Chelsea co-owners Todd Boehly and Behdad Egbhali remain committed to rampant spending to put Blues back in contention for major honors on all fronts for the foreseeable future, with the Premier League giants now linked with serious summer interest in Borussia Dortmund wunderkind Jude Bellingham according to Telegraph Football’s Matt Law.
Though the recent Champions League winners (2020-21) and five-time Premier League champions have spent the monumental figure of over £600million between the summer transfer window and the recent January period, which included a British record for Argentine starlet Enzo Fernández, Chelsea is not done yet when it comes to revamping their entire senior squad with the aim of establishing a long-term presence both in England and on the continent.
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Despite previous interest in both West Ham United’s Declan Rice and Brighton’s Moisés Caicedo, the Blues are now looking toward Bellingham as an ideal piece to bring the project all together through his influence and age profile through the center of the park alongside Fernández while hoping it all comes together under Graham Potter.
Bellingham has risen in recent seasons to become one of the top young talents anywhere in the world regardless of position, with Law reporting that Boehly and Egbhali are prepared to “move heaven and earth” to try to sign the 21-year-old despite interest from league rivals Manchester City, and Liverpool, as well as Spanish giants Real Madrid.
Any deal would certainly eclipse that of what the Blues shelled out for Fernánez and could go as high as £130m if not more, with Dortmund free to demand an astronomically high fee due to the market shift in the wake of recent deals such as Manchester United’s signing of Antony, as well as another move perpetrated by Chelsea for Ukrainian hot shot Mykhailo Mudryk.
In addition to another massive fee required to secure Bellingham should the club gazump bigger clubs to his signature, the wages attached to the former Birmingham City product would surely be in excess of £200k-a-week, which would mean Chelsea would have to devote substantial efforts in clearing the decks of quite a number of contracts off their books to avoid possible FFP blowback.
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