Chelsea are interested in signing Juventus star Pavel Nedved, the player's agent has said.
Zdenek Nehoda told The Sunthat Chelsea are tracking Nedved after advice from England coach Sven-Goran Eriksson.
The newspaper reports that the club are prepared to pay £25 million for the player.
"Juventus' director general Luciano Moggi told me Chelsea want Pavel and although the answer has been no, they simply won't go away," he said.
"The desire to have him is very strong and apparently Eriksson keeps on advising [Chelsea's Russian billionaire owner] Roman Abramovich that Pavel is vital."
Nedved played under Eriksson at Lazio and was identified by the Swede as one of six key players who could most hurt England's chances of success at Euro 2004.