{"id":682074,"date":"2026-03-26T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/682074\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T02:00:14","slug":"liverpool-target-chelsea-untouchable-who-wants-to-leave-both-clubs-can-avoid-guehi-repeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/682074\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool target Chelsea &#8216;untouchable&#8217; who &#8216;wants to leave&#8217;; both clubs can avoid Guehi repeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liverpool and Chelsea should both bear Marc Guehi in mind after a report revealed the Reds are among several top European clubs pushing to sign a Blues \u2018untouchable\u2019 this summer.<\/p>\n<p>As Guehi looks to nail down his spot at the heart of Thomas Tuchel\u2019s defence for the World Cup in the upcoming England internationals after swapping Crystal Palace for Manchester City in January, Liverpool and Chelsea will be reflecting on their respective blunders with regard to the centre-back.<\/p>\n<p>After impressing on loan at Swansea, rather than giving Guehi a chance to stake his claim for a place in the first team at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea opted to sell him to Palace for \u00a320m in the summer of 2021.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MAILBOX: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/mo-salah-luis-suarez-mailbox-liverpool\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mo Salah is no Luis Suarez; the Liverpool fan verdict is in<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He made just two appearances for his boyhood club, who have swapped inferior defenders in and out of their starting XI for the majority of the time since his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Liverpool have been counting the cost of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/marc-guehi-transfer-exposes-amateur-fsg-decline-latest-reason-failed-liverpool-deal-revealed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sleeping on the summer signing of Guehi<\/a><\/strong> for most of this season. Both Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate have been consistently inconsistent and genuinely terrible at times, contributing to a limp title defence which would have been strengthened significantly by them getting the deadline deal for Guehi over the line.<\/p>\n<p>The Reds did sign Giovanni Leoni from Parma, who looked promising in his one and only appearance before suffering a season-ending injury, and further bolstered their defence by securing the signing of Jeremy Jacquet ahead of Chelsea in January ahead of his summer arrival. But <a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2026\/03\/24\/real-madrid-liverpool-untouchable-chelsea-defender\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>CaughtOffside claim<\/strong><\/a> they\u2019re also \u2018closely monitoring the progress\u2019 of Blues star Josh Acheampong.<\/p>\n<p>After making his debut only last season, Acheampong is already valued at over \u00a320m after some hugely promising displays for Chelsea both at right-back and centre-back having broken through from the academy.<\/p>\n<p>Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Newcastle are also thought to be keen on the 19-year-old, whose physical and technical attributes have made him a hot property.<\/p>\n<p>Standing at 1.9m tall, Acheampong has displayed his quality through line-breaking passes and his ability to run with the ball at his feet.<\/p>\n<p>The report claims <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/real-madrid-want-to-sign-chelsea-duo-josh-acheampong-and-enzo-fernandez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Real Madrid see Acheampong<\/a><\/strong> as a \u2018long-term addition\u2019 as they \u2018prioritise young talent capable of evolving into leadership roles\u2019 and while it\u2019s added that the Chelsea hierarchy view him as \u2018untouchable\u2019, BlueCo have so far proven themselves more than willing to consider offers of almost any value when pure profit is in the offing through the sale of academy products.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Ekremkonur\/status\/2035863391953096877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2035863391953096877%7Ctwgr%5E8970de2a3b64a744724345da4ba81f8c5f531f26%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.footballinsider247.com%2Fcrystal-palace-josh-acheampong-to-push-for-chelsea-exit-heres-why-eagles-are-the-perfect-fit%2F\" target=\"_blank\">Journalist Ekrem Konur claimed earlier this week<\/a><\/strong> that Acheampong, who\u2019s made 24 appearances this season, \u2018wants to leave due to a lack of playing time\u2019 and whether that is the case or not Chelsea should be looking to offer him an improved contract as a matter of urgency with the teenager currently on just \u00a35000 per week.<\/p>\n<p>While Chelsea should be desperate to avoid a Guehi repeat, so too should Liverpool as they look to failsafe their defensive future amid uncertainty over Konate as his extension offer remains unsigned and Van Dijk as the Reds legend nears a natural conclusion to his time at Anfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool and Chelsea should both bear Marc Guehi in mind after a report revealed the Reds are among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":682075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[461,18754,9654,204,93854,215,50,220,221,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-682074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-chelsea","tag-f365-features","tag-f365-says","tag-front-page","tag-josh-acheampong","tag-liverpool","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116293011019314725","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}