{"id":623359,"date":"2023-04-27T09:30:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=623359"},"modified":"2023-04-27T09:30:14","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:30:14","slug":"chelsea-plot-170-million-spend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/04\/27\/chelsea-plot-170-million-spend\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a3170 Million Spending Spree &#8211; Chelsea Prepare for &#8216;Busy Summer&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports from Fabrizio Romano, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caughtoffside.com\/2023\/04\/27\/transfer-news-lavia-chelsea-kudus-arsenal-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CaughtOffside<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/football\/article-12019995\/Chelsea-identify-two-Brentford-stars-potential-signings-ahead-Mauricio-Pochettinos-arrival.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Mail<\/a>, Chelsea are set for a big summer spend with four names already being targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Romano has linked the club with midfielders Romeo Lavia of Southampton and Borussia Monchengladbach man Manu Kone. The duo would bring fresh legs to the ageing midfield. Meanwhile, the Maila are linking the Blues with Brentford&#8217;s Ivan Toney and David Raya.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Prepare for &#8220;Busy Summer&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><a id=\"H1B1FAA2R9NRmpcNIpTHCA\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1485689396\" 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:'H1B1FAA2R9NRmpcNIpTHCA',sig:'bNNNYI-pd94aviB7EydfO9bWDjRIvEqYVMwp5CzjceU=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1485689396',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Four Targets<\/h3>\n<p>The report from the Daily Mail mentions that &#8220;Chelsea are preparing for yet another busy summer in the transfer market&#8221;. Between the two reports today, the team have already been linked with four players who could cost as much as \u00a3170 Million.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/04\/22\/chelsea-add-ange-postecoglou-manager-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Surprisingly Include Manager Hailed for \u2018Beautiful Attacking Football\u2019 to Shortlist<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/liverpool-blow-midfield-target-e30m-dreams-signing-two-clubs-chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> has a price tag of \u00a326 million, the London side have <a href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3563552\/2022\/09\/03\/southampton-chelsea-romeo-lavia\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> already offered \u00a350 million for Lavia, Toney was <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2022\/07\/21\/brentford-set-asking-price-for-manchester-united-or-newcastle-to-sign-ivan-toney-17041300\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reportedly<\/a> quoted at \u00a340 million and goalkeeper Raya will cost &#8220;at least \u00a340 million if not more&#8221; per manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/chelsea-fc\/transfer-news\/raya-chelsea-tottenham-united-transfer-26217343\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Thomas Frank<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Changes Needed<\/h3>\n<p>Todd Boehly and his consortium have already plunged a lot of money into the club. They have made big money moves for players like Enzo Fernandez and Mykhailo Mudryk but it hasn&#8217;t been enough to prevent an almost historically bad campaign at Stamford Bridge. With a new manager set to come in the summer, they will seemingly be provided with new players to improve the squad.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/04\/19\/chelsea-set-for-kendry-paez-transfer\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Premier League Set to Give Approval&#8217;: Chelsea Set to Seal \u00a317.6 Million Signing of \u2018Special\u2019 Teenager<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kepa Arrizabalaga has not been at his best despite overtaking Edouard Mendy as the first-choice goalkeeper. This is where Brentford&#8217;s shot-stopper could come into the equation as he has been really good all year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, goalscoring has been a major issue for the team all year which could prompt a big money move for the Bees&#8217; top marksman who has 19 Premier League goals so far this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to reports from Fabrizio Romano, via CaughtOffside, and the Daily Mail, Chelsea are set for a big summer spend with four names already being targeted. Romano has linked the club with midfielders Romeo Lavia of Southampton and Borussia Monchengladbach man Manu Kone. The duo would bring fresh legs to the ageing midfield. Meanwhile, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":623360,"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":[11,7188],"tags":[8611,3956,4078,9749],"class_list":["post-623359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-david-raya","tag-ivan-toney","tag-romeo-lavia"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623359","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=623359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}