Koulibaly would not be a replacement, he’d be an improvement – Talk Chelsea

It appears to be like like Chelsea are closing in on signing Napoli centre-back Kalidou Koulibaly this summer season in a deal reported to be round £34m.

While stories are stating it isn’t a finished deal but, it does look like advancing fast now this one.

Sources have steered an settlement over a £34m deal for Chelsea to signal Kalidou Koulibaly will not be distant.

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— Simon Phillips (@siphillipssport) July 12, 2022

For me, I used to be completely buzzing to listen to this information and he has at all times been my first-choice prime decide for centre-back to exchange the departed Antonio Rudiger and Andreas Christensen. Besides the world class participant will not be a alternative for both of them, he’s for my part, an enchancment on each of them.

I’ve been an actual advocate of shifting to attempt to signal Kalidou Koulibaly this summer season, greater than another defender if I’m completely sincere. I simply assume the Senegal worldwide has all of it, all the pieces we want.

I simply imagine that what he brings tops anybody else, and the most effective factor he brings is pure expertise and management. After I heard that Koulibaly is perhaps accessible for lower than £40m this summer season, I knew that this was an automated no brainer in my thoughts. Koulibaly for me, ought to have at all times been our precedence possibility and by no means a backup.

I’ve no fears about his age by the way in which, Thiago Silva ought to shut down anybody’s fears about age in skilled soccer, as ought to Cristiano Ronaldo. It’s all about taking care of your self and consuming the appropriate meals.

Koulibaly has solely simply turned 31-years-old, he’s younger in comparison with many nonetheless enjoying on the prime degree. He brings worldwide and European expertise, he’s a stable and bodily defender who can defend to a world class degree on the bottom and within the air, and he is a wonderful ball-player.

He actually ticks ALL the packing containers for what Thomas Tuchel wants proper now, and I’d be over in Italy proper now taking De Laurentiis for cocktails on the seaside if I used to be Boehly!