Mourinho to offload striking quartet to fund summer raid for Costa The Chelsea manager must raise the cash to bid for top targets Diego Costa and Mario Mandzukic, and to comply with Financial Fair Play rules. Owner Roman Abramovich will not stand in the way of Mourinho trying to sell or loan out £50m record transfer Fernando Torres. Romelu Lukaku is seeking a new club, Demba Ba will be sold and Samuel Eto’o is set to leave. Mourinho can bank around £32m, the size of Costa’s buy-out clause at Atletico Madrid, by selling Lukaku and Ba. Eto’os exit would save £7m in wages and Chelsea want the £9m-a-year salary of Torres off the wage bill. Chelsea are already making strides towards addressing their huge wages outlay. It emerged last night that the club’s wage bill has been overtaken by Manchester United‘s for the first time in more than a decade, and they are also below Manchester City‘s. Chelsea’s wage bill in 2012-13 was £176m compared to £182m for United in the same season, while City’s was £233m. Wages at Stamford Bridge actually fell overall in 2011-12, and the rise last season was around 3pc compared to an 11.6pc increase at United. Mourinho would now like to sign Costa and Bayern Munich‘s Mandzukic, while also securing a third, cheaper striker to provide reliable back-up. Didier Drogba‘s Galatasaray contract expires at the end of the season. Sources in Italy claim former Napoli winger Ezequiel Lavezzi, who scored for Paris Saint-Germain Read more here The post Mourinho to offload striking quartet to fund summer raid for Costa appeared first on Nigeria Newsline.
Posted on: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:36:02 +0000
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