{"id":624253,"date":"2023-06-06T13:32:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T17:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=624253"},"modified":"2023-06-06T14:10:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:10:23","slug":"chelsea-reignite-interest-romeo-lavia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/06\/chelsea-reignite-interest-romeo-lavia\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Reignite Interest in &#8216;Incredible&#8217; Star &#8211; Poch Plots to Rebuild Chelsea Midfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">According to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/football\/1777531\/Chelsea-Romeo-Lavia-transfer-Eden-Hazard\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Express Sport<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, Chelsea are set to reignite their interest in Southampton midfielder Romeo Lavia. It appears that Chelsea are targeting the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mancity.com\/news\/mens\/pep-guardiola-praise-for-romeo-lavia-and-southamptons-former-city-players-63816470\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">incredible<\/a>&#8221; Belgian international after missing out on Manuel Ugarte, who now looks set to join\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2023\/jun\/05\/chelsea-pull-out-of-manuel-ugarte-deal-psg-sporting\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Target Summer Move for Romeo Lavia<\/h2>\n<h3>Chelsea Turn Attention to Belgian International Lavia<\/h3>\n<p>The report from Express Sport mentions that Chelsea look set to reignite their interest in Lavia after the Stamford Bridge club pursued the Belgian international previously, seeing a \u00a350 million bid for the player rejected last summer and are now prepared to restart their interest in the 19-year-old in the coming weeks. The report also explains how <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/01\/chelsea-loanee-denis-zakaria-to-leave\/\" target=\"_self\">Mauricio Pochettino<\/a> is plotting to rebuild the club&#8217;s midfield for next season.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/06\/ngolo-kante-saudi-london\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Star Offered \u00a386 Million Deal as Pochettino Faces Difficult Decision<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Express Sport also mention that Lavia is seen as an alternative to Ugarte, with the club maintaining contact with the midfielder&#8217;s representatives since the failed pursuit in 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chelseafc.com\/en\/news\/article\/joe-shields-joins-chelsea\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Shields<\/a> the Co-Director of Recruitment and Talent at Stamford Bridge joined the club from Southampton and is proving a key driving force behind Lavia being so highly thought of at Chelsea. According to the report, Shields has reached out to the Belgian internationals camp to sound out his interest in moving to Stamford Bridge with the Saints hopeful of collecting a fee of \u00a345 million for the midfielder.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"tE_SisxuRp1g4CUW4ro_rw\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1253179957\" 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:'tE_SisxuRp1g4CUW4ro_rw',sig:'p7lPOfoln1Ix5IO5n_483TOjY7279XsTJgkYnrgnN_Y=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1253179957',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Qualities Lavia Would Bring to Chelsea<\/h3>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lavia has impressed since joining Southampton from\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/theathletic.com\/3489298\/2022\/07\/05\/southampton-sign-romeo-lavia-from-manchester-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Manchester City<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0on July 5, 2022, for\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/62066366\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a310.5 million<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">. Throughout his time in the City academy and during his spell playing for the Saints &#8211; the Belgian international has established himself as a tenacious ball-winning midfielder. He has a great engine, which means he can be deployed further forward, but his best qualities have been shown at the base of the midfield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Read More<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">:\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/06\/06\/chelsea-75-million-kai-havertz\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Chelsea Set\u2019 \u00a375 Million Valuation for Wantaway Star<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Lavia is adept at receiving the ball under pressure and distributing accurately from there, which would free up Enzo Fernandez to venture further forward. The Belgian international is also impressive at evading the press and skating away from opposition players. He often makes himself available to receive the ball, which would be great for Chelsea.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to\u00a0Express Sport, Chelsea are set to reignite their interest in Southampton midfielder Romeo Lavia. It appears that Chelsea are targeting the &#8220;incredible&#8221; Belgian international after missing out on Manuel Ugarte, who now looks set to join\u00a0Paris Saint-Germain.\u00a0 Chelsea Target Summer Move for Romeo Lavia Chelsea Turn Attention to Belgian International Lavia The report from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4106,"featured_media":624255,"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":[3,11,7188,20],"tags":[8611,9749],"class_list":["post-624253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-rumours","category-southampton","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-romeo-lavia"],"modified_by":"Ricky Carroll, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624253","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\/4106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}