Chelsea have Bournemouth’s Milos Kerkez on their radar and will add one other left again this summer season given uncertainty over Renato Veiga’s future in keeping with Ben Jacobs.
Marc Cucurella is at the moment Chelsea’s first selection left again, with the Spain worldwide as soon as once more having an excellent season.
The Blues signed Veiga final summer season to predominantly be the back-up left again, though Chelsea additionally admired his versatility given he may play at each centre again and in midfield.
Chelsea have Kerkez on their radar
Veiga surprisingly determined he needed to depart in January so as and left to affix Juventus on mortgage.
After a superb begin the Portugal worldwide picked up an damage because the Italian giants received dumped out of the Champions League by PSV Eindhoven.
Enzo Maresca at the moment doesn’t have a pure back-up to Cucurella and if something had been to occur to the Spaniard then Malo Gusto or Reece James must swap sides which isn’t superb.
A left again isn’t regarded as a precedence, however Jacobs has reported Chelsea have Kerkez on their radar and respect the participant,
“Chelsea additionally respect Kerkez and will add one other left-back given Renato Veiga’s future is unclear,” he wrote in his
“The 21-year-old can play in a number of positions and is at the moment on mortgage at Juventus with no choice to purchase, however he desires to play common minutes – at centre-back – within the construct as much as the 2026 World Cup to be able to improve his possibilities of Portugal choice.
“Marc Cucurella is the present first-choice left-back at Chelsea. The very fact each Malo Gusto and even Reece James can swap sides, plus Levi Colwill is an choice, means the Blues have loads of cowl. Nonetheless, Kerkez is a participant the west Londoners have been monitoring because the summer season of 2024.”
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Jacobs add that Bournemouth would anticipate in extra of £40m for the Hungary worldwide, who can be attracting robust curiosity from Liverpool.
The Cherries paid round £15.5m for the Hungarian in the summertime of 2023 and up to now he’s made 63 appearances for the south coast membership.