Chelsea and Man United need Chris Rigg. Picture by David Rogers/Getty Photographs and Carl Recine/Getty Photographs
Though he’s simply 17 years of age Sunderland’s Chris Rigg has been lighting up the Championship, and each Chelsea and Man United are “keen” to signal him.
Sources have instructed CaughtOffside that each Premier League giants have been carefully monitoring the attacking midfielder’s improvement, with scouts current on the Black Cats current matches towards Leeds United, Hull Metropolis and Luton City.
Man United and Chelsea need Chris Rigg
They face a problem to have the ability to land him, nonetheless, as sources have additionally superior that Brighton, Arsenal and Wolverhampton Wanderers are additionally maintaining a tally of the proficient teen.
Rigg has been constantly turning heads together with his spectacular performances for Sunderland, and has been lauded for his technical abilities, recreation imaginative and prescient and skill to maintain management of the ball even when put beneath the severest strain by opponents.
That potential was all the time going to place him on the radar of the highest golf equipment, and it now seems to be a foregone conclusion that he’ll make the soar to the English top-flight.
CaughtOffside sources have indicated that the present Championship leaders – who will clearly be detest to lose considered one of their up and coming stars – have slapped a price ticket of £25m-£30m on the participant’s head.
Such a steep asking worth is clearly designed to maintain away potential suitors, nonetheless, Rigg would seem to haven’t any ceiling when it comes to his expertise at current, and as such, the value may nicely be thought-about to be a cut price in future.
For now, the Hebburn born teenager, who has three objectives in 11 Championship video games in 2024/25 (transfermarkt), is concentrating on conserving the Black Cats on the high of the English second tier.
