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Chelsea preparing huge striker deal: Five-year contract offer in offing
CHELSEA are readying a club-record bid for Alvaro Morata, according to reports.
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Antonio Conte is an admirer of the Real Madrid hitman and is looking to bolster his strikeforce, with Diego Costa’s Stamford Bridge future uncertain.
Reports emerged over the weekend suggesting as many as EIGHT clubs are interested in signing Morata.
Manchester United are amongst the suitors, and besides Morata, have been tracking the likes of Antoine Griezmann and Romelu Lukaku.
And Italian news outlet Tutto Mercato report Antonio Conte is ready to make a serious play for Morata.
"I said: 'Yeah, I'd like to'.
"If I had to leave I would almost certainly go to London, but I didn't know what Madrid would do.
"I spoke directly to Mauricio [Pochettino] and Antonio [Conte].”
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