Michael Dawson says £58m Chelsea star would be ‘perfect’ for Man City

Michael Dawson believes Chelsea midfielder Romeo Lavia would beryllium ‘perfect’ for Manchester City.

Lavia came done Man City’s academy but lone made 2 appearances for the first-team earlier being sold to Southampton successful 2022.

The Belgium planetary was portion of the Southampton broadside that were relegated from the Premier League but inactive managed to heighten his estimation during that hard campaign.

Chelsea saw disconnected contention from Liverpool to motion Lavia for £58m successful the summertime of 2023 but helium hardly featured during his archetypal play astatine Stamford Bridge owed to wounded issues.

Lavia has continued to conflict with fittingness this word but impressed erstwhile helium has been capable to get connected the transportation for a Chelsea squad that person exceeded expectations contempt their blip implicit the festive period.

Ex-Premier League defender Dawson has been impressed by Lavia and says helium would beryllium ‘perfect’ for his erstwhile nine Manchester City, who person been without injured Ballon d’Or victor Rodri for astir of the season.

Lavia is not the lone erstwhile Man City subordinate thriving astatine antithetic Premier League club, with Cole Palmer and Liam Delap besides impressing since leaving the Etihad Stadium.

‘You look astatine the players who person near Manchester City… I’m a immense Cole Palmer fan,’ Dawson told Sky Sports.

‘I was earlier helium adjacent went to Chelsea, his crippled clip was limited. You look astatine Lavia there, Liam Delap, would these players person truly got an accidental astatine Manchester City to spell and fulfil their potential? I’m not excessively sure.

‘It’s casual successful hindsight to spot what they’ve gone and done. Lavia’s 1 who would person been cleanable for Manchester City and the mode they play with Rodri being out.

‘I emotion what he’s done, went to Southampton, brilliant. He past had galore hamstring injuries, gone to Chelsea and struggled a spot with injuries.

‘But erstwhile we spot him helium is simply a cleanable acceptable for Manchester City, but they person seen these players successful the building, and evidently thought they’re a agelong mode distant from our first-team truthful they bring idiosyncratic other in.

‘People volition disagree whether Cole Palmer was the close deal. I inactive deliberation helium was 1 that Pep needed to support due to the fact that I saw capable successful the infinitesimal successful clip erstwhile helium played for Manchester City that helium would person got much crippled time.’

Man City were attempting to triumph a record-extending 5th successive Premier League rubric nether Pep Guardiola but the Sky Blues person won little than fractional of their league games to gaffe to eighth.

Lavia’s awesome signifier for Chelsea whitethorn beryllium a astonishment to Guardiola and City but Palmer was ne'er successful uncertainty that helium would travel bully astatine Stamford Bridge.

‘One idiosyncratic I’ve played with [who is good] is Romeo Lavia,’ the Premier League young subordinate of the play told SPORTbible past summer.

‘We’ve not seen him this play due to the fact that he’s been injured for a afloat twelvemonth but I deliberation he’s 1 that, erstwhile helium gets playing everyone volition think, “Oh, he’s truly good”.’

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