Chelsea are only two weeks away from the first pre-season fixture of 2024, and Enzo Maresca is still actively getting to know his new team.
The boss has been officially in Cobham for just over ten days but did his first session with his players the following Monday.
Others who have been signed this season, specifically Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Tosin Adarabioyo, are in the training sessions.
More signings are expected. However, due to the large size of the senior squad, it will be inevitable that most of the players will have to go, in some manner.
When the European championship ends, more games will be played and thus Maresca will have more hope of cutting down the number of players.
This has sharply suggested a likely hectic final period of the summer transfer window at Stamford Bridge.
Amidst these changes, Chelsea academy prospect Rio Ngumoha completes the switch to Liverpool having penned a contract.
It has been earlier this week that the deal was sealed for the young teenager of 15 years.
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According to Fabrizio Romano, the full transfer is set for signing.
All the efforts that Chelsea put in to retain the services of Ngumoha will not be fruitful as he will be relocating to Merseyside.
It is noteworthy that Bayern Munich and Manchester City also showed their interest in him.
As for the reasons for choosing Liverpool, Ngumoha noted that there are no significant obstacles to career advancement and the successful practice of developing youth football clubs.
As for Ngumoha, some amount of money will be received by Chelsea, but the exact fee is still unknown.
Ngumoha considers Liverpool as an environment that would enable one experience growth in his career.
As a club that prides itself in nurturing talents, the loss will be particularly painful to Chelsea.
With the presence of the elements as such, it is but a given that Chelsea is heartbroken and feels frustrated and angry at his absence.
While they go, Ngumoha exits, and Chelsea pursues its strategy of poaching youth talents from other Brazilian academies and counterparts across the South American region.
This tendency of moving from one place to another shows that Ngumoha feels he is likely to be more profitable somewhere else.
When it comes to the promotion of youngsters, there is the illusion of how Chelsea values recruits from other clubs than its academy.
Until this happens, the possibility of young talents emulating Ngumoha’s experience may continue to rise.
