Kenyon still hopeful of Robinho coup
Chelsea chief executive Peter Kenyon has sealed the future of Frank Lampard and is hopeful of now getting Robinho to sign at Stamford Bridge.
Real Madrid have turned down an offer from Chelsea for 24-year-old Robinho but Kenyon believes they can still sign him before the end of the transfer window.
The Brazil forward would bolster the options of boss Luiz Felipe Scolari, who can now be certain of Lampard being in his midfield after 18 months of contract stalemate ended in the England international signing a five-year deal.
On the possibility of signing Robinho, Kenyon said: “It is continuing. Hopefully not for as long as the speculation about Frank.
“We’ve still got a few days left of the window and hopefully we’ll get a result.”
Lampard was pushing for a five-year deal rather than four and is among the club’s top earners with his new deal.
Kenyon added: “This announcement is a massive boost and comes at the best possible time to give us a boost going into the next season.
“There is a great sense that it is done for the next five years and we don’t have to concentrate our efforts on it anymore. It certainly sees Frank seeing out his playing career at Chelsea. The speculation has been around for the past 18 months.
“While we had approaches from Inter Milan we were never going to sell Frank, Chelsea are not going to sell their best players and Frank certainly comes into that category.
“We were just delighted that following the talks we could finalise this pretty quickly. It’s something at the end of the day that we always wanted to achieve and I think Frank obviously wanted to achieve it.”
