Chelsea made an offer to sign Jamie Gittens from Borussia Dortmund, the player wishing to move.
The club hopes to sign it before Tuesday’s deadline because they want it to play in the Club World Cup.
Dortmund also participates in the competition.
The West London Club seeks to strengthen itself in the position of the winger following the decision Do not take the opportunity to sign Jadon Sancho constantly.
The 20 -year -old winger was a target in January and stayed in the lead on a list of eight or nine offensive names on which Chelsea is working this summer.
Gittens is estimated at 50 million pounds sterling but lost its place in the XI of Dorrmund’s departure towards the end of the season.
Chelsea can also sign another striker after having already concluded an agreement for Liam Delap with Hugo Ekitike and Benjamin Sesko on their restricted list.
But goalkeeper Kepa Arrizabalaga seems ready to leave Stamford Bridge.
Arsenal progresses with an agreement to sign it and should trigger the release clause of 5 million pounds sterling in its contract.
“Gittens path to the top is another”
Jamie Gittens is sought after by Chelsea
Adam Bate of Sky Sports:
When it comes to perfecting young English talents, Dortmund knows how to do better than most clubs in the Premier League. But the story of Gittens is different from those of Jadon Sancho and Jude Bellingham who preceded him before moving on to something else.
Bellingham arrived after a season at the championship with Birmingham City. Sancho ranked alongside Phil Foden as one of the jewelry of the Manchester City Academy. Gittens, signed at the age of 16, was not entirely with the same guarantees.
Perspective to Reading, he had only spent two years in City, but was not close to the first team when Dortmund moved.
“We do not want to find 30 players like other teams in England. We want to find the only player who can reach our first team,” said Dortmund CEO Lars Ricken.
“When we signed it, it was not at the level of Sancho, but we said that we can develop it at the level of a great player. It was good cooperation between our scouting department, our professional department and our youth department.”