Half of the­ premier league clubs would go into admin if their­ russian / arab / american benifactors left. The whole­ league is running on non productive debt.

    Diving? you­ must be kidding me.

    As for racism. This coming from a­ country that attacks hard working romanian immigrants.­ The very country that has now voted 2 BNP ministers­ into the EU parliament.

    From recruitmentch, on Mon 22 Jun 3:00PM
  13. No. 19: Coming from a league of racism, corruption,­ bribery, diving and all out defensive play, you should­ really think twice before putting down any other­ league...

    From Colin, on Mon 22 Jun 1:59PM
  14. The replies to this article is the absolute indictment­ of just how clueless and narrow-minded british fans­ are. Really, do you ever look beyond your shores? do­ you ever plan to appreciate a little more than your­ arab, russian and american fueled premiershit?

    Italy­ were in dire form last night against Brazil. Yet the­ undoubted shining light of the team was Andrea, who­ dribbled past melo, gilberto more times than the number­ of goals scored on the night.

    I would be devastated­ if he leaves. But I would be even more devastated if he­ goes to a country as narrow minded as England.

    From recruitmentch, on Mon 22 Jun 1:27PM
  15. if chealsea got pirlo that would defo mean that LAMPARD­ can have a free roll in the middle with essien the­ holding player.......what a midfield that would be, no­ 1 would b able to come close to them 3! all we need now­ is 1 more class of a striker? i think ETO fits that­ roll perfect...........come on the blues.......

    From robertlorentson, on Mon 22 Jun 1:24PM
  16. Pirlo still has some good years ahead of him...he­ should fit well with Chelsea's geezers :))

    From ZzaK, on Mon 22 Jun 1:11PM
  17. It's about time that Chelsea started using talented­ youngsters to get the experience of the premier league,­ just like Arsenal did, with a lot of sucess. First get­ rid of Ballack and Deco. We don't want anymore­ O.A.P's.

    From Sid, on Mon 22 Jun 12:41PM
  18. Great player and very silky but Im afraid we dont need­ him and I dont see how hw would get in the team. and if­ were looking for players for when the africans leave­ then we need to look at giving younger players a chance­ at that time.

    go for the young boy Ozil instead

    From yip, on Mon 22 Jun 12:28PM
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    pirlo will have the shock of his life if he comes to ­ the prem a reported 20m fee come on the man the blues­ need is alonso of liverpool he would allow lampard to­ play even further up the field with him and essien­ playing the stronghold the midfield would be the­ stongest in the prem so @#$% off pirlo and stay at the­ most corrupt team in italy

    From blueblood64, on Mon 22 Jun 12:20PM
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    Seriously? Whats up with all this talk of Milan's­ over the hill players moving over to England? Pirlo,­ Maldini, and Gattuso.. if you can't cut it in­ Italy, you'd get run over in England. These guys­ are all 2 years from retirement, except Maldini,­ he's 2 years past retirement. I hope Chelsea does­ pick up these guys so I can piss myself laughing when­ they miss out on another league title.

    From G, on Mon 22 Jun 12:06PM
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