{"id":613993,"date":"2022-06-21T07:13:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T11:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=613993"},"modified":"2022-06-21T07:13:47","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T11:13:47","slug":"chelsea-armando-broja-west-ham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/21\/chelsea-armando-broja-west-ham\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Chelsea Prospect Wants First Team Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to Goal&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/21\/chelsea-raheem-sterling-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea<\/a> correspondent <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3emoB3b54G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nizaar Kinsella<\/a>, Blues&#8217; prospect Armando Broja wants assurances of first-team football from the club amid interest from West Ham, Napoli, Atalanta, and Everton. The current preference of the London club is to assess the 20-year-old during pre-season before making a decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 West Ham are in talks with Chelsea over the transfer of Armando Broja. <\/p>\n<p>The Hammers see the striker as their number one target and negotiations over a \u00a325m-\u00a330m fee are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>(Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DiMarzio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@DiMarzio<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Jsjt40sAR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/5Jsjt40sAR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Transfer News Live (@DeadlineDayLive) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DeadlineDayLive\/status\/1538944802850480128?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Armando Broja Wants First Team Assurances<\/h2>\n<h3>Fending Off Interest<\/h3>\n<p>The Albanian forward has garnered interest from a number of clubs after two decent loan stints, first with Chelsea partner Vitesse Arnhem, and then with Southampton. With Vitesse, the striker netted 11 goals in 34 games before making his way to the Premier League, where he scored scoring nine goals in 38 appearances for the Saints.<\/p>\n<p>However, reports claim that <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/20\/west-ham-chelsea-armando-broja\/\" target=\"_self\">West Ham have been in talks with Chelsea<\/a> over a move for the 20-year-old, with a \u00a330 million figure being mentioned.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/18\/chelsea-romelu-lukaku-armando-broja\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Can Find Their New Romelu Lukaku in 20-Year-Old Wonderkid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Chelsea academy product has shown a clear ability to score goals despite his young age, something that has attracted the eyes of a number of major league clubs.<\/p>\n<h3>Potential Opportunity At Stamford Bridge<\/h3>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/03\/romelu-lukaku-force-chelsea-exit\/\" target=\"_self\">Romelu Lukaku<\/a> on the verge of a return to Inter Milan, Thomas Tuchel is short on striking options for his side. This could open a window of opportunity for Broja at Stamford Bridge, the<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/18\/chelsea-romelu-lukaku-armando-broja\/\" target=\"_self\"> wonderkid has already been touted as a potential replacement<\/a> for the Belgian.<\/p>\n<p>The striker definitely realises there is a chance for him to be the number one option up front in the upcoming campaign, something he wants assurances of if he is to stay with the team. Recent <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/21\/chelsea-raheem-sterling-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">reports linking Raheem Sterling with a move<\/a> to Stamford Bridge could stand in the way of the Albanian&#8217;s ambitions to start regularly for the club.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Read More:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/21\/chelsea-raheem-sterling-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea\u2019s Top Transfer Target Bid Rejected as Too Low by Manchester City<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/05\/27\/the-tammy-abraham-problem-roma\/\" target=\"_self\">Tammy Abraham<\/a> not able to make a return until next summer at the earliest, it may benefit Tuchel and the club to take a chance on the academy graduate in the coming season, this would enable the side to put more funds into the chase for <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2022\/06\/17\/jules-kounde-transfer-decision-chelsea\/\" target=\"_self\">Jules Kounde<\/a> and other areas of the squad that need improving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Goal&#8217;s Chelsea correspondent Nizaar Kinsella, Blues&#8217; prospect Armando Broja wants assurances of first-team football from the club amid interest from West Ham, Napoli, Atalanta, and Everton. The current preference of the London club is to assess the 20-year-old during pre-season before making a decision. \ud83d\udea8 West Ham are in talks with Chelsea over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":614002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[11,2,30,3,7188,28],"tags":[8753],"class_list":["post-613993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-featured","category-news","category-premier-league","category-rumours","category-transfers","tag-armando-broja"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613993","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\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/614002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}