Chelsea “close to sign” 22-years-old player who signed four-years with club last month
The story of Chelsea’s interest in Villareal goalkeeper Filip Jorgensen is developing rapidly.
After just two days of initial rumors, the Athletic are now claiming that we are “close to agreeing a deal” to sign the Denmark youth international.
Jorgensen is also attracting interest from Marseille, whose new coach Roberto De Zerbi is obviously interested in a goalkeeper with good footwork who can play the kind of possession football that we want to play under new boss Enzo Maresca.
The Athletic say that both we and the French side are “discussing a fee between €20m and €25m” for the Villareal number one, who would apparently prefer
Jorgensen only signed a new 5 year deal at Villareal a month ago, having come through their youth academy, but already looks set to be on the move. He established himself as their first choice option and made 44 first team appearances for the Yellow Submarine as they put in another impressive season of overachievement.
Chelsea risk repeating their same mistakes
We have very serious concerns about this move. The club seem to be making the same mistake over and over again with our goalkeepers. This will be the third budget signing in that position in the space of a year.
Instead of spending a combined £60m on Robert Sanchez, Djordje Petrovic and Jorgensen, why not just spend £60m on an elite option like Mike Maignan or Giorgi Mamadashvili?
If you buy cheap, you buy twice, as the saying goes. Or in this case, three times…
Of course, you’ve just got to hope that our scouts are convinced that this guy is the future, and is just drastically underpriced. But given these same scouts brought us our current crop of options, we’re not convinced they know what they’re looking for.