Blues Agree Ancelotti Deal

[Jay]

Sky Sports News understands Chelsea have agreed a deal with Carlo Ancelotti following talks with the Milan coach's representatives.


Chelsea are homing in on their new manager after sacking Avram Grant less than two weeks ago after just eight months in charge.

The Premier League runners-up are understood to have narrowed down their short list for the job to two names.

Blackburn Rovers manager Mark Hughes, who is also interesting Manchester City, is one of the Blues' targets to replace Grant.

The other contender is an overseas coach and Chelsea have made a renewed attempt to prise Ancelotti away from the San Siro.

Milan vice-president Adriano Galliani revealed at the weekend that the club had turned down Chelsea's request to hold talks with Ancelotti.

However, Sky Sports News understands that the Blues have met with the Italian's representatives and agreed terms over taking charge at Stamford Bridge.

A deal with Milan is still to be reached and the concerted push to appoint Ancelotti looks likely to lead to Hughes joining City.

Sven Goran Eriksson, Frank Rijkaard, Guus Hiddink, Luiz Felipe Scolari and Roberto Mancini are among the names to have been linked with the Chelsea position, but it now appears owner Roman Abramovich has settled on Ancelotti.

Looks like we could finally be getting a manager

[Beefy]

The latest from SKY is that he's said he's staying at Milan

[RedRedRobinSTFC]

BBC Sport says the same.

[Jay]

Yep, Milan, Chelsea and Ancelotti have all denied it now so i guess it was more crap from the media. Now Mark Hughes looks set to become the new Man City manager so at this rate were gonna be left with Steve Mclaren as Chelsea manager

[RedRedRobinSTFC]

Heh . Somehow I doubt it. Has Rijkaard been contacted yet ? I think he'd be a good choice.

[Jay]

Originally Posted by RedRedRobinSTFC

Heh . Somehow I doubt it. Has Rijkaard been contacted yet ? I think he'd be a good choice.

No idea who has been contacted coz Chelsea are keeping very quiet about it. Rijkaard said when he left Barca that he would be taking a 1 year break from the game and has not said anything else since.

Hughes, Rijkaard and Scolari are the only main contenders for the job that havent ruled themselves out yet though so it looks like its probably gonna be 1 of them 3.