Chelsea eyeing summer transfer raid on Man City after declining deadline day offer

Enzo Maresca’s Chelsea had a comparatively quiescent January transportation model erstwhile it came to incoming signings but they already person 2 additions successful caput for erstwhile the summertime rolls around

Chelsea are inactive funny successful making 2 young midfield signings this summertime including a determination for Manchester City wonderkid Nico O’Reilly.

Enzo Maresca’s broadside had a comparatively quiescent wintertime transportation model by their standards - the lone signing being 19-year-old Mathis Amougou from Saint-Etienne. Instead, Chelsea’s absorption was predominantly connected exits arsenic a big of players were allowed to permission Stamford Bridge some permanently and connected loan.

That included the merchantability of Cesare Casadei, who moved to Torino, portion Ben Chilwell, Joao Felix, Axel Disasi, Carney Chukwuemeka and Renato Veiga were each allowed to implicit indebtedness moves. But it appears that plans are already being enactment successful spot for signings successful conscionable a fewer months’ time.

Over the closing days of the January window, Chelsea were linked to Sporting Lisbon midfielder Dario Essugo and Man City starlet Nico O’Reilly. The London broadside made an connection for the second but saw their Premier League rivals cull that attack due to the fact that they did not privation a repetition of the Cole Palmer move.

The 22-year-old swapped the Etihad for Stamford Bridge for £40m successful 2023 and helium has gone connected to people 39 goals successful 71 games. But according to the Mail, O’Reilly remains connected Chelsea’s radar, arsenic good arsenic Essugo.

The Sporting Lisbon midfielder was not signed successful portion owed to him having already played for 2 clubs this play including existent indebtedness broadside Las Palmas. There is besides a determination to beryllium made connected wintertime signing Amagou.

The young midfielder is acceptable to bid with the Chelsea first-team implicit the coming months earlier being sent retired connected indebtedness to sister broadside Strasbourg. Speaking aft completing his archetypal determination to West London, helium said: “I'm precise happy.

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“It's an honour for maine to motion for specified a large nine similar Chelsea. They judge successful young players and the process they person successful spot to make america is fantastic.”

Despite plans already being enactment successful spot for the summertime window, Chelsea brag Maresca has expressed his alleviation astatine the Blues being closed for concern for now. He said: “Everything that happened was planned from me, from the club, from each together.

"We person Tyrique (George) who has a precise bully profile. Probably we tin find immoderate antithetic solutions. I'm precise blessed due to the fact that (the window) is closed. The ones that are present are the ones that are going to beryllium with america until the end. The ones that left, we were each agreed that they could go."

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