Chelsea haven’t modified their plans over the pursuit of a brand new striker in upcoming switch home windows, with talks persevering with with the agent of Victor Osimhen regardless of the excellent current type of Nicolas Jackson.
The Blues have made a powerful begin to the 2024/25 marketing campaign, with Jackson trying extra scientific and dependable in entrance of purpose than he did final time period, although it’s nonetheless early days but.
Sources have revealed to CaughtOffside that, for now, Jackson’s kind has not been sufficient to vary Chelsea’s thoughts about concentrating on Osimhen, whereas three different huge names are additionally being thought of by the west London giants.
In addition to Osimhen, Chelsea even have Sporting Lisbon’s Viktor Gyokeres, Aston Villa’s Ollie Watkins and RB Leipzig’s Benjamin Sesko on their listing and being monitored carefully.
Osimhen switch stays a precedence for Chelsea
Chelsea labored laborious on attempting to signal Osimhen from Napoli in the summertime, and at one level had been in very superior talks over the deal, solely to only fail to get all the pieces carried out for the Nigeria worldwide earlier than the deadline.
On condition that Turkish golf equipment had longer to signal gamers, this allowed Galatasaray to swoop for a shock mortgage transfer for Osimhen, although there may be understood to be a break clause in his contract.
Sources have informed CaughtOffside that Chelsea are nonetheless involved with Osimhen’s agent, who can be talking to different golf equipment in Italy, Spain and Saudi Arabia.
It stays to be seen if CFC can revive this deal and eventually get it carried out, but when not, it appears they may as a substitute flip to the likes of Gyokeres, Watkins or Sesko.
Sesko was strongly focused by Arsenal throughout the summer time, whereas Chelsea are additionally long-time admirers, with the Slovenia worldwide signing a brand new contract with Leipzig forward of this season, however with a transfer nonetheless considered as probably for summer time 2025.
