{"id":563407,"date":"2020-08-24T17:25:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=563407"},"modified":"2020-08-24T17:25:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T21:25:55","slug":"report-malang-sarr-offered-to-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/08\/24\/report-malang-sarr-offered-to-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Malang Sarr Offered to Chelsea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 2020 summer transfer window is slowly becoming the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/chelsea\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chelsea<\/a> show. The Blues have already secured the signature&#8217;s of <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/49fe9070\/Timo-Werner\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Timo Werner<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/6622454d\/Hakim-Ziyech\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hakim Ziyech<\/a> alongside the near completion of deals for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/08\/24\/report-kai-havertz-move-to-chelsea-from-bayer-leverkusen-imminent\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kai Havertz<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/08\/24\/report-thiago-silva-completes-chelsea-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thiago Silva<\/a>. Now, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1297995423458746368\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Fabrizio Romano and T\u00e9l\u00e9foot,<\/a> free agent<a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/4315f30d\/Malang-Sarr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Malang Sarr<\/a> has been offered to Chelsea.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0As <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1297995423458746368\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated<\/a> by Romano, &#8216;Sarr would like to join, but he also has other bids, the board will decide with Lampard.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sarr Offered to Chelsea in Latest Potential Deal<\/span><\/h2>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Much Needed Defensive Reinforcements?<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Much has been made about Chelsea&#8217;s spending so far this summer, but, in reality, they have failed to find a solution to their weakness. Instead of adding much-needed defensive reinforcements, the west London club, so far, have focused on adding to an already prospering attack. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lampard&#8217;s side had the worst defence in the top six last season; the priority from the off should have been fixing the leaky backline.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nonetheless, with their attacking targets now secured, Chelsea have seemingly turned their focus towards that vulnerable back four. The Blues are reportedly close to securing deals for Silva and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/2020\/08\/21\/report-chelsea-closing-in-on-chilwell\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ben Chilwell<\/a> with Malang Sarr also an option presented to them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Sarr Is a Risk-Free Transfer<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With Sarr being a free agent, the deal is a risk-free one from Frank Lampard&#8217;s point of view. If the defender proves to be an instant success, then he&#8217;ll be honoured as the bargain of the summer. If he fails to reach expectations, however, Chelsea can simply sell him on for profit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">No matter what, if Chelsea were to target Sarr, it would be a transfer without any consequences. For Sarr, he now has the opportunity as a free agent to make potentially the decision of his career so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The 21-year-old could go onto become a top defender if he finds the right next step this summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<br \/>\n<a id=\"xAZfGu6EQxtrcSiEDI6qpA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1189864343\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'xAZfGu6EQxtrcSiEDI6qpA',sig:'3RCWijpblLPnZbfXzUz69ofIc71wRVkK_NwjfDJ2k_I=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1189864343',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 summer transfer window is slowly becoming the Chelsea show. The Blues have already secured the signature&#8217;s of Timo Werner and Hakim Ziyech alongside the near completion of deals for Kai Havertz and Thiago Silva. Now, according to Fabrizio Romano and T\u00e9l\u00e9foot, free agent Malang Sarr has been offered to Chelsea. \u00a0As stated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":563410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,3,28],"tags":[4063,46,660,3170,6470,315,136],"class_list":["post-563407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-chelsea","category-premier-league","category-transfers","tag-2019-20-premier-league","tag-chelsea","tag-frank-lampard","tag-hakim-ziyech","tag-malang-sarr","tag-timo-werner","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Tom Cunningham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}