{"id":625529,"date":"2023-07-25T05:18:14","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=625529"},"modified":"2023-07-25T05:19:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:19:08","slug":"mohammed-kudus-target-for-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/25\/mohammed-kudus-target-for-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018People Close to Him\u2019: \u00a340m-Rated Star Emerges as Target for Chelsea &#8211; Romano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest YouTube update, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/rdeXXuQiMHk\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> has revealed an intriguing development in Chelsea\u2019s transfer business this summer. He indicated that Mohammed Kudus to Chelsea is firmly a possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Both Chelsea and Brighton are said to be \u201cwell-informed\u201d about his situation, while Arsenal have also expressed interest in the player in the past. However, as of now, no formal bids have been submitted by any of the clubs.<\/p>\n<p>[metabet_core_polling_tile query=&#8221;soe\/chelsea&#8221; size=&#8221;350&#215;300&#8243; site_id=&#8221;metabet-website&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h2>Mohammed Kudus Emerges as a Possible Target for Chelsea<\/h2>\n<h3>Blues Looking to Add Ajax Star<\/h3>\n<p>While Chelsea&#8217;s primary focus remains on securing the services of Moises Caicedo, it appears that they are also keeping a keen eye on the situation of Ajax star, Mohammed Kudus.<\/p>\n<p>Romano confirmed Chelsea are \u201cinformed on the Kudus situation\u201d, suggesting that contact has been made.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/07\/19\/chelsea-rejected-elite-player\/\" target=\"_self\">Chelsea Bid Rejected for &#8216;Elite&#8217; Player Who Is Keen to Join<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notably, Arsenal also made initial inquiries about Mohammed Kudus. This was two weeks ago but they did not proceed with a formal bid.<\/p>\n<p>The Gunners, like Chelsea, seem to be in the know about the player&#8217;s situation but have not taken concrete steps towards securing his signature. Brighton are said to be in a similar spot despite losing some pace in the deal.<br \/>\n<a id=\"M1364zllSRN_nIngkDbsPg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/1548465277\" 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:'M1364zllSRN_nIngkDbsPg',sig:'qlpKwTMo01INh09VnRkLMgXQrrMiJxuZmOeZBM2nZYY=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1548465277',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Remain Focused on Caicedo Despite Kudus Interest<\/h3>\n<p>Romano, despite the heavy links, went on to reestablish that Chelsea\u2019s \u201cfocus remains on Caicedo\u201d, and no official bid has been tabled for Kudus at this stage.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea \u201cwant to get Caicedo deal done\u201d, with negotiations ongoing to finalise the deal for the highly-rated Ecuadorian midfielder.<\/p>\n<p>After resolving the Caicedo situation, the Blues&#8217; plans regarding Mohammed Kudus may become clearer. Romano emphasized, &#8220;After Caicedo, we will understand more on this deal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It seems that Chelsea is taking a cautious approach. They seem to be exploring the situation surrounding the Ghanaian midfielder whilst also considering other targets before making any decisive moves.<\/p>\n<p>Chelsea, while not making any formal approaches of their own yet, are seemingly well aware of the other clubs circling.<\/p>\n<p>Romano emphasised that &#8220;there is an interest [from Chelsea] in terms of calling people close to him to understand the situation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Featured image: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/User:Randy110912\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zakarie Faibis<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his latest YouTube update, Fabrizio Romano has revealed an intriguing development in Chelsea\u2019s transfer business this summer. He indicated that Mohammed Kudus to Chelsea is firmly a possibility. Both Chelsea and Brighton are said to be \u201cwell-informed\u201d about his situation, while Arsenal have also expressed interest in the player in the past. However, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4766,"featured_media":625590,"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":[11,8,1265,3,7188],"tags":[8611,9798],"class_list":["post-625529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea","category-arsenal","category-brighton-and-hove-albion","category-premier-league","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours","tag-mohammed-kudus"],"modified_by":"Dale Ventham, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625529","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\/4766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}