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Chelsea have appeared for signing in ‘last few hours’ – Blues initiate contact for summer deal

http://sportwitness.co.uk/Chelsea-already-asked-about-player-wanting-to-leave-club-welcome-sale-will-accept-e80m-fee/

 

Chelsea have ‘already asked’ about signing Atlético Madrid star Saúl Ñíguez, according to Mundo Deportivo.

The midfielder lost prominence in the 2020/21 season as he made only 22 league starts in their title winning campaign.

For the past few months, reports coming out of Spain have stated the 26-year-old has plans to leave Los Rojiblancos in the summer.

Mundo now explain the La Liga winners ‘would not frown on’ the player leaving the Wanda Metropolitano because he is no longer an untouchable in the squad. Atlético ‘welcome the sale’ of Saúl, who is ‘determined’ to leave the club.

The Spain international’s exit will help Diego Simeone’s side to make money and the funds can be used to undertake incoming operations. According to the claims, the Madrid based club would accept a fee of €80m for Saúl.

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Dortmund should obtain around €95m from the sale of Jadon Sancho to Manchester United. There's still not been any official contact from United's representatives, but this is only due to the fact that the framework for an agreement is openly on the table.

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46 minutes ago, Jype said:

Any idea on how good this guy is?

51 league goals in Austrian Bundesliga across the last two seasons in 59 games (42 starts) seems pretty similar to what Haaland got for Salzburg, although Daka is a couple years older.

Could be worth a shot if no proven top class strikers are available this year?

He might be a good player, but I have to say that our league is really bad. Salzburg is by far the best team and the difference in terms of quality compared to the other teams is much greater than say Bayern compared to the rest of their league.  There might be some exceptions (Mane, Haaland) who are good enough for top teams, but usually young Salzburg players find their level at teams like Leipzig or Leverkusen at best. Other strikers who scored many goals in our league were quickly found out when they made the next step to Italy or Germany.

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2 minutes ago, Beigl said:

He might be a good player, but I have to say that our league is really bad. Salzburg is by far the best team and the difference in terms of quality compared to the other teams is much greater than say Bayern compared to the rest of their league.  There might be some exceptions (Mane, Haaland) who are good enough for top teams, but usually young Salzburg players find their level at teams like Leipzig or Leverkusen at best. Other strikers who scored many goals in our league were quickly found out when they made the next step to Italy or Germany.

Yes - Another young forward with potential is not the profile needed in attack either.

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1 hour ago, Blues Forever said:

Interesting, Daka retweeted this in his account.

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It is always nice watching a striker highlight video and not being able to identify which foot is his strong foot. Looks like a very tidy player, great movement, who will surely get better. 

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2 hours ago, R2D2 said:

Chelsea are keen on Haaland though it is understood German boss Thomas Tuchel is still willing to work on getting the best out of his compatriot Timo Werner, who the Blues spent £53m on just one year ago. (Mail) #CFC #BVB

Never understood why Timo is even included in posts like that, he doesn’t even occupy the 9 or a striker role. More than happy to continue with Timo in the team, doesn’t affect bringing in a striker, for me.

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11 minutes ago, DH1988 said:

Never understood why Timo is even included in posts like that, he doesn’t even occupy the 9 or a striker role. More than happy to continue with Timo in the team, doesn’t affect bringing in a striker, for me.

Think it's because Tuchel ended up using Werner like one in the last 1-2 months of the season.

But otherwise, I agree. People in England - like the pundits and journalists - think he's a #9 just because he scored goals in Germany when he did that and more as an inside left forward or a left #10 while playing alongside a central striker at Leipzig. 

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39 minutes ago, Pizy said:

Would people be happy with Saul Niguez who I see we’ve been linked with recently? He seems to be linked with a big move away from Atleti every window. Hasn’t he been pretty mediocre for a while now?

From what I've seen and read he's not been as good this season as previously, but before this season he was always one of the top performers for Atletico. I'm just speculating but maybe Thomas Partey's departure changed his role a little bit and he's not been as effective as before?

That being said they still won the league title with Saul playing most games (22 starts, 11 sub appearances in the league) so he can't have been that bad, can he?

Still has five years left on the 9 year (!!) contract he signed in 2017 so won't be cheap unless Atletico are open to selling. I could see him fitting alongside Kante in midfield quite well.

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3 hours ago, Beigl said:

He might be a good player, but I have to say that our league is really bad. Salzburg is by far the best team and the difference in terms of quality compared to the other teams is much greater than say Bayern compared to the rest of their league.  There might be some exceptions (Mane, Haaland) who are good enough for top teams, but usually young Salzburg players find their level at teams like Leipzig or Leverkusen at best. Other strikers who scored many goals in our league were quickly found out when they made the next step to Italy or Germany.

Good info. Thank you.

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