Chelsea offer Real Madrid £15M for Makelele

Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich will ignore Real Madrid's protests and lodge a £15 million offer for Claude Makelele in the coming days.

The French international has already been contacted by Chelsea intermediaries with an offer to double his current wages if he chooses to move to Stamford Bridge.

Makelele is currently on £20,000-a-week at Real and his continuous requests to open new contract talks have been turned down by club officials.