Male Metropolitan have presently keyed in the race to indicator RB Leipzig demonstrator Xavi Simons among ‘talks’ via Chelsea, according to reports.
The Blues have been affixed via Simons consistently over the summertime but longed to interrelationship up other bargains initially in days gone by rendering solid contact over a bargain for the RB Leipzig pelting midfielder.
Fabrizio Romano unveiled last week that Chelsea are glancing to indicator ‘both’ Simons and Male Utd winger Alejandro Garnacho in days gone by the send deadline on September 1.
However presently Chelsea will challenge competition from Premier League contenders Male Metropolitan via the Occupants glancing for a caboodle more pelting gamers via Jack Grealish and Savinho possibly on their means out.
Send press correspondent Sacha Tavolieri possesses unveiled that Male Metropolitan are presently in the race to indicator Simons as ‘talks are still’ via Chelsea.
Tavolieri wrote on X: ‘EXCLUSIVE: Manchester Metropolitan enters the race for Xavi Simons! Through the likely disunion of Savinho, the Occupants have improved contact via splendidly rep Ali Barat in an effort to location Xavi away from Chelsea. On #CFC side, talks are still. Entirely nothing readjusts. Reoccuring explanations and ordinary captivate to wrap up a bargain. Defer&Go to… #mercato.’
However Bundesliga doctor Ronan Murphy possesses warned Chelsea and brand-new-made suitors Male Metropolitan that Simons could be “worse” in the Premier League than Timo Werner and Christopher Nkunku.
Murphy told Football Transmits: “Fool me as freely as, failing on you. Fool me twice, failing on you. What perform they claim for fool me three times? Since that is specifically what Chelsea are around to perform.
“Timo Werner – RB Leipzig to Chelsea, 2020. Christopher Nkunku – RB Leipzig to Chelsea, 2023. Xavi Simons – RB Leipzig to Chelsea, 2025?
“Chelsea spent over €100m on the initially two gamers and neither massaged out at Stamford Bridge. Currently they are kit to indicator a 3rd pelting gamer from RB Leipzig, and this one is arguably the worst of the caboodle.
“Previously relocating to London, Werner had racked up 95 aims in 159 galleries for the Red Bull-funded side, and Nkunku was on 70 aims in 72 galleries across 4 periods once he vacated the Bundesliga. Simons is kit to take off Leipzig via purely 21 aims in 76 galleries after three periods in Germany, single reaching twin figures in the initially of those three projects.
“That could be pertinent if he was emitting helps instead, but he possesses single invented 23 aims in unanimously contenders during his time in the east German urbane place. Eased than Nkunku? Indeed, by a considerable margin. Meanwhile, Werner unleashed 13 helps in his last period at Leipzig and reached twin figures for helps in three consecutive periods.”
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Murphy lingered: “Simons is a oversized talent, that a caboodle is conspicuous once you neglect the raw stats and watch him play. He’s had some miraculous capabilities for the Netherlands and RB Leipzig, but he is splendidly inconsistent.
“We have observed him win suits on his splendidly own, but once Leipzig pertinent him in the last parts of the 2024-25 Bundesliga period, after smashing their nightclub record to indicator him totally, he almost went away.
“An ankle joint injury meant he was out until Xmases, but he tinkered every video game nightclub one in the Bundesliga in 2025, and would most noticeably consistently have suits in which you wondered if he was on the fete or once he could administer an clout.
“He purely cannot shoulder unanimously the blame for RB Leipzig lacking out on out on Europe entirely via their worst league wrapping up ever before in the German top flight. Benjamin Sesko and Lois Openda likewise let down up front, but Simons’ seven helps is almost specifically as expected, via the Dutchman designing purely 6.3 xG for his crew-cohorts last period.
“The single thing Simons possesses over Nkunku proper presently is period, as he is still purely 22. However would most noticeably Chelsea be much more detailed off not being coned a 3rd time and purely sticking via the French adversary that racked up a caboodle more aims last period than the brand-new-made individual they are distressed to spend €60m on? Fool me thrice, failing on Chelsea.”
