A transfer rumour involving Chelsea has been confidently put to bed by insider Jorge Nicola.
The Blues, along with Tottenham, have been linked to former Barcelona striker Vitor Roque before, but it seems it’s all agent talk as the forward tries to get a move back to Europe from Palmeiras, where he’s done pretty well after his inital flop in Spain.
If he continues to do well in South American football, we’re sure he will get another shot at Europe. But it doesn’t sound like it will be with Chelsea.
Chelsea’s interest in Roque ruled out
“The name is completely ruled out. Chelsea never thought about, nor intends to think about, signing Vitor Roque, Nicola said in quotes picked up by CaughtOffside.
“Any noise around the forward comes from people close to Vitor trying to give him visibility abroad. Palmeiras are very confident that the £21m invested will keep Vitor Roque here for a long time.”
Well, to be honest, we could have told you that. The 20 year old is on the fast train to flop town, and even Chelsea’s spending happy sporting directors aren’t going to be keen to jump on that train.
We’ve got Joao Pedro and Liam Delap as our main strikers, Marc Guiu as a backup and Tyrique George as an emergency option. Shim Mheuka is ready to come off the academy production line. We’re not sure we’d take Roque over any of them, and if we do buy a striker next summer, we expect it will be someone with a lot more upside than the former Barca man.
In other news…
Enzo Maresca’s reign has seen a gradual improvement in Chelsea’s set pieces, both attacking and defensive, and that’s discussed here after we opened our scoring from a routine last night.
Chelsea have been linked with a bid for Dayot Upamecano when he becomes a free agent next summer – but we have our doubts about whether it will come to anything.
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