BACKBEAT FIRST AGAIN
Last week news of Chelsea’s interest in Del Horno broke and today The Sun leads on this:
JOSE MOURINHO is lining up a £30million raid for Barcelona superstar Samuel Eto’o. Chelsea boss Mourinho is desperate to strengthen his strikeforce for next season’s assault on a Premiership and Champions League double.
This from BackBeat in the current RI:
So Penis Zihavi was uncontactably out of the country last week as Riogate raged, was he? Where the fuck was that then, Outer Azerbaijan? Or was he, as an OT exec told us, 'making himself diplomatically unavailable' - i.e. not answering his phone whilst sunning himself on a beach near Tel Aviv or some such?
Bet you he’d have picked up the call soon enough if he first got a text saying 'OK, we give in, £120k, OK?' Incidentally, we note that Penis's absence didn’t stop him apparently conducting several deals with Kenyon on the phone whilst PK had lunch in a pub last Sunday….
…..What’s that, you say? An old comrade source picks up the story, which may break in the tabs before we hit the streets but just in case it doesn’t:
“Went out for a pub lunch in leafy Cheshire today - Bells of Peover, in the smoking section - and who was on the table behind but Peter Kenyon. The woman he was with was telling him about the Mail article quoting a friend of Mourinho's wife who said Mrs Mourinho thought the Chelsea wives were all slappers with no class.
"Anyway, he then takes a call from someone who he says he was trying to email (must have had a blackberry or xda). He then says they have some meetings set up next week to finalise deals for Eto'o and Del Horno (Athletic Bilbao left back). He then started talking about needing to talk to Southampton, which I presume is about this young centre back of theirs."
“Went out for a pub lunch in leafy Cheshire today - Bells of Peover, in the smoking section - and who was on the table behind but Peter Kenyon. The woman he was with was telling him about the Mail article quoting a friend of Mourinho's wife who said Mrs Mourinho thought the Chelsea wives were all slappers with no class.
"Anyway, he then takes a call from someone who he says he was trying to email (must have had a blackberry or xda). He then says they have some meetings set up next week to finalise deals for Eto'o and Del Horno (Athletic Bilbao left back). He then started talking about needing to talk to Southampton, which I presume is about this young centre back of theirs."