Once in a while, a story comes along that raises all of the eyebrows, and Gazzetta dello Sport on Tuesday are kind enough to provide it this time around.
It involves Chelsea and left-backs, currently holding the rights to both Marcos Alonso and Emerson Palmieri, both Antonio Conte purchases.
While the Spaniard has found some joy under Maurizio Sarri, who moved César Azpilicueta back to the right hand side of the defence, the Brazil born Italy international has not.
This has led, in recent weeks, to a few stories of a potential exit emerging, as Inter were said to be interested in Palmieri’s services.
However, Gazzetta dello Sport, who also ran the previous story, explain Juventus are now taking a look at the left-back as Leonardo Spinazzola could leave on loan, while Chelsea, down their end, are one of the many teams interested in Juventus left-back Rogério (on loan at Sassuolo).
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So this is what could happen: Chelsea buy Rogério for €20m (Juventus want to cash in), Leonardo Spinazzola (Juventus’ current backup left-back) goes out on loan and the Italians buy Emerson Palmieri to fill the holes.
We doubt this will happen, but the interest is apparently there, and since the Chelsea defender is barely playing these days, he might be open to being Alex Sandro’s backup in Italy, where he’d apparently quite like to return.
