The Blues have all but given up on signing top target Franck Ribery from Bayern Munich - and will switch attention to the Dutch international.
Sneijder's position at the Bernabeu is in doubt after the arrival from Manchester United of Cristiano Ronaldo.
And Chelsea will try to take advantage to pull off a cut-price deal for the 25-year-old, who signed for £22.5million just two years ago.
Sneijder said: "I'd like to stay and hope coach Manuel Pellegrini will give me a chance but there are many rumours."
The Blues are expected to make a flurry of signings now boss Carlo Ancelotti has started.
CSKA winger Zhirkov will have a medical on Monday and Daniel Sturridge will be unveiled this week.
Portuguese pair Ricardo Carvalho and Deco are back for pre-season training. Their £13m double transfer with Inter Milan has stalled.
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the most important thing for chelsea to do rite now is to ensure firm discipline in the team. the present crop of players are good enough, dedication and loyalty is key.
if new players must come in they must be PROUD to play for a club like chelsea, we shud not beg anyone to play.
wat we need to avoid is the distraction brought on by terry, if he wants to leave, let him go. we dont need the fuss. chelsea made him and if thats how he wants to pay us fine...
By fred.. Posted July 14 2009 at 4:17 PM.
the most important thing for chelsea to do rite now is to ensure firm discipline in the team. the present crop of players are good enough, dedication and loyalty is key.
if new players must come in they must be PROUD to play for a club like chelsea, we shud not beg anyone to play.
wat we need to avoid is the distraction brought on by terry, if he wants to leave, let him go. we dont need the fuss. chelsea made him and if thats how he wants to pay us fine...
By fred.. Posted July 14 2009 at 4:13 PM.
dont sell terry carvalho ballack .sell deco mikel alex
take shevchenko pizarro.
By SHAWN MICHAELS .. Posted July 12 2009 at 5:45 AM.
Hmm, well Zhirkov, Sturridge and Turnbull(!?) were not Ancelloti signings, each were recommended by one of the hangers-on, like Arnesen, Wilkins, and the Russian owner of course. Let's see if they can attract anyone famous, or will they have to sell Carvalho, Terry, Joe Cole, etc before they can afford to bid for just one big signing for the new manager? Those super-yachts really cut into your budget, don't they? If only you had enough paying fans, eh?
By gmc.. Posted July 12 2009 at 3:39 AM.
hopefully chelsea will buy such a telented player like messi (eventhough he is loyal with barca), aguero, and sahin..replace the older and useless with like ballack and deco with new younger,quality midfielder..
maybe manager should add more striker bcause sometime drogba can be USELESS and SUCK..
use your available youth and transform them to a giant star..
By ammar.. Posted July 7 2009 at 4:29 AM.
chelsea should pls remember central mildfield bcos there is african nations cup next year,mikel,essien will be miss for a month,so pls look for replacement now.
By michael ozi.. Posted July 6 2009 at 11:02 AM.
Chelsea should not sell terry,drogba and essien. Try and get two young strikers like pato and aguero to support drogba in d attack
By Engr sylvester okorie.. Posted July 6 2009 at 3:09 AM.
i have read all the comments here.am not sure chelsea need to sell any players.if chelsea can bring yuri,carlos tevex,mexes from as roma.i think they are done for the transfers.chelsea have young talents that need to be developed.stoch,machienn,these youth team need more matches and oppurtunity to improve.atlease players below 27 years are ok not 28 years
By grantike.. Posted July 5 2009 at 7:45 PM.
Wesly is a supa add,pato,pirlo will make d blues d galatico of england.
By Ken sarro.. Posted July 5 2009 at 7:28 PM.
All i want for chelseas to do now is to sell some of the supplus players like Ballack, Anelken, Decoa and they should buy Teves, Agureo instead of WS
By Matador.. Posted July 5 2009 at 7:20 PM.
Plz kp RC n' JT they r CFC's wall, we nd inspiration in the forwards some1 lk kun aguero, also quaresma should b gven a chance by the WS or VAN D V the rock totally we nd them
CFC 4 lif
By Leibn.. Posted July 5 2009 at 5:20 PM.
a very good player and we can get him on the cheap but we really dont need him. we could use him in the future whern ballack retiers. so maybe buy him and loan him out but he wouldnt like that. i would much rather see drenthe come to us he is unhappy at real and is a brilliant player he is alot like yuri zirkov. but alot younger and we can get him for about £10m.
By alex.. Posted July 5 2009 at 4:02 PM.
he's simular to Deco in his style of play, obviously better too, but in the end chelsea prefered to have ballack, lampard and essien or mikel in the middle. Maybe van der vaart would be a more relevent signing as he can play on the wing.
By mikey.. Posted July 5 2009 at 11:50 AM.
pls, we dont need midfielder in the team but a complementary striker to drogba $ co.
By ogb, o.. Posted July 5 2009 at 2:12 PM.
funny how when Barca beat RM 6-2 in closing run of season the English were all going on about "so what they are a useless team whose glory days are well behind them". RM would have won the league in any other season with the run they had gone on and points achieved ...until the moment Barca destroyed them. Now cheslea are trying to buy one of the "useless" players from RM and the top players in the world are going to RM. And Eto who many feel has had his best days at Barca is going to the EPL for a lot of money. All the English are complaining about how unfair and obscene it is. All the financial power had been with England for a while and its funny how quickly the toys get thrown out of the pram when it doesn´t go their way.. And maybe now the egos of fans will have to come down after Barca demonstrated who are the best in the world. But many cannot bring themselves to congratulate the worthy winners and talk of missing key playersm, getting tactics wrong..And the best players want to be in Spain and not the UK..
By ricardo.. Posted July 5 2009 at 12:04 PM.
chelsae if u reading this pls do it
Pls sale ballack, joe cole, kalou, anelka, belleti, they are good for nothing pls replace ballack with schweinsteiger from B munich AND sell cole to aston villa and bring ashley young do it and c the result but one thing dont lose essien
By Imran.. Posted July 5 2009 at 1:18 PM.
i am very happy that chelsea have signed ross turnball daniel sturridge and now yuri zhirkov i also hope that john terry stays with chelsea and chelsea buy wesley sneijder and carlos tevez.
ps: chelsea fan for life!!!!!
By matthew osewa.. Posted July 5 2009 at 12:58 PM.
Pls chelsea bring some good players like (higuain from madrid,david silva,kun aguero ,mata,luis fabiano we need young players and pls give chance for quaresma and one more player who his very good on ball gourcuff go ahead show the difrrence )
By Imran.. Posted July 5 2009 at 1:10 PM.
I have watched WS play many times for Real Madrid, always in midfield. He is certainly not a winger (where did this come from?)
Recently there have been doubts about his nighttime excursions and tendency to put on weight, but he has undoubtably been one of the few successful players at Real over the past two seasons. Well worth a punt.
By charco.. Posted July 5 2009 at 11:17 AM.
He wil go united you will see
By Rem.. Posted July 5 2009 at 10:15 AM.
don't sell terry and carvalho, they are match winner player.
Ribbery is good player for chelsea if we will win the transfer race.
By Prem.. Posted July 5 2009 at 11:22 AM.
watched wesley for a long time at ajax would be an assett for any team as an evertonian i would love him but its never going to happen .boyd
By john boyd.. Posted July 5 2009 at 9:57 AM.
pls chelsea dont let carvho live he is the best in chelsea
By ebeuwehi michael.. Posted July 5 2009 at 8:47 AM.
Never heard of him described as a winger,have heard of Van Der Vaart described as wide player. Would like him but given the Choice I reckon Snieder will go to Man Utd who lack a decent centre mid player with Scholes on the wain.
By pDzonu p.. Posted July 5 2009 at 8:45 AM.
Bring him in, but this will no doubt be a good long term replacement for the ever fading Michael Ballack, we all saw what Sneijder is capable of @ the Euro 2008 comp.
By Ahmet Tekin.. Posted July 5 2009 at 7:13 AM.
Be good to see him in the premership i wish martin o neill go for this type of player we need some more talent down the villa
By Dan0.. Posted July 5 2009 at 7:15 AM.