Roman Abrahimovich plans to make a £50million summer swoop for Cesc Fabregas.
Chelsea's billionaire owner will try to hijack any Barcelona bid to land the Arsenal skipper.
Capturing Fabregas would be an even more astonishing Blues coup than the recent £50m British record signing of Fernando Torres from Liverpool.
Chelsea see the Spaniard as the ideal partner for Frank Lampard in the side's engine room.
This is interesting. 50 million for him must sound tempting for Arsenal. Even if this doesn't work for Roman, the fact that he offered so much means that Barcelona will have a harder time trying to match this amount of money. So Cesc may stay at least until the final year in his contract with Arsenal.