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On a season long loan. From Sky:

Di Santo holding Rovers talks

Sky Sports News understands Chelsea striker Franco Di Santo is at Blackburn Rovers to discuss a season-long loan move. Rovers manager Sam Allardyce is keen to bolster his frontline following Roque Santa Cruz's departure to Manchester City.

It now seems that Blackburn are closing in on the capture of Argentine attacker Di Santo.

The 20-year-old joined Chelsea from Audax Italiano in 2008 but has failed to score in any of his 16 appearances for the club
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If true then it would obviously do him the world of good to get a big more Premiership experience under his belt. And we can always recall him if necessary.

 
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I heard about this a few weeks ago, but due to the lack of news on it and Di Santo's excellent performances in America, I assumed it had fallen through.

 
It was first mentioned just before Carlo took over and the put on hold because Carlo wanted to check out the squad first. At the time it was said that the deal was pretty much finalised pending Carlo's approval so it would appear this confirms that Carlo sees him haivng little chance of first team football with us this season.

 
I think it'd be a fantastic move; Big Sam seems really keen on getting him, which can only be good for all involved really, as it's quite likely it won't be another Ben Sahar....

 
Good move For Franco it gives him valuable game time. For us it allows us to see if he is upto the job in the premiership.

Will this mean another forward coming in perhaps? Surely we're not going to leave ourselves so threadbare again in the forward positions especially with Drogba out for the opening 3 champions league games.

 
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charierre said:
Good move For Franco it gives him valuable game time. For us it allows us to see if he is upto the job in the premiership. Will this mean another forward coming in perhaps? Surely we're not going to leave ourselves so threadbare again in the forward positions especially with Drogba out for the opening 3 champions league games.
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I'm thinking the same, I've got my fingers crossed Aguero is coming to join us.

 
YES. That would be an excellent move. A year of being a real first teamer in the Premiership can only do him good

Blackburn being Big Sam's team, im sure a big striker like Di Santo will be a regular up front to ping longballs off of him.

 
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Maybe the plan is to give him some Premiership experience so we can use him when Drogba and Kalou leave to play in the African Nations Cup.
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Exactly. If we was going to sign another striker he would have stayed at Blackburn until the end of the season.

 
Good news for Franco and us, expect to see Pizzaro on his way out next.

 
charierre said:
Will this mean another forward coming in perhaps? Surely we're not going to leave ourselves so threadbare again in the forward positions especially with Drogba out for the opening 3 champions league games.
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Well we already have Sheva, Kalou, Pizzaman and Sturridge as backup for Drogba and Anelka. Even if Pizzaman leaves and Sheva too (though it doesn't seem like he will now) we still have a total of 4 strikers to chose from.

So we are covered, even if it's not the best cover in the world. Would like to see Aguero as backup ;)

 
It would appear Blackburn have also spent over £10m on Nikola Kalinic from Hadjuk Split so Di Santo may just be, at best, a bench player at Blackburn as he will be competing with Kalinic, McCarthy and Diouf

 
I really think we need to start putting play clauses in to loan contracts... i understand its not that easy but they may as well be on are bench

 
I hope this is a good move for him, but if he goes up there to ahve about as much chance of playing as he does at Chelsea, then I can't see it being that great a deal. However, the fact that he's only gone for about 4 months is a good sign for us, but again make me think that it'll mean he's just a bench warmer for Blackburn.

I also hope it means that we are looking at another striker

Scott

 
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It would appear Blackburn have also spent over £10m on Nikola Kalinic from Hadjuk Split so Di Santo may just be, at best, a bench player at Blackburn as he will be competing with Kalinic, McCarthy and Diouf
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i think he would be above diouf for definate as a front man, he plays wide left pretty much all the time now. i would say its 2 from kalinic, mccarthy and our boy, and as he didnt seem too keen on playing mccarthy last season he might get more time than you think. but i agree about the clause, it wuold be perfect for us if he got 6 months of play then came back in january ready to go.

 
I've never seen Kalinic but is he a target man type of striker? If so then Di Santo's playing time could be limited. Fat Sam always plays a target man and I dont think he sees McCarthy as one. McCarthy is better as a second striker than a target man. So the fight could be a straight duel between Santo and Kalinic with latter having the advantage of being not on loan till 1st of Jan while the former with some Prem experience... however little, it still counts.

 
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