Chelsea are pushing onerous in the direction of a deal for £50million-rated Brighton wing-back Marc Cucurella.
The Blues have lengthy since been monitoring Cucurella, who got here by means of the Barcelona academy and impressed at Getafe earlier than becoming a member of Brighton in 2021.
Brighton are understood to be holding agency on a £50m valuation for Cucurella, which is assumed to have stalled a potential transfer to Manchester City.
Chelsea are persevering with to reshape the squad beneath new homeowners Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital, with supervisor Thomas Tuchel understood to stay eager on two additional defensive recruits.
The Blues are additionally thought to harbour sturdy curiosity in Leicester’s Wesley Fofana, although prising the France star away from the King Power Stadium outfit will show a troublesome ask.
Cucurella is regarded as open to a Chelsea transfer, with the one-cap Spain star having already expressed his want for a recent problem amid the prolonged Manchester City curiosity.
Chelsea have already pulled off big-name signings in Raheem Sterling and Kalidou Koulibaly however are decided so as to add additional new faces to the squad.
Kepa Arrizabalaga may but head out within the different route nevertheless, with Napoli understood to be persevering with to push onerous to strike a mortgage deal for the Spanish stopper.
New recruit Koulibaly will put on the 26 shirt at Chelsea this season, and has revealed he sought John Terry’s assent to take the previous England defender’s quantity on the west London membership.
Koulibaly posted a video on social media of his cellphone name to Terry, to ask for the ex-Chelsea captain’s blessing to take the quantity he wore at Stamford Bridge with such distinction.
Source: www.unbiased.co.uk