Chelsea should be moving in on player after director comments – Talk Chelsea

As Chelsea prepare for the most important recreation of their season to date this night within the quarter remaining of the League Cup, many ideas now may also be on the January switch window to assist enhance their season.

As we all know, Chelsea have been potential new strikers for subsequent month, however they seem like few and much between.

In addition to that although, a number of the targets being linked are simply not gettable subsequent month.

Victor Osimhen appears to be like unattainable till the summer season, and Viktor Gyokeres has a launch clause value over £85m and can be comparatively unproven.

So for me that solely leaves one choice, and he IS gettable subsequent month – Ivan Toney of Brentford.

Don’t take my phrase for it that he’s gettable, take the phrase of the membership’s technical director, Lee Dykes.

“I’m so excited for Ivan to come back again as a result of I see him on the market in coaching and he’s some participant; it appears to be like like he’s by no means been away,” Dykes instructed the membership web site.

“There’s an actual ambition from him and I can see in his eyes that he’s going to be higher than he’s ever been; I actually imagine that would be the case.

“Sure, there will probably be a lot of curiosity in Ivan in January. Naturally, there must be. He was the third-highest Premier League goalscorer final season – considered one of them [Harry Kane] has gone to Germany now, so he’s up there as the most effective strikers within the division. He’s within the high 5 on this planet, in my view.

“So there must be curiosity, and possibly the time comes very shortly that Ivan strikes on to a different membership. However they must pay a good switch payment to amass his companies as a result of he’s some expertise.”

I imply, he’s actually placing Toney on the switch market subsequent month with these feedback. He’s properly and really out there, and Sykes is actually making an attempt to drum up curiosity and begin a bidding warfare for his participant.

Toney for me has all the time been my first selection choice purely as a result of he has Premier League expertise, has been a membership captain, is an England worldwide, and is among the solely all spherical true quantity 9’s out there proper now.

If I used to be Chelsea, I might be straight on the telephone to Dykes now asking what it might take to get Toney over to Stamford Bridge subsequent month.

He’s the whole lot Chelsea wants proper now, and we must be throughout it.