Chelsea recruitment chief Joe Shields is pushing for a transfer to signal one marquee Aston Villa star, amid perception Unai Emery’s aspect might be compelled to drop his asking worth.
Chelsea set for busy summer time as Todd Boehly seeks versatility
With a number of Chelsea gamers more likely to depart Stamford Bridge, and the membership at the moment in a robust place to qualify for the Champions League, Enzo Maresca seems set to witness one other busy summer time.
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The west Londoners are exploring a “shock” transfer.
The primary summer time switch window opens in round 4 weeks, and might be lively from June 1 to June 10 earlier than reopening once more on June 16 and ending on September 1.
Chelsea’s ultimate 4 Premier League fixtures | Date |
|---|---|
Newcastle (away) | Could eleventh |
Man United (house) | Could sixteenth |
Nottingham Forest (away) | Could twenty fifth |
This palms BlueCo a small likelihood to signal gamers earlier than the Membership World Cup, and whereas it’s unclear simply what number of offers they will get completed within the area of 9 days, Chelsea know precisely which areas they’d prefer to strengthen.
In accordance with journalist Simon Phillips, Chelsea are most eager to amass a brand new centre-back, winger and striker, whereas the addition of one other centre-back/left-back, attacking midfielder and goalkeeper is not dominated out both – relying on participant gross sales and Champions League qualification.
Chairman Todd Boehly has additionally privately expressed his want for the membership to usher in extra versatile gamers to assist fight potential harm absences subsequent season, as per Phillips, and one participant who matches the invoice on this regard is Aston Villa star Morgan Rogers.
The Englishman has been considered one of Emery’s gamers of the season, bagging 14 objectives and 13 assists in all competitions, with a good variety of them coming within the Champions League.
Predictably, Rogers can be attracting consideration from rivals because of this, prompting Villa to position a seismic £90 million price ticket on the attacker’s head.
The 22-year-old can play as an attacking midfielder, on the wing, and even at centre-forward – like he is completed on two events underneath Emery this season, particularly in opposition to Arsenal and Leicester in the beginning of 2024/2025.
Joe Shields driving Chelsea transfer for Morgan Rogers
The sticking level is clearly his sky-high price ticket, however reporter Phillips, by way of his Substack, says there’s an expectation Villa might promote him for a lowered price given their PSR considerations.
He additionally says that Shields is personally driving a Chelsea transfer for Rogers, so this might be one to regulate.
“Sources say that Chelsea are ‘massive’ on Morgan Rogers and are greater than monitoring a possible transfer to convey him on this summer time with the PSR scenario there,” stated Phillips.
“We’ve heard that Joe Shields is an enormous fan of Rogers and is driving the curiosity. There may be the Manchester Metropolis connection there as effectively after all, and we all know Rogers is shut with Cole Palmer.
“Rogers, who will flip 23 in July, can play in quite a lot of positions, together with out on the left. Sources imagine he could be focused for the left position in addition to being an excellent choice centrally as effectively.
“Villa in the mean time are asking an excessive amount of for him however the perception is that they may must drop the asking worth if they can’t promote any of their different gamers as they appear to promote to be able to adjust to PSR.”
Some studies counsel Arsenal are lining up a transfer for Rogers as effectively, so it is doubtless Chelsea will face competitors.
