Palace nonetheless in race to signal £200k-a-week Chelsea star

Crystal Palace are favourites to land Ben Chilwell from Chelsea. Picture by Mike Hewitt/Getty Photographs

Ben Chilwell would seem to haven’t any future at Chelsea beneath Enzo Maresca, and it’s believed that Crystal Palace have moved into pole place to signal him.

Again in September, The Solar famous the attentions of the Eagles for the left-back, who earns a cool £200,000 per week (Capology) with the Blues, and it’s understood that curiosity hasn’t waned.

Sadly, nothing has modified during the last couple of months for the participant who’s rotting on the sidelines at current.

Palace nonetheless hoping to land Ben Chilwell

Leicester Metropolis apparently wish to re-sign their former participant, while Newcastle and West Ham are additionally understood to have an interest.

Clearly, he’s nonetheless a commodity wished by others, even when the West London outfit see no worth any longer in a participant that was as soon as their captain.

At simply 27 years of age, Chilwell will certainly have quite a bit to supply whichever membership is ready to purchase his providers, albeit, it might take time for him to get again as much as the extent required given how lengthy he’s been out of service so to talk.

Crystal Palace are nonetheless interested by Ben Chilwell. Picture by Ed Sykes/Getty Picture

Maresca has all the time been trustworthy and forthright together with his views on each participant, and although the Italian is just a little too direct typically together with his assessments of the relative deserves – or not – of his gamers, not one of the first-team workers can bleat about not understanding the place they stand.

That’s as a result of Maresca leaves no room for any gray areas. He is aware of what he desires and the way he desires to go about getting it, and that’s arguably one of many essential the explanation why Chelsea are flying excessive as soon as once more in 2024/25.

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Palace are doing the precise reverse and at present discover themselves down in 18th place with only one win all season lengthy.

That’s unlikely to hassle Chilwell if it implies that he’s performed recurrently and given an opportunity to have an effect on the quick way forward for the South London outfit.