Serhou Guirassy has interested Chelsea and the signing of the player has been confirmed by popular journalist Ben Jacobs.
Even though they are content with the performance of Nicolas Jackson as a striker, and they have very high hopes for Christopher Nkunku in the upcoming season, the club management of the Blues desires to sign a new striker.
With this combination, Chelsea wants to strengthen Enzo Maresca’s team by adding another center-forward.
In recent days, Chelsea have held discussions with Aston Villa to sign or possibly swap for Jhon Duran.
The west London club has today been cleared to start negotiations with Duran in a formal manner.
Nevertheless, there remains doubts on the deal and whether Duran will be suitable for Chelsea.
The Colombian has not been so impressive for Aston Villa since joining the club as a player.
However, Aston Villa has developed an interest in Chelsea players with Euro 2024 participants; Ian Maatsen and Conor Gallagher.
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As such, Chelsea is already looking for other prospective strikers other than Duran to add to their team.
Last week, the German media have associated Chelsea with the player Serhou Guirassy of Stuttgart. He scored 28 Bundesliga goals and proved Stuttgart worthy of becoming a participant of Champions League.
His impressive performance and has a potential a release clause of £14 million.
It will depend on Borussia Dortmund as they are ready to sign the 28-year-old Guinean striker but there are some issues concerning his agents.
This have paved way for Chelsea to gain an upper hand. Occasionally high profile journalists such as Ben Jacobs report that Guirassy is seriously being considered by Chelsea as a potential signing.
Contrary to Todd Boehly’s eagerness to sign young talents, Chelsea is ready to exempt the 29-year-old Guirassy because of the attractive low-release clause.
Guirassy has also been considered targets by Arsenal and Manchester United.
Others have doubted the efficiency of his playing he has never had a season that could be compared to the last one.
Nevertheless, current Guinea and Bundesliga star, Pablo Thiam confidently told FootballTransfers that Guirassy has what it takes to play for one of the Premier League’s big gun
