Whilst the Frank Lampard saga continues to drag itself on longer than a bad plotline in Eastenders, the latest addition to the story sees Inter continue their desperate bid for the midfielder. With Lampard looking less likely to remain at Chelsea by the day, Inter are rumoured to be ready to offer a player plus cash deal in order to secure Mourinho’s blue-eyed boy.

Despite Scolari stating a clear intention to keep Lampard, with the player continuing to decline the £140,000 a week he’d obviously struggle to live on, the Chelsea manager looks to be fighting a losing battle. How Lampard’s managed on his meagre salary this far is anyone’s guess but having tired of scraping to make ends meet he’s clearly only doing what anyone in such dire financial straits would do in seeking a more secure future for himself.

But whilst the one-time Chelsea devotee hides himself away from the current media circus, clearly the victim in all this with such a ruthless contract offer from his stingy employers, his former boss continues to play the knight in shining armour with one rescue attempt after another. In fact, such is his desire to make Frank happy again that Mourinho has had a word with those at the top and they’ve come up with the very generous offer of £12million plus Adriano in exchange for the release of Chelsea’s captor.

Now I don’t know about anyone else, but surely the offer of a player who’s been such a resounding success for Inter they decided to let Fiorentina, Parma and Sao Paulo ‘borrow’ him, has to be too good to refuse? Personally, I’d just take the £12million and save on Adriano’s beer money.

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