January WILL BE the busiest window we've had in ages!

It's common knowledge that firstly, Alex handed in a transfer request that has been accepted by Chelsea and he is expected to leave next month. Secondly, Florent Malouda has spoken out about leaving the club if he doesn't play more football and finally, Carlo Ancelotti will be named the new PSG manager this afternoon.

The reason I am writing about all this together? Ancelotti is expected to make a bid to sign both of them as early as next week as he takes the helm of the french giants and I believe that they WILL leave the club as AVB continues to revamp the squad he inherited when he arrived here.

In what is normally a quiet-ish January with only one or two deals being done, this could become the busiest January transfer window of recent times with players coming in and leaving. We already know that Nicolas Anelka is out the door and Gary Cahill is more or less a done deal coming in.

The reason I am more excited about this transfer window is because it's a sign once again that Roman Abramovich is backing his manager and more importantly, the manager's decisions. Remember last January? There is still an argument that only one of David Luiz and Fernando Torres was a signing requested by Carlo and the other bought by Abramovich. One thing AVB has done since he came in is to gain total control of the players that come in and leave and that's exciting. Gone are the days of a Shevchenko coming in and the manager being told to "fit him in!".

AVB needs to revamp this squad as we all know and I have to admit, I thought the busiest time would be the summer but, as we are beginning to see, he has looked at his players, given them and chance and made ruthless decisions.

Those decisions look like starting with Alex and Malouda being offloaded to PSG as early as next week!

KTBFFH

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