Chelsea boss Roberto Di Matteo wants to push through the capture of Wigan’s Victor Moses in the next 24 hours - in a deal worth up to £10million.
Di Matteo’s squad have started pre-season training and his money men are also back in business and poised to make a new offer that the Latics are likely to accept.
The deal - first revealed by Mirror Sport - stalled because Chelsea put in a lower offer than Wigan chairman Dave Whelan could accept but now the double winners are getting serious.
Chelsea’s offer is expected to be a guaranteed £7million-plus with some extras to take the sum for the young Nigerian attacker up to £10m.
Wigan will insist on a big sum up front as Moses’ old club Crystal Palace are due around 20 per cent of the profit - and also want the money badly for their own re-building.
Moses wants to go to a top club and the chance of competing for a start at Chelsea appeals to him. Liverpool have been linked but are yet to make an official move.
Meanwhile, Di Matteo welcomed his Chelsea stars back to pre-season training on Thursday, insisting: "Everyone will have a part to play this season."
The club’s victorious Spanish contingent, Fernando Torres and Juan Mata, return in three weeks along with the club’s other Euro 2012 participants.
Yossi Benayoun, who spent last season on loan at Arsenal, was back at the club’s Cobham HQ, along with the likes of Florent Malouda, who's been linked with a move elsewhere following the arrivals of Marko Marin and Eden Hazard.
Di Matteo said: “They are part of the club and I expect everyone to be here at the start of pre-season. We will monitor it and see what happens.
“Success breeds confidence and confidence is everything in sport. I hope they come back in that kind of form and mood.
“We will be training here until the 14th before going to the USA for two weeks.
“Then we will be back here for a friendly against Brighton and then there is the Community Shield.”
Source : Mirror.co.uk
