“It will really be a good signing, Chelsea are missing him” – Transfer expert reveals €80M star player set to join Chelsea
Simon Phillips has backed future Chelsea Christopher Nkunku transfer to be a “really good signing”.
As per trusted transfer source Fabrizio Romano, the RB Leipzig attacker has already agreed to join the Blues and will become a Premier League player in July 2023.
No doubt, this will be a really exciting deal as Nkunku will arrive in England with a big reputation. Indeed, he has 64 goals and 52 assists in 164 outings at his current club.
Seeing as Chelsea are currently struggling for goals right now – having scored just once in their last five games across all competitions – they could really use the 25-year-old right.
However, the Blues will have to make do with the likes of Mykhailo Mudryk and Joao Felix until the end of the season.
And while speaking to Football FanCast, Phillips suggested that Nkunku could potentially come in and provide a better option to the attack with Mudryk underperforming and Felix’s future uncertain while only on loan from Atletico Madrid.
He said: “But I think Nkunku, going back to him, he’s a very tidy player, a very good player. He can do a bit of everything.
“You know, he can come up with goals, he can create goals. And that’s exactly what Chelsea had been missing in his current squad right now.
“And he’s a player who is still young, he is just going to get better and better and develop. And I do think that this one will prove to be a really good signing.
“Perhaps, you know, the area on the pitch that he plays, he operates from more on on the left. There’s question marks about signing Mudryk and spending £88m on him, and what will happen with Felix who also likes to operate in a similar area.