Chelsea has been one of the talking points of the summer transfer window after new co-owner and American billionaire Todd Boehly has temporarily taken control of the club’s recruitment remit and aggressively chased the signings of Raheem Sterling, Kalidou Koulibaly, Marc Cucurella, Carney Chukwuemeka, and Gabriel Slonina.
The Blues have shelled out a cool £157m while bidding farewell to the likes of Timo Werner (RB Leipzig), Romelu Lukaku (Inter Milan), Malang Sarr (AS Monaco), Antonio Rüdiger (Real Madrid), Andreas Christensen (Barcelona), and Jake Clarke-Salter (Queens Park Rangers), and look set to see another body walk out of Stamford Bridge in the vein of England international Callum Hudson-Odoi.
According to reports in The Guardian and relayed by Chels HQ, the Blues will not stand in the way of the London native securing a loan move away from the capital for the duration of the 2022-23 Premier League season.
#Chelsea are expected to let Callum Hudson-Odoi leave on loan. The winger has interest from Newcastle, Leicester, Southampton and Borussia Dortmund.
— Chels HQ (@Chels_HQ) August 15, 2022
Immediately, three Premier League clubs are already linked with Hudson-Odio, with Newcastle, Leicester City, and Southampton all thought to be prepared to slug it out to bring the Cobham academy product in the door before the window slams shut in two weeks’ time.
Newcastle remains on the hunt for a center-forward – and attacking depth in general – and could offer perhaps the best platform at the time of writing given their decent start to the season (1-1-0), while Leicester has struggled to secure any transfer deals at all this summer and at this point just need bodies in under Brendan Rodgers.
But perhaps the most suitable destination could be St. Mary’s Stadium on the south coast given Southampton’s genuine lack of real and consistent quality in the wide areas under Ralph Hasenhüttl, and likely would have no issue working his way into the matchday XI under the Austrian headmaster.
With two years left on his current deal with Chelsea, a credible loan stint this season would certainly either make or break his young career regarding whether his future remains in west London or elsewhere.
