Transfers - Gossip Shop: Beckham to Chelsea

Eurosport - Sun, 24 May 13:14:00 2009

If Carlo Ancelotti takes the Chelsea job as expected, he could be bringing David Beckham with him.

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That's the news according to the Sunday Mirror anyway, who reckon that Becks will be rocking up at Stamford Bridge if the Italian boss has his way.

Ancelotti is widely expected to announce his Milan departure tomorrow.

The former England captain may be 34, but his age shouldn't be an issue considering the number of over-30s already at the Bridge.

A senior Milan source said: "The first thing Carlo will do is try to negotiate a deal to take Beckham with him. There has been a lot of talk about various players, including Kaka, following him to Chelsea, but he is confident he can sort out a deal to take Beckham on loan from LA Galaxy."

Meanwhile, the News of the World reckon that Chelsea will shell out a monster £50 million for Atletico Madrid's Sergio Aguero who, despite the general consensus that his third season in La Liga has been a bit disappointing, has still scored 15 league goals.

Another man on the Blues' radar is Wolfsburg striker Edin Dzeko , whose impressive 25-goal haul helped the Wolves to the Bundesliga title.

A 'well-placed source' at Manchester City has told The Observer that the game's megastars are unwilling to come to Eastlands because of Mark Hughes.

The source said: "The main thing is that big players want to go to play with a proven coach. The owners want Mark Hughes to stay... but it's not the same with players - you have to convince them. It's difficult."

Whether or not that deters Emmanuel Adebayor from moving up north - the Citizens are believed to be the only side willing to match Arsenal's £21m valuation for the Togolese striker - remains to be seen.

City are also said to be mulling over signing Lyon captain Juninho . The Brazilian dubbed 'Monsieur 50/50' for his phenomenal free-kick strike rate has admitted that he may leave the French giants in the summer, with Real Madrid and Juventus also interested in the 35-year-old.

Another midfielder who could be headed to Eastlands is Gareth Barry. The People reckon the oil-rich club will try and outbid Liverpool and Milan for the Villa and England man.

So City may well have make do with just buying Portsmouth right-back Glen Johnson, if they can present themselves as a more attractive destination than Liverpool or Tottenham .

Arsene Wenger has hinted Thierry Henry could return to Arsenal - as a coach. "Is there ever a chance Thierry will come back? Of course. This club always wants players of his quality to come back. It will be difficult for him to come back as a player because in 2010 he will be 33."

Meanwhile, Juventus want Wenger to replace Claudio Ranieri as their manager, but the Gunners boss isn't interested.

Elsewhere, Fulham have turned down the option to sign Giles Barnes permanently after the midfielder's injury-plagued loan spell, Everton have given up on signing Michael Owen and Luis Figo could go to China if offers from America, Japan or Middle East fail to materialise.

Tony Mabert / Eurosport

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  1. Beckham is to old for the prem now
    he could play for­ Wolves but they have only just got to the prem besides­ he is happy in Italy.
    Luis Figo will join a french team­ and Owen will play for Watford.
    PS. Rickie Lambert is­ better than Owen.
    Liverpool wont get Barry but will get­ Johnson.
    Adebayor to go to Manchester.City

    From The Top Fan, on Tue 26 May 8:12AM

  2. we dont want beckham, he would take all the free kicks­ .plus the corners we dont want him.

    From R, on Mon 25 May 3:00PM

  3. no one likes chelsea anyway so who cares

    From Liverpool r the best, on Mon 25 May 12:07PM

  4. aguero and dzeko would be great signings and a perfect­ partnership.

    From yip, on Mon 25 May 11:10AM

  5. Beckham no way but bring in kaka and co that may work­ but what ever happens chelsea really need to get there­ heads together and deliver a complete re-think to the­ structure and the motivation of the 2009-2010 sqaud­ dont bring in players like deco who has faded into the­ background we need young fresh motivated hungry young­ players who put the game before there egoes and of­ course the money they are out there waiting come on­ chelsea thats make the next season out greatest and­ knock man united of the pedastal.

    From edward.wheeler3, on Mon 25 May 8:59AM

  6. ancelotti??? The person who manage AC-milan. Oh my god,­ I don't think he is a good manager. At least his­ Ac-milan is really damn recently. Chelsea please­ don't bring him.

    From ching, on Mon 25 May 3:15AM

  7. thanks for ancelotti, but now you have to move...
    we­ need some refreshments in ACM...
    hire leonardo as his­ replacement and we'll see "another pep­ guardiola" :):)

    From mikharenta, on Mon 25 May 2:37AM

  8. Why?

    From iancampbell11, on Mon 25 May 12:36AM

  9. osman @#$% khan, you have no idea what your on about­ you FU^$ing AS*HOLE, chelsea are absolutely not lower­ class you can keep those sort of words for man united­ and liverpool as far as your examples of our lower­ class players John terry? do you know anything about­ football you complete and utter @#$%

    From martin, on Sun 24 May 8:29PM

  10. total rubbish beckham is over the hill plus he is older­ then anything wev'e got hiddink has said the age­ limit has to be brought down a peg so where does­ beckham fit into this ancelotti does not want the post­ he ain't got the bottle to take this job on so give­ it to rijkaard and carry on the dutch way of thinking

    From blueblood64, on Sun 24 May 7:40PM

  11. CHELSEA DONT NEED BECKHAM!!!! ALL WE NEED IS THE­ PLAYERS' ATTITUDES, CHANGE THAT!! NEW APPROACH­ MAYBE GOOD ENOUGH!! KEEP ON CHANGING MANAGER IS­ NONSENSE!! GET TOUGH ON PLAYERS!! HIDDINK OR ANCELOTTI,­ WE NEED IMPROVEMENT, DONT CREATE A 'HOPE', DO­ THE 'JOB'!!!

    From Shahrul Johan, on Sun 24 May 6:13PM

  12. i'm italian and italian papers says that kaka will­ go to chelsea with ancelotti not beckham

    From Matteo, on Sun 24 May 4:23PM

  13. Come on! Don't lie to us! If Beckham wanna come­ back to BPL, he'll come back to Manchester United..­ and yes, Man U will not accept him and his underwear­ modeling.. he also said that the reason he went to Real­ is because he don't want to face Man U.. now,­ he's coming back to BPL? HAHAHAHAHAHA...

    From Angelos, on Sun 24 May 3:40PM

  14. all this reporters are just make faking stories to earn­ their living...everybody knows that...

    From elmarciano, on Sun 24 May 2:43PM

  15. Since Ancelotti has stated that he is not leaving Milan­ today, how can he announce his departure tomorow?

    From quatt47, on Sun 24 May 2:24PM

  16. Mark Hughes couldn't manage a fruit'n'veg­ stall.

    The only reason Beckham could be good for­ Chelsea is because Joe Cole seems to be unable to stay­ fit and Malouda and Kalou are rubbish.

    From matthew, on Sun 24 May 2:10PM

  17. it is rubbish idea to bring beckham to chelsea. his too­ old and has no gas for premier league. why not bring­ young and talented player to chelsea. do you think­ beckham would give extra power to chelsea?? what a­ rubbish idea

    From azhanm, on Sun 24 May 2:04PM

  18. the only reason chelsea want beckham is for the the­ news coverage it will get them and put them in the­ world news dont matter if he plays he makes the fans­ look and the asian market love him its a public­ relations move and as for all theses other players get­ real till they sign

    From mickyboy, on Sun 24 May 2:01PM

  19. chealsea have got to much attacking players as it is so­ why bother buying becks.

    From BETHANY, on Sun 24 May 1:58PM
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    i hope chelsa do sign him just the sort of player­ chelsa need lol 34 past it and would be on massive­ wages oh well must have been peter kenyons idea man utd­ for the league again i think

    From faye529, on Sun 24 May 1:17PM
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