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Terry: Chelsea Will Look To Buy A Few Players In January

Skipper expects replacements for African absentees.

Nov 17, 2009 2:11:26 AM

Roman Abramovich (tden.ru)

Chelsea captain John Terry believes that the club will spend big in January due to avert any problems caused by the loss of players to the African Nations Cup.

The CAS (Court of Arbitration for Sport) has temporarily suspended the transfer ban imposed on the west London club, which would bar them from operating on the market for two consecutive transfer windows.

Terry believes that when this is coupled with the club's African stars leaving for international duty, they will have to bring in some reinforcements to steady the ship.

"It's good news about the transfer ban being suspended but we lose four good players to the African Nations Cup in January anyway," Terry is quoted in The Sun as saying.

"I'm sure the club and the manager [Carlo Ancelotti] are looking into that and having good talks with Roman [Abramovich].

"I wouldn't be surprised if we do go out and buy because we don't know what's going to happen in the summer - or the following summer."

The Stamford Bridge coffers have traditionally been quiet around the winter transfer period. The last time the club went on a mid-season shopping spree was in 2008, when they bought Nicolas Anelka, Branislav Ivanovic and Franco di Santo to counter the call-ups of Michael Essien, Didier Drogba, Salomon Kalou and John Obi Mikel.

That same quartet is set to ship out to Angola this time around, but Terry believes that this should not pose a problem when it comes to the question of their title rivals reducing the Blues' five-point lead in the league.

"We're going well at the minute and we're lucky enough to have a big squad with good players who can come in if we get a couple of injuries," he said.

"Looking at it realistically, we're maybe going to be suspended in the summer window and maybe another one after that.

"The manager has great experience and he knows what we need."

Adithya Anath, Goal.com UK

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