£172k-per-week striker is waiting for Chelsea to contact him about joining

After their looming Convention League remaining, Enzo Maresca can flip his full consideration to the summer time switch window, with Chelsea sealing their spot within the Champions League for subsequent season and their 2024/2025 Premier League marketing campaign drawing to a detailed in wonderful style.

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Within the construct as much as their essential 1-0 win away to Nottingham Forest on Sunday, a lot was made in regards to the significance of sealing all three factors and confirming their place in Europe’s most prestigious competitors.

Not solely does it signify a big milestone in the case of Maresca’s debut season within the dugout, however the riches that include competing within the Champions League by way of income and general player-pull additionally can’t be understated.

Maresca recommended again in April that Chelsea’s European standing would affect their recruitment technique this summer time, however the Italian and Stamford Bridge officers can now relaxation simple within the information that they go into the following switch window in a really robust place to draw their desired targets.

The signing of a prolific striker is maybe their most vital potential deal of the summer time, with many high-profile names already linked forward of the primary mini-window, which opens from June 1 to June 10 and permits Chelsea to register new gamers earlier than their Membership World Cup marketing campaign.

In response to journalist Simon Phillips this week, Chelsea have held talks over signing RB Leipzig star Benjamin Sesko, with Arsenal and Maresca’s facet each pushing laborious for his signature. Nonetheless, the Slovenian is under no circumstances their solely possibility.

Hyperlinks to Napoli outcast and Galatasaray star Victor Osimhen have re-emerged not too long ago, following the membership’s well-documented makes an attempt to signal the Nigerian final summer time (Fabrizio Romano), which in the end fell by way of.

Osimhen stays eager on a transfer to Chelsea almost a yr later, with Phillips sharing one other replace on their striker hunt involving the 26-year-old.

In response to the journalist, Osimhen is at the moment ready to see if Chelsea contact him a couple of summer time transfer once more, as he appears to be like to find if the west Londoners are the truth is taken with a deal for the £172,000-per-week striker.

“Victor Osimhen to Chelsea is way from over,” wrote Phillips on Sunday.

“The participant is awaiting to see whether or not Chelsea get UCL soccer and whether or not getting it means they are going to be again in contact with him a couple of transfer this summer time, and Chelsea are nonetheless weighing up pushing for him once more.”

With Champions League soccer now secured, the ball is firmly in Chelsea’s courtroom, and there’s each cause to imagine the ex-Lille star could be an distinctive signing for Maresca.

Osimhen has torn the Süper Lig to shreds throughout his short-term stint in Turkey, bagging 36 objectives and eight assists in all competitions, with ex-Chelsea midfielder John Obi-Mikel additionally determined for BlueCo to convey him in.

“Victor has been on hearth, unplayable generally. Unplayable. Scoring objectives, creating possibilities, the whole lot he does this season has been completely implausible,” stated the pundit on his Obi-One podcast final week.

“So for me, like I’ve stated, and I’ve at all times stated: this can be a participant that wins you trophies. It is a participant that places you within the prime 4. It is a participant that’s dependable. He’ll get you objectives. I don’t need to see him at PSG, I don’t need to see him at Manchester United, I don’t need to see him at Arsenal. He’s tailored for us [Chelsea].”

Osimhen’s launch clause shall be round £63 million from July, so he stay a really attention-grabbing possibility.