French football expert Jonathan Johnson has mentioned the new Chelsea transfer rumours linking Lyon star Rayan Cherki with a likely shift to Stamford Bridge.
Writing in his distinctive CaughtOffside column, Johnson defined that Cherki is one particular of a variety of Lyon’s best young talents attracting desire from big golf equipment all over Europe, and the Ligue 1 giants most likely won’t cash in on all of them.
Cherki is a substantial expertise and Johnson believes he may perhaps be the best homegrown participant generated by Lyon considering that Karim Benzema, while he’s also drawn comparisons with Chelsea legend Eden Hazard.
“Rayan Cherki carries on to draw in speculation and the latest is that Chelsea are in for him. He’s a very enjoyable talent, any individual who appears to be to have a great career ahead of him. In the same way to Eden Hazard when he first proven himself in Ligue 1, he appears incredibly technically proficient, adaptable, and he’s in all probability the best youthful player to emerge from Lyon’s youth academy for a lot of many years, possibly even due to the fact Karim Benzema,” Johnson explained.
“The only dilemma with players at Lyon at the second is the club’s present-day monetary predicament – they’ve had limits imposed on them by French football’s financial watchdog. Lyon now have to elevate funds, but they’re also quite reticent to cash in on some of their young talent.
“Castello Lukeba is of major fascination to RB Leipzig now that Josko Gvardiol is nearing a switch to Manchester Town, so it is difficult to visualize a predicament where by OL chance cashing in on Lukeba, Cherki and also Bradley Barcola, who is of key desire to a variety of clubs in Europe, specially PSG.
“It’s likely to be an exciting and perhaps demanding summer for Lyon wherever all individuals players have major interest and I think it helps make it trickier for any 1 deal these kinds of as Cherki to Chelsea to appear off, primarily as Lukeba is the a person who’s furthest along in sealing a move absent at this instant in time.”
Chelsea supporters would surely enjoy to see a talent like Cherki move to Stamford Bridge, with Mauricio Pochettino inheriting a having difficulties facet which definitely calls for far more do the job and expenditure just after ending all the way down in twelfth final season.
Cherki could in good shape in perfectly along with other major young talents like Mykhaylo Mudryk, Noni Madueke and Enzo Fernandez at CFC, but it continues to be to be observed how simple this deal will be to get finished.
