Chelsea are still exploring options for their new striker in the summer, which is still the priority position they are looking at.
Reports have suggested that PSG are leading this race, but it’s still a race that Chelsea are in – with many still believing that Victor Osimhen remains the priority for The Blues hierarchy.
As I have said, they’ve had a dream to sign Osimhen since they arrived at the club and took over, but the opportunity has not been there. Now, the opportunity is there this summer, but you’re going to have to drop some serious cash to land him.
His release clause will be around £115m this summer, which is a big chunk of the transfer budget at any club.
Of course, there is now all of this talk about Chelsea complying with PSR and FFP rules due to loopholes found such as selling assets between their own companies. Whether they actually end up getting away with that or not remains to be seen, I’m pretty sure that other club owners will be doing all they can to stop it. However, as of right now, it appears to be within the rules, so maybe they have just found more smart loopholes.
It still doesn’t mean we can and will be able to keep dropping huge amounts of cash on bringing in more new players. As I have said, the club want to be smarter in expenditure and have looked at different ways to do this (loan to buy/obligation, free agents, etc). We WILL still be selling players this summer regardless of what happens, and we will be smarter in what we bring in. It’s the last window of a four-window plan to rebuild the squad. So there will be at least two or three positions signed in this summer, but it’s not expected to be as crazy as past windows at the club.
Even still, there is that temptation to spend big on Osimhen, although Chelsea have been looking at ways to try and bring the fee down and also, structure the release clause. There’s been some club contacts, and plenty of agent contact.
But should Chelsea be spending out that much…
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Author : Simon Phillips
Publish date : 2024-05-13 11:46:50
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