Chelsea and AC lead Pato race



By ANDREW HAIGH
June 26, 2007

CHELSEA are facing stiff competition from AC Milan for Brazilian wonderkid Alexandre Pato.

Striker Pato will star in the Under-20 World Cup next month - even though he is one of the youngest players in the competition at 17.

Some of Europe's top clubs will send their scouts to keep tabs on the Internacional ace.

But Pato's agent Gilmar Veloz has revealed European Champions Milan and the Blues are already leading the race for his signature.

Veloz said: "There are possibilities and official interest that is not invented.

"The club know about everything. Internacional allowed a representative from Milan - Leonardo (scout) - to look at him.

"Chelsea also sent a person who was interested. But nothing is certain.

"Internacional have the federative rights to the player and they are taking care of it with us."

If Chelsea do strike a deal for the £18million-rated starlet, Veloz believes they may have to wait to get their man.

Pato would struggle to get a work permit and that could be a stumbling block in any move.

Veloz added: "Nothing will be done without the agreement of the club so the Internacional fans can be calm because Pato has contract with the club until 2009.

"But because he is not 18 yet, he cannot leave before January 2008."

Chelsea's sporting director Frank Arnesen has a history of bringing Brazilian stars to Europe.

He took a 17-year-old Ronaldo to PSV Eindhoven for £4million in 1994.

And Arnesen hopes he can produce similar results with the capture of Pato this summer.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2002390...7290291,00.html

i think you have to be 18 to be able to work abroad... and he is 17

Pato is not a Kaka'. He's not a ofensive-midfielder but a second-striker.

I think they mean in terms of value.

It sounds good... but I guess taxes in Italy are not helping us in this case either...   

Pato is not a Kaka'. He's not a ofensive-midfielder but a second-striker.

i no that ...im just saying that he would become our next AWSOME young revelation LIKE KAKA
and he would work out as a in-box striker if we wanted to ...he has played many times in both positions SS and in-box....

Reports in the Brazilian media suggest that AC Milan will swoop for Porto Alegre teenage sensation Pato Alexandre if they fail in their bid to prise Sameul Eto’o away from Barcelona.



“Those aren’t just rumours, Milan are formally interested in my player,” said his agent Gilmat Veloz, who recently went on record as stating that Chelsea are already working hard to close a deal for the Brazil U-20 star.

Despite only being 17, Pato has seen his international profile make a dramatic rise of late due to being linked with big money moves to European heavyweights the likes of Chelsea or Inter. 

The latter are even rumoured to have offered 5 of his relatives a job in Italy in a bid to secure the prodigious talents of the player nicknamed ‘the new Kaka’.

Milan would be able to serve up a tantalising deal sweetener of their own, in that Pato could look forward to teaming up with his boyhood idol: the real Kaka!

Reports in the Brazilian media suggest that AC Milan will swoop for Porto Alegre teenage sensation Pato Alexandre if they fail in their bid to prise Sameul Eto’o away from Barcelona.

Non sense. I mean, it's a world-class foward or a world-class young (non-proven in Europe) bud? 

But again... HE'S NOT THE NEW KAKA'. Different positions. It's like saying Kaka' is the new Van Basten. 

There will never be a new Kaká ever, as there will never be a new Maradonna, Péle, Cruijff, Beckenbauer or whatever. Kaká is Kaká, basta.

Non sense. I mean, it's a world-class foward or a world-class young (non-proven in Europe) bud? 

But again... HE'S NOT THE NEW KAKA'. Different positions. It's like saying Kaka' is the new Van Basten. 

Ahhhhh,...taxes, taxes,...it seems like Italy has reinvented the taxes just a month ago! I mean, the taxes were there even before football was...

So suddenly everything stops cause of the Italian taxes...yupp...

Ooo, but there never will be a Maro Borriello as well..

I haven't seen enough of Pato to want him over someone like Eto'o, but I've only heard good things.

If we end up signing him, I don't think I would be disappointed. If Oli ends up back in Spain, that will leave us with three strikers over 30, and Pato - a good mix if you ask me.

It's a shame Chelsea are interested - they'll no doubt bump up the price to more than he's worth.

Guess Leonardo didn't like what he saw  

(This is why I'm surprised you all aren't clamoring for Deco to be signed. His wife is pretty!)

Yeah... there's always better things in Brazil:

http://globoesporte.globo.com/ESP/Noticia/...67-4274,00.html

OK, brazillian source, usually reliable... says Pato is going to Chelsea in January.
His agent is quoted saying the deal is almost done.

So... another missed target.

I don't think she's pretty. She's hot. Way... way different. 

http://globoesporte.globo.com/ESP/Noticia/...67-4274,00.html

OK, brazillian source, usually reliable... says Pato is going to Chelsea in January.
His agent is quoted saying the deal is almost done.

So... another missed target.

I don't like her at all. 

I dont see him even survive in the Premiership,...hope that news are wrong,...
What about her:

Ana Beatriz Barros is not bad. But you can find better. 

Who's her Fillipo? Adriana?

Oh, really!? 

Instead of saying that you should post a fvckin' greek model. 

And what about your portugesean beautys?

I dont see him even survive in the Premiership,...hope that news are wrong,...
What about her:

We've no Ninas... but still nice.