Chelsea director pushes for 'smart and affordable' Premier League star over Victor Osimhen – Football365
Chelsea director Paul Winstanley is apparently emboldening the bar to indicator Ivan Toney over Victor Osimhen.
The Blues have been brushing the transfer marketplace for a brand name-newfangled striker to carry to the bar in January, with Toney and also Osimhen among their apex targets.
Osimhen racked up 26 desires in 32 Serie A aesthetics last term as Napoli won the Scudetto for the first time in 33 years and also he’s obeyed that up by bagging six desires in eight league trips this term.
The 24-year-ratty was linked with an exit from Napoli last summer and also speculation over his future ramped up subsequent the TikTok farce previously this period.
Napoli underscoring off director Mauro Meluso fresh disregarded the opportunity of any kind of of their apex players vacating in the core of the period, which may be why Chelsea have revolved their emphasis to Toney. Another substantiation is feasible the respective price tags.
While records suggest Napoli yearn approximately £130m for Osimhen, it’s claimed Brentford would undoubtedly listen to sectors of £70m for their star man.
According to journalist Simon Phillips (wearing The Chelsea Chronicle), co-underscoring off director Winstanley ‘would undoubtedly prefer to indicator Toney’, witnessing the 27-year-ratty as the ‘closer and also more afforable substitute’.
Ben Jacobs claimed previously this week that Brentford can last offer as a bunch as £80m for Toney, which would undoubtedly lug out a January transfer “fertile” for the Blues, incorporating that members of Chelsea’s leadership team besides Winstanley are not persuaded the Bees striker is the applicable suit for them.
Former Chelsea striker Daniel Sturridge infers Toney to be a “apex striker”, and also reckons Chelsea would undoubtedly be a nice suit for him.
“I would undoubtedly case he will match Chelsea the the majority of, he can tinker for Stimulates,” Sturridge said on Monday Evening Football.
“I’m unsure that dubs for him the majority of as they all need him. He is a apex striker and also deserves that privilege.”
Sturridge’s Skies officemates Jamie Carragher reviewed whether Toney can “snatch Medley to the title”.
“Of training course he can [join Arsenal] and also he is a dissimilar kind of striker,” the Liverpool legend included.
“Gargantuan fan of his however making jump to a oversized bar and also can you not cope with the scrutiny, there’s not that assumption versus Brentford.
“No aversion that the attribute is there, however snatch Medley to title? Medley might need to snatch that opportunity if they don’t mend that posture and also the goalkeeper predicament after that it’s fertile to overhaul Person Urban unit.”
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