AC Milan will test Chelsea's determination to hang on to Michael
Ballack with a bid to snap up the German midfielder.
Ballack wants to leave Stamford Bridge in January after being left
out of the squad for the Champions League group phase.
Blues boss Jose Mourinho insists the club will not sell to
front-runners Real Madrid after being riled by their coach Berndt
Schuster going public with his continued interest in Ballack.
But European champions Milan are also interested in the player who
has failed to settle at Chelsea since a free transfer from Bayern
Munich in the summer of 2006. And unlike Madrid, Milan can come
close to matching Ballack's £130,000-a-week pay deal.
Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti was one of several top European bosses
who tried to land Ballack last year.
Ballack, 30, has been out since April with an ankle injury that
needed surgery.
