{"id":633944,"date":"2024-01-12T08:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=633944"},"modified":"2024-01-12T08:46:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T13:46:02","slug":"chelsea-evan-ferguson-transfer-interest-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/12\/chelsea-evan-ferguson-transfer-interest-cost\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Could Cost More Than \u00a3100 Million&#8217;: Chelsea Identify &#8216;Incredible&#8217; Young Star As Long-Term Striker Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have struggled with a severe lack of clinicality in the first season under Mauricio Pochettino, leaving them in 10th place in the Premier League table and suffering a poor 1-0 defeat to Middlesbrough in the Carabao Cup semi-finals first leg. Due to this, it appears that the Blues are still considering the possibility of signing Brighton &amp; Hove Albion star Evan Ferguson.<\/p>\n<h2>Chelsea Interested In Brighton Striker Evan Ferguson<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Watch:\u00a0<\/strong>RELEGATED? City and Chelsea\u2019s Lessons From Everton\u2019s Point Deduction<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"RELEGATED? City and Chelsea&#039;s Lessons From Everton&#039;s Point Deduction\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WM7qfaWKdWs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>How Much Will Chelsea Need To Pay For Ferguson?<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/sport\/football\/chelsea-fc-transfer-news-evan-ferguson-b1131684.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Evening Standard&#8217;s Nizaar Kinsella<\/a> has reported that the London heavyweights are considering the Republic of Ireland forward as a long-term transfer target that they are interested in signing. It is added that his profile fits the youth-first approach that Chelsea have developed in recent years and that they won&#8217;t have to break their wage structure for him either.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/05\/chelsea-andrey-santos-decision\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Increased Chance\u2019: Chelsea Could Potentially Make Key Decision On Midfield \u2018Beast\u2019 After Another Injury<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kinsella claims that Ferguson is likely to demand a \u00a3100,000-a-week salary, half of what other <a href=\"https:\/\/thedailybriefing.io\/p\/excl-could-chelsea-land-osimhen-in?utm_campaign=email-half-post&amp;r=1d4b2p&amp;utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rumoured target<\/a> Victor Osimhen could look for in order to join them. However, he adds that the Seagulls will resist any move for the teenage forward as they don&#8217;t want to lose another player to Chelsea, which could be a stumbling block.<\/p>\n<p>On top of this, the journalist states that it &#8220;could cost more than \u00a3100 million&#8221; for Mauricio Pochettino&#8217;s side to sign Ferguson, who only recently signed a new contract until 2029 with Roberto De Zerbi&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<h3>Chelsea Share Strong Working Ties With Brighton<\/h3>\n<p>The Londoners have frequently worked with Brighton over the last few years, bringing in players, coaches and recruitment members. Last summer itself they were able to sign <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/05\/chelsea-robert-sanchez-transfer-confirmed\/\" target=\"_self\">goalkeeper Robert Sanchez<\/a> and midfielder Moises Caicedo (for a club-record fee too) and have paid over \u00a3200 million to the Seagulls over the last three transfer windows.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read More:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2024\/01\/04\/chelsea-ian-maatsen-borussia-dortmund-talks\/\" target=\"_self\">\u2018Negotiations Ongoing\u2019: Chelsea Pushed By \u2018Clever\u2019 Star To Finalize Winter Exit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That is why Chelsea can sign Ferguson if they really want to get him. Considering how they&#8217;ve paid <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2023\/08\/14\/moises-caicedo-chelsea-transfer-agreed-brighton\/\" target=\"_self\">over \u00a3100 million<\/a> for Caicedo and Enzo Fernandez, the fee isn&#8217;t anything unheard of for them. The 19-year-old striker, who was hailed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishmirror.ie\/sport\/soccer\/roberto-de-zerbi-praises-incredible-30040921\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his &#8220;incredible&#8221; <\/a>performance improvement last year, has scored six goals in 18 Premier League appearances this season and already has a decent amount of Premier League experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chelsea have struggled with a severe lack of clinicality in the first season under Mauricio Pochettino, leaving them in 10th place in the Premier League table and suffering a poor 1-0 defeat to Middlesbrough in the Carabao Cup semi-finals first leg. Due to this, it appears that the Blues are still considering the possibility of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4218,"featured_media":631360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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],"tags":[8611],"class_list":["post-633944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-premier-league","category-chelsea","category-rumours","tag-chelsea-transfer-rumours"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633944","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\/4218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}