Pellegrini/Husillos set to do business
The pair have been in constant touch whilst in Chile and Spain over the last week to ten days and will be moving in on chosen targets with Husillos now in total charge of negotiations.
The activity will start whilst co chairman David Sullivan is away on a summer break having left the two men to carry out business without his and David Gold’s involvement.
Husillos – understood to be on a £1 million plus a year contract – now has full authority to carry out all negotiations as Sullivan and Gold take their promised back seat.
His first move is likely to an increased bid for Swansea’s Polish international goalkeeper Lukasz Fabianski and a new offer for central defender Alfie Mawson.
Pellegrini has insisted in negotiations whilst considering taking the job and since that he and Husillos will have final say and total negotiating responsibility and that will start over the next few days.
We understand the two men have also been addressing the matter of a Manu Lanzini replacement and looking at reorganising their budget arrangements to accommodate that.