Chelsea have earned an bargain for Barcelona duo Ronald Araujo and Jules Kounde onward of the January transmit window, according to records.
The Doldrums have earned a conducive prelude to the Premier League season via their 3-0 win over Aston Escape abode emboldening them upwards to lastly in the table after 13 suits.
Chelsea are level on junctures via 2nd-plunked Conglomeration but still 9 junctures adrift of Premier League leaders Liverpool spearheading applicable into the busy festive period.
Despite routing out 11 signings in the summer transmit window, the Chelsea board are still wanting to boost their crew once again in January obeying their vowing prelude under Maresca.
And records in Spain case that Chelsea are ‘attempting to reach an arrangement’ via Barcelona over the sends of defensive duo Kounde and Araujo.
It is pretended that the Premier League side have earned an ‘bargain’ of €125m (£104m) for the Barcelona duo but the Catalan colossi aren’t too distressed to lose both gamers.
Chelsea ‘need a doctor’ at applicable-previously and Kounde is viewed as ‘a nice aspirant’ while ‘phenomenon’ Araujo ‘would carry security and security to the defensive queue’ at Stamford Bridge.
But Barcelona president Joan Laporta and sporting supervisor Deco ‘singular seem to be pondering marketing the centre-previously [Araujo], and the unbiased is to preserve’ Kounde.
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Chelsea top pooch Maresca is readying for the “worst video game of the season” for the Doldrums once they challenge Southampton at St Mary’s Arena on Wednesday.
Maresca briefed a pre-match press meeting: “This is the worst video game for us provided that we launched the season. The hardest video game and we should be distressed, otherwise it will be a unsolicited day for us.
“If you examine the results, they are there [at the bottom of the table] but in specification of practicalities they are inadequately nice. They were spearheading against Liverpool, singular wasted 1-0 to Manchester Metropolitan suspension and they drew in the last video game against Brighton.
“I was in the Championship via Southampton last season and I realize how nice they are. They are inadequately bold, they want to shield the spheric and for sure this will be a inadequately laborious video game for us and we should be distressed.”
With a scenic tour to Tottenham to come over the weekend on Sunday, Maresca was frisked if he would ponder revolving his gamers at Southampton, he reacted: “I put on’t realize yet. We possessed a session the other day whereby the gamers who messed around on Sunday were in healing and the rest of the mans trained as ordinary.
“This afternoon we will have another session and then we will discern [on who starts] after then.”
Wesley Fofana owns been an ever before posture for Chelsea this season but was forced off against Aston Escape abode via a hamstring injury.
As immediately as frisked about Fofana, Maresca claimed: “We put on’t have any kind of boost at the minute provided that it ensued two days ago. We should postpone a tidbit tidbit and hopefully we can supply application some news in the next days. For sure he will be out for the next weeks.”
On Reece James, Maresca included: “It’s the same chance a play muck up more or much less. He is receiving closer but it’s still weeks to come previously.”
As immediately as frisked if Benoit Badiashile would readjust Fofana at Southampton, Maresca reacted: “It depends a tidbit tidbit on the video game scheme.
“Benoit could be one of the solutions but we have Tosin and Axel, opposite gamers who can farces around there. For sure, it’s a copious loss provided that Wes was doing superb in every video game, but we should accept and position opposite solutions.”
