TRANSFER NEWS: Chelsea Linked With £17m Italian International

Chelsea are considering making a move for Napoli’s talented full back Christian Maggio, according to reports.

The London club are thought to be ready to offer £17m for Maggio, a wing-back for the Italian national team. Despite being a first-team regular with the Serie A high flyers his club have not offered him a new contract even though his current one is rapidly running down.

Maggio’s agent Massimo Briaschi does not seem happy with the contract situation and recently commented:

“A marriage takes two, but we are still waiting to meet Napoli. It is normal that a player like him attracts interest from other clubs. He’s a professional sportsman and this is the secret of his continued performance.”

The Italian earns €950,000 per year, according to the Gazzetta dello Sport and creates a lot of assists and chips in with some good goals but one issue could be his age – He is currently 29-years-old and could be too close to 30 for AVB who has shown he likes bringing in younger players.

7 Comments

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   Chiboy

   October 24, 2011 at 10:56 pm

   AVB should get a sharp stricker,a good creative midfielder,a left fullback by january

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     LaLoLa

     October 30, 2011 at 3:36 pm

     and that is Eden Hazard..

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   Engr kestone

   October 25, 2011 at 1:40 am

   AVB chelsea need Modric at cost, sell Dider Drogba he is too old.He always parade himself on field. No one can cheat nature, sell him and get better sritcker.

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   Engr kestone

   October 25, 2011 at 1:53 am

   modric and Torres are presently the two players who can bail out chelsea from manU defeat.AVB be careful.

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   Jamochelsea

   October 25, 2011 at 10:29 am

   All Avb need is modric,pereira or cahill,and sell dd leave torres to shine

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5. 

   chelsea123

   October 25, 2011 at 5:47 pm

   chelsea in january ned gregory van der wiel ,gary cahill or diego godin,de bryune [forget modric]buy hazard instead,barkley , jovetic or pato.sell d.d ,bosingwa,maluda and alex.

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     LaLoLa

     October 30, 2011 at 3:38 pm

     i agree…
     they really need players like bruyne,g.cahill and hazard… drogba,kalou should be sell…

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