Chelsea Transfers

[Vesper 28,418]

[Costa19 858]

Im not hot at all on Alvarez. 
Maybe for £30-40m maximum. 
 
If Jackson played for City, people would beg the club to pay £80-100m if we had the chance.

Jackson is better and younger. 

Edited June 7 by Costa19

[Mário César 970]

2 minutes ago, Costa19 said:

Im not hot at all on Alvarez. 
Maybe for £30-40m maximum. 
 
If Jackson played for City, people would beg the club to pay £80-100m if we had the chance.

Jackson is better and younger. 

what world you live for think that city will allow alvarez come to Chelsea for 40M pounds? Lol

Edited June 7 by Mário César

[Pizy 18,344]

Tosin for me can be the next Azpi or Cahill sort of defensive signing. Those two were bought for absolute peanuts and turned out to be some of the best pound for pound signings we’ve ever made. But in this case it’s FREE. 

As for Alvarez, I’m getting more and more convinced that he can be the guy we’re looking for. He has been “pretty good” at City where he has forced to be more of a supporting cast player but just a short time ago when he was at River Plate he looked like he was going to become a genuine £100m player. He could seriously be primed to explode into what his potential showed in the same way we saw with Cole Palmer. Maybe just needs to leave City and be given the faith.confidence to become “the man” instead of just another cog in the Guardiola machine.

 

[Vesper 28,418]

14 hours ago, TheHulk said:

 

If PSG have half a brain (questionable) they would take that €300m (£256m) or so they saved with Mbappe (they do not have to pay the massive loyalty payment plus his huge salary) and buy Osimhen and Leão (Leão now has a crazy £148m release clause but AC Milan will take 5 payments over 5 years and I wager they would come down a bit as no other huge club will drop or can drop that type of money)

or swap out Leão for Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

or swap out Lautaro Martínez for Osimhen

the only other top 35 valued players who are actually available that PSG doesnt already have are

Wirtz

Musiala

Bruno Guimarães

Julián Álvarez (perhaps available)


 

[Mhsc 866]

Alvarez for the right money / salary no brainer imo. Hard to say what the right price is though. 

I think it is pretty normal that when you're stuck playing second fiddle to Haaland your form / confidence / motivation drops off. I'd go after him or Sesko to compete with NJ and open up the option to play one of them as a LW in a 4-3-3, similar to how we had Malouda or Anelka playing out there when really they were more of a forward and a clinical finisher. Those were the golden days...

[Magic Lamps 11,637]

Alvarez is decent, no doubt. 80m would be expensive but not outrageous for a player who has won it all and is still to reach his prime. Definitely more justified than what we paid for caicedo, fofana, mudryk etc. would he be the ultimate solution to our striker woes and bag us 20 PL goals per season? Probably not. But does he add something we don’t already have? Definitely. 
personally, I prefer strong, tall, athletic strikers in 1 striker systems. But marescas football requires someone who has excellent technique, close control, an eye for spaces and who can win a 1 on 1. Alvarez offers all of this. 
there are plenty of good reasons why this can happen. The argument that does not count is the ‚playing second fiddle to Haaland‘ IMO. He has played more PL games and minutes than Haaland last season and I can see this trend continuing as Haaland will continue to pick up smaller injuries with how he is targeted by CBs and pep looking for alternatives within games where he looks out of the loop. 

[Vesper 28,418]

Why are Chelsea so open to selling Conor Gallagher?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5542698/2024/06/05/Chelsea-gallagher-villa-tottenham/

The transfer window is reopening in a matter of days, which can only mean one thing: Conor Gallagher’s future at Chelsea is once again a hot topic.

Earlier this week, The Athletic reported that Aston Villa have opened preliminary talks with Chelsea and Gallagher’s representatives over a possible summer move, with their manager Unai Emery a huge admirer of the 24-year-old and keen to bolster his midfield options ahead of a Champions League campaign in 2024-25.

It may come as a surprise that Chelsea are open to selling the Cobham academy graduate, who frequently captained Mauricio Pochettino’s team on the pitch last season and led the entire first-team squad in minutes played across all competitions. But this is a complex situation with several factors at play and a number of outcomes are still possible.

Here is a dive into some of the most important questions surrounding Gallagher’s future.

---

Why are Chelsea open to selling Gallagher?

There are two elements to this: Gallagher the player and Gallagher the asset. One just had the best season of his career at Chelsea, entrenching himself in the affections of their match-going supporters, and consolidating his place in the England squad. The other now has 12 months left to run on his contract and a growing list of suitors across the Premier League.

One of the reasons why Gallagher’s deal has run down to this point is that, for much of the past two years, Chelsea’s sporting leadership and ownership have not been convinced that he should be integral to their long-term midfield plans. It is why they were prepared to accept a £45million ($57.5m) offer from Everton in January last year and why West Ham and Tottenham were emboldened to express serious interest the following summer.

It is also why Chelsea have spent north of £300million on midfielders in the past 18 months, headlined by the nine-figure transfer fees paid for Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo.

Gallagher did everything he could to challenge that thinking with an excellent 2023-24 season, improving significantly in many areas of his game. But if Chelsea do not believe that progress merits a new contract on significantly improved terms, this summer is their last realistic opportunity to secure real value in a sale.

That value would need to be in excess of £50million for a Chelsea starter and current England international who only turned 24 in February and still appears to be improving.

Do they need to sell Gallagher, or other home-grown players, to comply with financial rules?

Chelsea officials insist they expect the club to comply with the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules (PSR) for 2023-24 without making further player sales before the accounting deadline of June 30, though there is considerable scepticism among many football finance analysts outside Stamford Bridge as to how they can hope to achieve that.

A controversial £76.5million deal to sell the two hotels outside the stadium to another subsidiary company of Chelsea’s ownership group was decisive in the club squeezing under the £105m allowable loss limit for PSR in 2022-23. That transaction is still awaiting sign-off from the Premier League but does underline that Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly are prepared to get creative to ensure future PSR compliance.

Chelsea’s qualification for next season’s Conference League also means they are once again subject to UEFA’s club licensing and financial sustainability regulations (FSR), which only allow losses up to €80million (£68.5m; $86m) for the 2024-25 monitoring period. There is at least no such pressure to sell players by June 30 on this front, since UEFA count from January 1 to December 31 instead.

Whatever the true extent of the PSR and FSR pressures, Chelsea know selling players — and particularly cashing in on academy graduates, who count as pure profit on the books — is the only realistic route to creating the wiggle room needed for more significant recruitment this summer.

It does not necessarily need to be Gallagher who leaves. Chelsea are already guaranteed £28million through the sale of Lewis Hall to Newcastle after his season on loan there, while the proceeds of Mason Mount’s £55m transfer to Manchester United last summer will go on this year’s accounts. They also banked between £11m and £14m from add-ons in clauses of loan and transfer deals last season.

GO DEEPER

Chelsea's Armando Broja: 'Euro 2024 is an opportunity to show the world what I can achieve'

They could generate £35million by selling Ian Maatsen, while Armando Broja and Trevoh Chalobah could raise more than £50m combined. While not a Cobham graduate, Omari Hutchinson could also command a sizeable fee after a highly successful loan spell helping Ipswich Town win Premier League promotion.

How does all of this affect Gallagher’s thinking about his future?

Gallagher is in an extremely strong position. His stock has never been higher and he can expect a large pay rise in his next contract, whether that’s at Chelsea or elsewhere.

He is a well-documented Chelsea fan and his preference remains what it has always been: to pursue a long and successful career with his boyhood club. He has not agitated to leave at any point and cannot be sold against his wishes. One of the few things he can’t control is whether he is offered a new deal that reflects his own sense of value to the team and to the club.

GO DEEPER

Enzo Maresca's backroom staff: The six moving with him from Leicester to Chelsea

But if Villa or another interested club present an offer that satisfies Chelsea, Gallagher will have a real decision to make. Will he play as often, or as well, for incoming head coach Enzo Maresca as he did last season for Pochettino in what is likely to be a different tactical system? There is no guarantee next season will be as individually rewarding as 2023-24 proved to be.

Within that context, going into the final year of his current deal at Stamford Bridge would be a big risk for Gallagher to take — and he would do so with no assurance that a new contract offer from Chelsea would be forthcoming before he hits free agency in the summer of 2025. As with any player, ultimately he needs to do what he feels is best for his career.

Transfer speculation also presents an unwelcome distraction as Gallagher seeks to fully focus on helping England at Euro 2024, which kicks off next Friday, though he has so far done an admirable job of not allowing uncertainty over his future to affect his performances in a Chelsea shirt.

Would Chelsea consider selling him to Tottenham?

For much of the Roman Abramovich era, it seemed inconceivable that any high-profile player could move between Chelsea and fellow Londoners Tottenham, in either direction. The mutual rivalry and animosity went well beyond the fans in the stands, reaching all the way into the boardrooms of both clubs.

Clearlake and Boehly are far more business-minded. Spurs held serious talks with Chelsea about signing Gallagher last summer, but an unbridgeable gap in their respective valuations meant things went no further. It is likely that any offer meeting the asking price will be considered on its merits, rather than rejected out of hand due to the identity of the bidders.

The more intriguing variable is how Gallagher would view the possibility of joining Tottenham. Many of his fellow Chelsea supporters will be hoping he is not put in that position.

Is a new contract at Chelsea still a possibility?

Absolutely. This is not a Mount situation, where bitterness and acrimony took hold on all sides and a parting began to feel inevitable months before it finally happened.

Chelsea’s co-sporting directors Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley have maintained a dialogue with Gallagher’s representatives throughout the past 18 months and there is no sense of bad blood. His unerring professionalism is greatly appreciated and he is a popular figure around the Cobham training ground as well as at Stamford Bridge.

If he is sold this summer, it will not be cheaply, and if offers do not materialise at the level Chelsea would like, it would not be a shock if talks over a new contract began to gather pace.

As has become the norm for Gallagher since the start of 2023, nothing about his future is set in stone.

GO DEEPER

Why Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Newcastle and more want Benjamin Sesko

[Vesper 28,418]

6 minutes ago, Magic Lamps said:

Alvarez is decent, no doubt. 80m would be expensive but not outrageous for a player who has won it all and is still to reach his prime. Definitely more justified than what we paid for caicedo, fofana, mudryk etc. would he be the ultimate solution to our striker woes and bag us 20 PL goals per season? Probably not. But does he add something we don’t already have? Definitely. 
personally, I prefer strong, tall, athletic strikers in 1 striker systems. But marescas football requires someone who has excellent technique, close control, an eye for spaces and who can win a 1 on 1. Alvarez offers all of this. 
there are plenty of good reasons why this can happen. The argument that does not count is the ‚playing second fiddle to Haaland‘ IMO. He has played more PL games and minutes than Haaland last season and I can see this trend continuing as Haaland will continue to pick up smaller injuries with how he is targeted by CBs and pep looking for alternatives within games where he looks out of the loop. 

If Pep leaves next summer, I predict Håland does as well.

[Magic Lamps 11,637]

Just now, Vesper said:

If Pep leaves next summer, I predict Håland does as well.

One more reason the second fiddle argument does not hold water. Also the fact that City probably know they will be in the market for a striker next summer regardless will not entice them to put themselves in a position that will have them shopping for two 

[bluesman2610 1,339]

19 minutes ago, Vesper said:

Why are Chelsea so open to selling Conor Gallagher?

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5542698/2024/06/05/Chelsea-gallagher-villa-tottenham/

The transfer window is reopening in a matter of days, which can only mean one thing: Conor Gallagher’s future at Chelsea is once again a hot topic.

Earlier this week, The Athletic reported that Aston Villa have opened preliminary talks with Chelsea and Gallagher’s representatives over a possible summer move, with their manager Unai Emery a huge admirer of the 24-year-old and keen to bolster his midfield options ahead of a Champions League campaign in 2024-25.

It may come as a surprise that Chelsea are open to selling the Cobham academy graduate, who frequently captained Mauricio Pochettino’s team on the pitch last season and led the entire first-team squad in minutes played across all competitions. But this is a complex situation with several factors at play and a number of outcomes are still possible.

Here is a dive into some of the most important questions surrounding Gallagher’s future.

---

Why are Chelsea open to selling Gallagher?

There are two elements to this: Gallagher the player and Gallagher the asset. One just had the best season of his career at Chelsea, entrenching himself in the affections of their match-going supporters, and consolidating his place in the England squad. The other now has 12 months left to run on his contract and a growing list of suitors across the Premier League.

One of the reasons why Gallagher’s deal has run down to this point is that, for much of the past two years, Chelsea’s sporting leadership and ownership have not been convinced that he should be integral to their long-term midfield plans. It is why they were prepared to accept a £45million ($57.5m) offer from Everton in January last year and why West Ham and Tottenham were emboldened to express serious interest the following summer.

It is also why Chelsea have spent north of £300million on midfielders in the past 18 months, headlined by the nine-figure transfer fees paid for Enzo Fernandez and Moises Caicedo.

Gallagher did everything he could to challenge that thinking with an excellent 2023-24 season, improving significantly in many areas of his game. But if Chelsea do not believe that progress merits a new contract on significantly improved terms, this summer is their last realistic opportunity to secure real value in a sale.

That value would need to be in excess of £50million for a Chelsea starter and current England international who only turned 24 in February and still appears to be improving.

Do they need to sell Gallagher, or other home-grown players, to comply with financial rules?

Chelsea officials insist they expect the club to comply with the Premier League’s profit and sustainability rules (PSR) for 2023-24 without making further player sales before the accounting deadline of June 30, though there is considerable scepticism among many football finance analysts outside Stamford Bridge as to how they can hope to achieve that.

A controversial £76.5million deal to sell the two hotels outside the stadium to another subsidiary company of Chelsea’s ownership group was decisive in the club squeezing under the £105m allowable loss limit for PSR in 2022-23. That transaction is still awaiting sign-off from the Premier League but does underline that Clearlake Capital and Todd Boehly are prepared to get creative to ensure future PSR compliance.

Chelsea’s qualification for next season’s Conference League also means they are once again subject to UEFA’s club licensing and financial sustainability regulations (FSR), which only allow losses up to €80million (£68.5m; $86m) for the 2024-25 monitoring period. There is at least no such pressure to sell players by June 30 on this front, since UEFA count from January 1 to December 31 instead.

Whatever the true extent of the PSR and FSR pressures, Chelsea know selling players — and particularly cashing in on academy graduates, who count as pure profit on the books — is the only realistic route to creating the wiggle room needed for more significant recruitment this summer.

It does not necessarily need to be Gallagher who leaves. Chelsea are already guaranteed £28million through the sale of Lewis Hall to Newcastle after his season on loan there, while the proceeds of Mason Mount’s £55m transfer to Manchester United last summer will go on this year’s accounts. They also banked between £11m and £14m from add-ons in clauses of loan and transfer deals last season.

GO DEEPER

Chelsea's Armando Broja: 'Euro 2024 is an opportunity to show the world what I can achieve'

They could generate £35million by selling Ian Maatsen, while Armando Broja and Trevoh Chalobah could raise more than £50m combined. While not a Cobham graduate, Omari Hutchinson could also command a sizeable fee after a highly successful loan spell helping Ipswich Town win Premier League promotion.

How does all of this affect Gallagher’s thinking about his future?

Gallagher is in an extremely strong position. His stock has never been higher and he can expect a large pay rise in his next contract, whether that’s at Chelsea or elsewhere.

He is a well-documented Chelsea fan and his preference remains what it has always been: to pursue a long and successful career with his boyhood club. He has not agitated to leave at any point and cannot be sold against his wishes. One of the few things he can’t control is whether he is offered a new deal that reflects his own sense of value to the team and to the club.

GO DEEPER

Enzo Maresca's backroom staff: The six moving with him from Leicester to Chelsea

But if Villa or another interested club present an offer that satisfies Chelsea, Gallagher will have a real decision to make. Will he play as often, or as well, for incoming head coach Enzo Maresca as he did last season for Pochettino in what is likely to be a different tactical system? There is no guarantee next season will be as individually rewarding as 2023-24 proved to be.

Within that context, going into the final year of his current deal at Stamford Bridge would be a big risk for Gallagher to take — and he would do so with no assurance that a new contract offer from Chelsea would be forthcoming before he hits free agency in the summer of 2025. As with any player, ultimately he needs to do what he feels is best for his career.

Transfer speculation also presents an unwelcome distraction as Gallagher seeks to fully focus on helping England at Euro 2024, which kicks off next Friday, though he has so far done an admirable job of not allowing uncertainty over his future to affect his performances in a Chelsea shirt.

Would Chelsea consider selling him to Tottenham?

For much of the Roman Abramovich era, it seemed inconceivable that any high-profile player could move between Chelsea and fellow Londoners Tottenham, in either direction. The mutual rivalry and animosity went well beyond the fans in the stands, reaching all the way into the boardrooms of both clubs.

Clearlake and Boehly are far more business-minded. Spurs held serious talks with Chelsea about signing Gallagher last summer, but an unbridgeable gap in their respective valuations meant things went no further. It is likely that any offer meeting the asking price will be considered on its merits, rather than rejected out of hand due to the identity of the bidders.

The more intriguing variable is how Gallagher would view the possibility of joining Tottenham. Many of his fellow Chelsea supporters will be hoping he is not put in that position.

Is a new contract at Chelsea still a possibility?

Absolutely. This is not a Mount situation, where bitterness and acrimony took hold on all sides and a parting began to feel inevitable months before it finally happened.

Chelsea’s co-sporting directors Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley have maintained a dialogue with Gallagher’s representatives throughout the past 18 months and there is no sense of bad blood. His unerring professionalism is greatly appreciated and he is a popular figure around the Cobham training ground as well as at Stamford Bridge.

If he is sold this summer, it will not be cheaply, and if offers do not materialise at the level Chelsea would like, it would not be a shock if talks over a new contract began to gather pace.

As has become the norm for Gallagher since the start of 2023, nothing about his future is set in stone.

GO DEEPER

Why Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Newcastle and more want Benjamin Sesko

If no one has said it I really appreciate your article gathering. Going to search for all these stories is tedious.

[Vesper 28,418]

2 minutes ago, bluesman2610 said:

If no one has said it I really appreciate your article gathering. Going to search for all these stories is tedious.

thanks m8 👋

[Pizy 18,344]

Unlike with other heated Big 6 rivals I’d have to imagine that since ourselves and City have done some drama free, pretty smooth and cordial business with each other in the last few years it would make it easier to convince them to sell Alvarez if he pushes to leave.

The Kovacic, Palmer, and Sterling deals were all problem free if I recall correctly. And as others have said, City/Pep aren’t the type who will put their foot down and adamantly try to play hardball with players leaving. They let Jesus go to Arse without any fuss either.

If we offer probably £70-80m and the player pushes I think we can seal it.

[Vesper 28,418]

Why Michael Olise is a target for Chelsea, Man Utd and Newcastle

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5545560/2024/06/07/michael-olise-crystal-palace-transfer-target/

Michael Olise is gifted with game-changing qualities that would benefit any top club.

The Crystal Palace winger, 22, has growing interest from clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea and Newcastle United after a fine end to the season under Oliver Glasner.

The France Under-21 international has a release clause in his contract and a growing list of admirers after scoring 10 goals as well as providing six assists last season. As reported in The Athletic’s Monday’s Transfer DealSheet, Olise will only move if he is certain it is right for him.

It was his performance in the 4-0 victory over Erik ten Hag’s Manchester United last month that cemented Olise’s reputation as one of the most exciting talents in the Premier League.

He scored twice and was a threat that United could not contain throughout. The difference to when he has been in Palace’s team has been stark.

 

A hamstring injury restricted him to 19 appearances in 2023-24 but Palace’s win percentage leapt from 26 per cent to 42 when he was in the team.

Olise’s attacking output and ability to break down defences is why he is on the radar of some of the biggest clubs in the Premier League.

His nine non-penalty goals came from an expected-goals (xG) figure of only 4.7 and his six assists followed his Premier League record for Palace of 11 in 2022-23.

His numbers match or even surpass wide players who played significantly more games. Newcastle United’s Anthony Gordon played 35 times and had 21 goal involvements from 57 chances created — enough to get him into the England reckoning for Euro 2024.

 

His statistics easily surpass Manchester United’s Marcus Rashford and Chelsea’s Raheem Sterling, who both had lower outputs in 2023-24.

This kind of productivity from the right wing, where many clubs struggle, makes Olise a key target. Teams who are looking to diversify their scoring opportunities across the front line see value in him.

 

Olise is left-footed but plays mainly on the right, an area where Manchester United and Newcastle United have been lacking this season.

For Newcastle, Miguel Almiron works hard but lacks the creativity and ambition required, rarely attempting crosses or through balls and providing only three assists across the last two seasons.

Olise’s rate of 5.86 take-ons per 90 minutes in 2023-24 was not dissimilar to Alejandro Garnacho’s 4.56, but the Argentine prefers to operate on the left. United began last season with Antony as their first-choice right-winger but his 2023-24 total of one goal and one assist in 29 Premier League appearances explains why United are looking for alternatives.

Off the field — as shown in numerous in-house interviews at Palace and after matches with broadcasters — Olise appears reserved.

But on the pitch, he transforms into a different persona: he is confident, creative and able to make things happen. In particular, it is the weight of his crosses that has stood out.

 

This chart shows Olise’s significant role in Crystal Palace’s attacking sequences.

His collaboration with Eberechi Eze and Jean-Philippe Mateta has been productive and would appeal to his suitors with the likes of Nicolas Jackson at Chelsea and Rasmus Hojlund at Manchester United often starved of service. Or if Newcastle were to make their move — fitting into a frontline with Gordon and Alexander Isak would be a daunting prospect for opposition defenders.

His ability to integrate and contribute to existing attacking dynamics would also be beneficial for these clubs.

Under Patrick Vieira, Roy Hodgson and now Glasner, Olise has been free to roam centrally. He averages 3.53 final-third ball carries per 90, which is in the top three per cent of Premier League players. He often finds space within small areas and is particularly adept at using defenders as screens to bend shots on goal — as Cole Palmer has done to great effect in his first season at Stamford Bridge.

Olise thrives with the support of an overlapping full-back. This season, Nathaniel Clyne and Daniel Munoz, who made such an impact at Palace having signed from Genk in January, filled that role. Their movement creates space for Olise’s one-v-one situations and crosses.

 

Chelsea and Newcastle United have suitable full-backs for this approach, including Malo Gusto, Reece James, and Tino Livramento. Although Manchester United’s full-backs aren’t a perfect fit, Diogo Dalot can make underlapping runs. All would work well with Olise’s ability to pass centrally.

Olise is in France’s preliminary Olympics squad, a fitting stage for him to show the world just what he can do. But the big question is: will any of his suitors have convinced him to change clubs by then?

[Vesper 28,418]

Tosin Adarabioyo completes move to Chelsea on free transfer

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5534940/2024/06/07/tosin-adarabioyo-Chelsea/

Chelsea have completed the signing of Tosin Adarabioyo on a free transfer.

Fulham confirmed the 26-year-old’s departure from Craven Cottage on Wednesday morning.

Tosin completed his medical with Chelsea earlier this week, and the defender has signed a four-year deal with the west London club.

He said: “Chelsea is a huge club and this is a full-circle moment for me. I was born three miles away from Stamford Bridge and made my professional debut there.

“I’m very excited and looking forward to helping push the club in the direction we want to go.”

Co-sporting directors Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart added: “We are delighted to bring Tosin to Chelsea. Throughout his career, he has showcased his maturity and defensive qualities and has gained a wealth of experience in the Premier League in recent seasons.

“He is ready to make the step up to Chelsea and work alongside the talented players in our squad. We look forward to Tosin joining up with us for pre-season.”

GO DEEPER

Enzo Maresca: Diet Pep or too risky? A Chelsea supporter seeks answers from a Leicester fan

He joins after a gap in Chelsea’s squad opened up following the departure of Thiago Silva, who left at the end of the 2023-24 season to join Fluminense.

The Athletic reported on June 1 that Chelsea were in advanced talks with Tosin over a move to Stamford Bridge.

Newcastle had been tracking the defender long term and were hopeful of securing a deal for him this summer. The club had submitted an offer for Tosin and were optimistic about convincing him to join, having previously discussed signing him when Fulham were in the Championship.

In April, it was confirmed that Tosin would leave Fulham when his contract expired at the end of the season. The centre-back turned down offers to renew his terms with Marco Silva’s side, having also rejected a new contract during the 2022-23 campaign.

Tosin was the subject of two bids from Monaco last summer and attracted interest from West Ham United and Tottenham Hotspur.

The move sees the Manchester City academy product link up with new Chelsea head coach Enzo Maresca.

Tosin made eight first-team appearances for City before transferring to Fulham in a deal initially worth £1.5million, rising to £2m with add-ons and included a 20 per cent sell-on clause.

He played 132 games for Fulham, helping the team re-establish themselves in the Premier League after their relegation in 2021.

[bluesman2610 1,339]

28 minutes ago, Vesper said:

thanks m8 👋

Just two Bajans sticking together

[ZAPHOD2319 4,417]

5 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

If Alvarez is determined to leave City then I think he may prefer a Champions League destination like PSG. 

I think being the age where he watched Chelsea winning everything and now Chelsea is becoming a destination of so many South American players could be more attractive to him. 

[Vesper 28,418]

Chelsea have withdrawn their offer for Sesko as Arsenal are no longer interested.