Chelsea linked with the world's top players again to prove silly season never ends

According to Fleet Street, Chelsea will launch an enormous transfer binge in January.

The FIFA transfer ban hasn’t had much, if any, impact on the Chelsea gossip train – I guess journalists just aren’t prepared to give up the stories that would fill hundreds of otherwise empty column inches every six months. Despite knowing nothing about the status or credibility of the appeal, the newspapers have ignored Chelsea’s recent thriftiness in the transfer market and would have us believe that the ban will definitely be overturned and Chelsea will be hunting down several big name signings come January 1^st.

The names supposedly on Ancelotti’s shortlist have been coming thick and fast over the past few days – apparently David Villa, Sergio Aguero, Daniele De Rossi, Adam Johnson, Jack Rodwell, Marek Hamsik and Rafael Van Der Vaart are just some of the names that will be heading to Stamford Bridge for exorbitant sums in early 2010. Check out the Mirror and the Telegraph for just a flavour of the rumours.

Everything points to continued conservatism in Chelsea’s transfer policy: the club has continually spoken of the aim to break even; big money signings have been few and far between of late; and areas of the club have seen budget cuts – for example Chelsea Ladies (read here to find out how John Terry lent them a helping hand).

Plus of course, we’ve heard it all before. Over the summer Chelsea were linked with no less than 39 players – most of which being the biggest and brightest stars of the game. As it was, Chelsea signed four players: Zhirkov, Sturridge, Turnbull and Matic . And that was at a time when Chelsea were allowed to make signings.

What does this all mean? Well, just don’t believe all you read when it comes to Chelsea and transfers. Not until anything actually happens, at least…

Comments

[chelsfan]

i dunno. for some reason i kind of get the feelign we will see some transfers in jan. maybe a big name signing like aguero plus a young english player?

everyone keeps going on about aguero, but who knows whether he's even 'right' for hte PL. £40m is a lot of money