Chelsea boss Mourinho: We've been
offered 50 keepers!
tribalfooball.com - October 19, 2006
Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has revealed he's been inundated by
agents offering goalkeepers.
Former France keeper Fabien Barthez, who only recently announced
his retirement from the game, is a free agent and therefore
entitled to join another club outside the transfer window.
But Blues boss Mourinho insists Barthez is too much of a
'high-profile' player to join his squad as a third-choice
keeper.
Mourinho said: "What I know in this moment is that we have 50
agents calling us and, if they call us, they call the press.
"So Fabien Barthez is a name. There are a lot of names in the air.
What I know is that Carlo (Cudicini) and Hilario are very good
goalkeepers and it is not easy for somebody to come and play in
this team.
"Probably, what we have to try to get is a third goalkeeper and, of
course, Fabien is not a preferred third goalkeeper. He is a
high-profile goalkeeper.
"I prefer to think that now we have Hilario and Carlo, they are
first options and we need somebody to give us security and replace
Petr Cech in the group of keepers. That is the profile of the
goalkeeper we are looking for."
Just other transfer rumour for buffon
case as chelsea is looking for a good but non-high profile
keeper
