“I really want Chelsea move please” – £110m star who Chelsea fans loves sends transfer message to Enzo Maresca & Chelsea
As new Chelsea manager Enzo Maresca sets to work trying to bring the good times back to the Blues, it’s a new day at Stamford Bridge.
After successfully securing Leicester’s return to the Premier League, the Italian has moved to west London. However, in his third role as a football manager, the former pupil of Pep Guardiola has even bigger goals.
Speaking about Guardiola, Maresca and the Spaniard will square off in a master vs. apprentice match on August 18 at Stamford Bridge versus Man City. However, there is still a lot of work to be done and decisions to be made prior to the opening game.
It is already proving to be a difficult pre-season for Maresca, who is facing a dressing room crisis after Enzo Fernandez was shown singing a song that included racist and homophobic slurs about France players.
Chelsea will be prioritising a new striker this summer after struggling without a true out-and-out forward last season, having seen Christopher Nkunku consigned to the physio room for much of the 2023-24 campaign.
There’s no doubt Victor Osimhen is Chelsea’s biggest transfer target this summer and also the Napoli striker also desperate to move to Chelsea that if Chelsea are ready to met Napoli’s price tag, with Chelsea247 reporting that Napoli had lowered his price tag to £110m – though that fee is still too steep for the Blues.
And with the Blues hesitant in the chase for the Nigerian forward, PSG could be ready to swoop, with Sky Sports claiming the Ligue 1 side are in talks to sign him instead.
As for outgoings, Romelu Lukaku’s future at Chelsea is up in the air after the towering Belgian forward spent last season at Roma. The £98m star is said to be wanted by Napoli, with Antonio Conte an admirer of his.
It’s clear Lukaku’s place in the team is hanging in the balance so the Blues will be keen to sort out his future one way or another, as well as bringing in a regular goalscorer such as Osimhen, with midfielder Cole Palmer bearing the goalscoring burden as last season’s top scorer on 25.