The Chelsea hierarchy are allegedly monitoring any developments with the futures of Brentford pair David Raya and Ivan Toney.
Chelsea are reportedly considering future bids for Brentford pair David Raya and Ivan Toney.
The Blues have been ranked larger than the Bees by means of their latest historical past, at one stage being 4 divisions forward of their fellow West London outfit.
Nevertheless, on Wednesday night, Chelsea fell eight factors adrift of Brentford within the Premier League desk because the guests prevailed by a 2-0 scoreline at Stamford Bridge.
At a time when Brentford are settled each on and off the pitch, the identical can’t be stated of Chelsea who is not going to safe European soccer for 2023-24 and are with out a everlasting head coach in place.
The latter is predicted to be rectified with the appointment of Mauricio Pochettino, who has allegedly agreed to grow to be the long-term alternative to Graham Potter.
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Nonetheless, the Argentine could not have a major quantity of management over transfers, one thing highlighted by how Chelsea are at the moment assessing the market.
Based on soccer.london, the Chelsea hierarchy have grow to be admirers of every of Brentford pair Raya and Toney.
Goalkeeper Raya, a Spain worldwide, and ahead Toney, a recently-capped England worldwide, have each performed instrumental roles in establishing Brentford as a top-flight membership.
That has inevitably led to their futures turning into sizzling subject of debates, significantly that of Raya’s who has simply 14 months remaining on his Brentford contract.
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Except Brentford earn a top-seven end within the Premier League, the 27-year-old is predicted to shun the prospect to pen recent phrases, conscious that he has widespread curiosity in his signature.
Though Toney has an additional 12 months on his contract, there’s an appreciation at Brentford that they could must money in on their star man in the event that they obtain a bid which matches their valuation and the 27-year-old expresses a need to tackle a brand new problem.
From Chelsea’s perspective, hypothesis persists concerning the long-term futures of Kepa Arrizabalaga and Edouard Mendy, with a minimum of a kind of stoppers anticipated to be bought in the summertime.
In the meantime, Chelsea are available in the market for a brand new central ahead with an absence of January addition in that space of the pitch in the end proving pivotal within the membership’s latest fall down the top-flight standings.
