ASHLEY COLE will sign for Chelsea in a £16million transfer next
Wednesday - and they will follow up with a sensational £4m swoop
for Roberto Carlos.
Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon has agreed a deal for Cole to
sign a five-year contract worth £90,000 a week in one of the most
controversial transfers in Premiership history.
But Chelsea will also pull off another major surprise by signing
Brazilian veteran Carlos - partly as a treat for Roman Abramovich's
12-year-old son.
Real Madrid star Carlos, 33, is Arkady Abramovich's favourite
player and is also seen as a big enough name on the world stage to
expand Chelsea's global market.
That is the reason why Chelsea are set to sign TWO left-backs, with
Cole getting the No.3 shirt. Asier Del Horno is poised to return to
Spain with Valencia leading Chelsea winger Damien Duff left
training early yesterday as Tottenham prepared to make an increased
offer after their initial £5m bid was turned down.
But every last detail in Cole's transfer has been thrashed out down
to the deal being completed next Wednesday.
Cole is currently on honeymoon after his showbiz wedding to pop
star Cheryl Tweedy and returns next week while Chelsea fly to Los
Angeles next Wednesday for their preseason training camp.
It will complete one of the most remarkable transfer sagas in
English football.
Cole was found guilty and fined after being caught up in a
tapping-up scandal after he held a secret transfer meeting with
Chelsea 18 months.
Cole has a £16m buy-out clause written into his contract and with
no other firm offers Arsenal will sell to Chelsea at that price as
Real Madrid have yet to make a formal bid.
