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Chelsea eye Real duo](BBC SPORT | Football | My Club | Chelsea | Chelsea eye Real duo)

Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri has revealed the club are lining up a summer swoop for Real Madrid duo David Beckham and Ronaldo.
Ranieri told Italian newspaper Tuttosport that Blues owner Roman Abramovich is eyeing the pair.

“Yes, Chelsea are thinking of Ronaldo and Beckham,” admitted Ranieri.

“There is only one person in the world who can try to take them from Real president Florentino Perez and he is called Roman Abramovich.”

However, Ranieri now appears resigned to the fact that he is unlikely to be at the club next season.

He added: "I’ve never spoken about it before, because of the respect towards those who pay me.

“Sure, it’s difficult thinking I will stay with Chelsea, so I’m thinking about what I’ll be doing next year.”

Ranieri’s opposite number at Real Madrid, Carlos Queiroz, also finds his position under threat.

Real are in danger of finishing the season empty-handed after losing to Barcelona in La Liga on Sunday.

They are a point behind leaders Valencia and should they fail to win the league, Queiroz seems unlikely to keep his job.

The departure of a manager Beckham knows well after the pair worked together at Manchester United would lead to increased speculation about the England captain’s future at Madrid.

Ronaldo in Premiership hint
Ronaldo was quoted in the News of the World newspaper on Sunday saying he would relish the chance of playing in England, alongside Beckham.

However, he has since denied he wants to leave Real, saying he would like to play in the Premiership “one day” but that he is “not going anywhere”.

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i don't see what the need is for chelsea to buy these players???

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or the reason to make raneiri go, he did well as chelsea manager.

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or the reason to make raneiri go, he did well as chelsea manager.
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Until the Monaco match. That game sealed his P45 and I'm sure he knows it. Until that match virtually all Chelsea fans would have back him. After that match hardly any Chelsea fan will back him. It was too errors to make in one match, and now we'll have to see who replaces him in the summer.

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so basing it one one match..seems a bit harsh..the players on the field were the same who had the success earlier. its easy to blame the manager and boot him, but the team just did not click that day.

Its like arsene being kicked out of highbury because gunners lost to ManU in FA semis and also ended their champions league run, without looking at all that was done right.

Abramovich will probably pay boat loads of money to bring in more expensive players but what ranieri is facing now is same as what vialli faced earlier.

haste makes waste..it took wenger years to make gunners what they are today..

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Its not just because of that one match. That one match was the straw that broke the camels back so to speak. More than a few people have questioned whether Ranieri can take Chelsea to the same level as Arsenal and Manchester Utd. Look at the team since the highbury match. Its under performed badly at a time when it had to step up to another level. We've been losing and drawing matches when we had to win to keep any sort of pressure on Arsenal.

As for blaming the manager for that one match - it WAS almost 100% his fault. He changed the team when they finished strongly at the end of the first half. It was his substitutions that completely changed the shape of the side. In a word, he f***ed it up big time. There's no way he can blame it on the players. They may have started slowly, but they got an equaliser, and finished the stronger of the 2 teams at the end of the half. He then puts on Veron, who isn't match fit, and consequently we lose whatever width we had thorugh Gronjkear. He then compounds that with 2 more poor substitutions and the team loses all cohesion. People who spend over £100m on a football club followed by a £100m on players don't want to see their manager lose the plot so badly. Until the Monaco match, I'm pretty sure Abramovich and Kenyon were beginning to resign themselves to keeping Ranieri for another season, because they really had no reason to sack him, and he had a huge amount of fan support. After the match, they pretty much had carte blanche to go out and sign whoever they want. If you believe the tabloid press, its going to be Jose Mourinho, with Deschamp being the fallback choice.

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he is close enough to the level MAnU or Arsenal are playing, after all look at the league standings, or how the handled the gunners in one of the big big games for them.

as far as substitutions, whereas the team was doing okay earlier on, it was not heading towards the results that were needed, so he tried an experimented and it back fired, had the expirement worked everyone would be his biggest fan right now. The fact remains that he made changes because the initial squad, while playing respectable..were not getting the desired result.

is he to blame for it, sure..but a 100%..no, the players shoulder the blame as well, they did not deliver before the changes, or after the changes.

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Hes had 4 years and hasnt won a trophy yet. Hes also spent big money (pre abrahamovic aswell, 40 mill one summer) and they are still quite far behind Arsenal, and probably Man U if they sort it out (and as long as Rio doesnt pi** it up).

Unless they recover and win the european cup he will most probably go. And good luck to him he will get 3 years contract paid off (rumoured to be £7mil).

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he is close enough to the level MAnU or Arsenal are playing, after all look at the league standings.......
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10 points difference, and Arsenal have a game in hand. Not exactly running them close.

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as far as substitutions, whereas the team was doing okay earlier on, it was not heading towards the results that were needed, ..........The fact remains that he made changes because the initial squad, while playing respectable..were not getting the desired result.
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They were 1-1 at half time away from home. They had the all important away goal, and finished the half strongly. I'd say the squad was doing well enough.

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is he to blame for it, sure..but a 100%..no, the players shoulder the blame as well, they did not deliver before the changes, or after the changes.
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The players shouldn't have to shoulder the blame when so many of them were playing so far out of position. Huth was in mid-field. Hasselbaink was out wide. Why?????? His substitutions made no sense. One bad substitution is understandable, but to c**k up all 3 is criminal.

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how the handled the gunners in one of the big big games for them.

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That was one hell of a match chelsea played. Ranieri's biggest problem is that he doesnt like to sit on one combination for too long, specially his strikers... Rotating them is a good thing but he doesnt let them settle. Though i agree he has done enough not to be fired.

Reg topic of thread, i dont think beckham will be shown the door after just one season at real.

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word but RealMadrid sucks - 0-3 against Osasuna at home :hehe:

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latest rumours:

Beckham to Chelsea or Arsenal
Ronaldo to Chelsea
Walter Samuel to Chelsea
Owen to Real Madrid
Van Nistelrooij to Real Madrid or Barcelona
Nedved to Chelsea
Morientes to AS Roma
Trezeguet to Barcelona
Kluivert to ManU
Figo to ManU
Stam to AC Milan
Shevchenko to Chelsea
Van Persie to Arsenal (finalised)
Keane to Celtic
Evra to Juventus
Giuly to Juventus or AC Milan
Deschamps to Juventus or Real Madrid as coach

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Real ‘want to keep Beckham’](BBC SPORT | Football | Other European | Real 'want to keep Beckham')

Real Madrid want to keep David Beckham next season despite continued speculation linking him with Chelsea and Arsenal, according to the Observer.
Real sporting director Jorge Valdano said “nothing has changed” since club president Florentino Perez backed Beckham in a meeting two weeks ago.

Valdano said: "Real Madrid prefer to distance themselves from all this talk.

“Beckham has a five-year contract and there is a buy-out clause [180m euros] that anybody interested must pay.”

The buy-out figure, which equates to £126m, is thought to be too much even for Chelsea to pay.

And the view that Beckham will stay in Madrid is backed up by comments from the midfielder’s personal assistant Terry Byrne.

He told The People newspaper: "Unless Real want to sell him, he’s staying. The truth is, we don’t know where the stories about him leaving are coming from, but it’s not us.

"Real told me they don’t want to sell him.

"The situation remains the same because we always said we would review the situation after two years and he hasn’t even finished his first season.

"Obviously we have talked about what would happen if he came home but there are only a few clubs he could go to.

“We will sit down with Real at the end of the season and discuss his future, but the bottom line is that David loves playing for Real Madrid.”

The Observer adds that Madrid may attempt to offload Ronaldo rather than Beckham in order to finance bids for Roma’s Francesco Totti and Manchester United’s Ruud van Nistelrooy in the summer.

Ronaldo has a buy-out figure of 180m euros and Valdano told the Observer, “To us Ronaldo has a huge strategic importance - but so does 180 million.”

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gunners also said that even if they wanted Beckham, he is too expensive for them.