A high-earning Chelsea star is ready for crunch talks with supervisor Enzo Maresca over his future this week, and he may nonetheless go away Stamford Bridge, regardless of the UK switch window’s closure final Friday.
Chelsea splash £271 million on 13 signings in busy switch window
As soon as once more, Todd Boehly and BlueCo confirmed they’re positively not afraid to splash money, having spent round £271 million on 13 new additions, together with a reported £51 million transfer for Brazilian starlet Estevao Willian.
Joao Felix, Mike Penders, Kiernan Dewsbury-Corridor, Marc Guiu, Renato Veiga, Estevao, Filip Jorgensen, Tosin Adarabioyo, Aaron Anselmino, Caleb Wiley, Omari Kellyman, Pedro Neto and Jadon Sancho all put pen to paper on strikes to Stamford Bridge, and there may’ve been another.
Chelsea had been in high-profile talks over a deadline day transfer for Napoli star Victor Osimhen as nicely, who ready for the Blues regardless of agreeing phrases on a profitable contract with Saudi Professional League aspect Al-Ahli.
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Victor Osimhen’s Serie A Statistics 2023/24 |
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Appearances |
25 |
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Objectives |
15 |
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Assists |
3 |
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Photographs per 90 |
3.86 |
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Key passes per 90 |
1.05 |
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Profitable take-ons per 90 |
0.73 |
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WhoScored |
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Nevertheless, each the Nigerian and Chelsea could not agree phrases themselves, which has left Osimhen in limbo at Napoli, so he now should wait till January to lastly get his huge transfer away from Antonio Conte’s aspect.
“The Al-Ahli provide to Osimhen is a €30m wage on a four-year deal,” wrote dependable journalist Ben Jacobs on X.
“There are €40m in bonuses on prime taking the whole bundle to €160m. Al-Ahli additionally ready to sanction a launch clause. Osimhen has agreed to phrases however is ready to see whether or not Chelsea counter. Al-Ahli provide to Napoli has been accepted. It’s €68m plus add-ons taking the whole bundle near €80m.”
Regardless of the UK window being formally closed, with no extra incomings attainable, it’s nonetheless attainable that just a few extra Chelsea gamers depart within the coming days. The Belgian, Dutch, Saudi, Turkish and Portuguese home windows are nonetheless open, that means any sides from the aforementioned nations may nonetheless conduct enterprise with the west Londoners.
David Datro Fofana is predicted to go away Chelsea as one instance, in response to Fabrizio Romano, and uncertainty nonetheless surrounds the way forward for left-back Ben Chilwell.
Chilwell set for crunch talks with Maresca over Chelsea future
As per GiveMeSport, there’s nonetheless an opportunity for the £200,000-per-week left-back to seal a departure within the coming days with a succession of home windows nonetheless open throughout Europe.
The Englishman has been deemed surplus to necessities by Maresca these days, who seemingly prefers Marc Cucurella as his inverted left-back choice for the 2024/25 Premier League marketing campaign.
GMS writes that Chilwell is ready for crunch talks with Maresca over his Chelsea future this week, and whereas he’s not pushing to go away at this second, we can not positively rule out the 27-year-old’s exit both.
