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He Chelsea will be added to the bid for Erling Haaland. So he assures The Athletic, which publishes today that the ‘blue’ outfit will put their efforts in bringing young Norwegian talent to Stamford Bridge. He is the chosen one. And despite the fact that it has a clause of 75 million euros from the summer of 2022, Chelsea want to undertake his transfer this summer, although that implies that the Borussia Dortmund he sees his right to ask for much more money for his footballer if he does not want to sell it.
At 20, Haaland has scored 35 goals in 35 games since wearing the Borussia Dortmund shirt, a team he arrived at from Salzburg just a year ago. As published The Athletic, the situation by the COVID-19 It will have a great impact on the finances of the clubs and that Chelsea wants to take advantage of to take over Haaland, even if they have to break their own record in a transfer. To date, the most expensive signing of the Londoners was Kai Havertz for about 85 million euros. The German was one of the five footballers who arrived last summer in exchange for 250 million euros, although Chelsea still have not managed to start definitively in the Premier League.
To achieve the transfer of Haaland, Chelsea will have several obstacles and the most important is the negotiation with Mino Raiola, with whom they already have a negative experience: Romelu Lukaku, one of his clients, decided on the Manchester United in 2017 instead of going back to Stamford Bridge.
For its part, Lampard needs another striker since Olivier Giroud, 34, is expected to leave the club when his contract ends this summer, while Tammy Abraham He has not been confirmed as a starting center forward, despite his performance last year. That is why, with Timo Werner In the squad, which cost 60 million a few months ago, they are going to get into the fight for Haaland to form a very young attack, very expensive … and very good.