Buck backs Blues’ spending

English giants Chelsea’s chairman Bruce Buck has revealed that the club remains confident on landing one of their two big transfer targets this summer.

The Blues, who are still interested in Alexandre Pato, David Villa and Wesley Sneijder, have not given up hope of buying Franck Ribery from Bayern Munich.

With the French international insisting that he wants to join Real Madrid only, has been priced £70million, asum that Real’s general director, Jorge Valdano, claims they are not prepared to meet and hence the subsequent withdrawal of signing the playmaker.

Having already made three signings, Ross Turnbull, Daniel Sturridge and Yuri Zhirkov, Buck has claimed that the London side is far from spending big this summer.

“We said before the transfer season started that we expected four or five players in and a couple out,” said Buck.

“That is still our expectation. We are looking for a marquee name and are chasing a few but most of the big clubs are chasing the same players.”

“We are only going to get one of those top-notch players if the price is right and he fits into our team appropriately. But we are optimistic.”

“We think we know the right price for these players and there is still a lot of time left in the transfer season so let’s see how things work out.”