Chelsea are into the promoting stage of their summer season, and issues are going fairly nicely to this point.
Djordje Petrovic and Noni Madueke have each been offered for good charges within the final week, and quite a lot of different gamers the membership are eager to eliminate are producing some wholesome curiosity.
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Promoting Sterling stays main precedence for Chelsea
Florian Plettenberg shoots down rumours of curiosity in Raheem Sterling.
There may be an elephant within the room nevertheless – Raheem Sterling.
He’s not within the image at Chelsea in any respect – to the extent that he was frozen out all of final summer season too – however his wages are actually driving away any critical curiosity. Final 12 months we needed to resort to loaning him out to Arsenal, which was a very good quick time period answer however has now left us again in the identical scenario as we have been in a 12 months in the past.
There have been whispers from the Athletic yesterday that have been within the winger, which bought our hopes up a little bit. Later within the day these groups have been
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Leverkusen rumours shut down by insider
Effectively, we hope you didn’t get your hopes up an excessive amount of. Florian Plettenberg has reported right this moment that the rumours (no less than these regarding Bayer Leverkusen) are “large of the mark” and
Unusually Plettenberg decides to reward Sterling, calling him a “high” winger, however makes it very clear that Leverkusen wouldn’t have an interest.
Sadly we feared that will be the case. The winger’s struggles at Chelsea then Arsenal, mixed along with his wages wages, are making him a really unattractive prospect it appears.
It looks as if, as soon as once more, that is going to be an issue which hangs round all summer season, and might not be resolved till deadline day. Go on Juventus, do us a favour…