Football transfer rumours: Alex Sandro to Chelsea for £50m?

Today’s flimflam is feeling frayed

After listening to José Mourinho bang on about Manchester City “buying full-backs for the price of strikers”, Antonio Conte took one look at the Premier League table, loaded up £50m into the saddlebags and pointed his steed towards Turin. Alex Sandro, a man almost single-handedly keeping the Mill in business since his move to Juventus in 2015, is on the verge of joining Chelsea, according to the Mirror.

Despite having one of the league’s best left-backs in Marcos Alonso, Conte believes the Spaniard could be an option at centre-back, where he sometimes played for Fiorentina, and is keen to beat Manchester United to Sandro. Mourinho is also said to be looking at the Brazilian, as well as a potential move for Napoli’s Faouzi Ghoulam.

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