Chelsea bid for Farfan

Chelsea have made an offer for Peru striker Jefferson Farfan, according to the player’s agent and a spokesman from his current side Alianza Lima.

The Stamford Bridge club want to buy Farfan and then farm him out to Dutch side PSV Eindhoven.

Farfan is just 19 and has not made enough international appearances to qualify for a work permit to play in the Premiership.

However, he is seen as one for the future by Chelsea, and agent Jose Luis Catalan is travelling to London to meet Roman Abramovich, the billionaire Russian owner of the London club.

“I have an appointment with him to discuss the transfer to Chelsea, and I will also analyse the possibility of joining PSV Eindhoven,” Catalan told Peruvian newspaper El Bocon.

Alianza’s spokesman Carlos Flores said: “We have been talking to Chelsea’s representatives for a couple of days. They made a serious offer and we are analysing it.

“If we close the deal with them, their idea is sending Farfan to some other team for a year, possibly PSV Eindhoven, because he has not played enough matches in the national team as the Premier League’s rules require.”

Farfan is considered Peru’s best player and scored four of the six goals Alianza Lima scored in the Copa Libertadores group stage.