Chelsea In For Pazzini?

The Blues have identified Sampdoria hitman Giampaolo Pazzini as a possible transfer target, according to French website les-transferts.com.
The Italian has scored 15 goals in 22 appearances in all competitions since joining the Blucerchiati from Fiorentina last January and has formed a fruitful partnership with Antonio Cassano.
Chelsea are reportedly willing to pay €18 million for his signature and the deal may allow them to offload seldom-used striker Andriy Shevchenko, whose salary takes up a significant amount on their wage bill. Coach Carlo Ancelotti is an admirer of the former Atalanta striker, who scored against the his Milan team last season.
Pazzini also earned his first cap for the Italian national team last year, but has been omitted from their latest string of matches.

JT Flattered But Not Tempted

John Terry has claimed that while he was flattered to be wanted by Manchester City, he was never tempted to leave Chelsea for the big bucks on offer at Eastlands.

Despite an offer of a reputed £300,000-a-week by Mark Hughes' employers to prize the defender away from the Blues, JT insisted that 'Sparky' failed to ignite his imagination.

"If I'd been tempted I'd have gone," Terry told The Sun."I was flattered but that was it.

"The bid was [big] but I don't know what kind of figures would have been thrown at me.

"I got a call from [chief executive] Peter Kenyon and told him I was flattered but I didn't want to leave."

However, the Blues' skipper said that his decision was made based on assurances that the key players would not be sold.

"I didn't want the club to sell Didier Drogba but we'd heard all the rumours and I wanted these kind of players around me," he confessed."I wanted assurances they would be staying."