Has this Chelsea midfielder been told "he can leave" in January already?

According to a report in London's Evening Standard, Mohamed Salah has been told that he is free to leave Chelsea in January and Inter Milan are waiting in the wings to take him Serie A.

I wrote an article on Salah after Chelsea's victory over Shrewsbury recently and stated that he looked like a play who is down on confidence and needs games. It appears that he will now only get those games if he leaves Chelsea!

With rumours over recent days suggesting that Jose Mourinho has identified Marco Reus as a replacement in the next window, it looks more and more likely the article is spot on.

It's a shame that things haven't worked out for Salah here because he has bags of potential, lightening pace and has a real eye for goals.

It just seems that he hasn't looked like the same player Chelsea signed from Basle in a Chelsea shirt!