It seems inevitable that Chelsea will finally make a solid move to try and sign Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa in the summer.
It’s interest that just doesn’t seem to go away, and although Chelsea have not made any formal moves to try and sign him yet, it just has that feel about it. I can just see Rogers going to Chelsea at some point fairly soon.
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He’s best mates with Cole Palmer and knows many of the other players there. I can’t see him staying at Villa – I feel he will move to one of the very top clubs in Europe sooner rather than later. And it’s very clear that Chelsea want to try and sign him if they can.
Latest noise on Rogers
Journalist Ben Jacobs posted yesterday:
‘Chelsea and Liverpool hold a concrete interest in Morgan Rogers. A summer exit may still be possible despite signing a new deal.’
You’d expect that there will be some kind of exit clause in his new contract. I doubt that exit clause fee will be low, but the fact it is likely to be there, and this is just me speculating mind, means that any move for him to go will be possible.
So we will have to see what happens with this one, but I certainly see this having more legs to it as we draw closer to the summer transfer window at the end of the season.
In other news today…
Sevilla have just wrapped up a deal for a player who was being strongly linked to Chelsea’s sister club Strasbourg.
Chelsea had been tracking Omari Kellyman for two years before he eventually signed for the Blues for £19m, a source told the Athletic.
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