Chelsea look set to land Claudio Pizarro from Bayern Munich on a free transfer.
The experienced Peruvian striker is out-of-contract at the Allianz Arena and is understood to have held talks with Chelsea, Juventus and former boss Felix Magath at Wolfsburg.
However, Pizarro is expected to put pen to paper on a four-year deal at Stamford Bridge with unsettled defender Khalid Boulahrouz tipped for a move in the opposite direction.
Not exactly the world-class forward that we were all expecting/hoping for. This isn't Eto'o, or heck, even Luca Toni, who's arrival at Bayern makes Pizarro expendable. And it certainly isn't (or I wouldn't expect it to be) a repeat of Spurs' success with Dimitar Berbatov last season. Berba King had scored 20 goals in the Bundesliga, whereas Pizarro only notched eight last season.
And then you read this, and start to get really worried:
Pizarro was offered a new contract by the club in Spring, though angered club bosses by rejecting it and demanding more money, prompting chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge to remark: "Anyone wishing to earn like Shevchenko must first play like Shevchenko."
And we all know how well Sheva played last season. In fact, that's why Chelsea were looking for a new striker in the first place!
Chelsea are going to lose both Drogba and Kalou to the African Nations Cup next year. I just have the feeling that while Pizarro will be an additional option up top, he isn't the last piece of this particular puzzle.
