Italian club Roma’s sporting director Monchi has said that his club would have bid for former Arsenal star Olivier Giroud had Edin Dzeko had joined the Blues as reported by the London evening standard.
Chelsea were keen on bringing in the former Manchester City man in Dzeko but the talks closed down over the length of the contract which the two clubs couldn’t agree.
The Roma striker came in for criticism after being thought to consider offers from the West London club after his Roma teammate Emerson earlier in the month
Giroud ended up joining Antonio Conte’s side instead of Dzeko and made quite the impact on Monday night as he set up Eden Hazard to score the opener.
The Roma sporting director spoke about the situation which came from the move of Dzeko as he potentially might have moved back to the Premier League.
”We started talking to Chelsea about Emerson and only later did Edin’s name enter the conversation,”
“They made us an offer and we replied with a new proposal. The English club never satisfied our demands and that is why the negotiations were not finalised.
He continued and went onto add.
“No club is happy to sell its best players, but if an important economic offer arrives, it’s impossible not to evaluate it.
We certainly would’ve signed an important striker to replace him, perhaps Giroud, because otherwise the fans would quite rightly have been angry.
“We have a lot of faith in Patrik Schick and Gregoire Defrel, but we would 100 per cent have signed another forward if Dzeko had left in January.
