AC Milan ready to battle with Blues for midfielder

Chelsea’s pursuit of a new central midfielder has been the focus of most transfer speculation around the club in recent months, with Serie A players seeming to be the most linked to Antonio Conte’s impressive project in West London.

Milan Badelj of Fiorentina is a name that has cropped up again and again, despite there being no real substance to back up the speculation. Now it seems as though Chelsea’s interest (should it actually exist) has a rival in AC Milan, who want the Croatian themselves. At least that’s according to Italian paper the Corriere dello Sport.

Realistically if Chelsea are desperate for the 27 year old they could probably outbid the Italians despite their new Chinese owners, so if the Rossoneri do get their man we can assume we’ve got other players up our sleeves. Whatever happens it will be interesting to see if all this speculation around Badelj has been nonsense of if there really was anything to it.

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