ALONSO: I COULD HAVE JOIN BARCELONA

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This season the 26 year old Spanish wing back Marcos Alonso was in a impressive form with the Blues and he revels that he is not interested to join the Catalan side.

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The wing back revels that he could have joined the Catalan giants before moving to the Chelsea.

This season the Blues brought him from the Serie A outfit Fiorentina, and they spend £24 million for him, but he proves that the money worth him as he is in impressive form for the Blues under the Italian manager Conte.

But he reveals that the Catalan side is interested in him and they made approach for him before he decided to join the Chelsea side and instead of him the Barcelona side the French left back Lucas Digne from PSG.

In an interview he said: "Well, I think there was some conversations [with Barcelona] but the truth is that at that point it was not in my plans to leave Fiorentina,"

"It was only when the interest from Chelsea arrived in the summer when I started to consider to make a change."

The left back was a part of Bolton and Sunderland previously in his career in England.

Right now his side is 10 points clearer from the second spot Tottenham side as they won their last match against the West Ham side by 2-1 goals.

He Voiced: "There were some great teams interested in me in the summer but I decided to join Chelsea because they are a team that I had always liked,”

"I saw a possibility of succeeding here. I had some other offers from other teams from Italy and Spain but when Chelsea came to get me, I did not think twice. Chelsea are a club that had always attracted me.

“From my early years at Bolton I knew that Chelsea were a great club and the truth is that I was right to come here. Things are going well but I have to continue this way because I think I still can give much more. Now with the tranquility of not having to prove anything I have to keep improving.”