Metro have certainly got Chelsea fans looking up and moving over to the bar to hear the latest gossip here in the Football Transfer Tavern, as they seem to think that the Blues are eyeing a World Cup winner.
Sami Khedira is available on a free in the summer after he decided that Real Madrid were not the club for him to commit his future to.
Mourinho of course knows him well and Chelsea would be more than happy to pay the £100,000 per week the German is asking for in wage – unlike Arsenal, who were heavily linked with the star only to see Khedira’s wage demands become to much for them.
Our landlord quips that if Mourinho and Chelsea pip the Gunners to the punch, it will be yet another example of how much better Mourinho is at navigating the Premier League and indeed the transfer market than Arsene Wenger is.
