Chelsea Transfers

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Chelsea approach Dortmund for Jamie Gittens transfer, seven-year contract agreed

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6077611/2025/06/07/Chelsea-transfers-jamie-gittens-dortmund/

By David Ornstein

Chelsea have submitted an official proposal to sign Jamie Gittens from Borussia Dortmund and have agreed a seven-year contract with the forward.

The 20-year-old is keen on a move and only wants to join Chelsea, who hold a long-standing interest in the England Under-21 international.

Dortmund view the potential sale of Gittens as key to a summer rebuild and believe the forward is not a natural fit for head coach Niko Kovac’s preferred system.

Gittens, who has yet to play for England’s senior international team, believes the move will provide a platform for him to push for a place in Thomas Tuchel’s squad for the 2026 World Cup.

The Athletic reported on June 3 that Gittens and Manchester United’s Alejandro Garnacho were on Chelsea’s list of winger targets in the summer window.

Chelsea’s move comes after the club opted against making Jadon Sancho’s 2024-25 season-long loan deal a permanent move, having scored five goals in 41 appearances during his move from Manchester United.

Bayern Munich had previously expressed an interested in a summer move for Gittens, but a bid never materialised.

Gittens joined Dortmund in 2020 from Manchester City’s youth system and has made 106 first-team appearances for the German club, with whom he is contracted through to 2028.

2024-25 was a breakthrough season for the England Under-21 international, who scored 12 goals for Dortmund including four in the Champions League.

Predominantly a left winger, Gittens has also been deployed in an attacking midfield role.

He is yet to be capped at senior level with England, with whom he won the European Championship in 2022 at under-19 level.

Additional reporting by Sebastian Stafford-Bloor and Simon Johnson.

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[Reddish-Blue 2,489]

4 hours ago, Mário César said:

 

So that would mean its not happening. 

[NikkiCFC 8,287]

On 07/06/2025 at 00:09, Strike said:

 

 

We did something crazy. Went for Gittens instead of him...

[TheHulk 2,403]

 

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[iceboy 1,017]

Brilliant business for 15M

[Thor 2,690]

Hearing that they met at 18 mil to get the deal done. 
 

Maybe a slight overpay for a keeper with a year left on contract. But if he’s back to his best with us, we are good for 4 or 5 years at keeper. 
 

[King Kante 1,643]

Gittens to me looks like someone who flatters to decieve. Firstly he strikes me as a player who is best when he physically out matches people, but can do a good step over and dribble reasonably well so people overrated his technical skills when it is more to do with being faster and stronger. Second, he looks like he needs a lot of space to be effective which is not not happening in the PL. Third, he is an AM who got dropped in the Bundesliga for not producing enough. 

For me, he has too many red flags and seems similar to a RLC type character where because he 'looks like a player' everyone thinks with a bit more experience and maturity he will 'fulfil his potential'. 

If he is something like £30m plus some add on's and takes a reasonable wage, I will be fine with it as he always has the English tax we can leverage later. However, I don't see why we would replace him with any of the AM's we have on the payroll already with the exception of Mudryk. For instance, I rate Noni above this guy and half suspect Noni is going to be flushed for a profit but have a better next couple of seasons and we hope we can have him follow a similar projection to Noni so we can flush him in two years time. 

[King Kante 1,643]

13 minutes ago, Thor said:

Hearing that they met at 18 mil to get the deal done. 
 

Maybe a slight overpay for a keeper with a year left on contract. But if he’s back to his best with us, we are good for 4 or 5 years at keeper. 
 

Great, but we will need to sell at least two more GK's after Kepa. Petro looks like he will go as he had a good season in France and has a couple of teams interested, but after that we need to have one of Jorgensen or Sanchez go as well as we can't be carrying so many as if they end up GK3 their value will plummet. Maybe send Jorgensen to Strasborg? 

[Mário César 1,236]

Lol

[SinineUltra 1,170]

Sorry if I missed any transfer news, but shouldn't we try to sign Jonathan David as free agent? He has reliably scored for national team and Lille for years.

Edited June 8 by SinineUltra

[Pizy 18,858]

Feel like all these Italian clubs are so broke that Milan can’t really afford to turn down a fee for Maignan and have him then leave for nothing next summer, right? We’ll probably eventually get there and sign him.

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7 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Feel like all these Italian clubs are so broke that Milan can’t really afford to turn down a fee for Maignan and have him then leave for nothing next summer, right? We’ll probably eventually get there and sign him.

Both sides are starting to move. We keep saying we want him for CWC, but we can play the long game in this transfer window. We don’t need him for CWC.

[Reddish-Blue 2,489]

23 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Feel like all these Italian clubs are so broke that Milan can’t really afford to turn down a fee for Maignan and have him then leave for nothing next summer, right? We’ll probably eventually get there and sign him.

You would think AC Milan have someone lined up to replace him as he rejected the contract extension they offered earlier in the season. 

They want 20, we offered less, will probably end up settling around that 16-ish mark. 

[milka 3,390]

If Kittens was so good why Bayern not take him cuz they always takes the best of the rest is normal to want to join Chelsea he take default contract for 7 years like that without to prove himself everybody would wanna join  would  he make the difference to us is he better that what we have already ?  cuz this season we should to fight for the title no more excuses .