{"id":135306,"date":"2025-05-27T07:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135306\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T07:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T07:11:09","slug":"chelseas-london-rivals-are-already-trying-to-sign-50m-player-from-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/135306\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea’s London rivals are already trying to sign \u00a350m player from them"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

One of Chelsea\u2019s London rivals are wasting no time in the transfer market as they look to strengthen their squad.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the Premier League<\/a> season now over, clubs can focus on bringing in new players. And Chelsea<\/a> could be a good place to shop this summer.<\/p>\n

Exits are expected at Stamford Bridge<\/a>, with the likes of Ben Chilwell<\/a>, Christopher Nkunku and Joao Felix all likely to depart.<\/p>\n

Former Aston Villa striker Gabriel Agbonlahor recently discussed Nkunku and Felix<\/a>, urging Chelsea to get rid of the two attackers after their lack of impact in west London.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Darren Walsh\/Chelsea FC via Getty ImagesBrentford want to sign Ben Chilwell<\/p>\n

In the last summer transfer window, Brentford were interested in signing Chilwell<\/a>, and it looks like they still have the defender on their radar.<\/p>\n

Journalist Simon Phillips has claimed on Si Phillips Talks Chelsea<\/a> that the Bees are \u201clooking into a deal\u201d to sign Chilwell from their west London rivals.<\/p>\n

The left-back is surplus to requirements at Chelsea and spent the second half of the season at Crystal Palace, where he was able to win the FA Cup.<\/p>\n\nBen Chilwell\u2019s Crystal Palace stats<\/td>\nAppearances<\/td>\nGoals<\/td>\nAssists<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nPremier League<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nFA Cup<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\nTotal<\/strong><\/td>\n11<\/strong><\/td>\n1<\/strong><\/td>\n0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Chelsea bought Chilwell from Leicester City in a \u00a350m<\/a> deal and helped the Blues to get their hands on the Champions League<\/a> trophy in 2021.<\/p>\n

However, since then, the 28-year-old has lost his place in the Chelsea team<\/a> to Marc Cucurella. In the words of teammate Robert Sanchez, Cucurella has been \u201cunbelievable\u201d<\/a> this season, so there is zero chance of Chilwell winning back his spot.<\/p>\n

\"PhotoPhoto by Visionhaus\/Getty ImagesWhy Chelsea are unlikely to sign Milos Kerkez to address left-back dilemma<\/p>\n

With Chilwell unlikely to remain at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea may need to sign a new left-back. The Blues still have Renato Veiga on their books, but his future is also up in the air at the moment.<\/p>\n

They are thought to have an interest in Bournemouth\u2019s Milos Kerkez but will find it extremely difficult to convince the 21-year-old to join them.<\/p>\n

It has been reported that Kerkez only wants to sign for Liverpool<\/a>, so he will not be the man coming in to help out Cucurella, who had no natural cover during the second part of the campaign.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of Chelsea\u2019s London rivals are wasting no time in the transfer market as they look to strengthen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[59351,748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-135306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-ben-chilwell","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-london","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114578553830070968","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}