Live broadcast on August 8th, according to sources telling ESPN, Chelsea will decide whether to strengthen the pursuit of flahovic when Nkunku will be absent for a period of time due to knee surgery.
Enkunku joined Chelsea this summer. The Blues spent 60 million euros to sign the player from Leipzig RedBull. In the last pre-season friendly match in Chicago last week, nkunku was injured in the match against Dortmund. Chelsea announced in a statement on Tuesday: “Nkunku has a knee injury and the striker will be absent for a long time. The 25-year-old player has undergone surgery, and then he will start the rehabilitation program with the club’s medical department.”
Early signs indicate that Nkunku may be absent for at least three months, which will be a major blow to Chelsea’s new coach Pochetino, because he hopes to have a positive start in his coaching at Stamford Bridge stadium. Nkunku is one of Chelsea’s best players in the pre-season tour in the United States. He scored three goals.
Pochetino hopes to change the attack of the team who scored 38 goals in the 38 rounds of the league last season. The source told ESPN, the club’s demand for more firepower may increase their interest in Juventus striker frahovich, who was also involved in the complicated transfer negotiations between Chelsea and Juventus on lucuku.
Although Chelsea have learned about the Saudi League club’s interest in lucuku, the Belgian striker hopes to return to Italy. Sources told ESPN that Juventus were willing to get Lukaku through swap deals and sell flahovic, but the two clubs had far different estimates of the two players.
Chelsea hoped to recover about 46 million euros from lucaku, while Juventus valued flahovic at 80 million euros. Pochetino was considered very interested in flahovic. Since the transfer from Florence to Juventus in January 2022, flahovic has played 63 games for the Bianconeri, scoring 23 goals.
(Ma Dongyu)